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On a mission to Make America Fit Again, Marc Zalmanoff has impacted countless lives when it comes to making good choices for both your mental and physical health.  In this episode, Jennifer and Marc talk about our fears, how we develop them, and ways to conquer each and every one of them. As Marc opens up about the moment he decided to start owning his sh*t, you will learn how to not let your emotions dictate your identity and your actions. So, join in on the conversation, and uncover true power and strength with Jennifer and Marc today!    KEY POINTS: Understanding our learned fears and behaviors  Marc's Own Your Sh*t story  About the book Make Good Choices Pivoting a fitness business amidst a pandemic  The importance of vulnerability and learning    QUOTABLES:  “Anytime you place blame elsewhere, you're giving that thing power.”   PRODUCTS / RESOURCES: Marc Zalmanoff marczfitness.com Join the Make America Fit Again FB Group: facebook.com/groups/273443334057560/  Join the Fit Pro Collective: fitprocollective.com Join the FB group for Real Talk with Real Fit Pros: facebook.com/groups/realtalkwithrealfitpros Tune in to the Make Good Choices podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-make-good-choices-podcast/id1566428266   Follow Jenn on Instagram @jenncarrasco__ - instagram.com/jenncarrasco__/ Visit her other links here: contactjenn.phonesites.com/ Own Your Sh*t is edited by Instapodcasts (visit at instapodcasts.com) 

Unresolved Grief and Weight Gain - Is There a Connection? https://psychologyofeating.online/ss/ Are you ready to transform your relationship with food in a lasting and meaningful way? What if you could help others find the path to greater freedom and joy with food as well?   Primary teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Marc David speaks with 45-year old Tracy, originally from New Zealand and newly living in Australia. Tracy seeks to lose about 15 kilos, while finding equanimity in her relationship with food and body. Quarantined in her apartment during Covid, Tracy feels alone and isolated, and reflects on a series of losses that have defined her life including the loss of her father when she was just four years old. As Marc helps her recognize, Tracy has never really integrated the losses she's endured … something that is true for so many of us. When emotions aren't metabolized, whether grief, anger, or other emotions, they can show up in other ways — often as symptoms in the body. Listen in as Tracy discovers a new path not just for losing weight, but finding a beautiful and healing path through the grief that so deeply colors her life.    Key Insights:   Of the numerous psychological contributors to weight gain or weight loss resistance, grief is often one of the overlooked causal factors. Unacknowledged or unresolved grief can be a key factory underlying our eating challenges.   Losing a parent early in life can mean so much more than just the loss of that parent. Children who have lost a parent early in life often find their other parent struggling to cope with their grief, resulting in the child having to do a lot of self-parenting. This is yet another form of loss — that of an innocent childhood, and can ultimately lead to unresolved grief as an adult.   Sometimes the grieving we need to do in life is that of letting go of who we used to be. Whether it's a role we used to inhabit, a certain time of life, or having a certain athleticism or healthy body, it can be hard to move on from aspects of ourselves that we took a lot of pleasure or pride in.   Speaking to a therapist or a counselor, particularly a grief counselor, can be a vital first step towards resolving one's past and moving on.   Journaling is another effective way to acknowledge and give expression to grief. Figuratively writing a letter to a deceased parent is another. Writing, in whatever form, can be a powerful way to express, transform, and release emotions that are calling out for our attention.    With his dual training in clinical nutrition and psychology, Marc David has spent the last 40 years helping people around the world heal their relationship with food. As the founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, he reaches millions each year through his books, speaking engagements, celebrated podcast series, and his internationally-acclaimed Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training.    Are you experiencing unwanted food and body challenges? We invite you to post your questions and comments in the comment box below or get in touch with us directly.   info@psychologyofeating.com https://psychologyofeating.com/   #PsychologyOfEating #HonorYourGrief #AcknowledgeGrief #GriefandWeight #GriefCounseling #EmbraceQueenhood #ClaimYourThrone #MindfulEating #PrincessStage #QueenInTraining #ParentingYourself #GriefIsLegitimate #SupportForGrief #FeedingTheGrief #TakeTheTime

Why Emotional Metabolism is Key to a Vibrant, Healthy Life Eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Marc David explains the concept of emotional metabolism. While physiological metabolism governs the literal breakdown of what we eat and drink, emotional metabolism is all about processing emotions that come up in the course of everyday life. As Marc explains, metabolizing our emotions is vital not just to our psychological health — but to our physical health as well. Don't miss this insightful podcast!   Key Insights:   The body's metabolism takes the air we breathe and the food and water we consume, and turns it into fuel while removing toxins. This is nutritional metabolism.    Emotional metabolism involves the deliberate, consistent practice of allowing our emotions to surface. We then have the opportunity to become more conscious and present human beings.   When we don't allow ourselves to feel and process our emotions, there can be a literal effect on the body's physiology and organ systems.   Unwanted eating challenges such as overeating, binge eating, and emotional eating are often signs of unprocessed emotions or trauma.   Societal conditioning tells us to “suck it up” or “get with the program” — meaning, we're often encouraged to suppress and deny our feelings. Rejecting this conditioning and embracing our feelings — including the challenging ones — is fundamental to enjoying a healthy and fulfilling life.    With his dual training in clinical nutrition and psychology, Marc David has spent the last 40 years helping people around the world heal their relationship with food. As the founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, he reaches millions each year through his books, speaking engagements, celebrated podcast series, and his internationally-acclaimed Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training.    Having your own challenges with food and body? Post your questions in the comment box below or get in touch with us directly.   info@psychologyofeating.com   https://psychologyofeating.com/   #psychologyofeating #nutritionexpert #emotionalmetabolism #metabolism #bodywisdom #honoryourfeelings #honoryouremotions #feelallthefeelings #stressmanagement #managingemotions #boostmetabolism #selfexpression

This week on Market Dominance Guys, Chris Beall and Corey Frank continue their interview with Marc Hodgson, sales director at ConnectAndSell. What's the topic? How to get the most out of a first conversation. As Marc says, “All the magic happens inside the conversation,” getting your prospect from fear to trust and then on to curiosity. But how do you take a green SDR — or even a fairly well-seasoned one — and develop the skills that get them to the level where the magic happens?   As Chris and Corey have discussed in previous episodes, first you need to have a clear idea of what the purpose of that initial conversation is: You're not trying to sell anything but the discovery meeting. And to do that, you need to truly believe in the value of that meeting for the person you're talking with. Once you have that belief firmly in place, it's time to develop your skills, which start with learning a great script and how to deliver it in the right tone and with the correct pacing. After that, practice, practice, practice. As Marc explains, “It's not enough to do it. Now you have to get really great at it. You've got to be frequent before you can get good.” As usual on the Market Dominance Guys, you'll hear this and lots more sage advice on today's episode, “Tried and True: Practice Makes Perfect!”   About Our Guest Marc Hodgson has had an illustrious and successful sales career at a variety of companies and currently holds the position of Sales Director (aka Sales Headcount Multiplier and Cost Per Meeting Reducer) at ConnectAndSell. Marc resides happily in the Greater Boston area. ------------------------------- Market Dominance Guys is brought to you by ConnectAndSell. ConnectAndSell allows your sales reps to talk to more decision-makers in 90 minutes than they would in a week or more of conventional dialing. Your reps can finally be 100% focused on selling, even when working 100% from home since all of their CRM data entry and follow-up scheduling is fully automated within ConnectAndSell's powerful platform. Your team's effectiveness will skyrocket by using ConnectAndSell's teleprompter capability as they'll know exactly what to say during critical conversations. Visit, ConnectAndSell.com where conversations matter.    Uncommon Pro - Selling a big idea to a skeptical customer, investor, or partner is one of the hardest jobs in business, so when it's time to really Go Big, you need to use an Uncommon methodology to gain attention, frame your thoughts, and employ a sequencing that is familiar to convince others that your ideas will truly change their world. Through Uncommon Pro's modern and innovative sales, scripting, and coaching toolset, we offer a guiding hand to ambitious Sales Leaders and their determined teams in their quest to reach market dominance. Today is the day things change. It's time to get “uncommon” with uncommonpro.com.

The Market Dominance Guys, Chris Beall and Corey Frank, had a meeting of the minds this week with Marc Hodgson of ConnectAndSell, who proudly claims the titles of Sales Headcount Multiplier and Cost Per Meeting Reducer. Chris introduces Marc as a learner, a student of the craft of selling, and a delight to work with. As Chris says, “With Marc there's no bravado, no sales-jock stuff.” Marc is what's known as a “long-game player,” spending his work days building relationships with prospects, not pushing for an immediate sale.   He credits fellow ConnectAndSell salesperson John Jackson with being his long-player model. As Marc explains John's sales approach, “[He] talks to a prospect three or four times a year … and when they're ready to buy, they buy from John.” The phrase, “Conversations matter,” is the basic tenet of ConnectAndSell, and Marc explains his adoption of it this way: “It takes time to build relationships. I have that core belief that there's going to be value in the conversation. We're going to learn together.” You can learn more about being a long-game player in this week's Market Dominance Guys' episode, “When the Time Is Right, the Magic Happens.”   About Our Guest Marc Hodgson has had an illustrious and successful sales career at a variety of companies and currently holds the position of Sales Headcount Multiplier and Cost Per Meeting Reducer at ConnectAndSell. He resides happily in the Greater Boston area.   ------------------------------- Market Dominance Guys is brought to you by ConnectAndSell. ConnectAndSell allows your sales reps to talk to more decision-makers in 90 minutes than they would in a week or more of conventional dialing. Your reps can finally be 100% focused on selling, even when working 100% from home since all of their CRM data entry and follow-up scheduling is fully automated within ConnectAndSell's powerful platform. Your team's effectiveness will skyrocket by using ConnectAndSell's teleprompter capability as they'll know exactly what to say during critical conversations. Visit, ConnectAndSell.com where conversations matter.    Uncommon Pro - Selling a big idea to a skeptical customer, investor, or partner is one of the hardest jobs in business, so when it's time to really Go Big, you need to use an Uncommon methodology to gain attention, frame your thoughts, and employ a sequencing that is familiar to convince others that your ideas will truly change their world. Through Uncommon Pro's modern and innovative sales, scripting, and coaching toolset, we offer a guiding hand to ambitious Sales Leaders and their determined teams in their quest to reach market dominance. Today is the day things change. It's time to get “uncommon” with uncommonpro.com.

CFO-turned-entrepreneur Erik dreams of a world in which clueless men don’t have to guess what jewelry to buy for their partner, as their beloved has already called ‘dibs’ on their preferred items. So he’s laying the groundwork to commercialize this simple but profound concept, with an app called “Dibbsi” that lets you lay claim to a bounty of consumer goods. As Marc counsels him, though, the first step is figuring out what the market’s appetite truly is for solving this problem.If you want to be a guest on “That Will Never Work” and get help from Marc with your business issues, leave a message at: 1 888 MARCPOD / (888) 627-2763. You can also connect with Marc on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thatwillneverwork/), Twitter (https://twitter.com/mbrandolph) and on his website (https://Marcrandolph.com), where you can also sign up for his newsletter (https://www.marcrandolph.com/newsletter).

Marc Thompson comes to share his truth. As Marc takes us on a little of his journey he shares on healthy mother/son relationships and the importance of forgiveness for both parties. Why effective communication is essential to all relationships. Marc shares tips on raising daughters and what his upbringing taught him about being a parent. Marc also shares why we must bring back the village mentality. To connect with Marc for motivation and inspiration or for photography or videography for your events you can go to @idareyoutodream on Instagram. To connect with Tray go to www.traykearney.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tray-kearney/support

Does a man make a suit or does a suit make a man? This week, I am talking with Marc Streisand, Owner of Marc Allen Fine Clothier, located in both Boston, MA & Providence, RI. Marc Allen Fine Clothier prides themselves in offering what big box stores cannot, a focus on the individual. By taking time to design and build curated collections from the rarest and finest items and fabrics in the world, they offer superior quality, unique style, and elegance for their clients. While Marc and his team focus on creating a luxury client experience, he also believes in providing value. Selling clothes for money isn't Marc's mission when it comes to Fashion and Style. His biggest motivator? Seeing men (and women) find confidence in themselves. Throughout our conversation, it is evident that Marc creates a fun and creative user experience. Not only does he focus on the client, but he also focuses on his team and giving back to others. As Marc puts it, “My employees don't work for me, they work with me”. When I asked him how to define success, he shared that the key to success is a healthy work-life balance. While money can buy you nice things, it's the relationships and experiences that truly outweigh financial gain. Topics Discussed: Helping men (and women) build their confidence Fun and creative ways for the user experience (both on & offline) Giving back to the community during Covid-19 Earning the trust and credibility of providing value for the client Misconceptions of the men's fashion industry The importance of creating memories with your family Connect with Marc Allen Fine Clothiers: Website: https://www.marcalleninc.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcallenfineclothiers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcallenfineclothiers/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-streisand-7231b35/ Contact Marc Allen Fine Clothiers: Call: 917-992-2242 Email: Marc@MarcAllenInc.com Relevant Articles: Marc Allen Fine Clothiers - Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/marc-allen-clothiers-providence Connect with Mark Condon: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BostonsBestPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bostonsbest_podcast/ About Boston's Best: “Highlighting successful businesses in and around Boston, MA.” Go behind the scenes with financial planner, Mark Condon, as he asks industry-leading experts to talk about their businesses throughout the state of Massachusetts. Through each episode, Mark finds what sets these different businesses apart from their competition and how they rose above the inevitable challenges they faced along the way to their ultimate success.

****This episode was brought to you by ATTN Agency and Daasity.   Whether it’s celebrating a day in the sun or enjoying a drink by the fire, add to any experience with a glass of Ten to One Rum. As Marc mentions, Ten to One Rum is an “elevated brand not exclusive.” With Ten to One Rum, “there aren’t velvet ropes around the brand,” making it the perfect drink for any occasion. In the first part of this Feature, we sit down with Marc Farrell, CEO and Founder of Ten to One Rum. After starting his first business in the 2000s, Marc learned the importance of learning from first-time failures. Hard work is a big part of creating the brand, but so is timing and perseverance. It’s the vision, and the passion to keep going that helped make his company a successful up and coming brand in the premium spirit space. Listen in today to hear Ramon Vela and Marc discuss how and why Ten to One Rum was created. In part 1, Marc discusses His Mentor experience; The 100 ft overview of Ten to One; Marc’s journey through Harvard Business school; The importance of learning from first time failure; When starting a business, timing matters; Building trust in your team; The inspiration for creating Ten to One; and much more. Want to give it taste? Use promo code STORY15 For more on Ten to One Rum, visit: https://www.tentoonerum.com/ * OUR 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. Get a comprehensive, no-obligation, 14 point audit of your social, search, shopping, email, and SMS channels. Visit https://www.attnagency.com/storyofabrand/ * This specific episode is also brought to you by Daasity. Daasity provides a single view of your Sales and Marketing data to identify the channels, and products, that are performing the best -- so you can make better data-empowered decisions. In minutes, unify all of your sales and marketing data to understand better critical growth metrics like LTV, ROAS, and profit margin by product. Join 1,400 Shopify and Shopify Plus brands like Rothy’s, Who Gives A Crap, Kopari, and MVMT Watches, who are all growing faster with better insights. Get started today with over 130 pre-built Reports. Schedule a free call with an Ecommerce Strategist today. Visit Daasity.com/story

I’ve had the privilege of speaking with around 500 leaders over the years on The Future of Work Podcast and I have really learned a lot from each one. On the show, they share tips, advice, lessons they’ve learned, as well as an inside look at what it’s like to lead their organization.  This past year really brought a lot of challenges for every single leader around the world. We had to learn how to adjust to a pandemic, how to address social injustices, how to lead virtually and much more. My guests really shared a lot of inspiration, motivation, as well as realistic advice for listeners.  Even though all of the interviews were great and informative, I have a few favorites that I really enjoyed. And from those episodes I have compiled 15 leadership lessons that are crucial for leaders to learn in order to succeed in the future.  Leading by example: Arthur Blank, co-founder The Home Depot Arthur Blank is the co-founder of the Home Depot, which today has a market cap of over $300 billion and they have over 400,000 employees.  Arthur is a leader that lives out the value of leading by example. He understands the importance of showing employees that what they do day to day is not beneath you as the leader. When you lead by example and let people know that you are not just sitting up in your office looking down on the employees who allow the business to succeed it makes people actually want to show up and work hard.  Creating your own luck: Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream Shellye Archambeaur is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley based governance risk and compliance software company and the author of a new book called Unapologetically Ambitious. She's also on the board of Verizon and Nordstrom.  In this world you have to create your own luck, especially when it comes to your career. Shellye explains that creating luck means positioning yourself so that when an opportunity shows up you actually have the ability to take advantage of it.  What culture is and what it isn’t: Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix Marc Randolph is the co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix, he also served on the board of Netflix up until 2003.  As Marc shares, culture is not just what you say, it’s not something that you put up on posters around the office, or some catch phrases that you come up with in a meeting. He says, “Culture is how you act. It's how you are, it's the things you do. And even more importantly, culture springs from how the founders and the early employees act with each other, with their employees, with their customers. And so, huge amounts of the Netflix culture arised organically, from the way that Reed (Hastings) and I behaved, the way that I treat people, the way I worked with people before.” It doesn’t have to be crazy at work: Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of Basecamp Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, and best selling author of Rework, It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy at Work.  With the blurring of work in life, it can be quite challenging to make sure that work just doesn't take everything over. Jason is a big believer in capping a workweek at 40 hours, he says, “We don’t want people working more than 40 hours. You don’t need to. And if we’re doing that, then we’re doing something wrong, actually. I know a lot of companies, long hours is seen as doing something right, like, “Let’s stay late, and let’s work on the weekends and let’s pull all-nighters.” I think that’s completely wrong. And so, we’re very careful about not encouraging our employees to work that way.” What to do if you feel stuck at work: David Cote, former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell David Cote is the former chairman and CEO of Honeywell, and author of the best selling book, Winning Now Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed In The Short Term While Investing For The Long Term. During his time at Honeywell, David fixed a toxic work culture and grew the company's market capitalization from around $20 billion to $120 billion, delivering returns of 800%.  If you have a boss who doesn’t feel that you are performing as well as you think you are, this is where you have to be self aware and figure out is there something you can fix or do you just have a bad boss, which David says happens less often than people think. So learn to be self aware and realize when there is something you need to fix. We all have issues, and it’s important to know what they are.  How to lead with empathy and courage: Kate Johnson, President of Microsoft US Kate Johnson is the president of Microsoft US, a $45 billion division. She is currently very involved in Microsoft's culture journey led by CEO Satya Nadella.  Kate is a huge believer and practitioner of leading with courage and empathy. But what does that mean and how does it come to life? Here is what Kate had to say.  She says, “One of the things that we've been learning is the connection between courage and vulnerability. So everybody thinks if you're courageous, that you have no weakness. You are strong, they picture warriors, you know, with lots of armor and heading off. That's not what courageous leadership is. Courageous leadership is the willingness to activate the troops and own the outcome, but also to do so bringing all of your strengths and weaknesses to the table with total transparency and clarity, and kind of owning work with that and figuring out how to assemble the team to bolster wherever there are weaknesses. And that's a different kind of leadership that I think is essential today.” How Covid-19 has changed leadership forever: Tiger Tyagarajan, CEO of Genpact Tiger Tyagarajan is the CEO of Genpact, a global professional services firm with 100,000 employees that drives digital led innovation in digitally-enabled intelligent operations for organizations around the world. Prior to Genpact. Tiger worked for several well-known companies such as Unilever, Citibank, and GE.  One thing that a lot of people are speculating about is that the office will be a thing of the past and that everyone will be working from home. Tiger doesn’t agree. While he does agree that some things will never go back to what it was before, he believes that offices will come back, at least in some form.  How leaders can serve their employees: Carrie Birkhofer, President & CEO of Bay Federal Credit Union Carrie Birkhofer is president and CEO of Bay Federal Credit Union, a non profit financial cooperative with 225 employees. She's been the CEO there for 25 years and under her leadership, the Credit Union has grown from $70 million to $1.4 billion in assets.  What does it look like to serve your employees? Carrie makes sure she meets new employees on their first day at work.  In good times, pre-COVID that meant four or five current employees and Carrie getting together in person with the new employees. The current employees would share who they are, what their path has been at Bay Federal, and something interesting that they want to share. Then they would have the new employees do the same thing, except they would share their paths getting to Bay Federal.  Creating a mission that resonates with employees: Steve Bilt, CEO of Smile Brands Steve Bilt is the CEO of Smile Brands, a company with 5000 employees that provides business support services to Over 425 dental offices. Smile Brands has been on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list three times and Steve is one of the top CEOs on Glassdoor.  Anyone can come up with a mission statement or a company purpose that sounds good. But it can’t be something that just lives on a wall or in the company handbook. It has to be something that is infused into every aspect of the business.  Steve believes it needs to be something short and catchy that people can remember. It needs to be something that you can evaluate and check in on to see how well the company is living up to it. It has to be something that is living and breathing inside your company. People are the solution, not the problem: Hubert Joly, former Chairman and CEO of Best Buy Hubert Joly is the former Chairman and CEO of Best Buy. Currently, He is a professor at Harvard Business School, and he's on the board of two companies, Johnson and Johnson and Ralph Lauren.    A lot of leaders first starting at a struggling organization probably would have thought about cutting back on the headcount first to save money. But Hubert not only didn’t take that route, he actually put more money into training, incentives, wellness, etc… Hubert truly believes that leaders should treat humans as a solution to the problem, not as a source of the problem. And we should use headcount reduction only as a last resort. Why leaders need a short attention span: Jim Heppelmann, CEO of PTC Jim Heppelmann is the CEO of PTC, a technology software company with 6500 employees in 30 countries.  There's always been this traditional mentality that leaders need to have a long term plan and stick to it. But Jim's lesson is that leaders actually need to have short attention spans if they want to thrive in today's rapidly changing world.  Jim is always looking for the next round of changes that make PTC better, or that protect them from a new threat headed their way. This is a quality that he believes all CEOs should have. Always looking to the next thing, don’t just ride current success.  The best leadership lessons can come from those around you: Chris McCann, CEO of 1-800-Flowers Chris McCann is the CEO of 1-800-Flowers, a floral and gourmet food gift retailer and distribution company with over 3000 employees.  Chris didn't learn leadership skills by attending a top tier University, he learned how to lead by those he surrounded himself with. Sometimes the best leadership lessons can come from those around you.  Why everyone should think like an entrepreneur: Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of Square and the author of a new book called Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.  Lots of people are going through a time of reinvention. And having the mindset of an entrepreneur can be an invaluable asset.  Jim says true entrepreneurs solve problems that haven’t been solved before, they don’t just start a business, they do something that has never been done before. And that is what he and Jack Dorsey did, they solved a problem in a way that no one else had ever thought of before. They even were able to beat out Amazon when the company tried to copy the setup Square had. Putting people ahead of profits: Pehr Gyllenhammar, former CEO of Volvo Pehr Gyllenhammar is the former CEO of Volvo, and has been voted Sweden's most admired man nine times. Pehr had to lead his company through lots of tough times, like recessions, and an oil crisis. While all the other companies were sacrificing their people to save their profits Pehr didn't let go of a single employee.  In fact, he told me he would rather let go of a white-collar worker in a management role than a blue-collar worker working on the manufacturing floor. Pehr’s lesson is really all about appreciating all of the people who work with him for you. And remembering that it's oftentimes the people on the front lines who make your business successful.  Creating and scaling amazing culture for a remote workforce: Robert Glazer, CEO of Acceleration Partners Robert Glazer is the best selling author of Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others. He's also the CEO of Acceleration Partners, a 13-year-old company that manages affiliate and partner marketing programs for a lot of well-known brands like Adidas, LinkedIn, Target, and others. He leads a team of hundreds of employees but they are all remote. The lesson from Robert is how he manages to create and scale an amazing culture for a workforce that actually doesn't work together in person. Robert shares that the key to having a successful remote team is by starting with the core values of the organization. Once you know your core values you can intentionally attract and hire the right people. Contrary to what happens in most organizations, Robert and his team understand that not every person will feel like the company is right for them.   This episode is brought to you by my friends at ServiceNow, a software company that makes the world of work, work better for people by delivering digital workflows that create great employee experiences, and unlock productivity. If you or your company is looking to transform old, manual ways of working into digital workflows, then you need ServiceNow. They are trusted by over 6,200 enterprises customers, Check them out here.

Michael J. Fox didn’t intend to be an inspiration but he’s glad he can help out. As Marc learned from talking with him, Michael maintains a perspective on life filled with gratitude and optimism as he lives with the effects of Parkinson’s disease. Recently, after a run of health setbacks, that perspective faltered. But Michael tells Marc how he got back on track, how he maintains strong bonds with his wife and children, how he felt about giving up show business for a second time, and what he realized about mortality while spending several months on the couch watching re-runs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warning: This video contains some foul language. When you have an idea for a new product or come up with an invention, what should you do first? What are your options as far as getting to market? The two main paths to commercialization for inventors are licensing, which you can think of like renting, and manufacturing your product yourself — the traditional process of starting a business. Product licensing expert Stephen Key debates Marc Portney, investor, entrepreneur, and business advisor about the merits of the licensing business model versus venturing. Both men have experienced the benefits and drawbacks of each! As Marc explains early on, it's really about understanding what your strengths, weaknesses, and desires are. Are you more of a business type, or a creative type? http://marcportney.com/ Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss are the world's leading experts on how to license a product idea. If you have an invention idea, this is the show to watch. Steve and Andrew are the cofounders of inventRight, a coaching program that has helped people from more than 60 countries license their ideas for new products. Visit http://www.inventright.com for more information and to join the one-one-one coaching program. If you have questions about how to invent, how to be creative, design, how to do market research, prototyping, manufacturing, negotiating, pitching, how to sell, how to cold call, how to reach out to open innovation companies, licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, patents, copyright, trademarks, and intellectual property in general — subscribe to inventRightTV! New videos every week, including tons of entrepreneur success stories. Inventing can be lonely, but you don't have to go it alone! Join the inventRight community for priceless inventor education, mentorship, support, accountability, hand-holding, honesty about the invention industry, and so much more. Contact us at #1-800-701-7993 or https://www.inventright.com/contact. This is the book you need to license your product idea: “One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams Into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work.” Find it here: http://amzn.to/1LGotjB. This is the book you need to file a well-written provisional patent application: “Sell Your Ideas With or Without a Patent.” Find it here: http://amzn.to/1T1dOU2. Determined to become a professional inventor? Read Stephen's new book "Become a Professional Inventor: The Insider's Guide to Companies Looking For Ideas": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1653786256/ inventRight, LLC. is not a law firm and does not provide legal, patent, trademark, or copyright advice. Please exercise caution when evaluating any information, including but not limited to business opportunities; links to news stories; links to services, products, or other websites. No endorsements are issued by inventRight, LLC., expressed or implied. Depiction of any trademarks/logos does not represent endorsement of inventRight, LLC, its services, or products by the trademark owner. All trademarks are registered trademarks of their respective companies. Reference on this video to any specific commercial products, process, service, manufacturer, company, or trademark does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by inventRight, LLC or its hosts. This video may contain links to external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with inventRight, LLC. Please note that the inventRight LLC. does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Good morning, RVA! It’s 51 °F, and our run of spectacular weather continues. Expect highs in the 70s today and an irresistible desire to sit quietly in a chair outside listening to the world around you. Rain moves in Saturday and Sunday, though.Water coolerRichmond Police are reporting a murder on the 3600 block of Chamberlayne Avenue. On the morning of October 6th, officers were called to an apartment in the area and found Estelle D. Pugh, a woman in her 60s, “suffering from trauma.”As of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 1,844↗️ new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth and 25↘️ new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 148↗️ new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 59, Henrico: 42, and Richmond: 47). Since this pandemic began, 380 people have died in the Richmond region. That’s a lot of new cases, but, as you might have excepted, VDH posted this notice on the dashboard: “The case count reported on Thursday, October 8, includes 689 cases that should have been reported on Wednesday, October 7, but were not because of a surveillance system reporting issue. A reminder: cases are not reported on the day the patient became ill, but on the day they have been classified as meeting the case definition for COVID-19. In order to observe the spread of illness most effectively, please review the charts that show cases by date of symptom onset.” Here’s that chart for all of Virginia, and here’s the same chart for just the Central Region. When looking at both of these graphs, please keep in mind that the data get less and less complete as you move toward the right. In other coronanews, the University of Richmond announced their spring schedule which includes a later start and no spring break. This makes virus-sense but does seem like it would make the semester a heckuva long slog, from January to May. As for K–12 schools, the Governor announced he’ll distribute an additional $220 million of CARES Act money to “all 132 public school districts using an allocation formula of $175 per pupil based on fall enrollment, with a minimum of $100,000 for each school division.” Richmond will get $4.1 million, Henrico $8.8 million, and Chesterfield $10.9 million (full PDF of a spreadsheet here). While I’m sure every district welcomes the influx of any cash ahead of what’s sure to be an incredibly stressful budget season, this is a great example of equality instead of equity. Big, wealthy school districts end up with more resources than smaller, less wealthy districts that most likely have more need.Marc Cheatham at the Cheats Movement has the second post up in his series about the mayoral candidates, “Who’s Got Next.” This one’s about Councilmember Kim Gray. A couple years ago, I stumbled across this quote from the Isaacson Steve Jobs biography: “‘You’re blowing it with Fox News,’ Jobs told [Murdoch] over dinner. ‘The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people.’” This idea—of a political spectrum aligned with constructive at one and destructive at the other—maps perfectly onto local politics in Richmond, where the issues are often not clearly partisan (and the offices are technically entirely nonpartisan). Councilmember Grey sits on the far end of the destructive side of the spectrum. She excels at stopping projects, voting no, raising hell, and turning out opposition. As Marc puts it, “Gray objects to a proposal—gives a press statement, and either kills it or moves on, leaving a void where there may have been an opportunity to improve the outcome.” Without digging into voting records, Grey has: Voted against the meals tax to fund building new schools, voted against removing confederate monuments multiple times, banned local-service buses from a city block forcing them to detour away from the Pulse, and tried (and failed) to remove bike lanes—forever!—from Brook Road. This role, the Nosayer, works on Council. It doesn’t make for a great or efficient or effective City Council, but it is a role for a councilmember to play. But you can’t lead from no. When Marc asks “But back to my big question, who is Kim Gray?” this is what I think about: What does it look like for someone who’s natural position is “destruction” to lead a city forward?I’m just going to quote the title of this article by Jack Jacobs at Richmond BizSense and you can decide how to feel about it: “Regency’s first new anchor—an indoor trampoline park co-owned by Drew Brees—opens Saturday.”I wanted to shoutout the Big List of 2020 Candidate Events, which has started to dwindle a bit. If you know about candidate events—Council, School Board, or Mayoral—let me know! Also, if you haven’t yet voted and are still undecided, check out the “recorded replays available” section this weekend to watch and learn about the candidate of your choice. I have to say, this document has turned into a pretty great resource!The virtual Richmond Folk Festival kicks off tonight at 6:00 PM. You can cut on the radio or live stream tonight—or even the dang TV tomorrow and Sunday. Check out the full schedule here and fill your entire weekend with some great tunes.Vaccine reminder! The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU will host a family flu and Tdap vaccine clinic this weekend on October 10th, from 8:00 AM–3:30 PM, at 1000 E. Broad Street. No appointment needed! Additionally, the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts will host a free flu vaccination clinic for uninsured and underinsured folks, also on Saturday, at the Hotchkiss Community Center (701 E. Brookland Park Boulevard) from 10:00 AM–1:00 PM. Lots of opportunity to get your vax!This morning’s longreadPeriwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and DuskKathy Kelleher at the Paris Review has a whole column about colors called “Hue’s Hue”!Periwinkle’s first known appearance in English as a color-word was in the 1920s, but it has been in the painter’s toolbox for far longer, nestled under the violet umbrella. Periwinkle is a Modernist word for a Modernist color. It’s a word that has several meanings—in addition to being a flowering plant, a periwinkle is also a type of snail, though not, confusingly, one that secretes purple liquid. It’s a nature word for a color most often found in nature. A dreamy word for a color that exists at the edges of the night.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

We've seen many Group of 5 coaches and ADs call for the College Football Playoff to be expanded but for this to happen there would need to some Power 5 coaches to join the conversation. As Marc discusses this is the kind of dialogue that could lead to changing the system.

Marc Randolph is the co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix. He also served on the board of Netflix up until 2003. And Netflix wasn’t his only startup, he’s founded or co-founded 6 other successful startups. He is also the author of the bestselling book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.  From very early on Marc was entrepreneurial. As a kid he was always trying to find problems and unique ways to solve them. He sold seeds door to door, did candy arbitrage, he even carried a notebook around with him to write down invention ideas he had. He was always starting clubs and groups and coming up with products throughout high school and college. And as Marc shares, one of the keys to being an entrepreneur is practice, practice, practice.  In his early career Marc had a small startup that he was helping run. After the company was sold he had to find something else to do so he went to work at another startup company which just happened to be led by a man named Reed Hastings.  How Netflix came to be Marc and Reed ended up carpooling to work each day so they got to know each other pretty well. One day they found out that the startup they were working for was being acquired and they both would be losing their jobs in the merger. So they had to figure out their next move. Marc had several more ideas for products and companies so he wanted to continue his successful journey with startups (he had done 5 previously). But Reed wasn’t as eager to start another company, he had other plans. But they came to an agreement that if Marc came up with a great idea Reed would be the angel investor and he would share the board.  So Marc got to work to come up with the next winning idea. And as they carpooled into work Marc would pitch Reed his ideas. And after many not so great ideas such as personalized dog food and customizable shampoo, Marc pitched an idea that at the time didn’t make sense, but that later on would become Netflix. They both agreed that in theory the idea was a great one. The only problem was that at the time he came up with the idea of video rental by mail the only video format was the VHS cassette which was heavy and expensive to ship. So that idea at the time was discarded with the dog food and the shampoo.  It just so happened that at a later date Reed found an article about a new technology called the DVD and realized this could be the missing piece to an otherwise great business idea. So they went and got a used music CD and a small envelope and they mailed it to themselves to see what would happen. And in less than 24 hours they had the small envelope with an unbroken CD in their mailbox and they knew they had something.  How to scale culture  As Marc shares culture is not just what you say, it’s not something that you put up on posters around the office, or some catch phrases that you come up with in a meeting. He says, “Culture is how you act. It's how you are, it's the things you do. And even more importantly, culture springs from how the founders and the early employees act with each other, with their employees, with their customers. And so, huge amounts of the Netflix culture arised organically, from the way that Reed and I behaved, the way that I treat people, the way I worked with people before.” When Netflix first started as a company they had a very small staff of around 20 or so people and most of them had worked together before in other companies. So it made it easier to maintain a culture at that point. Marc says he knew that he could ask an employee to take ownership of a project due in two weeks and then know that in two weeks they would show up with the results no matter what. The small team worked really well together and had a culture of mutual respect, trust, and ownership. But that gets hard to maintain when your company grows and you have 100, 500, or 1,000+ employees.  “When you get bigger, something happens where someone shows up late, or they show up but don't have everything done. And a lot of managers would say, Oh, this isn't good. Okay, we can't have that happen. Everybody, I want status reports. I need to know if there's gonna be a problem in advance. So everyone needs to send status reports. And everyone goes, Oh, status reports. And then someone else shows up and they're there on time with it all done, but they spent too much. And  many managers will go, Oh, I can't let that happen. Okay, I need to pre-approve anything over $100 to make sure you don't make a spending mistake. I need everyone to send expense reports. And then everyone goes, oh, god expense reports.” And as Marc goes on to share what happens over time is you build the company in a way that protects you from people with bad judgment, but along the way with these added rules, steps, and processes you are simultaneously driving the people with good judgment crazy. And that is how you lose good employees.  So what the team at Netflix decided early on was that they would build a company just for people with good judgment. People that they knew they could count on, people that weren’t afraid to work hard and take ownership of things and in exchange the leadership team could give employees freedom and the ability to make their own decisions. And while Marc admits there was a time when they almost lost the culture as they grew, ultimately they have been able to keep it with intentionality, even now with almost 9,000 employees.  How Netflix overcame a 40% decrease in workforce Up until the spring of 2000 Netflix was doing great. They had been offering monthly subscriptions, they had no due dates and no late fees and people were loving it. But then the dot com bubble burst and they were in trouble. They were on the brink of going broke and they needed help fast. Marc and his team were actually exploring selling Netflix at that point.  But they also had another idea that they felt could save the company from ruin and that was to pitch an idea to Blockbuster. And while it may seem odd now because Blockbuster isn’t even around anymore, back in 2000 business was booming for them. They had 9000 locations and Netflix saw an opportunity to make a partnership. Basically they were hoping that Blockbuster would agree to a blended model, which would mean they would continue their current in-store business, but they would also give customers the option of ordering a movie online, having it delivered to their house, and then dropping it back off to a Blockbuster location in person or vice versa, picking a movie up in person and then mailing it back in.  But Blockbuster wasn’t interested. They said no to Netflix, and they decided to use that model but to do it on their own. So not only did Netflix not get the rescue they were hoping for, but now they had another competitor. But that didn’t stop them. They realized there would be no one to save them, they would have to save themselves and that just pushed them to work harder.  But even though they were working hard to figure out a solution, they were still bleeding cash. Marc and his team knew they had a tough decision to make. They were going to have to say goodbye to some people on the team. They had to lose 40% of the employees. And as Marc shares it was the most painful decision he has ever had to make, especially because a lot of these people were hired by Marc himself.  After reducing the workforce the Netflix team went into survival mode. They got back to the nitty gritty of the business to figure out ways to bring costs down, turn visitors into subscriptions more quickly, and how to run things more effectively. Marc says they had some big breakthroughs, but they also had a lot of luck involved in bringing them out of this tough time.  The greatest lesson Marc has learned  Marc has started six successful businesses, he has mentored hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs, he has been a CEO, a board member, and an investor. Along the way he has learned a lot, but his biggest piece of advice for leaders looking to create great companies where people want to work is to empower people to make mistakes.  He says, “The thing that I've learned over and over and over again, is that there's no such thing as a good idea. That too many companies believe that there are good ideas and the people who have them, that the proportion of good ideas commensurate with how high you are in the company. And I learned that's just ridiculous, and that the only way to find out whether ideas are good or bad is to try them. And so the trick is not building an organization just good at coming up with ideas, but building an organization which is tremendously good at trying thousands of bad ideas.” In order to do that leaders not only need to allow their people to make mistakes, but they also have to give people the power to make decisions. This is incredibly hard to do, but as Marc shares just because it is hard doesn’t change the importance of doing it. Marc believes that the most effective way to build a culture of innovation and risk taking is to demonstrate it at the top. Also, when it comes to entrepreneurship Marc believes that while anyone can have a good idea, “The singular difference between an entrepreneur and someone else is a predisposition to action. Everyone thinks of ideas, a small number of people say let's do something about it.” Randolph’s Rules for success  Marc’s dad imparted eight rules for success to him as a young adult, and he still looks at this list everyday, in fact it’s hanging up above the sink in his bathroom. So I asked Marc to share what these eight rules are. They are: Do at least 10% more than you are asked Never, ever, to anybody present as fact opinions on things you don’t know. Take great care and discipline. Be courteous and considerate always--up and down Don’t knock, don’t complain--stick to constructive, serious criticism Don’t be afraid to make decisions when you have the facts on which to make them Quantify where possible Be open-minded but skeptical Be prompt

In this episode, I talk with Marc Cordon, MPH - Positive Psychology Coach, who shares his story about how he was always different than the rest, from his ethnicity all the way to his brain wiring. He shares how he went from musician to higher education and then into multicultural work. Marc shares from the heart and positive psychology changed his view on social justice and to do it from a place of Joy. When you listen to this episode, remember this is a person who was diagnosed with many conditions such as Identity struggle, Mood disorder, anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar, Depression but Marc did not let these labels get in the way of searching and tapping into his highest purpose. He shares how he figured out what brings him joy. He is super clear of his values and that is one of the key steps in finding your purpose and happiness. At about 19:00 min mark, he shares a few tips on how he manages his business to stay focused and grounded. Towards the end of the talk, he goes into what toxic positivity means and how our emotions have a purpose be it anger or joy, and why it is important to pay attention to all of our emotions. I could have talked to Marc for hours, it was my pleasure to listen to his story and I am delighted to hear how he is able to manage his brain while following his purpose. As Marc mentioned he is running a program right now on Joy Revolution, head over to get the details About Marc: Marc Cordon, MPH, is a positive psychology coach, co-founder of The Joy Revolution™, and author of the book Beyond Resilient: The Coach’s Guide to Ecstatic Growth. He specializes in transitions, leadership, performance, and well-being, helping people break through to the next level to find greater enjoyment and purpose in their lives. With a focus on misfit entrepreneurs and leaders who march to the beat of their own drum, Marc’s coaching empowers people to claim their own joy as they make a difference for others. He has appeared on national television and radio shows and has delivered two TEDx talks on positive psychology and social justice. Marc served as the Associate Director of Health Promotion and of Multicultural Programs & Services at Emory University where he developed programs and curriculum on social justice, positive psychology, and community engagement. He has received a BS in Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology and a Masters in Public Health in Policy & Management, as well as coaching accolades from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and the WholeBeing Institute. Let's keep the conversation going, Leave me a voice mail with any questions either on this topic or other topics related to Managing Adult ADHD https://www.speakpipe.com/Coachcathy super easy todo, Record, Listen, and push Send. Did you know your subconscious (your autopilot) is driving your actions and behaviors without you knowing, find out more Be sure to subscribe to this show to stay current with my weekly episodes. Can you do me a favor? Pls rate this show or even better it would mean so much to me if you wrote a quick review as to how you find did show beneficial. Did you know my show was recently listed in the feedspot.com as Top 25 ADHD Podcasts? I am super excited to be part of this list, head over there to see other amazing ADHD shows. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/proudlyadhd/message

Welcome to Situational Social Security, where we review situations that are unique to clients, and learn about how advisors are using Social Security knowledge in their practice. Whether you specialize in Social Security already, or are interested in learning more, Situational Social Security is THE PLACE FOR YOU!! For more details about our certificate program, or if you would like to be a guest on our show, please visit our website premierNSSA.com and leave us a message on the contact page.On today’s show, Marc and Jim introduce themselves, how they got into Social Security education, and their plans for the show.As Marc was developing his accounting practice over time, he began to get questions about Social Security, so in 2008 he decided to offer Social Security consulting services. After reading a number of books, he realized that he couldn’t do it alone. He started looking for someone to help, when an attorney he knew mentioned he had an uncle who was about to retire from the Social Security Administration. His uncle ended up being Marc’s partner Jim Blair.In January 2010, Jim and Marc set up Premier Social Security Consulting to help clients understand and maximize their benefits. In 2013 they evolved into an education company, when they created the National Social Security Advisor Certificate Program. The course is 8 hours long, has received accreditation by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence, and offers the gold standard of support.Jim had worked with the Social Security Administration for 35 years. He started as a service representative, before becoming a claims representative for 10 years. Then he moved into the management side of things for a number of years, finishing his final 9 years as the district manager at the Piqua, Ohio office.We coined the phrase “Situational Social Security”, which is what we will explore on this show. We will talk about situations for single folks, married individuals, divorcees, individuals with deceased spouses, retirees with young children, and many others….In addition to reviewing situations, we will be interviewing advisors about how they are using their Social Security knowledge to help their clients and add value to their business. We will also have guests on to talk about related topics like Medicare, reverse mortgages, long term care, etc…

While the Big Ten and Pac-12 have decided to play conference only football, we may be closer to learning the plans of the other three Power 5 leagues. As Marc talks about he doesn't think North Carolina is scared to play UCF, but they also may have no reason to play the Knights.

As Marc discusses, the biggest reason P5s play non-conference games against G5s and FCS schools is money. Yes, it's about money. And wins.

Marc Hayford is a two time best selling author, inspirational speaker, and entrepreneur.  His mission statement is to showcase a higher vision of not what is probable, but what is possible. Marc is a veteran of the US armed forces, a former professional wrestling referee, and a current DJ for his own company, as well as a head football coach for middle school. He has been featured on many platforms including radio, podcasts and television for his books “Get Up”: Encouraging You To Attack Life (which rose to #1 on the Amazon Best Seller List within 4 hours) and “365 Days Of Encouraging You To Attack Life”which  gives you a daily shot of inspiration, focus, discipline and motivation for each day of the year. His latest book, "Light Up the Darkness", was inspired by the choke hold that 2020 seemed to place on the state of the world. This book seeks to help the reader fight back from any and all adversity and engage with a blueprint of success that can be used in all aspects of life. The attributes or "keys" are served in a very current, practical way designed to help you win not just in dark times, but all times.  Perspective, perception, mindset & positivity is the focus. We give ourselves false self limitations. Marc's goal is to always have an audience leave with more hope, value and inspiration than when they first arrived. Attitude is everything, perspective is powerful, and he shares his with the universe. Marc and I share the belief that the Power of One is the ability to believe that YOU are enough to change the trajectory of your own life, as well as the lives of others, for the better.  Follow Marc on Twitter @hayford_marc, on his website at www.marchayford.com, and on Instagram @marchhayford.As Marc inspires others to become their own cheerleader, he throws out the challenge: "You can't BE it if you can't SEE it!"  See YOU on the path!Thank you to our Sponsor, Hardenbergh Insurance Group.  For over 60 years, Hardenbergh has been raising the bar and setting the standard for what a good insurance enterprise is all about.  Hands-on customer service, knowledgable reps, amazing turnaround response time.  And they keep up with the ever-changing demands and changes in their industry.  Want a company that will take care of all of your business and family insurance needs?  Trust Hardenbergh.  Visit their website at www.HIG.net or reach out to them in the Delaware Valley at 856.489.9100.  They also operate in 42 states across the country.Finally, as Founder of Empower Kids, LLC, I love showcasing young talent.  I want to thank and recognize our musicians that take care of the musical Podcast Intro and Exit music.  Liam Graham is the guitarist, and Anna Yannessa, is a junior vocal major at the University of Missouri who plans on continuing studying voice performance at the graduate level.  She can be reached on Instagram @annyannessa19, on Twitter at @annayannessa and on FB at Anna Yannessa.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=Q8MFJJ34TPC6E)

As Marc dealt with personal grief, he looked around the Internet for some guidance on coping with loss. He found a TED Talk by Nora McInerny, who spoke about losing her father, her husband and her unborn child within the span of a few weeks. Since that time, Nora has been able to move forward with her grief, not move on, as she began a career as a published writer, a public speaker, and podcaster. Nora and Marc talk about processing the harsh realities of life while maintaining the ability to find new beginnings.

Marc Morial, the President and CEO of the National Urban League joined us on Life Style Business on #LPTV the day after he testified before congress on the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Marc was in a reflective mood after walking through Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington DC the previous evening. The NUL's mission is "to help African-Americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic self-reliance, power and civil rights." We were grateful to have him join us with as the media spotlight is shining on the importance of the mission of the organization he leads. This needs to be the "beginning of a movement, not just a moment," he remarked, and this stuck with me throughout the interview. The civil rights movement is as old as America herself, but perhaps we are opening a new chapter that will lead to real change, not just a media moment. We focused the conversation on the need for economic transformation for the African-American community, in Marc's words, helping people access "the system." "During a crisis we can go big." We talked about the turning the crisis into opportunity, not simply settle back into an economy running "on the fumes of 20th century ideas." There is a willingness to create new programs to drive economic equity for African-Americans, and Marc emphasized the need to go big and imagine new programs. We have the capacity to move quickly we are in crisis, we've proved that with the SBA PPP loan program. Could we create a 1% loan program to provide access to capital to business owners of color? We also discussed privilege. It doesn't have to mean being born with a silver spoon in your mouth to have opportunity that many African Americans have not. Two critical moments in life where privilege helps a person create generational wealth happen more frequently for white families. Parents who are able to help you pay for college Parents who are able to help you with a downpayment on a first house. These two moments are ways that generational wealth is passed down to give children a head start on building economic security for their families. Wouldn't it be great if all Americans could afford this. As Marc reflected, there is an "appetite for new ideas" right now. We've always believed that entrepreneurship is the way to create agency and wealth in your life. We're eager to work with the Urban League to bring this model to new cities. We very much enjoyed the conversation and look forward to working together to make sure this is a movement, not just a moment. Marc Morial is a former Mayor of New Orleans, President of the United States Conference of Mayors and Louisiana State Senator. He is known as a giant in American political and civic leadership circles. As president and CEO of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Urban_League (National Urban League), Marc has led the nation's largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization since 2003. He's here today to talk with us about the work he's doing to empower black and brown communities in the face of today's pressing issues around justice, reform, equity and protection of rights.

As Marc continues to make the screenplay more economical for a small budget, Aaron and Marc discuss the murky world of screenwriting gurus. Are they useful? Can they even be damaging? They chat about story-telling conventions, screenplay structure and all with a generous dose of lockdown fatigue.

As Marc opened the show this morning he talked about how sometimes there are things that are bigger tan the sports world and talks about what is happening around our country and what the role of sports can be to help heal the country.

In March Professor Marc Lipsitch — Director of Harvard's Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics — abruptly found himself a global celebrity, his social media following growing 40-fold and journalists knocking down his door, as everyone turned to him for information they could trust. Here he lays out where the fight against COVID-19 stands today, why he's open to deliberately giving people COVID-19 to speed up vaccine development, and how we could do better next time. As Marc tells us, island nations like Taiwan and New Zealand are successfully suppressing SARS-COV-2. But everyone else is struggling. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Even Singapore, with plenty of warning and one of the best test and trace systems in the world, lost control of the virus in mid-April after successfully holding back the tide for 2 months. This doesn't bode well for how the US or Europe will cope as they ease their lockdowns. It also suggests it would have been exceedingly hard for China to stop the virus before it spread overseas. But sadly, there's no easy way out. The original estimates of COVID-19's infection fatality rate, of 0.5-1%, have turned out to be basically right. And the latest serology surveys indicate only 5-10% of people in countries like the US, UK and Spain have been infected so far, leaving us far short of herd immunity. To get there, even these worst affected countries would need to endure something like ten times the number of deaths they have so far. Marc has one good piece of news: research suggests that most of those who get infected do indeed develop immunity, for a while at least. To escape the COVID-19 trap sooner rather than later, Marc recommends we go hard on all the familiar options — vaccines, antivirals, and mass testing — but also open our minds to creative options we've so far left on the shelf. Despite the importance of his work, even now the training and grant programs that produced the community of experts Marc is a part of, are shrinking. We look at a new article he's written about how to instead build and improve the field of epidemiology, so humanity can respond faster and smarter next time we face a disease that could kill millions and cost tens of trillions of dollars. We also cover: • How listeners might contribute as future contagious disease experts, or donors to current projects • How we can learn from cross-country comparisons • Modelling that has gone wrong in an instructive way • What governments should stop doing • How people can figure out who to trust, and who has been most on the mark this time • Why Marc supports infecting people with COVID-19 to speed up the development of a vaccines • How we can ensure there's population-level surveillance early during the next pandemic • Whether people from other fields trying to help with COVID-19 has done more good than harm • Whether it's experts in diseases, or experts in forecasting, who produce better disease forecasts Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80,000 Hours into your podcasting app. Or read the linked transcript. Producer: Keiran Harris. Audio mastering: Ben Cordell. Transcriptions: Zakee Ulhaq.

All pilots are passionate about aviation.  It's the one thing that creates a bond.  As Marc likes to say, it's our Common Unity.  And that's what makes us a COMMUNITY.  But it doesn't stop there.  There are families within the family.  Some are based on aircraft types (there are more than 100 aircraft type clubs), while others are pilot segmented groups (e.g. 99's, NAFI, AbleFlight).  And there are even a few organizations that bring both together.    And that brings us to Ladies Love Taildraggers (ladieslovetaildraggers.com).  Marc and Brandon talked with Judy Birchler and Kelly Jeffries, who started the organization in 2009 and now have over 2500 members.  Listen in and catch their contagious enthusiasm as they share not only what they put into the group, but what the members come away with.   Spoiler alert... it starts with FUN! We're interested to have you join the discussion with your opinion and any questions you have of the SimpleFlight crew.  And at the same time, share your thoughts with the rest of the SimpleFlight Facebook and Instagram community @simpleflightradio Thanks for being a part of the SimpleFlight Family!!!

In this episode, David Horita, regional director at Fellowship Pacific, talks with Marc Kinna. Marc is the Executive Vice President Operations & Chief Operating Officer at Baptist Housing, which is one of the largest faith-based providers of seniors housing and care in British Columbia. They serve over 2700 seniors in 21 residences around the province, including affordable housing, independent living, assisted living, and long-term care. You'll get to hear Marc share about the incredible opportunity that exists for ministry among seniors and how the Covid-19 pandemic has increased that opportunity and need for this ministry even though it has required a change in how they care for and support their residents. As Marc explains, one urgent, practical need their residences have right now is for personal protective equipment (PPE). If you or someone you know has any PPE, they will gladly accept donations at any of their locations. Alternatively, you can also donate at SafeCare BC. To find out more: www.baptisthousing.org

This episode is the second part of a conversation I have with Dr. Marc Mullinax, who is Professor of Religion at Mars Hill University in Mars Hill, North Carolina and who is also a charter member of the creative and progressive church, Circle of Mercy. In Part I Marc and I explored and discussed our awareness that Christians across the theological spectrum in the United States are experiencing a deep sense of anxiety. Marc proposed that we each have a worldview that gives order and guidance to our experiences, even to what we anticipate for the future. It is when our worldview is interrupted for by something significant that we experience anxiety. In my mind this worldview interruption comes with the awareness that Christianity is losing its place as the dominant culture of our nation. For progressive Christians, our anxiety was heightened by the election of President Trump and has the possibility of continuing to increase with the possibility of his re-election. In response, Marc offers a second kind of interruption--an intentional interruption provided by the spiritual resources in all religions and faiths. This second, intentional interruption comes in the form of prayer, meditation, and practices. For the Christian, these practices arise out of our beliefs in the resurrection and are ways of practicing that resurrection in our lives and congregations. As Marc says, progressive churches have a golden moment to develop the kind of intentional interruption and resilience helpful for addressing our anxiety and the situation of our times. Marc provides sixteen insights and practices to guide our actions and thoughts and uses the congregation he attends, Circle of Mercy . These sixteen insights and practices can be reviewed on YouTube by searching for the title, 'Being the Church in Anxious Times.'  youtu.be/UNR804DIG-s To have a conversation with Marc, you can reach him at mmullinax@mhu.edu. Again, on a separate note, to repeat the promo given in Part 1, Marc has a new book coming out entitled,Tao te Ching: Power for the Peaceful to be published by Fortress Press. In The Atlantic’s September 2018 issue, editors reported out results of “The Big Question” they had asked a couple months earlier on Twitter: “What book or article would you make required reading for everyone on Earth?” Tao te Ching was the fourth most-popular text of the responses, after Fahrenheit 451, Silent Spring and The Brothers Karamazov. About the book, Marc says, 'This English translation of Tao te Ching is for modern readers, one that poses questions and answers about how to live in peace and intentionally in chaotic times. I have made it my quest to provide a scholarly translation, but to render it in a vernacular that can also surprise as it liberates the intents of the Chinese text.' You can anticipate a future conversation with Marc about this work! The music for this episode is from a clip of a song called 'Father Let Your Kingdom Come' which is found on The Porter's Gate Worship Project Work Songs album and is used by permission by The Porter's Gate Worship Project. You can learn more about the album and the Worship Project at theportersgate.com.

Marc Rousso has two children; his shares are uplifting and practical and they are very important as we are stuck in a downturn economy caused by the explosive global deceleration we are currently experiencing. Marc built his business from nothing to a decent property company. As Marc and his wife had their first child, Lehman Brothers hit, he went bankrupt, lost his business and was left with $2.500.000 personal debt. Without a paycheck for five years Marc doubled down a new start, his family and being a Dad. It’s amazing to hear how Marc managed to separate the huge anxiety he felt during this time and his role as being a Dad. The session is really powerful and Marc shares beautiful and important insights and tips. Marc wants to create a life without regrets and be the best dad he can be -  regardless of the situation. This was amplified by the sudden death of a dear friend who told him he wished he had spent more time with his kids.Having felt more of a nuisance to his father Marc is trying to be the dad he never had. As a family man and entrepreneur Marc has driven a lot of intentional choices such as creating a family friendly business or ritualising routines that have worked for him and his children. The most powerful takeaways for me as a dad where: When times are tough, there is always that one part of life I can control: being a good dad. A successful life - and being a good dad for that matter - stems from the ability to wake up the next day and be a better version of yourself. Life has a time expiration. Learn to live a life without regret. Every night before bed they play GIN - a card game. For 15 minutes. An amazing way to connect on an ongoing basis. Carve out a dedicated stretch of intentional time with the kids every day where you are present and engaged. If you feel that podcasts help and inspire you to be a better parent I am asking you to share two podcasts you love with two dads or moms you love today. Enjoy the session!  #bankrupcy #dads #entrepreneurship #fatherhood #lifeafterbankrupcy #familygoals --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dadicateddotcom/message

As Marc gets ready for his yearly trip to Kendal Calling Music Festival he suddenly remembered he had no guest for this episode!! If all else fails you can always count on your best mate to step in and help out. So on this episode we find out what George has been getting up to and what he has watched on the old goggle box

In this episode, Marc and Lynn discuss her book, Quitting by Design and discuss the advantages to quitting a job you don’t fit, some of the fears associated with quitting, how to prepare logically to meet the fears and move beyond them, and what you can learn from a job you hate and from leaving that job. Listen in for more ideas for your next career pivot or ‘quit.’   Key Takeaways: [:58] Marc welcomes you to Episode 107 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [1:11] CareerPivot.com brings you this podcast. CareerPivot.com is one of the very few websites dedicated to those of us in the second half of lives and our careers. Take a moment to check out the blog and the other resources that are delivered to you, free of charge. [1:30] If you are enjoying this podcast, Marc asks you to share it with like-minded souls. Please subscribe on CareerPivot.com, iTunes, and the Google Podcasts app, Podbean, Overcast app, TuneIn, Spotify app, or Stitcher. Share it on social media, or just tell your neighbors and colleagues. [1:51] We are coming to the end of the 2018 Repurpose Your Career Podcast Survey. Over 40 people have taken the survey. Marc will probably leave it up for another week. [2:05] In order to improve the show, Marc needs to know something about you — how you listen to the show; if you read the show notes; what kinds of episodes are your favorites. [2:15] Marc asks if you would kindly go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey (where you will be redirected to SurveyMonkey) to take the survey. Marc will publish the results very likely in January. As Marc records this in Matehuala, Mexico, on the way back to Ajijic, he has surpassed 40 survey participants. He thanks you in advance for doing this. [2:49] Next week, Marc will share an encore episode where he interviewed Elizabeth Rabaey. Elizabeth has made multiple pivots to go from an air and water environmental permitting specialist, to be a creative marketing type. [3:05] This week, Marc interviews Dr. Lynn Marie Morski, who is a quitting evangelist. She helps people quit strategically, through her book, Quitting by Design, and her podcast, Quit Happens. [3:23] Marc welcomes Dr. Lynn Marie Morski to the Repurpose Your Career podcast.[4:04] Lynn explains the differences between quitting and failing. [4:41] Quitting strategically puts you in an empowered position. It is better than hoping for the best in a job where you are not performing until suddenly you get fired without any plans for what comes next. [5:11] Unless you are independently wealthy, plan your next move. Marc has quit jobs. Once he was laid off, at his request. One of Marc’s favorite books is Necessary Endings, by Dr. Henry Cloud. In order for new things to start, we have to end things. [6:04] Your body will tell you when it’s time to quit. When your body starts giving you signals, such as anxiety, insomnia, or a discontented feeling, you start to have chronic pain, or you start getting really irritable with your co-workers, loved ones, or friends, those are all signs that something is out of alignment and needs to be changed. [6:49] Sometimes when people feel this way, they start adding things. It may be that you need to subtract something that isn’t working for you, not add something else. [6:56] A therapist may point out to you the things that are not working for you. Sometimes another view can help us see what is not obvious to ourselves. [8:11] Marc tells of times a therapist has helped him make a career change. It comes down to finding out what is creating the situation that is not working for you. [8:32] There are fears around quitting. Lynn separates them into esoteric and logistical fears. If you wonder what about all the time and money you’ve wasted pursuing your career, overcome your fear by seeing the ‘sunk cost fallacy.’ Having put money into something is no reason to stay in it. [9:37] If you were willing to spend time and money pursuing something you don’t want, the money you spent is gone, anyway. Don’t you owe it to yourself to find something you enjoy doing? Lynn talks about her medical school loans. She invested a lot in herself to follow a specific path. [10:29] Lynn finished her Sports Medicine fellowship in 2009 and realized during that year that she didn’t love it. She decided what she did not want in her career. She chose to quit having a pager, quit prescribing, and quit working nights and weekends, sitting on the sidelines. She chose to do VA compensation and pension exams. [13:24] Going through this process helped Lynn realize how to help other people who can’t make a dramatic ‘quit.’ To completely quit medicine is a lot bigger deal than to quit having specific aspects in a medical job. [13:40] Marc notes that quitting is only bad if you haven’t learned something. He shares an experience from his IBM days. He quit from one position he hated in less than a year but he still uses what he learned from that year in his current practice. He’s glad he did it but enough of it was enough. [14:50] People may fear that they have wasted whatever time they spent in a job they quit. The only way you can find out what you want to do is by experimenting. Not all those experiments are going to be slam-dunks. If you learn from it, it was not wasted. [15:23] If Marc hated his IBM job and then took the same job at a competitor, yes, he would have wasted that time because he wouldn’t have learned from it. If you take an experience and learn what you do like, and what you don’t like, then it’s not a waste. [15:40] Marc admits that multiple times in his career he has relapsed by going back to something he had done earlier, and not learning from the first time what he wanted to avoid. He says you have to learn from your mistakes, and not forget what you’ve learned! [16:20] Besides the fears of sunk costs and wasted jobs, people may fear what other people may think. That is the least problem because nothing of what people think about you is nearly as important as what you think about yourself. What you experience is more real to you than what someone else may or may not be thinking. [18:37] Marc recalls the episode with Jennifer Winter, who was head of sponsorship for Turner Broadcasting Sports. She did not like sports. People told her she had the greatest job ever, but it was not for her. Quitting is OK even if others don’t understand or support your decision. [19:53] When somebody says something disapproving, it takes five seconds of your day. Contrast that with the 40 hours a week you have to put into the job. How does that balance out? [20:45] If a person can’t quit and needs the money coming in. Strategically quitting is the answer. You want to up-level your life, not end up on the street. Lynn says to save up a nest egg or emergency fund, start a side hustle and work at it until it can take over as your main job, or start interviewing while you are still at the job you’re quitting. [22:00] If you have to leave the job and you haven’t found a replacement job, find ways to live on half of your income and cut back on expenses so you can prepare for some time between jobs or finding a job with less earning potential than you had before. [22:28] Marc recommends listeners to go back two episodes to listen to Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org. Susan talks about proactive vs. reactive job search. Marc reminds listeners he is moving to Mexico to be able to live on a third of the cost of living in Austin. This reduction in his cost of living allows Marc a huge amount of freedom. [23:03] Marc also recommends you not to listen to what others tell you. Get the facts for yourself. [23:14] You can find Lynn’s book or reach Lynn for coaching at QuittingByDesign.com. Also, you can contact Lynn on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube at QuittingByDesign. [23:44] Marc thanks Dr. Lynn Marie Morski for being on the Repurpose Your Career podcast. Marc hopes you enjoyed this episode — it might inspire you to be a quitter! [23:56] Susan Lahey and Marc are working on the next edition of Repurpose Your Career, and Marc is looking for your help. Marc is forming a release team of readers who will get access to pre-release chapters of the book to provide feedback. You can be part of this team by going to CareerPivot.com/RYCTeam where you can sign up. [24:19] When you sign up, you’ll receive the pre-release version of chapters when they become available. What Marc asks in return is for you to provide feedback and be prepared to write a review on Amazon.com when the book is released. [24:34] Marc and Susan are adding around eight new chapters to the book and re-writing several others. Marc’s goal is to have a chapter on the podcast and to the team every four to six weeks in the coming months. Marc may start a private Facebook group for the team to discuss their thoughts. [24:58] Please go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey and take the 2018 Repurpose Your Career podcast survey on SurveyMonkey.com. Marc thanks the listeners who have already participated and taken the survey. [25:19] The CareerPivot.com/Community website has become a valuable resource for almost 50 members who are participating in the Beta phase of this project. Marc will start recruiting soon for the next cohort.   [25:33] If you are interested in the endeavor and would like to be put on the waiting list, please go to CareerPivot.com/Community. When you sign up you’ll receive information about the community as it evolves. Those in the initial cohorts will get to set the direction for this endeavor. This is a paid membership community with special content. [26:13] Check back next week, when Marc interviews Elizabeth Rabaey, in an encore episode. [26:32] Please hop over to CareerPivot.com and subscribe to get updates of this podcast and all the other happenings at CareerPivot. You can also subscribe on podcast sites.

In this special Episode 100, Marc’s wife, Lotus Miller, is the guest. Marc has talked about the issues from his point of view, so now we hear about her experiences. Listen in for a forthright review of what she has found and what she feels about it.   Key Takeaways: [1:27] Marc welcomes you to Episode 100 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. When Marc launched this podcast late in October 2016, he never imagined you would be downloading this podcast in the thousands of episode downloads per month. Over 45K episode downloads occurred in the first nine months of 2018. [1:58] Episode downloads have tripled since the podcast was featured in the May issue of AARP Magazine. [2:06] Marc certainly didn’t think he would be recording episode 100 outside the U.S.A. A lot has changed since the show debuted. Since the podcast launched, the economy has done very well but not for everybody. Marc has written on the blog that the recovery has been very uneven.[2:28] While the published unemployment rate for Boomers is 3%, many of our generation have dropped out and are no longer being counted. Health insurance is a political punching bag. This is why Marc is living in Mexico — for better health care and cheaper health insurance. [2:54] Who would have thought a few years ago that people over 55 would be so poorly treated by our health system? Our world in October 2018 looks a whole lot different than it did in October 2016. Therefore, this podcast will continue to evolve. [3:13] Marc says thank you to everyone who has written an iTunes review. Marc really appreciates when someone rates or reviews the show. [3:23] Here’s what Marc has planned. He has a series of fascinating guests to interview. Next week Marc will interview Bob McIntosh, a renowned LinkedIn expert who will discuss how to use LinkedIn in your job search. [3:36] The following week, Marc will have Michael O’Brien, who, like Marc, suffered a near-fatal bicycle accident. Their accidents were nearly identical and occurred one year apart, to the day. [4:01] Marc will survey the audience in the coming weeks. Marc would like your input. What do you want from the next 100 episodes? [4:11] Marc will launch a Patreon page in early 2019. Patreon is a platform for performers and content creators to raise money. This podcast costs about $400 a month to produce. Marc will be polling the community of listeners to see if there is an appetite for anyone who’d be willing to contribute to defray the cost for making this podcast. [4:48] For Episode 100, Marc “rattled his brain” wondering what he could do to make this episode special. After consulting a number of folks, including the Podfly team, Marc decided on interviewing his wife, Lotus Miller, on her experiences about their move to Mexico. [5:04] Lotus is not a recovering engineer but a former Registered Nurse and a massage therapist. A lot has changed for Lotus and Marc in the last two years. Marc has chronicled their journey to Mexico on the blog and in the podcast. What surprised Marc is the magnitude of the positive response. You folks like hearing about their journey. [5:26] It has not always been pleasant, like when Marc recorded Episode 29 from Lotus’s hospital room after returning from Ecuador five days early or grappling with health insurance and tax implications. Marc remembers completing his income taxes in Ajijic last April, digging through the insurance company’s portal for claims they had paid. [5:54] Marc is a really smart guy, and he found taxes really difficult. What does the ‘average Joe’ do? It’s ridiculous. [6:06] As Marc records this episode, they are preparing to drive back to Austin. As this episode is published, Marc and Lotus will be on a three-day drive to Austin to empty out their condo and prepare it to be rented. After 40 years in Austin, Texas, it’s time to move on.[6:29] Marc will continue in the coming year to record episodes about their move to Mexico, but maybe not as frequently — you tell Marc what you would like. Marc has been very open about sharing the good times and the bad. It has not been easy, but many of you have told him you appreciate how open and frank he has been. [6:48] Four podcast listeners have visited the Millers in the last four months. If you are interested, ping Marc. [7:01] Marc welcomes Lotus to the Repurpose Your Career podcast. They are recording in the second bedroom of the casita. If it sounds like a concrete bunker, it is! [7:21] It was a year ago that Marc and Lotus first visited Ajijic. The first things that got Lotus’s attention were all the dogs lying on the sidewalk in the sun and often sleeping. There were some dog droppings on the sidewalks. Some dogs were in fenced yards. [9:57] Lotus thought the people in the neighborhood looked comfortable and happy, though not rich. When she greeted anyone in Spanish, they were always happy to acknowledge her with a “Buenos días” or a “Buenos noches.” [10:55] Marc remembers when Lotus greeted a woman with “Buenos días,” and the woman corrected her with “No, no, no, no! ‘Buenos tardes!’” Lotus found the elderly ladies very nice to her. [11:36] As time passed over a couple of visits, what at first seemed odd to Lotus, now she doesn’t notice. The dogs on the sidewalk seem normal to her. Most of them are not street dogs, they are just allowed to run loose. People feed and take care of dogs that are unowned. In general, there’s not much difference between owned and street dogs.[12:57] One dog, Chiclet, seemed to be a street dog, but then somebody took it in. Marc and Lotus give details. [14:09] The weather and foliage were much different from Texas. Everything is so green, in the rainy season. People had ivy on their walls. Trees bloom in the fall, covered with purple or orange blooms. Plans get Lotus’s attention because she loves the outdoors. The town and the lake are surrounded by mountains. [16:07] Lotus notes that the native speakers of Spanish speak much faster than she can understand. Over the year, her grasp of it is coming along. Even in English, Lotus prefers slower speech to faster speech. [17:54] Lotus loves the food in Ajijic. There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Ajijic! Lotus has met a lot of people of different nationalities, which may play a part. Lotus, from Austin, is accustomed to eating Italian food or continental food. In Texas, she rarely ate Mexican food, but she is eating a lot of it now and finds it so much better. [19:06] Lotus finds the quality of food amazing; the sauces are very slowly produced in the morning. Lotus has not been a fruit eater but she is starting to enjoy the mangoes. She does not like the papayas. International companies grow various berries all year long, available fresh at half the price as in the U.S. Farms surround the lake. [21:19] Lotus goes to tianguis or open-air markets. There are three she goes to, the Chapala Market, the organic farmers’ market, and the Ajijic Market. Lotus describes the markets and when she goes. She tells about one woman at the Chapala Market, who chops up a chicken on the spot as Lotus likes. [24:07] The Chapala Tianguis is a sensory experience. Marc talks about the array of goods available there, in at least half-a-mile of displays. [25:00] Lotus discusses the organic market. Lotus soaks vegetables in an iodine solution before eating them fresh but doesn’t need to do that with vegetables from the organic farmers’ market. The Ajijic Farmers’ market on Wednesday is a scaled-down version of the Chapala Market. [27:12] Lotus talks about seafood. It is more flavorful than she has found in Austin. I Kilo of shrimp for about 100 pesos, or about $5. Lotus serves it with no seasoning. Marc notes both he and Lotus have lost weight without trying. [28:12] Lotus tells about riding the bus. The driver takes off while you are still handling the fare. The buses run to cities all around the lake for a few pesos. When the bus is full people stand on the back of the bus and hand their fare up through the crowd. It is not unusual to see school children riding the bus by themselves. [30:11] The back seats of the bus are very bouncy on the irregularly paved cobblestone roads with holes. Some drivers are cautious and others zip around, but they get there safely. Marc and Lotus have ridden the bus to Chapala and to Jocotepec. From Ajijic to Jocotepec (about 15-20K) costs 12 pesos or about 60 cents. [31:51] Sometimes musicians will perform on the bus, maybe with their children. [32:27] Lotus talks about the Lake Chapala Society, where Marc and Lotus are members. They have much to offer expats and visitors. Lotus takes Yoga classes there. Lotus knows of bridge groups, Scrabble, and Mahjong players. They have too many activities to list. They have the largest English library outside the U.S. [33:42] Lotus has been checking out books and reading a lot; not watching any TV since they have been there. She is looking forward to bringing a U.S. DVD player, because the English DVDs she can rent cannot be played on a Mexican DVD player, only on a U.S. DVD player. They are U.S. formatted DVDs and Blu-Rays. [34:21] There are many ponds and so much greenery. Marc and Lotus were eating at an outdoor cafe at the Lake Chapala Society and a very large avocado fell from a tree onto the awning and rolled off. They took it home and ate it later. It was so good. The avocados and other local foods in Mexico are always good and fresh. [35:53] There are grocery stores that cater to expats, with lots of packaged foods. [36:00] Lake Chapala Society assists children in schools and classes and offer art classes for children. They give back to the locals as much as assisting expats. The expat community has created and participates in many nonprofits in the area in the arts and the schools and spaying and neutering dogs and finding homes for them. [37:07] In spite of their daughter’s prior misgivings, Lotus feels very safe and happy in the environment and with the people around her. It is a slower-moving life. Mañana means no more than ‘not today.’ [38:09] Most of the crime in the big cities is cartel against cartel. There are one million American expats living in Mexico, not to mention from other countries. Expats are very welcome by the government and do a lot of good for the community. [38:09] There are a lot of similarities between Austin and Ajijic. Austin grows by 150 people every day. People are also moving to Ajijic like crazy. The rental market necessitated Marc’s and Lotus’s early move, to make sure they got the property they wanted. There’s a lot of gentrification occurring. [39:49] On their first visit, and again, right now, it is a month of religious feast days with fireworks shooting off at 5:00 most days in the morning for a month. The events move from chapel to chapel carrying a statue to represent a saint. There are horses and bands parading as part of it. [42:56] September 16, Mexican Independence Day is a big celebration of performances and fireworks, starting the weekend before. Lotus admires how the Mexicans celebrate things. If you don’t like the noise, “probably don’t come here.” Mexicans celebrate at the drop of a hat. Some chapels, from the 1600s, are rented out for celebrations. [45:03] Lotus is disappointed to miss The Day of the Dead, this year but it will still be there every year. Lotus is looking forward to the dry season, the winter. It should be mostly sunny. The dry season high is usually about 75 degrees F in the late afternoon with the low in the low 50s or even into the 40s. [46:00] Marc and Lotus were there at Easter this year, and the Mexicans really celebrated that, so Marc and Lotus want to know how they celebrate Christmas. [46:19] Lotus would advise first-time visitors to get the book, Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala, by Lisa Jorgensen. Marc also recommends this book. Lotus likes a smaller-town feel and that’s what she loves about Ajijic. Ajijic is an indigenous peoples’ name, not a Mexican name, by the way. [47:30] Marc thanks Lotus for being on the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [47:36] Marc notes that Lotus is very much on board with this plan. Your experience may differ. There have been a fair number of divorces after couples move overseas and one just loves it and the other just craves to return to the U.S. [48:01] The one who loves it isn’t always the member of the couple that instigated the move. It’s not as simple as one might think. Half the people who retire overseas, return in less than five years. It’s half for health, and the other half because they can’t handle the cultural change. Lotus is pretty excited about what she has found. [48:59] Watch for the opportunity to help Marc work on the third edition of his book Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, with Susan Lahey. He will be forming a team of volunteers in the coming months to read pre-release versions of new chapters. Look for the sign-up sheet coming soon! [50:19] Check back next week for Episode 101! Marc will interview Bob McIntosh, the renowned LinkedIn expert on using LinkedIn in your job search.

Marc shares with the audience more about his upcoming move to Mexico including a big announcement on how the move is progressing. Key Takeaways: [2:12] Marc welcomes you to Episode 91 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. If you’re enjoying this podcast, Marc invites you to share this podcast with like-minded souls. Please subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, Overcast, TuneIn, Spotify, or Stitcher. Share it on social media, write an honest iTunes review, or tell your neighbors and colleagues so Marc can help more people. [2:49] Next week, Marc will interview Dawn Graham, author of Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers — and Seize Success. Dr. Dawn Marie Graham, Ph.D. is one of the nation’s leading career coaches. She is the career director for the MBA program for executives at the Wharton School, where she counsels business leaders. [3:11] A licensed psychologist and former corporate recruiter, Dr. Dawn Graham hosts the SiriusXM Radio’s popular weekly call-in show, Career Talk and is a regular contributor to Forbes. [3:26] This week, Marc will be talking about the first six weeks of his family’s transition to being temporary expats in Mexico. This is a three-to-four month visit. This episode is a follow-on to Episode 86 where Marc discussed their drive from Austin to Ajijic, Mexico. [3:44] The Millers arrived in Ajijic on a Saturday late in June and Marc’s first challenge was getting all the technology to work. [3:53] The WiFi in the Airbnb they rented wasn’t very good. It is through TelMex, the incumbent landline carrier. They provide ADSL service but the connection is shared between two houses and the cable router is in the other house, so coverage is poor. Marc bought a WiFi extender and an Ethernet cable at Steren (like Radio Shack). [6:05] The second problem is that the cell phone service is not very good. They get 3G data. Marc was getting a low signal for a while, but it has gotten stronger. [6:51] The next step was to find stores. They found a small “dollar store” and bought a slow cooker, a blender, a racket-sized electric insect swatter, and household items. The store opened the insect swatter package and slow cooker to make sure they worked when they bought them. They later bought a bug zapper from Steren. [8:10] Next, Marc found a gym. He chose Zona Gym, a basic gym for 550 pesos for two months or about $12 a month. He also bought a cat tree from a man at a Bazaar who makes them custom for 1200 pesos ($60). It would have been more than $200 at home. [9:28] Mrs. Miller set a Saturday appointment for an endocrinologist through the Quality Care Clinic about three weeks before the trip. At the appointment, the doctor spent two hours with her looking at her history, then set up an appointment for a hematologist, two days later on Monday. The endocrinologist appointment was 700 pesos or about $35. [11:06] On Monday, Mrs. Miller met with the hematologist for an hour. The cost was also about $35. Mrs. Miller, a former nurse, was thrilled with the care from both doctors. [11:28] After about three weeks, the Millers were fairly settled in. Marc was running his Career Pivot Community Mastermind calls. One night, during a seasonal storm, the Internet connection failed. So he ran the call off his iPhone 3G network without video. Marc was getting about 1Mb/s upload speeds, which is low for video. [12:31] Marc talks about Chicklet, the street dog in the neighborhood. He was an abandoned dog. Marc started leaving food for him. He was getting fed by a lot of people. Finally, an expat family took him in, so he has a home. Ajijic has plenty of street dogs and some roof dogs! You may hear some of them in the podcast. [14:52] There is a lot of construction in Ajijic. The housing market is hot, mostly due to the number of expats moving in, both renters and buyers. Marc says some buy within three days. This caused Marc to accelerate their search for a rental property. [15:20] Marc’s original plan was to arrange a rental now for January when they would return to Mexico. The rental market is too hot for that. Big Announcement: Marc is about to sign a lease for a two-bedroom, two-bath casita a block from the main plaza in Ajijic. [15:55] It will be $950 a month, which is $200 to $300 more than Marc was planning to spend. It is new construction and part of a gentrification development in the middle of town. Marc renewed their membership at Lake Chapala Society. A volunteer there, Marguerita, is a real estate agent. She gave Marc some leads on apartments. [16:35] Marc also talked to their neighbor Lori, a real estate agent. Marc learned that you have to move quickly to get a rental. They also looked on some Facebook groups. They first looked at a unit in La Floresta, a neighborhood built in the 50s and 60s. There are a lot of four to five bedroom homes built for Guadalajarans for vacation homes. [17:48] Then, they looked at a property in Riberas but there was no internet installed. Marc didn’t want to take the chance that they couldn’t get a good installation there. After looking at a couple more places, they found the casita that they chose to rent. Marc lists the deposits they need to put on the rental. Marc found cats are a problem in renting. [20:05] The casita has secure off-street parking and a private courtyard. There are about $4,000 in deposits due up front. Marc doesn’t have a bank account in Ajijic so he is pulling 7,000 pesos at a time from ATMs. That’s $390. It’s an all cash society. [20:53] The next steps are to finalize the lease. They plan to move in on September 3. Marc needs to get a lawyer to review the lease and talk about immigration status. After that step, Marc needs legal advice on taxes and running his business from Mexico. [21:29] Marc has located a health insurance broker. Marc completely expects his ACA plan to blow up next year. Marc and his wife are currently paying $1,358 a month for a $10,000 deductible policy. Next is an appointment to get their teeth cleaned. [22:06] Marc needs to locate a property manager in Austin for their home there. As Marc accelerates his plans to rent, he has time set apart to buy some things for the rental, including a much larger cat tree. [22:51] The last thing is to find a new gym because they will be two or three miles from Zona, which is walking distance from his Airbnb. Marc has not put 20 miles on his car since they arrived in Ajijic.[23:14] They take the bus everywhere. They took the bus one weekend to Jocotepec on the western end of Lake Chapala. They took the bus another weekend to San Juan Cosalá also on the lake. Next weekend, they will take the car into Guadalajara. [23:37] Mrs. Miller needed her Birkenstock boots repaired. Marc tells how they found Umberto, a shoe repairman, through the Gringos Ajijic & Lakeside Facebook group. It was 300 pesos ($15) to put new soles and heels on them, made out of tire tread, in a week. Umberto is also the lead singer at the Chili Fest. Everyone loves him. [25:40] Facebook is the place to go to find different people’s experiences. [26:11] Marc will be in the unit one month, pay the electric bill, then drive back to Austin for a period to get the condo ready to rent. [26:37] Marc has figured out that what they are going to save on health insurance will fully pay for their housing expenses in Mexico. At the same time, Marc expects that renting out their Austin condo will also almost cover their housing expense. [27:01] The housing in Ajijic is 30% to 40% higher than Marc thought it would be. The market is exploding. [27:11] All the rental units they looked at are fully furnished. [27:29] Marc had thought they would start renting in early January, but it was just not possible. No matter how well they had planned, they have had to adjust plans as they learned more. [27:49] They also met the man who makes the cat trees. Ignacio (Nacio for short) is a 75-year-old retired Mexican general manager. He is going to build a six-foot-tall that will be weather resistant for outside use. [28:07] In a couple of weeks, Marc will start the next career pivot evaluation series with “Can Sarah Repurpose Her Career?” Sarah (not her real name) is employed, a closet creative, and a structured anarchist. He personality is quite interesting. Marc has seen all aspects of her personality in other clients, but not in the same person. [29:42] Check back next week, when Marc will be interviewing Dawn Graham, author of Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers — and Seize Success.   Mentioned in This Episode: Careerpivot.com Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers — and Seize Success, by Dawn Graham TelMex Steren Radio Shack Walmart Mexico Airbnb Zona Fitness Club in Mexico Quality Care Clinic Chapala iPhone 3G Wireless Zoom.us Lake Chapala Society La Floresta Riberas del Pilar Jocotepec San Juan Cosalá Guadalajara Gringos Ajijic & Lakeside Birkenstock   Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. The paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats are available. When you have completed reading the book, Marc would very much appreciate your leaving an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version of the book is available on the iTunes app, Audible, and Amazon.   Marc has the paid membership community running on the CareerPivot.com website. The website is in production. Marc is contacting people on the waitlist. Get more information and sign up for the waitlist at CareerPivot.com/Community. Marc has five initial cohorts of 10 members in the second half of life. Those in the initial cohorts are guiding him in this endeavor. Shortly, Marc will start recruiting members for the sixth cohort who are motivated to take action and give Marc input on what he should produce next. Ask to be put on the waiting list to join a cohort. This is a unique paid membership community where Marc will offer group coaching, special content, mastermind groups, branding sessions and, more importantly, a community where you can seek help.   CareerPivot.com/Episode-91 Show Notes for this episode. Please subscribe at CareerPivot.com to get updates on all the other happenings at Career Pivot. Marc publishes a blog with Show Notes every Tuesday morning. If you subscribe to the Career Pivots blog, every Sunday you will receive the Career Pivot Insights email, which includes a link to this podcast. Please take a moment — go to iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Podbean, TuneIn, Overcast through the Overcast app, or Spotify through the Spotify app. Give this podcast an honest review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there.   Email Marc at Podcast@CareerPivot.com. Contact Marc, and ask questions at Careerpivot.com/contact-me You can find Show Notes at Careerpivot.com/repurpose-career-podcast. To subscribe from an iPhone: CareerPivot.com/iTunes To subscribe from an Android: CareerPivot.com/Android Careerpivot.com

I love offering listeners fantastic benefits, such as some great discounts for products, with new offers coming all the time! You can see a complete list at propertymanagementmastermind.com. For all of these offers, use the discount code “Brad” to secure your discount. One more announcement before we get started! Our newest product at Property Management Mastermind is the Business Development Toolkit. In 2017, RentWerx organically grew by over 360 homes. In 2018, we’re on pace to grow another 500 homes. And best of all, we’ve done all of this without going out to meet the people and earn the business one door at a time. Tune in to learn more, or check out the toolkit online! If you aren’t completely satisfied with the product, we’ll give you a 100% rebate. If you’ve listened to this podcast before, you’ve probably heard of Marc Cunningham. He’s a frequent speaker at NARPM conferences, who also travels the country a lot speaking about his property management systems. In today’s episode, I’m delighted to have him as my guest again! We’ll be talking about growth and ancillary business services, such as fee-maxing. Marc has a real estate property management company in Denver that his dad started in 1978. He’s never wanted to have one of the biggest companies, he explains in our conversation, but rather to be one of the best. Growth comes as a result of what you do. As Marc will explain today, he believes that the management fee pretty much pays the bills. In addition, you need to have ancillary business services. While this is a common strategy in other industries, it hasn’t yet become as popular as it should be in the property management world. Marc explains how we can bring this idea into the property management space. You’ll also learn that in the commercial world, it’s standard practice to back-charge everything. This is everything from the cost of stamps to the cost of mileage or gas for visiting the property. Marc shares his insights into how this perspective can be applied to the residential property management world. Similarly, the multi-family world runs businesses with fees and services that aren’t yet common across the property management industry, and that can add valuable additional sources of revenue. We’ll talk about turning maintenance into a revenue-generating source, and how much of a difference it makes. Marc and I will also dig into fees that you can profit from, such as fees for adding or removing people to the lease, an early-termination flat-fee option, and a monthly rent processing fee. Tune in for information on these and many other strategies you can use to increase your revenue streams within your property management business. Here’s where you can find Marc: Grace Property Management & Real Estate Marc Cunningham on LinkedIn Show Notes [02:06] - Brad introduces today’s guest, Marc Cunningham. [03:37] - Marc talks a bit about himself, sharing his background in property management as well as the current status of his company. [06:44] - It’s hard for a lot of property management companies to achieve profitability, Marc points out, and being good at property management doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good at making money. [08:38] - Marc touches on some mindset points around the topics he’s been discussing. [11:47] - Brad adds in a couple points to what Marc has been saying, talking about a podcast he listened to lately. [14:05] - We learn that Marc does a fair amount of commercial property management, and talks about one of the biggest eye-openers was for him. [16:08] - Marc flips things around and asks Brad a question: how does maintenance play out for Brad? [18:22] - We hear about some of the cool ideas for fees and ancillary business services that Marc has seen, as well as the role of sales. [20:51] - Brad digs into his Investor Pocket Listings Program and explains how it relates to what Marc has been talking about. [26:07] - Marc talks about compensation for the process of removing or adding people from leases. [29:49] - One thing that the multi-family industry has brought on lately is a monthly rent processing fee. [32:06] - Brad shares another strategy and recommendation, then Marc talks about the opportunities involving pets. [36:54] - Marc points out that it’s important to disclose anything you put in place in your management agreements. [39:12] - We learn about the upcoming one-day conference that Marc will put on in late August in Denver, Colorado. [44:20] - Marc talks about the training product he offers on ancillary business services.   Links and Resources: adisarro@sccombank.com (619) 988-6708 (Allison DiSarro from Seacoast Commerce Bank) Seacoast Commerce Bank RentWerx Landlord Coach Grace Property Management & Real Estate Marc Cunningham on LinkedIn NARPM Investor Pocket Listings Program Ancillary Business Services - 20 New Income Streams for your PM Business by Marc Cunningham

Show Notes for Genuine Driven Women Episode #16 On this show we discuss how it could take 100 years to reach Gender Equality in the workplace, and what we can do to speed it up! One of our amazing listeners in Colorado, and a definite Genuine Driven woman, shared a very interesting 60 Minutes interview with us last week.  It was an interview Leslie Stahl did with the CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff. In this interview, Marc discussed how he made it a priority to create true gender equality within Salesforce, which also includes all the companies they acquire as they continue to grow.   I will put a link in the show notes so you can watch the 60 Minutes video.  What Salesforce has been able to do in such a short period of time is pretty incredible. Salesforce, is a tech company, and is the perfect example of just how hard it can be to close the gender pay gap. In 2015, Cindy Robbins,who runs the Salesforce human resources department came to talk to Marc about equal pay for women, she had a concern that women were still not receiving equal pay.   Marc was very confident that she was wrong, he was sure that because he had made equal pay for equal jobs such a high priority.  He believed that they would find the pay was closer to equal than Cindy suggested. He asked her if they needed to audit the payroll.  She asked him if he would fix it if anything big was discovered.  He gave his word that they would make it right, so -- they decided to do the audit.   What they discovered astounded him.  In spite of making his priorities known, there were widespread gender-based gaps in pay.  As Marc said, it was “Just Everywhere. It was through the whole company, every division, every department, every geography.”   As Marc discussed, “There's a cultural phenomenon where women are paid less. And the World Economic Forum says that it'll take more than 100 years for us to pay men and women equally. So, we’d better get going now.” We read the 2017 report from the World Economic Forum, this report rates progress for gender parity in four key areas:     Economic Participation and Opportunity Educational Attainment Health and Survival Political Empowerment Overall, the report did say, “On current trends, the overall global gender-gap can be closed in exactly 100 years across the 106 countries covered since the inception of the Report, compared to 83 years last year.     Marc Benioff said gender equality is a total package with four components:   Equal opportunity Equal advancement Equal pay Me too – preventing sexual harassment Lesley Stahl said, ”We had the #MeToo women speak up, and now we've had a rash, small rash, but a rash of women speaking out and saying, "I'm not paid the same." It's interesting that it's coming at the same time as #MeToo. It's as if women are gaining muscles.” Ellen Kullman, the former CEO of DuPont, found one thing was holding women back – especially when it came to promotions -  unconscious bias. For example, when men have kids – their pay increased by an average of 6%, when women have kids, their pay decreased, on average, by 6%.  Tami:  What is unconscious bias?  The University of California, San Francisco has an excellent explanation on their website.  Bias is a prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another usually in a way that’s considered to be unfair. Biases may be held by an individual, group, or institution and can have negative or positive consequences. There are two types of biases:     Conscious bias (also known as explicit bias) and     Unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias) It is important to note that biases, conscious or unconscious, are not limited to ethnicity and race. One’s age, gender, gender identity,   physical abilities, religion, sexual orientation, weight, and many other characteristics are subject to bias. Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organize social worlds by categorizing. Unconscious bias is far more prevalent than conscious prejudice and often incompatible with one’s conscious values. Certain scenarios can activate unconscious attitudes and beliefs. For example, biases may be more prevalent when multitasking or working under a time pressure. Here is the Harvard University link where you can take an Implicit Association Test.    There is Unconscious bias training to help people recognize when they may be biased, inappropriately.  Some examples of this were seen just this last week as a result of an incident in a Starbucks in Philadelphia.  Now, the Starbucks corporation plans to close 8,000 stores, across the country, on May 29th.   This is because a Starbucks manager, in Philly, called the police to report two black men were sitting in the store, waiting on a friend.  As a result, the topic of unconscious bias training has been in the news a lot. This type of training can be very useful, and it will be interesting to see what the impact will be at Starbucks.   Companies could do their own research and find “Unconscious bias” training courses that have made a difference and then offer training.  However, companies should be careful – if it is a course that is only a guy standing in front of powerpoint slides, it may be a waste of money, in the end.   A good version of this training should include discussion, interaction and role-based modeling and exercises so that people recognize when they are making biased decisions that they did not expect to make. Ellen Kullman, the former DuPont CEO is making a difference for women.  She is now the co-chair, along with Jewelle Bickford, and Sandra Beach Lin, of “The Paradigm for Parity.”  Jewelle Bickford is a Partner and Wealth Advisor at Evercore Wealth Management. Together, they are leading a coalition of business leaders dedicated to addressing the gender gap.  According to The Paradigm for Parity® website, the coalition is made up of CEOs, senior executives, founders, board members, and business academics who are committed to achieving a new norm in the corporate world: one in which women and men have equal power, status, and opportunity. Their ultimate goal is to achieve full gender parity by 2030, with a near-term goal of women holding at least 30% of senior roles.  If you are interested in their action plan, they have a lot of information on their website and they also have a tool kit to help businesses make necessary changes to bring equality to the workplace.   Their roadmap includes the following 5 steps:   Minimizing Unconscious bias Significantly increasing the number of women in senior operating roles, with a goal of 50/50 Measuring targets at every level and setting measurable goals. Basing career progress on Business results and performance, not on presence.  Give men and women more control over how and where they work, whenever possible. Find ways to be more flexible to meet employee needs.    Identifying women on high potential and give them SPONSORS as well as MENTORS.  Men who are still the majority of leaders have a huge responsibility to advocate for women.   Time Machine:   In this segment each week we will give a few points about women that have accomplished a lot! We also will discuss a bit about what was happening to women during the time periods. Someone we think you would like to know more about is:   Sheryl Sandberg   She was born on August 28th, 1969. When she graduated from high school she had a 4.6 grade point average and was ninth in her class. She then went on to Harvard where she majored in Economics. In the reference linked in the show notes it said that, “She studied the role that economic inequality plays in spousal abuse and [she] founded a group called Women in Economics and Government, which, she says, was created ‘to get more women to major in government and economics.’’. After she graduated she went to work for Lawrence Summers as a research assistant for the World Bank. After she had worked for Summers for a couple of years she decided to go to Harvard Business School, and there she received her M.B.A. Then she chose to work for Summers again but this time as the chief of staff, since he was then the Treasury secretary for the Clinton administration. She worked there until 2001 and then decided to try her hand in Silicon Valley! Google soon showed interest in her and Sheryl decided to work with them because of their mission, “to make the world’s information freely available” and with that she stayed with them up until 2008 when she decided to join Facebook. She became the company’s chief operating officer. Where she has helped them prosper! She has been rewarded well by Facebook and in 2014 she made it onto the billionaire's list. She also decided to create a book titled ‘Lean In:Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’, and this book helped create a sight called LeanIn.org that helps women aim to be the best them! She is one incredible woman! Inspirational Quote of the Week: “Let’s be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” -Michelle Obama If we can all try and help each other rather than trying to push past people to get to the top we will be unstoppable! I have seen people in my day to day life that are just like the first part of this quote, but it is amazing when I see someone who wants to give you a helping hand. Those people are the ones that you remember and want to strive to be more like. So here’s a challenge for the week: Help someone new out that you wouldn’t have thought to help before, you won’t regret it! Book Review: Genuine driven women read lots of books!  We’ll make sure to recommend a book each week that will inspire you or help you on your journey to success! This week’s book is: The Go-Giver By Bob Burg and John David Mann If you’d like to buy this book in any format, including the audiobook version for less than $10.00, click this link:  https://amzn.to/2JpfsRd The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. Desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees sim­ply as the Chairman. Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of “go-givers”: a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a real estate broker, and the “Connector” who brought them all together. Pindar’s friends teach Joe the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and help him open himself up to the power of giving. Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to giving—putting others’ interests first and continually adding value to their lives—ultimately leads to unexpected returns. Imparted with wit and grace, The Go-Giver is a classic bestseller that brings to life the old proverb “Give and you shall receive.” Click the link to buy the book (available in several formats):   https://amzn.to/2JpfsRd We genuinely Want to know! (Listener questions and feedback) This is the section where you ask questions, let us know what’s on your mind or just say hello!   Are you driven to succeed? Email us at genuinedrivenwomen@gmail.com or call us at (724) DRIVEN-2 or  (724) 374-8362 and leave a voice message. We’ll use your voicemails on a future podcast! Outro: The Genuine Driven Women podcast is produced every week for your inspiration, education and enjoyment.  The show notes, and so much more, can be found at genuinedrivenwomen.com. Please subscribe to this show via iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Play to receive ongoing weekly motivation to turn those dreams into goals and to reach YOUR version of success!   We’d love for you to take a couple minutes to write a review on iTunes or where ever you are listening, which will help us to reach our goal to connect with girls, young ladies, and women who need just this kind of inspiration each week.  You can also follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/genuinedrivenwomen/, Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin to join the conversation, get to know us better, and to find about all the new things we will be announcing in the months to come. Ok, ladies - it’s time to get out there and be the best YOU that YOU can be!  

On episode 36 Marc and Liam have a suprise guest in the studio. Its George, Marc's best mate!! As Marc sadly doesn't see as much of George as he'd like these days, they have one hell of a lot to catch up on!! The discuss various topics, such as..... Who George is? what he's been getting up to ? First memories.. Hip Hop music V Grime music favorite films/ boxsets.. The Walking Dead. Holidays away... George tell us how to keep Bees? Ghosts, crop circles, beasts and strange goings on round Cornwall. Liam's News From The World - Has Boris caused more trouble in Iran? Acid attacks in the UK. If all this isn't enough we have music from Equinox and Broads. for more info on the bands involved please check out the links below: Equinox  -  www.facebook.com/SoundsofEquinox                  https://twitter.com/soundsofequinox Broads   -   www.facebook.com/Broadsofnorfolk                  https://twitter.com/broadsofnorfolk If you'd like to get in contact with me, regarding a possible interview or music promotion, or you just fancy a chat, please feel free to contact me: jaff10@hotmail.com www.twitter.com/mrjaff10 www.facebook.com/themarcjeffreypodcastshow www.jaff10.simplesite.com Finally please check out my itunes page and subscribe to the show, leave a comment or review and check out previous shows in my catalogue. Many thanks Marc x  

In this episode, Marc answers questions with his trusty sidekick, Elizabeth Rabaey. You can learn about her career pivots in Episode 020. Listen in to this episode for ideas on planning a path to the end goal, harvesting contacts in similar and adjacent industries, coping with stress before searching for a job, and pivoting to a new industry using your core value proposition!   Key Takeaways: [2:44] Elizabeth introduces herself. After pivoting, she is the marketing coordinator for an international company. Elizabeth invites listeners to connect with her on LinkedIn to share experiences. She enjoys working with Marc, and helping on the Mailbag episode! [3:27] Q1: I am 49 and am going through a divorce. I’ve been a housewife since 1992. I’m going to college for an MBA. I have eight years ahead of me. I am hoping to support myself by a job in Hawaii after I get my MBA. I will have no debt. Any ideas what to do? [4:06] A1: Marc notes she will be in her late 50s, with no experience, after getting her bachelor's and master’s degrees. Rather than looking at an MBA, she should look at her actual goal. Marc connected her with contacts in Hawaii, to understand that economy. Marc suggests buying a franchise or business, learning trade skills, or something else. [6:49] Marc says many of the best jobs today didn’t exist five years ago. What will exist in eight years? Divorce later in life often leads to poverty. This client doesn’t want to leave Hawaii. Marc put her in touch with a Hawaiian workforce specialist to help her. [7:33] Q2: I am a 56-year-old account manager. I was just laid off from a position that I held for 18 years in the moving industry. I’m getting depressed, as I have been unsuccessful in my job search. I have been applying to jobs every day, but never hear back. What should I do? [7:51] A2: Account managers are becoming rare in B2B sales. The need for account managers has been greatly decreased. Marc helped someone very similar to this. See the :Introverted Sales Guy Job Search” blog on Marc’s website. The key piece is, your next job will only come from somebody you’ve worked with over the last 10-15 years. [8:43] You’re going to have to go back and carefully harvest all of your contacts, people you have worked with, reach out to them where they work now, and see if they are willing to help. The answer is most account managers are really nice guys. Usually they’re very good at relationships. Very often people will remember them positively. [9:25] As Marc did with the Account Manager who came out of the equipment manufacturing business, he had the client very carefully go on LinkedIn to find his previous employer’s page, look for similar companies, and adjacent industries, who need the same skills, and look for weak ties at those companies. [10:27] This is a long process. Look for connections everyday. You don’t know when you will find the right contact who can help you, who has a job, in an industry where you fit. Start taking really good care of yourself, eating right, exercising, and getting up at the same time, and managing your own health. Your mental attitude is absolutely critical. [11:26] Q3: I am a 52-year-old traffic manager. My job has gotten toxic after I was transferred and I uncovered fraud. I cleaned up the mess, but it has taken quite a toll on me emotionally, and after everything was cleaned up, the owner brought in someone over me who has ethical flaws. I have been looking for a year. What should I do? [11:57] A3: This is a family-owned business. The challenge with working for a family owned business, not being family, is that it can get ugly. He’s an emotional guy. When he was getting rid of people, and getting his tires slashed, it really took a toll on him. If you’re stressed out, no one is going to hire you. First, chill out. [13:14] In this situation, he will need to stop caring about doing a great job. He needs to work on his own emotional health, and get rid of stress. Marc suggests the book Positive Intelligence to get out of stress. The point is to stay in the positive mind three times longer than in the negative mind. Find your emotional saboteurs. Name them. [15:20] Then you need to find your core value proposition. This gentleman’s core value proposition was recruiting drivers. We don’t have enough drivers in this country. Build a brand that sells your core value proposition, in your LinkedIn profile, your resume, and more importantly, when you talk to people. That is your primary selling point. [16:04] He needs to look at himself as a product, understand what his core value proposition is, and and go sell that ‘product.’ He’s getting offers that are not local, but his wife has a good job, and he doesn’t want to move. He can move into a different niche, because his recruiting skill is transferable. He should think of himself as a consultant. [17:57] When Marc left corporate America, he was completely stressed out. It took him six-to-nine months to destress, before he was useful again. [19:30] Marc has started recording the audio version of his book. He is also working on the Career Pivot Community website. This will be a membership area of the current CareerPivot.com website. An initial cohort of members is helping develop the content. Look for more on this, in the coming months.   Mentioned in This Episode: Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. When you get done reading the book, please leave an honest review on Amazon. 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What happened to the romantic comedy? Despite being on constant rotation on cable TV, they’ve largely disappeared from the modern cinemaplex – but can they come back? In this episode, we discuss the downfall and future prospects of the rom-com with screenwriter Marc Klein, noted crafter of beloved versions of the genre such as Serendipity with Kate Beckinsale and A Good Year with Russell Crowe. As Marc helps the guys drink three wines Ben found at the BevMo Five-Cent Sale, he traces the history of the romantic comedy – from When Harry Met Sally to Sleepless in Seattle to Ten Things I Hate About You – and how the genre’s temporary stall might have as much to do with changes in our courtship customs as it does with studio financing. Oh yeah, and we also talk about the three years Marc’s dad spent as a casino executive for Donald Trump. So, you know, there’s that.

Marc Amerigo is an engineer, international speaker, and pioneer of the Brain Shift Method. He was the lead engineer for the Red Barron team which holds the downhill mountain bike speed record at 228 km/hr.  He has been hired by companies like Coca Cola, BP Oil, Exxon Mobile and many others. He brings his technical experience into high stress, masculine environment but puts an interesting spin on them by additionally addressing emotion and the connection of the group. A focus which incorporates emotional intelligence something that is not usually brought into those environments or by engineers. Marc's Brain Shift Method looks at taking chaos and turning it into harmony by looking at our environment for information to gain inspiration and create solutions for our problems. Marc has been hired by companies like Coca Cola, BP Oil, Exxon Mobile and many others. He brings his technical experience into high stress, masculine environment but puts an interesting spin on them by additionally addressing emotion and the connection of the group. A focus which incorporates emotional intelligence something that is not usually brought into those environments or by engineers. I brought Marc onto the podcast for exactly that reason to talk about emotional intelligence and his experience of addressing emotion in high stress, masculine environments where emotion is typical unaddressed or unwelcome. Marc shares some highly interesting insights on this, why this is important and how world records are not achieved without addressing the emotional side. The Walkaway The one thing I walked away with from this podcast is Marc's approach to looking at his environment or as he's called it the Brain Shift Method. Our environment does have a lot of information. It leaves little bits of clues and information. Where that's through our rational thought or our emotional body our mind is constantly feeding us information. Marc says the first step is to take a step back to process this information. He even talks about how he had 20 men stop to focus on their breathing and listen to the birds near a nuclear reactor, a place that is not so pleasant. But for Marc this is integral, taking a moment to step back to understand what information is around in the environment around us. The second step is innovation. Taking the information that is around us and figuring out what tools are available to us or what tools do we need to create to be able to move forward. This is where tapping into creativity is key as he mentions. And the final step to start using the tools. To begin to move forward based on the information you've received from your environment to take chaos and turn it into harmony. As Marc said in the podcast, chaos is only a state with nature and there is beauty in chaos. We must be able to piece together the chaos in order to be to extract the information we require to move forward. What Else Will You Takeaway: How interconnected we are as groups  The importance of leadership  How Marc is able to bring sensorial and emotional wisdom into hyper-masculine and chaotic environments?  Why is you miss emotions you will the miss the mark  Marc's personal explanation of the Brain Shift Method  How to lead a tribe  How Marc is able to interconnect people in stressful environments  And much, much more  Connect With Marc  Website Facebook LinkedIn Mentioned in the Podcast Eric Barron - ericbarone.fr David Brower - my interview with him here.  Brain Shift Method 

In this episode, Marc is recording the show in the hospital with his wife. He talks about making stuff up, dealing with assumptions — most of which are wrong — and how things do not go as planned. He discusses insurance, planning to retire to another country, checking things out, and being set back by plans gone wrong. Listen in to hear how, regardless of how carefully you plan, you should never assume, or make stuff up.   Key Takeaways: [1:46] Marc has had numerous times over the last six months where reality has bit him in the butt. Marc and his wife are on the Affordable Care Act, and in October their premium went up 50%.They changed to another plan, for $1,100 a month with a $13,000 deductible. Marc Listens to Money Matters, and an interview gave him an idea. [3:17] On Money Matters, RetiredBrains.com had analyzed countries for retirement, and they gave some recommendations in an interview. Trying to stay real, Marc considered Ecuador and Mexico, and planned to research and visit each country to evaluate them. [4:01] Marc tried very hard to stay with what was factual, which is really hard. In March they visited San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico. They found good Internet, good phone service, a good exchange rate, and acceptable transportation, but they had questions. [5:41] Next, Marc planned to visit Cuenca, Ecuador. Corey Coates of Podfly put them in touch with some people in Cuenca, and they felt prepared. They used frequent flyer miles to fly into Quito, the capital. Morning and evening flights commute to Cuenca [6:32] Cuenca was beautiful, and inexpensive. Health care was top-flight. Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar. They spent a few days in Quito. Phone wires were everywhere, strung from building to building, and on the edges of buildings. Internet was all copper wire. In Cuenca, the Internet would go out for a couple of hours at a time. [7:48] Marc uses AT&T, and arranged for a plan in Ecuador, but they only connect at 3G. Walking a block may cause a change in carriers and speed. He was surprised that the ATM would only let him take $40 twice, and $80 once. He thinks it was limited by his credit union. [9:00] In San Miguel, Mrs. Miller seemed to have had altitude sickness, but recovered at home. In Ecuador, much higher, her sickness was much worse, and they left five days early. With connecting flights, it took three days to get home from Cuenca. With planning, it could be done in two days. Mrs. Miller started to feel better, and then, worse. [11:01] They went to the ER, and it turns out, she was anemic, which turns out to have been a long-term problem. Now they don’t know whether Ecuador would cause problems or not. Reality slapped them in the face. [11:45] We do this throughout our careers. We believe we’re doing all the right stuff. The more Marc learned, the more questions he had. Now, there are probably other things he was missing, and he needs to keep on doing his research. [12:39] As you go through your career decisions, don’t make stuff up. [12:58] As Marc is recording, his wife is going through tests to determine the cause of the anemia. Now that he knows she has been anemic for a considerable time, it makes sense, some of the experiences she had had. This was a big reality check. Marc thought he had understood what was going on, but he really hadn’t.   Mentioned in This Episode: CareerPivot.com/blog Contact Marc, and ask questions at: Careerpivot.com/contact-me. Marc is accepting new clients, so reach out to him. He will supply a link to his calendar to set up a call. Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey AHCA House Bill 1628 Hanson McLain's Money Matters RetiredBrains.com Podfly Productions CareerPivot.com Episode 029 CareerPivot.com Making Stuff Up Episode   Please take a moment — go to iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play. Give this podcast a review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there.

Marc Ryan is a Hashimoto healer. Marc and his daughter were diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, and he knew there were others just like him and her out there. He had to do something about it. Originally with a background in acupuncture, Marc has had his practice for 13 years, and only focuses on healing others who have this disease. Is Marc too niched down? Not At All! Marc’s niche has given him more opportunities (including a book deal) than he could ever imagine.   Key Insights & Aha Moments: *Who is Marc? He is a Hashimoto healer! *How did Marc get into acupuncture? *Before Marc became an acupuncturist, he was a musician, and he also taught refugees English. *When Marc finished acupuncture school, he kind of got thrown out to the wolves. He was in debt with no business experience. *After going into business with a bunch of friends, Marc was ready to get out and have a simpler life. *Did Marc have a fear that he was niching down his business too much? *When you commit to a smaller niche, you actually get more opportunities. It sounds crazy! *People are looking for very specific things to help them with their problem. *What advice does Marc have for those who are having a hard time selecting their niche? *It’s important to realize you really can’t master a lot of things. Finding what you’re great at, takes focus and commitment. *It never feels like the right time to outsource, but either way, you have to do it to keep your sanity! *How has understanding mechanisms made Marc a better practitioner? What does he mean by that? *How did Marc get his book deal with Hay House Publishing? *Want to write a book? Just start writing. Done is better than perfect.   Maven Moment: Hey everyone! Before we end, I want to share some thoughts about niching down. I personally know this is a struggle for you. As Marc was talking about his niche, it was a reminder on how I picked my niche. In the beginning, I just didn’t know what I wanted. It took me about a year of just treating anybody to figure out what kind of people I really gelled with, and that’s okay! It takes time to discover who your ideal clients are. But once you’ve hit the nail on the head, don’t be afraid to go for it!   Mentioned in This Episode: Michellemcglade.com Maven Inner Circle   Connect with Marc: Website

Welcome back to another episode of Wall Street Unplugged! It's only January, but if you've followed me for the past few weeks, you've come to realize how important this month really is. I covered one key conference (CES2017) a couple weeks ago. And on today's episode, I have two more coming for you. It's a lot of information in only just a few weeks but bare with me... Each of these conferences come with game-changing announcements. To start, let’s go over what a difference a year makes... Donald Trump is now in office, and the bull market continues to get stronger. In fact, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit over 20,000 for the first time this week! This “Trump rally” has been strong for investors in every sector… except for one - Biotech. That’s why I invited Marc… Marc is Chief Income Strategist at the Oxford Club, Editor of the Oxford Income Letter and host of the Oxford Club Radio podcast. He just got back from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. For those not familiar, the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference its like the Superbowl for healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. To start off the interview, Marc gives us his takeaways from the event. As Marc explains, the biotech sector has recently been facing a ton of headwinds. The sector currently faces a slew of new regulations as new administration takes the reigns. And in return, the biotech sector got a bit more complex. Although times are rough today, Marc breaks down his opportunistic outlook for the sector going forward. Investors must be patient as we are still in the "early innings" of biotech treatment Marc says. However, he adds that the demand for this sector will explode relatively soon. Together, we then break down the trends and stocks that are going to have the highest impact on the sector. These trends include big data and DNA sequencing. Also, before Marc signs off, he shares with us his favorite growth & income stock outside of the biotech sector. Then, for today's Educational Segment [39:31], I break down my visit to the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference - the largest junior mining conference in the world. The host and close friend, Marin Katusa, invited me to speak at the event. This is where it gets interesting… Out of the 5,000 people at this conference, not one person seemed to be bearish on the resource sector. What does that mean? ...It means I'm nervous. Let's not forget... Only 1 in 3,000 projects go from early stage development to actual production. To make matters worse, some of these stocks are already up 100%-300% from their lows yet people are still doubling their positions! But it's not all bad news. Although about 90% of these companies are terrible long-term investments, a few CEO's I met with were far from bluffing. Tune in as I introduce listeners to the few stocks that caught my attention. One is a stock that could potentially be the next Northern Dynasty!

Kayla recovered from bulimia, but still struggles with binge eating. She's a personal trainer who tends to do things to extremes: a period of perfect healthy eating, followed by a period of of self-destructive binging. A history of sexual abuse has left her feeling uncomfortable in the presence of men. In her first session, Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, suggested that Kayla's binge eating is not actually the real problem, but that it's a symptom with an important message for her, and it's time for Kayla to really listen to that message. As Marc helped Kayla to see, a key part of that message is that in order to release binge eating, she will need to begin to heal her relationship with men. Tune in to this follow-up session to see how far Kayla has come!

Louis Vuitton Designer Marc Jacobs creates a collection that is fun, young and for new age travelers. As Marc explained after the show "style is about your own expression". Find out why Katy Perry loves his sense of style. Makeup by Pat McGrath and Hair by Guido.