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A Note from James:Mark Pincus is one of the true OGs of the internet. You probably know him as the founder of Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker, and Words With Friends. Zynga was eventually acquired by Take-Two in a transaction valued at approximately $12.7 billion. Before Zynga, Mark started Tribe, one of the first social networks—before MySpace and Facebook. He has spent more than 25 years building, failing, and studying what gets millions of people to click, play, share, and come back. His new book, Life at the Speed of Play, inspired me to start coming up with new business ideas while we were still recording.What I really love is how Mark teaches people to copy like a master without looking like a copycat. He has a framework called “Proven–Better–New.” Start with something that has already been proven. Make it obviously better. Then isolate the new idea you want to test. It's one of the best systems I've heard for creating products people actually want.We talk about the early days of Facebook and MySpace, the failure of Tribe, the gaming industry, consumer psychology, AI coding, and how agents could eventually network and work for us while we're doing something else.I loved talking with Mark. I was still thinking about this conversation afterward—and I'm literally building businesses based on what I learned. His new book is called Life at the Speed of Play. Listen to this episode, and then read the book.Episode Description:Most founders begin with an idea and then spend months—or years—trying to prove that people want it. Mark Pincus thinks that process is backward.At Zynga, Mark's teams built “failure machines”: simple systems that allowed them to test hundreds of concepts before writing the code. They put unfinished ideas in front of real users, watched what people clicked, and refused to build anything until the demand was obvious. The objective wasn't to avoid failure. It was to make failure fast, cheap, and useful.Mark explains the framework behind that process: Proven–Better–New. First, study an existing success down to every screen, click, and design decision. Then identify one improvement that current users would immediately recognize as better. Only after that should a team add the unproven idea—the part most likely to fail.James and Mark also examine the problems facing today's consumer entrepreneurs. AI has made software easier to build, but distribution has become harder. People aren't searching for new apps, established platforms restrict organic growth, and algorithmic reach isn't the same as users actively sharing something with friends.Mark uses the failure of his early social network, Tribe, to explain why virality is not enough. Tribe grew quickly but lacked retention and trust. He ignored the communities users loved because they didn't match the business model he had already chosen. That painful mistake became the foundation for much of his later product philosophy.The conversation ends with Mark's current experiments: personal AI agents modeled after members of his family, a proposed work network built specifically for agents, an enterprise AI company called Hivemind, and the difficult decision to end a four-year passion project without abandoning the instinct behind it.This is a practical conversation about testing ideas, separating instinct from ego, learning from the past, and killing the wrong product before it consumes the right opportunity.What You'll Learn:How to build a failure machine: Test headlines, offers, videos, and fake doors before investing in a finished product.How to apply Proven–Better–New: Begin with a proven behavior, make one unmistakable improvement, and isolate the risky innovation.Why distribution is now harder than development: AI can generate a prototype quickly, but it cannot guarantee attention, trust, or adoption.Why Tribe failed despite rapid growth: Virality without retention, safety, and alignment with user behavior does not create a lasting network.How to copy without becoming a copycat: Study successful products at the pixel level, preserve what works, and innovate only where it matters.When to abandon an idea: Preserve the underlying instinct, but stop funding the particular expression of it when the evidence turns against you.How AI agents may change networking: Agents could eventually search for opportunities, exchange work, build reputations, and bring useful leads back to their users.Timestamped Chapters: [02:00] Finding the “OMFG” Moment [02:58] A Note from James [05:00] Build a Failure Machine Before Building a Product [06:25] Testing Demand With Fake Doors and Broken Links [08:08] Writing Copy That People Actually Notice [10:52] Test More Ideas in a Week Than the Industry Tests in a Year [11:53] Why Neglected Products Become Innovation Labs [13:26] How Mobile Apps Slowed Product Experimentation [15:09] Can AI Bring Rapid Testing Back? [17:08] Why Consumer Technology Feels Uninvestable [18:38] The 90/10 Rule for Investable Platforms [20:08] Why Nobody Downloads New Apps Anymore [21:20] Franchises, “Spicy New,” and Healthy Platforms [23:21] The Internet's Lost Cocktail Party [27:58] Why Tribe Failed While Facebook Won [30:26] Virality Without Trust or Retention [31:31] Ignoring What Tribe's Users Actually Wanted [33:22] Facebook, Raya, and Designing for Trust [35:03] Social Networks as Lead-Generation Engines [37:12] Facebook, Instagram, and the App Nobody Knew It Wanted [37:51] Net Promoter Scores and the Feeling of Quitting a Drug [40:25] Algorithmic Virality vs. People Sharing With Friends [42:00] Building Products That Help People Create [43:47] What Entrepreneurs Should Build With AI [44:54] The Proven–Better–New Framework [47:12] What “Obviously Better” Actually Means [48:25] Why “All New Fails” [50:23] Zynga Poker and the Power of Removing One Click [52:00] What AI Does Well—and Where Humans Still Matter [54:25] Picasso, Slack, and Copying the Past [55:11] Adding Fun to Boring Enterprise Products [57:39] The Moral Arbitrage of Killing Your Ego [57:58] How to Copy Without Looking Like a Copy [59:10] Why Old Internet Mechanics Keep Returning [01:00:16] Anonymous Social Apps With an AI Twist [01:01:17] Don't Invent a New Business—Reinvent a Big One [01:02:00] Test 20 Variants Before Building One [01:02:58] Mark's Frustrating Experiments With AI Coding [01:05:29] Creating a Personal Team of AI Agents [01:07:57] Killing a Four-Year Passion Project [01:09:29] The “Social Membrane” of the Agentic Internet [01:09:57] Building a Work Network for AI Agents [01:12:16] Hivemind and the Human Side of Enterprise AI [01:13:52] Missing Twitch—and Knowing Your Zone [01:15:06] Why the Gaming Industry Still Isn't Social Enough [01:16:30] Chess Ratings, Competition, and Mark's Daughter [01:19:19] Writing Life at the Speed of Play [01:21:18] Don't Chase Every New Technology Race [01:22:05] Final ThoughtsAdditional Resources:Mark Pincus and the BookLife at the Speed of Play — official websiteLife at the Speed of Play — HarperCollins — published June 23, 2026. Mark Pincus on X — the account Mark recommends for updates on his agent-network experiments. Mark Pincus on LinkedIn Mark's interview about open-sourcing Stem Studio Zynga, Games, and Product ExamplesZynga's company history — covers its launch as a Facebook poker project and the development of FarmVille, CityVille, and Words With Friends. Words With Friends FarmVille Take-Two and Zynga acquisition announcement — the transaction carried an enterprise value of approximately $12.7 billion. Tribe.net history — the early social network Mark analyzes as a major product failure. Raya — the private community Mark discusses as an example of building trust through curation. Grow a Garden on Roblox See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The most influential poster in the history of art was an ad for a play. It was designed by a broke, unknown illustrator who only got the job because he was the one stuck working over the holidays. His name was Alphonse Mucha, and that single commission — a rush job nobody else wanted — turned him into the father of Art Nouveau. He didn't sit in a studio and find his direction. A customer handed it to him. Want to join Patrick for a live webinar? He hosts one every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Register here: asf.today/webinar That's the heart of this episode: a commission isn't a compromise. It's an idea-generation machine. A client drags you somewhere you'd never have chosen on your own — and every so often, that detour becomes your entire career. It happened to Mucha. It happened to a portrait painter named George Stubbs who took a few horse commissions and ended up the greatest equine painter who ever lived. It happened to a studio photographer named Dorothea Lange the day a government assignment sent her into the migrant camps. But before we get to the good news, we have to clear out the lies. The longer you spend in this business, the more you realize the "sacred truths" of the art world are mostly nonsense — and most of them are really just hobbyist rules wearing a business suit. (If you've heard me draw the hobbyist-vs-business line before, this is where it earns its keep — same line that runs under The Long Game.) In this episode: The Christmas shift that invented Art Nouveau — how Mucha got the job nobody wanted and never looked back Six "sacred truths" of the art business that are complete nonsense — and the one thing wrong with every single one of them "You need a niche before you can start" — why you don't pick your niche; the work reveals it "Good art sells itself" — the $128 of thrift-store junk that resold for $3,612 on stories alone, a $3.5M violin that earned $32 in a subway, and the painter who went from unsold to $2.5 million without changing a brushstroke "Never discount your work" — why that rule is real, why it isn't yours, and what the galleries who preach it actually do behind closed doors The line in the sand: hobby or business? Drucker said a business has exactly one purpose — to create a customer — and in that equation, you don't get the last word. The market does. "Nobody bought it, so I'm a failure" — the lie that makes good artists quit, and why Picasso died holding roughly 45,000 of his own unsold works Why constraints beat the blank canvas — Stravinsky, and the bet that produced Green Eggs and Ham in 50 words The honest catch: when a commission becomes a cage instead of a doorway, and how to tell the difference This week's homework: take the one commission you'd normally turn down — the weird request, the subject you'd never choose, the client who wants something slightly off from your usual. Say yes to it. Then watch where it drags you. Reply or DM me what you learned — I read every single one. Resources mentioned: Art Storefronts — the storefront engine for working artists The Mucha Foundation — the Gismonda poster and the birth of Art Nouveau Significant Objects — the experiment that turned $128 of junk into $3,612 with nothing but stories Pearls Before Breakfast — the Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning Joshua Bell subway story Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of the Art Market — how art is really priced (and why prices "only go up") Related episodes: The Gallery Test — Should Artists List Prices on Their Website? The Long Game — Why Your Website Will Still Be Working in 2055 POD and Samples — What Wyland and Gray Malin Actually Do 20 Ways to Grow Your Email List as an Artist — hobbyist or business, the honest cut So here's the takeaway. If you're a hobbyist, make whatever you want, forever, and be happy — there's no shame in it. But if you want a business, stop waiting for the market to reward your purity, because it never will. Go meet it. Say yes to the commission, the weird job, the thing you'd never have chosen — because that yes creates a customer, which is the only thing that makes you a business, and it just might drag you, like it dragged Mucha off that holiday shift, straight into the work you were put here to make. Stay Up To Date With The Latest https://linktr.ee/artmarketingpodcast

Nous sommes en 1913. C'est chez Figuier, à Paris, que paraît un ouvrage intitulé « Les peintres cubistes - Méditations esthétiques », il est signé Guillaume Apollinaire. On peut y lire : « Comme artiste, on peut placer Melle Laurencin entre Picasso et le douanier Rousseau. Ce n'est pas là une simple indication hiérarchique mais une simple constatation de parenté. Son art danse comme Salomé entre celui de Picasso, nouveau Jean-Baptiste qui lave les Arts dans le baptême de la lumière, et celui de Rousseau, Hérode sentimental, vieillard somptueux et puéril que l'amour amena sur les confins de l'intellectualisme, c'est là que les anges vinrent distraire sa douleur, ils l'empêchèrent de pénétrer dans l'affreux royaume dont il était devenu le Douanier et ce vieillard, finalement, ils l'admirent dans leur troupe et lui vint de lourdes ailes. » Marie Laurencin entretint une liaison, pour le moins, orageuse avec le poète. Il ne fut pas le seul. En 1914, Picasso dira « Laurencin n'a plus de talent ». Il ne lui pardonne pas d'avoir quitté Apollinaire pour un Allemand. En 1937, Michel Leiris, poète et critique d'art, amant de l'écrivain Marcel Jouhandeau, lui-même intime de Marie Laurencin, persifflera sur le travail de l'artiste : « (…) pas trop désagréables comme œuvres de troisième zone. » Un autre dira : « Elle a fait de la peinture au féminin un art majeur. On ne trouve pas de mots pour bien définir la grâce toute française de Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin, sa personnalité vibre d'allégresse ». Et c'est une vie bien remplie que celle de Marie Laurencin, bien plus qu'une aquarelle d'été indien, avec ses ombres et ses déliés. Pionnière, transgressive, compromise, revenons sur ses pas … Avec Anne Hustache, historienne de l'art. Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 14h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : L'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwL'heure H : https://audmns.com/YagLLiKEt sa version à écouter en famille : La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiKAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

A Note from James:If I could tell my children to read one post of mine, it would be this post.Influence is how they will navigate a world of uncertainty.Robert Cialdini is the most influential person in the world. And by that I mean, he wrote the book Influence, which sold 3 million copies and defines the six critical aspects of all influence.Now he has a new book, Pre-Suasion, going 10x deeper into the concepts of persuasion. I got him on my podcast so I could ask the 1,000 questions I have.Small story from the book:If you name a restaurant “Studio 97” instead of “Studio 17,” people are more likely to tip higher.If you ask a girl for her phone number outside a flower store, triggering feelings of romance, she is more likely to give it to you than if you ask her outside a motorcycle store.And 500 other stories.The environment is just as important as what you say.Before the podcast began, I gave him a book as a gift: The Anxiety of Influence, a history of poetry.What would poetry have to do with influence and marketing?In all art, since the beginning of time, artists have built on the work of the artists of the generation before them.Beethoven depended on a Mozart to be a Beethoven. Picasso depended on a Cézanne. Without Michelson, there would be no Einstein.But poets, for some reason, would deny being influenced.“I never even read Ezra Pound,” shouted one poet at a critic.Poets want to be seen as original.Nobody is 100% original.This is the anxiety of influence.Almost all of our decisions, and even our creativity, are outsourced to the people around us who influence us: peers, teachers, religion, parents, bosses, etc.Our personality is our own particular mishmash of influences.How we deal with that anxiety, how we recognize the influences, learn from them, and build from them, is the birth of all of our creativity.Let me summarize the seven aspects of influence:Reciprocity: If you give someone a Christmas card, they will want to return the favor.Likability: Make yourself trustworthy. For instance, outline the negatives of dealing with you.Consistency: Ask someone for a favor. Now they will say to themselves, “I am the type of person who does James a favor.”Social Proof: If you are trying to get someone to do X, show them that “a lot of your peers do X.” For instance, if you are at a bar and you are a guy trying to meet women, bring your women friends and not your guy friends with you.Authority: “Four out of five dentists say…”Scarcity: “Only 100 iPhones left at this store!”Unity: You and I are the same because of location, values, religion, etc.I've used each of the above in business.They work.They will make you money.The entire purpose of language is to influence.We are not strong animals. We are weak.The language of influence saved us.Probably a word like “Run!” was the first word spoken.A word of influence.And it worked.I'm still running from the things I fear.So speak to influence.Don't speak to call a flower yellow.Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence.This is the only way to have an impact with your unique creativity.I gave Robert the book as a gift — reciprocity — assuming we would have a great podcast.And we did.But then I thought later, I can't even remember how Robert got on my podcast.I highly recommend his book in the podcast and even in this post.As he got into his car after the podcast in order to go to his next interview, I started thinking:“Hmmm, who influenced who?”Episode Description:Robert Cialdini wrote the book on persuasion — literally. His classic Influence became one of the defining books on why people say yes, how decisions get shaped, and why the smallest cue in the room can change the outcome of a conversation.In this episode from the archive, James talks with Cialdini about Pre-Suasion, the idea that persuasion starts before the actual pitch. It begins with what people notice, what they feel, what is in the environment, and what frame has already been set before the first real ask is made.They talk about flower shops, restaurant names, voting booths, Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, Anwar Sadat's negotiation instincts, and the rabbi who helped save thousands of lives with one sentence. But the episode is not just about marketing. It is about how people make decisions under uncertainty — and how to use influence ethically, whether you are asking for a job, building a business, negotiating a deal, writing a sales letter, or trying to become more trusted.What You'll Learn:Why persuasion often begins before the message — and how small cues in the environment can make people more receptive.How Cialdini's original six principles of influence work: reciprocity, consistency, social proof, scarcity, authority, and liking.Why Cialdini added a seventh principle, unity — the feeling that “we are the same” — and why it can be even stronger than liking.When to use social proof versus authority, and how to decide which kind of evidence matters most in a given situation.Why admitting weakness first can build trust, and how Warren Buffett uses honesty as a persuasion tool instead of a liability.Timestamped Chapters:[00:00] Introduction and episode preview[01:25] Interview begins — James introduces Robert Cialdini and Pre-Suasion[03:12] The flower shop study: why context changes the answer before the question is asked[05:48] Valentine Street and the hidden power of unrelated cues[06:42] Wine stores, voting booths, and fluffy cloud mattresses[08:10] Are humans irrational, or are shortcuts necessary?[10:17] How the pictures on your wall can change what you write[11:36] The six — now seven — principles of influence[12:00] Reciprocity: the Hare Krishna flower example and the power of personalized gifts[16:40] Consistency: Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, and giving people a reputation to live up to[19:30] Cialdini's undercover research with sales organizations[23:30] Social proof: medical no-shows, restaurant menus, and what happens when a message backfires[26:43] Social proof as feasibility: “people like me can do this”[29:07] Authority: when expert endorsement beats crowd validation[33:55] Why companies lose with better products when they fail to frame the decision properly[35:10] Building authority from zero by using honesty and scarcity[37:05] The Avis “We're number two” campaign and the trust value of admitting weakness[38:24] Warren Buffett's shareholder letters and the persuasive power of leading with mistakes[41:30] Unity: Cialdini's seventh principle of influence[44:24] The rabbi, the Japanese tribunal, and the sentence that saved a community[48:30] Applying unity in job interviews, dating, and negotiations[51:10] Loss aversion and how uncertainty changes persuasion[55:00] Why long sales letters can outperform short ones[55:30] Cialdini's practical framework: find what is true, direct attention to it, then make the case[59:00] Fake scarcity and why false urgency destroys trust[65:00] Closing thoughts on ethical influence and genuine specificityAdditional Resources:Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Cialdini's classic book on the core principles of persuasion and compliance. Robert Cialdini — Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade — the follow-up book discussed throughout the episode, focused on what happens before the persuasive message itself. Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters — referenced in the episode as a real-world example of trust-building through candor and weakness-first communication. Daniel Kahneman and Prospect Theory — Cialdini references the role of loss aversion and uncertainty in persuasion; Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating psychological research into economic decision-making. Chiune Sugihara — the Japanese diplomat connected to the story Cialdini uses to explain unity and shared identity. The Avis “We're Number Two” Campaign — discussed as an example of turning a weakness into credibility by being honest before making the positive case.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A new Memorandum of Understanding between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic has ignited outrage, disappointment, and fierce debate among many Iranians around the world. Jian Ghomeshi welcomes Shayan Samii, Picasso Moin, and Kiarash Kian for a discussion about the deal, the prospect of sanctions relief and a reported $300 billion reconstruction package, and whether the agreement represents a diplomatic success - or a major setback for those hoping to see meaningful change in Iran. The panel also examines the ongoing controversy surrounding Team Melli at the FIFA World Cup, discussing whether support for Iran's national football team can be separated from the politics of the Islamic Republic and why all three guests have chosen not to cheer for Team Melli during this tournament. Plus Jian's opening essay: "WE KNOW WHERE THE $300 BILLION WON'T GO." Guests: • Shayan Samii • Picasso Moin • Kiarash Kian Host: Jian Ghomeshi Sponsored by: • Stellar Law • Quasar Homes

Rob Loverde is back on Brew Ha Ha with Herlinda Heras and Daedalus Howell for another round of Beatles and Beer. The first Beatles and Beer show was this episode last April. Rob is an audio engineer and a Beatles expert. Today is Paul McCartney’s 84th birthday. Herlinda made her original list of Beatles tunes and beers together with Rob, six years ago and he joins Herlinda today for the second Beatles and Beer show. Rob is a mastering engineer for Mobile Fidelity, aka MoFi. That is the last phase of audio manipulation or editing. It is also the first step in production by producing a master recording for duplication into different media. Today Rob and Herlinda will pair beers with Beatles and Wings songs. Herlinda and Rob have seen him perform in concert. When I’m 64 was the first song recorded for Sgt. Pepper. Meanwhile, the Scots are drinking Boston dry during the World Cup.   .--. .- ..- .-...Visit Russian River Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa on 4th St. and at their big Windsor location. Check out their website and socials for up-to-date hours, menus, beers and more..--. .- ..- .-... Since 1966 Paul has owned a farm in Scotland, where he lived with his wife Linda. The Wings song Mull of Kintyre was for a while the highest selling single in UK history, (since then only three songs have sold more). The song is unknown to American audiences, where it was released to modest sales and was soon forgotten. That’s understandable, since the song has a strong Scottish character that appealed to UK audiences. US audiences did not pick up on any of that local joy. They toast to Paul with a Scotch Ale. Paul practices yoga and according to Herlinda, “…still stands on his head every day.” In April of 1973 Pablo Picasso passed away. Paul and Linda were visiting Dustin Hoffman then, talking about their craft. They discussed Picasso and his last words, “Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can’t drink anymore.” Paul started strumming the guitar and started writing the song Picasso’s Last Words at Dustin’s suggestion. Herlinda brought a Paulaner Pils, a Bavarian style pilsner beer. The Beatles connection to Germany dates back to when they went to Hamburg, to play steady gigs. They met Klaus Voorman who was an art director and artist. He drew the cover of Revolver. Also, he later became the bass player of the Plastic Ono Band. The Liverpool Beatles Museum that Pete Best and his brother Roag own, has an exhibition of Stu Sutcliffe’s art, through this September. He heard a song from Wings called Old Siam Sir, from the last Wings album. So, Herlinda opens a Chang lager from Thailand. Unfortunately it has been in storage too long. Lagers do expire, especially in green glass. Also, to celebrate Apple Records, Herlinda has brought a cider called WildCide. The Beatles’ last public concert was in San Francisco in 1966. In honor of that location she has an Anchor Steam Beer. Herlinda believes it is possible that the Beatles drank that beer while they were in San Francisco. 

Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and exposes the complex history and legacy of the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize.When a white student quoted a line from Blazing Saddles, blurting out the N-word in the middle of class, Professor Elizabeth Pryor froze. In that moment, she was shockingly confronted with not only the most notorious slur in the United States, but the line quoted by the student was one her father - the iconic comedian Richard Pryor - had written.The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. After the incident in her classroom, Professor Pryor dove into her research to better understand the history of the word, and processed it with her students, eventually emerging as a leading scholar on the n-word as witnessed in her popular Ted Talk, "Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word."The more she learned, the more Elizabeth's own memories of the N-word rose to the surface. Growing up the Black and Jewish biracial daughter of a groundbreaking Black comedian - navigating the world her Jewish mother showed her and the Hollywood her father shared - meant the word was part of the most painful, but also tender moments of her life. Her reckoning with this word meant a reckoning with memories of her father, who skyrocketed to fame in the 1970's, making the n-word a hallmark of his act.SOMETHING WE SAID: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me is a hybrid: part memoir of the daughter of a legendary comedian, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the n-word, seamlessly braided together. Elizabeth not only peels back the curtain on life with Richard Pryor, a comedian Jerry Seinfeld has called the "Picasso of our profession," but also our country's legacy of racism and Black resilience.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Die Kunstmesse Art Basel geht heute auch für das breite Publikum auf. In den vergangenen beiden Tagen waren nur geladene Gäste vor Ort. Einige Galerien melden bereits Millionenverkäufe. Darunter ein Picasso für 35 Millionen US-Dollar. Ausserdem Thema: · Reinacher Gemeindepräsident Ferdinand Pulver geht vor Bundesgericht · FCB verpflichtet neuen Spieler

A Cooperativa-Museu Cérès Franco, no sudoeste da França, abriga a coleção de arte única e excepcional da crítica de arte, curadora e galerista brasileira. Depois de três anos fechada para reforma, a instituição, instalada em uma antiga cooperativa vinícola de Montolieu, reabre a partir de 20 de junho. Adriana Brandão, enviada especial da RFI a Montolieu A gaúcha Cérès Franco (1926-2021) foi uma pioneira. Ela inovou a cena artística parisiense depois de se instalar na França nos anos 1950, inicialmente como crítica de arte. Ao organizar uma primeira exposição, em 1962, intitulada "L'oeil de Boeuf", ou Olho de Boi, ela pediu aos artistas que realizassem somente obras em formato redondo ou oval, rompendo com o padrão quadrado vigente e desafiando a estética burguesa. O princípio norteou o seu percurso. Em 1972, ela foi a primeira brasileira a abrir uma galeria de arte em Paris, batizada naturalmente de L'Oeil de Boeuf. Cérès Franco, que conhecia e frequentava todos os grandes artistas da época, de Picasso a Cocteau, defendia uma arte sem fronteiras. Ela também foi uma das primeiras a divulgar na França a arte bruta e naïf brasileira, na época ainda pouco conhecida e marginalizada. A galerista estabeleceu um diálogo entre artistas populares e autodidatas com as vanguardas artísticas do Brasil, da Europa e de outras regiões. Para o diretor da Cooperativa-Museu Cérès Franco, Maximilien Fortier, a “liberdade” define a singularidade da colecionadora brasileira. “O destino de Cérès Franco é particular e muito pessoal. Raramente uma pessoa na história da arte misturou tanto o pessoal e o profissional, especialmente no que diz respeito aos seus amigos, que eram quase todos artistas, para os quais ela solicitava produções com muita frequência. O que também é bastante original é o fato de ela apreciar muito a figuração, a cor e o aspecto internacional. Um termo que a define, e com o qual ela mesma se definia, é, acima de tudo, a liberdade”, afirma Fortier. Em 1995, a brasileira fechou a galeria em Paris e instalou sua vasta e singular coleção de arte moderna e contemporânea em duas casas em Lagrasse, no sudoeste da França, que abriu ao público. Seis anos antes de morrer, ela doou, em 2015, a coleção de 1763 quadros, de artistas de 39 nacionalidades, a Montolieu, um vilarejo de apenas 800 habitantes, mas com 16 livrarias, conhecido como cidade do livro e das artes. A coleção foi instalada em uma antiga cooperativa vinícola. O belo prédio, em estilo art déco, passou por reformas durante três anos para melhorar sua acessibilidade. Antes da reabertura, a instituição ganhou, em dezembro de 2025, o selo de Museu da França. “Integrar a grande rede dos 1.200 museus da França, presentes em todo o território francês, era algo que Cérès Franco desejava conceder à sua coleção para poder preservá-la, especialmente garantindo sua transmissão às gerações futuras”, salienta o diretor. “Temos também a missão de dinamizar a cultura no meio rural e mostrar que todas as nossas regiões possuem pequenos tesouros, como o nosso museu”, acrescenta. Duas exposições na reabertura A Cooperativa-Museu Cérès Franco reabre com duas exposições. A mais importante delas, “Les aventuriers de l'oeil-de-boeuf” ou Os aventureiros do Olho de Boi, reúne 185 obras, de 100 artistas, para retraçar parte de seu percurso e homenagear a colecionadora brasileira. “'Les aventuriers de l'œil-de-bœuf' é uma exposição que reconstrói a trajetória de Cérès Franco entre 1962 e 1972, ou seja, o período em que ela foi curadora e em que vemos que, partindo da crítica de arte e da escrita, ela acabará se tornando galerista”, explica Maximilien Fortier. Artistas de 25 nacionalidades estão representados nessa primeira mostra, entre eles cerca de vinte artistas de origem brasileira. “Essa é uma característica da Cérès Franco, que expôs bastante a arte naïf brasileira e buscou, por meio do 'L'œil de bœuf' e de diversas outras exposições, valorizar as obras de seu país natal”, detalha o diretor do museu.  Entre os brasileiros expostos ou que integram a coleção estão Frans Krajcberg, Flávio Shiró, Waldomiro de Deus, Eli Heil, Pedro Paulo Leal e Gontran Netto, que fez o retrato de Cérès Franco no círculo central da bandeira do Brasil. Gontran era um exilado político brasileiro e, assim como ele, outros artistas refugiados da América do Sul ou da Europa do Leste também integram a coleção eclética de Cérès Franco. “Corneille, Chaïbia, Cérès Franco des poèmes pour le monde” ou poemas para o mundo é a segunda exposição montada para a reabertura da Cooperativa-Museu de Montolieu. Desconhecida no Brasil "Estou bastante surpresa e bastante feliz com essa visita", comentou a jornalista brasileira e editora da revista francesa "Beaux Arts" Débora Bertol, que não conhecia muito bem o trabalho de Cérès Franco. “Ela foi uma pioneira da crítica de arte aqui na França, e mesmo na história da crítica de arte, essa galeria L'Oeil de Boeuf foi realmente um lugar superimportante para as vanguardas artísticas da escola de Paris, nos anos 70 e 60”, ressalta a jornalista. Débora Bertol acredita que a reinauguração do Museu Cérès Franco irá contribuir para o devido reconhecimento da brasileira. “Eu acho que a gente vai ouvir falar bastante dela agora, nesses próximos meses. É interessante porque os franceses também vão redescobrir essa personalidade que é interessante não só para o Brasil, em termos de história da arte, da crítica de arte brasileira, mas da França e internacional também, porque ela trabalhava com artistas do mundo todo”, espera. A jornalista, que estudou história da arte e crítica de arte, é categórica ao afirmar que nem no Brasil, onde fez exposições importantes na época da Ditadura Militar, Cérès Franco “é tão conhecida como deveria ser. E talvez esse seja o primeiro passo para restabelecer o papel dela na crítica de arte mundial, como uma brasileira”, torce. Mulher e brasileira Cérès Franco também foi singular ao se impor como mulher e estrangeira em um meio artístico ainda dominado por homens franceses, ressalta Maximilien Fortier. “O fato de ela ser uma mulher extraeuropeia em um ambiente masculino e francês, na Paris dos anos 1960, entre 1962 e 1972, marcou profundamente sua trajetória e fechou muitas portas. No entanto, podemos dizer que tudo terminou bem, já que hoje sua coleção está preservada e integra o patrimônio francês, acessível a todos”, relativiza. Para Débora Bertol, a curadora e galerista brasileira teve uma coragem extrema “porque realmente se lançar numa aventura dessas, sendo estrangeira, sendo mulher, é muito corajoso, é bastante impressionante o percurso dela. Ela deve ter batalhado muito para se impor e conseguir fazer valer a visão dela. Mas ela conseguiu e construiu uma coleção excelente”. As duas exposições de reabertura da Cooperativa-Museu Cérès Franco em Montolieu ficam em cartaz de 20 de junho de 2026 a 3 de janeiro de 2027, quando outras mostras, revelando novos aspectos da coleção e do percurso singular da galerista e curadora brasileira, serão montadas. Para saber como chegar e visitar o Museu Cérès Franco clique no link. A descoberta da região e do museu vale a pena.

This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.Most productivity conversations start with systems, tools, and tactics. This one starts with something more fundamental: the quiet principles sitting right beneath the surface of your day that you've been walking past without noticing. Not because they're hidden — but because they're too simple to take seriously. That's what Heather Jo Kennedy's book For Starters is about, and it's why this conversation resonated with me in a way that felt less like an interview and more like a long overdue reminder.Heather Jo Kennedy is an author, speaker, and coach who grew up in the Dallas Cowboys organization — her father is quarterback Danny White — and that world of fundamentals, teamwork, and earned results is threaded through everything she teaches. Her book presents six core principles that she argues aren't just overlooked, they're statistically proven to change how you move through a day. We dig into all of them here, and the conversation went places I didn't expect.Six Discussion PointsGratitude isn't soft — it's structural. Heather shares the Duke University "Three Good Things" study, which found that a simple nightly practice of noting three positives can outperform antidepressants within two weeks. The real insight: gratitude is principle number one not because it's inspirational, but because it grounds everything else.Identity is the bedrock of productive impact. You can't make the difference you're meant to make if you don't know who you are. Growing up as a celebrity daughter, Heather watched identity get shaped by outside perception — and spent years reclaiming her own. That experience is at the heart of how she teaches this principle.Productivity is the means, not the end. Heather's definition — recognizing your unique purpose and acting on it — cuts against the idea that productivity is about maximizing output. We explored how that framing shift changes what you actually do with your time and energy.Frustration is a control signal, not just a mood. In the action chapter, Heather breaks frustration down to its root: you're either trying to control something you can't, or you're letting something control you when it shouldn't. Recognizing which one is happening is the first step to acting rather than reacting.Giving is the destination, not a detour. The Picasso line — "the meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away" — becomes a genuine lens here. We talked about what happens when you run every decision through the filter of am I adding value, and what that would do to the quality of everything we put into the world.Finishing requires humility, not just grit. The principle that landed hardest: sometimes quitting is a form of finishing. Clarity about whether a goal is wrong for you can't always come before you start — it often comes from the movement itself. Don't quit because it's hard. But quit when it's wrong.Three Connection PointsFor Starters by Heather Jo Kennedy — the book we discussed throughout this episode, and the best starting point for her workTimeCrafting: Stop Managing Your Time, Start Crafting It — my take on why "time management" is a broken concept, and how crafting your time changes the whole relationshipThe Lantern — my weekly newsletter — where I continue exploring these kinds of foundational ideas between episodesThe idea of overlooked principles is a quiet indictment of the way most of us approach getting things done. We reach for the system, the app, the strategy — and skip right over gratitude, identity, and the question of whether we're actually controlling what we think we're controlling. Heather's framework is a reset button disguised as a short book. If any of the six principles we discussed pulled your attention, that's probably where to start. Until next time, remember: stop doing productive, start being productive. See you later.If this episode resonated, I'm exploring ideas like these more deeply in my upcoming book, Productiveness. You can follow along as it takes shape at mikevardy.com/productiveness.

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Kanye West, Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson, Picasso, Woody Allen, J.K.Rowling... Canavarlar ve eserleri ne kadar ayrılabilir? Kanye West konserine gitmek ile Spotify'dan dinlemek arasında fark var mı? Erkek dehasına tanınan alanın sebepleri? Canavar kadın sanatçılar var mı? Cancel Culture ne kadar etkili? Canavarların eserlerini tüketmek suç ortaklığı mıdır? Algoritmanın dışına çıkarak söylem üretmek mümkün mü? Claire Dederer'in Canavar kitabını ve kitap etrafındaki meseleleri İçerik Üreticisi Aylak Damla ile konuşuyoruz.

Dora Maar a souvent été rabaissée au rôle de muse de Picasso. Elle était pourtant une photographe et une peintre de génie. Pour elle, aimer, c'est faire de sa vie une oeuvre. En photographiant, en étant modèle du peintre. En devenant peintre, elle même.  Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture et voix : Alice Deroide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Catalan: A Barcelona Encounter: Rekindling Friendship at Museu Picasso Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ca/episode/2026-06-13-07-38-19-ca Story Transcript:Ca: En un matí calorós d'estiu, el sol resplendia amb força sobre les antigues teulades del Barri de La Ribera a Barcelona.En: On a hot summer morning, the sun shone brightly over the ancient rooftops of the Barri de La Ribera in Barcelona.Ca: Oriol, amb una camisa de colors i unes ulleres de sol, caminava amb pas dubitatiu cap al Museu Picasso.En: Oriol, wearing a colorful shirt and sunglasses, walked hesitantly towards the Museu Picasso.Ca: Les estretes carrers plens de vida el rodejaven mentre ell pensava en el motiu de la seva visita.En: The narrow, lively streets surrounded him as he pondered the reason for his visit.Ca: Marçal, el seu amic més entremaliat, l'hi havia desafiant.En: Marçal, his most mischievous friend, had challenged him.Ca: "És el moment que resolguis el que et queda pendent amb la Gemma," havia dit.En: "It's time you resolve things with Gemma," he had said.Ca: Oriol va assentir, encara que nerviós.En: Oriol nodded, though he was nervous.Ca: Quan Oriol va arribar al museu, va veure un grup de nens amuntegats a l'entrada.En: When Oriol arrived at the museum, he saw a group of children crowded at the entrance.Ca: Sense voler, es va veure arrossegat entre els nens.En: Unintentionally, he was swept along with the children.Ca: La guia era... Gemma!En: The guide was... Gemma!Ca: Amb un entusiasme radiant, explicava la vida de Picasso amb claredat i passió.En: With radiant enthusiasm, she explained the life of Picasso with clarity and passion.Ca: Oriol la recordava bé, tan fascinant com sempre.En: Oriol remembered her well, as fascinating as ever.Ca: Però un detall nou: no el reconeixia.En: But one new detail: she didn't recognize him.Ca: Era la seva oportunitat, però... el bigoti!En: This was his opportunity, but... the mustache!Ca: Potser per això no l'identificava.En: Perhaps that's why she didn't identify him.Ca: Gemma va començar a guiar el grup pels salons del museu, amb els nens que la seguien atentament.En: Gemma began to lead the group through the museum's halls, with the children following her attentively.Ca: Oriol volia sortir, deixar-ho estar, però una pintura de Picasso va captar la seva atenció.En: Oriol wanted to leave, to let it go, but a painting by Picasso caught his attention.Ca: Un record va brollar.En: A memory surfaced.Ca: Ell i la Gemma havien fet una còpia d'aquella pintura a l'escola.En: He and Gemma had made a copy of that painting at school.Ca: Mentre ella parlava, Oriol no va poder evitar dir-ho en veu alta: "Recordes el dia que vam vessar pintura a la classe?"En: As she spoke, Oriol couldn't help but say out loud, "Do you remember the day we spilled paint in class?"Ca: Gemma es va girar, sorpresa.En: Gemma turned, surprised.Ca: Va mirar més de prop al desconegut amb un bigoti.En: She looked more closely at the stranger with a mustache.Ca: Una rialla escapà dels seus llavis mentre va exclamar: "Oriol!"En: A laugh escaped her lips as she exclaimed, "Oriol!"Ca: Era un reconeixement ple de calidesa.En: It was a recognition full of warmth.Ca: El nerviosisme d'Oriol va començar a dissoldre's com el gel al sol d'estiu.En: Oriol's nervousness began to melt away like ice in the summer sun.Ca: Després de la visita, mentre els nens marxaven, Gemma i Oriol es van quedar a la vora d'una finestra amb vistes als carrerons plens de vida.En: After the visit, as the children left, Gemma and Oriol stayed by a window overlooking the bustling alleyways.Ca: "Va ser un error de nens," va dir Gemma amb un somriure.En: "It was a childish mistake," Gemma said with a smile.Ca: "Ho hem de deixar enrere." Ella li va proposar una visita privada.En: "We need to leave it behind." She proposed a private visit.Ca: "Sense nens, només art," va afegir.En: "Without children, just art," she added.Ca: Oriol va acceptar amb un somriure nou.En: Oriol accepted with a newfound smile.Ca: La seva venjança infantil s'havia convertit en res.En: His childish grudge had turned into nothing.Ca: Al seu lloc, hi havia una comprensió renovada.En: In its place, there was a renewed understanding.Ca: La rancúnia havia desaparegut.En: The resentment had disappeared.Ca: Els museus tenen aquesta màgia: recorden el passat, però també ofereixen nous començaments.En: Museums have this magic: they remember the past but also offer new beginnings.Ca: Oriol es va adonar que, com els pinzellades de Picasso, cada relació pot evolucionar i trobar el seu propi equilibri.En: Oriol realized that, like Picasso's brushstrokes, each relationship can evolve and find its own balance.Ca: Satisfet, va sortir del museu, el cor més lleuger gràcies a Marçal, a Barcelona i als picassos que s'hi trobaven.En: Satisfied, he left the museum, his heart lighter thanks to Marçal, Barcelona, and the Picassos found there. Vocabulary Words:the rooftops: les teuladeshesitantly: dubitatiuthe narrow streets: les carrers estretesto ponder: pensarmischievous: entremaliatto challenge: desafiarcrowded: amuntegatsunintentionally: sense volerradiant: radiantto recognize: reconèixerthe mustache: el bigotithe painting: la pinturato spill: vessara laugh: una riallawarmth: calidesato melt: dissoldrebustling: plens de vidachildish: de nensto propose: proposarresentment: rancúniathe brushstrokes: les pinzelladesto evolve: evolucionarnewfound: nourenewed: renovadaunderstanding: comprensióto offer: oferirsatisfied: satisfetto sweep: arrossegarthe mobile screen: la pantalla mòbilthe magic: la màgia

Did you know that in addition to saving the free world, Churchill was also an accomplished painter? In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas sits down with Dr. Lucy Davis — curator of paintings at the Wallace Collection in London and co-curator of Winston Churchill the Painter, the first major retrospective of Churchill's art in over 60 years and the first substantial UK exhibition devoted to his paintings since his death in 1965. The exhibition brings together nearly 60 works, roughly half from private collections rarely accessible to the public, and traces the full arc of Churchill's artistic life: from the tentative canvases he made during the darkest moment of his World War I career, through the luminous Mediterranean harbors and Moroccan cityscapes of his mature period, to the bold late works of a man who found in painting one of the greatest solaces of his life. Lucy walks Jonathan through the story of how Churchill came to paint, the three major artists who shaped his style — John Lavery, Walter Sickert, and William Nicholson — the single painting he made during World War II, the extraordinary Hallmark Cards world tour, and why the Wallace Collection is the perfect home for this once-in-a-lifetime show. The exhibition runs until November 29, 2026. Book your tickets now. Lucy is very grateful to her colleagues at Hallmark Cards, Inc. for their research into the World Tour of Churchill's paintings, which she has referenced in this podcast. Links The Exhibition Winston Churchill the Painter — Wallace Collection (open until November 29, 2026 — book tickets in advance) The Wallace Collection, London Wallace Collection E-Newsletter (Over 60% of subscribers are US-based — talks and courses available remotely) Wallace Collection Events & Remote Courses The Wallace Collection at War — companion display (open until end of October) Gallery of Some of Churchill's Paintings in the Exhibition Books Painting as a Pastime by Winston Churchill — New Edition with intro by Paul Rafferty Winston Churchill the Painter — Exhibition Catalog, edited by Dr. Lucy Davis (Philip Wilson Publishers) Churchill's Citadel by Katherine Carter — Chartwell and the Wilderness Years Churchill Sites Chartwell, Kent — National Trust Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge America's National Churchill Museum, Fulton MO Also Mentioned Darkest Hour (2017) — Gary Oldman as Churchill Friends of Anglotopia Club Takeaways Winston Churchill the Painter at the Wallace Collection is the first major retrospective of Churchill's art in over 60 years — nearly 60 works, roughly half from private collections that are rarely if ever accessible to the public. This is a genuinely once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Churchill took up painting in 1915 at the lowest point of his life, following the catastrophic failure of the Dardanelles campaign. His wife Clementine later said she thought he would die of grief — and it was painting that gave him back his spark. Churchill was never formally trained, but worked closely with at least three leading professional artists: John Lavery (portraiture and plein air painting), Walter Sickert (modernist techniques and working from photographs), and William Nicholson (still life, tonal restraint, and simplified composition). Churchill's single painting during World War II was a view of Marrakesh, painted the day after he took President Roosevelt to see the sunset over the Atlas Mountains following the Casablanca Conference. He gave it to Roosevelt as a gift — it is in the exhibition, facing the painting he later gave to President Eisenhower. The Wallace Collection's connection to Churchill runs deeper than the exhibition: Odette Pol Roger was born Odette Wallace as great-granddaughter of Sir Richard Wallace, became Churchill's close friend, and reserved an entire vintage of Pol Roger champagne for him. A quarter-bottle believed to be one of the last he drank before his death in 1965 is on display in the exhibition. Churchill's paintings were the subject of a record-breaking world tour of North America, Australia, and New Zealand in 1958, masterminded by President Eisenhower and Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards. Churchill initially refused — until Eisenhower wrote him a personal letter about the wave of goodwill it would create. Churchill submitted paintings to competitions under the pseudonym "David Winter" and was given the title of Honorary Academician Extraordinary by the Royal Academy — only the second person ever to receive this honor, after Edward VII. The goldfish pool at Chartwell — Lucy's personal favorite painting in the exhibition — contains a detail invisible in photography: the ripple created by the fish on the surface, painted in a subtle mauve-grey. Lucy says it perfectly summarizes Churchill's playful, witty personality. Picasso, upon seeing Churchill's painting La Dragonnière, said (paraphrasing) that Churchill would have been a good professional painter if he hadn't had something else to do. The painting is in the exhibition. The new edition of Churchill's own book Painting as a Pastime — with an introduction by Paul Rafferty — has just been published and is the perfect companion to the exhibition. It explains in Churchill's own words why he took up painting and why everyone else should too. Soundbites "Clementine was looking on and she was so relieved to see him engaged in something. He talked about all this unwanted leisure — going from a really high-pressured executive job to suddenly watching the whole tragedy unfold. To see that spark lit up again." — Lucy on Clementine's reaction when Churchill first picked up a paintbrush. "He said painting was a complete distraction. He said: I know nothing which without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind." — Lucy quoting Churchill on why painting worked when nothing else could. "He's painting the headquarters of the battalion as it was progressively being shelled and devastated. One of his young soldiers said he was unusually quiet and withdrawn and asked what was wrong — and he said: I've been really struggling to paint the craters." — Lucy on Churchill painting in the trenches at Plug Street. "He said it should be a joy ride in a paint box. Nobody should feel afraid or daunted by it. We don't have to aspire to masterpieces." — Lucy on Churchill's message to anyone who wants to paint. "A traveling exhibition of your paintings in the United States would not only attract a great deal of attention, but I am certain it would serve in a very definite way to strengthen the friendship between our two countries." — Lucy quoting Eisenhower's letter persuading Churchill to allow the world tour. "He submitted a painting in 1925 to an amateur painting competition and won first prize — although one of the judges wanted to disqualify it because he thought it must be by a professional painter." — Lucy on Churchill exhibiting anonymously under the pseudonym David Winter. "Picasso said — and I'm paraphrasing — that he would have been a good professional painter if he didn't have something else to do." — Lucy on Picasso's verdict on Churchill's painting La Dragonnière. "There's a particular detail that doesn't come out in photography — the ripple created by the fish on the surface that he's painted in this sort of mauve-grey color. It's just such a lovely finishing touch and really summarizes that playful, witty side of his personality." — Lucy on her favorite painting in the exhibition, the goldfish pool at Chartwell. "He made the gardener row back and forth across the moat to create ripples so he could try a different effect in the water." — Lucy on Churchill's obsessive dedication to capturing reflections accurately. "I think he would like to see us leaving the exhibition with smiles on our faces and with an urge to pick up a paintbrush." — Lucy on what Churchill himself would have wanted visitors to take away. Chapters 00:22 Introduction — Jonathan sets up the exhibition and introduces Dr. Lucy Davis 01:59 Lucy's Background — 15 years at the Wallace Collection, the Courtauld, the National Gallery, and Washington DC 03:09 What Is the Wallace Collection? — A world-class art collection in an intimate Marylebone townhouse 04:47 The Wallace Collection's Churchill Connection — The Artists Aid Russia exhibition, Clementine's charity, and the Pol Roger link 06:29 Churchill's Favorite Champagne — And the quarter-bottle of Pol Roger in the exhibition 07:14 How Churchill Came to Paint — Gallipoli, the darkest moment, Ho Farm in Sussex, and Hazel Lavery's advice 09:49 Did He Take to It Naturally? — Total ambition, total audacity, and the self-portrait painted at 40 13:00 Painting in the Trenches at Plug Street — Easels in the First World War and the crater problem solved 14:50 What Painting Gave Churchill That Nothing Else Could — Complete absorption, relief from anxiety, and seeing the world properly for the first time 17:12 Churchill's Message to Everyone — A joy ride in a paint box, and why no one should feel daunted 19:13 500 Canvases Alongside Everything Else — Chancellor, Prime Minister, Nobel laureate: where did he find the time? 21:12 The One WWII Painting — The Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt, the Atlas Mountains, and a gift that symbolized the Special Relationship 23:02 The Marrakesh Painting and the Gift to Eisenhower — Two paintings face to face in the exhibition 23:47 The Hallmark Cards World Tour — Joyce C. Hall, Eisenhower's persuasive letter, and a record-breaking global exhibition 25:49 How Did Brad Pitt End Up Owning the Marrakesh Painting? — Neither host quite knows 26:34 Churchill's Artistic Mentors — John Lavery, Walter Sickert, William Nicholson, and what each one taught him 32:20 Churchill's Influences — Monet, Cézanne, the Impressionists, and the tessellated pavement of dabs and lozenges 32:33 Walking Through the Exhibition — Six galleries from First Attempts to the Royal Academy 34:00 Gallery 1: First Attempts — Lavery, the self-portrait, and the Plug Street paintings 35:00 Gallery 2: Life and Hope — Chartwell in all seasons, Blenheim, and the wilderness years paintings 36:00 Gallery 3: Still Lifes — Nicholson's influence, the Magnolia painting, and thank-you gifts to friends 37:00 Gallery 4: Light, Atmosphere & Reflections — The Riviera, Morocco, La Dragonnière, and making the gardener row 38:19 Morocco — Six visits, the Red City, the Atlas Mountains, and the Eureka Valley picnics 39:30 Gallery 5 & 6: Recognition — The Royal Academy submission under a pseudonym, Honorary Academician Extraordinary 40:06 Chartwell as Inspiration — 50 years, built for the view, goldfish pools, and the changing seasons 41:45 How a Major Exhibition Comes Together — Loan negotiations, private collections, and 20 years in the making 43:34 The Exhibition Catalog — Six essays, new archival research, and what makes it more than a picture book 47:11 The Contributors — Andrew Roberts on soft power, Catherine Carter on Chartwell, Paul Rafferty on the Riviera, Alan Packwood on Churchill as a visual person 48:36 The Churchill Family's Involvement — Support from the very beginning and throughout 49:16 Why Americans Should Get on a Plane — A revelation, a personality revealed, and a zest for life 50:22 Rapid Fire Churchill Round — Favorite book, film, quote, and painting 53:44 Wrap-Up — Exhibition details, tickets, catalog, and Jonathan's August visit Video Version

La venganza será terrible Alejandro Dolina, Patricio Barton, Gillespi Introducción • 0:01:13 Saludos, recuerdo de la función en La Plata y agradecimiento al público • 0:04:21 Presentación de funciones en Avellaneda, Canning, Rosario, Córdoba y La Trastienda Segmento Inicial • 0:08:20 Las tribulaciones del capitalino que se muda a un pueblo • 0:11:10 Saludo obligatorio y fin del anonimato en la vida pueblerina • 0:13:20 Juicio social por la apariencia y la ropa • 0:14:27 Precauciones con romances, moral local y chismes • 0:18:23 Perros callejeros, siesta sagrada y ritmo lento del pueblo • 0:27:29 Rumores, Don Soilo y conflicto con los recién llegados • 0:35:08 Invitaciones sociales, fútbol local, apodos y pertenencia al pueblo • 0:39:01 Moda de irse a vivir a pueblos como San Antonio de Areco • 0:40:53 Colecta para un bebedero y nueva disputa por la hija de Don Soilo • 0:45:30 Expulsión humorística de los porteños del pueblo • 0:46:53 Lectura de mensajes de oyentes Segmento Dispositivo • 0:55:57 Hábitos extraños de pintores famosos • 0:56:06 Manías cotidianas y alimentación de Picasso • 0:58:23 Excesos y rutinas de Francis Bacon y Toulouse-Lautrec • 1:01:40 Fobias y obsesiones de Cézanne • 1:04:53 Fascinación de Manet por los pies y fabulaciones de Diego Rivera • 1:07:15 "El pintado" ♫ Segmento Humorístico • 1:10:38 Denuncias a falsos psicólogos • 1:12:59 Paquetes de sesiones, teleconsultas y clichés del consultorio • 1:16:40 Herramientas terapéuticas, reemplazos y pseudoespecialistas • 1:20:22 Monoambientes, falta de sala de espera y exposición de intimidades • 1:23:53 Matrículas dudosas, astrología y problemas domésticos del terapeuta • 1:25:18 Lacanianos, palabra plena y sesiones arbitrarias • 1:27:51 Psicólogos agresivos, hartazgo de pacientes y cierre del sketch Sordo Gancé / Manuel Moreira • 1:35:14 Presentación musical • 1:38:29 "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" ♫ • 1:41:20 "Desafinado" ♫ • 1:44:09 "Tenderly" ♫ • 1:46:55 "El orangután" ♫ (Resumen generado automáticamente con IA, puede contener errores)

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Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and exposes the complex history and legacy of the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize.When a white student quoted a line from Blazing Saddles, blurting out the N-word in the middle of class, Professor Elizabeth Pryor froze. In that moment, she was shockingly confronted with not only the most notorious slur in the United States, but the line quoted by the student was one her father - the iconic comedian Richard Pryor - had written.The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. After the incident in her classroom, Professor Pryor dove into her research to better understand the history of the word, and processed it with her students, eventually emerging as a leading scholar on the n-word as witnessed in her popular Ted Talk, "Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word."The more she learned, the more Elizabeth's own memories of the N-word rose to the surface. Growing up the Black and Jewish biracial daughter of a groundbreaking Black comedian - navigating the world her Jewish mother showed her and the Hollywood her father shared - meant the word was part of the most painful, but also tender moments of her life. Her reckoning with this word meant a reckoning with memories of her father, who skyrocketed to fame in the 1970's, making the n-word a hallmark of his act.SOMETHING WE SAID: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me is a hybrid: part memoir of the daughter of a legendary comedian, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the n-word, seamlessly braided together. Elizabeth not only peels back the curtain on life with Richard Pryor, a comedian Jerry Seinfeld has called the "Picasso of our profession," but also our country's legacy of racism and Black resilience.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

In the summer of 1937, some of the 20th Century's most famous artists, writers and photographers were holidaying in the south of France. They included artist Pablo Picasso, photographer Lee Miller, poet Paul Éluard and the painter Man Ray.The group were part of the Surrealist movement – a style of art inspired by dreams and hidden thoughts that can look strange and bizarre - and one of their most recent converts was artist Eileen Agar. Through a 1985 BBC interview with Eileen, digital archivist Jonathan Charlton tells the story of that summer in an episode produced by Jane Wilkinson.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by and curious about the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from how the Excel spreadsheet was developed, the creation of cartoon rabbit Miffy and how the sound barrier was broken.We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: the moment Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva, Haitian singer Emerante de Pradines' life and Omar Sharif's legendary movie entrance in Lawrence of Arabia.You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, like the invention of a stent which has saved lives around the world; the birth of the G7; and the meeting of Maldives' ministers underwater. We cover everything from World War Two and Cold War stories to Black History Month and our journeys into space.(Photo: Roland Penrose, Ady Fidelin, Picasso and Dora Maar, Cote d'Azur, France 1937. Credit: Lee Miller Archives)

durée : 00:03:35 - Par Jupiter ! - par : Charline Vanhoenacker - Des œuvres de Picasso, Rembrandt ou Giacometti sont menacées par la guerre au Moyen-Orient. 250 œuvres ont en effet été prêtées par la France au Louvre Abu Dhabi, situé entre les tirs de missiles. (qui a payé 400 millions pour prétendre porter ce nom, "Louvre") Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:03:35 - Charline explose les faits - par : Charline Vanhoenacker - Des œuvres de Picasso, Rembrandt ou Giacometti sont menacées par la guerre au Moyen-Orient. 250 œuvres ont en effet été prêtées par la France au Louvre Abu Dhabi, situé entre les tirs de missiles. (qui a payé 400 millions pour prétendre porter ce nom, "Louvre") Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

We talk with Erin Dragotto from the Museum of Art and Light about why the Picasso experience feels so powerful when you see the full creative timeline in one place. We also dig into how arts access, school partnerships, and citywide collaboration can help Manhattan grow as a destination for culture and community life. • what it means to see Picasso's work in context with his life and creative range • how long the Picasso display runs and why timing matters • the transportation reimbursement bus grant for grades 3 to 8 • Why removing barriers is the fastest way to expand arts education • how arts and culture support tourism and economic development • museums working together through Museum Month and future partnerships • early attendance numbers and how visitors are finding the museum • Manhattan High students are building a full exhibition with “Planet Oket'ra" You can always find out more at your website, which is artlightmuseum.org. GMCFCFAs

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a single bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti sold for $812,000, a record driven by its last pre-replant vintage from century-old Burgundy vines, and John calls it the greatest wine he has tasted. A 19-year-old mustang named Gringo set a Guinness World Record by performing 38 tricks in 2:47 using clicker training and positive reinforcement. In North Sumatra, an orangutan finally used a canopy rope bridge installed to safely cross a road splitting a habitat of about 350 wild orangutans, easing risks like car strikes and genetic isolation. In Paris, a man won Picasso's 1941 “Head of a Woman” via a 100-euro charity raffle that sold 120,000 tickets and raised 12 million euros for Alzheimer's research. A Southwest Oakland flight was delayed after a passenger's four-foot, 70-pound robot, Bebop, had its oversized lithium battery removed.5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media networkJohn also hosts Daily Comedy NewsUnlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media!  For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app. Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

Doyen des ponts de la Seine, le Pont Neuf incarne à lui seul, lʹhistoire et les transformations de la capitale française. Incontournable des circuits touristiques, il a également inspiré de nombreux artistes, parmi lesquels Renoir, Picasso, ainsi que Christo et Jeanne-Claude qui lʹavaient emballé en 1985. Quarante et un ans après, cʹest lʹartiste français JR qui le rhabille. Son projet : transformer le pont en une immense caverne de 120 mètres de long. À cette occasion, Monumental revient sur lʹhistoire de ce monument emblématique avec Nicolas Lyon-Caen, chargé de recherche au CNRS.

De daders van de kusntroof in Assen moeten bijna vier jaar de cel in. Zij zijn lang niet de enige die kunst stelen: wat levert het op en hoe vind je gestolen kunst weer terug? Frederique duikt in de wereld van de kunstcriminaliteit.

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. L'heure du backlash 1953. Un matin ensoleillé, profitant de l'absence de Pablo, Françoise boucle ses valises et quitte Vallauris avec ses deux jeunes enfants. Après dix ans de relation, elle s'est lassée de ses attitudes possessives et autoritaires. Quelques années auparavant, Pablo lui avait assuré qu'on ne quittait pas un homme comme lui. « Nous verrons », avait-elle répondu. Pendant les années qui suivent la rupture, la vengeance de son ancien compagnon est sans pitié, à tel point qu'il entraîne tout un pays derrière lui. Son but ? Organiser sa mort sociale. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. Quand le Minotaure attaque À cette époque, la jeune femme n'est pas son épouse, mais c'est tout comme. Elle est sa compagne, la mère de ses enfants, la première critique de ses œuvres. En quelques années, elle est devenue le centre de son monde. Plus amoureux que jamais, Pablo ne peut plus se passer de sa présence. Mais de son côté, Françoise étouffe… jusqu'à frôler l'asphyxie. Bientôt, elle sera obligée de mettre fin au cauchemar. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. Piégée dans la toile Cela fait bientôt trois ans que Picasso a quitté Dora Maar pour Françoise Gilot. Trois années que Pablo et Françoise ont passées séparés, sans vivre sous le même toit. Leur relation amoureuse s'est épanouie autour de leur passion pour la peinture, à tel point que l'idée d'une vie commune fait son chemin dans l'esprit du couple. Mais c'est cette vie commune, au sein d'un espace domestique, qui va précipiter la début des violences. Car lorsque les deux artistes commencent à fonder leur foyer, Françoise se rend compte qu'elle a fait l'erreur de sa vie… Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Découvrez la face cachée d'un couple de peintres : Françoise Gilot et Pablo Picasso. Cinquante ans après sa mort, le monde de l'art rend encore hommage à l'œuvre monumentale de Picasso. Pourtant, ces nombreuses expositions occultent souvent le calvaire qu'il a fait vivre à ses compagnes, et surtout, le courage de celle qui lui a dit non. En 4 épisodes, à travers ce couple, nous allons vous dévoiler comment Picasso est passé maître dans l'art de la violence. L'ogre et la muse Paris, mai 1943. Il est midi et demi. Françoise Gilot, une jeune artiste de 21 ans, est attablée au restaurant Le Catalan, en compagnie d'un ami. Elle est un peu nerveuse, car dans un coin de la pièce, un peintre légendaire déjeune en petit comité… et ne cesse de lui jeter des coups d'œil. Ce monstre sacré a un nom : Pablo Picasso. Les mots qui suivent vont marquer les débuts d'une idylle passionnée, placée sous le signe de l'excellence artistique… Et de la brutalité masculine. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Lucie Kervern Voix : François Marion, Lucrèce Sassella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Malinconia dei confini. Nord è l'ultimo romanzo dello scrittore francese Mathias Énard ed è il primo volume di una trilogia legata alle stagioni e ai punti cardinali. Il nuovo film di Pedro Almodóvar, Amarga Navidad, è una riflessione sull'autofinzione e sulla natura della creazione artistica. Alla fondazione Rovati di Milano una mostra curata dallo storico dell'arte e archeologo Salvatore Settis s'interroga sulla ricorrenza di un gesto che esprime dolore: dai sarcofagi romani a Guernica di Picasso.Yekatit 12 di Andrea Sestante è una graphic novel che racconta la resistenza etiope contro il colonialismo italiano fascista. CONYasmina Melaouah, traduttriceMaria Sole Colombo, critica e curatrice cinematografica Vincenzo Latronico, scrittoreAndrea Sestante, fumettistaCi piacerebbe sapere cosa pensi di questo episodio. Scrivici a podcast@internazionale.it Se ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità. Vai su internazionale.it/abbonatiConsulenza editoriale di Chiara NielsenProduzione di Claudio Balboni e Vincenzo De SimoneMusiche di Tommaso Colliva e Raffaele ScognaDirezione creativa di Jonathan Zenti

What This Episode Is About You've invested in a sales strategy. You've done the training. So why aren't you getting the results you expected? In this episode of the Selling to Corporate® podcast, Jess Lorimer reveals the single most important skill that professional salespeople use to create consistent, replicable results - and it's almost certainly not what you'd expect. Jess makes the case that the gap between coaches, consultants and professional salespeople isn't intelligence, experience or even strategy. It's one surprisingly simple skill that most business owners overlook, underestimate or quietly choose to ignore. This episode explains exactly what it is, why it matters more than any tactic or technique and what happens to your sales process when you don't use it. Who This Episode Is For Coaches, consultants, trainers, speakers, and done-for-you service providers selling to corporate clients Anyone who has invested in a sales strategy or programme and felt it 'didn't work' Business owners who find themselves constantly tweaking, adjusting, or second-guessing their sales process Those who are great at selling one offer or to one type of client, but struggle to replicate that success elsewhere Anyone who suspects their sales process isn't producing consistent results but isn't sure why Questions This Episode Answers What is the most important skill in B2B sales? Why does a sales strategy that worked stop working over time? How do professional salespeople create replicable results across different industries and offers? What's the difference between buying a sales strategy and actually executing one? Why does tweaking a sales process - even slightly - make results impossible to measure or replicate? Key Takeaways  1. The Most Important Sales Skill Is Following Instructions The single most important skill professional salespeople possess is the ability to follow instructions precisely and consistently. Not prospecting. Not objection handling. Not closing. Following instructions. Jess is direct: in her experience working with thousands of professional salespeople and thousands of coaches, consultants, speakers, trainers, and done-for-you service providers, the difference in results almost always comes down to this. Professional salespeople follow a proven process exactly as written. Most coaches and consultants - however intelligent and however well-intentioned - don't. This isn't a criticism of intelligence. In fact, Jess argues that high intelligence can be a liability here. Smart people are more likely to spot what feels 'wrong' about a set of instructions, more likely to rationalise a small adjustment and more likely to believe their version of the process is 'good enough'. It usually isn't. 2. Any Proven Strategy Has the Ability to Work - If It's Executed Properly Jess teaches seven different methods of B2B lead generation. She has clients who generate all of their corporate revenue from cold email outreach. She has clients who generate all of their revenue from networking alone - a method she personally dislikes. The method is not the determining factor. Execution is. The two reasons a sales strategy fails are almost always the same: The strategy being used is not proven. It was built in an AI tool, borrowed from a B2C context or sold by someone without hands-on B2B sales experience. The strategy is proven but it is not being followed correctly. Steps are skipped, wording is changed, volume is reduced or the process is quietly adjusted whenever something feels uncomfortable. If your sales process is not producing results, the first question to ask is not 'what strategy should I try next?' It is 'am I executing my current proven strategy exactly as intended?'   3. Small Changes to a Sales Process Create Big Problems One of the most common patterns Jess sees with experienced clients is a gradual drift away from the original process. It rarely starts as a conscious decision to change strategy. More often it starts with a lost deal, a knock to confidence, and a small adjustment made under pressure to 'save' the next opportunity. That one small change leads to another. The language shifts. The attachment changes. The objection handling softens. The reassurance given increases. None of it feels significant in the moment. But cumulatively, the process becomes unrecognisable - and critically, it becomes impossible to measure, troubleshoot or improve. Standardisation is not a constraint on creativity. It is what makes it possible to know whether your sales process is working, identify where it is breaking down, and fix the right thing. When every part of the process is slightly different, there is nothing consistent to evaluate. 4. Sales Should Be Boring - Creativity Comes in the Conversation Jess uses the analogy of Picasso: before he painted eyes on the sides of heads, he spent years learning the rules of perspective, line and composition. The creative leaps came after the foundations were mastered, not instead of them. The same principle applies to B2B sales. Your lead generation process, your outreach approach, your proposal structure, your pricing framework - these should be repeatable, measurable and consistent. They should feel a little boring, because boring is what makes them scalable. The creativity, the consultative problem-solving, the bespoke solution-building - all of that happens in the sales conversation itself, and in the delivery of the work. That's where you get to be brilliant and distinctive. Your process is what gets you to that conversation in the first place. 5. Following Instructions Builds the Confidence That Creativity Cannot When a sales process is followed precisely, it produces predictable metrics. Those metrics tell you what is working and what is not - early enough to make useful adjustments rather than emergency ones. That predictability is what gives professional salespeople confidence, even in difficult markets. When a process is modified and the results decline, the person executing it has no way of knowing which change caused the problem. That uncertainty erodes confidence and often leads to further changes, making the situation worse. Following instructions is therefore not just a technical requirement - it is the foundation of sustained confidence in your own sales ability. 6. Replicatable Success Requires Transferable Process, Not Transferable Luck Jess draws on her own sales career across jewellery, recruitment, tech, and sales training - including becoming the top diamond salesperson in her region at 16, and a top performer within her first year at a company operating across 30 countries - to make a specific point: success that can be replicated across industries, offers, and client types is built on process, not personality. If you are excellent at selling one particular offer but cannot replicate that success with other offers or other types of decision maker, it is a signal that your results are not yet built on a transferable process. They are built on familiarity, repetition or relationship - which are not scalable. A proven, correctly executed process is what creates results that transfer. Key Quotes "The most important skill professional salespeople have in their arsenal is following instructions." "Literally any proven strategy has the ability to work if it's being done properly. The problem is that most people aren't using proven strategies - or they're not following the instructions for the ones they have." "Your sales process shouldn't be where you feel creatively satiated. It should be where you are able to replicate a clear process and be given consistent metrics so you know what is working and what isn't." Resources + Links Mentioned in This Episode Cold -> Closed The self-paced B2B sales experience for coaches / consultants / speakers / trainers and done-for-you service providers who want scalable, sustainable sales from brand new corporate clients in 90 days or less. https://smartleaderssell.thrivecart.com/-cold-to-closed-product/ Join the B2B Sales Edit: Busyness to Business Weekly newsletter for coaches and consultants; sharing the real B2B sales techniques that have taken over 30,000 sales processes from busy -> balanced and profitable. https://magic.beehiiv.com/v1/988ac64b-5875-4924-9d10-50faad2aa4ad?email=%EMAIL% Episode Sponsored by The Expert Services Directory Access The Expert Services Directory here and use code PODCAST for a special bonus. https://bit.ly/ExpertServicesDirectory A curated directory that proactively markets your services to corporate decision makers every month. Standard listings reach 1,000+ decision makers per month; Directory Plus listings reach 2,000+. Only 10 suppliers per category. Standard listing: 1,000+ decision makers per month Directory Plus listing: 2,000+ decision makers per month Application required — not all applications are accepted If You've Enjoyed Listening to The Most Important Skill Professional Salespeople Have, Check Out These Episodes STC159 - Mindset Wobbles That Stop Your B2B Sales Progress (and How to Fix Them!) https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate159 STC162 - 3 Things That Will Help You Maximise Any Sales Training You're Embarking On https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate162 STC171 - The Simple Sales Technique I Use to Sign Corporate Clients Every Month https://bit.ly/SellingToCorporate171   Content Disclaimer The information contained above is provided for information purposes only. The contents of this article, video or audio are not intended to amount to advice and you should not rely on any of the contents of this article, video or audio. 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Laura is headed to Cannes and may or may not accidentally end up in White Lotus season 4, the Solidcore guy somehow gets even weirder, and the JP Morgan “cannons” lawsuit continues to spiral into one of the funniest workplace scandals on the internet.This week, we get into:Men paying for fake cauliflower ear surgeryRobert Pattinson getting ghosted by his own stalkerElon Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuitThe scientifically hottest male dance movesCatholic school “mixers”A law associate asking if hanging an original Picasso in his office is too obnoxiousWhispering Angel rosé discourseWhy women absolutely do NOT want fake cage fighter earsPlus: ringworm in the Bahamas, White Lotus filming chaos, and the return of “leave room for Jesus.”

The Listing Bits Podcast is now available on your favorite podcast player! Overview Greg Robertson sits down with Katrina Romatowski, founder and CEO of reSpace, to discuss a new approach to housing affordability through co-homeownership. Drawing on nearly three decades in real estate, development, and housing advocacy, Katrina explains how reSpace redesigns homes into private suites with shared common spaces and enables buyers to purchase fractional ownership interests. The conversation explores affordability, homeownership as a wealth-building tool, aging-in-place design, MLS challenges, and the growing need for alternative housing models.  Key Takeaways Katrina grew up throughout the Pacific Northwest, worked in construction from a young age, and built a career spanning real estate sales, development, and brokerage.  Her real estate company was founded as a social purpose corporation, leading to the creation of a nonprofit focused on housing and mentorship for people exiting incarceration and recovery programs.  The idea for reSpace emerged after selling a small infill home for nearly $1 million and questioning who could realistically afford it.  Inspiration came from fractional ownership models such as Picasso, but Katrina wanted to apply the concept to primary housing rather than luxury vacation homes.  reSpace creates homes with private suites that include ensuite bathrooms, closets, workspace areas, and personal amenities, paired with shared kitchens and living spaces.  Buyers purchase an ownership interest in the property, allowing them to live in high-cost neighborhoods at a price point closer to renting an apartment.  The model is designed to help first-time buyers, retirees, siblings, friends, and other groups gain access to ownership while maintaining independence.  Katrina argues that homeownership remains one of the most important pathways to building middle-class wealth and that affordability challenges are increasingly shutting people out of that opportunity.  A major hurdle for reSpace has been gaining MLS support for fractional ownership listings, despite existing standards that support partial-interest ownership categories.  Current projects include The Grove in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and a historic mansion redevelopment in Leschi, with plans to expand through technology and partnerships.  Links reSpace Snapshot by reSpace Katrina Romatowski on LinkedIn Links Signal Conference 1000Watt Sponsors Aligned Showings — MLS-owned showing software built to simplify scheduling, improve communication, and keep MLS data where it belongs. Giant Steps Job Board – Built for organized real estate and PropTech, not generic tech bros and recruiters who don't know what an MLS is. Production and editing services by: Sunbound Studios

Episode 382: MANNY MARROQUIN “The Famed Mixing Engineer Who Crafted Classics for Kanye, John Mayer and Alicia Keys” The Road Podcast crew is in LA for the NAMM show and have a sit down with multi-Grammy Award-winning mixing engineer @MannyMarroquin whose career spans over two decades, defining the sonic landscape for artists like @KanyeWest, @AliciaKeys, and @JohnMayer. Manny joined the @ROADpodcast to break down the delicate balance between technical precision and emotional resonance in modern mixing. Starting with the core distinctions between engineers and producers, Manny explains his "emotion over technicality" philosophy (04:05) and the "Batman and Robin" approach to song structure (09:00). He provides an inside look at legendary sessions, discussing the ego free mindset required for 808s & Heartbreak (11:15), the "a-ha" moment of "Love Lockdown" (18:32), and the grueling 20-mix saga behind “Stronger." The conversation shifts to the synesthesia of sound, where Manny compares audio engineering to the brushstrokes of Renoir and Picasso (23:30), and explains his process of turning his chair away from the monitors to find objectivity. After diving into the mechanics of club records like "Let Me Love You" (35:50) and the future of music trends in 2026, he discusses the "less is more" choice for @JohnMayer's "Gravity" (55:55). The episode concludes with his venture into the culinary world with @Verse.LA (1:13:01) and a reflective look at his journey from Guatemala (1:26:01). Try Beatport for free: https://tinyurl.com/yc8da2pz Join DJcity for only $10: bit.ly/3EeCjAX

Writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, and trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on 100 years of Miles Davis - the musician regarded as the Picasso of jazz.Artist Keith Tyson has just donated a quarter of a million pounds for an astronomy post at Oxford University. He's joined by Professor Ken Arnold, director of the Medical Museum at the University of Copenhagen, to discuss the relationship between art and science.Playwright Rory Mullarkey on his new play at the Royal Exchange, Even These Things, which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Manchester by the IRA.Jazz's "Saxophone Colossus", Sonny Rollins, remembered.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Pablo Picasso revendiquait ne pas aimer la musique. Il n'a pourtant cessé de peindre des musiciens, collaborant avec Satie, Stravinsky et Falla. Ses portraits d'instrumentistes sont souvent des autoportraits qui ne disent pas leur nom – ceux d'un homme hanté par ses obsessions.Picasso, figure incontournable de l'art moderne, a entretenu tout au long de sa vie une relation fascinante avec la musique. Franck Ferrand nous emmène dans les coulisses de cet artiste aux multiples talents, révélant une facette méconnue de son génie créatif.Dès son plus jeune âge, Picasso baigne dans un univers musical qui imprègne profondément son œuvre. De la zarzuela andalouse aux cabarets parisiens, en passant par les collaborations avec les Ballets russes, le peintre espagnol semble avoir été habité par une véritable passion pour les sonorités. Pourtant, lorsqu'on lui demande son avis sur la musique, Picasso n'hésite pas à affirmer qu'il ne l'aime pas. Une déclaration surprenante quand on constate à quel point elle transparaît dans ses tableaux cubistes, ses natures mortes et ses portraits d'instrumentistes. Franck Ferrand décrypte cette paradoxale relation, révélant la place centrale qu'occupe la musique dans la démarche artistique du maître.Des joueurs de flûte aux guitaristes cubistes, en passant par les collaborations avec des compositeurs comme Satie et Stravinsky, Picasso semble avoir cherché à retranscrire dans sa peinture les vibrations sonores qui l'habitaient. Une quête incessante qui l'a mené à repousser toujours plus loin les frontières de l'art, faisant de lui l'un des plus grands créateurs du XXe siècle.

Quick SummaryIn this candid solo session, Kelsey answers your top marketing questions — covering pricing strategy, how to evaluate cold PR pitches, and what to do when your Instagram feels scattered and purposeless. Woven throughout are honest life updates: navigating her second pregnancy, the power of accountability, and how to embrace change as an entrepreneur.In This EpisodeWhy accountability partners (and assistant nudges) are the secret to getting things doneHow pregnancy #2 has looked very different — and why Kelsey is packing her calendar before mat leaveDebating winter babies vs. summer babies (she genuinely wants your input)The Picasso story and what it teaches you about price vs. valueHow to know if your prices are too low, too high, or just rightThe truth about cold pitch emails — when to say yes and when to runA step-by-step Instagram strategy for business owners who feel scatteredThe four-part Instagram sales funnel: Create, Connect, Collect, ConvertWhy showing up imperfectly beats waiting for perfect every timeKey TakeawaysAccountability changes everything. You'll cancel on yourself, but you won't cancel on someone else. Use that psychology intentionally — schedule with others, hire coaches, or create external check-ins to move your biggest projects forward.Pricing is a gut check. If you feel undervalued after every transaction, your prices are too low. If you feel like you're ripping someone off, they may be too high. When it feels like a mutual exchange of value — you've nailed it.Evaluate cold pitches with your wallet and your gut. Only pay for media opportunities you're 100% okay losing. Ask for traffic stats, audience demographics, and backlink terms. Some are incredible; many aren't.Brand pillars create consistency. Before you open Instagram again, define 3–4 content pillars — at least one professional, one personal — and some rules for what you won't post. Decision fatigue is the enemy of consistency.Don't stop at "create." Most business owners post and walk away. The real magic is in connecting with your audience, collecting intel on what they need, and then actually making an offer.Memorable Quotes"Picasso was pricing based on his value. He's put in thousands and thousands of hours — so to charge on an hourly basis simply does not make sense.""Once you make that leap, you can then decide: is this the right place for me, or do I need to keep moving forward? That's what you do through life — you just keep turning the next page.""The ratio of people who show up and create good content is probably 1% of Instagram users. The people who want to consume? Probably 99%. So yes, it feels competitive — but the opportunity is massive."Resources MentionedKelsey's Website: KelseyReidl.comKelsey's Instagram: @KelseyReidlInstaSales Course — Kelsey's four-hour Instagram sales funnel course (free for podcast listeners — DM "InstaSales" to @kelseyreidell on Instagram)Wave Mastermind — Kelsey's business mastermind communityYahoo! News — Referenced as an example of a paid media placement that converted to high-ticket clientsAbout the HostKelsey Reidl is an entrepreneur, fractional CMO, and host of Rain or Shine (formerly Visionary Life). She's been podcasting for 8 years, helping entrepreneurs show up consistently and build sustainable businesses. She runs the Wave Mastermind and specializes in marketing strategy, website design, and business growth. Kelsey is a mom to a 2-year-old, an avid mountain biker, and a firm believer in the "rain or shine" mentality.

The newly released Epstein-related documents highlighted a major financial transaction involving billionaire Leon Black, revealing that he secured a $484 million loan from Bank of America backed by works of art. The loan, documented in materials connected to the Epstein files, used high-value paintings by artists such as Picasso, Giacometti, Titian, and Matisse as collateral. While the size of the loan drew attention because of its connection to the Epstein documents, art-backed lending itself is a common practice among ultra-wealthy collectors. These loans allow wealthy individuals to unlock liquidity from valuable art collections without having to sell the works, often at relatively low interest rates due to the borrower's overall wealth and the value of the collateral.The report also highlighted the rapid growth of the art-lending industry, which is estimated to be worth between $38 billion and $45 billion globally and is expected to exceed $50 billion by 2028. Wealthy collectors frequently borrow against artwork to fund investments, acquire additional art, or access cash while avoiding the significant tax consequences that come with selling pieces. Auction houses such as Sotheby's Financial Services, along with specialty lenders and private banks, dominate much of this market. Because selling art can trigger capital-gains taxes of more than 30%, borrowing against art has become an attractive financial strategy for collectors who want liquidity while continuing to hold and display their valuable pieces.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Epstein files highlight how the wealthy borrow against art collectionsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

¡Messi no pinta y Picasso no hace goles! ¿Sientes la presión de ser la madre o el padre perfecto? La experta en ciencias de la felicidad, Valentina Luján, nos explica cómo el perfeccionismo nos genera frustración y culpa. Son 3 tips clave para aceptar que la imperfección es parte de la vida. Disfruta el podcast de Por el Placer de Vivir con Cesar Lozano en Uforia App, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Uforia Podcasts en YouTube y en ViX. ¿Cómo te sentiste al escuchar este Episodio? Déjanos tus comentarios, suscríbete y cuéntanos cuáles otros temas te gustaría oír en #porelplacerdevivir 

This week on The Creep Dive we spiral headfirst into one of the strangest tabloid stories currently unfolding online: Katie Price's whirlwind marriage to alleged millionaire entrepreneur Lee Andrews a Dubai-based “visionary CEO” whose AI-generated Instagram empire, mysterious business claims, suspicious exes, possible travel bans and sudden disappearance have left the British tabloids absolutely foaming at the mouth.Is he a billionaire futurist? A Tinder Swindler-style scammer? A man held together entirely by Canva, motivational quotes and black-and-white podcast photos? We investigate.Then, because apparently this episode accidentally became about fame, fraud, mythology and the terrifying power of collective belief, Jen takes us into the extraordinary true story of the Mona Lisa theft the bizarre 1911 heist that transformed a relatively overlooked Renaissance painting into the most famous artwork on earth.Featuring: fake wealth, fake identities, Picasso being questioned by police, Katie Price refusing to back down, the psychology of scams, AI self-invention, a handyman hiding the Mona Lisa in a trunk for two years, and the increasingly unsettling feeling that modern life may just be one giant confidence trick held together by vibes and good lighting.Listen ad-free and get an extra full bonus episode every week over on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thecreepdive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Partido de San Martín, Buenos Aires Alejandro Dolina, Patricio Barton, Gillespi Introducción • 0:01:14 Presentación del programa en San Martín, con Dolina, Barton y Gillespi. Segmento Inicial • 0:02:08 Conversan humorísticamente sobre un informe acerca de cómo tener un amante sin que la pareja lo descubra. • 0:03:07 Señalan que, según el informe, conviene ser sincero con el amante y dejar claras las “reglas del juego”. • 0:08:44 Comentan que sería más conveniente que el amante también tenga pareja, para que ambos tengan el mismo interés en mantener el secreto. • 0:10:00 Discuten que la relación extramatrimonial no debería prolongarse y derivan en una mención humorística a Picasso. • 0:10:51 Recomiendan que amante y pareja pertenezcan a mundos distintos y no se conozcan, especialmente evitando relaciones en el trabajo. • 0:12:22 Bromean con los riesgos que implican las mascotas, los pelos en la ropa y los rastros dejados en visitas a casa del amante. • 0:17:13 Desaconsejan repetir siempre los mismos días y horarios para los encuentros y mencionan la necesidad de un cómplice. • 0:22:33 Dolina cierra con una reflexión sobre la mentira: distingue entre las mentiras interesadas y aquellas piadosas que buscan no herir. Segmento Dispositivo • 0:25:39 Dolina anuncia una charla sobre el calendario revolucionario francés, Fabre d'Églantine y la religión de la razón. • 0:26:05 Cuenta que el barón de Batz, agente monárquico, comprometió en maniobras bursátiles ilegales a Chabot y a Fabre d'Églantine para desacreditar a los revolucionarios. • 0:27:48 Explica que, para desviar la atención de ese escándalo, Fabre d'Églantine impulsó la creación del calendario revolucionario. • 0:28:28 Describe la burla que provocó el nuevo calendario, con sus nombres de meses y el reemplazo de santos por animales, frutos e instrumentos de labranza. • 0:31:06 Relata el intento de descristianización y la conversión de Notre Dame en “templo de la razón”. • 0:31:48 Narra la ceremonia del culto de la razón con una actriz personificando a la diosa razón. • 0:32:40 Cuenta episodios sobre Mademoiselle Maillard, elegida para encarnar a la diosa razón, y una anécdota de duelo disfrazada de hombre. • 0:34:33 Describe cómo esas celebraciones derivaron en orgías dentro de las iglesias y en una sucesión de bacanales. • 0:37:18 Señala que Robespierre puso fin a esa etapa, instauró el culto del Ser Supremo y mandó arrestar a los implicados. • 0:37:51 Cierra con una reflexión: si hubiera que fundar una religión, el amor parecería más adecuado que la razón. • 0:39:06 Interpretan una canción vinculada al tema del amor. Segmento Inicial • 0:43:57 De regreso en San Martín, Dolina comenta una paradoja de Bertrand Russell sobre los catálogos de bibliotecas que se incluyen o no a sí mismos. Segmento Humorístico • 0:46:47 Presentan un informe con consejos para sobrevivir a un tsunami y a una erupción volcánica. • 0:48:02 Sobre el tsunami, remarcan que ante un terremoto costero hay que ir inmediatamente a un lugar alto y no acercarse al mar cuando retrocede. • 0:51:05 Bromean con la utilidad del celular, la ropa de abrigo, la comida y los puntos de encuentro familiares en medio de una evacuación. • 0:53:10 En la parte sobre erupciones volcánicas, insisten en mantenerse informado, no acercarse al volcán y protegerse de gases y cenizas. • 0:57:44 Añaden recomendaciones sobre evacuar con equipaje limitado y no dejarse llevar por rumores. Sordo Gancé / Trío Sin Nombre • 1:01:37 Presentación del segmento musical. • 1:02:35 “Drive My Car” ♫ (The Beatles) • 1:06:07 “La moza del pueyrredón” ♫ • 1:11:40 “No te perdono más” ♫ • 1:14:19 “Un poco de amor francés” ♫ • 1:18:06 “Night and Day” ♫ • 1:20:32 Dolina agradece al público y hace una breve reflexión sobre el trasfondo trágico de la condición humana aun en medio de la risa. • 1:23:20 “Hit the Road Jack” ♫ (Resumen generado automáticamente con IA, puede contener errores)

https://youtu.be/tU0kHdf7oXo Drew Allen, CEO of Grace Technologies, is driven by a mission to lead a life of adventure and impact. At Grace Technologies, that impact is tangible: the company develops electrical safety and predictive maintenance solutions that help industrial teams prevent downtime, improve productivity, and, most importantly, send workers home safely at the end of the day. We explore Drew's Product Engineering Framework — Clarify the Problem You're Solving, Understand the Constraints, Think from First Principles, Build a Prototype, and Iterate within a Time Limit — a practical approach to innovation in technical product development. Drew explains why rapid iteration beats overbuilding, how constraints can unlock better engineering decisions, and why time-boxing product development prevents teams from getting stuck in endless perfectionism. He also shares how Grace Technologies is expanding into the data center market, where rising power density is creating new safety challenges and new opportunities for growth. — 5 Steps to Engineering Breakthroughs with Drew Allen  Good day, dear listeners. Steve Preda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast, and today’s guest is Drew Allen, the CEO of Grace Technologies—the leading innovator of electrical safety products and predictive maintenance solutions that help companies maximize productivity and foster a safety culture. Drew, welcome to the show.  Hey, thanks for having me, Steve. I’m excited. I’ve really enjoyed your books, and they’ve had a big impact on our business. So it's great to have this conversation today.  Yeah, glad to have you here. So if you enjoyed the book or read Pinnacle and Summit OS perhaps, then you’re going to be familiar with this question. What is your personal “Why,” and how are you manifesting it Grace Technologies?  So my personal “Why” is to lead a life of adventure and impact. And I think that manifests in our company. We try to be as innovative as possible. Typically, around 30% of our annual sales come from products released within the last two to three years. We try to take risks, not in kind of a willy-nilly way, but we try to be smart about our risk-taking, but still make sure that we’re taking risks and we’re on the forefront of the technology edges. In our business, it’s really easy to see the impact that we have. Not many businesses get to say that we literally send people home at the end of the day. We literally save lives, and we don’t take that responsibility very lightly. And so it’s a little way that we can kind of make a dramatic impact in the world. We get a lot of stories of people who have been going to go to work on an electrical system. They were just moving throughout their day, trying to do their work, and all of a sudden they saw that our unit was indicating and they were about to put their hand on that bus bar or that cable, and they stop and realize, “Oh, there's still power there.” And they could have been either severely injured or dead. And so we get those stories quite frequently, and so it's really impactful to hear that, to know that we're doing that kind of good in the world.Share on X  Yeah, I love that. And yes, I mean, it’s dangerous. My son actually worked for an electrical contractor last year, and they told him the story that they were in big industrial facilities and one of their workers was trying to fix a light and he got shocked. And the only way to save him was to kick the ladder out from under him. He ended up breaking his leg. So it was kind of funny story afterward, but also a very dramatic one at the same time. So yeah, you definitely want to avoid situations like that.  100%.  And I think what you do is really great, and focusing on the safety aspect is very important as well. What I'm wondering—because I'm a framework guy and I'm always looking for new frameworks people have developed—and obviously within the Pinnacle system there are a lot of frameworks. But you’ve been doing this for a few years, and I’m sure that you have come up with your own. So what is your favorite framework—something simple enough for listeners to understand in maybe three to five steps—that could help them improve their business?  My favorite framework really comes from Jim Collins' work on the Flywheel. And I think you reference it in your book as well, Steve. I think if people can see their business—or even their life—through the lens of a flywheel, it becomes really useful. So in our business, our flywheel is relatively simple. And I think there are probably only a limited number of flywheel models companies really operate under. Our version of a product flywheel works like this:  We start with amazing new products and services. If we do that well, we naturally excite our channel partners. When our channel gets excited, they can't help but get us specified by customers. Once we're specified by customers, it grows our revenues, unit sales, and customer base.Share on X And as that happens, it expands the power of the brand, which allows us to set high prices and deliver higher gross margins to be able to reinvest into R&D for amazing new products and services. And I think while maybe there’s a couple of pieces in ours channel-specific or whatever, we found that most of my focus as CEO is just constantly figuring out how do I push those pieces of the flywheel, and where is the current bottleneck in the flywheel? Is the bottleneck getting the specifications? Is the bottleneck the wrong product? One of the challenges in our business is that we have a 12-month product development cycle plus an 8-to-12-month sales cycle for products. So if I miss, I'm basically down for two years. And I don't really know it early enough unless I'm paying close attention to the leading indicators—which we've become much smarter about over the last few years. A lot of business people tend to focus only on lagging indicators, and they're not always clear on what the leading indicators are in their business—or how correlated those leading indicators are to the lagging results.  I'll say this: the most recent releases of Claude have made it incredibly easy to input a bunch of variables and figure out how strongly your leading indicators correlate with your lagging success. I probably haven't done that kind of work since college and deep regression analysis or logarithmic modeling. And now Claude makes it so easy. So if you can identify the leading indicators tied to your future success, and you know there's an 80% or 85% correlation, then that leading indicator is almost as valuable as the lagging indicator itself. And if your lagging indicator is revenue, that gives you a pretty strong signal about what you should actually be focusing on.Share on X Yeah. That's a great way to reverse-engineer those leading indicators from the outcomes you're targeting. I love that. So when you say that one of the flywheel cogs is for people to specify your product, what do you mean by that exactly? We come out with a product, and then we get meetings with large end-user customers. Okay? Our products are really sold into two major markets. One is the industrial market—everything from where things come out of the ground, like oil and gas, pulp and paper, and mining—to all the downstream processing industries, including automotive, tire and rubber, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, all those kinds of industries like shipbuilding, naval yards, and all those kinds of environments. All of these places have complex electrical and control systems. And when a factory or facility is being designed or upgraded, someone is writing a specification document.  That specification literally defines how everything should be built—including the machinery and the electrical systems. So we want to make sure our products, from an electrical safety perspective, are included in those specification documents. We've been really fortunate to get into some of the world's largest companies' control specificationsShare on X companies like Amazon, Procter & Gamble, GM, and Ford. These large organizations really see the value in our products from both a productivity and a safety standpoint. And that's really the key to our success: driving specifications with large end-user customers. Yeah. So it sounds like when you get specified, then essentially you’re baked in to their product, and then you kind of have, at least for the time being, you have a monopoly of supplying them. Is that the case?  Yeah. And some specifications are a little more open. They may specify our type of device, or they may even list competitors as alternatives. And then it becomes a little more of a street brawl when we're competing. But either way, we want to grow the overall market for products like ours—not just our own products—because we're in the safety business. And I think it's really shortsighted to be selfish about that. I think we have much more opportunity if the overall pie grows than if we focus only on increasing our individual slice of the pie. Of course, I'm going to do the best I can to grow our share. But ultimately, electrical safety and electrical reliability in factories are still major problems. And the number of deaths, injuries, and life-changing accidents we hear about—it continues. We hear those stories all the time, and we don't want those things to happen. Yeah. Love it. So your business is innovation-driven, and you are designing these electrical appliances that increase productivity, reduce risk. What is the major success factor in being able to come up with new products along these lines?  Yeah, so I guess I'll tell you my biggest failure. Okay? I'll use the failure to illustrate the point. That's good. I think I was about 25 or 26 years old, and I was working with a customer—a very large publicly traded company. They liked our product, but they needed it in a different form factor, which meant we had to re-engineer the product, retool it, and go through all the certification processes again. And I just took it hook, line, and sinker. I thought we were really onto something. I probably had delusions of grandeur and thought I was some Steve Jobs-like figure who could just wave a magic wand. And by the way, I don't think that's actually what Steve Jobs did, so I want to put that out there for a minute. I think what we see from the outside as consumers is often not the reality inside the company. So I just want to say that.  But anyway, instead of taking small iterative steps and quickly prototyping and getting feedback, I did a full design based only on feedback from that one customer before cutting tooling and paying all the certification costs. It ended up being about a $400,000 project. And I think we still have inventory from that project—and this was probably 12 years ago or something.  Oh my gosh.  So what have I learned now? The best innovation happens through rapid iteration. A lot of your listeners have probably seen the Elon Musk SpaceX Raptor engine images, right? You have this incredibly complex engine that goes up into space, and then the next version looks much simpler, and the third one looks like it came out of a sci-fi movie. It's almost like the Picasso bull sketches.  There are nine different bulls until Picasso eventually gets it down to two lines, and you still understand it's a bull. Okay? And I think that's what iteration looks like. What you see as a final product from Apple is actually the result of thousands of prototypes, iterations, and constant testing behind the curtain. For me, I want to test with customers directly, because you get much better feedback that way. I think the more rapidly you can prototype, the more rapidly you can iterate and get real customer feedback, the more innovative your product is going to be. I really think that when you try to make too big of a leap all once, you usually can't get there. And I think 10% compounded over time is a much better strategy than trying to go 10X in a single shot. Yeah. It's kind of the Kaizen principle of continuous improvement through small steps. But actually, I was listening to an interview with Jensen Huang, and he said he hated Kaizen because he wanted more first-principles thinking—completely rethinking things from the ground up. And I think Elon Musk does that too. Although honestly, I think he does both, which is really interesting. But I love Kaizen. I think it's a wonderful concept to continually improve things. We do work with SpaceX. We don't do much with NVIDIA—a little bit, but not much. And while you can think from first principles, you still have to iterate on the prototypes, right? Yeah. You have to constantly try things. So you may have a first-principles vision of where you want to go, but you're not going to get there by designing the perfect thing 100% upfront. You get there through iteration. Yeah. So you really need both. That’s a really good point. So Drew, what is it that you are trying to figure out in your business right now?  So over the last 12 to 18 months, our largest orders have started coming through the data center sector. Back in 2015 or 2016, I tried to push into data centers, and we just had no product-market fit. None. Everybody kept talking about the data center business, and I was like, “Well, they're just not using our products. We tried…” But what suddenly changed was the increase in power density inside data centers. And what I mean by that is this: You can now have a hundred megawatts in a traditional data center hall. That's basically the equivalent of multiple oil and gas refineries worth of electrical load inside a single data center hall. A hundred megawatts—yeah.  And so the electrical risk profile has really changed. And because of that, now there is product-market fit. So now I'm trying to figure out: How do I set up the right distribution channels? How do I build the right sales network? Because data centers definitely buy differently than our traditional industrial customers. And then, as CEO, you always have to decide where you're going to focus your time. I've been very intentional about not losing the core identity of Grace through our industrial business. So I've had to build a separate group that really focuses on the data center market. That also means bringing in a board member who really understands the data center space. Right now, though, it's a huge growth area for us, so figuring that out has been super important.  The other thing is that over the last few years, we've launched an incredible number of new products. But a lot of those were what I'd call necessary innovations—things we had to execute on quickly. So now we're finally getting to a point with the engineering team where we can start from a clean sheet of paper again. We can think more deeply about where we really want to go—maybe even from first principles. Because honestly, I feel like we've been operating in a reactive mode for the last few years. So it's going to be really exciting to finally have some white space again and be able to innovate more intentionally for the future. Yeah. So you want to have that sci-fi engine for Grace Technologies that SpaceX has for the rockets, right?  Yeah. That's the goal. And our mission is to accelerate the industrial world to zero downtime and zero harm. Until we get there, it's a pretty lofty goal. And I think it's going to require a lot of innovation to achieve it. So what's the process when you're trying to get to that kind of innovation—when you're rethinking something from first principles? Is there a process you can follow or work through? Or is it more about letting your imagination wander? Like when Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity—he was daydreaming in the patent office and suddenly had these insights. What's your process for getting there? So first, we want to be really clear on the problem statement. Getting absolute clarity on what problem we're solving is the first step, right? If you don't know what problem you're solving, there's no amount of engineering you can throw at it that's going to make sense. Second is understanding the constraints. For one of our new product development efforts, we decided to move away from a digital platform and go to a fully analog electrical platform because we realized one of the main constraints was size. And size is really determined by the power supply.  When you run a digital circuit, you're operating at something like 100 to 300 milliamps. If you go to an analog circuit, you're operating at the microamp level. So you're literally at around 10% of the power requirement. And if you're at 10%, you can make the power supply about 90% smaller. Now, it's much easier to do things digitally because you just program the microcontroller. You're not dealing with the art of analog circuitry. So I think that's a good example of thinking from first principles. Okay—we're solving this problem. One of the major problems inside that problem is the size of the unit. How do we reduce the size? Well, we have to reduce the power supply. How do we reduce the power supply? Reduce the power draw from the circuit. How do we reduce the power draw? Go analog. And that's how we got there.  But even then, the amount of prototyping and iteration we've done on that over the last 12 months has probably involved 75 major iterations of the circuit, tons of prototypes, tons of testing, and countless tweaks that probably never even hit my radar. I know I'm getting a little nerdy for the podcast, but I think it's a really good example. And if you take it out of engineering for a minute and look at our sales engine, it works similarly. Ultimately, what drives sales? You have to have unique selling conversations with customers. So everything I focus on becomes: How do I maximize those conversations?  Getting people interested in the product and actually getting to the point where we can sit down and fully tell our story—that's kind of my North Star.Share on X I know that if we increase the number of those conversations, sales will increase. And of course, there's optimization on both sides of the meeting—follow-through, follow-up, competitiveness, lead quality, all of that. But the big North Star in our sales function is: How many unique selling conversations are we having with customers? Okay. I love it. So this is a framework that I’m more excited about than the flywheel because we are almost 400 episodes in. Here is what I heard. So be clear on the problem, step number one. Understand the constraints, step number two. Think from first principles, that’s step number three. Build the prototype, step number four, and perform iterations. Step number five, essentially the optimization. And with the sales engine, it’s kind of a similar process that you described, but less technical perhaps.  Yeah. And one other piece too is that all of this has to be time-constrained.  What do you mean by that?  I think people miss that point. If you don't have a time constraint, it will literally take forever. So inside of your framework, you need a time box, and I think that's really critical. I like what Elon says about timelines. He assigns timelines that he believes have about a 50% probability of being achieved. I think that's actually a really smart way to think about it. And that means that about 50% of the time, you're going to miss the target. But that's okay, because you want that level of tension and flexibility in the system. You still have to be aiming at something. If you don't put a time box around iteration, if you don't set launch dates, product development can drag on forever. For example, we have a major trade show every fall, and we always try to have products ready for that event. That creates a really effective natural time box for us. And if your business doesn't already have natural time boxes, then as CEO, you need to create them. Yeah.  Otherwise, iteration, product development, and even sales initiatives can lose momentum. Sales naturally has monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles. But in engineering especially, having that time box is really important. Yeah. And what I read about Jensen Huang is that one of the innovations he introduced was creating two overlapping time boxes. So instead of having just a single one-year cycle, he created two teams working on separate one-year cycles that were staggered by six months. That way, they could effectively iterate on the product twice as fast. I thought that was amazing. And I also had a client—an engineering software company—whose challenge was that they couldn't launch a product for three years because they were such perfectionists. So we talked about putting a stake in the ground and committing to a release every year. Maybe the scope would have to change, maybe they'd have to narrow it or simplify it, but the release date itself would become a forcing function. And once they did that, their product suddenly started gaining much more traction. That's a fantastic point. Yeah. I was advising one of the companies we're invested in. I was actually on a call with them yesterday, and they're starting to run out of time a little bit, right? And that was literally the conversation we had. “Okay, we had this wish list. We had this dream product-development idea. Now what can we realistically get done in three months?” So we started stripping out everything that couldn't be completed in that timeframe, and those items will move into the next iteration cycle. But I think it's super critical. You've got to put a stake in the ground and force things through. Yeah. Constraints create creativity. Yeah. that's fantastic. So, penultimate question—I have one more just to wrap things up. If you had a magic wand, what would be the one thing you'd want to fix inside your company over the next 12 months? I think we have a lot of relatively new and young salespeople. We operate in a very technical field, and trying to get them to really understand the application space from a technical perspective is difficult. And when you're selling to engineers, they can immediately tell if you don't know what you're talking about. So the challenge becomes: How do you compress 20 years of experience into a brand-new sales or business development person in just a few months? Trying to accelerate that learning curve is probably one of our biggest challenges. We're trying to use AI to help visualize the kinds of equipment our products go on.  And frankly, even after doing this for years, I still run into things I don't fully understand. But I have enough experience that I can have a relatively technical conversation, understand the constraints, and work through the problem set. But compressing that knowledge into a faster training process—that's definitely been hard. I'm also opening a sales and engineering office down in Austin, so I'll be moving there in June. The plan is to build out another R&D facility there. That's one of my major time boxes over the next 12 months—getting that operation fully up and running. But from a more holistic perspective, I think really solving that sales knowledge-transfer problem is critical. And on one of our product lines, honestly, I'd love ideas from listeners.  We have an IoT condition-monitoring product, and we've been very successful at selling pilot programs. What we've found, though, is that it's been much harder than expected to convert those pilots into broader expansion deployments. So we're asking ourselves: Are we making the barrier to entry for the pilots too low? Are we attracting the wrong type of customer—people who don't actually have the authority to make a larger purchase decision? Or are we missing something in the sales process that would better position the expansion after the pilot succeeds? Those are a few of the areas we're really trying to figure out right now. Yeah. Love it. That’s fascinating. So if the listeners would like to learn more about Grace Technologies—or maybe you spark something in their mind and they want to reach out and communicate to you, or have access to someone in your company to answer the questions about the products. Maybe they want to have more safety and more productivity with their electrical safety equipment. Where should they go, and where can they find you? Yeah. You can reach me at drewa@gracetechnologies.com or find me on LinkedIn. I think it’s Allen-Drew is my handle, but Drew Allen on LinkedIn. I love hearing from people. I really enjoy advising startups, especially in the industrial electrical space. If you have a product idea or you’ve got a startup, I do a lot of advisory work, and we’ve invested in a number of startups as well. We’re really passionate about having more innovation in the industrial world. I believe that the reindustrialization of America is super important, and I’m a big proponent, and so love to support companies that are doing cool things in our space.  Oh, that’s fantastic. So if you’re listening to this and you have a startup in the engineering space, then definitely this is your opportunity to get mentored by Drew, and maybe to get opportunities that you don’t have yourself. So reach out to him. And if you just enjoyed this conversation with an entrepreneur who’s innovating fast and who is working from first principles and time boxes and and leveraging constraints, then definitely stay tuned on this channel because I have more wonderful guests coming on every week. So thank you Drew for coming, CEO of Grace Technologies, the leading innovator of electrical safety products and predictive maintenance solutions. So thanks for sharing your wisdom and thanks for listening. Important Links: Drew's LinkedIn Drew's website Drew's email: drewa@gracetechnologies.com

If Michael Jackson could wake up at 3 AM and call everyone to the studio because he was afraid God would give his melody to Prince, what's your excuse for waiting until tomorrow? In this episode, I break down the story behind MJ's legendary urgency and what it really means to live with haste, not fear. If you truly love your craft, you will not be able to sit still with a great idea rotting inside you. Key Takeaways Michael Jackson believed inspiration was on loan and if he didn't act on it immediately, it would be given to someone else. Living with haste is not about fear or anxiety, it is about respecting the urgency of your gifts and your time. The saddest thing about graveyards is all the dreams buried with the people who never acted on them. Truly legendary people do not just do what they are good at, they relentlessly pursue what they genuinely love. Picasso said on his deathbed that he was just starting to understand his craft, which is the mark of real childlike curiosity and mastery. Action Steps Identify one idea, project, or creative impulse you have been putting off and take one concrete step on it today, not tomorrow. Ask yourself honestly whether you love what you do or if you are just good at it, then start making decisions based on that answer. Commit to leaving nothing in the tank by consistently sharing your gifts, whether that is through content, conversations, work, or service to others. Notable Quote If I don't do this now, God is gonna give that melody to Prince.

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