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Sydney witnessed neo-Nazi incidents across three consecutive days over the Australia Day weekend, prompting fears the ideology is gaining popularity in Australia So who are the people behind these incidents and should we be worried about a potential rise in neo-Nazism?

Selain masalah Indonesia yang di liputi dengan COVID dan bencana alam, ternyata kabar mancanegara juga nggak kalah menarik untuk diperbincangkan. Nah di episode ini kita akan membahas seputar presiden terpilih Joe biden dan segala dampak politiknya di berbagai negara termasuk Indonesia.

Today we're going to talk today about different Internet connections that are available to us, with a focus on what you can do to utilise them by making sure that they're within your budget and that they make sure they are the best option for your business. There are loads of different technologies out there, and it can get very confusing for a business owner that isn't tech savvy. You shouldn't have to be tech savvy to know what to get. People always talk about getting the NBN, but no one really knows what the NBN is. It's kind of like the cloud. No one really knows what that is. Learn more on how to pick the right internet connection at dorksdelivered.com.au Brief History of the Internet in Australia So originally you used to have to use your Internet connection over your phone and it stopped you getting calls. This then developed having a dedicated Internet connection. It then jumped across to having ADSL and ADSL2, which transmitted everything at a higher frequency so that you could have a voice call at the same time as your internet is connected. That was some cool stuff! It came along with a bunch of speed benefits and now you can get up to 25000 kilobits per second as opposed to what we're getting before, which was only 56, so that was great with ADSL2. Speed Differences So ADSL2, let's just look at quick numbers. If you think of it like a car racing down the highway, 25000 is your ADSL2 connection. We're just going to call it 25 for ease. 25 is your ADSL2, 6 was ADSL1, AND 56k where 6 is 6000, 56k is 56.  You can see sort of the differences in speed. It's significant over the years, but now we've got these new technologies. There's cable Internet in Australia and you shouldn't be running your business on cable Internet, but if you are or you've got that at home, it can go up to 100 in the speeds at the moment.  Telstra is increasing the network to be able to get them to go up to 400 in some areas too. What is the NBN? The NBN is kind of a collective term that they use for new Internet technologies and they come in lots of different variants and forms. The short of it is, the NBN came and bought about with it faster Uplink speed, which means when you're sending an email or file somewhere else the speed for you to send the file is much quicker. Most NBN connections in Australia are around 100 megabits per second, which is four times quicker than ADSL2. This speed may be increased that 400, which means it could be 16 times quicker than the ADSL2. Some Problems You May Encounter A problem with different technologies is that's the physical best speed you're ever going to get. There are so many variables so it is hard to achieve the maximum speed. Your Internet connection is joined back to your exchange, which is where all your cables come through. Then that's when they're piped off to wherever they're going, but your exchange to your business premises. If the cabling is no good or if it's really, really long, it's going to reduce down the speed. Using that car analogy, you've got this fantastic highway, you've got this fantastic car, and this car can go 100 meg or 100 kilometres an hour. 100 meg is what is cruising down the highway but then this car has to go on this really, really dodgy part of the road, and that means it can't go at 100k an hour because if it does it will crash. Unfortunately, that is what most of the connections are in Australia, they are dodgy tracks between your business and the exchange. You need to make sure that you're looking potentially at other technologies. Consider Microwave Internet Connection Microwave is a great technology that allows you to have a direct connection from your business. This connection cruises straight to wherever the receiver, which means you're bypassing any of that track. The problem with microwave technology is that if you have bad weather, clouds, buildings obstructing the way the signal can be interrupted. On one hand, it can be reliably faster, but it is also way more expensive for your business. We're talking the difference between a few hundred dollars for a standard Internet connection jumping up as to a couple thousand dollars per month for that same comparable speed but connected with a microwave antenna. I'd say this a good idea depending on how mission critical your Internet is to have both technologies, but if you're running a business that isn't dependent on the internet it's probably not important to be worrying about it. Fibre Internet Now, you've probably had to do with fibre thrown around a lot. All it means is that instead of having the copper in the ground, which can degrade over time, fibre optics is a special cable which allows for it to bend around certain radiuses and then get to you. This means that hypothetically you don't have any signal noise degradation over the length of the connection of the electric cable. Because the NBN has been rolled out so quickly throughout Australia, it's not a great fibre connection because they've used inferior optics. Copper cables would normally last a couple of decades comfortably, while fibre optic cables after eight years have started being pulled up and replaced. Bonded Pair Connection One of the other technologies you can do if you're not happy with your internet speeds at work is grabbing what's called a bonded pair connection. Doing this will give you several connections coming to your location and they will be joined all together and then send it to your office. As mentioned earlier, it is smarter to get a 100 meg connection instead of 25 that is achieved with ADSL. With a bonded pair connection, you would have had four of your chosen connections so it will be 100 meg for ADSL and 400 for NBN or the cable connections. If the connection is a bit of a dirt track between the exchange in your business, it will be taken up and accommodated for with the other connections. There's a website called adsl2exchanges.com.au, and what they do is show you how fast your Internet connection is where you are. Most of the time with ADSL2 connections where they have a theoretical 25 speed, they actually only go between 8 to 12. Most of the NBN connections where they have a connection that's 100 will normally go between 60 to 80. But this gives you a good idea and understanding of where you sit.   Final Word I hope this information has been useful in helping you decide what internet connection is best for your business. In the end, it all comes down to your business priorities,  how fast of a speed you need and how reliable the speed needs to be. Stay good!

We have the pleasure of speaking with mentor, entrepreneur, and businesswoman Kethlyn White to expand on our Season 1 self-care discussion. She shares both her personal career and hair journey and talks about the business she runs with her friend, Coil Beauty.Connect with Kethlyn on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/kethlynawhite/Check out Coil Beauty! https://coilbeauty.com/Click here for more Living Corporate! https://linktr.ee/livingcorporateTRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with Living Corporate. Now, listen, check it out. Y'all know by this point in Season 2--wow, that is crazy. It's been over a year. It's Season 2, and y'all know from time to time we'll have, you know, B-Sides where we just kind of have a real talk conversation with a special guest, and listen here, today's special guest is pretty special. She's pretty great, is pretty talented, and I'm excited to have her here. Actually, she was one of the first black women that I ever have worked with in consulting. Great background. She and I met in person, and she has a great story. We talked a lot about, like, strategic change management at the time and just kind of navigating these spaces. She has been a great mentor to me. She's one of the main reasons that I was able to be promoted to manager at my last job, which helped me transition to my new job, and yeah, she's great. I don't want to spoil too much. I'm gonna go ahead and introduce her. She is a mentor, a public speaker, a businesswoman, an entrepreneur, a creative, right? Her name is Kethlyn White. That's right, y'all, Kethlyn. So right, so Kethlyn, right, it's, like, a combination of, like--it's black, but, you know, it passes the resume test. Like, you'll still--you will still interview a Kethlyn, right? So it's a really nice combination there. Kethlyn, what's up? How are you doing?Kethlyn: Hey, Zach. Thanks for having me. I'm glad I--I'm glad I passed your sniff test.Zach: No, no, no. It's not my sniff test you need to pass. You know what--[both laugh] Kethlyn will make it past the resume test. It's not like a LaQuanda is my point. And Zachary of course is very respectable. Like, Zachary--I mean, how many black Zachs do you even know? You live on the West Coast, but, like, do you know a lot of black Zachs?Kethlyn: I don't.Zach: Exactly. So that with being said, today we're talking about black, and we're just talking about self-care and what that really looks like practically. A lot of times, you know, we talk about--we talk about self-care, we talk about--we talk about it from the perspective of natural hair becausae it's an easy entry point into self-care, but I'd like to really, Kethlyn, give you some space to kind of talk about yourself, talk about your journey, talk about some of the things that you've got going on, and then we can go from there. How does that sound?Kethlyn: That sounds good. So tell me where--tell me where you want to start. You know, self-care, especially in the black community, is a very large topic, and it could cover a wide range of things. I probably would need more than just a podcast episode to really dive in.Zach: Big facts.Kethlyn: Where do we want to start?Zach: You know, that's a really good question. How about we start with your journey in terms of, you know, your transition from, you know, adolescence and high school to college to then--you know, again, I don't want to tell too much, but I know that, you know, you spent some time out of the country and you came back, and you've continued to grow, and your personal image and how you manage your image has continued to grow and shift as you've been in Corporate America. I think that would be a really cool story to tell.Kethlyn: Okay. Well, I mean, from adolescence 'til now would probably be, again, another novel, so we could probably cut it back, but I think it is an interesting point to talk about, you k now, how do you grow with yourself, especially within not just what you're doing individually but how you do and how you grow within your job, your entrepreneurial ventures, et cetera. So, you know, for me, you know, I was blessed to go to Spelman College. Well, [I went to] two HBCUs actually. I started at Hampton and I transferred to Spelman, but one of the wonderful things about going to a historically black college is that you really are left with this sense of beauty in all shapes and sizes with people who look like me, who have my skin color and who therefore have very similar experiences. And we all have different backgrounds. We all are completely different people, but leaving an HBCU, you leave with a sense of pride that no one is allowed to take from you, and it gave me--it boosted my self-confidence that I didn't have going to predominantly white schools as I matriculated, you know, teenage years, right, all the way through high school graduation, and it was extremely impactful for me as I started to navigate the corporate world and entrepreneurship, and one of the biggest legs up I found was that, you know, when it comes to self-care, a lot of that starts at the root with how you manage your time and manage your space, and it's not easy to do, because when you start on your first job, when you start taking on and tackling, you know, your first venture, you find that there are a lot of people who don't look like you when you're a black person, and because of that you end up with a lot of different, sometimes negative, experiences. Sometimes it's hard to feel comfortable, it's hard to not feel so challenged. So having that spirit already from the HBCU provided me with a support system that I couldn't pay for, and so it really did--it really did make a big difference for me as I started to do and started to grow into my roles. I started out in consulting, one because I love technology. My mom, who is a boss in the technology space, she was a CEO of a tech company for about 15 years and now sits on the boards of Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper, you name it, right? And the list will go on and continue. So, you know, she was a huge influence to me, as well as with my dad, around making sure that--you know, they always told me I can do whatever I wanted to do, and I knew I wanted to be in technology 'cause it was the space that it was always going to be there, so I wanted to understand it. [?] an engineer. I didn't really have an interest in being an engineer, but I loved how engineers think, right? So I wanted to be in the space, and I went specifically into technology consulting because I was gonna get my hands dirty. That was awesome, and so I enjoyed Capgemini out the gate, and man, do they let you get your hands dirty, and I'm talking about drinking from the fire hose.Zach: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.Kethlyn: Very quickly. And, you know, so you're balancing and managing how to learn how to do that and start your new job and all that good stuff while also managing your space. So I had to set some rules for myself around how I was going to navigate. I had to make sure that I was networking and getting to know people within, you know, my company while also knowing that there might be some boundaries there that I will have to set for myself because I'm not as comfortable in different areas. So it was an interesting journey, but again, you know, my foundation was set, so from there I really was able to, you know, take it a bit further, and, you know, my self-confidence and my comfort level with who I was as a black woman really made a huge difference as I navigated the workforce, and you can probably ask anyone who I joined and started with. They knew who I was. I commanded every room I went in, and it was not necessarily because of my skills, it was moreso because of--obviously that was a part of it, but it was moreso because of the presence I had in the room, and that presence came from me understanding what my self-worth was out the gate. So no one was going to be allowed to determine that for me. I don't care whether I was taking meeting minutes in a meeting or I was facilitating a session, right? No matter what it was, I commanded that space and that presence, and that allowed me to not only grow very quickly, get promoted very quickly and network really well, it also afforded me opportunities to travel and ultimately move to Australia for an awesome four-year opportunity after I got married. So, you know, that's--I think that's at the root of where a lot of my, you know, self-awareness comes from as a black woman is, you know, what my parents and family instilled in me, plus, you know, the foundation that an HBCU provided me.Zach: So that's really dope, right? And can we--and I want to double down on the part that you said that, like, everyone who--when I was working with you, and I think that, you know, continues forward of course, is that, you know, it's like, "Hey, Kethlyn knows who she is. She knows what she's about, and no one's really gonna shake her from that." Can you talk a little bit about how your appearance and, like, how you managed--how your hair journey, like, came into play with that, like, from--yeah, from graduating Spelman to then, like, I don't know, today.Kethlyn: Sure. Well, I think it's important to mention that, you know, yes, I am that way now, right? I had to grow into that person. It just so happened that going to an HBCU really helped, you know, catapult me into that. But I still had my awkward--all kinds of awkward phases, especially when it came to my hair, 'cause God bless my mom. She just did not know, right, how to do it, because, you know, unbeknownst to most people, all African-Americans, we all have different types of hair, right? We don't all come out with the same type of hair. We have different curl patterns, different textures, different thickness, right? My mom's hair is extremely bouncy, right? It is very bouncy. She's got these big spirals. So when I came out, you know, she was looking at me--I had a huge head of hair. It's definitely tighter curls, but it wasn't just that. It was the fact that the texture was different. So very early on she permed my hair, and it's not rightly or wrong. she didn't know what to do, right? And she--and her mom and her family, they all had--they didn't have that type of hair. They didn't know what to do. So she permed my hair, and it was straight, and for, gosh, all the way up until I went to college, I stayed perming my hair because that just seemed like what I needed to do in order to get it straight, and at that point in time, straight was all I really saw. My mom's hair was wavy, so even when she had her curls [up], her hair was still semi-straight, and because I grew up in fairly monotonous areas, I still saw a lot of straight hair, and even with my family--a lot of the black women in my family, they also had perms or, you know, would press out their hair, et cetera. So I saw never really saw curls in their natural state on different types of people. I just didn't see it. I wasn't exposed. So when I went to school and I kept trying to keep up that perm process, first of all, that stuff is expensive. It is very expensive. I had--you know, there was only so much I was going to be able to do. My parents would side-eye me when they would see some of these bills and they would think--I was absolutely blessed. My parents were able to support me through college, but they were not trying to hear anything about this hair care stuff. They were, "You need to figure that out." So I stopped perming my hair, and then I just got it pressed, and I remember talking to one of my hairdressers in Atlanta once I transferred to Spelman. She was like, you know, "Why did you perm your hair in the first place?" I said, "I don't know. It's just what happened." So then she started showing me how I can do things without perming my hair, so then I was straightening it, right?Zach: Right.Kethlyn: But again, that's just what I did. Fast forward, move to Australia, and I didn't realize how humid Australia was, but I also didn't think about it. I don't know where I was in my mind, right? But I did not consider the fact that there were not gonna be many African-Americans--forget African-American, people of different types of color, right, over there in different parts of the world.Zach: Right, but you have the aboriginals.Kethlyn: Yeah, you do have the aboriginals. They do--they live in specific places, and that's a whole separate podcast conversation, and that is an absolutely an issue in Australia, but I'll have to put a pin in that. But either way, there wasn't a lot of different types of cultures, especially when it came to hair, so I spent a couple months over there just trying to find somebody to even help me with my hair because I didn't know what to do, and, I mean, I had hairdressers come at me with this, you know, fine-toothed comb trying to detangle. I was like, "I don't know what you're doing with that. There is nothing you're gonna do with that on my head, because you're just gonna break it in my hair." And so after about three or four tries of that I just said, "You know what? Forget it, this isn't going to work. Obviously I can't wear my hair straight. I'm gonna have to figure out what it looks like when it's curling. So me and YouTube all day, that's what it was, and one of my favorite, you know, YouTube channels was Natural85, mostly because not only was she making her own products, she made it very easy for me to understand what she was doing. And to be fair, her--I don't have the exact same hair texture she did, right? So I knew I was taking a risk by trying some of the stuff, but I did it anyway, and I made everything. I made the shampoos. I made conditioners. I made gel. I did it all, and because I was in Australia nobody knew what my hair was supposed to look like. I went through this really weird, awkward, "I don't know what my hair is doing" probably for, like, a year and change, and nobody knew any better because they didn't know what it was--people would be like, "Oh, Kethlyn, your hair's so cool." I'm like, "Little do you know I look crazy." But it was--it was definitely liberating, and then once I kind of saw what my hair was doing I was like, "Oh, this is great," right? You know, I could start to see how amazing my hair really is, because it can do all the things. Yeah, sure, I can have it straight, but it can be curly, I can twist it up, I can braid it, I can let it be out, I can [?] it if I want to, and I was like--it was an empowering and inspiring thing for me to just get in there in my scalp and really figure out what was going on. So that's really how my journey came to be with my hair, and it was just an extension of me learning about and embracing my self-confidence and my identity and who I was. It was just another level, right? 'Cause we continue to evolve, right? So this was just another piece of my evolution, connecting more to my hair and my [crown?] in this space, and it was awesome.Zach: It's just incredible for me, Kethlyn, to watch you, 'cause I was like--'cause by the time I saw you, like, you were kind of, like, at the end--not the end, but you were at a different part of your journey when you and I met, right? 'Cause when I met you, you--Kethlyn: Yeah. You mean specifically with my hair and my awareness? Is that what you mean?Zach: Right, right, right. So I saw the glory, but I didn't see all the story--you know, I wasn't there for the story, you know what I'm saying?Kethlyn: Mm-hmm.Zach: And so, like, you know, your hair was all big and stuff. I was like, "Oh, wow. Her hair's just like my wife's. Oh, wow. That's amazing." [?]. That's really what's up. Okay, so now as you've continued forward, you know, let's talk a little bit about some of the business ventures that you're involved in and that you've started kind of, like, as an extension of that. Kethlyn: Sure. So actually, funny enough, when I was in Australia going through this, my best friend Aisha. So Aisha Bates, she went to college with me, she went to Spelman with me, and she came to visit me in Australia. We are--she is definitely my travel partner in crime. So when I was moving to Australia, I mean, she's looking at tickets. She's like, "All right. Well, I'm coming." So she came, and she saw where my hair was at that point in time, and she was like, "You know, Kethlyn, your hair looks great," and I'm like, "Thanks. Honestly, I feel like that this is just the start, and I feel like it's still in this awkward phase, but I'm enjoying figuring this out." Huge caveat here. I had the time, right? It was just my husband and I over there. [?], right? So my hair at that point in time was kind of like my kid. It took a lot of time, so I want to make sure that's clear, because not everybody has all that time to spend, and Lord knows if I had half of what's going on what I do now then it probably would have taken me at least a good 2-3 years to figure it out. So that's just my huge caveat. When she came to visit me, she was like, "You know, I'm gonna try to do this back, you know, in the U.S. Obviously you're having a hard time here 'cause there's nobody, right? And there's no beauty supply stores and no help." So she went back home to Chicago at the time, and she started going through her own journey, and it was struggle, right? She was [?]--she was subscribing to all of the boxes and everything and, you know, just like, you know, a lot of people will tell you, right, they're a product junkie. You know, you open your bathroom cabinet and there's, like, 20 million things in there. And, you know, she remembered--she had a very vivid memory at the time where she went to a beauty school just looking for conditioner. I think she might have gone in there, like, just having washed shampoo out of her head, 'cause she ran out of conditioner. Because, you know, for a lot of people, we use a bottle per condition, depending on how much hair you have, right? And so she walks into the beauty supply store, and, you know, it's a little dingy, a little dark, but whatever. She just needs to get conditioner. And the person who was there supposedly was helping her, right? But who owned the store was really not giving her any information. She was like, "I need some conditioner. This is the type of hair I have," and they're kind of like, "Well, here's the aisle," right? And the aisle has, like, you know, 50 eleven products, and she's like "Which one?" And she started to describe her hair. They had no idea, right? They're like, "There's the aisle," and then before she even leaves the store, you know, they point her towards weave, and she's like, "That's not actually what I want," and, you know, at that moment she really kind of felt something in her spirit. She was like, "This doesn't make any sense, plus I could probably do this better than they can do this. I have all of these products in my cabinet. I could probably sell these to somebody else better than someone else could, because I now understand," so she started Coil Beauty. You know, she--literally she just said, "You know what? Screw it, I'm just gonna do it," and so she created her business. She got a website, all kinds of stuff, right? And she was a couple months into her journey, and we were talking about it. One of the things that she mentioned is she was like, "You know, the problem is I don't know where to begin. I know I have a website, [?], these are all the things that I'm doing, but I'm not quite sure, right, if this is really the right way." [?] and all this stuff, so we started--we started vibing off of that, we started talking, and after a while, not only did, you know, what she talking about speak to me--obviously I lived through it, but there was also a part of me that was like, "You know, we could do this much better. Let's just try." So at this point I said, "Listen, I'd love to join you. I'd love to--I'd love to become a part of this journey," and so I joined her as her COO, and at that point in time I was able to not only help find, you know, a brand manager and a product manager to really help us think through this, right, I was able to bring my obviously IT expertise to it to figure out how we wanted to go through this, right? What journey we were gonna take, and it has been a journey of love and frustration and irritation. We have definitely become closer, but the best part about this is that we've created this space for, you know, African-American men and women who are looking for products that are made with them as the primary idea in mind, right? They are made for them. We carry skin care and sunscreen that's made for people with color--you know, with skin of a darker hue, right? We've gotten nail polish, right, with different colors, and it's vegan, right? Because a lot of our skin can be sensitive, right? So why aren't we thinking about that? So we carry vegan nail polishes because it's super important to us. Same thing with lipstick. We have a lipstick brand that literally all they do is make lipsticks for people who want to see bright tones, nude tones for black skin, right? Everything. And once we started digging in--and she really found a ton of different product lines that were made like that. We said, "Well, let's help them get out there. Let's give them a platform." And so, you know, once I joined her vision, it's--you know, the sky has been the limit. So Coil Beauty is definitely, you know, my love child, and I'm so excited and happy that my best friend was wanting to have me along on this journey with her. But, you know, she has definitely brought her vision to life, and I'm out here executing it for her, and we are continuing to grow, and we love it. And so we're always looking for new brands. We're always excited about what people are building. I think eventually we'll probably have a line of our own, but I think one of the best--one of the best things I've seen is, you know, friends, family, people I meet on the street, when they ask me, you know, what color lipstick am I wearing or what kind is it or, you know, what am I putting in my hair, I tell them, and I say, "Oh, by the way, here's where you can buy it." They're like, "I've never heard of this brand before," and then we give them a place to go. So it's been awesome.Zach: That sounds incredible, and that's amazing. And, you know, it's interesting because I think what we don't always consider or think about is that, like, we as people of non-white identity, we exist in a space that was not created inherently with us in mind, and so--Kethlyn: Correct, especially in the beauty space, right? Because beauty standards were European at best, so all of the stores that sell beauty products were aligned to that, and it's only within a recent year, right? Now, mind you, it's 2019, right? So it's only within the recent year that you've started to see more of a push, and that's because we've got people, you know, like Pat McGrath and Rihanna, you know, people who are taking, you know, their stuff and putting it in your face to say "We exist out here, and we're important." Not only that, "We're the ones spending the money." Zach: Right, they're the ones spending the money. We spend the money on these products that don't even--that aren't even good.Kethlyn: That don't even exist. So we're--like, there's no reason why there's not a shopping experience that doesn't have to be so painful. We want it to be fun. I shouldn't have to go into Sephora and it's, like, really hard to find someone to talk to who I can say, "Listen, I am a black woman, and this is what I'm looking for," and they're like, "Oh, yeah. It might be difficult to match--" No. You come to Coil Beauty, what we wanted to do is make it fun. Shopping is still fun. We like to play with makeup. We like to try new hair stuff. We like to see new things, discover new products, where I know when I'm looking at them, all of them were created with me in mind. So why wouldn't I want to do that, right? That's really where it came from.Zach: No, absolutely. That's amazing. No, that's super dope, and I just think again, like, anything we can do to, like, just further affirm, like, our perspective and experiences and, like, validate those needs, 'cause they're real needs. They're real, valid holes and gaps to close, right? And I mean, even, like, in the simple things around, like, Band-Aids. Like, it took me until I was, like, 23, 24 to realize that, "Oh, the color of a Band-Aid is--like, that's white skin," you know what I'm saying? Like, that's not--like, being the default comes with a myriad of privileges, and I think--and, you know, I think, like, any time we can push up against that by just simply creating platforms, avenues, companies, quote unquote movements to affirm our own identity and perspective and experience and affirm those things, like, all the better. So that's amazing. So Kethlyn, look here. Before we get up out of here, do you have any shout-outs? Anybody you want to, you know, speak to? You want to let the--we'll let the air horns go. Anybody at all?Kethlyn: Shout-out my village. My village is awesome. You know, I have--it's a beautiful thing, you know? I think that we have downplayed how important is the village is in general. So for me, between my parents and my friends and my brother and my husband and my kids, you know, these are--you know, these are all different aspects. My mentors, people I work with, my colleagues. Everyone helps shape me as a person and continues to challenge me in all of that wonderful stuff. Obviously I have to shout-out my, you know, business, Coil Beauty, which I'm so excited about, and all the brands that we carry, you know, from Mielle to [?] to Pear Nova. I love all of them. Soultanicals. There's too many to name, right? I could go on forever, but it has--it has been an amazing journey, and I'm excited to see where we go, and my business partner and, you know, the CEO and founder of my company, Aisha Bates, who's also getting married this year--so excited for her.Zach: Aye. Come on, Aisha. Aye.Kethlyn: Right? And I just--honestly, you know, shout-out to you for creating a platform in, you know, Living Corporate, because I think there's always a need to have conversations about everything. Who knows why and where and what type of impact we'll have on each other and who might listen to this and get inspired and do something else or have a question, and please let your listeners know I'm always open to questions and, you know, figuring this whole life thing out isn't easy, especially when it comes to, you know, self-care and self-confidence. It's not--you know, it's not a 20, 30-minute conversation. It's a lifetime worth of experience and challenges and hardships all rolled into lessons learned.Zach: Man, that's so real. And yes, Kethlyn, we're gonna make sure we have all of your contact information as well as Coil Beauty all in the show notes so people can click it and check it out. Now, listen, y'all. Y'all have been listening to the Living Corporate podcast. I've been your host, Zachary Nunn. You know you can follow us on Living Corporate @LivingCorp_Pod on Twitter. Follow us on Instagram @LivingCorporate, and then you can find us online at living-corporate.com--please say the dash--or livingcorporate.co, livingcorporate.org, livingcorporate.net. We have all of the Living Corporates except for livingcorporate.com. So you know what, Australia? So check it out. Not only do y'all need to do the aboriginals right--this is the second time I've said this, and I'm not playing--you need to do the aboriginals right, and you need to go ahead and give us that livingcorporate.com, 'cause somebody over there, Kethlyn, it's, like, they own it. It's, like--not the country, but, like, there's a company over there that's--like, they rent out, like, corporate space, and they call it livingcorporate.com. I'm like, "Come on, y'all can give that up." You know what I'm saying? Kethlyn: Oh, can they? [laughs] That sounds like you need to work on your negotiation skills, is what it sounds like.Zach: [laughs] Me and Ade were, like, terrifed at the thought of, like, how much money that would actually cost. I'm certain that it--there's, like, livingcorporate.com.au. I was like, "Oh, no." So anyway--yeah, they got it on lock, but anyway, thank y'all. You have been listening to Kethlyn White, mentor, entrepreneur, businesswoman, mother, wife, overall dope individual. Peace.

Welcome to Finance and Fury! The main aim of our Furious Friday editions is to clear up misconceptions. We’ve been seeing a lot of news stories lately about companies underpaying staff – 7-Eleven, hospitality businesses, celebrity chefs etc.   The incidence of this has risen over the past few years – why can’t these people just pay the legal wage? This episode may be a bit upsetting depending on what side of the coin you’re looking at…we’re talking about wage controls, that is, Minimum Wages. Are they good or bad?   What are minimum wage laws? Regulation/body of law which prohibits employers from hiring employees for less than a given wage Australian History Basic Wage since 1907, which wasn’t quite as strict as what it is now. More of a prescription, or suggestion, rather than enforced legislation. 14 December 2005, the Australian Fair Pay Commissionwas established  The Australian Fair Pay Commission was replaced by Fair Work Australiain 2010, and since then there’s been a significant rise in the minimum wage level. Base rates October 2007 - $13.74 per hour 1 July 2018 - $18.93 per hour Casual rates get an additional 25% loading GRAPH: Wages normalised to 2018 value   So, is this good or bad? – There’s always two sides to every coin The minimum wage law does not create any new jobs. Prohibits employment relationships that offer wages within a certain prescribed range (low paying jobs, for instance) – sounds awful to say but some jobs are worth $18.93 per hour This prohibits employers and employees deciding between them as to what the pay rate should be Employment is mobile – people in high demand are headhunted for higher wages Commentators argued - contrary to prevailing economic theory, minimum wages increase overall employment Money in pockets of workers flowing to greater spending in economy Greater demand for goods and services, therefore there should be more employment to meet this demand…. But what about supply? That may have the opposite effect, as labour costs go up Less potential labour used And/or, as costs go up, so do prices   Let’s unpack this by looking at the two sides; Employees (those who are getting paid), and Employers (those who are doing the paying)   Employees - The effects: What happens when minimum wages are introduced For existing employees The employer decides to either raise wages, or to terminate the employment It’s easier to raise the wage, as it is actually quite costly to terminate in Australia So, it’s good for existing employees What about Future employees Creates productivity bar (employers need to make sure that employees are worth it) This is an issue for two groups of employees – Young market entries, lower skilled positions who are priced out of a lot of roles in the economy.   The productivity bar: You need to get what you pay for The prerequisites for employment increases – how is this measured? By a piece of paper, known as a Degree. But when everyone has something, it becomes less valuable – this is the same with education and means a devaluation of education in the long term. Higher wages increase need for competition in your skills (or perceived skills) Not everyone can be employed – if an employer has $60,000 for wages the want to make sure they get the most qualified person that amount. Need to get a degree for what used to be an entry level position without one 2011 to 2016 saw massive jump in education levels Grad Diplomas (28%) Bachelor degrees (24%) Biggest increase is in post grad degrees (46%) – It seems bachelor degrees are now the new high school diplomas But if there is no employment that matches your degree – you feel like doing something else is beneath you My example: Studied for 5.5 years – being naive, I thought this put me above the curve. After searching around, I came to realise that I was still entry level. So, I started on $50,000 – working about 60-70 hours a week - $14.88 per hour Some other examples, like some of my friends: Grads in Law and Audit - $40-50k as well and working similar hours This is where those who are young, without degrees, will struggle to find work. Skipping back 20-30 years ago these entry level positions didn’t require you to have a degree.   What the stats say - Employment levels Lot of studies find that minimum wages are statistically insignificant regarding their effect on employment overall – that is, they don’t create much of a change. This is true when you look at it in aggregate. As we just touched on, it’s hard to fire existing employees when minimum wages go up. But… The employment rate only factors in those who are looking for work Those who can’t get a job in the existing job market and so stop looking for one, are no longer are counted as unemployed Underemployment – Those who are employed, but can’t get enough work – are still counted as employed Employers cut their hours Unemployment rate around 5.4% - Includes those actively looking for work Underutilisation rate includes underemployment – 13.7% Including unemployment = 20% For example: US Gas crisis – price control/ceiling on petrol – almost the same amount of gas was sold, but the number of hours that service stations were open decreased, from around 100 hours per week to 20 hours.   Employers - Factors Costs (Labour) Break even costs – Some jobs aren’t profitable to employ people in now Higher wages – costs go up for production of goods, which gets passed onto consumers and negates the overall rise in wages. How? Price increase in what we buy! Industries, like manufacturing, then go offshore (drop of 24% in manufacturing jobs over 2011 to 2016) Index points, as far as labour costs go, steadily increased from 45 in 1988 to 100 in 2010 Since 2010 it has been flat – Labour costs have normalised – Forced to pay salary – so not much voluntary increase since then But the costs still go up – People from overseas think Australia is expensive, and it is! Show me a country with high wages and low costs of living and I’ll be very surprised. The two are very closely related. Productivity and the ways that businesses actually operate The switch to “capital intensive” over “labour intensive” goods. Hence, the drop-in manufacturing There is a lot of the talk is about how technology is replacing human capital – which happens when it costs too much. Minimum wages speed up the process.   Summary: Overall, the jury is out on the effects of minimum wages - however there is consensus for the young or lower skilled: Thomas Sowell - argues that this policy hurts those who it is designed to help the most – lower entry workers Evidence shows that the overall unemployment level is often unaffected, people employed in low-skill and low-paying positions experience greater adverse effects OECD study also said the results of its research suggested that a rise in the minimum wage had a negative effect on teenage employment. Many European economies introducing or increasing the minimum wage have experienced increased unemployment in low-skill, low-pay positions Andrew Leigh - historical employment data on increases in the minimum wage in WA, relative to employment in the rest of Australia. found that increases in the minimum wage in WA were followed by reductions in employment most pronounced among young people, where the minimum wage had a large effect on labour demand. The results of this research found a consistent negative relationship between the minimum wage and labour demand (i.e., when the former is increased, the latter decreases). Add to the cost of living increasing – These policies sound nice in theory but… No-one wants to see people struggling. But imagine that the Government forced a wage for one role of $1M compared to $25,000 previously That is 40 less people employed, but costs are still going up for the production/employment A lot of younger Australians spend 3 or 4 years to get a degree, get out of uni with $40k in debt, just to get into the workforce. In this way there may be some additional harm being done   Thanks for listening!

Rooster Radio pulled together a beer tasting event with Swell Brewing at one of our favourite venues, the Henry Austin in Adelaide, South Australia. It was a great night tasting quality craft brews and hanging out with Rooster Radio guests and listeners. If you didn't get an invite you must not be on our mailing list .. sign up at http://roosterradio.biz so you don't miss out on the next one. Tune in to our a short and sharp live interview with Swell's founder, Dan Wright. About Dan (in his words): Travelling North and South America following the surf on a budget meant that there were a lot of very long bus rides. It was during these breaks from the swell, that I began to think about the awesome craft beer industry in the Americas. Why wasn't there anything like this in Australia? So out came the journal, and over numerous 10 hour bus rides, the idea for Swell Brewing Co. developed. As soon as I returned to Australia, I started on my brewing career. Setting up a brewery in our back shed, I worked hard at perfecting my beers. I was a favourite guest at many of my mates houses as I would bring around my brews for feedback sessions. Three years of brewing from scratch, and I felt that my recipes were where I wanted them to be. I still use the shed brewery for all of my brewing trials. I am currently working on an Amber Ale and a special release Dark Ale. In my non-brewing life, I run my own viticultural consulting business in McLaren Vale, Swell Viticulture, looking after a vineyard called Rayments Block which produces premium fruit for Penfolds and Wirra Wirra wines. Find out more about Swell Brewing: http://swellbeer.com.au And if you're in Adelaide, put the Henry Austin at the top of your list for dinner and drinks. Visit http://thehenryaustin.com.au Rooster Radio is hosted by Andrew Montesi and James Begley. Connect with Rooster Radio - sign up to our mailing list and join our Facebook community: http://roosterradio.biz http://facebook.com/roosterradioHQ For media, content and marketing services, visit: apiroconsulting.com (Andrew Montesi) For leadership and and high performance services, visit: jamesbegley.com.au (James Begley)

In this episode for therapists and holistic business, Juliet and Clinton answer the following questions: 1. Brian Gieringer MFT - Decatur Georgia - www.brianscounseling.com "How can you reach potential clients on Facebook without promoting the posts?"  2. Fiona Fiona Fitzpatrick Art Therapist & Counsellor - LivingBeyondCancer.com.au, Sydney, Australia - "So how do counselors use Facebook Pages to promote their work? Is it successful? How did they go about it? What issues or conflicts re promoting via FB Pages have other counselors personally experienced and how did they deal with them? What about success stories too?" 3.  Mary Jane Beach, Winston Hills, NSW, Australia, www.beachstherapy.com.au “I am not getting enquiries via my website yet. This is in spite of my site doing well on Google now. Some of my pages are on the first page and a couple are in first or second position. Any advice or ideas? Most of my business comes from other client referrals, would like to get more referrals from my website, but not are how?" Get the show notes with all the links and resources mentioned in this episode at http://askjulietandclinton.com/39