Podcasts about Babson

ชมวิดีโอ EP นี้ใน YouTube เพื่อประสบการณ์การรับชมที่ดีที่สุด https://youtu.be/Mm71kpDb3j0 ภาษาอังกฤษแบบนักธุรกิจเป็นอย่างไร? ศัพท์แสงจะคล่องแคล่วแค่ไหน? เจาะลึกชีวิตนักธุรกิจสุดคลั่งที่ ‘Babson College' มหาวิทยาลัยสำหรับผู้ประกอบการอันดับหนึ่งของโลก และชีวิตใน eTower หอพักที่รวบรวมผู้ประกอบการหัวกะทิเลือดใหม่ คำนี้ดี Featuring เอพิโสดนี้พูดคุยกับ ‘คุณบอล–ปริญญา โกวิทจินดาชัย' นักธุรกิจที่จบจาก 3 มหาวิทยาลัยระดับโลก Babson, Harvard, และ MIT! ปัจจุบันคุณบอลเป็นผู้นำรุ่นใหม่ของ ‘ปริญสิริ' บริษัทพัฒนาโครงการบ้านจัดสรรจากมหาวิทยาลัยธุรกิจชั้นนำระดับโลกก่อนมารับช่วงต่อธุรกิจจากคุณแม่ ‘ปริญสิริ' ออกแบบบ้านอย่างไรให้ลูกบ้านมีคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดีในราคาที่เข้าถึงง่าย? ทำไม ‘คุณบอล' ถึงตั้งใจอาศัยอยู่ในโครงการของตัวเอง? ชีวิตนักธุรกิจปริญญา 3 ใบเป็นอย่างไร? ติดตามฝึกทักษะการฟังภาษาอังกฤษกับสำเนียงแบบอเมริกันและศัพท์แสงแบบนักธุรกิจของคุณบอลได้ใน knd Featuring ที่ YouTube ช่อง THE STANDARD knd (คำนี้ดี)

ชมวิดีโอ EP นี้ใน YouTube เพื่อประสบการณ์การรับชมที่ดีที่สุด https://youtu.be/Mm71kpDb3j0 ภาษาอังกฤษแบบนักธุรกิจเป็นอย่างไร? ศัพท์แสงจะคล่องแคล่วแค่ไหน? เจาะลึกชีวิตนักธุรกิจสุดคลั่งที่ ‘Babson College' มหาวิทยาลัยสำหรับผู้ประกอบการอันดับหนึ่งของโลก และชีวิตใน eTower หอพักที่รวบรวมผู้ประกอบการหัวกะทิเลือดใหม่ คำนี้ดี Featuring เอพิโสดนี้พูดคุยกับ ‘คุณบอล–ปริญญา โกวิทจินดาชัย' นักธุรกิจที่จบจาก 3 มหาวิทยาลัยระดับโลก Babson, Harvard, และ MIT! ปัจจุบันคุณบอลเป็นผู้นำรุ่นใหม่ของ ‘ปริญสิริ' บริษัทพัฒนาโครงการบ้านจัดสรรจากมหาวิทยาลัยธุรกิจชั้นนำระดับโลกก่อนมารับช่วงต่อธุรกิจจากคุณแม่ ‘ปริญสิริ' ออกแบบบ้านอย่างไรให้ลูกบ้านมีคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดีในราคาที่เข้าถึงง่าย? ทำไม ‘คุณบอล' ถึงตั้งใจอาศัยอยู่ในโครงการของตัวเอง? ชีวิตนักธุรกิจปริญญา 3 ใบเป็นอย่างไร? ติดตามฝึกทักษะการฟังภาษาอังกฤษกับสำเนียงแบบอเมริกันและศัพท์แสงแบบนักธุรกิจของคุณบอลได้ใน knd Featuring ที่ YouTube ช่อง THE STANDARD knd (คำนี้ดี)

In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Sebastian Fixson, PhD, of Babson College, on mentoring the next generation of leaders in lean product and process development (LPPD). Sebastian is the founding faculty director of the doctor of business administration) program and professor of innovation and design, at Babson, where he focuses on helping people and organizations build innovation capabilities.  Jim Morgan, senior advisor on LPPDat LEI, joins Sebastian and me for this wide-ranging conversation in which we discuss:  How to get emerging product leaders to slow down and leverage LPPD to build stronger teams and better businesses  How engineers can use LPPD to become more effective business leaders by understanding how the larger business works   Sebastian's advice to product leaders on how to understand both the physical and digital side of the business (as well as how LPPD supports this effort)  How to build “process thinkers”, not just product development leaders  Where Sebastian sees hope for innovative product development processes, organizations, and/or new ways of working to solve global challenges    Get Started with Lean Product & Process Development   Improving how you develop and deliver products doesn't require a full transformation to start—it begins with learning to see problems clearly, involve your team, and improve how work gets done.   Explore your next step:   Read Designing the Future or The Power of Process   Take the 60-minute Lean Product and Process Development Overview course   Join the coach-led online Designing the Future Workshop for hands-on practice, and the in-person Introduction to Lean Process Development course Oct 7   Bring a coach into your organization for customized support   Let's take the first step—together. Learn more at lean.org/LPPD » 

Higher education in the U.S. is facing a perfect storm: declining enrollments, rising skepticism about its value, and fierce competition for a shrinking pool of students. According to Gallup, confidence in higher ed has dropped sharply over the past decade—driven by concerns over cost, elitism, and relevance—though recent data shows a slight rebound tied to public perceptions of universities as engines of innovation. Against this backdrop, the battle for survival may hinge less on tradition and more on how institutions define, communicate, and live their brand.So, if higher ed is entering an era of brand warfare, what does it take for a college or university to win?On this episode of DisruptED, host Ron J. Stefanski sits down with Brandon Busteed, CEO of BrandEd, to explore whether branding has become the new curriculum for higher education. Their conversation spans the urgent need for differentiation, the role of public benefit narratives in restoring trust, and lessons from universities that have successfully reinvented themselves.Key takeaways from the episode…Differentiation is survival: Most colleges market themselves with the same language, but in a shrinking market, distinctive value propositions—like Northeastern's co-op model or Babson's focus on entrepreneurship—are critical.Language shapes perception: The terms colleges use to describe themselves—such as “liberal arts”—can be outdated or misunderstood. Reframing these in ways that highlight universal skills, career versatility, and durable learning can strengthen an institution's appeal and clarity of value.Brand is more than marketing: Successful institutions align their messaging with authentic values and deliver consistently on that promise, creating experiences that can't be replicated elsewhere.Brandon Busteed is a leading voice at the intersection of education and workforce development, with decades of experience building partnerships between universities, employers, and global brands. He currently serves as CEO of BrandEd, following senior leadership roles at Kaplan and Gallup, where he drove initiatives in learn–work innovation, higher education strategy, and public sector engagement. A seasoned entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Busteed has founded and led education-focused companies, served on national higher ed boards, and is recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice for his insights on experiential, career-relevant learning.

This week on The Innovation Storytellers Show, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Gina O'Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College. If you're in the corporate innovation space and feel like you're spinning your wheels or chasing moonshots that never lift off, this episode is for you. I first heard Gina speak at the Innov8rs conference in Arizona, and I was blown away by how practical and grounded her research is. She doesn't just talk theory. She shows exactly what it takes for large companies to build innovation functions that actually deliver. Her work spans decades, and she's worked with companies like IBM and DSM to study how they've structured innovation to drive long-term growth. We discussed why innovation teams often fail, how to structure a program that lasts beyond a single flashy project, and what it means to build something Gina calls a “domain of innovation intent.” It's not about chasing shiny objects. It's about being intentional, strategic, and deeply aligned with your company's future direction. What I loved most about our conversation was how she breaks down the three stages of innovation: discovery, incubation, and acceleration. Gina explains that each stage requires different kinds of thinkers, various processes, and substantial leadership support. We also got into why most companies aim too small, how to avoid what she calls “incrementalism creep,” and why so many innovation leaders burn out after just 22 months in the role. This isn't just an episode filled with great ideas. It's a roadmap for anyone trying to build real innovation capability inside a mature organization. If you've ever felt stuck between big vision and slow-moving systems, this conversation will help you find a new path forward.  

Today Ashley Rudolph is an executive coach working with high-achieving and executives who are at a “crossroad” as they look GREAT on paper, but tend to exhibit fears and have other problems that effect their confidence and performance. Ashley was not always a coach and, in fact, did not view herself as a coach during most of her career. She grew up in the Bronx in New York City. She attributes her high confidence level to the high bar her parents set for her as well as to the environment where she grew up.   After high school Ashley enrolled in Babson College where she quickly had to learn much about business and working as a team. She will tell us that story. After graduation she secured a job, but was layed off and then went back to Babson to secure her Master's degree.   Ashley began working and quickly rose through the corporate ranks of tech companies. She tells us how, while not really tech savy at first, she pushed herself to learn what she needed to know to work as part of a team and then eventually to lead high tech teams.   In 2023 her high tech employment world took a change which she will describe. Bottom line is that she was laid off from her vice presidential position and after pondering what to do she realized that she had actually been coaching her employees for some time and so she began hirering herself out as an executive coach. We will get the benefit of receiving a number of her insights on leadership, confidence building and how to become better mentally with anything life throughs at us. What Ashley says during our episode time makes a great deal of sense and I believe you will gain a lot from what she has to say. You can reach out to Ashley through the contact information in the show notes for this Unstoppable Mindset episode.     About the Guest:   Ashley Rudolph is an executive coach for high-achieving leaders and executives at a crossroads—those who have built success on paper but are ready to step into something greater. Her work is grounded in a bold belief: true transformation isn't about doing more—it's about leading differently.   A former tech executive, she scaled from IC to VP in just five years, leading $75M+ deals and teams of 250+ at high-growth companies. She knows what it takes to succeed in high-stakes environments—not just in execution, but in the deeper, often invisible work of leadership: making bold decisions, navigating uncertainty, and owning your impact.   Her signature methodology, The Three Dimensions of Transformation, helps leaders unlock their full potential by focusing on: mindset, strategy, and elite execution.   Whether guiding clients through reinvention, leadership evolution, or high-stakes career moves, Ashley helps them break free from outdated success metrics and create momentum that lasts. Her insights have been featured in Inc., U.S. News & World Report, The New York Post, Success Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and more. She also writes The Operator's Edge, a newsletter on the unseen shifts that drive real momentum in leadership and career growth. Because true leadership isn't about following a path. It's about defining your own. Ways to connect with Ashley:   My website which has details about me, my programs, and insights about high achievers in the workplace: www.workwithashleyr.com    My newsletter which gets published every single Monday morning with my expert advice for high achievers on how to succeed in the workplace. newsletter.workwithashleyr.com    My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyrudolph/   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hello, everyone, wherever you happen to be today, I am Michael Hingson, and you are listening to or watching or both, unstoppable mindset today, our guest is Ashley Rudolph, who is a coach, and I like something Ashley put in her bio that I thought was really interesting, and that is that Ashley's work is grounded in the belief that true transportation is not really about doing more, but rather it's doing things differently. And I want, I'm going to want to learn about that. I think that's fascinating, and I also think it is correct, but we will, we will definitely get to that and talk about that. Ashley approached me a little while ago and said, I'd like to explore coming on your content, your podcast. And I said, Well, sure, except I told her the same thing that I tell everyone who comes on the podcast, there is one hard and fast rule you got to follow, and that is, you got to have fun, or you can't come on the podcast, so you got to have fun. Ashley, just   Ashley Rudolph ** 02:26 reminding you, I'm ready. I am ready. I'm coming into the podcast today with all of my best jokes, all of my best tricks. Oh, good.   Speaker 1 ** 02:35 Well, we want to hear them all. Well, thank you for being here, and it's a pleasure to have you on unstoppable mindset.   Ashley Rudolph ** 02:42 Yes, thank you so much for having me. I was just really taken by your entire background story, and I took a risk and sent you a message. So thank you so much for having me on the podcast.   Speaker 1 ** 02:55 Well, I have always been of the opinion that everyone has stories to tell, and a lot of people just don't believe they do, but that's because they don't think about it. And so what I tell people who say that to me when we talk about them coming on the podcast, my job is to help bring out the stories. Now, you didn't say that, and I'm not surprised, but still, a lot of people say that. And the reality is, I believe everyone is more unstoppable than they think they are, and that they undersell themselves, they underrate what they are and what they can do,   Ashley Rudolph ** 03:28 yeah, and honestly, I 100% agree with you, and that's why, and maybe I'm jumping ahead a little bit, but you triggered a thought. That's why I spend every single one of my first coaching meetings with a client, having them talk me through either their professional history or their wins from the past year. And in those conversations, my feedback is also is always Hey, you're not giving yourself enough credit for the things that you're doing. Like, these are amazing stories, or like, repeating things back to them a little bit differently than they would have phrased it, but that's 100% accurate. We don't sell ourselves enough,   Speaker 1 ** 04:08 even to ourselves. We don't sell ourselves enough, especially to ourselves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, tell me a little about kind of the early Ashley growing up and all that, and you know where you came from, and all that sort of stuff,   Ashley Rudolph ** 04:23 yeah. So I grew up in New York. I'm from the Bronx. Oh and yeah, yeah. So, so is my   Michael Hingson ** 04:30 mom   Ashley Rudolph ** 04:31 Aqua? Oh my gosh, I had no idea. So I grew up in the Bronx and grew up with my mom. My dad was around too, and, oh, it's interesting, and I'm sure this will make sense, but I grew up going to Catholic schools from first grade to senior year of high school, and something about me, it was like I was always a very self assured. Determined person, and that carried through all the way through my adulthood. And maybe that comes from me being a New Yorker. Maybe that comes from my mom being a an immigrant. She's from the Caribbean. She's from the Bahamas, and she had a very high bar for what success looked like I don't know where it comes from, but yeah, yeah. So that's a little bit about me growing up and kind of who I was   Speaker 1 ** 05:28 as a kid. So now, where are you living? Now?   Ashley Rudolph ** 05:32 I am in New York again, so I moved back to New York in 2020,   Speaker 1 ** 05:38 okay, wow, just in time for the pandemic. Lucky you?   Ashley Rudolph ** 05:43 Yeah, I actually moved back to New York on election day in 2020 so I missed the early pandemic. But yeah, yeah, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 05:53 I was in New York speaking on March 5, and that night, I got back to the hotel, and my flight was supposed to go out at like, 415 in the afternoon, yeah. And I said, when I started hearing that they were talking about closing down the city, I think I better leave earlier. So I was on a 730 flight out the next day. Oh my gosh,   Ashley Rudolph ** 06:18 wow. So you just made it out and that yeah, and at the time, I was living in Boston, and I actually was went on a vacation with a friend, and we flew back the day before they shut down the airports in Boston. So   Speaker 1 ** 06:36 that was lucky. Yeah, did you live in Boston itself or a suburb?   Ashley Rudolph ** 06:42 Yeah, I lived in Boston for two years, I think, yeah, I lived in the city, yeah. I   Speaker 1 ** 06:50 lived in Winthrop for three years, and commuted across Boston to Cambridge every day,   Ashley Rudolph ** 06:55 yeah, oh, my god, yeah. So I worked in Cambridge and I lived in the West End, right above TD Garden.   Speaker 1 ** 07:03 Oh, okay, yeah, I hear that Durgan Park closed in, in near Faneuil Hall.   Ashley Rudolph ** 07:13 Oh, yeah, well, I have to admit, I didn't go there that much. Was living in Boston.   Speaker 1 ** 07:19 It was a fun place. It was a family style thing, and they had tables for four around the outer edges inside the restaurant. But you couldn't sit at one of those unless you had four people. And the serving staff was trained to be a little bit on the snotty side. And I went in fun. Oh, wait. Oh, absolutely. They made it fun. But I went in and the hostess, there were three of us, and my guide dog at the time, Holland, who was a wonderful, cute golden retriever, and she said, Oh, we're going to put you at one of the tables for four. And I said, Well, okay, we appreciate that. And Holland was under the table. This waitress comes up and she says, you're not supposed to be sitting here. This is a table for four, and there are only three of you. And I said, but they told us we could. No Nobody told you you could sit here. You got to go back over to the big tables. And I said, Look, we have a guide dog under the table, and he's really happy. And they told us we could be here because of the dog. And she's, I don't believe that at all. I'm, I'm gonna go check. I don't believe you. She goes away and she comes back a little bit later. No, you're not supposed to sit here. And I said, Look, lift up the tablecloth and look under the table. I'm not going to fall for that. Just do it. She finally did. And there's Holland staring out with these big brown eyes. And she just melted. She goes away and comes back. And one of the things about Durgan Park is they have big plates of prime rib. And she brought this plate of prime ribs somebody hadn't eaten at all, and she said, can I give this to the dog? And so, you know, normally, I would say no, but we were trying to make peace in our time, so I said, Oh, sure. And she and Holland had a great time. So it was fun.   Ashley Rudolph ** 08:59 Oh, and Holland got prime rib. Holland   Speaker 1 ** 09:03 got prime rib. What a treat. And so did and so did the rest of us, but, but we had to pay for ours. But I missed Durgin Park. It was a fun place to go, but I understand that it is closed, and I don't know whether it's oh, well, oh, that's unfortunate, but Quincy market's a wonderful place to go. It's not a lot of interesting things. So you, so you went through high school. So you went through high school in New York, went in in the Bronx tough neighborhood, and then what did you do? So   Ashley Rudolph ** 09:34 I then went to college. So I went to Babson College, which is, well, it's in Massachusetts, it's in Wellesley, and it's actually right next door to Wellesley College. Yeah, yeah. So I went there and I studied business, and that was basically where I learned how to be successful in the workplace, which is kind. Funny, because I found that over the years, a lot of people will say, you know, I went to college, but by the end of it, maybe I didn't know what my transferable skills were, or I studied something that isn't related to what I was doing or what I did as a professional, and I always felt the opposite, like in freshman year at Babson, they gave us $3,000 to, like, start a company as a as a students. So all of us just had to start this company. We had our business ideas. There was a CEO, a CMO, a CFO. We had like rules assigned. And that was my first experience of what a workplace could be like, although it was with 18 year olds, so maybe not totally reflective, but we had performance reviews, we had a head of HR, we had like, company meetings, so we were doing things within a framework, and they all kind of translated into the workplace, different players. So Babson basically kind of turned me into the business person that I am   Speaker 1 ** 11:09 today. Now, did each person get $3,000 and they started their own company?   Ashley Rudolph ** 11:14 Oh, no. So there were, there were maybe 30 of us, and we started a company with that with $3,000 Okay? Exactly with that investment, it was managed quite tightly. There's not a lot that you can do with $3,000 right? So you can probably guess that a lot of the businesses turned out to be the same. So there was always a T Shirt Company or a company the when the LIVESTRONG wristbands were popular, then we were like, oh, let's customize these wristbands. So yeah, yeah. The the company ideas basically ended up being the same, because there's not that much that you could do with that, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 11:56 yeah, yeah. So much you can do unless you start making a bunch of money,   Ashley Rudolph ** 12:00 yeah, yeah, yeah. And in today's landscape, I guess there's more that you can do with digital products and stuff like that. But yeah, yeah, we, we had to do physical so we were pretty limited, yeah, well, that's   Speaker 1 ** 12:13 okay, but still, if the company is successful, and was it successful? Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 12:19 we, did turn a profit, and then for all of the businesses that did turn a profit, you had to donate the profits to a local charity. So we did. We donated ours to a local organization. We threw an event in partnership with the organization. It was just, it was nice. So, yeah, oh,   Speaker 1 ** 12:43 cool. So, how, how long did the company last? Essentially, was it all four years?   Ashley Rudolph ** 12:50 It was the first   Speaker 2 ** 12:52 year, just the first year, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, that's still, that's pretty cool.   Ashley Rudolph ** 12:58 Yeah, it is. I have to say that I learned a lot,   Speaker 1 ** 13:02 yeah, well, you're you're kind of forced to or you don't succeed. So I was going to ask you why you felt that you learned how to be successful. But now it's pretty clear, yeah, yeah, yeah.   Ashley Rudolph ** 13:13 So we started there in freshman year, and then sophomore, junior and senior year was kind of more of a deep dive on specific skills. So that you take our accounting classes, finance marketing, if you were into retail, there was like a retail management class at the core classes. So we had, you know, liberal arts courses, so art history, yeah, philosophy, things like that. But yeah, everything was mostly centered around business and cool, yeah, yeah. Well, that's   Speaker 1 ** 13:47 pretty exciting. Did you did you go do any graduate work anywhere?   Ashley Rudolph ** 13:52 It's funny, yes, I did. So I graduated from Babson, and my first job was in a creative agency, and I was doing media buying, and at the time it was 2008 and we were buying ads in school newspapers, which was dying like it was pretty much On on its last leg, and I just had this thought when I was doing it, and that I wasn't inspired by the work, because it wasn't growing, it was going away. And it was clear, yeah, and that. And actually my first job, I got laid off because it was a dying industry, and the team needed to be smaller, and at that point, it's my first job. So it was very devastating to me. I had never gone through anything like that before. So then I decided to go back to school. So I did my masters. I actually. Went back to Babson, but in an international program. So I spent my first semester in France, my second semester in China, and then my final semester at Babson. Ah,   Speaker 1 ** 15:13 so why was the newspaper industry going away? Just because everything was going online?   Ashley Rudolph ** 15:18 Exactly, yeah, things were shifting more digital. Yeah, it's exactly   Speaker 1 ** 15:23 that, so they didn't need as many people selling and doing other things as they did before. Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 15:28 yeah, exactly. Or companies were figuring out different ways to reach college students that wasn't dependent on getting in the school newspaper.   15:39 Yeah? Yeah, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 15:42 yeah. So you got your master's degree from Babson, and then what did you   Ashley Rudolph ** 15:47 do? I got my master's degree from Babson, and I'll fast forward a little bit, because what's funny is that after I graduated, I still didn't quite know what I wanted to do, but I figured it out. I ended up going back into marketing. But if you remember, what I described was, in that first job, I wasn't connected to the mission. I wasn't inspired by where the industry was going. So I ended up pivoting into nonprofits. And my first job after graduating from my masters was running digital media, so not physical media, so I shifted into social media and online marketing. Had a nonprofit, right? So I was connected to the mission. I felt like the work that I was doing was for a good cause, and it was an industry that was new and that was growing, and that was ever changing and exciting. So I did that for about three years, so first at a nonprofit, and then at an a charter school network that was in New York and New Jersey at the time, but has since expanded far beyond that. So, yeah, I went into mission driven work, and I went into digital marketing and digital media. And I think what I took away from that chapter of my career was that I want to be in an industry that is ever evolving. So, yeah, so after my experience in the nonprofit and education space, that's when I jumped into tech. So I jumped into tech after that, and spent a decade in the tech industry. And obviously, tech is ever changing. I had access to so many different opportunities. I grew really fast. I started at the first company, the first tech company that I worked for. I was a program manager, and five years later I was a vice president, right? So, like, I was able to seize opportunities and work really hard and get to the level that I wanted to get to I was very ambitious, so I think tech just kind of gave me everything I wanted. Career wise, how   Speaker 1 ** 18:09 did you progress so fast to go from being a program manager to the level of Vice President in what generally would be defined as a pretty short time? Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 18:20 yeah, yeah. So some of it was hard work, and I think the other factor was luck, and the other factor was going after whatever it was that was in front of me. So taking risks. So I would say, with the hard work part, I worked a lot. See when I first, when I started that job, I was actually a Program Manager for Back End Web Development, which was Ruby on Rails, coding a coding language. And then I was also a program manager for data science. I had no experience in either I was not technical. I did not have the technical skills or technical aptitude to do this, but I did have the desire to learn. So my first month at that job, I worked seven days a week. I went to workshops on the weekend. I did coding workshops, I read through all of the documentation. I sat in all of the programs that I was managing. I just dug deep. And I think that first year of immersing myself in everything kind of set the foundation for me.   Speaker 1 ** 19:38 So you made yourself pretty technical by the time it was all said and done,   Ashley Rudolph ** 19:42 yeah, yes, yes, and not on the level of any of my instructors or the students that actually took the programs. But I cared about learning, and I cared about having a certain level of fluency in order to I had to hire instructors for the program so I couldn't fumble my. Words, right? So, yeah, yeah. So I taught myself, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 20:05 you learned. You learned enough. You You weren't trying to be the most technical person, but you learned enough to be able to interact with people and hold your own. Yeah, which, which is the important thing, I think. And for me, I know at one point, I had a job that was phased out when Xerox bought the company and I couldn't find another job. And it wasn't because of a lack of trying, and it wasn't because I didn't have the skills, but rather, as societal norms typically go, the belief is blind people can't work, as opposed to what we really can and can't do. So I eventually started my own company selling computer aided design systems, and for me, as a blind person, of course, I'm not going to sit in front of a CAD computer or even a PC based CAD system, which is what we sold. So I had to learn, however, all about how to operate the system. Learn about PCs. So I learned how to how to build PCs. I learned about CAD so I could actually walk someone through the process of drawing without actually having to do it, so I understand what, exactly what you're saying. Yeah, and it was important to do that. Yeah. Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 21:21 it was important, and no one told me to do that, right? And I'm sure that no one told you to do that too, but there was just something in me that knew that I was excited about this work, or I wanted opportunities, and this was the best way that I knew how to go after it. Yeah, yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 21:43 Well, and, and it is the way you still have you do have to learn enough to be able to hold your own, but I Yeah, but I think it's also important in learning that that you're also not trying to threaten anyone else. You're just trying to be able to communicate with them   Ashley Rudolph ** 22:00 exactly, exactly, yes,   Speaker 1 ** 22:05 yeah. All too often, people view others as threats when they really shouldn't. But you know,   Speaker 2 ** 22:12 that's Yeah, another story gonna do Yeah, right, right.   Speaker 1 ** 22:16 Well, so for within five years, you became a vice president. What was the tech that y'all were really developing?   Ashley Rudolph ** 22:22 Yeah, great question. So what's interesting about this is that it wasn't so the first company I worked for wasn't a tech company, and that they were building tech it's actually a coding boot camp. So they were teaching people either how to code or how to become a UX designer, or how to become a product manager. So that was the product after a while. And I think long after I left the company, they did develop their own tech. So they developed an online an LMS learning management system, and there was digital content. But when I started, it was really about the boot camp era and teaching people how to code, because there were all these engineering jobs and web development jobs that were available and not enough, not enough talent, not   Speaker 2 ** 23:13 enough talent to go around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.   Ashley Rudolph ** 23:17 Which is when you think about today's market and where we're, where we are, that was only 10 years ago, and it's a completely different story. Now, the market is flooded with too many web developers. Yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 23:29 it is, but I would say, from my standpoint of seeing what they produce in terms of making web content accessible, not nearly enough of them know how to do that, which is another story,   Ashley Rudolph ** 23:41 yeah, yeah, yeah, which is so interesting. And yeah, unacceptable, unfortunate, because there were always teams that were in charge of accessibility at the companies that I worked for, but then having someone be in charge of it, and then properly resourcing the accessibility team is a whole other story. And I think so many companies view it as just oh yeah, I checked the box. My website is accessible. But did you really build with your end users in mind, and the answer is probably no,   Speaker 1 ** 24:23 probably not, yeah, and all too often that ended up being the case. Well, so what did you do after you became vice president?   Ashley Rudolph ** 24:32 Yeah, so that was tough. You said it, and you said, I climbed really fast. And that's true, I did, and because I climbed fast, there were a lot of lessons to learn. So after I became vice president, I really had to own that leadership seat, or that executive leadership seat, and recognize that what had got me there. Here is was not what was going to keep me there. So the thing that I did after I became a vice president was really understanding how to be an effective executive. So that means really understanding the business side, which I already knew I had been doing that I've been thinking about that since college, so that wasn't something that I was concerned about, but the biggest thing was forming executive level relationships and really understanding how to form allies, and understanding that at that level, it's less of I have the right answer, and listen to me, because I'm a vice president and more of a okay. How am I influencing the people around me to listen to my idea, accept my idea, champion and support my idea. And it's not enough to just have something that's right on paper.   Speaker 1 ** 26:06 The others the other side of that, of course, could be that maybe you have an idea that may or may not be the right idea, which also means you need to learn to listen,   Ashley Rudolph ** 26:13 yes, exactly, exactly, and that was absolutely the other side of it. So me coming into things and being like, I understand what needs to happen, and not having all the context either way, right? So, yeah, yeah, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 26:31 but you must have done pretty well at doing all that.   Ashley Rudolph ** 26:34 I figured it out eventually. Yes, I did figure it out eventually, and it wasn't easy, but I was able to grow a team and scale a team, and I was able to move from maybe the business side of running operations to the product and technology side of it, so being able to see two different sides of the coin. And yeah, it did. It did work. Well, I was able to create my own department, which was a product project management office that oversaw all of the work of the entire product and design and technology teams, 250 people. I I'm not sure that I would have thought I was capable of doing something like that, and building something from the ground up, and hiring a team of, I think, 15 people, and leading that department. And, yeah, yeah, and it was great. I did learn a lot. And then 2023 happened. And that was the major turning point in Tech where I think the dominant story shifted from, or at least in education technology, which I think you know something a lot about, but the dominant story shifted from this is great. This is growing. Distance Learning is fueling growth. There's so much opportunity here to it's too big. We need to, you know, do layoffs. We need to find a way to right size the business. There's actually not a lot of growth happening. So 2023 happened, and I ended up getting laid off with my entire department that I built. And that was such a huge lesson, a huge leadership lesson for me, for sure. So I'll pause so that I'm not not talking at you, but hanger, yeah, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 28:46 well, so you got laid off. I've been there. I've had that happen. And, yeah, it isn't fun, but it's like anything else. You may not have been able to control it happening, but no, you are the one who has to deal with it. So you may not have control over it happening, but you always have control over how you deal with what happened.   Ashley Rudolph ** 29:09 Yes, yes,   29:11 yes. And what did you do?   Ashley Rudolph ** 29:14 And that's exactly what was so different about this time. So I will say I had two months notice. I had an amazing leader, such a technology officer. When the decision was made, he said, Okay, we can make this decision, but I have to tell Ashley immediately. So he told me, and it wasn't surprising, right? Because I saw how the business what direction the business was going in. So I can't say I was shocked, but the big question that I had was, Oh, my God, what am I going to do about my team? And I felt such immense responsibility because I had hired many of them I came to. Care about them and their careers and their livelihoods, and, yeah, I just felt responsible for it. So you said it, you said it beautifully, and that it was about what I decided to do. So from that moment, I shifted my focus, maybe, maybe to my own detriment, but whatever, I came out on the upside, but I shifted my focus to my team, and I thought the best thing that I could do in that moment was preparing them for their next chapters without going directly to the team and damaging the trust of the Chief Technology Officer and saying, in two months, we're all going to get laid off. That's also not reflective of the type of leader I wanted to be. So I figured out that, because we were a project management office and because there wasn't a lot of new work at the company, we had downtime. So I implemented a meeting on the calendar, which was a project review, and every single week, someone on my team had the opportunity to present their projects and talk about what they learned, what was challenging for them, and what their successes were, right, some combination of those things, and they all did it, and that was my way of helping to start prepare them for the interview process, because now you know your work, you know what your impact was, and you've gotten my feedback as someone who's a leader, who knows what hiring managers are looking for, you got my feedback on the best ways to present yourself, and they were able to ask questions. There were some people who approached me or the director on my team privately and asked us to review their resumes, because they kind of saw the writings on the wall without me ever having to say it, and I did. And what ended up happening is, at that two month mark, or whenever, when the layoffs did happen, no one on my team was shocked, and there were people who actually within a month after the layoff happened, they had found new jobs because they had that time to prepare and felt confident in their job search and the stories that they were telling about themselves. So I all that to say that I did exactly that. I chose the type of leader that I wanted to be, and the thing that felt important to me was preparing my team for their next chapter,   Michael Hingson ** 32:32 which I would say is the right thing to do,   Ashley Rudolph ** 32:34 yeah, yes, exactly, because it   Speaker 1 ** 32:37 isn't, no matter what a lot of people might think, it isn't about you, it's about the team. It's about you and the rest of the team, because you're all a team,   Ashley Rudolph ** 32:45 yeah? Except Yes, yes. And I very much viewed my team as an extension of myself, an extension of them. I you know, it wasn't just about them doing a job for me, quote, unquote, like that's not the type of leader that I am. We are a team,   Speaker 1 ** 33:04 right? So meanwhile, while you were doing that and helping the team, what were you also doing for you? And   Ashley Rudolph ** 33:12 that's why I said to my detriment, I didn't do a lot of thought. I put no thought into what I wanted to do. Okay? At all. I just And you know what? It's not to my detriment. I think what I needed at that time was a distraction, and this was a really good distraction for me, from sorting through what I wanted to do next, but also in navigating that with my team and supporting them through that, I think the answer became very clear once I was ready to ask my question, I just coached my team. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 33:51 And so you sort of, as you would say, pivoted to being a coach,   Ashley Rudolph ** 33:57 yes, yes. And I want to be clear that this wasn't a decision that was like, you know, that I just fell into coaching, you know, I I made the decision to so I took some time to think about what were the pieces of my work that I really loved when I was a VP at multi, you know, at multiple companies, and the answer was clear, and that I really loved coaching and helping people become better at their work, and I really loved mentorship. And those were the parts of the work that if I could just do that all day, that's what I would want to do. And I was like, Well, I have the I can make a decision to do that all day, every day now, because I'm not doing anything, I just got laid off. So I can choose to do this work. So that's exactly how I ended up being a coach.   Speaker 1 ** 34:58 Well, so you. Ever originally planned on being a coach. So was it that work with your team that really was the sort of pivotal decision for you, that although you never thought you were going to be a coach, that led you to coaching, or was there something else that really helped move you there? There was something else. Okay, yeah, more to the story.   Ashley Rudolph ** 35:21 There is always you're peeling all the layers so, so initially, what I thought I would do, because I was an operations person, I was like, I'll just be an operations consultant. I'll go out on my own, and people will hire me to be their ops person. So let me, you know, run with that as an idea. And I started having conversations with former colleagues. And what was funny in that so many of their conversations were kind of like, oh yeah, I want to support you. And that sounds nice. I understand why you would want to be an operations consultant. But there's something more interesting about you being a coach. Or I want to hire you to be a coach for my team. Or, Hey, you did really amazing things in your career. You should help other people do those things. And that was the theme that people kept telling me, so I finally decided, decided to listen. That's how I landed on coaching. And instead of it being like, oh my god, I'm trying to sell the value of myself as an operations consultant, once I just owned the coach title, people just started saying, okay, yep, Sign me up. Or I'll refer you to someone who needs a coach right now. Or, hey, you coach just one person on my team, and they're great. Here's more. So it just became easy, and it became less of a I'm trying to sell people, and I'm trying to, like, convince them that they need me in this role, it was just easy.   Speaker 1 ** 37:04 So do you think you talked about being ambitious when you were in college and starting that business at Babson and so on? Do you think you've always continued to try to be, if you will, ambitious, or did you sort of shift in terms of mindsets over time?   Ashley Rudolph ** 37:22 Yeah, that's a really good question. I do think I have always been ambitious, and when I visited my mom last year or the year before last for Thanksgiving, I found a fake report card that I wrote myself, that I wrote for myself in fourth grade. And there was a prompt that said, what would you want your teacher to write on your report card at the end of this year? And I wrote, Ashley is excelling at excellence. Well, there you go, fourth grade. So I think it's always been there.   Speaker 1 ** 38:02 So is it, but is it ambition? Is it ambition, or is it being industrious and being being confident? You know?   Ashley Rudolph ** 38:10 Yeah, yeah. Oh, that is such a good question, right? So there was a version of me when I was in the corporate world where I would have just said, yeah, it's ambition, right? Because I'm always motivated to, you know, go after the next level, and that's what's driving me. And now, now that you put that question out there, it is, it is that confidence, because I'm not chasing a thing or the next level right now, in this phase, I'm chasing quote, unquote impact like the thing that drives me is helping people, helping people probably achieve things for themselves that They also didn't think that they could in their careers, and I'm just helping them get there, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 39:06 and that's why I asked the question, because ambition, the way you normally would think of it, yeah, can be construed as being negative, but clearly what you're doing is is different than that. Yeah, you know, at this at the same time for you, now that you're coaching and so on, and you shifted to doing something different, yeah, did you have to let something go to allow you to be open to deciding to be a coach? Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 39:38 and the thing that I had to let go was exactly what you just pointed out. So you are very intuitive. The thing I had to let go was that the traditional construct of what success looks like. So it looks like, okay, I'm a VP, so I next need to be an SVP. And then after that I need to be at the sea level. And no, and I guess there could have always been questions about, was that what I really wanted, or was it just the next level that I was after? Yeah, yeah. And there was that, I think it was just the next level for quite some time, but now, like I said, the thing that I let go of was that and wanting to grasp for what the next level is. And now for me, it looks like, okay, well, I only have so many hours in the day, so I can't coach unlimited people, but I still want to impact many people. So what does that mean? Okay, well, I'm writing a newsletter, and I put out a newsletter every week with my thoughts, and that can reach many more people than I can one to one or podcast. I'm talking to you on this podcast, and maybe me sharing more of my story will inspire someone else, or I'll learn from you and your community, Michael, but yeah, I think the thing, the thing that determines what success looks like for me is my ability to impact   Speaker 1 ** 41:14 and and the result of that is what happens with the people that you're working with, and so you, you do get feedback because of that,   Ashley Rudolph ** 41:25 yes, yes, I do get, I get lots of feedback, and it is, it's transformational feedback. And I think one of the things that I love, and I do this for every client that I work with, is on day one, we established a baseline, which I don't necessarily have to always say that to them like we're establishing the baseline, it's understood. And then in our last session, I put a presentation together, and I talked to them about where they were when we started, and what they wanted for themselves, and over the course of us coaching together, what they were able to accomplish, so what their wins were, and then where they land, and just me taking them on that journey every single or when they work with me, is eye opening, because they don't even see the change as it's happening. And I'm like, Hey, you did this. You're not that person that you walked into this room as on day one, and maybe by the end, you have a new job, or you got promoted, or you feel more confident and assured in your role. But whatever it is, you've changed, and you should be proud of yourself for that.   Speaker 1 ** 42:43 Yeah, yeah. And it's, I am sure, pretty cool when you get to point that out to people and they realize it, they realize how far they've come.   Ashley Rudolph ** 42:55 Yeah, yeah, it is. It's, it's really awesome to be able to share that with people and to also be on the journey with them, and when they think that maybe they're not ready to do something just gently reminding them that they are. And sometimes I think about what, you know, what managers have done for me, because I've, I had the privilege of working with really great managers some in my career, and yeah, they did that to me, and that that's how I was able to accomplish the things that I did. So yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 43:34 well, it's great that you're able to carry those lessons forward and help other people. That's pretty cool.   Ashley Rudolph ** 43:38 Yeah, yeah. And honestly, I hope that my clients can do the same. So if there are things that they learn in coaching, any frameworks or things like that, if they're able to help people, then that's great. And the cycle continues, you know? So, yeah, yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 43:57 You know, a question that comes to mind is that when we talk about leadership, there are certainly times that leaders face uncertainty, especially when there are transitions going on and you've experienced a lot of transitions. What would you say is the unconventional truth about leadership in times of change and transition?   Ashley Rudolph ** 44:20 Yeah, yeah. So I think the thing that I see the most is that in times of transition, especially if it's a transition that maybe you have no control over, right? You're not choosing to leave your job, for example, the the inclination is to over control, right, and try to assert control over the situation in any way that you can, and in more cases than not, that backfires to some degree. So the thing that I try to focus on with my clients is getting to a point where you accept the fact that what is happening is happening. I'm kind of like my layoff, right? I didn't fight the decision or try to change the decision. I just had to accept it for what it was. And then the thing that we focus on is now that we know the thing is happening, whatever the transition or change is, it doesn't have to be as extreme as a layoff, but now that we know that it's happening, what can you control and what can you focus on? And that's what we need to spend our time on. And it can be anything, you know, sometimes people are put on performance improvement plan, and you kind of just if, if this is a situation where you're like, Oh yeah, I could see where this came from, and I wish that I was not in this situation. Okay, well, you kind of have to accept that you are, and what can you do about it now, it's really, yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 45:58 what's the hardest lesson you've learned about leadership and being a leader, not just being an executive, but coaching people.   Ashley Rudolph ** 46:10 Yeah, and I get this all the time as a coach too. It's it's in me, but the lesson that I've learned is I don't have to know everything. That's   Michael Hingson ** 46:21 a hard lesson. To learn, isn't   Ashley Rudolph ** 46:25 it? It is, especially when you feel like as a leader, like people are relying on you, or you think they are, they're relying on you to know the answers or to know what to do next, or as a coach, they're relying on you to ask the right questions or to guide them in the right direction, right? And sometimes you just don't know, and that's okay, and it's also okay to say that. And I was just going to say that, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. It took me a long time to get comfortable with that, but now, now I am more comfortable with it, for sure. Do you feel like you struggled with that too? Or Yeah?   Speaker 1 ** 47:06 Well, I have, but I was blessed early on, when I was a student teacher in getting my secondary teaching credential, I was a student teacher in an algebra one class in high school, and one of the students came in one day, and he asked a question in the course of the day, and it should have been a question I knew the answer to, but I didn't. But when I when I realized I didn't, I also, and I guess this is my makeup, thought to myself, but I can't blow smoke about it, so I just said, you know, I don't know the answer, but I'm going to look it up and I will bring you the answer tomorrow. Is that okay? And he said, Yeah. And my master teacher after class cornered me, and he said, That was absolutely the best thing you could do, because if you try to psych out these kids and fake them out, they're going to see through you, and you're never going to get their trust. Yeah, and of course, he was absolutely right. So I did the right thing, but I also learned the value of doing the right thing. And Mr. Redman, my master teacher, certainly put it in perspective. And I think that's so important. We don't have to necessarily have all the right answers. And even if we do have the right answer, the question is, Is it our job to just say the right answer or try to guide people to get to the right answer?   Ashley Rudolph ** 48:41 Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's another leadership lesson, right? It's and it's so much more powerful when people do get to the answers themselves, yeah. And I think that kind of helps with them being less dependent on coming to you for the answers moving forward, right? If they're able to go on that path of discovery   Speaker 1 ** 49:04 well, and if they are able to do that and you encouraged it, they're going to sense it, and when they get the right answer, they're going to be as high as a kite, and they're going to come and tell you that they did it. So, yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 49:15 exactly. Yeah, yeah. What a good feeling.   Speaker 1 ** 49:19 Yeah, it is, what do you do? Or what are your thoughts about somebody who just comes to you and says, I'm stuck?   Ashley Rudolph ** 49:27 Ooh, that happens all the time. Michael, it happens all the time. And I'll tell you, there's two things. So if someone says I'm stuck, they either don't have the confidence to pursue the thing that they know they want to do, but they're just saying they're stuck, which is it is being stuck, right? If you can't take action, then you're stuck. But sometimes they frame that as I don't know where what I want to do or where I want to go, and then I ask. Couple of questions, and it's like, oh, well, you actually do know what you want to do and where you want to go. You just don't have the confidence yet to pursue that path. So part of the time, it's a confidence issue, or the other time, the thing that they're grappling with, or the other cases, what they're grappling with is, I haven't connected with like my values or the things that motivate me or my strengths even right? So maybe they're the ambitious person who was compelled to just chase the next level and the next level and the next level, but now they're asking, Is this really important to me, or do I really want this? As I spoke to another coach, and she ended up leaving what she thought was a dream job at Google, because every day she was kind of like, I still want to be here, and it wasn't her dream job, and she left to become a coach. So it's either one of those two things, most times, for the clients that I work with, and I ask a lot of questions, so I get to the answers, or I help them get to the answers by asking them the right questions. Yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 51:14 and that's the issue. And sometimes you may not know the right question right off the bat, but by the same token, you can search for it by asking other questions.   Ashley Rudolph ** 51:23 Exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, yeah, that's it.   Speaker 1 ** 51:27 So what is, what is a transformation of a client that you experienced and kind of what really shifted, that changed everything to them, something that just really gave you chills, and was an AHA kind of thing. Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 51:44 there are. There's so many one, okay, so one that I want to share is and basically the client went from, this isn't the job for me. I don't like the role I'm in. I don't think I can be successful, and I don't think my work is valued here. And I would say, over the course of eight months, she went from that to getting one of few perfect performance reviews in the company like it's a company that doesn't give a perfect performance review, right? So, right, going from that and being like, I need to find a new job. I've got to get out to I am excelling at this job, and it wasn't just anyone that gave her the perfect performance review. It was one of the co founders of the company. So like, top person is saying, Yeah, this is great. You're doing amazing work. There is value, and I think you're incredible. So in that transformation, the thing that she had to connect to, or reconnect to, was her values and understanding what are the things that she enjoys about her work and what are the things that she really didn't enjoy, and understanding the why behind that, and then the other two things for her, or developing her confidence, which sounds very fluffy, because it's like, How do you help someone do that? And I help people do that by helping them feel really good about their work product. So with her, with her, what we ended up doing was focusing on helping her prepare for some presentations. Me giving her feedback on her decks, or her talking to me about how she wanted to prepare for a meeting and the points that she wanted to make, and me helping her, you know, craft really compelling talking points, and having that feedback loop with me of being like, Okay, here's how the meeting went, and this was the feedback I got, and also being like, Oh, wow, the meeting went really well. And like feeling her confidence build over time by helping her get better at her work, and gradually over time, it just built to that amazing end point for her. But that's that's a transformation for me that will always stick out, because I just remember that first meeting and me just being like, okay, you know this, this might end up being a journey where we help her find a role that is better suited for her. And, you know, just kind of thinking about that, and it just didn't end up being that at all.   Speaker 1 ** 54:35 Well, the other thing that, in one way or another, probably plays into some of that is the people her bosses, the people who she worked for, probably sensed that something was going on, yeah, and she had to be honest enough to to deal with that. But as she progressed, they had to sense the improvement, and that. Had to help a lot.   Ashley Rudolph ** 55:01 Yes, for sure. And I think maybe there is confusion from her boss and in him thinking that she was ready to take on the work that he knew that she could take on, but she didn't quite feel ready yet. Yeah, so there was something she had to sort through, and she finally, not finally, that wasn't a lot of time at all, but she got there, and yeah, yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 55:26 And I'll bet they were better. I'll bet they were better communicators with each other by the time it was all said and done, too   Ashley Rudolph ** 55:31 Exactly, yes, yeah, yeah. They developed a shorthand, you know? And, yeah, yep.   Speaker 1 ** 55:39 So there are a lot of leaders who look great on paper, but when it really comes down to it, they just aren't really doing all that they ought to be doing. They feel restless or whatever. What's the real reason that they need to deal with to find momentum and move forward?   Ashley Rudolph ** 55:58 Yeah, so I'm going to take a I'm going to take a different approach to answering this question. And because of the people that I work with, again, they're high achievers. Yeah, right. And sometimes I see that what happens is maybe people have described them as restless, or people have said, Why aren't you happy? You have this amazing career, you should be happy. And I think, like that projection, they end up taking that on and feeling guilty about the fact that they want more. But at the core of it, when I talk to them or get to the level of, you know, Hey, what is happening here? What's causing this sense of restlessness? Surprisingly, the answer is, yeah, I have this great job or this great title, but I feel like I could be doing so much more. So it's an impact. It's an impact thing that is driving the people that I work with. So what we end up doing is trying to figure out, to some degree, like I have no control over what happens at work, so I don't want to pretend that I do, but if it is an impact question, then what we get to the core of is, okay, well, how do you increase your impact? And that's what I work with them on?   Speaker 1 ** 57:24 Well, here's a question. So I have been in sales for a long time, and of course, as far as I'm concerned, I still am being a public speaker. I sell more life and philosophy than anything else. But one thing a lot of people face is rejection. A lot that was redundant, but a lot of people face rejection. How do you get people to understand that rejection isn't a bad thing, and that it actually is a sign of success more often than not? And I agree with it. And you had given me this question, I think it's a great question and relevant to answer.   Ashley Rudolph ** 57:58 Yeah, so I just try to flip the thinking. So I make it less about the person rejecting you, or you receiving a rejection. And to me, if you get rejected, it's a signal that you try, and that's what we focus on, right? So if you're not getting rejected and you're in the same place that you were, it's probably an indication that you're not trying, or you're not taking big enough swings, or you're not pushing yourself. So, yeah, I just try to help my clients. You know, think about the fact that, hey, you got rejected because you tried and you put yourself out there, and that's great. And then the other thing I like to think about with rejection is really just like rejection is someone placing a bet, and if you know about bets, you know that they're not 100% right, and sometimes the person just decided they weren't going to place their bet on you. And it's not that you're not capable, or it's not that it wasn't a great idea, maybe it wasn't the right time, maybe whatever, you don't know what the why is, but it's just a bet, and someone could take a different bet, and it can be on you, or you can bet on yourself even, right? So once you start to think about rejection as just the choice that someone made on a day, and that person isn't all people, and they're certainly not representative of, you know, the person who could decide to take a chance on you and your idea or your initiative, then I think the rejection stings a lot less.   Speaker 1 ** 59:31 Yeah, one of the expressions I've heard regularly is the selling really begins. And I and I think whether it's selling a product or whatever you're doing, but the selling really begins when the objections begin or the rejection. Yeah, and I think there's, there's so much truth to that one of the things, one of the things that I used to do when I was selling products, is I would play a game with myself. Is this person. Going to give me a new objection or a new reason for rejection that I haven't heard before, and I always loved it when somebody came up with something that truly I hadn't heard before, and that was absolutely relevant to bring up, because then it's my job to go off and deal with that, but it was fun to put my own mindset in that sort of framework, because it's all about it's it's not me, unless I really am screwing up, it's other things. And no matter whether it's me screwing up or not, it's my job to figure out how to deal with whatever the other person has on their mind. Yeah, and when the new things come up, those are so much fun to deal with. And I even praised people, you know, I've never heard that one before. That's really good. Let's talk about it.   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:00:50 So great, yeah, yeah. They were probably like, oh, okay, wow. Well, yeah, let's talk about it, yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 1:01:00 But I didn't show fear, and didn't need to, because I I went into a learning mode. I want to learn what's on their mind and what's going on,   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:01:09 yeah, and that's what it's about. It's about understanding what's important to the other person, or understanding their concerns. And I think if you come at it like you did, from a place of really wanting to understand them and find common ground, then sometimes you can even shift the rejection right often.   Speaker 1 ** 1:01:27 If you do it right often you can. Yeah, you can. You can reverse it, because most rejections and objections are really based on perception and not necessarily reality   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:01:41 at all? Yes, exactly yes, yes, which is   Speaker 1 ** 1:01:45 important? Well, if you could go back and talk to a younger version of yourself, what moment would you choose and who? What would you say that they should learn? Oh,   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:01:54 this is so this is such a   Speaker 1 ** 1:01:57 great fun question. Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:02:03 if I could go back, I would probably tell myself that you you don't necessarily have to run away to find the things that you're looking for in your career, right? And I think in life too. Sometimes you think, Oh, I just have to move to a different city, or I just have to buy a new outfit, or I just have to, I have to, I have to, I have to change this thing. And sometimes you just don't have to. Sometimes you can have a conversation about thing that you want or the thing that you're not getting. So if this is a boss right, talking about the thing that you want or that you're not getting, and coming up with a solution together, and I think for quite some time, I was too afraid to do that, and if I wasn't getting what I needed or what I wanted, I just thought the best thing to do was to find it elsewhere, and I would just go back and tell myself to ask for what I wanted first, and then get the information and then leave if I had to. But leaving doesn't have to be the default.   Speaker 1 ** 1:03:21 Yeah. Cool. Well, Ashley, this has been a lot of fun. We've been doing this an hour. Can you believe   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:03:29 it? We have, we have the time flew by. Fun. Yeah, I could have kept going.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:36 Well, then we'll just have to do another one. Yeah,   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:03:39 we do. It, I will always come back. You are amazing. Michael,   Speaker 1 ** 1:03:43 well, this has been fun, and maybe one of the things that you could do to help spread the word about what you do and so on is do your own podcast.   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:03:50 Yes, something else to think about, yeah, yeah, that's a great idea. And then if I do then I will invite you on there. I'd   Speaker 1 ** 1:04:00 love it, I'll come absolutely well. I want to thank you again, and I want to thank all of you for listening and watching today. This has been very enjoyable and a lot of fun, and I appreciate you taking the time to be with us. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to email me at Michael H i@accessibe.com so accessibi is spelled A, C, C, E, S, S i, B, E, so Michael M, I C H, A, E, L, H i@accessibe.com or go to our podcast page, www, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast and Michael hingson is m, I C H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s o n.com/podcast, love to hear from you, and certainly I hope that whenever you're listening or watching, give us a five star rating. We value your reviews, and we really want to know that we're doing good by you, so please give us good reviews, and if you have thoughts or things that you want us to know about, don't hesitate to reach out. It. And for all of you, and Ashley, including you, if you know of other people who ought to be guests on our podcast, it's so much fun to meet more people from those who have been on before. But for anyone, if you know someone who ought to be a guest, please let me know. Reach out, and we will honor your interest and we will bring them on, because I think everyone has, as I told Ashley earlier, stories to tell. So hope that you will do that and that we'll get to see you on our next episode. And again, Ashley, I just want to thank you for being here. This has been so much fun. All   Ashley Rudolph ** 1:05:37 right, thank you, Michael.   **Michael Hingson ** 1:05:42 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week.

What if the key to unlocking a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem lies not just in funding, but in research, mentorship, and global collaboration? On this episode of The Angel Next Door Podcast, host Marcia Dawood sits down with Dr. Shakenna Williams, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College, to discuss the center's 25-year evolution and its impactful work supporting women and allies in entrepreneurship.Dr. Williams leads initiatives ranging from student and founder support to global research through Babson's accelerator and the Diana International Research Institute. She sheds light on how Babson's blend of mentorship, education, and research is empowering new generations of entrepreneurs while challenging and refining the statistics around women's access to venture capital.This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in building a more inclusive entrepreneurial landscape. You'll hear practical insights on the importance of research-driven programs, mentorship dos and don'ts, and what's next for global women's entrepreneurship—making it essential for founders, investors, and ecosystem builders alike. To get the latest from Dr. Shakenna Williams, you can follow her below!https://www.linkedin.com/in/drshakennawilliams/https://www.babson.edu/womens-leadership-institute/about-us/dr-shakenna-k-williams/ Sign up for Marcia's newsletter to receive tips and the latest on Angel Investing!Website: www.marciadawood.comLearn more about the documentary Show Her the Money: www.showherthemoneymovie.comAnd don't forget to follow us wherever you are!Apple Podcasts: https://pod.link/1586445642.appleSpotify: https://pod.link/1586445642.spotifyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-next-door-podcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marciadawood

Use code MAFIA25 and go check out our product Noble Origins.This is a high quality, nutrient packed grass-fed protein powder with colostrum, collagen, and an organ complex (including liver), plus we used beef protein isolate for people who struggle with whey protein or plant protein! Give it a try and let us know what you think!Jacob Donahue is a former collegiate hockey player turned machine learning engineer and competitive CrossFit athlete. Driven by curiosity and relentless self-improvement, Jacob uses his personal experiences in athletics, technology, and mental resilience to inspire others. His pursuit to blend performance, creativity, and entrepreneurship has shaped his unique perspective on what it truly means to find your calling.  In this episode, Brett and Harry sit down with Jacob Donahue—athlete, engineer, and creator behind Muse. From playing college hockey at Babson to reinventing himself as a machine learning engineer and competitive CrossFit athlete, Jacob shares powerful insights on how to unlock personal greatness. They dive deep into overcoming anxiety, embracing resistance, finding clarity in chaos, and turning life's trials into fuel for growth. Jacob challenges listeners to rethink entrepreneurship, emphasizing that the key to success might already be within you—if you're willing to keep tinkering. What we cover:- How to Discover Your Muse- Why You Should Keep Tinkering- Turning Your Energy into Real Action- Balancing Ambition with Strategic Rest- Being Entrepreneurial Within Your OrganizationTimestamps: (00:00) Intro and Babson background (05:00) Leaving hockey and letting go (10:00) Gamifying life and chasing goals (15:00) Outsourcing vs owning your weaknesses (20:00) Leaving corporate life for purpose (25:00) Finding clarity through CrossFit (30:00) Managing anxiety and negative thought loops (35:00) What Muse really means and becoming who you're meant to be *** LINKS***Check out our supplement company - Noble Origins- 100% grass-fed beef protein with added collagen, colostrum and organs- Use code MAFIA25 for 25% OFF your orderCheck out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Jacob:InstagramConnect with Brett:InstagramXConnect with Harry:InstagramXConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaX - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinX - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIAMaui Nui- 15% OFF. Use CODE: MEATMAFIA

Al mondo ci sono persone che creano problemi. Questa solitamente è una frase che ha accezione negativa, ma non sempre: nel mondo degli scacchi, per esempio, essere problemista significa aver un ruolo ben preciso.Parliamo di questo ruolo assieme a Daniele Gatti, autore di Professione problemista e prima persona al mondo ad aver ottenuto uno studio corretto e legale sul Babson task!

Today, I am having Sam Sharf, RPP's Director of Recruiting, sit in for me as the Guest Host with Winthrop Baseball's Assistant Coach Mike Napolitano.Topics Include:Difference between D1 and D3 programsBalancing baseball and academicsMost important characteristics when recruiting hittersCoach Napolitano came to Winthrop after three seasons as an assistant coach for the Babson College baseball program in 2023-24. Prior to his time at Babson, he served as a graduate assistant baseball coach at Misericordia University for two seasons.He graduated from Springfield College with a B.S. in movement and sport science in 2019 and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Misericordia in sport management in 2021. Ready to take your game to the next level? With our holistic and data-driven approach, experienced coaches, and cutting-edge technology, RPP Baseball takes the guesswork out of player development. Twitter https://twitter.com/RPP_Baseball/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/RPP_Baseball/ Call us at 201-308-3363 Email us at rpp@RocklandPeakPerformance.com Website ...

Big Dog and Kap look at the latest action in DIII lacrosse with ton of Top 20 talk, a deep dive on Salisbury toppling Gettysburg, Babson besting Union, and plentyof other matchups from early season.  Statistical players of the week makes its triumphant return, and we take a look at some upcoming heavy-hitter matchups.

Patty Patria, CIO at Babson College, and author Jeff Selingo discuss how Babson integrates technology with its mission as a leader in entrepreneurship and higher education. They explore the college's cloud-first strategy and efforts to align innovation with institutional goals to stay at the forefront of change in the higher ed space.

Primeiro episódio do mês é dia de falar sobre carreira! Hoje, conversamos com David Pereira, CEO na omoqo, sobre a sua trajetória nada tradicional até o cargo máximo de uma empresa alemã, passando pela academia, por suporte técnico, por startups, e por uma noite mal-dormida em uma rodoviária em Brasópolis. Vem ver quem participou desse papo: André David, o host que vive as emoções Fabrício Carraro, Program Manager da Alura, autor de IA e host do podcast Dev Sem Fronteiras David Pereira, CEO na omoqo

Bem-vindos a mais um episódio do Imigrante Rico Podcast!Quer transformar seus clientes em verdadeiros promotores da sua marca e multiplicar suas vendas de forma orgânica? Não perca o Growth Day: Vendas por Indicação com Rodrigo Noll, o maior especialista do Brasil no assunto!Data: 05/02Local: Bentley, MAGaranta seu ingresso: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growth-day-vendas-por-indicacao-com-rodrigo-noll-tickets-1195938527329Apresentado por Tiago Prado diretamente de Boston, Massachusetts!Neste episódio, recebemos  @rodrigo_noll , especialista em vendas por indicação e fundador da Base Viral, para uma conversa repleta de insights valiosos sobre como aumentar seu faturamento, reduzir custos e criar um programa de indicação eficaz para sua empresa.Você sabia que muitas empresas deixam dinheiro na mesa por não utilizarem a estratégia certa de vendas por recomendação? Rodrigo explica como transformar clientes em promotores da sua marca e ativar indicações que geram resultados reais para qualquer tipo de negócio, seja pequeno ou grande.Tópicos abordados neste episódio:00:00 Introdução ao episódio e apresentação de Rodrigo Noll00:40 O impacto da gestão empresarial global01:13 Como vender mais e reduzir custos através de indicações02:26 A experiência de Rodrigo Noll em Babson e Harvard04:50 Primeiras experiências de empreendedorismo no Brasil06:24 Criação da primeira empresa e aprendizado no mercado09:22 A importância de ouvir o cliente e implementar feedback11:49 Como identificar clientes insatisfeitos e corrigir processos14:04 A criação do método de vendas por indicação17:06 O crescimento da Base Viral e expansão internacional19:27 Estratégias para pequenas empresas aumentarem indicações21:55 O método "Duplo Agradecer e Ativar" para fidelização24:40 Como tornar sua empresa mais "indicável" no mercado27:54 Depoimentos estratégicos: como construir credibilidade32:09 A importância de se destacar online e a presença digital36:22 Parcerias estratégicas e cross-selling para negócios locais40:07 Como ferramentas de CRM podem ajudar nas indicações43:54 Psicologia do dinheiro e comportamento financeiro empresarial49:16 O erro de não aproveitar as indicações naturais dos clientes51:23 Funil de vendas e como multiplicar a base de clientes54:09 Definição de riqueza para Rodrigo NollQuer aprender a impulsionar seus negócios? Assista ao episódio completo e descubra como o poder das recomendações pode levar sua empresa a outro nível!

In this episode of The Insurance Technology Podcast, Reid chats with Michael Vega-Sanz, co-founder of Lula and co-founder & President of GAIL, to hear about his unique upbringing on a Miami farm and how early experiences fueled his entrepreneurial spirit. Tune in to hear Michael's captivating stories of tinkering with lawnmowers, exploring his rural surroundings, growing up and collaborating with his twin, his dedication to family, and the innovative work they're doing today in the insurtech space.  Episode Highlights·         Chickens, goats and a lot for tinkering on the Miami farm (00:36)·         A love for tech that started at Babson (6:54)·         Twins join forces, building their first app (10:14)·         Going from an app to an insurance business (16:42)·         A customer-centric approach goes a long way (24:37)·         From zero to $2 million in 18 months (29:40)·         The AI, tech + insurance opportunity (32:34)·         Selling Lula, founding GAIL (46:54)·         The goal is to be the customers' “wingman” (1:03:49)·         Getting in the trenches as effective leadership (1:10:48)

Felix Kloman, four year basketball player at Brown University, joins this week's episode of @Notevend2 . Felix was a standout player in high school playing for Pingree School in Massachusetts. Out of high school Felix had few Division 1 offers, but coach Mike Martin and his staff offered Kloman late in his senior year of high school. Felix committed to play for Brown University going into the 2020-21 season; unfortunately his first season was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. Kloman played in limited minutes for his next two college seasons following his freshman year, until senior year when he started 18 games during one of Brown's best seasons under coach Martin. With one year of eligibility left, Felix entered the transfer portal. After hearing from schools at all three divisions, Kloman committed to play for Babson College. The grad student is off to a great start of the season averaging an efficient 18.8 ppg. Babson will be in contention for an NCAA tournament appearance due to the addition of Kloman. Hear about Felix's favorite memories during his basketball career, what it was like playing in the Ivy League, and his goals for the rest of the 2024-25 season. This episode is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Make sure to subscribe to the podcasts YouTube channel @Notevend2 for more sports content. Enjoy the episode! Sneak Peek- 00:00-00:22 Alfred/Utica MBB Updates- 00:22-02:12 Intro- 02:12-10:49 Daily Schedule, Injury Update- 10:49-12:49 Instagram Name, Music Taste- 12:49-15:21 Recruitment out of HS, Early Years at Brown, Being a Ivy League Student-Athlete, Social Scene at Brown- 15:21-23:26 Senior Season at Brown, Ivy League Rivalries- 23:26-28:08 Break- 28:08-28:20 Deciding to Play for 5th Year, Commitment to Babson/D3- 28:20-31:38 Babson's Current Season, Goals going into 24-25 Season, Double OT Game against Trinity-31:38-37:01 Opinion on D3 Basketball- 37:01-39:36 Working out with Mitchell Kirsch, Stories Playing against Duncan Robinson- 39:36-42:31 Advice on Staying Consistent/Patient- 42:31-45:11 Rapid Fire (Fav Music Artists, Funniest Teammates, Food in Providence)- 45:11-49:14 Starting 5: Best Players Played With- 49:14-51:00 Only in D3- 51:00-58:00 Outro- 58:00-58:42

John Kilcullen, the creator of the For Dummies brand and former chairman and CEO of IDG Books, shares his journey in building one of the world's most iconic publishing series. In this episode, John delves into the rise of For Dummies, his experience leading other renowned brands like Frommer's Travel and Cliff's Notes, and his time as president and publisher of Billboard Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter.A sought-after lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at institutions like Stanford, NYU, and Babson, John's wisdom has been profiled in Forbes, The New York Times, and USA Today.PART 1: The story behind For Dummies and how to build a lasting brand.PART 2: Insights on the evolving future of publishing (starting at 43 minutes).Closing: John's invaluable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, life wisdom, and actionable takeaways.Subscribe on Apple Podcast , Spotify or other major streaming platforms.Let's connect!Subscribe to my newsletter: Time To Live: Thriving in Business and BeyondWebsite: https://www.annemcginty.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annemcgintyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/annemcgintyhost

RESPECT Podcast – Season 5, Episode 7! Tune in now as hosts Micaya and Brandy feature Stéphanie (SP Sunny) from Paris, representing Parados-Sal and Odasy!

Eric Olson, COO and Founder of BetterWay™ by Babson Diagnostics™, reports that traditional blood testing is often seen as inconvenient and unpleasant, causing 40% of people to avoid needed blood tests. Babson has developed a more patient-friendly approach to blood collection using a device that fits on the finger and requires a minimum amount of blood. The BetterWay service allows patients or doctors to order tests where blood is drawn at a local pharmacy and samples analyzed at a central lab, providing a quick turnaround with understandable test results.  Eric explains, "Blood testing is something that most people are very familiar with. It's a routine part of medical care. Every time you go in for your annual visit or if you're monitoring a disease, maybe a chronic disease, you might get tested more frequently than once a year. The experience is something that a lot of people go through, which consists of having an appointment, going into some sort of patient service center, and getting blood drawn by a professional phlebotomist. They put a needle in your vein and use tubes to pull the blood out of the vein. They fill up multiple tubes of blood that get sent to a high-throughput laboratory that looks a bit like a factory for testing." "If you go to BetterWay.com, you can see the full menu and the prices of all the tests on that menu, so there are no surprise bills. Insurance, FSA, and HSA are accepted. However, the cash pay prices are often lower than many people pay, even with insurance, due to copays and deductibles, which are very high for many people." "So once you've got an order, you go to your local retail pharmacy to get your blood collected. We're available in pharmacies in Austin today, on all sides of Austin, and expanding beyond Austin soon. Once you arrive at the pharmacy, you tell them that you're there for the BetterWay test. They'll collect a pea-sized blood sample from your fingertip after putting your hand on a hand warmer. And that enables them to collect either one or two tubes of blood, depending on the tests you've ordered, instead of large vials of blood from a needle in your vein." #BetterWay #BabsonDiagnostics #BloodTesting #HealthEcosystem #MedicalDeviceDevelopments BetterWay.com Download the transcript here

Eric Olson, COO and Founder of BetterWay™ by Babson Diagnostics™, reports that traditional blood testing is often seen as inconvenient and unpleasant, causing 40% of people to avoid needed blood tests. Babson has developed a more patient-friendly approach to blood collection using a device that fits on the finger and requires a minimum amount of blood. The BetterWay service allows patients or doctors to order tests where blood is drawn at a local pharmacy and samples analyzed at a central lab, providing a quick turnaround with understandable test results.  Eric explains, "Blood testing is something that most people are very familiar with. It's a routine part of medical care. Every time you go in for your annual visit or if you're monitoring a disease, maybe a chronic disease, you might get tested more frequently than once a year. The experience is something that a lot of people go through, which consists of having an appointment, going into some sort of patient service center, and getting blood drawn by a professional phlebotomist. They put a needle in your vein and use tubes to pull the blood out of the vein. They fill up multiple tubes of blood that get sent to a high-throughput laboratory that looks a bit like a factory for testing." "If you go to BetterWay.com, you can see the full menu and the prices of all the tests on that menu, so there are no surprise bills. Insurance, FSA, and HSA are accepted. However, the cash pay prices are often lower than many people pay, even with insurance, due to copays and deductibles, which are very high for many people." "So once you've got an order, you go to your local retail pharmacy to get your blood collected. We're available in pharmacies in Austin today, on all sides of Austin, and expanding beyond Austin soon. Once you arrive at the pharmacy, you tell them that you're there for the BetterWay test. They'll collect a pea-sized blood sample from your fingertip after putting your hand on a hand warmer. And that enables them to collect either one or two tubes of blood, depending on the tests you've ordered, instead of large vials of blood from a needle in your vein." #BetterWay #BabsonDiagnostics #BloodTesting #HealthEcosystem #MedicalDeviceDevelopments BetterWay.com Listen to the podcast here

In this episode, Christopher Mirabile, Executive Chair of Launchpad Venture Group, explores the pivotal role of boards in startup companies and discusses how boards can be both a critical support system as well as a driver of success. We love our listeners! Drop us a line or give us guest suggestions here. Big Ideas/Thoughts/Quotes “Life is too short to suffer with the wrong people in your boardroom.” Startup Boards are different, but still vitally important “Boards have featured prominently in my entire professional life.” “When I was a consultant with the strategy group at Pricewaterhouse, ultimately our work was commissioned by boards and delivered to boards, and those board presentations when I was lucky enough to be in the room as a young person on the team were some of the most high-pressure situations that I ever was in professionally and left a real impression on me.” “When I got into the startup world, I sort of had to unlearn a certain amount of what I'd learned about boards and moved to the end of the spectrum where boards provide as much mentoring and business value as they do governance.” “Startup boards tend to be a little smaller, a little bit more nimble and often the membrane between shareholders and directors is much thinner because you often see meaningful representation direct from the shareholder base on the board.” “When you run into resistance from a founder [about a board], it's often really more of an educational journey than a negotiating journey to try to get them to understand the value of a board.” Why is a board important for a startup? Your investors want it and you're not going to be able to raise money without it and why would you reinvent the wheel when you can have people who made those mistakes before and can help you avoid wasted time and wasted resources. “A big part of what [we] do is help CEOs understand that …if you go into a relationship with your board, it's sort of like an intellectual partnership where you bring the courage to admit you don't have all the answers and you really seek to draw the wisdom out…”  …If you show me a CEO that's failing, I'll show you a board that's failing to support that CEO properly … Attitude of Startup board members “I don't want to be anywhere near the blast radius of a startup that fails, so I want to make sure that this company is going to succeed…” Feedback to CEO after a Board Executive Session A great way to give feedback after an executive session is: "Hey, let's just do a little case study here. In the meeting, you said this, here's what they heard..." and then it's not an in-your-face criticism, it's just helping them understand how they're being perceived and how their choice of words and their manner of speaking and their style affects the impact of their communications…I think that can be a very effective non-confrontational way to give quick feedback to a CEO.  The Independent Member of a Startup Board “What we're looking for is two things. One is the avoidance of some negatives and the other is certain positives. I'll start with the avoidance of the negatives. We don't want an inexperienced blowhard who has a lot of ego involved in telling people what to do and insisting that their advice be followed, and someone who contributes to a board meeting in a manner which sucks all the oxygen out of the room and makes it super awkward to disagree with them.  We're looking for someone who has a little bit of experience, understands boards are a working thing and that startups are an imperfect science and they're not going to be a disruptive or difficult board member. That's the kind of the key negatives that we're looking to avoid.  In terms of the positives, really, we want someone who understands the industry dynamics, understands the players, knows who the company and the CEO should be talking to, and has that bigger perspective, who can put the day-to-day operational challenges of the company into a broader industry context, and then ultimately make introductions when it's time to find additional investors or exit the company.  So, all we need is a well-behaved genius. It's easy.” Training Board Members “Launchpad now has at least 50 portfolio companies and 40 Launchpad members are either in the boardroom as a director or an observer. That's a pretty large portfolio of board members and observers that the group is adding as human value to the companies.” Our training consists of three things. ·      One is expectation setting and accountability, ·      The second is we tend to give the newer investors in our group an opportunity to serve as an observer under an experienced board member for at least a year so they get a little bit of a sense of what it's about. ·      The third piece is really traditional training and that consists of training we do before they serve on the board and then ongoing training after they've begun. The training we do before is basically making them read the director's guidebook that Ham and I wrote, which really covers all of the basics, and we go to great pains to say, "No, we really mean it when we say we want you to read this. Don't come to the class if you haven't read it because we'll know." ·      Then we do a class where we give them an opportunity to discuss questions and things that weren't clear from the book and we take them through a whole layer of sort of pragmatic suggestions on how to get that first meeting successful and how to run a good board Overboarding “It's really an issue in the VC world … I think a lot of people draw some measure of professional pride out of being on a board and they can tend to get a little carried away and take on too many board assignments.”  “In our experience doing a startup board well, even in a year where it goes pretty well, it's about a 200-hour-a-year commitment.” “We do go out of our way to keep them [people with too many board seats] off the board, and one of the reasons we really prefer to lead rounds is because we want to have a hand in building the board and making sure that we're giving our CEO all the resources she or he needs to succeed and putting the right people around our management team.” Responsibilities of Boards have expanded dramatically “The basics sort of used to constitute most of what a board did, and now a board has so many other jobs, it's really overwhelming a number of things that we expect boards to do and I think that it not only takes away from some of the time that could be spent on the basics, but it creates a ‘whack a mole' kind of a mindset in terms of directors.”   Links  linkedin.com/in/christophermirabile  Bio Christopher Mirabile is the Chair Emeritus of the Angel Capital Association and the immediate past Chair of the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee. He is also the Executive Chair of Launchpad Venture Group, a Boston-based venture investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. Launchpad is top-three ranked group in the U.S. As a full-time angel investor and an active member of the Boston-area angel investing community, in addition to his Launchpad work, Christopher has personally invested in over 65 start-up companies. He was named one of  the "Top Angel Investors in New England" by Xconomy, one of "Boston's Most Helpful Investors" in an entrepreneur survey by Companyon Ventures and is the recipient of the Angel Capital Association's Hans Severiens Award for his contribution to the advancement of angel investing. Christopher has co-authored six books on early stage investing, been a columnist on entrepreneurship for Inc. Magazine, is a co-founder of portfolio management tool www.seraf-investor.com and co-author of the Seraf Compass, a comprehensive web catalog of educational materials about early stage investing, an adjunct lecturer in the MBA program at Babson's Olin School of Business, a regular advisor and mentor to start-ups, and a frequent panelist and speaker. He is a member of the Board of Directors or Board of Advisors of numerous start-up companies and non-profits. Christopher has served as a public company CFO and General Counsel with enterprise software provider IONA Technologies PLC, a corporate and securities lawyer with Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault and as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse's Strategic Consulting Group.

Send us a textHave you ever wondered how to maintain resilience and joy while facing a family health challenge? This episode of the Quarterback Dadcast brings you the heartfelt journey of Jamas LaFreniere, a dedicated father and sales executive at EchoStar, who shares his personal story of raising a child with Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1B (GSD1b). Today's episode only happens due to the kind introduction made by Mark Agostinelli, a former guest on the podcast.Through candid discussions, Jamas opens up about the critical importance of empathy and vulnerability in parenting, his family's everyday triumphs and trials, and the incredible support system that has been pivotal in their journey. In our discussions, we explore the emotional and logistical complexities of managing a rare disease, balancing a demanding career, and running a foundation. Jamas's reflections on the challenges of his daughter's diagnosis, the critical role of accurate medical information, and the profound impact of community support provide invaluable insights into navigating such life-altering experiences. As we share light-hearted moments and personal anecdotes, we emphasize the ongoing journey of self-improvement and the crucial need for empathy, kindness, and inclusiveness in parenting. Transitioning from the emotional to the inspirational, we recount the incredible Boston Marathon fundraising success of a hockey enthusiast turned marathon runner. Driven by community support and a powerful personal mission, this journey raised over $160,000 for their foundation, proving that passion and dedication can overcome physical and mental challenges. The segment also highlights the significant impact of parental influence, showcasing how sports and hard work not only open educational doors but also foster personal growth and discipline. Such stories remind us of the importance of perseverance and the remarkable power of community-driven efforts.Join us for an episode filled with inspiring stories, practical advice, and a shared passion for making a difference.Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts! Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

In the latest episode of Florida's Fourth Estate, Tony Talcott, the digital producer behind some of the most viral stories on ClickOrlando, takes listeners on a journey through Florida's quirkiest and lesser-known stories. With a knack for uncovering the strange and unusual, Talcott has made a name for himself by finding and sharing these captivating tales. “Florida's history is full of interesting and quirky stories,” Talcott shares during the podcast, reflecting on his passion for these unique discoveries. From towns with odd names to mysterious vigilantes, Talcott delves into the bizarre yet fascinating corners of the Sunshine State. One of the standout stories discussed in the podcast is the origin of Taintsville, a small community in Seminole County. As Talcott explains, “They didn't really feel like they had a lot of identity, so a lot of the folks around there used to joke, ‘Well, we t'aint in Oviedo, and we t'aint in Chuluota.'” This playful origin story, based on the town's location between Oviedo and Chuluota, is a perfect example of the local humor that often defines Florida's communities. Talcott also addresses the infamous myth surrounding loofahs in The Villages, which many believed were being used as a secret code for swingers. “It seems like it was a joke that was made by a drag queen a few years back,” Tony clarifies, debunking the widely spread rumor. Instead, he discovered that the decorations on cars and golf carts were simply a way for elderly residents to find their vehicles in crowded parking lots. In another fascinating revelation, Talcott discusses the mysterious anti-gravity monuments found in Florida. These monuments were commissioned by millionaire Roger Babson, who, according to Tony, “really had a bone to pick with gravity” and blamed it for various societal issues, including the death of his sister. Babson's unique mission to “wage a war on gravity” led him to fund scientific research aimed at overcoming this natural force, resulting in these unusual monuments. The podcast also highlights the story of Ratman, a viral sensation at the University of Central Florida (UCF). As Tony recalls, “There was a viral video online of some guy in a rat costume... stopping a supposed bike thief on the campus.” The video, which was part of a student film project, quickly gained attention, with many students mistaking it for a real-life superhero incident. Talcott's top story, however, is about the hidden “Ginger Ale Spring” near I-4 in Longwood. This spring, which smells of sulfur, was once used by a ginger ale plant. “They thought this was gonna be the next big thing,” says Talcott, but the business never took off, leaving behind this curious relic in the woods. Tony Talcott's dedication to uncovering and sharing these stories has not only entertained but also educated many Floridians. As he puts it, “Finding out other folks like these stories too just makes me super happy.” For those eager to explore more of Florida's hidden gems, Tony's articles and appearances on ClickOrlando are a must-follow. Whether it's the bizarre origins of a town's name or the truth behind urban legends, Tony Talcott continues to shed light on the peculiar and captivating stories that make Florida one of the most interesting places in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back! Today's episode features a clip of me speaking at a recent School Resource Officer Summer Conference. I discuss some matters of self-awareness. Not being self-absorbed. But take heed of these topics because nobody is immune, and it's good to know about this. You may be doing great! But, the person to your left and right might not be.  Get "Mental Health Fight Of The Heroes In Blue": https://bit.ly/HowToMentallySurvive ------------------------ Contact me for the references of this presenation:   https://thescottmedlin.com/contact/   *Get your free mental survival quick guide (If you dont wish to purchase the book above): https://scott-31f04.gr8.com/   ------------------------   References:   •Corruble, E., Benyamina, A., Bayle, F., Falissard, B., & Hardy, P. (2003). Understanding impulsivity in severe depression? A psychometrical contribution. Progress In Neuro-Psychopharmacology And Biological Psychiatry, 27(5), 829-833. doi: 10.1016/s0278-5846(03)00115-5 •Davidson, C., Babson, K., Bonn-Miller, M., Souter, T., & Vannoy, S. (2013). The Impact of Exercise on Suicide Risk: Examining Pathways through Depression, PTSD, and Sleep in an Inpatient Sample of Veterans. Suicide And Life-Threatening Behavior, 43(3), 279-289. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12014 •Davis, H. (2020). Police officer suicide rate more than doubles line-of-duty deaths in 2019, study shows. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-police-officer-suicide-rate •Edwards, Dr. Jonathan. SUICIDE IN COVID-19 ERA & KETAMINE: A Little Known Treatment for Depression. Amazon, 2022. •Felman, A. (2018). What are the symptoms of addiction?. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323459 •Fletcher, J. (2019). Is vaping bad for you?. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327374 •Juergens, J. (2019). Addiction and Suicide. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/addiction-and-suicide/ •Julson, E. (2018). 11 Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/anxiety-disorder-symptoms   •. (2018). 167 AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS DIED BY SUICIDE IN 2018 - Blue H.E.L.P. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://bluehelp.org/blog/158- American-police-officers-died-by-suicide-in-2018/ •Kosslyn, S., & Rosenberg, R. (2004). Fundamentals of Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World (2nd ed.). Allyn & Bacon. •Mylett, E. (2018). #MaxOut Your Life: Strategies for Becoming an Elite Performer. JETLAUNCH. •Olson, A., & Wasilewski, M. (2016). 4 principles cops can use to overcome negativity and negative thoughts. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.policeone.com/health-fitness/articles/4-principles-cops-can-use-to-overcome-negativity-and-negative-thoughts-egerjFDoPjThtDx8 •Police and Addiction. (2018). Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sure-recovery/201803/police-and-addiction •Purbasari Horton, A. (2017). How To Make Your Actual Work As Addictive As Email. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://www.fastcompany.com/40418508/how-to-make-your-actual-work-as-addictive-as-email   Disclaimer: The creator is not responsible for errors, omissions, or results from using this information. The views or opinions belong solely to the Creator. Information by the Creator is for Educational Purposes Certain Content herein is subject to the Doctrine of “Fair Use”   As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

#392 In our interview, Steve Babson discusses his book "Forgotten Populists," exploring a neglected chapter of American history. He highlights influential figures who championed ordinary citizens' rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and draws parallels between their challenges and contemporary political issues. Don't miss this fascinating conversation about the populist movement and its enduring legacy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/none-taken/support

Brain Rush!  Gen AI, AI Hallucinations and Retailers with Peter Cohan, an Associate Professor of Management Practice at Babson CollegeMeet Peter Cohan, an Associate Professor of Management Practice at Babson College, the founding principal of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm, and has completed over 150 growth-strategy consulting projects for global technology companies and invested in seven startups, three of which were sold for about $2 billion and one of which went public in 2021 at an $18 billion valuation.  Impressive numbers.Peter tells us about his 17th book, another impressive number, Brain Rush, and we get deep into GenAI, whether the current concentration of AI development amongst the most prominent tech players will help or hurt the development of valuable and safe AI, AI hallucinations and how retailers should think about their impact on customer service, AI flyers for the masses and much more!About PeterPeter Cohan is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at Babson College. He teaches strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship to students in the college's undergraduate, Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership (MSEL), MBA, and Executive Education programs. He is coordinator of Babson's required undergraduate strategy course and the creator and teacher of advanced strategy courses for undergraduate and MSEL students. Cohan is the founding principal of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm. He has completed over 150 growth-strategy consulting projects for global technology companies and invested in seven startups, three of which were sold for about $2 billion and one of which went public in 2021 at an $18 billion valuation. He has written 17 books, includingBrain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI andNet Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Wild World of Internet Business. He is a senior contributor to Forbes and an Inc. contributor. He is a frequent media commentator who has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business News, American Public Media's MarketPlace, WBUR, WGBH, New England Cable News, and the Boston ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates. He has been quoted in the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the London Evening Standard, the Times of London, the New York Times, Nikkei, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Portugal's Expresso, the Economist, Time, BusinessWeek, and Fortune. He also appeared in the 2016 documentary film We the People: The Market Basket Effect. Prior to starting his firm, he worked as a case team leader for Monitor Company, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter's consulting firm. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Tel Aviv University, New York University, and Bentley University.About Brain RushMy most recent book (the 17th I have authored) Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI, discusses both the benefits and challenges of implementing AI in the retail and eCommerce markets and some of the specific topics I could discuss on your podcast include:How can retailers distinguish the few high payoff generative AI applications from the many losing ones?Which generative AI applications are creating the most value for retailers?What are the most significant risks retailers could face if they introduce generative AI to customers and partners?How should retailers capture the benefits and minimize the risks of these high payoff generative AI applications?Peer pressure forces CEOs to tell Wall Street how generative AI will transform their business but at the same time, CEOs fear generative AI hallucinations could threaten their company's reputation. This fear is based in reality. For instance, Google's AI advised people to add glue to pizza,Forbes careers contributor Jack Kelly noted. And Air Canada's AI chatbot made up a refund policy for a customer — and a Canadian tribunal forced the airline to issue a real refund based on its AI-invented policy, Wired reported.This inconsistent battle has significant implications for business. Of 200 to 300 generative AI experiments the typical large company is undertaking, a mere 10 to 15 have been rolled out internally, and perhaps one or two have been released to customers.  Babson College Associate Professor of Management PracticePeter S. Cohan & AssociatesLinkedIn PageBooksForbes and Inc. columns About MichaelMichael is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. He has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada's Retail Secure conference with leaders from The Gap and Kroger talking about violence in retail stores, keynotes on the state & future of retail in Orlando and Halifax, and at the 2023 Canadian GroceryConnex conference, hosting the CEOs of Walmart Canada, Longo's and Save-On-Foods Canada. Michael brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.Michael also produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in North America, Remarkable Retail, Canada's top retail industry podcast; the Voice of Retail; Canada's top food industry and the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor, with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois. Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail influencers for the fourth year in a row, Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer, and you can tune into Michael's cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.Available for keynote presentations helping retailers, brands and retail industry insiders explaining the current state of the retail industry in Canada and the U.S., and the future of retail.

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host, Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Ron Levin. Ron is the managing partner of Alumni Ventures, a $1.3 billion venture fund that was recently ranked as the most active VC firm in the US. Ron has been an angel investor, unicorn founder and McKinsey consultant with degrees from Babson, College and Harvard. So what this means is that Ron is changing the game in the US by showing people that capitalism 2.0 is not only possible, it's crucial. And he's about to teach us all a masterclass on VC, entrepreneurship and current markets.Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOe79EXLDsROQ0z3YLnu1QQConnect with Ryan Miller:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcmiller1/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingbillionspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/_MakingBillonsWebsite: https://making-billions.com/[THE GUEST]: Ron is the managing partner of Alumni Ventures, a $1.3 billion venture fund that was recently ranked as the most active VC firm in the US. Ron has been an angel investor, unicorn Everyday AI: Your daily guide to grown with Generative AICan't keep up with AI? We've got you. Everyday AI helps you keep up and get ahead.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the Show.DISCLAIMER: The information in every podcast episode “episode” is provided for general informational purposes only and may not reflect the current law in your jurisdiction. By listening or viewing our episodes, you understand that no information contained in the episodes should be construed as legal or financial advice from the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for legal, financial, or tax counsel on any subject matter. No listener of the episodes should act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information included in, or accessible through, the episodes without seeking the appropriate legal or other professional advice on the particular facts and circumstances at issue from a lawyer, finance, tax, or other licensed person in the recipient's state, country, or other appropriate licensing jurisdiction. No part of the show, its guests, host, content, or otherwise should be considered a solicitation for investment in any way. All views expressed in any way by guests are their own opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the show or its host(s). The host and/or its guests may own some of the assets discussed in this or other episodes, including compensation for advertisements, sponsorships, and/or endorsements. This show is for entertainment purposes only and should not be used as financial, tax, legal, or any advice whatsoever.

Have you ever wondered how an entrepreneur transitions from building startups to influencing public policy and angel investing? In this compelling episode, host Marcia Dawood sits down with Rich Palmer to explore his dynamic journey. From working on Wall Street to founding multiple startups, surviving a brain aneurysm, and now serving on the board of the Angel Capital Association, Rich's story is one of resilience, vision, and impactful leadership.Rich offers a wealth of experience, having raised $120 million for a SaaS company and navigating the startup world. Now, as an influential angel investor and entrepreneur in residence at Babson, he shares invaluable insights into the interplay between entrepreneurship, funding, and public policy.Tune in to discover how Rich leveraged angel investments to grow his ventures and the pivotal role these investments play in fostering innovation. This episode is a must-listen for anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, offering profound lessons on resilience, smart investing, and making a meaningful impact. To get the latest from Rich Palmer, you can follow him below!LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therichpalmer/ Sign up for Marcia's newsletter to receive tips and the latest on Angel Investing!Website: www.marciadawood.comLearn more about the documentary Show Her the Money: www.showherthemoneymovie.comAnd don't forget to follow us wherever you are!Apple Podcasts: https://pod.link/1586445642.appleSpotify: https://pod.link/1586445642.spotifyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-next-door-podcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marciadawood

Dr. David Stein, CEO and Director of Babson Diagnostics, a healthcare technology company that focuses on putting the patient at the center of the blood testing experience, recognizing the importance of blood testing in informing clinical decisions and monitoring health. They aim to redefine blood testing by eliminating the anxiety and inconvenience associated with traditional blood testing methods by offering a more accessible and convenient approach. Blood samples are collected with an innovative device from the patient's fingertip at retail pharmacy locations, and patients use a digital app and QR code system to order and track tests and receive test results. David explains, "Babson Diagnostics is a science-first healthcare technology company that has reimagined the end-to-end blood testing experience. In that experience, the patient and customer are the strong focus. We've all experienced times when we've had a blood test ordered for us, and we've felt anxious. We've tried, as much as we can, to eliminate that, both by the location where we provide the service, which is the retail pharmacy, and also through our approach, where we easily take samples from your finger, wrap it in a digital layer to make it all understandable. In the end, provide a preferred experience that is much more convenient and accessible than what you experience today."   "Probably the more important thing is how can we make it so that you don't have to get venipuncture, so that you don't have to get a needle in your arm, because for a significant part of our population, having a sharp object inserted in your body, is not something most of us like. So, in reality, between vasovagal issues and difficult veins, people are looking for a true alternative."  "People are also looking for accessibility and convenience. What we have innovated is in both aspects. One is to allow you to do broad, clinical-grade testing with a sample that's easily collected from your fingertip while also being able to get that collection done in locations near your home, such as your local supermarket or your local pharmacy. We've tried to innovate in two aspects, which is what everybody wants -- accessibility and convenience. We see that in every part of our economy and have changed the way that blood is collected so that you don't have the anxiety of a needle going in your arm." #BabsonDiagnostics #BloodTesting #Pharmacies #BetterWay #MedicalDevice #MedTech BabsonDX.com Download the transcript here

Dr. David Stein, CEO and Director of Babson Diagnostics, a healthcare technology company that focuses on putting the patient at the center of the blood testing experience, recognizing the importance of blood testing in informing clinical decisions and monitoring health. They aim to redefine blood testing by eliminating the anxiety and inconvenience associated with traditional blood testing methods by offering a more accessible and convenient approach. Blood samples are collected with an innovative device from the patient's fingertip at retail pharmacy locations, and patients use a digital app and QR code system to order and track tests, and receive test results. David explains, "Babson Diagnostics is a science-first healthcare technology company that has reimagined the end-to-end blood testing experience. In that experience, the patient and customer are the strong focus. We've all experienced times when we've had a blood test ordered for us, and we've felt anxious. We've tried, as much as we can, to eliminate that, both by the location where we provide the service, which is the retail pharmacy, and also through our approach, where we easily take samples from your finger, wrap it in a digital layer to make it all understandable. In the end, provide a preferred experience that is much more convenient and accessible than what you experience today."   "Probably the more important thing is how can we make it so that you don't have to get venipuncture, so that you don't have to get a needle in your arm, because for a significant part of our population, having a sharp object inserted in your body, is not something most of us like. So, in reality, between vasovagal issues and difficult veins, people are looking for a true alternative."  "People are also looking for accessibility and convenience. What we have innovated is in both aspects. One is to allow you to do broad, clinical-grade testing with a sample that's easily collected from your fingertip while also being able to get that collection done in locations near your home, such as your local supermarket or your local pharmacy. We've tried to innovate in two aspects, which is what everybody wants -- accessibility and convenience. We see that in every part of our economy and have changed the way that blood is collected so that you don't have the anxiety of a needle going in your arm." #BabsonDiagnostics #BloodTesting #Pharmacies #BetterWay #MedicalDevice #MedTech BabsonDX.com Listen to the podcast here

In this episode, Daniel and Philipa talk with award-winning author and regenerative leadership expert, Carol Sanford. In this episode, Daniel and Philipa are in conversation with award-winning author and regenerative leadership expert, Carol Sanford. Carol draws on her experience working with business leaders to explain the importance of working on change in an indirect way. Carol Sanford is a consistently recognized disruptor and contrarian working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, best selling multi-award-winning books, and human development work, Carol works with executive leaders who see the possibility to change the nature of work through developing people and work systems that ignite motivation everywhere. For four decades, Carol has worked with great leaders of successful businesses such as Google, DuPont, Intel, P&G, and Seventh Generation, educating them to develop their people and ensure a continuous stream of innovation that continually deliver extraordinary results. Carol is a founder and designer of The Regenerative Business Development Community with lifetime members of almost 500 members, meeting in locations around the world and now online with leaders from multiple companies learning together in bi-quarterly events as well as an Annual Regenerative Business Summit. Her best-selling books have won over 15 awards so far and are required reading at leading business and management schools including Harvard, Stanford, Haas Berkeley and MIT. Carol also partners with producing Executive Education through Babson College, and The Lewis Institute at Babson.Explore links and resources, and find out more at  https://www.thersa.org/oceania/regeneration-rising-podcast  Join the Re-generation: https://www.thersa.org/regenerative-futuresReduced Fellowship offer: In celebration of the launch of Regeneration Rising, we're offering a special promotion for listeners to join our global community of RSA Fellows. Our Fellowship is a network of over 31,000 innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to finding better ways of thinking, acting, and delivering change. To receive a 25% discount off your first year of membership and waived registration fee, visit thersa.org and use the discount code RSAPOD on your application form. Note, cannot be used in conjunction with other discount offers, such as Youth Fellowship. For more information  email fellowship@rsa.org.uk. 

Perhaps there's no one better to lead the academic institution ranked No. 1 in entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report than a serial entrepreneur who developed a small Utah business into a national franchise brand.On this episode of the PNC C-Speak podcast, Stephen Spinelli, Ph.D., details “the intersection between business” and Babson College, where he is president. Spinelli's entrepreneurial journey began right out of college when he and several partners crafted a plan to buy a quick-service oil change business they eventually rebranded as Jiffy Lube International. After a slow start, Spinelli thought, “Boy, I'm either not good enough or I'm not educated enough. And so I made the decision. If I wasn't educated enough, I could try to get some (entrepreneurial) education.” That led him to Babson, where he earned an MBA and, later, a doctorate in economics from the University of London.Spinelli was named Babson's 14th president in 2019. “I think the education system, and in particular, the colleges and universities (in Massachusetts) are an exceptional network of intellectual, human, sociological, spiritual capital that is rare in the history of the world,” Spinelli says.Listen to the episode to hear more from Spinelli on:His first job as a health care administrator. (2:08)“Hard lessons” learned about failure. (13:42)One thing people don't know about him. (22:00)His wish for Boston. (24:32)Powered by PNC Bank.Download a transcript of the podcast.

Guy Kawasaki, a renowned entrepreneur, author, and tech evangelist. From his influential role at Apple in the 1980s, where he played a key part in the success of the Macintosh, to his ventures in entrepreneurship and venture capital, Kawasaki's journey has been marked by innovation and business acumen. As a prolific author, his books like "The Art of the Start" and "Enchantment" continue to inspire aspiring entrepreneurs. Join us as we delve into Kawasaki's diverse contributions to the tech industry, his insights on marketing, and his engaging presence as a speaker and educator.SHOW SUMMARYIn this episode of Selling From The Heart, Larry Levine and Darrell Amy have an engaging conversation with Guy Kawasaki, the Chief Evangelist of Canva and author of the book "Think Remarkable: Nine Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference." They discuss the concept of selling from the heart and the importance of being others-focused in sales. Guy shares insights on vulnerability, the power of disciplined habits, and the significance of making a difference. He also highlights the value of connecting with others and the importance of seeing operational realities in person. This episode is filled with practical advice and inspiring stories that will motivate listeners to be remarkable in their personal and professional lives.KEY TAKEAWAYSSelling from the heart means having the other person's best interests at heart, not just your own.Vulnerability is a sign of wisdom and strength, not weakness.Disciplined habits are crucial for success in sales and life.Connecting with others and walking in their shoes can lead to valuable insights and stronger relationships.Success obliges individuals to help others and make a positive impact.QUOTES"If you're successful, you have an obligation to hold that door open, make that door bigger, make the tide rise, float all the boats.""If you want to be a great salesperson or evangelist, sell something great. Do not affiliate yourself with mediocrity."Learn more about Guy Kawasaki: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guykawasaki/Learn more about Darrell and Larry: Darrell's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellamy/Larry's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrylevine1992/Website: https://www.sellingfromtheheart.net/Got a video about how you sell from the heart? Share it by texting VIDEO to 21000.Please visit https://www.sellingfromtheheart.net/ book to pre order your copy of the rerelease of the Selling from the Heart book. SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://www.youtube.com/@UCi6OCvGpgQjg8YXg0Hst4NAPlease visit WHY INSTITUTE:https://whyinstitute.com/Please go to WORK BETTER NOW:https://www.workbetternow.com/Click for your Daily Dose of Inspiration:https://www.sellingfromtheheart.net/dailyGet your Insiders Group FREE PASS here:https://www.sellingfromtheheart.net/free-pass

Today on the Fusionary Health Podcast, we're diving deep into the story behind why I embarked on this health journey, with a very special guest—my little sister. Our conversation sheds light on the origins of my passion for health and wellness, rooted deeply in our family's history and my personal health challenges. My journey into health was sparked by my own struggles with sickness and the desire to overcome them. I've experienced everything from molloscum contagiosum to constant motion sickness, leading me to adopt a full-time approach to health. This pursuit was encapsulated by the philosophy "Your Mess is your Message," leading to the establishment of my company focused on inflammation reduction and tailored health strategies. Our family's history with diabetes, deeply influenced by our Indian diet, has been a significant part of my health journey. I've worked diligently to reverse these conditions, not just for myself but for my family, especially our mom who has faced her own health battles. These experiences drove me to explore extreme detox methods, both for myself and my family, as we sought to regain control over our health. The foundation of my sister's educational and professional journey was laid at Rice University and UPenn, where she pursued a Master's in Educational Entrepreneurship. My sister, Neha Gupta, founder of CollegeShortcuts.com, and I inherited our thirst for knowledge and innovation from our parents, who embarked on their own entrepreneurial journey from India to the United States. Their success in establishing a thriving electronics business from humble beginnings instilled in us the values of hard work, perseverance, and the pursuit of excellence. embarked on entrepreneurial ventures, starting with my engagement in social entrepreneurship at Babson. This experience, coupled with an inspiring internship at Canyon Ranch alongside Dr. Mark Hyman, catalyzed my ambition to create a health-centered company. Our collaborative venture together, Sama Baby Organics, embodied our commitment to ethical practices and quality, reflecting my detail-oriented nature and Neha's pragmatic approach to getting things done. We dive into why I'm the best person to formulate a product that you ingest. Now, as a PhD focused on the science of turmeric and the founder of Fusionary Formulas, I've settled into my dharma. I'm dedicated to creating profound health shifts through Ayurveda, sharing my knowledge at medical conferences, and helping individuals achieve vibrant health through lifestyle shifts. My commitment to walking my talk and pushing the boundaries of health is unwavering, driven by the belief that good health is priceless and must be actively worked for. In this episode, we illuminate the deep-rooted reasons behind my health-focused endeavors, from my family's entrepreneurial spirit to my personal health challenges and the transformative power of Ayurveda. Join us as we explore these stories, highlighting the importance of consistency, routines, and the holistic alignment of body, mind, and spirit in building vibrant health. #FusionaryHealthJourney #HolisticWellnessTransformations #AyurvedaForVibrantLiving #EntrepreneurialSpiritHealth #InflammationReductionStrategies #OvercomingHealthChallenges #FamilyLegacyOfWellness #DetoxAndRevitalize #HealthInnovationThroughAyurveda #PersonalJourneyToWellness

A 1990 graduate of Princeton University, Matt Noone is in his 22nd season as head coach of Babson's baseball program. In 21 seasons, Noone has won more than 400 games and made seven postseason appearances, which includes leading the Beavers' first trip to the Division III College World Series in 2019. 

En este episodio Pablo nos comparte su actual crisis emocional y la diferencia con otras crisis que ha tenido en el pasado. ¿Quién puede sostenerse solo con sus narrativas? ¿Quién puede sostenerse si no es con la fuerza de sus contemporáneos y también de los que ya no están aquí? Platicamos sobre los múltiples yoes que co-existen todo el tiempo dentro de nosotros, formando algún tipo de esquizofrenia en la que también puede haber armonía, y luz y mucho goce. También hablamos del tema de la fama y la visibilidad pública y los retos de vivir a través de los que otros opinan de nosotros, cuando tal vez, la opinión de uno mismo sobre uno mismo es la que dejamos siempre al final. Hablamos del dinero, la seguridad y la forma de consciencia a la que podemos aspirar, no al tratar, sino al creernos que ya somos todo eso que queremos ser.Pablo Sánchez es economista y tiene un MBA de la Universidad de Babson. Es Director general de un Family Office y es Co-fundador de dos fondos de inversión. Es conocido cómo "el Psicólogo del Dinero" y es asesor y coach financiero de familias, parejas y personas que buscan el desarrollo personal a través de su relación con el dinero.

Luke Cooper is the General Partner and Founder of Latimer Ventures. A JD/MBA from Syracuse and Babson, he is a multi-exited founder and M&A specialist. Early in his career he achieved more than a quarter of a billion dollars of transactions as a corporate attorney at DLA Piper and in-house counsel with State Farm. He went on to build 2 VC backed enterprise software companies, exiting both for 8 figure all cash deals to Fortune 300 buyers, the most recent one occurring in late 2020. Mr. Cooper is a product of abject poverty growing up in Bridgeport Connecticut with a father in prison. He knows firsthand the importance of wealth creation and how to achieve it for the diverse unicorns he interacts with daily. One of Mr. Coopers core values can be summed up in the Latin phrase... Esse Quam Videri... which means ‘to be, rather than to seem”

Hi I'm Scot Cooper and this is the 100th episode of the Tales From the Trail podcast by MatchPlay. In this episode, Justin Chezem of Christopher Newport University Men's Soccer and I welcome Craig Appleby. Craig is the head coach of men's soccer at Johns Hopkins University. Coach Appleby has been highly successful at a prestigious university and recruiting the right type of student-athlete is the lifeline to that accomplishment. This is a great conversation with two leaders of perennial tournament teams who recruit and compete at the highest level. SummaryThe conversation covers various topics including missing a convention, getting into high academic schools, financial aid and affordability, recruiting camps and events, the timeline for admissions and decision-making, and a thrilling game against Babson. The discussion also touches on the stress and academic rigor that student-athletes face. The conversation covers various topics related to soccer gameplay, strategy, outlook for the next season, spring training, coaching relationships, recruiting, and transfers.TakeawaysConsider the location, content, and commitments when deciding which conventions to attend.Getting into high academic schools requires maximizing test scores, taking rigorous classes, and maintaining high grades.Financial aid and affordability play a significant role in the college decision-making process.Attending recruiting camps and events can provide valuable opportunities for student-athletes.Understanding the timeline for admissions and decision-making is crucial for prospective college athletes.Student-athletes at high academic schools face unique challenges and must manage their time effectively.Thrilling games and comebacks can create unforgettable moments in college sports.Student-athletes must navigate the stress and academic rigor of high academic institutions. Gameplay and strategy play a crucial role in the success of a soccer team.Spring training provides an opportunity for tactical development and introducing new concepts.Coaches often have friendly relationships and collaborate on recruiting players.Transfers can be challenging due to admission requirements and limited availability.Chapters00:00 Introduction and Convention03:00 Missing the Convention06:00 The Comedy Store in LA09:00 Getting into High Academic Schools16:00 Financial Aid and Affordability21:00 Recruiting Camps and Events26:00 Timeline for Admissions and Decision-Making36:00 The Exciting Game Against Babson45:00 Dealing with Stress and Academic Rigor46:05 Gameplay and Strategy47:49 Outlook for Next Season49:30 Spring Training and Tactical Development51:59 Coaching Relationships and Recruiting53:14 Transfers and Admissions55:45 Closing Remarks

Today, we're going to preview the college baseball season with former Northeastern University and Cape League pitcher Jordy Allard. Allard's career accomplishments include: Former Gatorade Vermont HS Player of the Year Started college career at SNHU  Transferred to Babson, where he earned 2021 New England Pitcher of the Year Transferred to Northeastern, where he posted a 2.16 ERA over 50 innings in 2022. Earned Cape League's Top New England Prospect Award in 2022 with Hyannis Harbor Hawks Finished career last spring in an injury-plagued final season at Northeastern

What is populism, anyway? There's a lot of talk about populists and the concept of populism in today's political discourse but little talk about what the roots are and what it actually means. Author and labor educator Steve Babson joined me in the studio to discuss his book, "Forgotten Populists: When farmers turned left to save democracy." This conversation hits a number of points: 03:29 - Populism as an alternative to capitalism 05:40 - One of the most notable populists was legendary Detroit mayor Hazen Pingree, who was both an entrepreneur and a one-time factory worker. His policies revolutionized the city and set it on a path for its golden age. 09:03 - We discuss how different American elections were, as there was no secret ballot. 11:03 - Changing rules 13:19 - The legacy of populism 14:19 - The Works Progress Administration, the New Deal, and examples locally like Keyworth Stadium that were built using populist policies 16:43 - A historical comparison of populism 18:11 - How is the modern UAW different than the past, and the populist threads in that? 19:47 - Why author Steve Babson wrote this book Feedback as always - dailydetroit - at - gmail - dot - com or 313-789-3211 Follow us on Apple Podcasts: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonapple  Or Spotify: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonspotify  Thanks to our members: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  Or those who do a one-time contribution: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/dailydetroit  

Hard-pressed farmers launched the original Populist movement, calling for a widening democracy to counter corporate monopoly and profiteering. Their resentment of the rich grew as the economy alternated between rapid growth and economic depression, producing both millionaires and destitute families. The Populist challenge to unbridled capitalism would finally force Republicans and especially Democrats to recognize the growing support for progressive change within their ranks. Fast-forward to modern times. Today's pundits would have us believe that “populists” of the left—no less so than the right—are uniquely drawn to authoritarian politics. According to Babson,” The historical Populists are forgotten today as commentators tell us that Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, is somehow also a ‘populist.'"It is because of the political climate of recent times that Babson began to explore how it was possible that politicians of completely different mindsets could somehow be connected to the idea of “populism.” From that exploration came his decision to write Forgotten Populists. “In 2016 I began to wonder how it was possible to describe two men as different as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as somehow sharing a link to ‘populism,'” Babson recalls, “one on the left, the other on the right. The more I read and the deeper I probed, the more absurd this claim turned out to be. The original Populists of the 1890s would have detested the likes of Trump, a right-wing billionaire from New York City. “‘Right-wing populism' is an oxymoron,” says Babson. “The very term ‘populist' was originated by groups that favored economic cooperatives, public ownership of railroads and utilities, low- cost federal loans for struggling farmers, postal savings banks, and an end to the gold standard. Charlatans who want to manipulate the voting public are demagogues, not Populists, and I wanted to write a history that makes that clear.” Author Steve Babson, Ph.D visits with Mark Alyn.

Hard-pressed farmers launched the original Populist movement, calling for a widening democracy to counter corporate monopoly and profiteering. Their resentment of the rich grew as the economy alternated between rapid growth and economic depression, producing both millionaires and destitute families. The Populist challenge to unbridled capitalism would finally force Republicans and especially Democrats to recognize the growing support for progressive change within their ranks. Fast-forward to modern times. Today's pundits would have us believe that “populists” of the left—no less so than the right—are uniquely drawn to authoritarian politics. According to Babson,” The historical Populists are forgotten today as commentators tell us that Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, is somehow also a ‘populist.'"It is because of the political climate of recent times that Babson began to explore how it was possible that politicians of completely different mindsets could somehow be connected to the idea of “populism.” From that exploration came his decision to write Forgotten Populists. “In 2016 I began to wonder how it was possible to describe two men as different as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as somehow sharing a link to ‘populism,'” Babson recalls, “one on the left, the other on the right. The more I read and the deeper I probed, the more absurd this claim turned out to be. The original Populists of the 1890s would have detested the likes of Trump, a right-wing billionaire from New York City. “‘Right-wing populism' is an oxymoron,” says Babson. “The very term ‘populist' was originated by groups that favored economic cooperatives, public ownership of railroads and utilities, low- cost federal loans for struggling farmers, postal savings banks, and an end to the gold standard. Charlatans who want to manipulate the voting public are demagogues, not Populists, and I wanted to write a history that makes that clear.” Author Steve Babson, Ph.D visits with Mark Alyn.

We open the new year with exciting advances in blood testing technology for consumers. Austin Inno Editor Brent Wistrom explores the BetterWay blood testing technology and delivery with Founder Eric Olson. The Austin-based healthcare tech company plans to roll out BetterWay in Austin and San Antonio, then statewide, and beyond.

LINKS:Sponsor: Early Impact VirginiaLearn more about Jackleg MediaThis week, Michael is joined by Steve Babson, a labor educator and author of Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy. The book explores a forgotten chapter of history--the 1890s, before the era of Jim Crowe, when Black and white farmers allied under the mantle of "populists"--fighting to expand democracy and resist the robber barons of the era.

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on David Stein, chief executive of Babson Diagnostics, to talk about the importance of blood testing (4:49), why Babson is not Theranos (6:47), trying to compete with that idea (9:26), why they succeeded where Theranos failed (14:34), using a tiny amount of blood (18:23), fighting against the Theranos effect (24:37), being owned by a company they aim to disrupt (26:28), liquid biopsies (28:02), the new age of biological data (32:23), regulatory approval (37:09), and avoiding the spotlight (39:03). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carrick Pell, coach of the Babson Beavers, joins Cam and Otis to talk about winning the 2023 national championship, developing leaders, and following your passion.  What kind of insights does serving in two different military branches give you?  How can you continue to challenge yourself to be better?  How do you define success?  Carrick, Cam, and Otis dive into all this and much more in this great episode.Thank you to our sponsors Evergood Adventure Wines and Tribe and Purpose!!- Order your lemon wine at  https://www.evergoodadventurewines.com/buy-online/              DISCOUNT CODE “CAM-OTIS” for 20% off your order!!- Learn how The Green Beret Leadership Program can help your business:  https://findyourpurpose.coach/GBLP/ More About Carrick:Head Men's Rugby Coach at Babson in 11th year found his way to this point by way of a very eclectic path. Growing up the son of a hard-nosed (BUT Fair) father and charismatic mother who were staples in the '70s-80s if big-tie College football served to be the foundation for developing a drive for success throughout life. Running 1st triathlon at 13, D1aa Honorable Mention Cornerback as a Freshman, Recon Marine, Team USA Duathlete, an attempt at the 1996 Olympics in cycling, USAF Meteorologist, and a passionate rugby player since 1996, Carrick has never shied from big challenges. His time at Babson began just as his competitive rugby days were ending and at the beginning of his “New Life.” A lifelong battle with undiagnosed ADD (resulting in bouts with depression) added difficulty to the one challenge he could not overcome – finding his purpose in life. After a, welcomed and friendly, intervention by an employer, extensive work with the VA, and commitment to learn to manage ADD, his career path of Personal Training took off at the same time as his coaching adventure and this story begins…Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babsonrugby/Website: https://www.beaverrugby.com/

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a conversation I had with Babson student, Jose Rodriguez. We discuss the challenges of building a sustainable business, the power of grassroots marketing, and the importance of embracing hard work. Jose and I dive deep into the realities of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the need for a long-term vision and the potential of platforms like TikTok to empower individuals. We also touch upon the idea of taking control of one's destiny and not conforming to external expectations. This episode is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs, social media enthusiasts, and anyone looking to gain insights into the world of business and branding.

The interest in anti-gravity by two private investors, Roger Babson and Agnew Banhson, changed the course of general relativity.  Sponsor: Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early ad-free audio podcasts) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch THANK YOU: Thank you to David Kaiser, Eric Weinstein, Jeremy Rys, David Chester, and Jesse Michels for helping bring this to my attention. LINKS MENTIONED: - The Price of Gravity (Kaiser, Rickles): https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/HSNS4803_03_Kaiser.pdf - Chapel Hill Conference's Report (The Role of Gravitation in Physics): https://edition-open-sources.org/media/sources/5/Sources5.pdf - Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference: https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/154-2-Rickles.pdf - Gell-Mann's Shelter Island Notes: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/files/Gell-Mann_ShelterIslandII_1983.pdf - Louis Witten's Recollections (video): https://youtu.be/iH8btReqv4c?t=6448 - Louis Witten speaks to Rickles: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/36985 - Physical Interpretation of Antigravity by Bars: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05128.pdf - Garry Nolan's podcast on TOE: https://youtu.be/g3bk1UXjKLI TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Roger Babson & Agnew Banhson 00:07:09 - Gravity Research Foundation's "Essay Contest" 00:12:22 - Anti-gravity and Amendments to General Relativity 00:16:43 - Operation Moonwatch and UFOs 00:18:36 - Ed Witten's father (Louis) and Burkhard Heim 00:25:43 - Summary 00:26:32 - Chapel Hill Conference 00:27:58 - Revival of General Relativity (Hawking & Penrose) 00:30:44 - String Theory and the Legacy of Babson & Banhson 00:33:01 - Dean Rickles, David Kaiser, and Other Documentaries CLARIFICATIONS: - Technically it was George S. Trimble who started the RIAS. Witten's supervisor was someone named Welcome Bender. I had this in the original script but it was becoming extortionately bloated with various names, and since Trimble was the CEO of Glenn Martin, I decided to phrase it the way I did in the script. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caleb Wursten is an entrepreneurial prodigy who paid for college at Babson with a bike rental business. He's now building a platform to provide digital nomads with fractional ownership of properties in desirable locations. International business executive Jon Aboitiz joined as co-host. Highlights: ·       Sal Daher Introduces Co-Host Jon Aboitiz and Caleb Wursten, Founder of Worldhaus.co ·       “The pandemic unlocked this digital nomad lifestyle for millions of people.” ·       Getting Expensive to Be a Digital Nomad as Airbnb Prices Go Up ·       Fractional Ownership vs. Timeshares ·       Owning 1/13 of Properties in Desirable Locations via an LLC ·       “You're addressing a key factor, it seems, which is the cost of living and how to make it even more affordable...” ·       “The first property is a $220,000 condo in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.” ·       Can Choose Between Occupancy or Renting for Income ·       Comparison to Fractional Ownership of Yachts ·       Developers Are Responding to Demand from Digital Nomads with Attractive Designs ·       How Cobu Intersects with Worldhaus ·       “...we wanted it to be simple and scalable, so we can also expand to Portugal and Colombia, Thailand easily...” ·       Examples of Exciting New Communities: Culdesac and Las Catalinas ·       Property Developers Can Be Remarkably Inventive ·       “They don't need to put up with the $3,000 rent for an isolating experience in a hundred-year-old house.” ·       “It's not so much that Gen Z doesn't want home ownership, it's that no one can afford home ownership...” ·       “I was super lucky in that both my parents are small business entrepreneurs...” ·       Caleb Wursten's Bike Rental Business Paid for Babson ·       “Then in that time I got a couple rental properties, which is also a common theme with digital nomads...” ·       Real Estate Developers Are Already Designing Projects for Digital Nomads ·       “For, let's say $4,000, you can now own a season, an entire season in Bulgaria.” ·       Jon Aboitiz's Parting Thoughts Topics: discovering entrepreneurship, founding story, platform Title: Worldhaus.co