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7:15 AM// Kannagi speaks to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang MaiOn a recent episode of 3CR's Women on the Line, Kannagi spoke to Avika, a regenerative farmer in Chiang Mai, Thailand who is passionate about regenerating soil and working with farmers across the country to make regenerative farming tools and techniques more accessible. This interview originally aired on Women on the Line on Monday 17 March 2025. To listen to the rest of the interview and to access all episodes of the show, head to www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline 7:30 AM// Kristin O'Connell from the AntiPoverty CentreKristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre speaks to us to break down the latest federal budget and how it is set to leave millions of people in poverty feeling worse off than they were when the Prime Minister first promised to “leave no one behind”. The Antipoverty Centre was established in 2021 and are a collective of activists, advocates and researchers with direct, contemporary experience of poverty and unemployment. Their mission is to shift how people speak about and respond to poverty and unemployment in this colony. You can follow and support the important work of the AC by going to https://antipovertycentre.org/  7:45 AM// National Day of Action for PalestineOn Wednesday, 26th of March, various university groups across the country rallied at their campuses as part of the National Day of Action for Palestine. At University of Melbourne, students and staff came together to demand the university cut academic ties with so-called Israel, and divest from research partnerships with weapon manufacturers that are complicit in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We will now listen to two speakers from the rally at University of Melbourne. Sophie Rudolph is a research fellow from the Faculty of Education who spoke on behalf of the National Tertiary Education Union and staff members who are in opposition of the increasing repression against protests on campus, as well as the proposed anti-semitism definition by Universities Australia. After that, we will hear from Pipin, an international student from Indonesia, highlighting the global and interconnected struggle for liberation and democracy. For more information, see @studentsagainstwar_unimelb and @melbournebergerak on Instagram 8:00 AM// Avalon Airshow picketCommunity members rallied against the Avalon air-show last week, highlighting the event as a weapons expo. On Friday (28 Mar) Amy Aednat [pron: Eed-Nat] Ciara spoke to Jaimie Jeffrey from IPAN (Independent and Peaceful Australia Network) Geelong-Southwest and community member Cheryl about the many levels of government involvement in the arms trade, Australia's role in producing weapon components and how this contributes to genocide, how it contributes to the promotion of militarism. Jamie and Cheryl also discuss local community's thoughts and pushback on the day. This recording was made on the ground at the blockade.  8:15 AM// Anti-trans campaign by Australian Christian LobbyOn Sunday, for 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility 2025, Amy from Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence and Local Food Connections, interviewed non-binary sex worker Charlie Bear about their research into the Australian Christian Lobby's anti-trans and anti-sex worker campaigning. This is a timely conversation as Russell's Vought's and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 brings a far-right Christian nationalism into law making in the USA. This interview was part of 3CR's Trans Day of Audibility programme on Sunday, and we highly recommend you check out the full show on https://www.3cr.org.au/transdayofaudibility2025SONGS "Lam Toey Chaweewan" by Chaweewan Dumern"Only Love" by Mia Wray

A female entrepreneurship programme developed at University of Galway's IdeasLab is to expand nationwide at five other higher education institutions following a special funding award from the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The CreateHER programme, which is designed to empower female undergraduate students to become entrepreneurs, has been granted €420,400 by the HEA under its call for proposals for Entrepreneurial Education Initiatives. More about CreateHER The funding will see CreateHER expand its impact and opportunities for female entrepreneurship in Ireland by partnering with the University of Limerick, Technological University Dublin, Southeast Technological University, Munster Technological University, and Atlantic Technological University. CreateHER addresses the critical underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship. More than 50 women have completed the programme at University of Galway, with many progressing a business idea to pre-incubator and innovation programmes. The programme's national rollout is planned for the 2025-26 academic year. Professor Becky Whay, Interim Deputy President and Registrar University of Galway, said: "At University of Galway, we are dedicated to investing in our students, not only by enhancing the skills and scholarship necessary for growth in our region but also ensuring that our students are well-equipped to lead the charge in driving transformative change on a national scale. The CreateHER programme exemplifies our commitment to fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem that champions equality, diversity, and inclusion and its expansion marks a significant step in fostering a new generation of women entrepreneurs." Dr Natalie Walsh, Director of Entrepreneurial Development at University of Galway, said: "The CreateHER programme has been a transformative initiative for female entrepreneurship at University of Galway. With this national rollout, we are excited to extend its impact, empowering young women across Ireland to lead the way in innovation and business. This collaboration with our partner institutions is a testament to the power of our shared vision across the higher education sector to drive meaningful change for future entrepreneurs and innovators." The programme is a dynamic six-week course dedicated to nurturing creativity, confidence, innovation, and personal branding. Throughout the year, a series of local and national events will provide opportunities for participants to showcase their entrepreneurial journeys and connect with an expansive network of mentors, with participants from all partner institutions coming together to foster collaboration and peer learning. One of the most significant features of CreateHER is the development of "Career Close-Ups" - an immersive experience that takes participants behind the scenes of leading companies in various sectors including Medtech, IT, finance, and PR. During these shadowing experiences, participants connect with people from CEOs to recent graduates, getting a glimpse into the daily rhythm of corporate life. By experiencing different roles first-hand and building meaningful connections across all levels of the organisation, participants gain invaluable insights that help shape their future career paths. For some, these connections may lead to placements or internships, or open their eyes to future career paths they had not previously considered. This real-world exposure gives CreateHER participants an advantage as they prepare to launch their careers as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs, armed with both practical knowledge and a strong professional network. In 2024 career close up partners included Diligent, Liberty IT, Aerogen, Galway Chamber, Yourells, Éire Composites and SAP. For more information about CreateHER and its upcoming national rollout, please visit www.universityofgalway.ie/ ideaslab. See more breaking stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often...

Professor PJ Blount rejoins us to discuss security in space. PJ was a Professor at Cardiff, but is now At University of Durham in the UK. We start at the Treaty on the Use of Outer Space adopted by the United Nations. But just how enforceable is that? How does it get enforced? What has happened since the 1960's? Where does diabolical Jeffzikistan fit in? Was I wrong about Starlink and Musk's decisions over Ukraine? We cover all this and more. Note: there were some connectivity issues that always resolved after a few moments. I felt either it was understandable or I asked the Professor to repeat points. I felt this was the better route than re-scheduling. I apologize for any audio issues.

Japan loves rote learning and parents will pay cram schools to get their kids fully tuned up and on to the education escalator. Rote learning and exam technique is the standard educational approach in Japan right through to starting University classes. At University, unless you are trying for very specific careers like medicine, the elite bureaucracy or some job that requires you to pass a national exam, then the next four years are a type of Club Med for undergraduates. In the internet and AI age, when anything you want to know can be found through a search engine, how relevant is rote learning and exam technique for the future? We all know we need more innovation and creativity in companies. Where is this going to come from?  If we think about the work skills, knowledge and abilities we will demand of our employees in the next twenty years, we can be absolutely sure the current Japanese system of education won't be producing it. With lifetime employment, investing in training people made economic sense because you would reap the rewards. With greater job mobility on the horizon however, this social contract between staff and company will be broken. Young people, who will be in short supply due to demographic changes, will become like baseball free agents. They will rapidly discover they are able to swap teams for a better deal. So where are we up to? The companies aren't training their staff as comprehensively as they once did. The staff themselves will find themselves being lured by recruiters to move on to greener pastures. I believe the educational construct in Japan basically has its ladder up against the wrong wall. What will become of this country? What will we need to do to prepare ourselves for this brave new world? Are we thinking about these prospects? If we haven't spared a thought for this grim future of work, then now is a good time to take another look at assumptions, strategies, plans and targets. Those preparing now, will win in this coming war for talent. Game on!

Knowledge of the specifications, functionality, inner workings are all fine and dandy but not enough anymore.  Increasingly technically specialised people are being asked to deal with people other than their normal counterparts.  Once upon a time, the engineers spoke with other engineers on the buyer side and that was about it.  A nerdy lovefest on the specs, so to speak. Today there are broader spectrum buying teams.  These “civilians” are often the key decision-makers and are not technical in the traditional sense.  This means the technical person has to be able to communicate and present to them in a way which they can understand. Communication skills have always been low on the totem pole for technical people.  At High School they hated English and thrived on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry etc.  At University, the key focus and preference was on technical subjects.  In fact, after the second world war, these technically oriented people were creating problems in the workforce to such an extent, that Universities had to create a new programme for them.  This was the basis for the origination of the Masters in Business Administration.  The aim was to teach technical folks the non-technical sides of running a company.  I was reminded of the big gap in fundamental presentation skills recently at a presentation I attended.  It was a big crowd and the speaker had a star studded resume.  He had a Ph.D. in his technical field and was a Corporate Officer in his very, very large, global firm.  He was a big wheel in that world and someone often called upon to give technical presentations, representing the firm. When he started his presentation proper, I was shocked.  I couldn't believe that someone in his position, with his experience, in that role, with that amount of responsibility for the brand, would be making such a basic, fundamental mistake.  The first slide went up and it was densely packed with text.  I thought it was the typical compliance required disclaimer statement that usually goes up first.  No, no, no.  This was his first slide of the actual presentation.  To make it really exciting, he had made the text in ten point sized font, so it was almost impossible to read.  To add insult to injury the bottom quarter of the page was blank, unused white space.  There was no concept of balance on the slide and it was ugly. He then proceeded to basically read the slide to us.  The next slide was even worse.  Same ten point font, but this time the bottom half of the slide was tantalising white space.  After that ordeal by tiny text, we got on to a series of line graphs.  This was a relief, except that a lot of the graph text descriptors were impossible to read too. I was sitting there thinking WOW.  In the 21st century, how could this be possible?  A High School student would do a better job than this gentlemen of presenting the information on screen.  The snapper is that he is in a role where he would be giving a lot of these types of presentations.  He is highly technically trained and often graces the boardrooms of major companies, who are clients of his firm, giving this and similar presentations.  He has been doing this a long time.  He is one of the most well recognized public faces of the company, after the President and Chairman, because his role is to promote the technical expertise of the company to grow the stock price. After the initial slide deck shock, I started zooming in on how he was delivering the presentation.  There were a lot of numbers involved, so it was a rather dense talk.  Pointedly, there were no stories to bring the ramifications of the numbers to life.  These were just dry, dull data points that were not thought to need any elaboration.  The audience however were a mixed industry bunch, so there were varying levels of technical expertise in the room.  Pulling out experiences with similar numbers in the past, would have been great pointers to what we might expect in the future.  Dry numbers can come to life when wrapped up in an interesting example.  Also, we are much better at remembering stories, than concentrations of data points. As a public speaker, he did look toward his audience, but somehow managed not to look at any of the people in his audience.  You have seen this one before too, I am sure. He moved his face from left to right and back again, sort of rapidly scanning the room, but not actually making any eye contact with anyone in particular.  This precluded his ability to make a stronger connection and engage with the people in the room. In the time he had allotted, he could have connected with each one of us individually and directly, if he had tried.  We know that around 6 seconds of eye contact works very well.  It is not too intrusive, yet allows us to really engage with individuals one at a time. His voice was soft and even throughout.    It hung perilously close to a monotone.  This habit is deadly for a presenter, because it robs us of some key tools to add luster, shine and strength to our argument.  When we give each word an equal emphasis in a sentence, then we miss the CHANCE to highlight particular key words for our audience.  In that last sentence, I hit the word CHANCE harder than the other words, so this gives it strength and prominence over the other words.  I could also have made chance much softer than the words around it, almost like a conspiratorial whisper, to make it stand out.  Both are voice modulation variations which are at our disposal and we should be making good use of them.  A monotone delivery will kill the audience and put everyone to sleep.  He could have also added to the variety, by speeding sentences up for effect or the opposite, s-l-o-w-i-n-g them down.  Both allow us to grab the attention of the audience.  People today are deep in the age of disruption, from a technology point of view, but they are also deep in the Age of Distraction, thanks to that very same technology.  For presenters, the challenge has never been greater in the history of our species and we must rise to the occasion. Boring presenters immediately lose their audiences to competition from mobile phones.  These are surreptitiously being held under tables, as people hit the internet and mentally flee the room, the speaker and their message  What is the advantage of being an expert, with tremendous reserve powers of technical expertise, if no one is listening,.  Who are you actually talking to?  Yourself? This is what happens when you have lost your audience.  Mastery of the slide deck presentation professional protocols are an absolute basic requirement.  I don't even know why I have to mention this.  Engaging the audience and telling memory captivating stories is another basic skill.  Stories enlarge the impact of the numbers and stay with us, long after the data and the date of the talk has been forgotten. Making eye contact to personalize the delivery is so powerful.  When combined with voice emphasis, by either adding or subtracting strength and speed, this becomes the mark of the true professional presenter.    Technical people can no longer hide from reality.  They can't find refuge in their clubby expertise area. They are required to convey their knowledge to others who are not part of their shared technical heaven.  Get the skills and most importantly of all, rehearse before you give your presentations.  The difference is infinite.

Ep 142 – Canadian Voice Actor Paul Milando Is the voiceover business different north of the US? Our guest this week is a Toronto-based talent who began performing on camera before transitioning solely to voiceover for the past seven years. Paul Milando shares his experiences so far with agents and auditions and how he balances a seasonal job as well. About Paul Milando: First of all, I would like to thank the Academy….  Film, television, radio, public speaking, and playing “dress-up” have been passions of mine since childhood. From voicing cartoon characters, to having fun with Halloween costumes, to being the joker at family get-togethers; this has always been a part of my life. At University, I hosted a couple of radio shows and a good friend of mine suggested that once I moved back to Toronto, to find an agent and do some of this stuff as a “cultural release.” I shifted my focus from “in front of the camera”, to “in front of the mic” and I couldn't be happier in my accomplishments in VO. My engaging and warm speaking style is a favourite with television broadcast and film producers seeking a sincere, educated and friendly voiceover artist and narrator. Clear enunciation and articulation, in a pleasant baritone speaking voice, is present from commercial and corporate scripts to character voices and Audiobooks, and is fundamental to my interpretation of professional scripts. My professional home recording studio allows for timely and efficient narrations. Visit Pauls Site: https://www.paulmilando.ca/ FOR MORE INFO ON THE SHOW AND THE GURUS, PLEASE VISIT: Coaching Website: https://voiceover.guru/  and https://learnwiththegurus.com/ Join our Circle Community: https://the-voiceover-gurus.circle.so/home Linda Bruno Voice Actress  https://www.lindabruno.com Alyssa Jayson Actress and Musician http://www.alyssajayson.com Kevin Kilpatrick Voice Actor   https://kevinkilpatrick.com/

Pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up at universities around the world, and in the last few days things have escalated at a number of those campuses. Columbia University called on police to shutdown the encampment on their university lawn and 300 people were arrested. At University of California Los Angeles, about 200 pro-Israel counter-protestors raided a pro-Palestinian encampment. To get first hand accounts of the protests, Brittany talks to two student journalists: Shaanth Nanguneri, an undergraduate reporter at UCLA, and Claire Davenport, a graduate reporter at Columbia University in New York.Then, Eurovision may seem like a quaint, quirky event to Americans but it's a huge cultural event that easily surpasses the Super Bowl in terms of global viewership. And for an apolitical event, Eurovision can teach us a lot about geopolitics. This year, all eyes are on Israel, which is not European but has been a competitor since the 70s. With Israel's ongoing conflict in Gaza, there's a lot of politicking for and against its inclusion at the song contest. Brittany chats with Eurovision scholar Paul David Flood about Israel's controversial song and dance at Eurovision... and why Americans might want to pay attention.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In this week's bonus episode of the SA Voices From the Field Podcast, host Dr. Jill Creighton engaged in a thought-provoking discussion with guest Adam Jussel, the Dean of Students at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Through their conversation, Jussel provided valuable insights into the complexities of trauma-informed care and the profound impact it can have on individuals within a university setting. This blog post aims to delve deeper into the essential topics discussed during the episode, shedding light on the challenges and strategies related to addressing stress and trauma within a campus community. Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic on Mental Health Adam Jussel shared compelling findings from a study conducted on mental health among university employees during the pandemic. The research revealed alarming statistics, with 36% of participants screening positive for post-traumatic stress disorder and over 40% experiencing extreme stress or near-extreme stress. This data underscores the profound impact of the pandemic on the mental well-being of university staff and faculty. Identifying Contributing Factors and Mitigating Strategies The study identified various factors that contributed to heightened stress and trauma, including the challenges of caregiving, social isolation, uncertainty about the future, and the lack of tools to mitigate stress. Additionally, political and civic strife in the United States emerged as a significant contributor to exacerbating trauma and stress during the pandemic. On the other hand, the study also highlighted several mitigating factors, such as the presence of a strong social support network, spending time outside, physical activity, a sense of purpose, and meaningful experiences in work. Implementing Trauma-Informed Care Frameworks Adam Jussel emphasized the value of trauma-informed care and highlighted the creation of a trauma-informed care toolkit and workshops for the campus community. This proactive approach aimed at providing support, understanding, and resources for individuals impacted by trauma. The utilization of the campus cares framework facilitated the elevation of the frontline and mid-level staff's experience, fostering a culture of care across the university. The Role of Meaningful Work in Mitigating Trauma Jussel's discussion on the concept of the meaning of work and its potential to mitigate stress and trauma sheds light on the importance of cultivating a sense of purpose within the workforce. The ongoing research on this topic holds promising implications for the development of strategies to enhance the overall well-being of individuals in the workplace. Updates on Key Events in the NASPA World: The episode also provided informative updates on notable events within the NASPA world, including an upcoming national symposium and the 2024 NASPA virtual conference. This illustrates a commitment to fostering professional development and networking opportunities within the higher education community. Closing Thoughts The eye-opening conversation between Dr. Jill Creighton and Adam Jussel sheds light on the compelling work being done to address stress and trauma within university settings. It underscores the importance of implementing trauma-informed care frameworks and cultivating a supportive environment for faculty, staff, and students. As we navigate the complexities of the modern world, these insights serve as a beacon of hope, guiding us towards creating inclusive and empathetic communities within educational institutions. In conclusion, the podcast episode featuring Adam Jussel serves as a valuable resource, offering actionable insights for those involved in community support and trauma-informed care within educational environments. By acknowledging the challenges and opportunities in this space, we can collectively work towards creating nurturing and resilient communities. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Jill Creighton [00:00:02]: Welcome to student affairs voices from the field, the podcast where we share your student affairs stories from fresh perspectives to seasoned experts. This is season 9 on transitions in student affairs. This podcast is brought to you by NASPA, And I'm Dr. Jill Creighton, she, her, hers, your essay voices from the field host. Adam, welcome to the show. Adam Jussel [00:00:24]: Hey. Hey. Thank you so much for having me. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:00:26]: I'm glad to see you again. For our listeners, Adam and I, like many of our guests, have known each other in the field for what feels like Not a short time anymore. Adam Jussel [00:00:36]: Long time. Not a long time. Yeah. But we were very, very briefly colleagues at Washington State way back in the day. I think probably feels like a past life for both of us at this point. Adam Jussel [00:00:45]: Lots of gray hairs between, then and now. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:00:48]: Well, Adam, you're currently at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. We always love to start to get to know our guests by asking you, how did you get to your current seat? Adam Jussel [00:00:56]: Thank you for asking. A lot of people ask someone from the Pacific Northwest ends up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it's totally by Both random set of circumstance and the profession. And so was it in the assistant dean of students role, director of student conduct at Washington State University, He was looking for a change, looking to move. I we joke that we wanted to be within at least a 20 minute drive of a Trader Joe's, and so looking for a little thing that was a little more Urban, public Washington, as you well know, not exactly the bustling city environment, so we wanted to try something new. And we're We're looking around the country really just to make a move, and UWM fit the bill both because of its access mission, and it is a research one institution. I have been in this role for a little over 4 years, and I am the dean of students and associate vice chancellor of student affairs. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:01:46]: So I like to Say that, you know, for me, civilization, as I learned in Pullman, was having an airport, a Target, and a Chipotle. I didn't know that about myself until I moved there. But as I was there, There was a Chipotle that opened right before the pandemic started, and then a Target came in, like, a year later. And they're getting a new airport, like, this month. So Adam Jussel [00:02:06]: Wonderful place. Still have lots of friends there. Met my now partner there, and and WSU is a great place to live and work for nearly 10 years. So, yeah, that Pullman, Washington. Go check it out if you haven't. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:02:17]: Well, if you're not checking out the police, you should also check out Adam's research, and that's really what we're gonna be talking with Adam today. You spent a lot of the pandemic focusing on trauma informed care, and that's really a core ethos for what you're doing in the DOS role At University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, for those of you who wanna go dive a little deeper, you can check out the trauma informed toolkit on the Dean of Students website for University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. But, also, Adam, you have a new article out with some coauthors that I'm excited to dig into today. This article can be found in psychological trauma theory research practice and policy journal, and it's coauthored by Elaine Goldstein, Dimitri Topotaz, and Roger Brown. Title of the article is mental health among university employees during the COVID nineteen pandemic, the role of previous life trauma and current post traumatic stress symptoms, which is a very, very long title. I know a lot of our listeners are like, are we done talking about the pandemic? But I think this is actually a really important topic as we transition into a post pandemic era for higher education for our students and for the field. So why don't you go ahead and break down on what this means in really simple terms. Start. Adam Jussel [00:03:26]: Thanks for the opening. Was really blessed to work on this research and continuing to work on this research, with those great colleagues, Dimitri, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. And during the early phases of the pandemic, We had, like, a lot of campuses, really robust emergency operation command tactical response To what our students, faculty, and staff were experiencing as it relates to the pandemic. So we had testing protocols, and we had isolation and quarantine Processes. We had testing centers and then ultimately vaccination clinics. All of these kind of very operational pieces, but one element that was missing was, It may seem cliche to say, but it was the heart. You know, what were the psychosocial emotional experiences of our students? And really what this research digs into is the staff and We attempted to frame this work as the campus is an ecosystem. We can't care for our students unless we are carried for ourselves. Adam Jussel [00:04:23]: At least that's That's the way I kind of approached it. So the impetus for this work and the trauma informed care approach was under the hypothesis that we know that these jobs were stressful pre pandemic. Anybody listening to the student affairs focused podcast has moments where they said, hey, gosh. This job is so stressful. I feel like I'm burnt out. I feel like I'm Front line interacting with some really heavy stuff. And that the pandemic, at least we debated that. So we wanted to dig into the anecdotal experiences that folks were telling us about and really see what the research bore out using primarily, at least initially survey data. Adam Jussel [00:04:59]: That was kind of the genesis of this of this project. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:05:02]: I think you make some really important points. We saw the mass exodus from the field post pandemic, with the great resignation, it deeply affected all industries and certainly student affairs. And anecdotally, one of the things we heard is the field asks Too much of people for not enough compensation. That's a constant theme, in student affairs. And so tell us about how your research really shown a light on how our profession was reacting. And I think one of the things that I appreciate about your article as well is that it really broke it down by identifiable factors curves of who you are in the profession and how it affected you differently. Adam Jussel [00:05:37]: Yeah. So for folks that ultimately direct people to read the article, but just kind of a cliff notes is We had nearly 650 recipients, 636 participants in our survey. Those scaffold across divisions, departments, Anywhere in the institution, but was focused only on staff and faculty because we really wanted to hone in on that experience. And of those 636 participants, a large amount, 36%. We use a post traumatic stress disorder screening tool. It's a metric that we use. 36% produced a positive post traumatic stress disorder screen As it related to pandemic related impacts. And so that doesn't mean that they have post traumatic stress disorder. Adam Jussel [00:06:14]: It just simply means that a screening tool identified them. There would be follow-up from A clinician or someone in the field to identify that and hone further, but that number was staggering to us. 36% is a high number. What illuminated it further was that over 40% experienced extreme stress or near extreme stress, so that's not your stress and trauma are different things. And we use that data To paint a picture to campus leadership, to the community members of what has the experience been, what can we use data to inform practices and principles. And And it really was a catalyst to all of us on campus of we need to care for people that are serving our students. So there's some really interesting mitigating factors that we found as well and and other risk factors that I could dive into if it's interesting. But this first element was just identifying awareness around the problem. Adam Jussel [00:07:06]: What are the issues we're facing, and what are those challenges? I Dr. Jill Creighton [00:07:08]: think that would be great if you can talk more about what are those mitigating and aggravating factors for predictors of stress. Adam Jussel [00:07:15]: Yeah. And don't let me go down a rabbit hole on on this too much, but the risk factors so being a caregiver was a risk factor for a positive post traumatic stress disorder screen. Caregiver is broader than just parent or guardian. So we have staff and faculty that have, obviously, their parents or guardians, but we also have staff and faculty that Have a loved one in their home that they're they're caring for, so caregiving was a risk factor. Social isolation, all of us experienced Some level of social isolation in the pandemic. And one of the tragedies of the pandemic, and other folks have said this in various different ways, is that It attacks the number 1 mitigator for trauma experiencing trauma, which is a strong social support network. And not having that mechanism at place, I think a lot of us experience, at least it's born out in our data, that that social isolation was a really a key factor for exacerbating stress and possibly trauma. The other thing that, was interesting was The uncertainty of the future. Adam Jussel [00:08:08]: When we've provided some trauma informed care workshops to students, 1 student stood out to me and said, if I knew that this would end on a certain date, If I could if you could tell me 6 months from now, pandemic over, pick a date, December, whatever, the students said I could bear that. I could understand that there's a finish line. I could Stack goals around that, but the uncertainty and kind of the wave of uncertainty was an exacerbating factor and a risk factor. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:08:31]: So I've been working in China for the last 2 years or so. And that was a real thing here because the pandemic controls and mechanisms that we all face were very different than what was happening in the west. And then our students and our faculty and staff were going through 3 to 7 COVID tests, a week depending on what was going on. And then, you know, there were points where our faculty and staff were locked on the campus with our students and didn't leave for 2 or 3 months. And that environment is the exact Same messaging where, you know, if we knew that, you know, we had to do this for 60 days, we could mark our time. We could set goals. We could mentally prepare for what that's like. But when that endpoint doesn't exist. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:09:11]: It really creates a sense of dread and a little bit of doom. Adam Jussel [00:09:15]: Yeah. Your experience, I appreciate you sharing that is A ton of follow-up questions, of course, of of that experience as it relates to this. But one thing I heard there was, hey. The tools that we have at our disposal to mitigate this might diminished, which is I can't see family and friends. I can't go for a walk outside. Maybe there are instances where that was possible, maybe not, but I can't go to the gym. I can't you know, there's all kinds of things that were eliminated by virtue of the pandemic, and it sounds like not so dissimilar in in your experience, but probably very dissimilar very, December at the same time. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:09:49]: Well, and to be fair, I was not one of the team members that was on campus in the lockdown, but my staff was. I mean, that's because I I wasn't here yet during kind of that deepest period of time. But I hear from a lot of them too that, you know, it was just things like, I would really love a piece of fresh fruit, And that would that simple piece of health care would have been really, really mitigating for them. So I'd love to hear more about what those mitigating factors were. Adam Jussel [00:10:14]: Thanks for sharing that and asking. So the mitigating factors I already named one was the strong social support network. On the network of care, feeling like there are places and People you can turn to for help and support that you're not alone. Really big factors when someone is experiencing trauma or stress. Time outside, So being outside in nature and time with pets was significant. I would say time outside with pets is probably doubly good, but those were some massive Mitigating factors at least at a high level, and then you can dive in further in the research and literature and being physically active, having a purpose in life, Which really connects to the additional research we're doing currently, which is just having a meaningful experience in your work environment, What we call making meaning, does that is that a mitigator to stress and trauma? There's all kinds of research on the value of having a vision and a purpose, An identity bigger than yourself, and we're trying to connect it to the trauma field a little bit. And we're using a mixed method study to do that, and it's It's really fascinating what people are saying in our focus groups, and that's exciting work that I can talk about as well if you'd like me to. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:11:18]: Someone asked a question about your research design, especially for any of our listeners who are pursuing their own Dr.ates. This is a time where you're trying to measure trauma and stress where the pandemic was not the only trauma and stressor serve for a US audience. It was a a wild time to be a person in the United States from Adam Jussel [00:11:34]: Yes. Yep. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:11:36]: Regardless of where you are on Any particular political spectrum, that was a wild time. It kinda still is a wild time. I just I don't feel it as much because I'm not there on a daily basis right now. But how did you tease apart as researchers the difference between the impact from COVID nineteen and the other influencing factors in the world? Adam Jussel [00:11:55]: Yeah. In the study, we know that the political and civic strife that was being experienced by a lot of folks in the United States, regardless of what political affiliation that a person had actually were exacerbating factors as it related to trauma and stresses really in the pandemic. And the way that we separated out in the in the studies, we actually, you know, Segmented out of the questions, and then we're very specific about the questions that we asked that were related to the pandemic versus the questions we had about Ancillary things, including that civic and political strike. But we do note in there that other factors were definitely at play, and and we know this just from our personal experiences that You can't really isolate an individual and say, well, what about this is one thing that is stressor? We we are meaning making machines that come in, and we bring our holistic experience. And reflected in our data too is that folks that had other health and financial stressors, other you know, I already said financial stressors, but That there were certain instances that no combination of mitigating factors could protect them against the negative implications of the pandemic, Which means that sometimes for the individuals that participated in the study, it was just too much, and there was nothing that they could have done without intense professional care. I can't. And this is something we're very careful about. I could tell someone to go walk their dog 6,000 times, and if they have experienced a level of stress and potentially trauma, though, those Tools, at least in our data, weren't weren't helpful. Adam Jussel [00:13:18]: So, yes, it's good to acknowledge the context in which we participated in the study. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:13:22]: Well, and sometimes not just Not helpful to suggest some of these more surface level components of care, but also could be seen as Literally uncaring as a leader of an organization or not just seen as, but could be literally uncaring because there's a big difference between, you know, the collective stress and collective trauma we were all going through that was abnormal from our daily lives compared with people that already had their plates very, very full. And then at that Age old meme where it's like, oh, you're experiencing a difficult work environment? Well, let's have a pizza party. That's not what we need to solve of some of these big issues. And one of the things that I appreciate about your work, as I mentioned, is that this kind of all resulted from a practice perspective in a trauma informed toolkit. So let's talk about that a little bit because I know that's really geared towards a lot of student work, but it applies deeply to your faculty and staff populations as well. So how did you operationalize the findings of the study to try to create more community care. Adam Jussel [00:14:23]: One of the cool parts about participating in this, and I this is the 1st article that I've ever been. For those who don't know, I have a JD. You do not have to produce Research as part of your JD. Some people do. So it's the 1st academic study I've been I've been a part of, which was really exciting. And one thing that I really, with My colleagues tried to focus on is we can't wait till this is published to produce and care for our campus community because as You know publishing takes a long time, so the trauma informed care toolkit and related workshops were created actually prior to us Publishing anything and actually diving into our research because the trauma informed care principles, at least as we saw it, were somewhat evergreen. There's things that we could do to make that a reality. And then once we published our research, we use that to inform our workshops and continue to hone those toolkits. Adam Jussel [00:15:13]: So the real bellwether or the real, I would say, the workshops themselves were the 1st program we really rolled out, and those were geared towards Faculty and staff. They were trying to do 2 different things. They were first trying to say, here's our students' experience, and here's how you care for those students. And, also, what we realized midstream is, oh, this is cathartic for the faculty and staff that are coming into this face as well because they're feeling validated by their experience. They're feeling empowered, and they're feeling like they're connected to other people. This is this kind of shared social experience. And teams were totally volunteer. We just put them in, like, newsletters and said, hey, folks. Adam Jussel [00:15:50]: If you're interested in this and in the year and a half that we launched, From when we launched there, when we concluded them, we did over a 150 of these across campus. And for someone that does mandatory training of folks Here on our campus, doing a 150 workshops is intense over a year and a half, but it also reflected the kind of scope and scale of the problem because I'm getting that level of interest in a voluntary program that's not being forced upon anybody. We had to chase that. There was something there. And the toolkits themselves were really about building capacity across campus understanding that I'm not an expert on the classroom dynamics in a faculty member's classroom, but I can give the the parameters Or how would you make your classroom trauma informed? And I hesitate to even say trauma informed because that's somewhat cliche at this point in time, and I think it's got some it might carry some baggage for folks. Oh, really, what it is is how do I create a classroom that's reciprocal and empowering and caring? So those toolkits are we're actually in another revision of them right now, but those toolkits in the workshop are based in Principles that even if we didn't have a pandemic would be good exercises and practices for folks in their workplace and that and the classroom. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:16:57]: Let's define trauma informed in this case. As you mentioned, it is kind of a buzzword in higher education at this point, and, some people operationalize it differently. How are you using the term? Adam Jussel [00:17:08]: Definition of trauma that we use is adopted by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services association. And it's an event or series events that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life Threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being. And the reason we like this definition is that it's it's more holistic than other definitions offered. It it talks about the entirety of the person's experience, But it also distinguishes between physical trauma, so someone that is experiencing physical harm or witnessing physical harm versus The impacts of something that may be systemic and long term like the pandemic. So there's other definitions of trauma that really focus on An acute single incident like a type one trauma. This broader definition from SAMHSA is broader and would take into context things that just happen over time, little cuts that happen over time. So trauma informed care takes that into consideration and asks the question, what do we how do we frame our workplace and our classroom In a way that acknowledges that someone may be experiencing in that space a significant amount of trauma or stress. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:18:19]: And looking at all of this, You've gone through the research process. You've gone through the workshop process. You're now in revisions. What's the pro tip that you can provide. What's the nugget for SA pros who are listening and going, oh, my campus needs this, or especially The other SSAOs going, how do I adopt this and and make it meaningful for my campus? Adam Jussel [00:18:40]: 1st, I would say the pro tip is Understand that you're seen and that this work is valuable in the sense that it lets folks know that, hey. These jobs are challenging. Anybody in the field that is aware of how they experience the pandemic and the work that they were doing, that this highlights that and actually paints a picture that allows for a certain level of advocacy on your campus. So I think Pointing to it and saying, hey. And I know there's a bunch of data now that reflects this, but this isn't just my feelings. This is actually an experience that is validated by by research. That's my I guess, more of an academic response. My gut response is any parts of this work can be applied to any campus. Adam Jussel [00:19:20]: And one thing that we've really learned, the framework we've applied is this campus cares framework, which is a fancy term for a program here on campus that's Grassroots, it's voluntary, but it is holistic. So instead of thinking about how do we just care for the students, how How do we make sure they have adequate resources, that they have counseling, that they have food pantry, that they have case management, that they have an emergency grant? This takes into consideration the first thing I said at the beginning, which is we can't do those things well unless we are part of that ecosystem. System. And so this campus CARES work has students, faculty, and staff from across campus. It's not a top down directive, so it's not something that we got From senior leadership that would just kind of just groundswell during the pandemic. It's that heart I was telling you about. And so my nugget here is that find the people on your campus, Students, faculty, and staff that embody this type of work, this type of care, put them in a room together and say, what does it mean to care for our campus, How do we do that? And it might mean something different to y'all, but it would likely mean something different to y'all than it does to us. But we did that in the early stages of this campus Cares framework. Adam Jussel [00:20:25]: We got a bunch of people in the room, and they said, what does it mean to be empathetic and caring in the face of a global pandemic? And all of the tools that we got out of it, the tool kits And the the workshops and the meditation spaces that we have on campus and the communications and storytelling are all grounded in that empathy, Empowerment and care, and I think that can be applied anywhere. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:20:46]: How has all of this effort changed your campus? Adam Jussel [00:20:49]: I can speak, and, obviously, I'm biased here, but I think it has elevated the experience of folks that would be considered either frontline or mid level staff to campus leadership in the community. So not to say that anybody had negative opinions of the campus prior to The pandemic. But I don't think they were generally aware of the level of stress that folks were experiencing in the pandemic and had experienced prior to the For me, personally, it has connected me directly, and I think connected everybody within the Campus Cares group to the extent that I can speak for all of them with those people that genuinely care about UWM and its students. And when you put that type of energy into a space, I think it catalyzes a lot of change and good, but also just makes me feel personally like I enjoy going to parts of work that I'm doing that because it's a bunch of people that are on the same team, so to speak. So I think it's changed, and we are really focused now on how do we keep this momentum going? How do we now that we're in this late in stages of the pandemic, and how do we scale this culture of care across campus. So that's the tougher problem, and I don't actually think we ever accomplished that. I think that's a thing that we will continue to do forever, but we've had some great conversations about what that actually means while we're doing this other practical work. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:22:05]: The scaling question is always interesting when you're at such a large institution. Right? When you're at a small liberal arts university, the scaling question is as much simpler just because there are physically less people. But the common core of an institution, like in our one size, that's a very, very different beast. Adam Jussel [00:22:22]: Yeah. One of the things that I value professionally is just kind of meeting the hard challenges of doing it with kind of an open mind and curiosity, and This has definitely opened my aperture quite a bit on how we can do that and how big the issues are, and that is not just a checkbox. You can't just flip a giant switch somewhere and say, okay. Now we're good. So this will be something that will continue on, I think, hopefully, for a good long while here at UWM and at other places. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:22:46]: I'm gonna shift gears with you just a moment because we are in our bonus episode in between seasons 9 and 10, both of which are on the theme of transitions. So So I just briefly wanna touch on how does someone go from obtaining a law degree to being in student affairs full time? Adam Jussel [00:23:01]: It's a common question that I get. And the real answer is is that I cut my teeth in university housing. I was an RA for 3 years in college. And when I was leaving college and I decided to go to law school. I actually picked my law school, Seattle University, in part because I was fortunate To have the opportunity to work in housing, university housing while I was in law school, which on its face for anybody that's gone to law school, it's how do you go to law school and work in a residence all at the same time. I actually think it helped me quite a bit because, one, it created so much more structure around my life. And 2, it was people outside of the law school that I connected with, and I'm still colleagues and friends with. They really didn't care what I was doing in the law school. Adam Jussel [00:23:43]: They cared about me as a human, and So remove kind of that that stressor. They were great friends and kind of a mitigator distress. And when I left law school, I had this existential crisis of, I'm still liking this housing stuff. I'm still learning a lot, and I went and took the bar, and I thought, well, I guess I go practice law now. Right? I I worked at a firm for a while, and then I actually made the transition to the attorney general's office, which was represented all the institutions of higher education in the state of Washington and was an assistant attorney general actually representing Washington State University. I did that for a couple years, and I was still having that kind of, I wanna be on the other side. I Wanna be in the administration. The kind of natural inroad for a lot of people at that point in time with a JD was into the conduct space. Adam Jussel [00:24:26]: So I made the big move over the administration and did student conduct for what feels like an eternity, but it was 7, 8 years over at WSU and then since made this transition over here, and and I couldn't be more. I tell this to people all the time, and maybe it's my experience my previous experience is that while these jobs are stressful and They're very challenging, and I'm faced with challenges every day. The fact that I get to work on a college campus still is like I, like, pinch myself. Just the fact that I could walk onto our mall in the middle of a busy weekday and just be amongst 18, 19, 20 year olds and UWM students. It's just a it's a blessing. So that's how I made that transition. It's a long story, but I'm fortunate to have all those opportunities and people nudging me to do that along the way. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:25:08]: Thank you for sharing that. I really appreciate the complexity of that, but also the simplicity of I was an RA first. That seems to be such, you know, a common student affairs journey. Adam Jussel [00:25:17]: I like to tell folks, I think once you do the ResLifer thing, you're a ResLifer at heart for a long time, and I don't think I've ever turned away from that. So that's my origin story as it were. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:25:27]: Is there anything else that you wanna share with our listeners? Adam Jussel [00:25:30]: I know I mentioned earlier the the the concept of meaning of work and and potentially how That could be a mitigator to, stress and and perhaps trauma. And really wanna note that our focus groups that we did in the spring, we did 4 of them. They were meant to expand on the initial survey instrument I noted earlier, building on that quantitative research And now using qualitative research in a mixed method study and sequentially and hopefully explanatory, we wanted to determine what factors and processes Would promote increased meaning of work, noting that the positive effects we saw through that could have helped with stress. There's a bevy of research out there about the positive impacts of having a a vision or a larger mission, but also want to explore how could that potentially decrease stress or at least be a protective factor. What we've just anecdotally, what we've seen so far is that the the work is hard and people really identify with that, and I've explained the statistics that are relating to that. But when it's Directly connected to a larger purpose or mission or community, it could be more motivating and, in fact, meaningful. And What we've also found is that the focus on the well-being of others, which is a core element of the campus cares initiative I mentioned, that can bring satisfaction in and out of work. And maybe This isn't particularly novel, but can actually reduce stress for folks as having that broader connection and that broader sense of purpose. Adam Jussel [00:26:55]: So I think that we'd be remiss without sharing that there is additional research being done there and and hopefully continue to imbue that work Within the campus cares initiative that we have on campus. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:27:06]: It's time to take a quick break and toss it over to producer Chris to learn what's going on in the NASPA world. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:27:12]: Thanks, Jill. Really excited to be back again in the NASPA world, and there's a lot happening in NASPA. The NASPA annual conference is coming up March 9th through 13th in Seattle, Washington, and I hope that you will be able to join us. If you are going to join us, I know that we've mentioned this before, but we'll be going around asking questions, looking for your answers to have your voice be a part of a future episode. So watch out for me with my recorder or Jill with her recorder, and we'll be looking to capture your voice. At the NASPA annual conference, the opening and closing keynote speakers have just been announced recently. Dr. Sian Proctor and Alejandra Campa Verdi will be joining as opening and keynote speakers. The opening keynote is Dr. Sion Proctor Who is a geoscientist, explorer, space artist, and astronaut. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:28:08]: Dr. Sian Proctor is a geoscience professor at the Maricopa Community Colleges, An Afrofuturism artist and an astronaut. She is the chief inspiration astronaut of Space to Inspire and founder of the Procter Foundation For Art and Science. She was the mission pilot for SpaceX inspiration for the first all civilian Orbital mission. And our closing keynote speaker is Alejandra Campaverde. Alejandra Campaverde is a nationally recognized women's Health advocate, best selling author, founder, producer, and former White House aid to president Obama. Alejandra's memoir, First Gen, Examines the emotional toll of social mobility on first and only for those who are first generation in their families to cross a threshold. On February 2, 2024, on Zoom will be the 7th annual 1st generation graduate student symposium. Join the Boston University Newberry Center, Duke University first generation graduate student network, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina grad students grad student firsts, along with our cooperating sponsor, the Center For First Generation Student Success, For our 7th annual symposium for graduate and professional students on February 2, 2024. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:29:28]: This national symposium is open to any student who identifies as a 1st generation graduate or professional student and is studying any discipline. The keynote speaker for this event is Angela Bautista, A proud 1st generation student learner, educator, speaker, facilitator, coach, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging consultant. There's There's also gonna be a number of opportunities for you to network with other 1st generation graduate and professional students at institutions across the country, workshop sessions, and more. The event is on February 2nd and runs from from 1 EST to 5 PM EST. From June 23rd to 26 in Portland, Oregon Will be the 2024 NASPA m Ben Hogan Small Colleges and Universities Institute. This event is hosted on a biannual basis by By NASPA's Small Colleges and Universities division, the NASPA M. Ben Hogan Small Colleges and University Institute is a 4 day residential program During which vice presidents for student affairs and the equivalent and other senior level administrators engage in discussion and reflection about critical issues in student affairs and examine effective and innovative programs. Participation in this institute is limited to the highest Ranking student affairs officer on campus and other senior level administrators who report to the highest ranking student affairs officer and have substantial responsibility for divisional leadership. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:30:52]: The registration fee for this program includes housing and most meals and is an amazing experience To bring you together with other small colleges and university leaders. Find out more on the NASPA website. I mentioned the NASPA NASPA annual conference coming up In March, if you are unable to join the NASPA conference, we also have another great opportunity, which is the 2024 virtual conference, which will happen on April 2nd through 5, 2024. The 2024 NASPA virtual Conference is a 4 day interactive educational experience for student affairs professionals and partners where we will engage in high quality content centered around individual and team growth. There will be multiple educational sessions, including 8 extended learning workshops. Teams can participate in their personal and professional development through the live event and on demand. The best part of this is that if you register, All sessions will be available on demand for 365 days. So it's a great opportunity for your teams at your institutions to be able to access professional development over a long period. Dr. Christopher Lewis [00:32:04]: If you haven't checked this out yet, I highly encourage you to go to the NASPA website to check it out, Learn more and find out how you can be involved with your team at your own institution. Every week, we're going to be sharing some amazing things that are happening within in the association. So we are going to be able to try and keep you up to date on everything that's happening And allow for you to be able to get involved in different ways because the association is as strong as its members. And For all of us, we have to find our place within the association, whether it be getting involved with the knowledge community, giving back within one of the the centers We're at the divisions of the association. And as you're doing that, it's important to be able to identify for yourself Where do you fit? Where do you wanna give back? Each week, we're hoping that we will share some things that might encourage you, might allow for you To be able to get some ideas that will provide you with an opportunity to be able to say, hey. I see myself In that knowledge community, I see myself doing something like that or encourage you in other ways that allow for you to be able to Think beyond what's available right now to offer other things to the association, to bring your gifts, Your talents to the association and to all of the members within the association because through doing that, all of us are stronger and the association is better. Tune in again next week as we find out more about what is happening in NASPA. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:33:40]: Chris, thank you so much for this bonus NASPA world segment. We've got a lot coming up. I know annual conference is just around the corner at this point in time. We hope to see a lot of you in Seattle. Adam, we are now at our lightning round. I have 7 questions for you in 90 seconds. You ready to go? Adam Jussel [00:33:57]: Okay. Hippie, let's do it. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:33:59]: Question number 1. If you were a conference keynote speaker, what would your entrance music be? Adam Jussel [00:34:03]: Jitterbug. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:04]: Number 2, when you were 5 years old, what did you wanna be when you grew up? Adam Jussel [00:34:07]: A pilot. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:08]: Number 3, who's your most influential professional mentor? Adam Jussel [00:34:12]: Ken Wayne. He He was a professor at Seattle University. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:14]: Number 4, your essential student affairs read. Adam Jussel [00:34:17]: Reframing campus conflict. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:19]: Number 5, the best TV show you binged during the pandemic. Adam Jussel [00:34:22]: We rewatched parks and rec the entirety of it. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:25]: Number 6, the podcast you've spent the most hours listening to in the last year. Adam Jussel [00:34:29]: On chair expert. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:34:30]: And finally, number 7, any shout outs you'd like to give, personal or professional? Adam Jussel [00:34:34]: Thanks, Jill, for the great question and for the opportunity to offer some shout outs. Obviously, I'm super grateful for all the people that have supported and influenced me along the way and try to share that gratitude when I can. Starting just With my time at Cal Lutheran and my 1st supervisors in residence life, Sally Lawrenson and Nate Fall, and then Danielle Hess And Adam Malcolm at the AG's office at WSU just taking a chance on me and allowing for that big transition that I noted earlier. And then, of course, my team at at UWM, including Becky Career, Abby Meadow, Ben Minogue, and Sarah Edmonson, even though Sarah has left us for another institution. Just super grateful for team here could not do it without them. And then, obviously, my professional career started at WSU, and I would be remiss without giving a shout out to them, including Karen Fisher, Melinda Husky, Karen Metzner, and Christina McGillfry, and just the entire Dida students team over there. I know they're doing great work. And then finally, just 2 mentors, Bill Stackman and Carrie Petter who answer all my weird questions every once in a while about my own growth in the career, and It's super helpful and just, again, very grateful for all these folks. Adam Jussel [00:35:45]: So shout outs to everybody. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:35:46]: Well, Adam, it's been a pleasure to reconnect with you today. If others would like to connect with you after the show. How can they find you? Adam Jussel [00:35:52]: You can email me, which is just jussell@uwm.edu, or my Instagram account is at Dean Dob Jessel. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:35:59]: Adam, thank you so much for sharing your voice with us today. Adam Jussel [00:36:02]: Thank you, Jill. Take care, everybody. Dr. Jill Creighton [00:36:05]: This has been an episode of SA voices from the field brought to you by NASPA. This show is always made possible because of you, our listeners. We are so grateful that you continue to listen to us season after season. If you'd like to reach the show, you can always email us at essay voices at naspa.org or find me on LinkedIn by searching for Dr. Jill Creighton. We welcome your feedback and topic and especially your guest suggestions. We'd love it if you take a moment to tell a colleague about the show, and Please like, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening now. It really does help other student affairs professionals find the show and and helps us become more visible in the larger podcasting community. This episode was produced and hosted by Dr. Jill l Creighton., That's me. Produced and audio engineered by Dr. Chris Lewis. Guest coordination by Lu Yongru. Special thanks to the University of Michigan Flint for your support as we create this project. Catch you next time.

In Episode 39, we are exploring a really interesting book that Susan found, A Demon Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post WWII Germany. Written by Dr. Monica Black (Univ Tenn), the book explores the impacts and trauma of the German's WWII defeat on its people. In the podcast, we will explore ways that the trauma expressed itself and how ordinary Germans cope with this trauma.  What we found fascinating about Dr. Black's research was the applicability of the German's issues and outcomes in today's tumultuous world. Combined with Carl Jung's essay, After the Catastrophe, we gain insight into our own "moral inferiority" and how transformation requires this deeper understanding before we can begin again anew. At University of Tennessee, Dr. Black is a historian of Modern Europe. As such, she provides us with deep, rich insights into her historical research process, actually providing us with ways to explore the history within our own lives. 

Lizzie Richardson is a runner from North Wales. She broke the women's record for the Paddy Buckley round in 2022, previously held by Jasmin Paris. Lizzie grew up in mid-Wales, with six sisters and had a very active childhood. At University she focussed on partying rather than running. In 2018 she supported her sister doing the Bob Graham round which planted a seed that she'd like to do a round of her own one day. This is the story of a normal woman doing amazing things. PLUS ! You'll hear Helen and Lowri Bowen talking about the practical side of taking on the Pan Celtic Race, what do you take, how much training do you need to do, how much planning is involved?You'll hear:05:00 What her childhood was like, growing up in rural mid-Wales.09:00 Her sister's Bob Graham round that sparked her interest in doing a round of her own one day .11:00 Signing up for a 75mile ultra on a whim, without doing much training. she finished first woman and second overall, despite doing it after a few too many rums the night before.16:00 How does she keep pushing herself during ultras and rounds?17:00 Lizzie explains what the Paddy Buckley is, how it works and what her experience of doing it was like. 23:00 How much training did Lizzie do for it? You might be surprised to hear the answer to this - lower volume, including speed work. Max 80-100km a week, only just before her taper. 27:00 How did the feel the morning of taking on the Paddy Buckley round and once she had completed it? 'The night before I was in bed and I told my husband I'm not doing it, I can't do it.' 32:00 Lizzie reveals she actually found out she was pregnant the week after doing the Paddy Buckley round, and she thinks she was 6 weeks pregnant when she did it. 35:00 Would Lizzie like to do more events and running when the time is right?37:00 Lizzie says she finds Jasmin Paris and other female running friends really inspiring about the realities of becoming and mum and running. 'sometimes you do measure yourself up against other people but everyone's experience is so different and I'm just trying to prepare my body as much as possible.'39:00 Lizzie opens up about her struggles with performance anxiety 'I'd be sick with nerves on the start line and it definitely holds me back. I'd perform so much better in a more relaxed setting.'44:00 Hear from Lowri Bowen and Helen as they reflect on the practicalities of taking on The Pan Celtic Race as a pair in 2023. What did they pack, how did they plan their race, what sort of training did they do?Find out more about this week's guest:More about the Paddy Buckley RoundLowri Bowen on TwitterPan Celtic Race websiteSponsor the Inside Tri Show team taking on THE ROC for MOVE CharityNicky Keay's Fuelling Your Health and Athletic Performance Like what you heard?Let me know! Connect with Inside Tri Show across Social Media, just search Inside Tri Show or click on the icons belowGET YOUR HANDS ON AN EXCLUSIVE EPISODE!Sign up to be a vino buddy or a training buddy on Patreon and get your hands on...

In this episode of The New CISO, Steve is joined by guest Suid Adeyanju, CEO and Co-Founder of RiverSafe Ltd.Although his parents dreamed of Suid becoming a lawyer or a doctor, Suid had a passion for technology. Although his path was challenging, Suid shares how he successfully transitioned from a security engineer to an entrepreneur. Tune into this week's episode to learn more about Suid's early career journey, the mindset differences between engineering and business leadership, and the catalyst for starting his business.Listen to Steve and Suid discuss navigating the corporate ladder and how security professionals can become business leaders:Meet Suid (1:39)Host Steve Moore introduces our guest today, Suid Adeyanju, a security professional and entrepreneur. At RiverSafe Ltd., Suid's team specializes in cyber security, data operations, and demo. Since childhood, Suid wanted to work in technology. Recently, he found his old yearbook from Nigeria and saw that he wanted to be a computer engineer even then. Even though that goal was unusual then, it demonstrates that Suid always wanted to be in technology.At University (6:24)While at university, Suid initially went for computer science and mathematics. After studying accounting for two years, his professor steered him toward business information systems. As much as Suid loves computers, understanding how organizations deliver their services was a better fit. Think About Impact (10:26)Steve and Suid discuss how security leaders need to consider how their security work impacts the business. If leaders focus on making the business secure, they need to work with the business and understand the risks associated with the work.The Transition (13:40)Suid reflects on his transition from engineer to entrepreneur. As an engineer, Suid saw things in black and white. To run his business, he needed a different mindset because there is a difference between working with people versus computers.Workplace Challenges (20:03)Steve presses Suid on his time at Reuters. After two years of contracting, Suid saw that he was stuck in his role while his teammates gained more responsibility. Initially, Suid believed he needed to work harder and gain his master's in information security. Now, he understands that this mindset is common with ethnic minorities and reflects on the challenges he's faced. Valuing Yourself (28:55)Suid realized that this particular work environment did not value the additional education he had gained or the extra work he put in. Without another job lined up, Suid decided to quit.Suid could take this risk because he had made good financial decisions, which gave him enough savings to rely on. Suid also had the proper professional skill set, preparing him to take a chance. Starting A Business (34:24)Suid reveals that this time led him to start his own business. Although it's challenging to transition from engineer to entrepreneur, Suid knew his team was talented and could show value to their customers.The Big Break (38:14)Suid's company got their big break when a senior manager at a major corruption chose to work with them. This manager took a chance on them with a significant project, which set Suid up for future momentum.Sound Advice (43:43)For the listeners who feel that the corporate world is not for them, Suid shares his advice. First, take a course that teaches how to set up a business. Secondly, find a mentor who can share with you valuable insight.The New Security Leader (47:21)To Suid, a new leader focuses on people. One must have empathy and...

Guest: Professor Tom Sorell, Professor at University of Warwick [@uniofwarwick]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-sorell-b40840115/At University of Warwick | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/sorell/Host: Dr. Kevin MacnishOn ITSPmagazine  

Jill Nicholsons story began like most - leaving school with no idea of what she wanted to do. At University she did a teaching degree which gave her a solid foundation of management skills, but it wasn't until she was in her 30's that she had the calling to be a psychotherapist and counsellor. However, working for a charity with government contracts, putting in 16 hour days and being a slave to the system eventually led to serious health problems that she couldn't ignore, including a variety of yo-yo diets and an auto immune disease. Having worked with drug users and their families, Jill soon realised that her own drug of choice was food and this fuelled her passion of working with clients who had emotional eating disorders, but not before going on her own journey of self-discovery, quitting her job and developing her own business and systems to get to the root cause of societies unhealthy eating patterns. You can contact Jill @ jill@escape-emotional-eating.com Loved this episode? Don't forget to rate and subscribe to get all the latest episodes uploaded weekly Connect with me: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Website Spotify Podcast Email @ bethtaylor@blissful-transformation.com Subscribe to our Passionate Pioneer Community & get your free workbook ‘Your Passion Journey Starts Here' --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepassionatepioneer/message

On Episode 265 of the Enormocast, I connect with Alita Contreras – a Venezuelan/Colombian climber beaming in from…Georgia. Alita was born in Venezuela to a Colombian father who taught his child to love the traditions and legends of Colombia. At University while studying languages, Alita found climbing, and soon, she was pining to leave her … Continue reading "Enormocast 265: Alita Contreras – The Language of Climbing"

Society approves titles and status, especially in Japan.  We rise through the ranks and following the Peter Principle, we peak at our upper level of incompetence.  On the way up, we pick up titles and accrue status, respect and credence amplified through the power of our title.  Our personal power though could be suddenly exposed as bogus, when we get up to open our mouths in public.  This is one of those “The Emperor Has No Clothes” moments, when all is revealed, and we are found severely wanting. I was at a function recently and one of the bureaucratic elite in Japan was there to give a keynote presentation.  You generally get to become an elite official in Japan because you went to the right elementary school, middle school, high school and then University.  The reason these were the right schools up until University, is because they have the absolute best system in place to help you be a legend in memorization, rote learning and test taking.  At University you take a couple of years off, before you start cramming for the national selection exam, where again memory and exam technique are the most rewarded skills. You join a Ministry and work like a dog for a squillion hours every day, for years, simultaneously looking for a powerful patron to whom you can pledge total loyalty.  After decades of glacial progress, you emerge a grey haired, elite official.  Now part of the bureaucratic upper crust, you are often called upon to represent your organization and speak in public and the whole edifice comes crushing down. This was the case with this official – sent out into the firing line to promulgate the new way forward for his political masters, to impress everyone with the potency of their new policies, to win adherents to the path forward.  Total fizzer.  Why?  Because he spoke without energy or passion – nothing to indicate he felt at all impressed with his own recommendations.  He looked down at his papers and hardly glanced at the audience.  The opportunity to make eye contact, to combine words with the power of his face and to use the tonal variations available to his voice,  were in total absence.  He was a truly dull correspondent and we were completely dulled to his message.  There were no converts that day.  He could tick the box though – the task was completed, a total failure, but completed.  Astonishingly, during the post speech Q&A session, he perked up like a man really engaged – sadly it was only sustained for 30 seconds, but it showed he could do it.  So why didn't he do it while he commanded the stage?  No concept and no appreciation for the immense power at his beck and call, I would proffer.  His self-concept seemed to be that he was just a grey bureaucrat, whose job was to be grey and boring.  Obviously he had received no training or preparation for his task.  So his brilliant university pedigree meant little when he was publically outed at the podium.  He was a total failure as a communicator, he became a message killer, a brand assassin instead.  Was he an exception, a one-off, the runt of the litter among the bureaucratic ranks of the gifted, great and plausible public speakers?  No he was typical of that bevy of elite officials, who are mainly acquired status and have almost no personal power projection. Another vaunted profession is that of the elite government official who works in the foreign service.  This has been a bad week for me, as I suffered more of the same, this time from an Ambassador.  You would think that given the high profile nature of their job, they would be experts in promoting their countries.  No, this was another national reputation suicide effort.  Monotone, weak voice sputtering forth Ums and Ahs aplenty, with no engagement with the audience.  A voice that sounded so very weary and where the last three to four words in every sentence, just slowly petered out.  The energy and tone just subsided, guaranteeing the key message was a total downer, regardless of the actual content of the words.  Was this a one off – just the Ambo having a bad day?  No, I have seen this gentleman in action on many occasions and there is a scary consistency to his public speaking murder of his country's brand.  He is not unusual – in my 37 years of survey here, I have found that most Ambassadors are hopeless public speakers.  Yes, yes, there are some exceptions, but they just prove the rule (send me a list of more than 10 Ambassadors you know who are any good?). Do these career diplomats get proper training in the art of public speaking?  Astoundingly no!  They become elite government officials due to their ability to write cables and reports, which usually almost no one reads, by the way.  They have large analytical abilities and very big brains. They can really shine in small meetings, where they can one up their rivals and be the smartest intellect in the room.  So they get promoted and then get propelled to the front of the stage, handed the mic and away they go into ineptitude, writ large under lights, in front of the assembled masses.  The good thing is that all of their colleagues are equally hopeless, so it seems normal to them.  The fundamental error is they simply don't value having a skilled public presentation facility. The worst public speaking experience of my diplomatic career was giving a speech on behalf of one of our Ambassadors.  I was “our man in Osaka” and had to deliver the speech on his behalf.  The talk was in Japanese, which was no issue, as I had given around 400 public speeches in Japanese.  The content however was challenging.  There are four main types of speeches – to inform, to persuade, to entertain and to impress.  Foreign Ministries around the world, tend to love the data dump, inform variety.  This automatically leads to lots of dull information being imparted.  Why they don't go for the persuade type is a bit of a mystery to me and all countries seem to make that selection.  I absolutely gave it my best shot to liven it up, while sticking religiously to the approved Ambassadorial text, but what torture it was!  Imagine when you combine dead data with a dead delivery?  You have a massive bromide of winter surf Hawaiian North Shore frightening proportions, thundering down to bludgeon unsuspecting audiences into stupefaction. This is what we usually get from elite Government officials and it doesn't have to be like that.  There are some bright spots of hope though, even in Japan!  Previous Ambassador Motohiko Nishimura, who I met in Osaka in the mid-1990s, during his posting to the Kansai (yes, Kansai is considered a foreign country by Tokyo, so they have to send an Ambassador down there), was skilled and excellent.  English or Japanese, it did not matter, he was the consummate diplomat in the sense he could use his speaking power, to capture an audience and have them love Japan.  He finished his career as Ambassador to Portugal, and I am sure he was a tremendous asset for his country in creating support for Japan there. Hello to all of you elite officials and aspirants out there, stop boring us all to death, get some proper training and represent your Ministries with aplomb.  Boys and girls – be ambitious? No be persuasive!        

Sarah's journey with tea began when she was about 20 years old, although she believes she had been moving towards it all along. Her first memories are of extracting essences from the wildflowers her my backyard as a child, foraging healing plants with her Finnish grandmother, and studying heirloom seed catalogs. She always knew that she was going to work with plants when she grew up. At University and throughout her twenties, she worked in sustainable agriculture in California, Montana, Tennessee and Connecticut. During a spell working as a cook at a beautiful little Tibetan teahouse in Montana, tea found her. She didn't know where her love for tea would lead her, but had no choice but to follow. Her love of travel, agriculture, sustainability, and wellness, came together in tea and it made Sarah come alive! Since then, she has worked as a tea buyer, taster, and formulator for businesses and brands across the globe. She has seen traditional cultures around the world and how they share tea to cultivate peace, wisdom, and connection; how sacred movement and meditation enable us to drop into awareness of the magic of life. This is what Sarah wants to share with you… a pathway into the magic of life through the art and ritual of tea. Key points + takeaways: Sarah's 25+ year journey with tea, building multiple businesses to share tea with the world, the resistance she faced along the way + the lessons she's learned and integrated to build a business that feels True The difference between tea as a practice, plant medicine, + teacher and tea as a beverage The power of the ceremony of tea + how this practice of stillness can help us deepen into meditation with more ease and centeredness Honoring the Yin/Yang balance in our businesses — especially as female entrepreneurs Tune in now! CONNECT WITH SARAH: Instagram: Sarah Scarborough (@tea_huntress) • Instagram photos and videos IF YOU ENJOY THE PODCAST… We would love for you to subscribe, rate, and review it! This helps more people find the show and give it a listen. Thank you in advance :) CONNECT WITH EMILY: www.wmnup.co/mastermind - Explore, learn more, + book a consult before spaces are full! Instagram: instagram.com/emilycasselofficial | Instagram.com/wmnup Website: www.wmnup.co Insight Timer: http://insig.ht/emilycasselofficial

Sarah's journey with tea began when she was about 20 years old, although she believes she had been moving towards it all along. Her first memories are of extracting essences from the wildflowers her my backyard as a child, foraging healing plants with her Finnish grandmother, and studying heirloom seed catalogs. She always knew that she was going to work with plants when she grew up. At University and throughout her twenties, she worked in sustainable agriculture in California, Montana, Tennessee and Connecticut. During a spell working as a cook at a beautiful little Tibetan teahouse in Montana, tea found her. She didn't know where her love for tea would lead her, but had no choice but to follow. Her love of travel, agriculture, sustainability, and wellness, came together in tea and it made Sarah come alive! Since then, she has worked as a tea buyer, taster, and formulator for businesses and brands across the globe. She has seen traditional cultures around the world and how they share tea to cultivate peace, wisdom, and connection; how sacred movement and meditation enable us to drop into awareness of the magic of life. This is what Sarah wants to share with you… a pathway into the magic of life through the art and ritual of tea. Key points + takeaways: Sarah's 25+ year journey with tea, building multiple businesses to share tea with the world, the resistance she faced along the way + the lessons she's learned and integrated to build a business that feels True The difference between tea as a practice, plant medicine, + teacher and tea as a beverage The power of the ceremony of tea + how this practice of stillness can help us deepen into meditation with more ease and centeredness Honoring the Yin/Yang balance in our businesses — especially as female entrepreneurs Tune in now! CONNECT WITH SARAH: Instagram: Sarah Scarborough (@tea_huntress) • Instagram photos and videos IF YOU ENJOY THE PODCAST… We would love for you to subscribe, rate, and review it! This helps more people find the show and give it a listen. Thank you in advance :) CONNECT WITH EMILY: www.wmnup.co/mastermind - Explore, learn more, + book a consult before spaces are full! Instagram: instagram.com/emilycasselofficial | Instagram.com/wmnup Website: www.wmnup.co Insight Timer: http://insig.ht/emilycasselofficial

Sarah's journey with tea began when she was about 20 years old, although she believes she had been moving towards it all along. Her first memories are of extracting essences from the wildflowers her my backyard as a child, foraging healing plants with her Finnish grandmother, and studying heirloom seed catalogs. She always knew that she was going to work with plants when she grew up. At University and throughout her twenties, she worked in sustainable agriculture in California, Montana, Tennessee and Connecticut. During a spell working as a cook at a beautiful little Tibetan teahouse in Montana, tea found her. She didn't know where her love for tea would lead her, but had no choice but to follow. Her love of travel, agriculture, sustainability, and wellness, came together in tea and it made Sarah come alive! Since then, she has worked as a tea buyer, taster, and formulator for businesses and brands across the globe. She has seen traditional cultures around the world and how they share tea to cultivate peace, wisdom, and connection; how sacred movement and meditation enable us to drop into awareness of the magic of life. This is what Sarah wants to share with you… a pathway into the magic of life through the art and ritual of tea. Key points + takeaways: Sarah's 25+ year journey with tea, building multiple businesses to share tea with the world, the resistance she faced along the way + the lessons she's learned and integrated to build a business that feels True The difference between tea as a practice, plant medicine, + teacher and tea as a beverage The power of the ceremony of tea + how this practice of stillness can help us deepen into meditation with more ease and centeredness Honoring the Yin/Yang balance in our businesses — especially as female entrepreneurs Tune in now! CONNECT WITH SARAH: Instagram: Sarah Scarborough (@tea_huntress) • Instagram photos and videos IF YOU ENJOY THE PODCAST… We would love for you to subscribe, rate, and review it! This helps more people find the show and give it a listen. Thank you in advance :) CONNECT WITH EMILY: www.wmnup.co/mastermind - Explore, learn more, + book a consult before spaces are full! Instagram: instagram.com/emilycasselofficial | Instagram.com/wmnup Website: www.wmnup.co Insight Timer: http://insig.ht/emilycasselofficial

Today's book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney, who is Professor of History at Stanford University and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy; the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or lead editor of 7 books and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. Our guest is: Dr. Christopher Rea, who is a literary and cultural historian. His research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world, and his most recent publications concern research methods, cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. At University of British Columbia, he is a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies; former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research; an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and a Faculty Fellow of St. John's College. He co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth et al The Research Companion, by Petra Boynton How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco The Art of Creative Research, by Philip Gerald This podcast on learning from your failed research Welcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today's book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney, who is Professor of History at Stanford University and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy; the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or lead editor of 7 books and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. Our guest is: Dr. Christopher Rea, who is a literary and cultural historian. His research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world, and his most recent publications concern research methods, cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. At University of British Columbia, he is a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies; former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research; an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and a Faculty Fellow of St. John's College. He co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth et al The Research Companion, by Petra Boynton How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco The Art of Creative Research, by Philip Gerald This podcast on learning from your failed research Welcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Today's book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney, who is Professor of History at Stanford University and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy; the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or lead editor of 7 books and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. Our guest is: Dr. Christopher Rea, who is a literary and cultural historian. His research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world, and his most recent publications concern research methods, cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. At University of British Columbia, he is a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies; former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research; an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and a Faculty Fellow of St. John's College. He co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth et al The Research Companion, by Petra Boynton How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco The Art of Creative Research, by Philip Gerald This podcast on learning from your failed research Welcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

Today's book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney, who is Professor of History at Stanford University and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy; the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or lead editor of 7 books and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. Our guest is: Dr. Christopher Rea, who is a literary and cultural historian. His research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world, and his most recent publications concern research methods, cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. At University of British Columbia, he is a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies; former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research; an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and a Faculty Fellow of St. John's College. He co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth et al The Research Companion, by Petra Boynton How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco The Art of Creative Research, by Philip Gerald This podcast on learning from your failed research Welcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Today's book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, which tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: “How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?” This easy-to-follow workbook guides you to find research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Our guest is: Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney, who is Professor of History at Stanford University and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy; the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or lead editor of 7 books and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. Our guest is: Dr. Christopher Rea, who is a literary and cultural historian. His research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world, and his most recent publications concern research methods, cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. At University of British Columbia, he is a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies; former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research; an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and a Faculty Fellow of St. John's College. He co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: The Craft of Research, by Wayne Booth et al The Research Companion, by Petra Boynton How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco The Art of Creative Research, by Philip Gerald This podcast on learning from your failed research Welcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Impact Of Inflammation On Chronic Illness And Heart Disease - Monica Aggarwal, MD Monica Aggarwal, MD• http://www.drmonicaaggarwal.com • Book - In Body on Fire #MonicaAggarway#Inflammation  #ChronicIllness Monica Aggarwal, M.D. is a medical doctor, professor and author of; Body on Fire: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Illness and the Tools We Have to Fight It In Body on Fire is a (a newly updated revision of Finding Balance), where Drs. Monica Aggarwal along with Jyothi Rao help readers make an honest assessment of their energy, lifestyle, dietary habits, and mental state and provide a series of interventions for reclaiming health. In the book, they present in-depth explanations of the dangers of stressors on the body such as sedentary lifestyles, poor diet, and poor sleep habits. Specific plant-based foods that reduce harmful inflammation and nurture healthy digestive organisms are identified. Tools are provided to improve sleep habits, increase activity levels, and achieve adequate hydration. Techniques to increase the mind-body connection are discussed, the benefits of intermittent fasting are covered, and the importance of the microbiome and the impact of the gut on overall health is explored. Each chapter includes recommendations and action steps. This book is a prescription for restorative health and a roadmap to a stronger, healthier, more vital state of being. Dr Monica Aggarwal,is an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the University of Florida Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. She received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and subsequently went on to complete a residency in internal medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland and later continued her training at the University of Arizona where she participated in an integrative medicine fellowship.Dr. Aggarwal's own path to understanding the impact of nutrition in illness started soon after the birth of her third child, when she developed an advanced form of rheumatoid arthritis. She was placed on medications that gave her severe side effects. It was only through learning about the microbiome (gut), its impact on the immune system and the role of nutrition in affecting the gut, was she able to truly heal. Determined to change the face of medicine, Monica left private practice and returned to academics in order to pursue research on the role of diet and to create an integrative cardiology practice focused on nutrition and lifestyle.Dr. Aggarwal served as the Director of Integrative Cardiology and Prevention at the University of Florida for 4 ½ years. There, she focused on promoting food as the foundation of healing and for its medicinal value. In her clinic, she emphasizes plant-based nutrition and often performs multiple mind-body techniques with her patients, including yoga and meditation. At University of Florida, she was also the Director of Medical Education for Cardiology, where she directed education for medical residents and cardiology fellows, with a focus on prevention, nutrition, and lifestyle. 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Host Yasmine Vaughan Interviews Dr. Carrie Jo Cain,  Dr. Solomon Samura, and Dr. Benjamin Banguara in Sierra Leone, West Africa on their work to understand the causes of child mortality and impact global health and child survival rates. CHAMPS works in Mali, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Bangladesh and is moving into India and Nigeria in the next year. CHAMPS participates in Helping Children Worldwide's global health coalition, Together for Global Health. To learn more about TGH, go to https://www.helpingchildrenworldwide.org/together-for-global-health.htmlFor information from the World Health Organization about the progress in reducing child mortality: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/levels-and-trends-in-child-under-5-mortality-in-2020#:~:text=Since%201990%2C%20the%20global%20under,1%20in%2027%20in%202020.Joseph Benjamin Banguara is a self-motivated Public Health and Preventive Medicine expert with more than 18 years of experience in public health practice. At World Hope, Joseph coordinates all Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) activities in the southern region of Sierra Leone. At University of Makeni (UNIMAK), Joseph has been lecturing public health courses both at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, supervising students on dissertation writing and placement for the past 7 years. Prior to World Hope, Joseph was Technical Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Team in Bombali District Northern Sierra Leone. Prior to this, Joseph worked as a Project Coordinator, Global Collaboration to Improve Patient Safety Management in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone for China Medical Board and Central South University in the People Republic of China (PRC). Joseph has a strong background on health-related research with publications on International Journals. Joseph also worked as Regional Coordinator-North, in the Community Health Workers (CHW) Program in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone. Joseph holds a Bachelor Degree in Public Health; Master's Degree of Public Health (MPH) specialized in medicine; and currently a PhD candidate in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, major in Epidemiology and Health statistics awaiting result at the Central South University, China.The Strategic Development Goals adopted by most countries around the globe include reducing newborn mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births in every country; and reduce under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births in every country.Substantial global progress has been made in reducing childhood mortality since 1990. The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to 5 million in 2020. Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 60%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 37 in 2020. This is equivalent to 1 in 11 children dying before reaching age 5 in 1990, compared to 1 in 27 in 2020.While the global under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) fell to 37 (35–­­40) deaths per 1000 live births in 2020, children in sub-Saharan Africa continued to have the highest rates of mortality in the world at 74 (68–­­86) deaths per 1000 live births- 14 times higher than the risk for children in Europe and North America. For more information regarding mortality in Sierra Leone, please check out the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA) for Sierra Leone and their publications: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X21004599

We are all exposed to leadership lessons throughout our lives, yet for most of the time we are unaware of them.  When we were children, we didn't think about what it meant to be a leader. Adults were all seen as leaders and they seemed to be unassailable authority figures whom we had to obey. In sports, maybe we were selected as the captain of the team or maybe we weren't, but either way we didn't think too much about what it meant to be a successful leader. At University we might have taken on a leadership role in one of the varsity clubs, but we weren't necessarily thinking about the intricacies of leadership.  We just went with what we had at that point.  The exception though were those students who had decided they wanted a life in politics and so they were very keen to exert their leadership muscles to pad out their resume for future requirements.   When we hit the workforce, we entered a hierarchical world of different pay levels and designated leadership positions.  As new entrants, we may have been given some basic training, but we certainly were not given leadership training, as that was thought to be too early in the piece.  After toiling long and hard, we start to accumulate successes and attract greater responsibilities.  At some point we will be given a supervisory role over a project or a small team and then perhaps responsibility for our section.  At this point we may not receive any leadership training, even though we are now being held responsible for leading the team.   We are expected to work it out for ourselves based on self-study and combing back through our lives for examples of people who were in leadership positions.  That would include family members, teachers, sports coaches, classmates, bosses, etc.  We probably absorbed these influences without thought and they have planted some assumptions into our mind about what a leader is and what a leader does.  We will have cobbled together a disparate, idiosyncratic form of leadership.  It won't have a formal structure and it will be missing bits all over the place.   About this time, we will start to realise that actually there is a lot more to this leadership thing than we imagined.  Here is the big dividing line.  Some leaders will just keep going with their trial and error, organic approach to leadership.  They don't seek a teacher to help them learn what they are missing or to uncover the best practices available for leaders. Often their firms are also unwilling to invest in them and they are just expected to work it out for themselves.   Other leaders will start looking for information on leading, reading books, watching videos, listening to podcasts etc.  The amazing thing about modern business today is that there is an army of people out there putting up immense amounts of information for free, on the basis of their content marketing approach.  I am a member of that content creator army too, punching out six podcasts a week on Apple Podcasts, publishing articles in Forbes and on Medium, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  I have written books on business and selling in Japan.  I am currently writing one on leading in Japan.  My point is there is a tremendous amount of free stuff available for any aspirant leader to absorb.   Basically there is absolutely no excuse for anyone to be thrashing around trying to work it out by themselves.  Business is too complex today for that and everyone in a leadership position has to become a student of leadership.  Ideally, the company will organise training for you or they will give you the money to go source it for yourself.  I have been sent to Harvard, Stanford and Insead business schools for expensive executive courses and all were great experiences, for flying the plane at 30,000 feet.    What I found though is you also need practical, immediately implementable down to earth in the mud and the blood, leadership training as well.  How do you get innovation, communicate, plan, handle mistakes, delegate, make decisions, do performance reviews, coach and develop your people.  These are the nuts and bolts of leadership on a daily basis and we will have picked up parts of these from just observing what our bosses and other leaders do.  It is so much better though to start studying about how to lead and to take courses which focus on the nuts and bolts aspects of the job.    Practical leadership courses are good because these are low on theory and high on applicability to your daily reality.  I found the varsity case studies interesting, but often also difficult to apply into my daily reality.  Practical leadership courses will spend more time on providing broad structures and have you fill in the blanks, as you create your own case studies based on the reality you are facing.  Two people from the same firm, in the same industry will come up with entirely different content, because each is addressing their particular reality. The practical classes will also produce a lot of ideas and insights, sourced from your classmates, as you can draw on their experiences both good and bad.  

In this episode, Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Delaware, Prof Karin Grävare Silbernagel, talks about her research into tendonopathy. Today, Karin talks about her historical perspective on tendonopathy, the future of tendonopathy research, and her presentation at the WCSPT. Is pain really worrisome? Hear about tendon loading, chasing the shiny new objects, creating expectations with patients, treating different kinds of tendons, and get her valuable advice, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.   Key Takeaways “If you just want zero pain, don't do anything, but that's really not what you want. You want to be able to move.” “Sometimes in our eagerness to do good, we get a little crazy.” “This is not a quick fix. This takes time.” “Just because it takes longer, does not mean a tendon has poor healing.” “Always have fun. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing.” “It's a long life to work. Don't hurry to get to the endpoint.”   More about Karin Grävare Silbernagel Karin Grävare Silbernagel PT, ATC, PhD is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. She is a clinical scientist with a strong record of mentoring clinical scientists (primary advisor for 10 PhD student – completed, and 8 current PhD students). Her expertise is in orthopaedics and musculoskeletal injury with a focus on tendon and ligament injury. She has been a physical therapist for over 30 years and performed research for over 20 years. At University of Delaware, she is the principal investigator of the Delaware Tendon Research Group and the Delaware ACL Research Group. Her work has been directly integrated into the clinical guidelines for treatment of patients with tendon injuries. She has presented her research at numerous conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals (100+ published articles to date). She has also been invited to speak about her research at conferences nationally and internationally. As the principal investigator of Tendon Research Group at the University of Delaware, she is working to advance understanding of tendon injuries and repair so that tailored treatments can be developed. The Delaware Tendon Research Group is an interdisciplinary team focused on improving treatment outcomes for tendon injuries. Her research approach is to evaluate tendon health and recovery by quantifying tendon composition, structure, and mechanical properties, as well as patients' impairments and symptoms. Her research is funded by the NIH, Foundation for Physical Therapy, Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, and Swedish Research Council.   Suggested Keywords Healthy, Wealthy, Smart, Healthcare, Physiotherapy, Research, Tendonopathy, Pain, Injuries, Treatment, WCSPT, Education,   World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy   To learn more, follow Karin at: Website:          https://sites.udel.edu/kgs                         https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/chs/departments/pt/faculty/karin-gravare-silbernagel Twitter:            @kgsilbernagel                         @udtendongroup Instagram:       @udtendongroup Facebook:       Delaware Tendon Research Group   Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:               https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Full Transcript Here:  00:03 Hi, Karen, welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy to have you on and really excited to talk about tendinopathy research and treatment and clinical application. Super excited.   00:14 Thank you. I'm equally excited to be here to talk about my favorite topic.   00:18 Yeah. And later on, we will talk about, we'll give a little sneak peek to everyone about your topic. At the fourth World Congress is sport physical therapy in Denmark happening August 26, and 27th. So for those of you who want that fun sneak peek, you'll have to wait until the end of the interview for that. Because what we're going to start with is, I really want to know, the historical perspective of tendinopathy research and how it's been translated into the clinic. So us, as we spoke, before we went on 18 years ago, you wrote your thesis. And so you've got a really great vantage point to look back on, what what tendinopathy research was, where we're at. And then later on, maybe we'll talk about where you see it going. But I'll just hand the mic over to you. So you can kind of give us that historical perspective.   01:20 Thank you. And I think that, as we spoke about, too, I feel like I'm getting older because more and more my historical perspective kind of comes in. But I think it's important when I started as a physical therapist, so I started clinically in 1990. And when I started, we had in my courses and things you know, talked about muscle, you talked about ligament injuries, and all these things. And then the tendon was just this rope that went in between the muscle and the bone. And that was kind of it. And then when I started practicing, and I worked in Baltimore, and we worked a lot with with baseball players and things, and everybody had tendinitis was super undisciplined ages, tendinitis, Achilles tendinitis. So everybody had this inflammation in the tendon that we never really talked about. So okay, I felt like I was no dummy. I learned medical terminology. So I know itis was inflammation. So obviously, they had inflammation in this tendon, because that was the name was. So I thought our treatments then really, were treating the word. So we were really trying to rest because it was acute inflammation. We tried ice we did I onto freezes and fauna, for races, and they weren't allowed to load and all these kinds of things. And surprisingly, hopefully, some patients got better anyway. But that really sparked my interest into tendon in general, like, what is this? And then later on in the 1990s, that came up more and more research, Korean and Spanish started thinking about, you know, Achilles tendon would hurt more maybe when they were loaded, ie centrically and running, so maybe we need to train that and people are starting more thinking about how do we exercise and mostly maybe the lower extremity, tendon tendinitis. And then we had more research looking at if there was inflammatory components in the tendon. So if you took out cells and things too, there wasn't actually an acute inflammation. So this idea is maybe wasn't true. And that really opened the door for if it's not an acute inflammation, what do we do? So then in the late 1990s, beyond the curve is in Standish, it was another researcher knees and we're Tolman that looked at concentric versus eccentric loading. And then Hogan offense on in Sweden to started to have patients that were waiting to get surgery and he started like, okay, we're really going to load them, you know, we got a heavy load them, because maybe that's what they need, if not an acute inflammation, and started to see people get better if you actually load in them instead of resting them. At the same time we did our I started my PhD things, too, we started looking at, okay, should it be more overload, and we used our pain monitoring model versus the standard treatment that was, you know, circulation exercises, bilateral up and down, but not really trying to load it heavy. And what we started to see those exercise program that loaded more had better effect than the more like generic, protective things kind of things, too. So that's really when things started to change. Right. So I think the historical perspective is we didn't do anything. And we started to do things. And we had these huge jump in outcomes, which is brilliant. And our studies then was, you know, we were looking more at, you know, the Sylvan angle protocol, comprehensive, we use pain monitoring model to guide but also the loading and the exercises to kind of low beyond and not be worried about the pain because if the pain wasn't acute inflammation, maybe wasn't so worrisome, and loading the tendon was painful, but that was also the treatment. So we needed something to kind of understand how much could you really load. So we started with this exercises and being able to load and having kind of achieved this kind of change. I think that was really the the ultimate thing that happened in the late night. 90s, early 2000 And it was the combination of Korean and Spanish hooking out for some did we had programs and kind of moving that forward.   05:10 And there's something that you said in that? Well, a lot of what you said in there that I just want to pull out if we can. So, one thing that you just said is, is pain worrisome? And I think that's a really, really provocative question. Because if you ask the person living with the pain, yeah. And so how, as the therapist, if we're treating someone with a tendinopathy, let's say it's an Achilles tendinopathy, and the treatment induces pain, how do we communicate to the patient? That it's not as worrisome as you think it is?   05:53 Yeah, thank you for that question. And I think that's why the pain monitoring model that we've had, and really the pain monitoring model started with roll on to me who was my advisor, in patellofemoral. Pain, and that's when we applied it. And I think from the patellofemoral, pain, we kind of seen the same path, right? Just resting, it doesn't help you need to get strong. And then we will the tendons seems to be the same thing. And I think the pain monitoring model has been a lot of discussion is, you know, we go up to five is okay, and those things, to tell you the truth, I really don't care if it's five, or four, or whatever, I think it's that communication to the patient and communication that waiting for this pain to become zero, if that's the goal. And what I say to everybody was my lecture, and you might have heard that too, I'm like, Well, if that's the goal, I can tell the patient come in here, lie down on my nice little plants here in the office, you lie there, and I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee. And when I come back, you don't have any pain. So I've treated your pain, right. So I kind of start, I think, with the education. So the point is, if you just want zero pain, don't do anything. But that's really not what you want, you want to be able to move. So if you want to be able to move, you also need to get this tissue to tolerate more loading. And in order to do that, we actually need to load it. So we recover. So I spent a lot of time kind of explaining talking about this thing, so that there might be some pain when we're loading it, or without load, you're not getting anywhere. And what happened to a lot of people, they had some pain, the rest of it did last and they tried to do something a pain and they just D decline. And I talk a lot about hardening your tissues, right? This is loading, hardening of tissues. So the conversation is my goal with treatment is to increase the tolerance of your tissue over time, while keeping your pain level the same. So that's kind of the thing. So so your pain level, I'm fine with that you're not going to rupture, which is good thing to say for Achilles tendon rupture. That's like the big catastrophe. If that's not an issue, then we can follow it to and then we have the discussion. You know, above five, it's not good, or I don't know, you've seen Twitter, sometimes Twitter, that I use five, right? And I, I really don't care. I think the point is, there is a point of pain when pain goes from, it's uncomfortable to Ouch, I don't want it to be Ouch, I want it to be in five seems to be around in that round, right? And people can understand the difference in that. And it's, you know, you have the other conversation with the people that says, But I have really high pain tolerance. So this might not work for me. Well, you know, it's subjective. So I always tell them absolutely works even better for people like you. So, you know, sometimes maybe I'm a little silly, but that's. So I think that's kind of the point of really using it. So for me, the pain monitoring model is a way for discussing it and then using it. Some people feel like it's focusing too much on the pain, I actually think is does the opposite, right? Because it removes the worry. So I'm going to put a number on it. And it's just a number and everything else. And then we use training diary. So I use training diaries, you write down, you know, morning pain, worst, lowest everything else that you do. And then if I have three or four weeks, we can start comparing, and then people actually start seeing the numbers change with the activity, or the number stays the same. So I'm using it more of a of a descriptor, because if you just ask somebody you have pain, it's like they're gonna ask them what they did earlier. Right? And none of us remember, we don't remember how much pain was when we not painful. And so that's kind of how we using it in my description.   09:23 Yeah, I think thank you for that. I think that's great. And that also kind of answered my next question is how much load? How much can you load? How much load isn't? Is is enough? How much is too much? And I think you kind of answered that within that. But you want to expand on that a little bit or I feel Yeah, so I think   09:39 I think that's within the pain monitoring model too. Right? We're looking at that. But then you also have knowledge based on how the cells responds how the tendon response and I think that's where the next thing in the history perspective is now we're starting to see you know, which protocol is better. So now they're comparing Silvernail and offer zones or East centric loading, and it's all these. And really when you compare them, it's not that big of a difference. Right? The heavy slow resistance. I just say that you know who canal for some was in northern Sweden, he trained twice a day. I'm from Gothenburg and middle, we do once a day. And then you go down to Denmark, they did the three times a week for heavy slow, right? So Danish people are lazier than you know. But I think the point is, when you're looking at the data, actually, the outcomes are not that difference. You know, there might be some, you know, we can always argue that we're more satisfied with this. But when you're looking at the mechanical properties and things, you don't see that big of a difference anymore. And I think because I think you reached a saturation point, right? We've done no loading to loading now everybody does good. And I think for us as PTS now we're trying to manipulate more and more in that little realm, that for everybody, we might not see it when we do big studies comparing one group to the other, because I think we need to talk about individualized instead of precision rehabilitation and things too. So I think kind of that's where we're getting at. And they've been great studies coming on from unstuffy Agha Gordon Denmark from her thesis looking at moderate versus heavy and patellar tendon. And so I think that for the loading, you need to load them, you need to use the pain monitoring model, we need to do the progressive loading. But I as a PT would less worry about if I if you did two sets too little or five pounds to less, I think that's less of an issue.   11:29 Yeah. And when you said individual, I actually just wrote that down individualized care as you were speaking, because if all of the different protocols have basically the same outcome, then does it come down to what can the patient do, given the constraints of their life? Or their schedule? Or you know, their job? So do you have someone who can do something three times a day? Or do you have does this person might do better three times a week with heavy slow resistance, or, you know, it really depends on what the patient can do. Because the best protocol, I would assume is the one that patient is compliant with.   12:12 And I think you and I have been around way too long for this too, right? So because, you know, when you started, when you were at least when I started when I was young, right? You were so excited for every exercise. So I guess kept on adding to my poor patients like removing something No, no, that's a really good exercise. And you're adding. And what I'm getting to is that if I can get you to do something consistent with two or three exercises, I'm much better off giving you two or three exercises that you do consistently, than trying to think that I'm going to give you a ton of things. And I have patients now that are you know, they they come back, they come back every four or five weeks and see me or they send me an email and they do their exercise, because I told them to do for Achilles like bilateral three sets of 15. And then do unilateral three sets of 15. And do that for your rest of your life. Like you're brushing your teeth, and I'm like, you could probably go down to doing them less, or you can do heavier in the gym. And some people don't go to the gym, they don't want to do that. So you kind of modify it to kind of get some of the exercises there too. So I think that I think the biggest key is that you need to load you need to do things. And then instead of getting too hyped up for all the specifics, I think that's really where we're moving forward. And I had I had a lady that you know, recently with insertional tendinopathy that had been to the doctor been to all these other clinics, and there's thrown all these things on or didn't get better. And then it was massaging it. And it was like dry needling and the instrument assisted and those kinds of things to me, she was just getting worse. And I'm like, Well, I just think you should do these three exercises once a day. And she's doing and she's like, I'm walking. I'm not limping, you know. So sometimes in our eagerness to do good, I think we get a little crazy.   13:49 Yeah, and that brings me to the next thing I wanted to talk about. And it's sort of the shiny new object syndrome that a lot of people will get. And we spoke a little bit about this before going on the air. And I said a lot of it is sort of the theatrics around different kinds of shiny new objects. So how how would you address that to say younger clinicians? In you know, obviously talking about tendinopathy   14:14 Yeah, so I think that that one thing and it's still hard, I mean, I teach Doctor physical therapy students and then they go out and they completely forgot what I said. Right? So I think there's certain things everybody wants to go to clinical course and learn something more hands on and something more specific but I think that to me, the attitude is what we really try to teach them is like what tissue is that? How does that tissue respond right? To start understanding the underlying mechanisms because then you have then you have an understanding to build the other thing on instead of not having the understanding and just thinking that you doing things and then then you might be changing the shiny objects without thinking about the mechanism. So I'm very much a mechanism person in to try to think about why would we do it, but you all No need to realize that just putting the hand on somebody is very, very strong treatment effect. That's not, that's the same as listening to somebody and paying attention. And I have a colleague Now Greg Hicks has done finishing a trial looking at strengthening specifically for low back and an older in the control group who got hot, hot pack and massage as the placebo control. And they did really well too, right. So even we have mechanism, we should not be afraid of doing things that might help the patient in that sense. But we the explanations and things for what you're doing, you got to be really careful for right. And I think that I have a great effect on my patients, because I think I have a good program. We know what we're doing. I know it works. But I'm also not under estimating that if you can Google me, you're going to get better just by coming seeing me because he's going to assume that at least I know what I'm doing. So, you know, I utilize that effect too. So you just need to thinking about what we're doing. And I'm very scared of chasing the shiny objects for the wrong reason, because maybe that shiny object would be really good for a specific reason. And if we throw it on everything, we've lost, what is good for?   16:12 Yeah, if you beat me to it, I was just gonna say also people probably come to you knowing your background, and the work that you do. So they're coming in, like primed, like, this is she is the expert, I'm in the right hands. I know, this is gonna, you know, this is a person who's going to help me and that's a huge part of the rehab process is that trust that you have in the practitioner and that therapeutic relationship, but it also sounds like you're giving realistic expectations, and describing realistic expectations to your patients, which, again, takes time. And I know a lot of therapists like why only have a half an hour with them, how can I how can I spend 15 or 20 minutes talking to them? So what would you say to that kind of a comment?   17:02 Yeah, and I think that's another thing that happens over the years. Like, I feel like I do less and talk more, but that might be just my personality, too. But, but I think that that's without that understanding, when you start that therapeutic alliance or understanding why you're, as you're doing, you're not going to get anywhere. And patients and especially patients with tendon injuries and tendinopathies. I mean, it takes six months to a year, I tell them that right away, it takes six months a year, you can do what I say, I'm pretty sure you're gonna get really well, you might not be 100%, I'm gonna get you definitely to 80 or 90%. If you don't do what I say, we can meet here in a year again, it doesn't bother me. Right? So it's handy because I think when I was younger, I tried to take on the problem and I I'm handing it back right away. I'm like, doesn't bother me if he doesn't do don't do it, you know, you can just come back to understanding and I think the other part from from the young clinicians were tendon injuries is the biggest thing is, this is not a quick fix. This takes time. And what you see a lot with the younger clinicians or maybe younger, my younger self, too, is like your to do treatment for two, three weeks, and they're not there yet. And then you get worried. And when you get worried the patient get worried. And then you start changing things. And then then they get more worried because you don't seem like you know what you're doing right, you know, it's setting the expectations. This is what you're going to do. It's not any cool exercises, this is going to take time, and having the training diaries that I follow over time and they say, You know what, I don't think much of happening. I'm like, Well, you weren't here three months ago, you could only walk one mile, but the pain of five. And now you're jogging for miles. I'm like, I think that's a pretty good improvement. Right? So having those to kind of working on and I think that's really, really important.   18:45 Yeah, and my next question is, is are all tendons created equal? So we sort of alluded to an Achilles tendon and a patellar tendon or we can talk about, you know, a golfer's elbow or tennis elbow. So when we're talking about all these different tendons, are they all created equal? And can we kind of throw the same treatments at each one, regardless of the part of the body?   19:10 Yeah, so again, it's kind of the same thing that attendance is a tendon in certain tendons structures, right? But all tendons are meant to connect muscle to bone and allow for mobility and that help us however, the design of those tendons are also meant for what they're good for. Right? So the Achilles tendon is the biggest tendon in the body because it's generates a lot of force and helps us move it move. patellar tendon is a little bit different isn't big, but it also tries to help change the angle of force around the knees. So then we put a patella and so all of a sudden we have compression and tendons are not very good for compression. The rotator cuff is more of a flatter tendon, that has a lot of curvature and the compression there is a problem right? So the flatter tendon combines more. Spread the force versus around tendon they kill As tenderness and then you're thinking about tendons in the hand, right, they are really long and thin, to be able to manipulate the fingers really gently build up the force gently. So they have different functions. And soon as you have different function, the tendon has to be slightly designed differently, which makes if it's designed differently, the treatment or the loading might be needed to be very differently. So I think one of the biggest thing is a tendon is really good for tensile forces, but not a good for compression forces. So for example, the rotator cuff, when you're talking about these overload tears is usually an inferior kind of compression that slowly degenerates, a tear. And the Achilles tendon is nothing like that at all. It's a high load, that kind of happen because you pull it apart just like Play Doh, you pull it apart from two different ends, and it kind of can rupture. So I think those are really, really important. What we also see as the lower extremity tendons seem to respond fairly similar. They're not as high in central sensitization indexes and don't have those things versus differently when you're looking at upper extremity tended to So there are definitely differences. So you need to kind of thinking about the basics, that it's not probably an acute inflammation that we need to treat it and then you need to start thinking about what does this tendon do? Is it being compressed as a flat? What are the other structures? Right? So Achilles tendon, you know, that is Achilles tendon. The real problem is, it's right there. There's not much else. That's why I study it, because it's easy to study versus the rotator cuff. We talk less about rotator cuff tendinopathy. And we talk more about shoulder pain, right? More because we not so sure. Is it purely the tendon? That's the problem and other things   21:40 add a lot more structures around it than just the Achilles tendon. That can adjust the Achilles. Sorry, but yeah, yeah. Yeah. So the little, a little more complicated area of the body will say, yes, yeah. So, you know, I think it's great to sort of look at that historical perspective. And I love that you kind of talked about where we are now, where do you see research moving towards, in the tendinopathy? field?   22:12 So now we're getting little bit into what I'm going to talk about in Denmark, too. But I think, yes, so one of the big things that we're really working on, is that, okay, I felt like we kind of reached this point, we're doing really well with everybody. But again, you know, if you look at average, with a big group, we're still not 100% On average, right? Some people aren't 100% recovered, versus some people are not. And why is that and we can't manipulate the treatment anymore. I need to figure out who do I treat how right we've been there in other areas, too. So really, what we're doing in our in our research now is really trying to use various statistical models and larger group data to really first evaluate, we'll be starting to call a tendon health, I'm really proposing that tendinopathy might be more of a biological disease, more like you're talking about knee osteoarthritis, there used to be just wear and tear, and now it's a biological disease, I think tendinopathy need to be considered the same way. And the reason I say that is because it's not just that the tendons structure had changed, or that you have pain, there's so many other variables related to it, like you have personal factors too, like BMI or diabetes affects them in differently cholesterol do so you have the metabolic factors, you have the personal factors, right. And you have, you know, the fear factors, and all these kinds of things play a role. So we call that our tendon health model. We really started with function, structure, pain and symptom, psychosocial factors. And then I realized it was a person too. So we actually have personal factors. And based on that we're trying to figure out are there different? Because you can't, we can in clinic, you can treat every person in singular, right? But, but we need to also to have more of the precision health understand what we do in the health system understanding are the various groupings. So who should we treat how to be very efficient. And that's some of the research that we're working on now. It'd be looked at my PhD students try and handle and found like, we have different groups, we have what we call activity dominant, which might be the one so we see a lot of them, the runner's active, they don't have a lot of symptoms, they don't have a lot of deficits, tenant is not that bad. versus group that we've called structure dominant, that are heavier, they have really horrible looking tendon, that poor function. And then we have a group that we call psychosocial dominant, that maybe the worst are not the best, but they're people with higher fear, decreasing function, but the tendon might not be so bad. And when we started thinking about that, well, now you can understand maybe how you can treat them a little differently. And then we can start looking at how should we treat them based on looking at randomized controlled trials because from a researcher perspective, if I threw all of those in, and I do the same treatment, some of them might benefit a lot and some of them don't and then the treatment is seared out right. There is no difference. But then I lost Ask the benefit for the ones that might benefit and I lost learning from the ones that didn't benefit the needed something else.   25:07 Fascinating. And you're going to be talking about this in Denmark.   25:12 Absolutely. And we have new data, how it changes over time and all those kinds of things. Yeah, well   25:18 don't give it all away. Now. Will we want people to go to Denmark to see you present this live? Demo? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it sounds fascinating. I love the idea of a tendon health structure. And I love how it's it is, seems to be evolving to be more about the whole person, not just someone with a tendon injury. Yeah. Right. Because like you said, it could be like, two people can have the same injury. It could be one could be a postmenopausal woman who has the same injury as a young 30 Something male runner, maybe they both have an Achilles tendinopathy. But are you going to treat them exactly the same?   26:01 Yeah. And I think that's when we need to start thinking about this, some of the programs are maybe the same, but how do you modify them? And what are the expectations? And then what are the other things that you can add on to that, to really make sure that we get more people up to 100%, and really try to focus on them. And as a researcher, sometimes those things get lost. And that makes that's concerning to me.   26:26 But I for one cannot wait to hear that talk in Denmark. Now. Before we start wrapping things up here, what advice maybe give three tips, if you want to give more or less whatever you want. But what would you give to what tips would you give to clinicians who are treating patients with tendinopathy? Injuries? I don't know if I want to say injuries, if that's quite the word, but diagnoses let's say, so what are your top tips?   26:59 So my top tip is to kind of think about what that it is the structure and that structure responds differently than muscle structure and bone structure to thinking about it from that from the tissue level when you're designing the treatment program. And I think the number one is tendon takes longer to recover than other tissues. So setting that expectations right away. I mean, it's a clear indication when you're looking at hamstring injuries, is it purely muscle or is it more proximal with a tendon is clearly evidence to show that it takes longer. So if you have that expectation and sitting down to explain, but just because it takes longer does not mean a tendon has poor healing, it has very adequate healing is just healing that takes a little longer. And sometimes I even explain that that is a good thing. Because a tendon can last you for a very long time. Like for marathon runners, the Achilles tendon rebounds you so you can run a whole marathon, if your muscle was doing that, you'd be fatigued way earlier, and you wouldn't be able to do it. So the low metabolism is beneficial. But this is the rehab, it's going to take your time. So that's one of my biggest thing and taking time to kind of thinking through that. The other piece of advice is do not panic. And my clinician in our clinic, they tell me back to others what I say because I always tell the patient right away, you're going to get better. This is going to take time, and you're going to have setbacks. And I want to tell clinicians that to the patients are going to have setbacks, they're going to come but don't panic when they have setbacks. You know, it just is what it is. And if you set the expectations right away, the patient's going to come in and have a setback. Now they're like, Yeah, I have my setback. But you told me I would eventually have it right? Instead of not expecting them because then we react on a dime, oh, they're worse today. What am I going to do? And what am I to change? Like, no, this is part of life that goes up, it goes down and moving. So I think those two things, and along with really using the pain monitoring model, and training diaries are my key things.   29:04 Great advice. And I love that do not panic, because they know when you're panicking, yes, right? The eye you know, they see it in your face. And like you said, you start throwing everything in the kitchen sink on there. And they're like, Well, wait a second, what just happened here? I thought you said I could just do this. But I always tell patients like this is not a linear journey. It's not like you're going up a roller coaster and it's going to be linear and perfect. Like it's going to go up, it's going to dip down, it's going to come up maybe dip down but not as much and then you're gonna go up again and you know, it's a little bit more of a squiggly line and that's okay. And people really do appreciate that because setting expectations is paramount. I always feel like if I do nothing else, if they hear nothing else, at least they have an idea of what to expect. So that it's not crazy. Just   29:59 And I think the training diary to me, I use it for any patient for anything, I think that was really key too, because that calms all of us down. Let's see, let's go back here five weeks, wherever we're at what you were doing. And then we can see the pattern. And I even had one person that gave me like an Excel spreadsheet, and a color coded the pain. And if you looked over like a year, you can see that red and orange decrease and the green was increased, you know what I mean? Those are the patterns that you want to see. And it's hard to see those in your daily life. So that's why I think that's really important.   30:32 Yeah, that is a dedicated patient. Yes,   30:35 I do. But yeah,   30:38 yes, well, right. Right. But well, this was great. Where can people find you? If they have questions? Maybe you're on social media? Where can people find you?   30:51 I am on social media at kg silver Nagel, I think I'm on Twitter, is the main one is that but I also run the Delaware tendon research group, and attend them on a ligament research group. So on Twitter, we also have the UD tendon group. We're also on Facebook, and we're also on Instagram. And I'm easily found the University of Delaware and Department of Physical Therapy to please feel free to reach out and connect with us, you know, on the social media and those kinds of things that we're doing. And I'm very excited to discuss these clinical things.   31:26 And if you don't mind, can we talk a little bit about the Delaware attending group because you guys have some projects that you're working on to do you want to tell the listeners about those projects? In case you know, you need recruiting or you need volunteers? So go ahead.   31:42 Yes, we always need volunteers. So we actually have we have a lot of ongoing studies, but one of the big ones that NIH funded right now is we're looking at comparing men and women with Achilles tendinopathy. So we're up to 145 recruited patients out of 200, we had a little dip around COVID. So we're actually providing treatment for anybody that is around the Delaware Philadelphia area, please feel free to reach out or send your patients. We're also have ACL studies ongoing. One of the big ones also been relating to tendon is looking at the recovery from patellar tendon grafts to see how they change over time, how does that tend to actually recover? And could that if the doesn't recover fully, can that explain some of the deficits that we do see their ACLs injuries to we're also hoping to soon start more of looking at insertional, Achilles tendinopathy, with treatments we have. And one study with shockwave treatment, we have studies that we're hoping to start now looking more at metabolic factors, and getting a little blood draws and those things. So we have on our website with all of those things going on. So if anybody's interested, please feel free to reach out or look at our website.   32:53 Perfect. And we'll have a link to that at podcast at healthy, wealthy smart.com under this episode, so one click and we'll take you right there. So before we end, I have one question. Question I asked everyone and knowing where you are now in your life and in your career, what advice would you give to your younger self, and you can pick which ever age of your younger self you   33:14 would like. So I'm going to pick myself before I even went to PT school, because one of my mantras is to always have fun, and I will stick to that now. And I'll stick to that younger because if it's not fun, it's not worth doing, even if it's research and those things. So do anything that's fun. But I was did not want to go to school in Sweden, I wanted to do sports medicine wanted to go to the US. But I was very worried that if I didn't get in, when I was 20 that I wasn't going to go to PT school because it took four years and then I would be too old when I graduated before I was ready. So I wasn't going to go luckily I got in and I stayed on. So I think to to my younger self. It's a really long working life. So just keep on having fun and plugging along and learning more things. And I have taken the really long path to academia with the clinician for many years and doing those kinds of things. So that I'm happy for so I'm glad I got in and didn't say I wasn't going to do it. Because who cares if I was 2425?   34:14 Yeah, and that's so young. Yes, but isn't it funny when you're 1819 20? You're like, Oh, forget it. I'll be an old person by then 25 behind the eight ball when of course, now that were a little older, we can look back on that and be like, Oh my God. Yes. And   34:34 I mean, it's like it's, it's a long life to work. Don't hurry to get to the endpoint, right? Enjoy it get experienced during that time, because as I tell our students, I've had a lot of fun during my years and worked with sports workers, clinician travel, research, academia, you know, you got to have fun.   34:53 Absolutely. Well, and on that note, I want to thank you for coming on the podcast and having such a fun conversations. Well, thank you so much. And everyone, if you want to get a chance to see current speak live, then join us at the fourth World Congress, a sports physical therapy, it is in Denmark and August 26 and 27th of this year. And not only will you get to see speakers like yourself, but there's also going to be great networking, activity breaks, things like yoga, or running or walking tours, paddle paddleboarding, all sorts of fun stuff. So it's again, not going to be quite your average conference, and a lot of it is going to be clinically focused and clinically based. So I think that's really important. I think a lot of times people think, Oh, we go to these conferences, it's going to be researchers just talking about their research and how's that going to affect me clinically? Well, this conference is all about that. So I think, right? Absolutely agree. Yeah. So come join us in Denmark. Again, thank you so much for coming on. And everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.

My guest this week is Iain Dale, radio presenter, commentator, blogger, publisher, author and former Parliamentary candidate. Iain talks about why he turns down many TV invitations these days, why he hates the ‘gotcha' style of interviewing and why the long form interview is back in vogue. He also reveals how he has gotten people to open up to him in a way that they haven't to other interviewers. Iain reflects on how it used to be a challenge for him to interview people he knew well, e.g. David Davis, but that that isn't the case now. He says he can get more out of someone through the soft form, non-confrontational interview, and he likens David Frost's interview style to that of Lt. Columbo. Iain reflects on his recent LBC interview with former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow and the interview he conducted with David Amess, six months before he was murdered. We talk about the difference between a radio and a podcast interview and find out which former Prime Minister Iain is waiting to interview and why he wishes he had had the chance to interview Douglas Hurd. At University, Iain studied German, Linguistics and Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and Iain discusses how he got into the media, and how he has a lot of freedom in the type of radio he does. On LBC he gets to give his opinions, but Iain explains why he isn't a ‘shock jock'. Iain discloses why he doesn't like wishy washy centrist elections, why the Falklands War was the big ‘sliding doors' moment of his life and how setting up a Conservative Association at UEA was a defining moment for him. Iain talks about ‘shy Tory syndrome' at British universities, why Labour has lost the last four elections and why he has been called ‘the thinking man's Brexiteer'. Iain also reveals how his time at LBC has knocked off the harder edges of his views on social issues, and Iain reflects on what would have happened if he had been elected as an MP. We find out how he came to do a podcast with Jacqui Smith who he thought was shabbily treated in her time as Home Secretary, and why on Twitter people still see Iain as a die hard Tory. Iain has, though, voted for other parties, and has recently called for the nationalization of P&O. At the end of the interview Iain discusses Brexit derangement syndrome (on both sides), and we learn that Iain is a naturally nostalgic person. He also explains what the test is of a good friendship.

Today Brenden Kumarasamy from MasterTalk shares a book that he recommends reading.In this interview Brenden confesses to not reading much, preferring to learn via podcasts, but there is one book in particular that has had an everlasting impact on his life. Brenden has become a master in communication through necessity. Growing up in Montreal, going to a French speaking school while your first language is English was a challenge for Brenden. His communication skills were not great.At University, life was a bit easier studying in English, but he had come to realise just how important communication was. While others were out playing sports or attending other social activities, Brenden got involved in the world of competitive presentations. He had come to realise that those that were getting the best jobs, were the best communicators. Being great at communicating had become his passion.Graduating with an accountancy degree, Brenden came to realise that being an accountant was not for him, rather his passion was to become a communications expert. MasterTalk was formed!0.40 Introduction.1:00 Book recommendation.1:35 The book.2:55 Messages from the book.6:09 Reading preferences and choosing what to read or listen to.8:45 Another suggested book.12;31https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BbmuRsKWQTUCMJpe6qTejVA%3D%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalkshttps:insightsintosuccess.com #success #insightsintosuccess #mastertalk   For more great content, go to:https://www.isintosuccess.comhttps://www.instagram.com/insightsintosuccess/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRkDL7gZSP98vnVyZ5445ghttps://www.tiktok.com/@insightsintosuccessEmail us at: paul.d@msofmarketing.comThanks for supporting us in our journey to find the secrets to success!

Growing up in Montreal, going to a French speaking school while your first language is English was a challenge for Brenden. His communication skills were not great.At University, life was a bit easier studying in English, but he had come to realise just how important communication was. While others were out playing sports or attending other social activities, Brenden got involved in the world of competitive presentations. He had come to realise that those that were getting the best jobs, were the best communicators. Being great at communicating had become his passion.Graduating with an accountancy degree, Brenden came to realise that being an accountant was not for him, rather his passion was to become a communications expert.In this interview Brenden shares his journey along with providing insights into just how important being a great communicator is. Like all great communicator's Brenden is very entertaining! Part 2:3:01 What is more important when speaking: content or delivery?9:40 Recording videos: quality versus quantity14:14 Imposters syndrome.19:47 Advantage of being young.22:00 Tips to help people with their presentation skills.25:16 How to remove filler words. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BbmuRsKWQTUCMJpe6qTejVA%3D%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalkshttps:insightsintosuccess.com #success #insightsintosuccess #mastertalks  For more great content, go to:https://www.isintosuccess.comhttps://www.instagram.com/insightsintosuccess/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRkDL7gZSP98vnVyZ5445ghttps://www.tiktok.com/@insightsintosuccessEmail us at: paul.d@msofmarketing.comThanks for supporting us in our journey to find the secrets to success!

Growing up in Montreal, going to a French speaking school while your first language is English was a challenge for Brenden. His communication skills were not great.At University, life was a bit easier studying in English, but he had come to realise just how important communication was. While others were out playing sports or attending other social activities, Brenden got involved in the world of competitive presentations. He had come to realise that those that were getting the best jobs, were the best communicators. Being great at communicating had become his passion.Graduating with an accountancy degree, Brenden came to realise that being an accountant was not for him, rather his passion was to become a communications expert.In this interview Brenden shares his journey along with providing insights into just how important being a great communicator is. Like all great communicator's Brenden is very entertaining!Part 1:0.37  What Brenden does and how it came about.5:32 Key benefits of mastering public speaking.12:15 Communication skills and selling to clients.14:31 Mirroring who you speak to.15:25 Communication agility.20:56 Strategy for public speaking.Watch out for part 2!https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BbmuRsKWQTUCMJpe6qTejVA%3D%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalkswww.isintosuccess.com#success #insightsintosuccess #mastertalks For more great content, go to:https://www.isintosuccess.comhttps://www.instagram.com/insightsintosuccess/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRkDL7gZSP98vnVyZ5445ghttps://www.tiktok.com/@insightsintosuccessEmail us at: paul.d@msofmarketing.comThanks for supporting us in our journey to find the secrets to success!

In the episode, "A Chat with Emma Hames and Rev Heather Elizabeth on Benzo Withdrawal and Recovery in the Film 'Playing with Life: The Soundtrack' (S3, E10)," Emma and Heather share how they both were affected by the same benzodiazepine psychiatric drug prescriptions, and both turned to sound healing, nature and creativity to rebuild their lives. The two formed a strong bond and came together to co-produce the film “Playing with Life: The Soundtrack.” In tandem with the film, they are producing an NFT collection called Cassette Monkeys in order to create community and funding for the production.In America alone, 120 million people are currently on the class of medication known as benzodiazepines, which is highlighted in the film, along with how holistic healing can be achieved without drugs and with better alternatives. As the Western biomedical paradigm regarding mental illnesses is a global problem, Emma and Heather believe in supporting health sovereignty while we prepare for change. Bios:Emma Hames is an artist, songwriter, musician, and filmmaker currently living in the UK. At University she studied Environmental Science, later taught English and Art in a Cambodian orphanage, studied climate change in Malaysian rainforests, and even lived on her own 23' sailing boat for a year, which connected her to the natural world and gave her the freedom to explore her creativity. She later went onto Tour as a saxophonist and musician in several bands throughout Europe. In 2012 she was prescribed Bromazepam abroad after going a year with undiagnosed asthma and reduced lung capacity, which led to anxiety, following doctors' orders as prescribed for 4 years, and without knowing the risks she cold-turkey-ed the drug which caused Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal. She decided to challenge herself with writing the soundtrack for the film as part of her recovery, and explore the role of creativity in healing. Check out Emma's website at: https://www.emmahames.com/ or follow her on Twitter: @emjadehames or IG: @emjadehames. Rev Heather Elizabeth is an artist, healer, and savant, and considers herself an interdimensional woman of faith. She was diagnosed with several psychiatric disorders as a teen while dealing with anorexia nervosa and childhood sexual trauma, and was prescribed the highest doses of pharmaceutical meds well into her 20s. She is still micro tapering off diazepam after well over 5 years of dedicated tapering. She devotes her professional pursuits to mental health and overall wellness through the use of functional wellness and health coaching, using breathwork and nature as a main modality of transformative healing. She also believes the use of psychedelics--specifically magic mushrooms--can help in a transformative and therapeutic way towards more compassionate healing. She is currently writing her second book related to her own mental health journey. Follow Heather on Twitter: @RevHeatherEli or IG: @revheatherelizabeth.  And follow the film at: https://www.thesoundtrackfilm.com/.#biomedicalmodel #westernpsychiatry #bigpharmaharms #mentalhealth #psychiatryisnotscience #abolishpsychiatry #cassettemonkeys #healthsovereigntyDon't forget to subscribe to the Not As Crazy As You Think YouTube channel @SicilianoJenAnd please visit my website at: www.jengaitasiciliano.comConnect: Instagram: @jengaitaLinkedIn: @jensicilianoTwitter: @jsiciliano

In this episode we meet the very talented Viktoria Haack.  Born in England, Viktoria first became interested in photography when she was given an SLR camera for her 18th birthday. At University she attained an honours degree in World Art Studies and Museology. This gave her exposure to the numerous different art forms across the world and enabled her to look beyond many of the western conventions of art. For her, photography is more than capturing a physical moment in time: It is also about capturing feelings and emotions. Viktoria has completed many photographic assignments including commissions for the National Trust (the largest conservation charity in the UK), leading architectural firms and has been published by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). She is an accomplished portrait photographer who specialises in utilising natural light. Her work covers the fields of landscape, portrait, wedding, event, promotion, editorial, stock and photography education and she is a brand ambassador for Nikon Canada and Lowepro Bags. In 2007 she moved to Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada where she finds inspiration in the beautiful environment that surrounds her. I hope you enjoy the show! You can find Viktoria's work here: Website: https://www.viktoriahaackphotography.ca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/viktoriahaack/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viktoriahaack Twitter: https://twitter.com/ViktoriaHaack   Theme music: Liturgy Of The Street by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com #landscapephotographyworldpodcast #landscapephotographyworld #landscapephotography #landscape #photography #world #podcast

Japan has a very efficient education system around the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.  There was an effort to bridge the creativity gap with other countries but that was abandoned.  Where are we with the gap between what industry needs and what the education system is producing?    Japanese education includes exciting things like adults screaming abuse, using threatening words, kids mouthing slogans at mass rallies and making over $2 million in a week.    We know that Japan has a well established escalator system for work and education.  Enter on the correct ground floor and with the passing of time and effort, you get out at the top.  Get accepted into the right elementary school and you will get into the right middle school, the right high school and then the right university.  You graduate and get a job at the right company and then over decades of grind work your way up to the top.   Japan still loves rote learning and parents will pay cram schools to get their kids fully tuned up and on to the education escalator.  I was watching a programme on television about a week long training camp for aspirant future captains of industry.  The programme focused on 6th year elementary students trying to get into the all important Middle School of their choice.  They had their hachimaki (headbands), a Japanese symbol of resolute martial spirit and determination.  They lived in small groups, working hard all day taking tests and doing their homework together at night.   The televised scenes showed their adult instructors yelling at them to get serious or get out.  Their insufficient efforts drew harsh rebukes and extended tirades.  If you were not matching the regime's expectations, you were bluntly told to get serious or leave now.  You are twelve years old.   The amazing thing was there were 2600 kids on this training camp.  The organisers were also adept at psychological indoctrination using mass rally techniques of getting everyone to come together outside on the assembly grounds, for some good old fashioned chanting of slogans and thrusting of fists into the air.   This was a $2.3 million programme for the week, which is not a bad earner.  This is on top of the regular monthly fees the parents already pay to cram schools throughout the year, to get Michi Chan or Taro Kun on to the right escalator.   A few things struck me when watching the show.  This reminded me of karate training with my Japanese masters.  A rain of criticism every class was the order of the day in the Dojo.  It also occurred to me that Japan loves this type of hell fire right of passage.  One of my team sent her son on this very camp and she was happy that they were dealing out lot's of tough love.  Japan is famous for companies sending their errant staff to the adult equivalent of this training camp, meeting out humiliation and abuse in large doses.    You could argue that given how the older generation decries what a bunch of molly coddled, over indulged, spoilt brats the younger generation have become, they need a bit of toughening up.   Another thing that got my attention was the focus on rote learning and exam technique.  This is the standard educational approach in Japan right through to starting University classes.  At University, unless you are trying for very specific careers like medicine, the elite bureaucracy or some job that requires you to pass a national exam, then the next four years are a type of Club Med for undergraduates.  I know because I did my Master's Degree at a famous Japanese University and witnessed this luxurious life of undergrad student leisure.  Getting into a University will become even less of a grind, as the declining youth population means fewer and fewer barriers to entry, as institutions go into a death struggle for survival.  So the ease of graduating will soon be matched by the ease of entry.   Japan's experiment with the yutori kyoiku (relaxed education) approach didn't last long.  The original idea was get away from rote learning and exam technique and try to help students to analyse, to think, to tap into their creative attributes.  The first dismal results for Japan, from standardised international tests and yutori kyoiku was out on the trash heap.  If the object was to foster creativity and innovation, you have to wonder why they used the usual standardised tests as their ROI measure?   The innovation issue hasn't gone away though.  In the internet age, when anything you want to know can be found through a search engine, how relevant is rote learning and exam technique for the future.  How much longer can a varsity system of floundering entry requirements and day care for adolescents continue?  We all know we need more innovation and creativity in companies.  Where is this going to come from?   There are a lot of public and private sector vested interests in keeping the current system moving forward ever nudging irrelevancy, so don't expect change soon. The sting in the tail will be the decreasing quality of our new company recruits.  They won't have much creativity after the system has had its way with them and their rote learning abilities won't be of much use either.  If we think about the work skills, knowledge and abilities we will demand of our employees in the next twenty years, we can be absolutely sure the current Japanese system of education won't be producing it.   Japanese companies have never heavily relied on academic institutions for educating their staff.  With lifetime employment, investing in training people made economic sense because you would reap the rewards.  With greater job mobility on the horizon however, this social contract between staff and company will be broken.  Young people, who will be in short supply due to demographic changes, will become like baseball free agents.  They will rapidly discover they are able to swap teams for a better deal.   The “lost decade”, gutted in-company education. Training budgets were cut and many were never resurrected.  Instead they relied on OJT (on the job training) and so the investment on skilling up staff never occurred.  This is sustainable for a limited period of time and that point was reached long ago.    So where are we up to?  The companies aren't training their staff as comprehensively as they once did.  The staff themselves will find themselves being lured by recruiters to move on to greener pastures.    I believe the educational construct in Japan basically has its ladder up against the wrong wall. What will become of this country?  What will we need to do to prepare ourselves for this brave new world?  Are we thinking about these prospects?    If we haven't spared a thought for this grim future of work, then now is a good time to take another look at assumptions, strategies, plans and targets.  Those preparing now, will win in this coming war for talent.  Game on!

Dara Torres made  history as the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games and again as the oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal at age 41 in 2008.   Today, Dara shares the "heart-racing, thrilling" feeling of earning her first medal in 1984, what it felt like to defy expectations with two comebacks and how she balanced her career while being a mother.   With the 2020 Olympics in full swing, this conversation  continues the celebration of inspiring moments in global sports. SHOW NOTES: Before becoming a 12-time Olympic medalist, Dara recognized her love for swimming at a YMCA competition at 12 years old. Caught up in excitement of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, her first, Dara recalls how rival Jill Sterkel helped her refocus after swimming poorly during qualifying. Heart-racing, thrilling, adrenaline-filled for days: Dara shares the indescribable feeling of winning her first gold in 1984 and her appreciation of her 2008 silver. At University of Florida, Dara earned 28 All-American swimming honors – the maximum possible in a college career – yet she sees that time as a dark period in her life. Her underrated battled with bulimia: After five years, Dara sought help and set small, daily goals to overcome the disease. After three Olympics + four medals, Dara left the sport for seven years before making her first comeback at 33 at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Eight years later, now 41 and a mom, Dara returns for her second comeback at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Earning three silver medals, she became the oldest U.S. Olympic swimmer in history, the first American swimmer to appear in five Olympic Games and the oldest swimmer to win a medal in Olympic history. There is no “I” in team: Dara shares her gratitude for those who played a role in her accomplishments. DARA TORRES' LIVE INSPIRED 7 What is the best book you've ever read? The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt What is a characteristic or trait that you possessed as a child that you wish you still exhibited today? Treating everyone equal. Your house is on fire, all living things and people are out. You have the opportunity to run in and grab one item. What would it be? Something that represents my family, like a photo album. You are sitting on a bench overlooking a gorgeous beach. You have the opportunity to have a long conversation with anyone living or dead. Who would it be? Jesse Owens to learn how he overcame adversity. What is the best advice you've ever received? Treat everyone equal. What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? Don't worry what other people think of you. It's been said that all great people can have their lives summed up in one sentence. How do you want yours to read? Always on the go. Longevity in the sport.

About this episode My guest this week is Helena Murphy, founder of Raising Partners. Raising Partners is an investing firm seeking to make it easier for startups to raise early-stage capital. They do this through expert guidance and direct connections with her wide network of investors. Helena, and the Raising Partners team, boast a 98% success rate on fully managed campaigns. They have helped brands like Thread, Equipsme, Penfold and many raise about $41 million, or £30 millions for my UK listeners. You and I both know, or have at least heard, that there is money out there to be had and is ready to invest. Yet there are also tens of thousands of startups pitching their decks hoping to get a chance to pitch in person. Well, much like anything else in this world, who you know truly does matter. And Helena has built a business around helping startups and making introductions to those that she knows and the network is extensive. In this episode, you'll hear: Helena shares how she grew up in a small town in Glasgow from a working-class family. Her parents had split when she was young and she didn't experience entrepreneurship until she was older. Helena shares how she has always been driven to do better and at the age of 8 knew that she wanted to study at St Andrew's University. She worked from a young age to save up and to be able to support her dream and when she found out she got in she left her small town. At University she did a degree in Sustainable Development and in her final year she had her first entrepreneurial experience though Entrepreneurial Scotland. With this, she had the opportunity to go to America and work in a startup. This sparked her entrepreneurial interest and when she returned home she knew she wanted to start her own startup. Helena started an Ecommerce business selling sustainable clothing. She shares how she made multiple mistakes which lead to the company folding. This took a toll on her mental and physical health but she quickly picked herself up and was determined once again to find the root of the problem. Helena spent 12 months speaking to investors about why the company failed and how she could have prevented it. The answer was that she didn't know how to keep track of the bottom line data and numbers. Helena shared how she took this information and started to help other people with their startups for free, then with the vast amount of clients approaching her for her help she was able to monetize the business. With this, her company organically grew through word and mouth. She shares how Raising Partners is helping startups in all areas of investment, from creating exciting and informative pitch decks to understanding why investors don't invest. Resources from this episode Join Grindology: https://grindology.com/ ExpressVPN: Get 3 Months Free → https://www.expressvpn.com/startupstory Get Emails: https://app.getemails.com/referrals/newaccount?ref=R18HWW5 The Startup Story Inner Circle: https://www.thestartupstory.co/vip The Startup Story on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thestartupstory The Startup Story is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jamesmckinney The Startup Story on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestartupstory Entrepreneurial Scotland: https://www.entrepreneurialscotland.com/ Raising Partners: https://raisingpartners.com/ Runway: https://runway.raisingpartners.com/ Share the podcast The Startup Story community has been so incredible sharing our podcast with others, and we thank you! We do have more stories to tell and more people to reach. There are three ways you can help. First, the most powerful way you can support this podcast is by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

  Things Discussed: Highly successful Hawaiian Born College Baseball Coach Carl Iwasaki Head Coach University of Northern Colorado on show.   Coached Hawaiian Winter League. From a Div 3 school to Div 1. 2013 Coach of the year. At University of Northern Colorado since 2010. Played for ABCA Hall of Fame Coach Tom Petroff.  ... The post Hawaii Baseball Developing Some Top College, Professional and MLB players, why? appeared first on Baseball Outside The Box.

Jon talks with John Vuong, Founder of Local SEO Search, about everything SEO. The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the results he wanted. One of the defining events of his life was when he was accepted into an exchange student program in his 3rd year of university. He travelled to Lancaster, England for a year and learned a whole new culture and approach. He loved meeting new people, whether students or locals. After graduation, he wanted to continue travelling and was accepted into a program to teach in Japan. However, his brother spoke to him about settling down and handling his finances responsibly, so he chose to get a job in Toronto. His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003, when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads. John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed. John’s next job taught him that building relationships was so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there. The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing. The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since. His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal. Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens. John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience. In his personal life, John has a wife and a four year old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: travelling, skiing, swimming and going to live events. Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Colin McIntosh: Website: https://www.localseotoday.ca/  Local SEO Today podcast: https://www.localseotoday.ca/podcast/   

Venerable Sander is a Buddhist monk of 16 years. He was born in the Netherlands and has a masters in organizational pyschology. At University he began to study Buddhism and eventually found himself at Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Thailand, considered by some to be a controversial sect of Thai Buddhism. Ven. Sander shares his journey into the dharma and what drew him to a life of practice and monasticism.

Ben Nemtin is a Canadian producer, writer, speaker, and television personality. Ben Nemtin was born in Victoria, British Columbia. After graduating high school, Nemtin was selected as a member of the Under 19 Canadian national rugby team and earned academic and athletic scholarships to attend the University of Victoria. At University, fed up with the monotony of day-to-day life, Nemtin and his friends set out on a two-week road trip with a camera and a borrowed RV to complete a list of "100 things to do before you die." Along their journey, they asked people the question, "What do you want to do before you die?" For each item they accomplished on their list, they helped a complete stranger do something on their own list. Ben and his friend's journey gathered attention, so the idea was picked up as a television show on MTV, The Buried Life, of which he is the creator, executive producer, and cast member. Nemtin is co-author of the book, What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?, which entered The New York Times Best Seller list. The show is no longer on air but Ben continues to use those ideals as well as the topic of mental health which he shares as one of the most sought-after keynote speakers. →IN THIS EPISODE… Joe talks with Ben about his journey from the pressure of being a collegiate athlete to discovering a quest for a deeper meaning for life through his MTV show, The Buried Life. Ben discusses goal setting, making bucket lists, and mental health. Ben provides many actionable ways you can get started today living your most fulfilling life, and not a life of longing or living vicariously through others.  

Most diets fail. They either fail immediately, within a couple of weeks or after a number of weeks. Sometimes they can appear to succeed, but after a year, you're back to square one. Which if you think about it is a fairly common result. In this podcast, I give five reasons why your diet is failing. Why Your Diet is Failing I won't go into each specific point, that's what the podcast is here for. But the main reason for a failing diet is not taking it seriously enough during planning. What is your goal? How are you going to achieve it? How long is this diet going to last? What is your current situation? Answer these questions and you will be well on your way to creating a successful diet that achieves exactly what you set out for it to achieve. Sadly, what usually happens is that you wake up after a particularly calorific meal or a night out and vow to go on a diet. You throw out all the junk food in your house and then purchase a new diet book and a tonne of "healthy" meals. You give up everything you love, and after a few weeks, you have a complete meltdown and gorge yourself. Does that sound familiar? It certainly does to me. Not only have I seen hundreds of clients do it (before signing up with me), I've been there myself. At University, I gained a load of weight, and tried carb-free diets, for a good 2 weeks before I ate an entire loaf of bread in one sitting. During the podcast, I promised to link you to some articles on goal setting, nutrition, and exercise. Check them out here: How to be your own personal trainer part 1 How to be your own personal trainer part 2 How to be your own personal trainer part 3 Twisted Knots American IPA Today's beer came courtesy of Lidl, and it should be mentioned that it came at a very low price point. Twisted Knots IPA is a very dark beer, almost red in colour. It had a decent head, that mostly disappeared while I tried to get a photo of it. The taste was a little too bitter for my liking, but not too bad at all. This is a beer that I would not exactly search out, but wouldn't turn down if offered it. Considering the price, it is not a bad beer, but I prefer Lidl's other IPA, which tastes a lot better in my opinion.

My guest this week is Erin. Erin is working toward her chaplaincy and her Master's degree in Practical Theology. She describes herself as “religious, but not spiritual.” Erin grew up in Northern Ireland. She was raised to respect all people. But when she was accepted by an Evangelical Presbyterian church she became in her words “the worst kind of fundamentalist.” This included deriding Catholics. At University she excelled and found herself attracted to more liberal theologies. She says she went from Evangelical to an Open Theist to a functional atheist (agnostic). Erin also happens to be on the Autism spectrum. This had an impact on her inability to accept things on faith. She needed logical consistency. But Erin still finds value in the Christian tradition. She plans to do good in the world as a chaplain. Links and recommendations Doubts and Loves by Richard Holloway https://www.amazon.com/Doubts-Loves-What-Christianity-Canons/dp/1786893924/ Autism Faith Network https://autismfaithnetwork.com Autism Pastor https://autismpastor.com/ Interact Full Show Notes https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2021/01/17/erin-religious-but-not-spiritual/ Deconversion https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/ Humanist Podcast https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/podcast/ Secular Grace https://gracefulatheist.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/secular-grace/ Rate and Review the Graceful Atheist Podcast Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/graceful-atheist-podcast-1136736 Make audio snippet quotes of the podcast Vurbl: https://vurbl.com/station/4hdO0KfiVRV/ Attribution "Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Makaih_Beats Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gracefulatheist/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gracefulatheist/support

Our Great Coach on this episode is Dorette Badenhorst. Dorette is the head coach of the South African Netball team, the SPAR Proteas. She started her coaching journey at 13 coaching grassroots tennis with her father. Whilst working as a Teacher at Auckland Park Primary School, she started coaching the schools Netball teams. At University, Dorette was selected to play for the South African Under-21 team. In 2012, she was appointed Head Coach of North West University (NWU) winning the Varsity Netball title back to back in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 NWU won the University Sport South Africa (USSA) tournament. Dorette has coached both the South African Under-19 and under-21 team. She was part of the coaching technical team as an assistant coach where South Africa placed 4th at the 2019 Netball World Cup Dorette was appointed as Head Coach of the SA National Netball team in October 2019 If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com You can also follow us here Twitter @CoachesGreat Instagram @the_great_coaches_podcast YouTube The Great Coaches Podcast channel page LinkedIn The Great Coaches Podcast showpage

Jon and John discuss everything SEO The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in-residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the results he wanted. One of the defining events of his life was when he was accepted into an exchange student program in his 3rd year of university. He traveled to Lancaster, England for a year and learned a whole new culture and approach. He loved meeting new people, whether students or locals. After graduation, he wanted to continue traveling and was accepted into a program to teach in Japan. However, his brother spoke to him about settling down and handling his finances responsibly, so he chose to get a job in Toronto. His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003 when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads. John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed. John’s next job taught him that building relationships were so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there. The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing. The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since. His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal. Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens. John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience. In his personal life, John has a wife and a four-year-old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: traveling, skiing, swimming and going to live events. Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Jared John Vuong: Website: https://www.localseotoday.ca/ Local SEO Today podcast: https://www.localseotoday.ca/podcast/

Brian Crombie discusses back to school for students with Kenisha Arora, a former student trustee on Peel Board of Education now At University of Western, Randall Keast, a Georgetown Teacher and Urszula Ula, teacher in Mississauga of the hurdles teachers and students are facing during COVID-19.

College students have returned to campuses, and so has coronavirus. Northeastern University suspended 11 students for partying, and will not refund them tens of thousands of dollars in tuition payments. At University of Kansas, students are striking and demanding that the university shut down the campus and give hazard pay to workers.  Extreme weather over the past few weeks has underscored the need for an extensive environmental policy overhaul, the kind that is championed by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. We look at how Markey worked with the Sunrise Movement to court young people in his primary race last week. Plus, we speak with Sunrise’s political director Evan Weber about lessons that Biden and other Democrats can learn from their movement. And in headlines: protesters in Rochester demand justice for Daniel Prude, India now second in Covid cases, and Trump courts the racist White vote over the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Road To Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to John Vuong. John is the fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the results he wanted. One of the defining events of his life was when he was accepted into an exchange student program in his 3rd year of university. He travelled to Lancaster, England for a year and learned a whole new culture and approach. He loved meeting new people, whether students or locals. After graduation, he wanted to continue travelling and was accepted into a program to teach in Japan. However, his brother spoke to him about settling down and handling his finances responsibly, so he chose to get a job in Toronto. His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003, when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads. John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed. John’s next job taught him that building relationships was so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there. The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing. The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since. His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal. Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens. John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience. In his personal life, John has a wife and a four year old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: travelling, skiing, swimming and going to live events. Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.   Learn more and connect with John Vuong a by visiting him   on Podcast: https://www.localseotoday.ca/     Be sure to follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/to_growth Facebook: facebook.com/Road2Growth   Subscribe to our podcast all across the web: https://www.theenriquezgroup.com/blog Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Cdmacc iTunes: https://apple.co/2F4zAcn Castbox: http://bit.ly/2F4NfQq Google Play: http://bit.ly/2TxUYQ2

What unique challenges can this year's med school applicants expect to face, and how can they be overcome? [Show summary] Dr. Herman “Flash” Gordon, Accepted medical admissions consultant, walks med school applicants through applying during COVID-19, as well as disclosing thorny issues like academic discipline or a criminal record. How COVID-19 is impacting medical school admissions [Show notes] Dr. Gordon returns to Admissions Straight Talk to discuss applying during the pandemic, as well as applying with blemishes, like a criminal record or academic discipline. What qualifies him to guide you? He served as chair of a medical school admissions committee for four years. Dr. Gordon earned his bachelor's at Harvard and his PhD in developmental neuroscience from Caltech. He began teaching at the University of Arizona's medical school in Tucson in 1991 and has been doing so ever since. He also served as chair of the med school's admissions committee, and after leaving that position in 2014, he's been a very popular admissions consultant at Accepted. Who can better guide you in applying to med school, especially if you have some issues to deal with? (And everyone is dealing with the issue called COVID-19.) How did you get involved in med school admissions at the University of Arizona? [2:14] Like so many committee assignments, I was drafted. I was fine with it because I thought it was an opportunity to help choose the students that I'd be teaching. As I got into it, I really, really enjoyed it. It's such an important committee in med schools. It's definitely the most labor intensive, even probably more than PMT. It's also extremely rewarding, because you're changing people's lives by accepting them to med school, and it's such an intense effort. You're working with your colleagues who are also really dedicated to this task, and the outcome is great. You end up with this class that you really enjoy teaching, and you feel good about them becoming doctors. At University of Arizona, like at many schools, there are a number of students who serve on a committee as well. And that's very valuable, and I think they get the word out to fellow students, both at their own school and other schools, how dedicated everybody is to this effort. They also communicate how much effort it is, but it's also something I think everybody feels good about. I know that from talking with colleagues, who say "I had to serve on this or that committee," the one committee that everybody says was really worthwhile was the admissions committee. There's uncertainty about the kind of education future med students will get this fall. (Online? Offline? Blended? Clinical experience?) What's your take on how they should be responding to these different challenges? Let's take, first of all, the uncertainty surrounding the MCAT. [5:14] First, it is what it is. Med schools have to accept a new class of med students. And so they're going to roll with it. They know this, and what the MCAT is doing is allowing students to apply even if they don't have their MCAT score posted yet. Schools are sending out secondaries even without the MCAT. What they're saying is once you get the MCAT in, then we'll process your application, but you can be building it in the meanwhile and it'll just go through when it does. It won't be too late. Even people who are taking the MCAT through June and into early July, they're saying that they're expediting the reporting of the score. So it'll only be two weeks. So worst-case scenario, there is the end of July. That's still very much within the normal season for MCAT. So I wouldn't stress over that. I think the bigger stress I'm hearing from applicants is if they don't already have an MCAT score, and they take the test and it's not the score that they would have wanted, they don't have time to retake the test. And yet they've already spent all the money and put in the application.

Episode 11 includes an interview with Neil O'Donnell, a longtime educator, professional, and tradesman with varied life experiences living and learning around the world. At University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he studied Anthropology and had the opportunity to travel to Mexico and participate in archaeological digs. At an even younger age, Neil spent time in Spain learning about the history, language, and culture. He spent his life around boats. He taught in Harlem, at a prison, and at High Schools. Lydia hopes that our listeners will benefit from and be entertained by stories, tips, and tricks from this life-long learner and educator and enjoy practicing their listening with his typical New England(USA) native English accent.

On this episode of The Adaptables, Abbe and Emma chat about episode 5 of the Hulu and BBC adaptation of NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. They're joined by Cristina Arreola, Associate Marketing Manager at Sourcebooks. Abbe, Emma, and Cristina discuss The Friend Zone, power dynamics between Marianne and Connell, social capital, steamy, satisfying sex, texting our boyfriends after watching, and more. Discussion breakdown: Episode recap (2:54–3:45) Connell and Marianne decide to be friends and discuss what happened between them (3:45–7:06) Cristina talks about coming to the book after the end of an on-again, off-again relationship (7:14–8:00) Connell's emotional intelligence growth and our sympathies for the characters (8:01–9:41) Power struggles between these two (9:41–13:31) Bye to Gareth (13:35–15:47) Turns out everyone knew about Marianne and Connell in high school (15:47–16:58) At University, Connell is working hard and Marianne labors less; their social capital has flip-flopped. (16:59–20:58) They're back together! They're having steamy sex again! (21:00–25:05) The callbacks to earlier conversations (25:06–26:35) Connell within Marianne's friend group. Does he actually have friends? (26:35–29:33) Watching a party scene in quarantine (29:34–31:18) Can you be platonic friends with someone of the opposite sex? (31:18–33:01) Cristina's favorite adaptations and what she's reading (33:01–34:20) Marianne Fringe Report: ✂ Marianne breaking up with Gareth in a velvet dress ✂ We all want Peggy's butterfly top The Adaptables is a podcast from Read it Forward and Penguin Random House that dives into your favorite book-to-screen adaptations. This season, we're watching the Hulu and BBC adaptation of NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. Join hosts Abbe Wright and Emma Shafer as we interview authors, insiders and each other, about what makes an adaptable great, why watching and reading are important self-care rituals, and the many other books and shows we are binging and loving right now. Because at The Adaptables, we love to watch what we read. (Warning: there will be spoilers.) Send us an email or voice recording to AdaptablesPod@Gmail.com. What did you think of the episode? Are you watching the show? Is NORMAL PEOPLE a successful adaptation of the book? Follow @ReadItForward on Twitter and Instagram and follow Cristina on Instagram at @tinamariposa and Twitter at @C_Arreola, tweet your thoughts this episode and other adaptations you love. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! NEXT UP: We'll recap Episode 6 with Sophie Vershbow.

This weeks episode takes us on a journey to Tanzania with my good friend and safari expert Jake Cook. Jake has just come back from managing Ikuka Camp in Ruaha National Park.It was great to chat with Jake and learn some insights in to living in Tanzania and running a safari camp. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to subscribe and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, Stitcher etc. Thanks so much. xConnect with me on:Twitter - https://twitter.com/SteveOdyLinked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveody/Jambo and Karibu to the Travelling Optimist Podcast with Steve Ody which I’m sure you all know is hello and welcome to The Travelling Optimist Podcast with Steve Ody in Swahili! Right, we’re still in lockdown – how are you coping with things? Have you learnt something new? Here in the UK it’s all still a bit surreal but by and large everyone is getting on with things as they should, social distancing and staying home but I know there are plenty of people and families who must be climbing the walls – hang in there guys, hang in there. I must confess to getting itchy feet and desperately want the lockdown to end and get back to work! Whatever happens though, please take care, stay happy, look after yourself and your loved ones and also a big shout out to those on the front line caring for everyone affected by Corona, chapeau to you all! . This weeks guest on the Travelling Optimist is someone I’ve known for a few years now. Jake Cook has had the Africa travelling since 2007 where he got stuck into conservation work in Botswana and South Africa. At University he spent a year working for an award-winning education-focused NGO, culminating in a co-project with The Ministry of Education in Tanzania. Since then he has managed or guided at long established luxury safari and beach camps in six countries across the continent and has visited many more on personal and professional recce trips. Jake has previously outfitted safaris in the UK for two leading luxury safari companies. He is passionate about conservation, community, tourism and hospitality in Africa and is a true professional when it comes to looking after clients.

Episode 31: Andy McDonald hosts a discussion on achilles tendinopathy between Karin Silbernagel, Mark Young and Matt Tuttle. Dr Dr Karin Grävare-Silbernagel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, USA. At University of Delaware she runs the tendon research lab together with her colleagues from mechanical and biomedical engineering. Mark Young is a Senior Physiotherapist at the Geelong Cats who has previously worked at the AIS, EIS, UK Athletics, Nike Athletics and the England & Wales Cricket Board. Dr Matt Tuttle has previously been on the podcast in episodes 11 and 24 and is the Lead Sport Scientist and Physical Therapist for NBA team the Denver Nuggets. In this episode the panel discuss:  Their backgrounds & personal interests in tendonsAchilles diagnostic considerations & processesAcute achilles tendinopathy managementManagement approach & philosophyChallenges in their individual athlete settingsTendon risk mitigationElastography & UTC to monitor and Intervene with rehabImagingAchilles tendon rupturesTendon ResiliencyManaging Tendons In-seasonAthlete cut points / can the athlete train or play?Managing warm-up and game timingSetting expectationsWhat exercises to use to make a tendon feel better in-season.Thorough assessment and differentials Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following Inform Performance on: InstagramTwitterOur Website Our team  Andy McDonald  Ben Ashworth

We had the pleasure of doing this podcast with Rachel Denison, AT University of Notre Dame Athletic Trainer.  Listen to her story of pathway and employment setting changes and challenges.  

Did you know the BOC is working with Clinical Coordinators internationally? The World Federation of Athletic Training and Therapy or WFATT coordinated this podcast so we can what AT education looked like before COVID19 and how these clinical coordinators are making the transition. Who are the International Clinical Coordinators? Luzita Vela, Ph.D., AT – University […] The post International Clinical Coordinators – 629 appeared first on The Sports Medicine Broadcast.

John Vuong is back for part two of the conversation with Mario. Today they talk about John’s daily routine and how he structures the most important things in his life. They also talk about the power of just focusing on doing good for others and how that shows up with clients, relationships, and ultimately retention in your business. The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the results he wanted. One of the defining events of his life was when he was accepted into an exchange student program in his 3rd year of university. He travelled to Lancaster, England for a year and learned a whole new culture and approach. He loved meeting new people, whether students or locals. After graduation, he wanted to continue travelling and was accepted into a program to teach in Japan. However, his brother spoke to him about settling down and handling his finances responsibly, so he chose to get a job in Toronto. His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003, when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads. John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed. John’s next job taught him that building relationships was so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there. The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing. The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since. His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal. Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens. John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience. In his personal life, John has a wife and a four year old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: travelling, skiing, swimming and going to live events. Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.    Connect with John at LocalSEOSearch.ca and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Youtube.

John Vuong joined Mario to have a conversation about the power of SEO and actually owning the real estate we use online. He also talks about why SEO search is something we should all be paying more attention to as it allows us to connect with potential customers who are organically farther along in their buying journey. The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John has had almost too many jobs to count, starting when he was ten helping out on paper routes. Through all of his work, though, he has focused on a single thing – building relationships. Whether it was collecting money and making sales on his paper route, shelving books at his local library, or manning the fryer at a stadium, he loved meeting new people and getting to know them. He connected by listening to others’ stories and sharing his own. At University in London, Ontario, he studied finance. He quickly learned that living on your own in residence doesn’t mean you can procrastinate and coast – he got 20% below his usual grades on his first exams. He quickly learned to buckle down and work hard to get the results he wanted. One of the defining events of his life was when he was accepted into an exchange student program in his 3rd year of university. He travelled to Lancaster, England for a year and learned a whole new culture and approach. He loved meeting new people, whether students or locals. After graduation, he wanted to continue travelling and was accepted into a program to teach in Japan. However, his brother spoke to him about settling down and handling his finances responsibly, so he chose to get a job in Toronto. His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003, when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads. John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed. John’s next job taught him that building relationships was so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there. The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing. The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since. His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal. Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens. John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience. In his personal life, John has a wife and a four year old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: travelling, skiing, swimming and going to live events. Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.    Connect with John at LocalSEOSearch.ca and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Youtube.

George W. Buck Republican Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Florida’s 13th District  Veteran and Firefighter (Ret), Professor/Author, He is a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro- business conservative who has demonstrated energetic leadership, clarity of vision and a passion for service. George is a proven servant-leader who will represent our 13th District and will lead in unifying Washington.  George's "boots on the ground" vision and interaction, holds the trust of personal and professional relationships at many levels of Pinellas, Local, State, and Federal as well as international officials.  This brief summary shows, George knows the impact of outside forces that can affect our local communities and what it takes to build strong, resilient economies.  The start of his history of service began in small town in Eastern Long Island, New York. Following a tradition of public service in the firefighting community, starting with his Great Grandfather, Great Uncle, and Father. His son is carrying on this tradition as a professional firefighter.  George's service to the community began as a junior firefighter at the age of 14! His fire service career spans military and civilian firefighter. Starting as volunteer, then joined the U.S. Army, trained and served as a crash rescue firefighter, with the elite 101st Airborne Division. Honorably discharged, George then joined the U.S Air Force Reserves, again, as a firefighter. After 3 years with the USAF, he enlisted into the Florida National Guard cross trained as an operational intelligence analyst (during the Persian Gulf War era).  After active duty military service, pursued the family tradition of public service as a First Responder. His service ended upon a duty related injury, but not his desire to help educate and train others.  As an educator at Saint Petersburg College, he took over the fire science program, developed, wrote and implemented the first emergency management degree program in the State of Florida. Obtaining a federal grant, he designed, developed and implemented the first training center in the nation for preparing first responders in the event of terrorist attacks, called "The National Terrorism Preparedness Institute", still in operation today. He joined the staff in 1994, living in St Petersburg for 25 years.  At University of South Florida College of Public health, became an assistant professor, teaching Ideology of National and International Terrorism, taking on additional duties with the Center of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Action. He additionally served as co-founder for "The Center for Biological Terrorism Defense." He also designed, wrote and implemented a master’s level certificate program in Emergency Management, first in Florida.  After his career in academia, He transitioned to consulting in the field of emergency/ terrorism management. During this time, he authored and published six books on these subjects, many still being used today in the education system.  George has used his cumulative experience to manage catastrophic events such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami, being one of the first four Americans on the ground in Banda Acha to establish relief operations of the largest disaster in world history. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Frances, terrorist attacks domestic and international. Drawing from these experiences, assisted in policy development at the Local, State, Federal and International levels, such as the United Nations.  He has worked many projects with Department of State, Department of Defense, and The State of Florida and municipalities; Florida National Guard, FEMA, SOCOM, SOUTHCOM, NORTHCOM, and a wide array of local state and federal political officials, demonstrating in times of crisis he can be counted on for knowledge and expertise.  GEORGE KNOWS HIS WAY IN THE POLITICAL WORLD - AND WILL USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF PINELLAS COUNTY!  George is a 25 Year Resident of Pinellas County  Address: PO Box 7081 St Petersburg, Fl 33734 727-823-6970 Website: www.georgebuckjr.com gbuck@gerogebuckjr.com 

Imagine the consequences when you combine dead data with a dead delivery?  You have a massive bromide of frightening winter surf Hawaiian North Shore proportions, thundering down to bludgeon unsuspecting audiences into stupefaction. I was one of the bludgeoned in that audience that day and it was dreadful.  Are these people really elite, I was left thinking? Welcome back to this weekly edition every Tuesday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Japan Well, where is this Cutting Edge?  For all of us, the quality of our people is the cutting edge for success in Japan. In this show I will: Stimulate your thinking about ramping up your business Bring you insights from the best training organisation on the planet Provide you with the highest quality Japan information Motivate you to motivate yourself and motivate those around you Help you to shoot the lights out at results time I don't want to just help you succeed in your business.  I want you to dominate! Before we get into this week's topic, here is what caught my attention lately. Dentsu the advertising giant has announced it will trim its working hours by 20%.  From a high of 2,252 hours per year in 2014 or 45 hours a week (assuming a 50 week work year), Dentsu is aiming for 1,800 hours per employee annually or 36 hours a week by March 2020.  It will also ban working between 10.00pm and 5.00am.  This was in response to the suicide of Matsuri Takahashi aged 24 who jumped to her death from her dormitory on Christmas day 2015 because she was depressed from all the illegal overtime work hours she was made to put in. The suicide was determined to be a case of karoshi or death from overwork. She was putting in 100 hours per month in illegal overtime. Prosecutors said there 1400 other Dentsu employees also working above the overtime limit. Dentsu President Toshihiro Yamamoto appeared in court for Dentsu's trial over suspected labour violations.  They were fined 500,000 yen or around $4500.  Has justice been served – what do you think? This is episode number 10and we are talking about Japanese Elites Who Can't Cut It  Soredewa ikimasho, so let's get going.         Society approves titles and status, especially in Japan.  We rise through the ranks and following the Peter Principle, we peak at our upper level of incompetence.  On the way up, we pick up titles and accrue status, respect and credence amplified through the power of our title.  Our personal power though could be suddenly exposed as bogus, when we get up to open our mouths in public.  This is one of those “The Emperor Has No Clothes” moments, when all is revealed, and we are found severely wanting. I was at a function recently and one of the bureaucratic elite in Japan was there to give a keynote presentation.  You generally get to become an elite official in Japan because you went to the right elementary school, middle school, high school and then the most elite of the Universities.  The reason these were the right schools up until University, is because they have the absolute best system in place to help you become a legend in memorization, rote learning and test taking.  At University you take a couple of years off, before you start cramming for the national selection exam, where again memory and exam technique are the most rewarded skills..  this is when You join a Ministry and work like a dog for a squillion hours every day, for years, simultaneously looking for a powerful patron to whom you can pledge total loyalty.  After decades of glacial progress, you emerge a grey haired, elite official.  Now part of the bureaucratic upper crust, you are often called upon to represent your organization and speak in public.  This is when the whole edifice comes crashing down. This was the case with this official – sent out into the firing line to promulgate the new way forward for his political masters, to impress everyone with the potency of their new policies, to win adherents to the path forward.  The result - total fizzer.  Why?  Because he spoke without energy or passion. He showed us nothing to indicate he felt at all impressed with the potency of his own recommendations.  He looked down at his papers the whole time and hardly glanced at the audience.  The opportunity to make eye contact, to combine words with the power of his face and to use variations available to his voice through speed and power, were in total absence.  He was a truly dull correspondent and we were completely dulled to his message.  There were no converts to the cause that day.  He could return to his desk and tick the box though – the task was completed, a total failure, but completed.  Astonishingly, during the post speech Q&A session, I noticed he perked up like man really engaged. Sadly it was only sustained for 30 seconds, but it showed he could do it.  I was wondering why didn't he energise the audience while he commanded the stage?  He could actually do it.  We all saw that he had the capacity.  I believe he didn't do it because he had no concept and no appreciation for the immense power at his beck and call.  His self-concept seemed to be that he was just a grey bureaucrat, whose job was to be grey and boring.  Obviously he had received no training or preparation for his task.  So his brilliant university pedigree meant little, when he was publically outed at the podium.  He was a total failure as a communicator, he became a message killer, a brand assassin instead.  He took the whole programme backwards not forwards.   Was he an exception, a one-off, the runt of the litter among the bureaucratic ranks of the gifted, great and plausible public speakers?  I would love to report that he was an outlier, an exception, a bad apple.  No, I can't do that.  He was typical of that bevy of elite officials, who are mainly all acquired status and have almost no personal power projection whatsoever.   Let me be fair and point out that Japan is not the only place where the elite run out of gas and are left stranded by the side of the road of bureaucratic progress.  Another vaunted profession is that of the elite government official who works in the foreign service of their country.  This was a bad week for me, as I suffered more of the same elite incompetence, this time from an Ambassador.  He was a lovely guy, but hopeless as a representative of his nation. You would think that given the high profile nature of their job, they would be experts in promoting their countries.  No, this was another national reputation suicide effort.  Monotone, weak voice sputtering forth Ums and Ahs aplenty, with no engagement with the countries fans here in Japan.  A voice that sounded so very weary and where the last three to four words in every sentence, just slowly petered out.  The energy and tone of his voice just subsided, guaranteeing the key message was a total downer, regardless of the actual content of the words.  When what we say is not congruent with how we say it, we lose 93% of the message. The audience get distracted by how we look and how we sound. What we are saying is just not registering.  Was this a one off – just the Ambo having a bad day?  Find out when we come back from the break Welcome back. Actually no, it wasn't the Ambo's rare bad day. I have seen this gentleman in action on many occasions and there is a scary consistency to his public speaking murder of his country's brand. He is not unusual. In my 31 years of survey here, I have found that most Ambassadors are hopeless public speakers. Yes, yes, there are some exceptions, but they just prove the rule.  If you doubt what I say,  then please send me a list of more than 10 Ambassadors you know who are any good?. Do these career diplomats get proper training in the art of public speaking?  Astoundingly no they don't!  They become elite government officials due to their ability to write cables and reports, which usually almost no one reads, by the way.  They have large analytical abilities and very big brains. They can really shine is small meetings, where they can one up their rivals and be the smartest intellect in the room.  So they get promoted and then get propelled to the front of the stage, handed the microphone and away they go into ineptitude, writ large under lights, in front of the assembled masses. The good thing is that all of their colleagues are equally hopeless, so it seems normal to them.  The fundamental error is they simply don't value having a skilled public presentation facility.  They miss the opportunity to establish a powerful, positive image of their country. The worst public speaking experience of my diplomatic career was giving a speech on behalf of one of our Ambassadors.  I was “our man in Osaka” and had to deliver the speech on his behalf because he couldn't make it.  The talk was in Japanese, which was no issue, as I had given around 400 public speeches in Japanese.  The content however was challenging.  There are four main types of speeches – to inform, to persuade, to entertain and to impress.  Foreign Ministries around the world, tend to love the data dump, inform variety.  This automatically leads to lots of dull information being imparted to the punters.  Why they don't go for the persuade type is a bit of a mystery to me and all countries seem to make that inform rather than persuade selection.  I absolutely gave it my best shot to liven it up, while sticking religiously to the approved Ambassadorial text, but what torture it was!  Imagine when you combine dead data with a dead delivery?  You have a massive bromide of frightening winter surf Hawaiian North Shore proportions, thundering down to bludgeon unsuspecting audiences into stupefaction. This is what we usually get from elite Government officials. It doesn't have to be like that.  There are some bright spots of hope though, even in Japan!  Previous Ambassador Motohiko Nishimura, who I met in Osaka in the mid-1990s, during his posting to the Kansai  - yes, Kansai is considered a foreign country by Tokyo, so they have to send an Ambassador down there,-  was skilled and excellent.  English or Japanese, it did not matter, he was the consummate diplomat in the sense he could use his speaking power, to capture an audience and have them love Japan. He finished his career as Ambassador to Portugal, and I am sure he was a tremendous asset for his country in creating support for Japan there.   Hello to all of you elite officials and aspirants out there, stop boring us all to death, get some proper training and represent your Ministries with aplomb.  Boys and girls – be ambitious? No, be persuasive!   Keep pushing hard with us here at THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show.  Subscribe on YouTube, share it with your family, friends and colleagues, become a regular. Thank you for watching and remember to hit the subscribe button. Our website details are on screen now, japan.dalecarnegie.com, it is awesome value, so check it out. In episode 11we are talking about Salespeople Don't Care Are your salespeople communicating the right messages to the buyers?  Are you sure they have the right sales philosophy?  What do you need to look for to tell?  Find out the answers to all of these questions and much, much more next week.  So Yoroshiku Onegai Itashimasu please join me for the next episode of the Cutting Edge Japan Business Show Until then, create seriously massive levels of success. We are here to help you do that.  Dale Carnegie Training Japan has only one direction in mind for you and your business and that is UP!!!

28.06.19 120 Minutes w/ Phil Lamb. Live from 2100HRS (UK) “Phil has been spinning choice cuts for 30 years. In that time he has played some of the most respected clubs, bars, festivals and parties – both in the UK and abroad. Phil has always had a passion for mixing genres. His first soiree into djing was running college parties in 1990 playing indie dance, techno, electro and hip hop, that eventually became regular nights at Sunrooms and Saks. At University in Brighton his passion for playing an eclectic mix continued to evolve and he soon made waves into the dance scene playing at some of the great clubs including the basement jazz rooms, the escape, the warehouse and the zap. After uni Phil teamed up with Neil “Beard” Queen (The Periphery) to start a night at Saks – I Love What I’m Doing – an amazing monthly party that had no borders or boundaries. They’d play anything, old and new as long as it had “Da Phunk!”. This also coincided with his job at an independent dance label – fused and bruised – which enabled them to bring a variety of guests from across the breaks and leftfield dance scene. In the mid 90s Phil made the move to London and through his work in the music industry continued to build relationships with DJs, promoters and labels – enabling him to play some of the most well-known clubs and festivals on the alternative dance scene. Since then Phil has […] The post 28.06.19 120 Minutes w/ Phil Lamb appeared first on Radio Nova Lujon.

Today's episode features Brady Lowe, founder of Taste Network and Cochon 555. Taste Network began in 2002, Cochon555 in 2008 and Brady created anchor celebrations at The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Toronto Food & Wine Festival and The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The portfolio includes the ground-up creation and cultivation of the festivals: Rioja Wine & Tapas Festival, PeachFest and Mags For Ag; in addition to hosting Kosta Browne’s 20th Anniversary Party that raised over $100,000 for local charities. The mission is simple: Further the conversation of heritage breeds and support family farms on dinner tables worldwide, all to campaign for those championing agricultures with purpose and passion while educating influencers, chefs and buyers on how to sustain small business owners stewarding responsible growing practice.Brady Lowe is a respected authority of fine wine, artisan foods, premier foods, heritage breed pigs and experiential events. He has produced exceptional food events since 2003. It was then, while working in Atlanta at the dawn of the good food movement, that Lowe was amongst the first to unite boutique wines and hard-to-find cheeses for affluent audiences. One taste pairing in particular sparked an ‘out of body experience’ in a customer that Lowe would never forget. At that moment, he devoted himself to transcending the boundaries of the food world, to creating unique combinations, not just with ingredients but among people. Now a food educator and taste influencer, Lowe is passionate about reaching individuals with a social conscience to support a responsible community of local chefs, butchers, winemakers and farmers that we all depend on.Lowe grew up in Iowa reading the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series and his mother’s collection of cookbooks; books that would influence the narrative of his culinary future. At University of Iowa, he studied communications and marketing. Upon graduating, he moved to Atlanta and stepped into the world of fine dining. While selling cigars at the height of the burgeoning cigar culture, he discovered there was a unique vernacular to cigars, a flavor vocabulary that he enjoyed learning and sharing. The ideas translated naturally to other disciplines he wanted to study, those of wine, cheese, chocolate and cuisine.After getting his 90 points of service in hospitality fine-tuned at Atlanta’s premier restaurant group in 2002, his appetite for the larger food movement blossomed and Lowe started hosting larger tasting events for private clients and notable members of the Atlanta food community under Taste Network. Three years later in 2008, he launched Cochon555, a 16-city culinary tour showcasing five chefs, five pigs and five winemakers in a friendly competition to promote heritage breed pig diversity and whole animal utilization. In 2010, Cochon555 teamed up with Food + Wine Magazine as an Official Event of the Food + Wine Classic in Aspen, Grand Cochon became one of the most talked about events of the weekend. What started as 250 million impressions in the media annually has grown to over 1 billion impression in the top media channels worldwide. Now ‘heritage pig is big,’ and Cochon555 is the most talked about culinary competition in North America featuring 100% heritage breed pigs. In 2011, the tour continued to expand with the addition of Heritage Fire, a tribute event to fire cooking and butchery, and later that year was summoned to host the opening festivities for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas with the debut of All-Star Cochon, the first ever non-competition event featuring fan favorites and best bites. In 2012, Cochon555 expanded again to release Heritage BBQ, an event dedicated to expose commodity BBQ restaurants and celebrate chefs cooking on community based-platforms that support local family farms. Cochon Island was developed to bring awareness to water-locked food ecosystems like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Please join us March 13, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. PST and 7:00 p.m. EST for a live show with host Denise Messenger.  Our special guest is Dr. Celina Nadelman who specializes in two distinct, complementary medical practices, Celina Nadelman, M.D. is both a board certified cytopathologist and a clinician who performs fine needle aspiration (FNA) of superficial masses. Dr. Nadelman attended the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). She began her medical training in Internal Medicine at the VA-UCLA, followed by a research fellowship at USC in wound healing. At University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology, as well as completing a cytopathology fellowship, building upon a strong clinical background from her previous training in internal medicine. Dr. Nadelman was always interested in the whole picture, as well as possessing a visual thinking mindset, leading her to her passion for excellence in FNA. In this dual role, Dr. Nadelman is the founder and laboratory director of Precision Aspiration and Biopsy in the Beverly Hills area of California, where she practices the most advanced FNA techniques and diagnostic capabilities. In addition to being one of only a handful of practitioners operating her own FNA clinic and in-office laboratories in the US, Dr. Nadelman performs the same dual-role services at Los Angeles County’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center, and is also a clinical instructor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine’s Greater Los Angeles Training Cytotechnology Consortium.  You asked for it and we deliver.  

Technical Salespeople Must Be Good Presenters Too   Knowledge of the specifications, functionality, inner workings are all fine and dandy but not enough anymore.  Increasingly technically specialised people are being asked to deal with people other than their normal counterparts.  Once upon a time, the engineers spoke with other engineers on the buyer side and that was about it.  A nerdy lovefest of specs. Today there are broader spectrum buying teams.  These “civilians” are often the key decision-makers and are not technical in the traditional sense.  This means the technical person has to be able to communicate and present to them in a way that they can understand.   Communication skills have always been low on the totem pole for technical people.  At High School they hated English and thrived on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry etc.  At University the key focus and preference was on technical subjects.  In fact these technically oriented people were creating problems in the workforce to such an extent, that Universities had to create a new programme for them.  This was the basis for the origination of the Masters in Business Administration.  The aim was to teach technical folks the non-technical sides of running a company.   I was reminded of the big gap in fundamental presentation skills recently at a presentation I attended. It was a big crowd and the speaker had a star studded resume.  He had a Ph.D. in his technical field and was a Corporate Officer in his very, very large, global firm.  He was a big deal in that world and someone often called upon to give technical presentations, representing the firm.   When he started his presentation proper, I was shocked.  I couldn't believe that someone in his position, with his experience, in that role, with that amount of responsibility for the brand, would be making such a basic, basic mistake.  The first slide went up and it was all densely packed with text.  I thought it was the typical compliance required disclaimer statement that usually goes up first.  No, no, no.  This was his first slide of the actual presentation.    To make it really exciting, he had made the text in ten point sized font, so it was almost impossible to read.  To add insult to injury the bottom quarter of the page was blank, unused white space. He proceeded to basically read the slide to us.  The next slide was even worse.  Same ten point font, but this time about half of the bottom of the slide was tantalisng white space.  After that ordeal by tiny text, we got on to a series of line graphs.  This was a relief ,except that a lot of the graph text descriptors were impossible to read too.   I was sitting there thinking WOW.  In the 21stcentury, how could this be possible?  A High School student would do a better job than this gentlemen of presenting the information on screen.  The snapper is that he is in a role where he would be giving these types of presentations a lot.  He is highly technically trained and often graces the boardrooms of major companies, who are clients of his firm, giving this and similar presentations.  He has been doing this a long time.  He is one of the most well recognized public faces of the company, after the President and Chairman, because his role is to promote the technical expertise of the company to grow the stock price.   After the slide deck shock, I started zooming in on how he was delivering the presentation.  There were a lot of numbers involved, so it was a rather dense talk.  Pointedly, there were no stories to bring the ramifications of the numbers to life.  These were just dry, dull data points that were not thought to need any elaboration.  The audience however were a mixed industry bunch, so there were varying levels of technical expertise in the room.  Pulling out experiences with similar numbers in the past, would have been great pointers to what we might expect in the future.  Dry numbers can come to life when wrapped up in an interesting example.  Also, we are much better at remembering stories, than acres of data points.   He did look toward his audience, but somehow managed not to look at the people in his audience.  You have seen this one before too, I am sure. He moved his face from left to right and back again, sort of rapidly scanning the room, but not actually making any eye contact with anyone in particular.  This precluded his ability to make a stronger connection with the people in the room. In the time he had allotted, he could have connected with each one of us individually and directly, if he had tried.  We know that around 6 seconds of eye contact works very well.  It is not too intrusive, yet allows us to engage with individuals one at a time.   His voice was soft and even throughout.    It hung perilously close to a monotone. This habit is deadly for a presenter, because it robs us of some key tools to add luster and strength to our argument. When we give each word an equal emphasis in a sentence, then we miss the CHANCE to highlight particular key words for our audience.  In that last sentence, I hit the word CHANCE harder than the other words, so this gives it strength and prominence over the other words.    I could also have made chancemuch softer than the words around it, almost like a conspiratorial whisper, to make it stand out.  Both are voice modulation variations which are at our disposal and we should be making good use of them.  A monotone delivery will kill the audience and put everyone to sleep. He could have also added to the variety, by speeding sentences up for effect or the opposite, s-l-o-w-i-n-g them down.  Both allow us to grab the attention of the audience.    People today are deep in the age of disruption, from a technology point of view, but they are also deep in the age of distraction, thanks to that very same technology.  For presenters, the challenge has never been greater in the history of the species and we must rise to the occasion. Boring presenters lose their audiences to competition from mobile phones.  These are surreptitiously being held under tables, as people hit the internet and mentally flee the room and the speaker.   What is the point of being an expert, with tremendous reserve powers of technical expertise, if no one is listening,.  Who are you talking to?  Yourself? This is what happens when you have lost your audience.  Mastery of the slide deck presentation professional protocols are an absolute basic requirement.  I don't even know why I have to mention this.    Engaging the audience and telling memory capture stories is another basic skill.  Stories enlarge the impact of the numbers and stay with us, long after the data has been forgotten. Making eye contact to personalize the delivery is so powerful.  When combined with voice emphasis, by either adding or subtracting strength and speed, this becomes the mark of the true professional.    Technical people can no longer hide from reality.  They can't find refuge in their expertise area. They are required to convey their knowledge to others who are not part of their shared technical heaven.  Get the skills and most importantly of all, rehearse before you give your presentations.  The difference is infinite.

Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British Military History at the University of Kent and in this very candid and wide-ranging interview Mark begins by talking about his family background. He was born to a German mother while his father, who is a London cab driver, is a mixture of Irish and Russian. Mark also talks about how his love of history was precipitated by reading Ladybird History Books as a child. Mark was the first in his family to go to university and we discuss our shared arts backgrounds. Mark reveals his earliest memory which is Christmas-related and we learn that he enjoyed going to the Imperial War Museum and the Tower of London when young. Through his parents Mark developed a love of Frank Sinatra, especially his 1950s concept albums, and Mark can just about remember Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ from its original 1973 incarnation. He especially loves Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’ and the memories it evokes as well as Spandau Ballet’s ‘True’. We also learn about the time that Mark encountered Chesney Hawkes on a plane and about the importance of film soundtracks in reunion films such as ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ and ‘Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion’. We then learn what inspired Mark, who was the only pupil to take ‘O’ level Religious Education at his school, to enter academia and we find out that he is still in touch with his ‘O’ and ‘A’ level History teacher from school. At University, Mark was the Head of the History Society and organized various trips to quirky places in London as well as being a devotee of West Ham football club. Mark shares his love of radio, in particular comedy shows such as ‘The News Huddlines', as well as ‘Yesterday in Parliament’, and he talks about being a fan of the jingles played on LBC. He also explains why he is misty eyed for Desmond Carrington and he reminisces about ‘Pick of the Pops’ with Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman. In the final part of the interview, Mark recalls growing up in the 1970s, during the ‘doom and gloom’ of the Winter of Discontent but speaks about how he has happy memories of his teenage years. Mark also discusses how his Chrohn’s disease has taught him various lessons and how he is nostalgic for wallowing in solipsistic moments of teenage misery e.g. the music of The Smiths. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Mark Connelly and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

It was a delight this week to meet Will Wollen, Director of Public Engagement in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Kent. Will is an actor, and teaches actors, and wasn’t planning on being an academic. Will was born in Kent and grew up in Dorset, though his parents spent many years living in Kenya, where his older sisters were born. At University, Will studied French and Philosophy and we learn how he got into acting through the Theatre Society at the University of Leeds. We also discuss the perils of what happens when an actor falls ill. We find out what Will’s earliest memories were, which include having his toe being nibbled by a duck, and how in later years he discovered that the boys prep school he went to was run by a paedophile. We also talk about why people go to the theatre in order to see people lose and how comedy happens when people fall over. Will’s first record buying experience was at age 10 and we learn why, in the mid-1980s, he followed a different path to that of his peers by being into the Beatles while the music of the time passed him by. Will reflects on how his father had a passion for Charlie Kunz and medleys of piano music while his mother was into Burt Kaempfert. Will explains how he came to the University of Kent and we discuss teaching dynamics, how to engage with students and what happens when we don’t always know our material. Will has always been a big Radio 4 listener and we learn why he is nostalgic about radio and values the BBC. At the end of the interview, Will explains why his memories are predominantly positive and we learn why he has trained himself to listen to the gut and not just the head, and Will gives an unexpected answer to the question of whether he considers himself to be a looking back or a looking forward kind of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Will Wollen and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

In today’s episode, your host Jay Dhillon interviews Top 100 influencer and British entrepreneur, founder of healthcare support service Oberoi Consulting, public speaker and Secret Millionaire, Kavita Oberoi OBE Kavita Oberoi is one of the UK's most highly regarded successful entrepreneurs and social philanthropists, with a multi-million-pound business portfolio and a net-worth of over £10 million. Jay and Kavita discuss the vital ingredients needed, to be successful in business and the skills you need to develop in order to make it to the top. Tune in today to hear Kavita’s inspiring rise to success and learn how you too, can start, grow and scale your own business, with the right knowledge, passion and people around you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Jay: What did University teach you? Kavita: For me, if I’m doing something, I always have the self-motivation to go to the top. You need to keep the right company around you and in my case, the people around me were all hard working and focused, and it rubbed off on me. At University you need to be passionate about what you’re doing and achieve your goals. Jay: What are your thoughts on sales? Kavita: Business is about people, so you have to be a good people person and sales teaches you about being knocked down and trying again. It teaches you resilience and anywhere in which you can experience it teaches you a lot. Jay: What was the transition from your medical sales job to set up a business? Kavita: I got married, whilst this was amazing his family were very traditional and that meant It wasn’t right for me to go out to work. Over-time I improved in my job, transferred locations and I was on top of my game, but after maternity leave, I was turned down for a promotion and it was then I decided to leave my job and start my own business. Seeing a gap in the market for clinical audit provision, I left Bayer to set up my first company in 2001 – Oberoi Consulting. I gained my first lucrative contract with global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and we took on over 800 practices in the first 6-months, it was a £500,000 project. Jay: Can you share some tips with the audience from your amazing career? Kavita: You must be passionate about what you choose to do, you must be focused and determined in order to achieve the things you want to achieve and, success isn’t easy you need to work hard. BEST MOMENTS “You have to make a lot of sacrifices to get to where you want to go, entrepreneurs are often quite rebellious” “If someone says you can’t do it, take it as motivation to go ahead and do it” “Anyone can be good at sales, but it’s all down to the practice” “If you have a challenge you have to engage with people and bring them around to your passion” “It’s really important to have mentors in your life, to guide you along the way” “When you give back you receive more in return” “The more patients they treated the more money they would get and their brand would grow. Their sales teams were signing up all these practises, we were just delivering and we worked on that brand for 11 years and as a result, become the go-to provider for new Pfizer licensing delivering. Now, the business has developed and with software and development we are now doing clinical audits on a mass scale, it’s been going 17 years.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.kavitaoberoi.com/ Oberoi Consulting – a major provider of healthcare support services to clients including the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. ABOUT THE HOST Jay Dhillon is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist based in the UK with a proven track record of growing businesses from start-up to success- and helping others do the same. From humble beginnings, Jay grew his first business from 0-500 employees and three locations, racking up sales of over £30 million – all without any investment other than a small amount of savings. The business went on to acquire major clients such as Landrover, Jaguar, Toyota and New Look, to name a few. Its huge success inevitably brought about outside interest and at the age 33 Jay eventually sold the company to a London investment firm in Doyen Resources. Today, Jay owns several businesses in different sectors and helps entrepreneurs achieve success. A calling to give back and help others led to Jay being chosen for the highly-coveted role as a Prince’s Trust mentor, where his achievements were marked by a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles. After helping several young entrepreneurs to success as a mentor for the Trust, Jay’s burning desire to bring his wisdom and knowledge to a wider audience ultimately triggered the concept of The Business Mentor Podcast. Jay feels that anyone can achieve success in business with the right advice and mentoring and is now sharing his knowledge with his growing audience via his podcast. In the UK alone 95% of business fail within the first five years and Jay’s aim is to reduce that number. Backed with the hard-earned knowledge and experience from his time in business, The Business Mentor Podcast will share Jay’s personal business lessons as well those of other successful entrepreneur guests who share their wisdom and secrets on the show. CONTACT METHOD https://www.jay-dhillon.com/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jaydhillon https://www.instagram.com/jaydhillonuk/ https://www.facebook.com/JaydhillonUK/ Jay@businessmentorpodcast.com ABOUT THE GUEST Kavita Oberoi is one of the UK's most highly regarded successful entrepreneurs and social philanthropists, with a multi-million-pound business portfolio. In 2009 she was named in a Bank of Scotland report as one of Britain's 100 most entrepreneurial women and in 2014 awarded an OBE for services to entrepreneurship and start-up businesses. Her many other accolades include being awarded the women of colour achievement award, an Honorary Fellowship from Burton & South Derbyshire college, an Honorary Doctorate for Business and Entrepreneurship, Beacon Fellowship for Philanthropy Advocate, NRI Pinnacle Award - The Business Empress Honour, NRI Institute international ‘Pride of India Gold Award’ and a Fellowship of the RSA (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce). GUEST CONTACT https://www.kavitaoberoi.com/contact/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kavita-oberoi-obe-5b83226 https://twitter.com/Kavita_Oberoi

Elizabeth Moye is a Nutritionist, Certified Health Coach and Wellness Blogger at Hello Spoonful. At University, she became quickly known for her passion for fitness, food and healthy eating.   That's how Elizabeth decided to put all the information and answers on a blog and Hello Spoonful was born, which has now turned into a Nutrition Coaching business, Instagram page and a resource for healthy recipes and more.   Elizabeth believes in a traditional diet, enjoying all foods in moderation and prioritizing ingredients over the nutrition label. She doesn't believe in diet and food trends, calorie trackers or having a “good food”, “bad food” list, because eliminating any food or food group typically results in binging, later on, heightens cravings or causes an individual to develop an unhealthy relationship with food.   In today's episode, we talk about   What food really is and why you should enjoy it Intuitive eating and how to better listen to your body All the simple cooking hacks you need to know to eat healthy at home Why moderation is the key to a healthy and glowing body Alcohol and how to adjust your drinks to make them healthier   And so much more!   You can find the full show notes here: martinafink.com/podcast/25

Mitchell's guest this week is Ira Kaufman.  Ira is a Transformation Strategist, CEO, Social Entrepreneur and Educator. Ira's 40 years of management experience spans three worlds: business, nonprofit and education. His work is driven by using values to fuel purposeful action and change.  Earning his PhD in Marketing and MA in Sociology under the mentorship of Dr. Philip Kotler at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management  (father of modern marketing),  Ira worked with Dr. Kotler to advance early initiatives in social marketing (using marketing to further a purpose). His company, Entwine Digital, works with midsize and multinationals to design values-based Digital Marketing and Transformation strategies and trains World Class Digital Leaders. His Strategic Transformation platform provides a values-driven framework for managing continuous change to fuel purposeful social impact ventures. He consults with executives to  https://amzn.to/2Ne8MZ6navigate World 4.0. Ira taught digital marketing at the senior executive programs at Kellogg and Virginia Tech. At University of Lynchburg School of Business and Economics, he designed the Transformative Leadership Lab and Leadership in the Digital Age. He has a deep commitment to working with Legacy International's Global Transformation Corps to develop the skill sets of emerging leaders as Catalyzers for a sustainable future. He co-authored Digital Marketing: Integrating Strategy, Tactics with Values (now in 2nd edition) and   Strategic Harmony… 21 Solutions to the Shattered World (2018). His blog is www.Think Catalytic. Outside of his professional life, his true passions are his two children, organic gardening, basketball and meditation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abwmitchellrabin/support

Mitchell's guest this week is Ira Kaufman.  Ira is a Transformation Strategist, CEO, Social Entrepreneur and Educator. Ira's 40 years of management experience spans three worlds: business, nonprofit and education. His work is driven by using values to fuel purposeful action and change.  Earning his PhD in Marketing and MA in Sociology under the mentorship of Dr. Philip Kotler at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management  (father of modern marketing),  Ira worked with Dr. Kotler to advance early initiatives in social marketing (using marketing to further a purpose). His company, Entwine Digital, works with midsize and multinationals to design values-based Digital Marketing and Transformation strategies and trains World Class Digital Leaders. His Strategic Transformation platform provides a values-driven framework for managing continuous change to fuel purposeful social impact ventures. He consults with executives to  https://amzn.to/2Ne8MZ6navigate World 4.0. Ira taught digital marketing at the senior executive programs at Kellogg and Virginia Tech. At University of Lynchburg School of Business and Economics, he designed the Transformative Leadership Lab and Leadership in the Digital Age. He has a deep commitment to working with Legacy International's Global Transformation Corps to develop the skill sets of emerging leaders as Catalyzers for a sustainable future. He co-authored Digital Marketing: Integrating Strategy, Tactics with Values (now in 2nd edition) and   Strategic Harmony… 21 Solutions to the Shattered World (2018). His blog is www.Think Catalytic. Outside of his professional life, his true passions are his two children, organic gardening, basketball and meditation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abwmitchellrabin/support

Yolanda Mangrum, DDS, MAGD has been a practicing dentist since 1997 and practice owner since 1999. She is the founder of Plan For Heath (PFH), co-founder of Virtual Training Innovation (VTI) and the owner/CEO Petaluma Dental Group (PDG). Plan For Health is a wellness membership plan for dental offices. It was created as a patient/ practice win-win to fill the gaps of dental insurance. The need to create Virtual Training Innovation came from her desire to stop repeating herself in training. She says "Keeping my team on track with training, culture, goals and protocols has seemed like a never-ending frustrating task. I needed to create a way to stop this cycle and win." Throughout her practicing years, she has strived to create protocols that would achieve repeatable results and lay the groundwork for inspiring individual growth. She has consistently shared her best practices with her dental colleagues, inspired new dentists and participated in organized dentistry to improve the dental profession. Yolanda began her dental career in 1989 when she received on-the-job training to become a licensed Registered Dental Assistant. While working as a dental assistant, she completed her Bachelor's in Biology at University of California, Riverside and completed Riverside City College's Dental Laboratory Technician Certificate. Having worked in every position of dentistry gives her personal experience of what it is like to “walk in the team and doctors shoes.” At University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry, she was an active student leader and student teacher. After graduation, she received a faculty position as Assistant Clinical Professor. Teaching and learning has remained a passion for Yolanda. She began her service in organized dentistry in 1994, and held local and state positions, culminating as President of the California AGD in 2008. In 2001, she earned her Fellowship in AGD and received the prestigious award of Masters in AGD in 2007. Dr. Mangrum opened her first dental practice in 1999 in Sonoma from scratch, one patient at a time. Ten years later she purchased her second practice, Petaluma Dental Group. She built a team of dedicated health care professionals in both practices. In 2011, she sold her Sonoma practice to focus on her multi-specialty Petaluma practice. Today, Petaluma Dental Group has five general dentists, an Orthodontist, an Oral Surgeon, Endodontist and a Periodontist. In 2014, Yolanda co-authored “Hire to Inspire: What Great Leaders Do To Consistently Achieve Winning Results.” This book is how she created a team of “leaders leading leaders.” She no longer has employee’s only partners/ stakeholders. Being a strong leader is important to her and she enjoys unlocking greatness in every individuals. It is her belief that individuals have limitless potential for growth.   Join the private FFS Dentistry Facebook group at www.ffsdentist.com

In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future I do my first live interview! At University of Colorado, I interviewed Ryan Martens, the co-founder and CTO of Rally Technologies. We dive into his work with ImpactHub, TheoryU, and Communities for Change. Then we explore my macro phase shift work with ETHCommons and GameB. Enjoy, and as always, let me know if you have any feedback!

My first live interview! At University of Colorado, I interviewed Ryan Martens, the co-founder and CTO of Rally Technologies. We dive into his work with ImpactHub, TheoryU, and Communities for Change. Then we explore my macro phase shift work with ETHCommons and GameB. Support me on Patreon! www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark Support me with ETH on StakeTree! www.staketree.com/rhyslindmark Thanks to Shapeshift for sponsoring the show! https://shapeshift.io Thanks to Collin Brown, Mike Goldin, John Desmond, Paras Chopra, Harry Lindmark, Colin Wielga, Joe Urgo, Josh Nussbaum, John Lindmark, Jacob Zax, Doug King, Katie Powell, Mark Moore, Jonathan Isaac, Coury Ditch, Mike Pratt, Ref Lindmark, Jim Rutt, Jeff Snyder, Ryan X Charles, Chris Edmonds, Brayton Williams, Patrick Walker, Kenji Williams, Ryan Martens, Craig Burel, Scott Levi, Matt Daley, Peter Rodgers, Keith Klundt, Andrew O’Neill, Alan Curtis, Kenzie Jacobs, and James Waugh for supporting me on Patreon! Thanks to Storecoin, Griff Green, Radar Relay, district0x, Niel de la Rouviere, Brady McKenna, and some anonymous others for supporting me on StakeTree!

My guest is Markku Kulmala. Markku is one of the most prominent scientists in the world in the field of atmospheric and earth system sciences. At University of Helsinki, he leads a research group that has more than 35 published papers in journals Nature and Science. Markku is the person you want to learn from on the topic of climate change research. We talk about how they do their research, what their initial results show and how they’re hoping the results help humankind fight climate change.

At University, Chris thought his fear of public speaking would cost him his degree. Fast forward to now and he has been a motorsports commentator since 2012, and works on some of the biggest events across the UK and Europe. He is also a speaker and public speaking coach, and he shares some great tips in this episode on how to manage fear, find speaking success and enjoy the ride! What you'll learn: How and why to get free from the paralysing fear of speaking Tips on finding your unique speaking voice The number one tip for being in front of the camera The keys to successful speaking and being booked more than once How to add your personality to your speaking What makes the difference between a good speaker and a great one. What's the most important tip for speaking in front of a camera. Network with Chris: Websites: http://chrisdawescomms.co.uk/public-speaking-training/ https://www.opendawestraining.co.uk/public-speaking-training/sports-media-training/ Facebook:    @Chris Dawes Commentator / @Chris Dawes Twitter: @Dawesracing To share your thoughts: leave a comment below. Share this show on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. To help the show out: Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and review really help get the word out and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes. See you next time. Thanks for listening!

Neysha Soodeen is the CEO of Toute Bagai Publishing, considered one of the Caribbean's largest magazine publishing houses. Toute Bagai Publishing has received many international accolades, including international print and design awards, such as the SAPPI International Printers Award. Neysha has received numerous awards including the Marcella Martinez Award for her contribution to promoting the Caribbean internationally and was nationally recognized and awarded the Business Pioneer Award by The Association of Female Executives of Trinidad & Tobago. #PeakPerformers, Neysha shares her inspiring journey on #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: If you were to name one piece of clothing that describes you, what would you say? Jeans & t-shirt. It's so funny because I meet people right cross the Caribbean and I guess everyone is assuming because I am a magazine publisher and a former model that I am this little glamour puss trotting around the Caribbean. But I really am not, I love my jeans, I love my t-shirts. You were a model? At University, being a foreign student I couldn't work so my parents supported me. After I finish university, I decided to go and do another degree because life was too easy. All I had to do was pass and my parents were supporting me. At that point in time my parents said, "no-way, get out and get yourself a job"! This was in the late '80's early '90s. At that time, ethnic models were the hottest thing walking the planet. I'm almost 6 foot tall and Indian. I was picked up by a modelling agency that whisked me off to Italy. I told my parents that you wanted me to work so I just got a job working as a model and it's in Italy. To that, my parents were terribly disappointed because all that money wasted on an education for me to go and trot up and down the runway was not their idea of a great profession. However, being in Italy, a foreign country, a foreign language taught me so much. It taught that no matter where I am in the world I could figure it out and I was completely on my own in Italy and it was a great experience for me. After a couple of years, I'd come back home for a holiday - I was about 24 at the time and I have a lump in my neck. My mom took me to the doctor. Although I was 24 and thought I was a big woman, in the doctor's office, the doctor and my mother spoke directly and they totally cut me out of the conversation. That lump turned out to be Thyroid Cancer which was at the time stage 3, after a couple of years turned into stage 4. I had to undergo years of treatment and surgery. That was the end of my modelling career. It was the beginning of a new life. I'm in bed in tears thinking how can this be and I grabbed a bottle of wine; I figured if I'm going to die I'm going to die happy; really preventing myself from smoking at that time. In and out of sleep I thought, 'what would my funeral be like?' And then I thought of the eulogy and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to have the most boring eulogy ever' I have not accomplished anything. I swam for Barbados but I never made it to the Olympics; I went to university but I never did anything with my degree and I modelled in Italy but never really did anything with that either. And I thought “Neysha Soodeen was this fun little, happy girl” and that was the beginning of a brand, new life. Once I was able to beat the Cancer, that was when I decided I need my eulogy to be an awesome eulogy and I picked up myself at 28 or 29 moved to Trinidad and started a publishing a company, started my magazine - Maco Caribbean Magazine. Tell us about the concept behind Maco Caribbean Magazine I was privileged to have gone away to school in Canada and then I was living in Italy. When I had come back home, two very poignant things still out: While I was away everyone assumes that if you are from the Caribbean, you either work at a hotel, own a hotel, or live on the beach or drink banana daiquiri.

Episode 65—My interview with Mrs. Maureen Hornstein Hello everyone! Thank you for listening to another episode of Childless not by Choice! I appreciate your taking the time to listen in once again. Thank you to my repeat listeners. And if you are listening for the first time, I hope you will come back for another visit! Remember to tell your friends about the show, and feel free to share to your social media followers! I would appreciate that!   Mrs. Maureen Hornstein is originally from a small town in Minnesota, USA. At University, she studied Speech-Theater, Music, and Education. Upon graduation, she joined the staff of a faith-based organization, Campus Crusade for Christ International now known as Cru.   Maureen and her husband, Hank, have spent most of their careers living in three countries outside of the United States. Currently, Maureen is the Women's Asia Strategy Coordinator for the Jesus Film Project. On that project, she works with various media tools that help women realize that no matter what their family or country may think of them; God their Creator, made them valuable.     Was it a conscious decision to work and live outside the United States?   In your bio, you say that you help women realize that no matter what women’s families and cultures may tell them, their Creator values them. How exactly do you convey this truth to women? Is this through your Jesus Film Project, or in your daily life’s journey?      When did you and your husband realize you would not be having children?   Do you both come from large or small families?     Was there any pushback from either of your families when they realized you weren’t having children?   Did you and your husband have to journey to a place of acceptance?     What suggestions would you have for women struggling with childlessness?   To contact Mrs. Maureen Hornstein: Magdalena Today on Facebook www.magdalenatoday.com Jesus film media app     "Empathy is finding echoes of another person in yourself."--Mohsin Hamid.     Stories of note: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/17/we-are-not-barren-or-infertile-we-are-just-but-waiting-wombs-childless_c1557714 https://www.rt.com/op-edge/389574-macron-may-merkel-europes-childless/   My contact information: Website: www.childlessnotbychoice.net and www.civillamorgan.com Facebook: booksbycivillamorgan Twitter: @civilla1 Instagram: @joyandrelevance  Pinterest: Civilla M. Morgan, MSM LinkedIn: Civilla Morgan, MSM     Please help me out by taking this very short survey! https://survey.libsyn.com/21stcenturyhannah Until next time! Bye!

Get episode TAKEAWAYS here: http://sportsmastery.com/20... In this episode, I interview Coach Eric Reveno. Coach Reveno currently coaches Georgia Tech basketball. He's also coached at University of Portland and Stanford. At University of Portland, Reveno served 10 years as head coach. It was an honor to interview Coach Reveno, he has outstanding qualities, and an important perspective. We discussed the three most important qualities that college coaches look for in high school recruits: 1. Academic 2. Psychological 3. Physical ... From there, Coach Reveno shared his wonderful experiences while coaching at University of Portland. We also spent some time discussing the pros and cons of AAU Basketball.Coach Reveno concludes the interview by reflecting on the recruitment of Jazz Johnson. Here are some insightful quotes from Coach Reveno's Twitter( @CoachReveno ): 1. Basketball is a game of balance. Most often when you want to get your best scorer more opportunities, you need to work to make others more a threat. 2. If you want to be a coach, practice solving problems before they occur. 3. To paraphrase Aristotle, "you are what you do on a daily basis." Your habits make you. You can't have people judge you just by your good days... Get episodeTAKEAWAYS here: http://sportsmastery.com/20

Japan: Your Educational Ladder Is On The Wrong Wall   Japanese education includes exciting things like adults screaming abuse, using threatening words, kids mouthing slogans at mass rallies and making over $2 million in a week.   We know that Japan has a well established escalator system for work and education. Enter on the correct ground floor and with the passing of time and effort, you get out at the top. Get accepted into the right elementary school and you will get into the right middle school, the right high school and then the right university. You graduate and get a job at the right company and then over decades of grind work your way up to the top.   Japan still loves rote learning and parents will pay cram schools to get their kids fully tuned up and on to the education escalator. I was watching a programme on television about the Waseda Academy's week long training camp for aspirant future captains of industry. The programme focused on 6th year elementary students trying to get into the all important Middle School of their choice. They had their hachimaki (headbands), a Japanese symbol of resolute martial spirit and determination. They lived in small groups, working hard all day taking tests and doing their homework together at night.   The televised scenes showed their adult instructors yelling at them to get serious or get out. Their insufficient efforts drew harsh rebukes and extended tirades. If you were not matching the regime's expectations, you were bluntly told to get serious or leave now. You are twelve years old.   The amazing thing was there were 2600 kids on this training camp. The organisers were also adept at psychological indoctrination using mass rally techniques of getting everyone to come together outside on the assembly grounds, for some good old fashioned chanting of slogans and thrusting of fists into the air.   This was a $2.3 million programme for the week, which is not a bad earner. This is on top of the regular monthly fees the parents already pay to cram schools throughout the year, to get Michi Chan or Taro Kun on to the right escalator.   A few things struck me when watching the show. This reminded me of karate training with my Japanese masters. A rain of criticism every class was the order of the day in the Dojo. It also occurred to me that Japan loves this type of hell fire right of passage. One of my team sent her son on this very camp and she was happy that they were dealing out lot's of tough love. Japan is famous for companies sending their errant staff to the adult equivalent of this training camp, meeting out humiliation and abuse in large doses.   You could argue that given how the older generation decries what a bunch of molly coddled, over indulged, spoilt brats the younger generation have become, they need a bit of toughening up.   Another thing that got my attention was the focus on rote learning and exam technique. This is the standard educational approach in Japan right through to starting University classes. At University, unless you are trying for very specific careers like medicine, the elite bureaucracy or some job that requires you to pass a national exam, then the next four years are a type of Club Med for undergraduates. I know because I did my Master's Degree at a famous Japanese University and witnessed this luxurious life of undergrad student leisure.   Getting into a University will become even less of a grind, as the declining youth population means fewer and fewer barriers to entry, as institutions go into a death struggle for survival. So the ease of graduating will soon be matched by the ease of entry.   Japan's experiment with the yutori kyoiku ( relaxed education) approach didn't last long. The original idea was get away from rote learning and exam technique and try to help students to analyse, to think, to tap into their creative attributes. The first dismal results for Japan, from standardised international tests and yutori kyoiku was out on the trash heap. If the object was to foster creativity and innovation, you have to wonder why they used the usual standardised tests as their ROI measure?   The innovation issue hasn't gone away though. In the internet age, when anything you want to know can be found through a search engine, how relevant is rote learning and exam technique for the future. How much longer can a varsity system of floundering entry requirements and day care for adolescents continue? We all know we need more innovation and creativity in companies. Where is this going to come from?   There are a lot of public and private sector vested interests in keeping the current system moving forward ever nudging irrelevancy, so don't expect change soon. The sting in the tail will be the decreasing quality of our new company recruits. They won't have much creativity after the system has had its way with them and their rote leaning abilities won't be of much use either. If we think about the work skills, knowledge and abilities we will demand of our employees in the next twenty years, we can be absolutely sure the current Japanese system of education won't be producing it.   Japanese companies have never heavily relied on academic institutions for educating their staff. With lifetime employment, investing in training people made economic sense because you would reap the rewards. With greater job mobility on the horizon however, this social contract between staff and company will be broken. Young people, who will be in short supply due to demographic changes, will become like baseball free agents. They will rapidly discover they are able to swap teams for a better deal.   The “lost decade”, now in it's third decade, gutted in-company education. Training budgets were cut and many were never resurrected. Instead they relied on OJT (on the job training) and so the investment on skilling up staff never occurred. This is sustainable for a limited period of time and that point was reached long ago.   So where are we up to? The companies aren't training their staff as comprehensively as they once did. The staff themselves will find themselves being lured by recruiters to move on to greener pastures.   I believe the educational construct in Japan basically has its ladder up against the wrong wall. What will become of this country? What will we need to do to prepare ourselves for this brave new world? Are we thinking about these prospects?   If we haven't spared a thought for this grim future of work, then now is a good time to take another look at assumptions, strategies, plans and targets. Those preparing now, will win in this coming war for talent. Game on!     Engaged employees are self-motivated. The self-motivated are inspired. Inspired staff grow your business but are you inspiring them? We teach leaders and organisations how to inspire their people. Want to know how we do that? Contact me at greg.story@dalecarnegie.com   About The Author In the course of his career Dr. Greg Story has moved from the academic world, to consulting, investments, trade representation, international diplomacy, retail banking and people development. Growing up in Brisbane, Australia he never imagined he would have a Ph.D. in Japanese decision-making and become a 30 year veteran of Japan.   A committed lifelong learner, through his published articles in the American, British and European Chamber journals, his videos and podcast “THE Leadership Japan Series”, he is a thought leader in the four critical areas for business people: leadership, communication, sales and presentations. Dr. Story is a popular keynote speaker, executive coach and trainer.   Since 1971, he has been a disciple of traditional Shitoryu Karate and is currently a 6th Dan. Bunbu Ryodo (文武両道-both pen & sword) is his mantra and he applies martial art philosophies and strategies to business.  

Michael Grandinetti is not your ordinary magician.  With performances on national and international television, in stadiums, arenas, casinos, and theaters around the U.S., with Oscar winning composers and symphony orchestras, for NFL halftime shows and major sporting events while surrounded by 70,000 people, for Fortune 500 companies, and even at The White House, Michael has made a name for himself around the world as an extremely talented and innovative illusionist and entertainer. He has starred in NBC's "The World's Most Dangerous Magic" television special, The CW's "Masters of Illusion" series, and Pop Network's "Don't Blink" series, and has been featured in FOX's "Bones" series, the "Hollywood Christmas Parade" on The CW, "Entertainment Tonight", "Access Hollywood", "SportsCenter", "NBA on TNT", "New York Today", "FOX & Friends", and "The Bold and the Beautiful".  Michael was recently featured on the cover of TV Times magazine, released in newspapers across the U.S. Entertainment Weekly named Michael as “a great magician who can truly communicate with a TV audience”. Michael has also pioneered live magic in one of the most challenging environments imaginable, major-league football stadiums, baseball stadiums, and basketball arenas for NFL and NBA halftime shows and large-scale sporting event shows.  For example, at Bank of America Stadium, Michael caused people to appear, disappear, shrink in size, and levitate above the 50-yard line, while 70,000 people witnessed the magic with a 360 degree view.  At Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium, Michael performed one of the largest live interactive illusions in history when he read the minds of all 45,000 people in the stadium at the same time.  At University of Phoenix Stadium, for the Arizona Cardinals, Michael's halftime show was part of large-scale entertainment at the game, which included legendary rock band Journey who performed the national anthem.  Michael's performance for halftime at the Chicago Bulls NBA playoff game at United Center in Chicago caused commentators Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley to comment in amazement during the live national broadcast on TNT. Michael was recently honored to be the first Illusionist ever invited to perform in the National Independence Day Parade in Washington DC.  During this remarkable celebration of the U.S., Michael levitated a girl high above one of the floats as it moved down Constitution Avenue, while a live audience of 250,000 people lined the streets. This is magic on a major scale. Make sure you catch Michael when he stars in Season Three of the hit CW series "Masters of Illusion", premiering in the summer of 2016.  Michael is one of the extraordinary people featured on The One Way Ticket Show.   In the podcast, Host Steven Shalowitz explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket, no coming back!  Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary or a state of mind. Several of Steven's guests have included:  Legendary Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett;  CNN's Richard Quest & Bill Weir; Journalist-Humorist-Actor Mo Rocca (of CBS Sunday Morning & The Cooking Channel's "My Grandmother's Ravioli" fame); Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.; as well as leading photographers, artists, writers and more.  

Bruce Bond is the author of fifteen books, most recently Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy (Etruscan, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (LSU, 2008). His forthcoming books include For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, University of Tampa Press), Gold Bee (Crab Orchard Open Competition Prize, University of Southern Illinois Press), Sacrum (Four Way Books), The Other Sky (poems in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfeld, intro by Stephen Dunn; Etruscan Press), and a book of literary criticism: Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (University of Michigan). He has won numerous recognitions for his poems, including the Allen Tate Award, the TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize, the Colladay Award, the Richard Peterson Prize, the Knightville Poetry Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Institute for the Arts. At University of North Texas, he has won the Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching, the Toulouse Scholars Award, the Creative Impact Award, and the inaugural Eminent Faculty Award. Presently he is Regents Professor of English at UNT, poetry co-editor for American Literary Review, and co-judge for the annual Rilke Book Award. Bruce Bond's poem, "Pill" was recorded at the Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas, Texas, April 20, 2015.

Dale Carnegie Training Japan: http://japan.dalecarnegie.com/mainsite/ Society approves titles and status, especially in Japan.  We rise through the ranks and following the Peter Principle, we peak at our upper level of incompetence.  On the way up, we pick up titles and accrue status, respect and credence amplified through the power of our title.  Our personal power though could be suddenly exposed as bogus, when we get up to open our mouths in public.  This is one of those “The Emperor Has No Clothes” moments, when all is revealed, and we are found severely wanting. I was at a function recently and one of the bureaucratic elite in Japan was there to give a keynote presentation.  You generally get to become an elite official in Japan because you went to the right elementary school, middle school, high school and then University.  The reason these were the right schools up until University, is because they have the absolute best system in place to help you be a legend in memorization, rote learning and test taking.  At University you take a couple of years off, before you start cramming for the national selection exam, where again memory and exam technique are the most rewarded skills. You join a Ministry and work like a dog for a squillion hours every day, for years, simultaneously looking for a powerful patron to whom you can pledge total loyalty.  After decades of glacial progress, you emerge a grey haired, elite official.  Now part of the bureaucratic upper crust, you are often called upon to represent your organization and speak in public and the whole edifice comes crushing down. This was the case with this official – sent out into the firing line to promulgate the new way forward for his political masters, to impress everyone with the potency of their new policies, to win adherents to the path forward.  Total fizzer.  Why?  Because he spoke without energy or passion – nothing to indicate he felt at all impressed with his own recommendations.  He looked down at his papers and hardly glanced at the audience.  The opportunity to make eye contact, to combine words with the power of his face and to use the tonal variations available to his voice,  were in total absence.  He was a truly dull correspondent and we were completely dulled to his message.  There were no converts that day.  He could tick the box though – the task was completed, a total failure, but completed.  Astonishingly, during the post speech Q&A session, he perked up like man really engaged – sadly it was only sustained for 30 seconds, but it showed he could do it.  So why didn't he do it while he commanded the stage?  No concept and no appreciation for the immense power at his beck and call, I would proffer.  His self-concept seemed to be that he was just a grey bureaucrat, whose job was to be grey and boring.  Obviously he had received no training or preparation for his task.  So his brilliant university pedigree meant little when he was publically outed at the podium.  He was a total failure as a communicator, he became a message killer, a brand assassin instead.  Was he an exception, a one-off, the runt of the litter among the bureaucratic ranks of the gifted, great and plausible public speakers?  No he was typical of that bevy of elite officials, who are mainly acquired status and have almost no personal power projection. Another vaunted profession is that of the elite government official who works in the foreign service.  This has been a bad week for me, as I suffered more of the same, this time from an Ambassador.  You would think that given the high profile nature of their job, they would be experts in promoting their countries.  No, this was another national reputation suicide effort.  Monotone, weak voice sputtering forth Ums and Ahs aplenty, with no engagement with the audience.  A voice that sounded so very weary and where the last three to four words in every sentence, just slowly petered out.  The energy and tone just subsided, guaranteeing the key message was a total downer, regardless of the actual content of the words.  Was this a one off – just the Ambo having a bad day?  No, I have seen this gentleman in action on many occasions and there is a scary consistency to his public speaking murder of his country's brand.  He is not unusual – in my 28 years of survey here, I have found that most Ambassadors are hopeless public speakers.  Yes, yes, there are some exceptions, but they just prove the rule (send me a list of more than 10 Ambassadors you know who are any good?).   Do these career diplomats get proper training in the art of public speaking?  Astoundingly no!  They become elite government officials due to their ability to write cables and reports, which usually almost no one reads, by the way.  They have large analytical abilities and very big brains. They can really shine is small meetings, where they can one up their rivals and be the smartest intellect in the room.  So they get promoted and then get propelled to the front of the stage, handed the mike and away they go into ineptitude, writ large under lights, in front of the assembled masses.  The good thing is that all of their colleagues are equally hopeless, so it seems normal to them.  The fundamental error is they simply don't value having a skilled public presentation facility. The worst public speaking experience of my diplomatic career was giving a speech on behalf of one of our Ambassadors.  I was “our man in Osaka” and had to deliver the speech on his behalf.  The talk was in Japanese, which was no issue, as I had given around 400 public speeches in Japanese.  The content however was challenging.  There are four main types of speeches – to inform, to persuade, to entertain and to impress.  Foreign Ministries around the world, tend to love the data dump, inform variety.  This automatically leads to lots of dull information being imparted.  Why they don't go for the persuade type is a bit of a mystery to me and all countries seem to make that selection.  I absolutely gave it my best shot to liven it up, while sticking religiously to the approved Ambassadorial text, but what torture it was!  Imagine when you combine dead data with a dead delivery?  You have a massive bromide of winter surf Hawaiian North Shore frightening proportions, thundering down to bludgeon unsuspecting audiences into stupefaction. This is what we usually get from elite Government officials and it doesn't have to be like that.  There are some bright spots of hope though, even in Japan!  Previous Ambassador Nishimura, who I met in Osaka in the mid-1990s, during his posting to the Kansai (yes, Kansai is considered a foreign country by Tokyo, so they have to send an Ambassador down there), was skilled and excellent.  English or Japanese, it did not matter, he was the consummate diplomat in the sense he could use his speaking power, to capture an audience and have them love Japan.  He finished his career as Ambassador to Portugal, and I am sure he was a tremendous asset for his country in creating support for Japan there. Hello to all of you elite officials and aspirants out there, stop boring us all to death, get some proper training and represent your Ministries with aplomb.  Boys and girls – be ambitious? No be persuasive!

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Librarians hope to affect student achievement by meeting students in the classroom. At University of Wyoming, the number of instruction sessions offered by librarians has increased from 127 sessions in 2001 to 357 sessions in 2009, and our institution is part of a national trend. But does all the time and effort expended on library instruction help students succeed academically? This study will attempt to establish a connection between library instruction and student achievement via a focus group with graduating seniors and a transcript analysis correlating students' library instruction experience to GPA. I hypothesize that seniors who have had library instruction in their sophomore, junior, or senior year (in addition to the expected instruction in their freshman year) will be more successful than students who did not have library instruction after their freshman year. Hopefully, students who attend multiple library instruction sessions at UW succeed, achieve, and learn more than those who do not. Learning more about the student experience via the focus group and analysis of a large sample of senior transcripts will give us more information about which students receive library instruction, at what point they receive it, and how we can improve the library instruction program for students in different programs of study. We are working to create a tiered approach to information literacy teaching, and this study will provide us with some of the information and supporting data we need to make that happen.