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The debt limit is the big economic news story of the day, but yes, you *still need to keep an eye on inflation. The personal consumption expenditures price index, a measure of consumer spending, ticked up last month. That’s bad news if you were hoping interest rates, the tool the Federal Reserve uses to fight inflation, might come down soon. And, some musing on the nature of consequences: Three members of the far-right militia known as the Oath Keepers were recently sentenced to prison for their part in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Sedition Sentence for Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes Marks Moment of Accountability” from The New York Times “Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6” from CNN Politics “US Inflation (PCE), Consumer Spending Pick Up in Sign of Economic Resilience” from Bloomberg “The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge just heated up — and that could mean another rate hike” from CNN “Atlanta Fed CEO on the debt limit debacle and curbing inflation” from Marketplace “Band-Aid is the most trusted brand in the US, beating out Amazon and Visa” from Business Insider “Netflix's password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month” from The Verge “The Restaurant QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door” from The New York Times “The steel sector is carbon-intensive. “Green steel” could be a game changer.” from Marketplace “Admit it — you miss socializing at the office” from Marketplace It’s the last day of our May fundraiser. Help us reach our goal and keep our newsroom running. Give now. Join us in Seattle for a special live taping of “Make Me Smart” on June 9. You can find ticket information here.

The debt limit is the big economic news story of the day, but yes, you *still need to keep an eye on inflation. The personal consumption expenditures price index, a measure of consumer spending, ticked up last month. That’s bad news if you were hoping interest rates, the tool the Federal Reserve uses to fight inflation, might come down soon. And, some musing on the nature of consequences: Three members of the far-right militia known as the Oath Keepers were recently sentenced to prison for their part in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Sedition Sentence for Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes Marks Moment of Accountability” from The New York Times “Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6” from CNN Politics “US Inflation (PCE), Consumer Spending Pick Up in Sign of Economic Resilience” from Bloomberg “The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge just heated up — and that could mean another rate hike” from CNN “Atlanta Fed CEO on the debt limit debacle and curbing inflation” from Marketplace “Band-Aid is the most trusted brand in the US, beating out Amazon and Visa” from Business Insider “Netflix's password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month” from The Verge “The Restaurant QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door” from The New York Times “The steel sector is carbon-intensive. “Green steel” could be a game changer.” from Marketplace “Admit it — you miss socializing at the office” from Marketplace It’s the last day of our May fundraiser. Help us reach our goal and keep our newsroom running. Give now. Join us in Seattle for a special live taping of “Make Me Smart” on June 9. You can find ticket information here.

Do you immediately jump to shame when people make negative comments about you, your relationships or your family? Well guess what? Shame is an optional emotion and we can choose to think something else when moments of shame arise in our lives. In today's episode, I talk about how to get out of using shame as a bandaid for your life and relationships. By reframing our thoughts and focusing on more positive or constructive perspectives, we can minimize the impact of shame and prevent it from controlling our actions and decisions. If you are ready to lose weight and change the way you think, sign up for the lifetime access membership for Love Yourself Thin! Doors are open and the next round starts on April 10th! You can find all the information by clicking here. Jody Moore: Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain. Get the full show notes and information here: https://daratomasson.com/95 Download the worksheet HERE!

The pandemic-era rule that served two presidents as a border policy Band-Aid is expiring as Congress is up against another ticking clock with the debt limit impasse threatening the national and global economies. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is an influential voice in the House Freedom Caucus and the debt debate. He joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest on the negotiations. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Nick teams up with Dan Fienberg, the cool TV critic from The Hollywood Reporter and The Fien Print. They dive into the Writers Guild strike, chatting about how it's gonna shake up TV on all levels. They also gab about HBO's fresh new series on Watergate, "The White House Plumbers," starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, and the out-of-this-world sci-fi series "Silo" with Rebecca Ferguson on Apple TV+. Later, Esmeralda Leon and Nick tackle a Megaphone Message about bats going suburban, jam to some listener voicemails (Cesar Romero even makes an appearance), and reveal the surprisingly twisted lyrics in tunes from The Turtles, The Bee Gees, and Band-Aid. And, of course, don't miss out on Nick's Dad cracking a joke! [EP139]

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Forget bandaids! What if we could heal… from the inside OUT?

Noelle Acosta is Founder and CEO of Noula Health, a data-driven platform that uses personalized hormonal health data to deliver tailored care. Victoria talks to Noelle about helping patients with uteruses to better understand their bodies by providing them with hormonal health data that's unique to them and providing them with individualized care they deserve at their fingertips through a virtual app. Noula (https://noula.com/) Follow Noula on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/noula-health/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/noulahealth). Follow Noelle Acosta on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelle-acosta/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/noelleacoss). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: VICTORIA: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Victoria Guido. And with me today is Noelle Acosta, Founder and CEO of Noula Health, a data-driven platform that uses personalized hormonal health data to deliver tailored care. Noelle, thank you for joining me. NOELLE: Thank you so much for having me, Victoria. It's a pleasure to be here. VICTORIA: Wonderful. I'm excited to learn more about your product today that you're building. Can you just tell me a little bit more about it? NOELLE: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I feel like, [chuckles] one, you could work here. You did a phenomenal job of sharing what Noula is. But here at Noula, we are a virtual care platform that really empowers women and patients with uteruses to better understand their bodies by providing them with hormonal health data that's unique to them. Based on that information, we're able to provide them with the individualized, tailored care that they deserve at their fingertips through a virtual app. VICTORIA: Wonderful. And I'm wondering what led you to think I need to make this company. What happened in your life where you decided this needs to exist in the world? NOELLE: Really it stems from my own personal brush with an undiagnosed chronic condition where I truly was the one in five women who felt dismissed, denied, and ignored in the traditional healthcare settings. And that is really something that's actually unified us all as a team here at Noula. We have the shared frustration in terms of the gaps that we experienced overall; not one, two of our health journeys looked alike. And so during this time, I found myself really just kind of banging my head against a wall where I had these ongoing symptoms that disrupted every aspect of my life, not just my physical health, but it became really very much an emotional roller coaster as well. Because despite having access to care and wonderful employer-sponsored health insurance, I was finding that my doctors were essentially brushing me off, attributing it to stress. And it really led to me kind of just having this inner monologue and questioning myself as, like, is this in my head? Maybe it is stress-related. This doesn't feel normal. Should this be normal? And so I, just like 70% of millennials, turned to Google as my medical companion. I lost trust in healthcare settings and just turned to do research around what could be possibly causing the symptoms in my overall health. And I just refused to believe that this was my sense of normalcy. And through my own research, I started finding things like my ethnicity and my environment could have an impact in the symptoms that I was experiencing. I was dealing with chronic pelvic pain, irregular periods to the point where I was actually menstruating for seven months straight. I had horrible migraines. And so I just really turned to these medical journals to try to figure out and uncover what my body was telling me. And so, based on that research, I finally went back to the doctor demanding an ultrasound, where they ended up finding over 40 abnormal follicles and cysts on my ovaries. And even at that point, my treatment plan was a Band-Aid fix. And so, ultimately, I really felt like the system fundamentally failed me. This Band-Aid fix was essentially, hey, we'll put back your former birth control method and call us when you're ready to have a baby, and we'll figure it out then. And so, to this day, I actually haven't received any additional care, guidance from any clinician despite being in and out of the doctor's office with the symptoms. And so I ended up being diagnosed with a condition called PCOS. Again, from my own research, I learned that Mexican women with PCOS, so yours truly, we have the most severe phenotype that puts us at the highest risk for other complications that are beyond just reproductive health. It increases my risk for diabetes. It increases my risk for hypertension. And these are ultimately very costly to my health. And I was just frustrated. I thought, why am I learning about this through my own research versus the doctor's office, where it really felt like a one size fits all approach to care? And so, based on my experience, I started talking to more and more women. And I found that I wasn't alone with this shared frustration. We see that 80% of people who menstruate suffer from hormonal imbalances. And more often than not, women are juggling with more than two chronic conditions at a time. And so it's truly something that I felt as a patient that we were missing to feel empowered in our health and actually feel seen and heard. And then, when I actually spoke to clinicians as well, they felt that they weren't set up to care for their patients in the way that they wanted to care for them. VICTORIA: And I'm wondering how those women and the people you talked to started to inform the roadmap for the product that you were going to build. NOELLE: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, truly, the voice of those members, and these patients are the center of our lighthouse in terms of how we shape our product roadmap ahead. And so, ultimately, it really came down to us initially doing customer discovery. So I was really surprised to see how many people were willing to talk about their experiences navigating their health as a woman or a person with a uterus. And that was really telling in itself because I've heard from folks where they had to pay others with gift cards to have this conversation about how they might navigate certain workflows as it might relate to the products they're building. But naturally, these folks wanted to talk about their experiences. So we kind of tackled this in a couple of parts, one, I was going out into my own network, reaching out to friends of friends, posting in Nextdoor Facebook groups, really asking for 15 minutes of people's times to learn about their experience. And within two weeks, I had almost 100 customer discovery calls booked where these women were wanting to talk about their frustration and what they wished they had in terms of the care that they wanted. And so that was point A, like, okay, I think we're onto something. Our gaps in our experiences are shared across the board. And this is the pain that not only I experienced, or the Noula team has experienced, but that hundreds of women have experienced. The other piece, too, is, believe it or not, you know, we're constantly doing customer discovery as an early-stage company. But when we launched our beta, we launched with an initial hypothesis. But we saw that what our members were coming in for more aligns with their hormone health than what we initially thought, where we thought majority of folks would be coming to us at a family building stage. And then even [laughs] truly through social media, our TikTok channel alone when we lead with these persona stories it helps drive this just natural virality to it. And daily, we have folks reaching out to us asking if what they're experiencing is normal or what they should do. And so they're coming to us because we really fill this very prevalent gap in care today. VICTORIA: It must be really reassuring on a personal level and also on a business level that you found a problem that you can really help and make a difference with. NOELLE: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's frustrating that we are all bonded and unified by this experience. But ultimately, we'll continue to use the voice of our members as our guiding light to shape our roadmap ahead. And actually, that's what you see today with Noula. We took the learnings from the beta. We took the conversations that we've had with so many members and just women and folks outside of Noula to really shape what you see today. VICTORIA: That's wonderful. And you already mentioned one surprise that you found in your customer discovery process. I wonder if you could even tell me a little bit more about any hypothesis you had that you found from research; the outcome was quite different, and that changed your business strategy. NOELLE: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So we have always seen ourselves as truly being this co-piloted partner for women in their healthcare journeys for life. But when initially launching our beta, we thought our niche today is going to be folks navigating family planning, so people who are looking to start a family in the near future, actively trying to conceive, pregnant, or recently postpartum. So we built a beta around that. And it was very low-code. This is before I had any technical talent [chuckles] on our team and essentially no money. And so, we built this low-code/no-code beta and launched it. We brought on about 100 folks to this closed beta. And with that, we built the product with that hypothesis in mind that we're going to be targeting specific stages. But what ultimately happened is as we were onboarding the 100 users, we found over...with each onboarded user, we started to see the scale tip where all of a sudden, 80% of those users very much had a story that mirrored my own experience with health. They were coming to us because they suspected that they had a hormonal imbalance or these unexplained symptoms that they didn't know what was causing them. Several of them had been diagnosed with conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, or fibroids. Many of them were dealing with unexplained period pain and irregular menstruation. And so we started to scratch our heads to be like, oh, wow. Okay, so these folks are actually coming to us for a different reason than we had [chuckles] initially anticipated. They're using the product differently. And also, they are far more engaged than our initial hypothesized users, which were pregnant people. And so while we have been able to really create a product that is able to adapt with these users over time, we found that that messaging and creation of a safe space for those users was incredibly important, and we wanted to lean into that. VICTORIA: That's really cool. And maybe talk more about creating that safe space in dealing with healthcare data. Were there any special considerations you had to bring into building your tech stack with those really delicate elements? NOELLE: Yeah, yeah. I mean, ultimately, safety and security of their data and honoring that privacy. We will never sell any data whatsoever. And I know that was a concern for many and still is since we've seen in the news this has been happening with other apps and stuff where they're selling user health data to social media sites. So honoring and protecting that privacy, first and foremost. The other piece is we had to also empower our care team to support our members in the best way that they can with the information that they had about their unique health. And so, unfortunately, our members were coming to us at such an emotionally turmoil time in their lives that they wanted answers. They were frustrated. They were saying, "Why is this happening to me?" We had to really ensure that we could be that empathetic ally for them, empower them with information, and really arm them with tools to use inside and outside of the clinic to get the answers that they deserve. VICTORIA: Right, and I see that. So on your site, there's a quiz you can take about your symptoms, and then you can sign up for what's ultimately going to be a home test kit. Is that right? NOELLE: Yes, yes. So users are able to sign up for Noula at no cost to you. So you can start free tracking your symptoms, and these symptom trackers are going to be customized to you. So based on... similar to the quiz that you mentioned, you'll be able to answer questions about what you're experiencing, what your goals are. And Noula will make recommendations of what to track within the app itself. You can then track your symptoms that you select over time and get this customized snapshot to build this true picture of your health. You can then continue to add on to that snapshot of your health through that home hormone test. So you don't necessarily need to purchase the test if you don't want to. But you have the ability to test your hormones to get a clearer picture of your baseline hormonal health. And we're able to really help arm you with that information about your body. And then, from there, beyond just that information from that data set, you have access to empathetic coaching from medical experts. All of our care coaches are registered nurses. So you do have that expert at your fingertips who's there to really steer and guide you every step of the way. And that was something that I actually felt was missing from my own experience when navigating my own symptoms pre-Noula. I found myself running these tests [chuckles] on my own, like ordering tests online trying to figure out what was going on. And just kind of hit this wall where I said to myself, I don't know how to interpret these. I don't know what to do with these. I don't know how to talk to my doctor about this. What do I do? VICTORIA: That's so interesting. And I heard you mentioned empathy a few times and how important that is. Would you say that's one of your core values that you bring into founding a company like this? NOELLE: Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So I actually studied to become a doula. And so some of the pillars that we were trained in were really supporting our clients in these four primary pillars: ensuring that we can support them with physical support, emotional support, informational support, and advocacy. So really, those four pillars together have really steered us to create this foundation of empathetic care. And so that is truly integral to our brand and who we are, how we deliver that care, and also in such an inclusive and culturally competent way. VICTORIA: It sounds really important what you mentioned; building an app requires a lot of trust to be able to give you your data and trust that the results that you're getting are helpful. So I really love that that's a part of your core value that you bring to the organization too. NOELLE: Yeah, I think it was something that was really important to us from the very beginning, especially because we are a BIPOC and queer-co-founded company. It's rare that we see ourselves in the ecosystem, not just as founders [chuckles] but even just in how care is designed for us. So we wanted to ensure that we were creating this space where everyone can see themselves. And it's been so reassuring to hear from members and even just folks who find Noula on their own that they finally feel like they're seen and heard as an individual with Noula. VICTORIA: Well, that might be the answer to my next question, which is what keeps you going, and what's the wind in your sails that keeps you pressing forward with this? NOELLE: [chuckles] It's definitely that I think being able to hear from our members how Noula has helped change their life, even it is just a little bit where they feel more confident, where they feel supported, and they don't feel alone means everything to us. And the other piece is I feel incredibly proud when members have actually tuned in to listen to their bodies. And despite their experience feeling brushed off in the traditional healthcare setting, they really listen to themselves and turn to Noula. And there have been cases where we help support these folks to the point where because of Noula (One member is actually popping up in my head specifically.), they were able to find that they had a hereditary thyroid condition before it worsened because of Noula. And so that in itself was so powerful because their experience in the clinic was very much more like, well, no wonder you're fatigued and no wonder you have brain fog. You have a baby; what do you expect? VICTORIA: Oh, I love that; what a powerful message. And I think that speaks to the power of having systems in place that are designed with those people in mind. NOELLE: 100% yes. Mid-Roll Ad: When starting a new project, we understand that you want to make the right choices in technology, features, and investment but that you don't have all year to do extended research. In just a few weeks, thoughtbot's Discovery Sprints deliver a user-centered product journey, a clickable prototype or Proof of Concept, and key market insights from focused user research. We'll help you to identify the primary user flow, decide which framework should be used to bring it to life, and set a firm estimate on future development efforts. Maximize impact and minimize risk with a validated roadmap for your new product. Get started at: tbot.io/sprint VICTORIA: So what does success look like in the immediate future and in the longer term for Noula? NOELLE: I think today, our success is very much qualitative. I think with health, especially digital health, it's a long game. And so today, we're measuring success by those member stories, by hearing from them that, again, this is a place where they finally feel empowered in their health. They have the tools that they need to unlock the best version of themselves so that they can get the care that they envision on their terms. So really, just through that qualitative piece. Patient satisfaction is another huge factor as well. We supercharge our algorithm based on the identified and pooled hormonal health data so that we can continue providing tailored recommendations that are personalized to each user. So in my example, my Noula experience might say, okay, we know that Noelle is a Latina woman who has PCOS. Other people who might have had similar symptoms to her have found these recommendations or tracking these symptoms to be really helpful for them, and so that's something that I would try. And so really just, again, creating a space where you're not alone is huge. And so that's where we really lean into the qualitative piece. And as we grow, we also incorporate the quantitative success metrics as well. So how are we measuring impact in terms of health outcomes so that we can also just inform the system to deliver better care? Because, I mean, there's just so much unknown about the female body specifically. It wasn't until 1993 that women were even required to be a part of a clinical study. So there's just a lot of gray area that needs to be addressed to deliver better health outcomes overall, especially when health outcomes amongst women in the U.S. is so poor. VICTORIA: And as a woman in the U.S. who has hormones, I 100% get the value and the potential for an app like this. Have you had that same positive reaction from investors or from other people who are looking to join your group? NOELLE: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, the investors who really understand it and get it, unfortunately, do because either they or someone they loved has been impacted by a hormonal imbalance or by being dismissed in the traditional healthcare settings. So similar to how the Noula team and our members have been unified by these experiences, we find that outside as well with investors. What makes me really proud, too, is connecting with clinicians. Like, our Medical Director, Dr. Marieme Mbaye, who is a highly rated physician in New York City, turned away from practicing medicine to join Noula because she even felt like her hands were tied behind her back with the type of care she can deliver. And so it's always incredibly reassuring when we hear from clinicians that this is why care should be designed to really proactively look out for groups of people who are often overlooked, which, sadly, tend to be women and people of color. VICTORIA: Right, almost like it was designed that way in the system. [laughter] NOELLE: Yep. VICTORIA: That's great. I'm glad that other people are seeing that benefit. And what hurdles do you see on the road ahead for where you're going with Noula? NOELLE: As we are bringing on members, the more that we've built this trust with our member base, the more they want from us [laughs] in terms of us truly just being their end-to-end care delivery partner, and we would love to get there. But as a very early-stage company, we have to build things quickly but one thing at a time. So oftentimes, I feel like, okay, we have this huge leap to make to deliver the care that our members are asking for, and so it's a blessing and a curse where they're like, "We love this so much. Can you be my doctor? I don't want to go to another doctor." Or, "Can I get this through you and only you, or do I need to go somewhere else?" VICTORIA: Well, that must be a great feeling to have. But also staying focused, like you mentioned, would be a challenge, and being able to get done within your capabilities. But it's funny because I think there's a huge demand in this market [laughs] that we've had similar kind of demand for other women's health-focused products or people with uteruses too. Clearly, something is broken. [laughs] So you've got a lot of great work you want to get done. Is there anything really already planned in your roadmap that you're super excited about? NOELLE: Yeah. And we'll be rolling out insurance-covered telehealth appointments very soon, so that's one thing that I'm particularly just incredibly excited about because I think it does...how we got to delivering that was through the feedback from our members. And so I think that, in turn, will allow us to take one step closer to truly being that healthcare delivery partner for all members on all those levels. Very, very excited about that because it very much aligns with our mission to deliver accessible and equitable care. VICTORIA: Yeah, that's a huge capability, and especially considering in some areas, there just might not be access to doctors or hospitals that you can go to in person, so... NOELLE: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, only 50% of U.S. counties have access to OBGYNs and with the average appointment length only being 15 minutes. Like, again, physicians have their hands tied behind their backs because that means per OBGYN, they're managing about 3,500 patients, which just isn't feasible or scalable. VICTORIA: Wow. Yeah, that's a lot of patients. [laughs] Well, I want to go back to some folks that you mentioned earlier on your team and just tell me about how it all started coming together with building your team at Noula. NOELLE: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So my co-founder and CTO, her name is Suzie Grange. She is an absolutely wonderful, brilliant engineer. Her and I actually worked together at our previous employer company called Maven Clinic. So at Maven Clinic, I was responsible for helping lead sales and business development through some growth milestones. And Suzie was the founding engineer over at Maven. So she was there for the long haul, for over seven years. And so she had left Maven before I did. And once I took the leap into building Noula full-time, her and I reconnected, and we welcomed her to the team as a co-founder and CTO last year, which has been so instrumental to how we've built our product to date. We actually [laughs] ran into fun challenges many startups will where we've had to recently rebuild our entire tech stack and truly couldn't have done this without her and our back-end engineer as well. And so she's just been incredible. And then we also brought on our medical director, as I shared, Dr. Marieme Mbaye, who was a practicing OBGYN based out of Brooklyn, New York City. And she has also had experience advising for women's health startups like Natalist to Frame Fertility and others. VICTORIA: Got it. So you found your technical co-founder, or you maybe already started together and then got the technical expertise there. You mentioned taking the leap to do Noula full-time. What was that decision like for you emotionally? NOELLE: It was a really big decision, and it was also a very vulnerable decision on my part. And so I'm going to open up about this because I think it's important to also recognize that this is a scary decision for all founders to make. When I was dealing with these chronic symptoms, that was back in 2019, so this was before I joined Maven Clinic. And I knew I wanted to build something to change the system. But I thought the best way to ensure what I was going to build were to be successful was to contribute to a company, learn as much as I could, fail fast, fail forward. So I joined Maven. I was there for almost two years, and that experience alone was instrumental. But ultimately, what really drove me to make the leap and place this blind faith in myself and just jump into this unknown abyss was after another health scare. I promise you I'm healthy. But I went through...in early 2021, I had a massive seizure in my sleep, and I was hospitalized where they thought I had a brain tumor. And I just remember sitting in the ambulance. And this was during COVID, so I had to go alone. I was hospitalized alone. And I remember sitting in the ambulance, and I don't know why this sticks with me so much, but I remember seeing the light of the street lamp, and I was just looking at it. And I thought I'm not ready to leave the earth without making an impact here. And so I told myself, I was like, if I make it out of this alive, I'm going to do whatever it takes to change healthcare and make the impact that I want. And so I did just that. I'm okay. I don't have a brain tumor, thank goodness. And I trusted myself trusted that the conversations that I had with friends, family, and other people who shared those experiences with me would serve as our lighthouse to building an incredibly impactful product that would reshape the future of health for good. VICTORIA: Oh, that's incredible that you had that experience that made you think about what really mattered and what you wanted to do with the rest of your time. It sounds like you had friends and family to support you along the way with that decision, right? NOELLE: Yeah. And a lot of them didn't get it. To this day, my mom's like, "Don't you want to go to med school or be a nurse?" [laughs] I'm like, "No." [laughs] But yes, absolutely had their support. VICTORIA: Oh, that's wonderful. I mean, I can see that, even if you have a good idea that some people might be like, "Don't you need a job?" [laughter] NOELLE: Exactly. And that's exactly the kind of position I was in. I said, okay, I need to make a game plan. And when I quit Maven, I had joined an accelerator program called Visible Hands, which was designed by POC founders. And for three months, you got a small chunk of money. And I worked backwards, I said, okay, within this three-month period, I need to prove that Noula is a venture backable business. And so I worked backwards with how much savings I had left to continue supporting myself. And that gave me till...so the program started in September, and I had basically saved enough money for myself through end of February, maybe end of March is stretching it, of 2022. And so, I worked backwards from that date and closed an oversubscribed pre-seed round in February. VICTORIA: Wow. NOELLE: So that was really...it was very challenging. I don't think I've...I worked harder in my life than I ever had before. And so yeah, that's really kind of where we're at today. And it made me one of less than 100 Latina women to ever raise a million dollars, which is wild. VICTORIA: Awesome that you were able to do that, and sad that the number is so small. [laughs] NOELLE: I know. And I did the math, and we said, okay, 0.4% of venture dollars go to Latina founders. I need to have 200 meetings just to get one yes. And so I was chasing as many meetings as I could and chasing nos as fast as I could because I thought the sooner I could get a no, the quicker I could move on to the next. VICTORIA: So, really trying to weed out people who just weren't going to be a good fit. [laughs] NOELLE: Right. VICTORIA: That makes sense. But ultimately, you were able to find someone who aligned with you. Was there a checklist or some kind of way that you used to decide if those investors were going to be right for you? NOELLE: Yeah, I think, ultimately, the connection to our mission. At the early stage, they're making a bet too on founder fit, and so I wanted them to, one understand and feel confident in myself as a founder. And so I wanted to see that on the call. And then two, I also wanted to ensure they understood that this was a problem. And so there were some investors where they didn't understand the problem or why anyone would need this. And some of them didn't understand things like what menstruation was, not even kidding. [laughs] I didn't have any...at that point, I was like, I don't have a single check. I had to make the decision, like, this isn't going to be the right partner for me. And so those were kind of my two main criteria, like, do I believe they're going to be the right partner in helping us accelerate just my vision and supporting me as a founder? Do they believe in me and in our vision? And two, do they understand the problem and the impact? VICTORIA: Right, that makes sense. So then that kind of empowers you to continue doing the work that you know you should be doing. NOELLE: Right. VICTORIA: Well, I wanted to ask you a little bit more about TikTok too, and how you used social media to raise your brand awareness. NOELLE: [laughs] So, our TikTok strategy, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to make our very first TikTok [laughs] because I probably spent way too much time trying to figure it out. But our TikTok strategy really aligns with our brand strategies. Our core pillars in terms of that really come down to leading with empathy, so showcasing real, raw, authentic stories from real people. So we can show, like, you are not alone in this. And then two, educational pieces as well. So we have a series called Dear Noula where anyone can write in anonymous questions to Noula. And our medical director, Dr. Marieme Mbaye, will answer those on TikTok. And so, really, what's helped drive the virality in our TikTok strategy is the marriage of that approach where one of our most viral TikToks is one of me with my ultrasound behind me. And then another one that's very educational based around what your vaginal discharge might be telling you. And so there's that blended approach to just, again, showing those real stories with digestible educational bits of content has really helped us build that brand awareness and also just the trust in our brand as well. VICTORIA: That's great. And I think that's something that a lot of startups might be thinking about marketing-wise. Like, how do they use those types of tools to really connect with people? And I like the approach that you've taken with being educational and with being very real, [laughs] which makes sense. Okay, so we asked about what your biggest challenges were on the horizon. What do you think are the biggest opportunities that you could potentially take on at Noula in the next six months to a year? NOELLE: What I'm particularly very excited about with Noula is our ability to adapt with users over time. So what we often see with a lot of digital health solutions, especially in women's health, is they tend to be very stage-specific. You use this product for fertility-related stuff, this one for pregnancy-related stuff, this for postpartum-related stuff, or STIs, for example. So they tend to be very specific. And what I'm particularly eager to showcase is truly how Noula is designed to adapt with those folks over time, so from menstruation through menopause. And the more that you use Noula, the longer you use Noula, the more customized insights you'll have about your unique body to inform providers to deliver that individualized care. So truly, the thing I'm looking forward to most is time, seeing how Noula can truly fit patients' lives versus the other way around. And also being in a position where our solution isn't tied to just a reproductive stage. It's truly encompassing our whole health beyond just reproductive organs but taking into account genetics, lifestyle, environment, stress, sleep, nutrition, et cetera. VICTORIA: That's very cool. So kind of expanding into even more tailored patient data and services that you can provide over time. NOELLE: Yeah, and, I mean, this is information that most people's doctors don't have access to. VICTORIA: Yeah, I could see that. And, I mean, anyone who's used a menstrual tracking app you can predict things based on the longer time period you've been tracking it, right? NOELLE: Exactly, exactly. VICTORIA: That's very cool. I'm excited to see it come out. And I think by the time this podcast airs; you'll have launched a new product. Is that right? NOELLE: Yeah. So by the time this podcast launches, we'll be completely launched. I will have the app and care coaching available for anyone to use, sign up for, and it's really, really exciting stuff on the horizon. VICTORIA: That's super cool. Well, my last question for you is if you could go back in time to when you first started Noula, what advice would you give yourself? NOELLE: I tend to be a perfectionist. So I'd say just ship faster; don't chase perfection because things are going to change. I learned that from the beta itself, where we spent time building this product that we wanted to be so perfect. And again, [chuckle] what we learned was that the initial cohort of users who we thought would be our biggest advocates and earliest adopters of Noula was not true. And so being okay with your first iteration as being imperfect is okay. Some of the best advice I actually got after we launched our beta was that if you're not embarrassed by your MVP, you launched too late. VICTORIA: [laughs] That's really funny. It should be kind of awkward, right? NOELLE: Yeah. Isn't that great? [laughs] VICTORIA: That's really good. [laughs] NOELLE: I wish I had heard this before. I [laughs] spent so much time trying to perfect this to the T. [laughs] VICTORIA: I think we're going to maybe print out a banner that says that and hang it behind [laughter] our screens or something. Yeah, I love that. And I love just how much went into the customer discovery and how you were flexible to change your hypothesis for what was going to work for people based on that. NOELLE: Yeah. And I think one thing that really helped, too, just honestly from my sales background, was I was very mindful of not leading a horse to water when doing customer discovery. So I think often we hear that, you know, we ask very pointed questions to try to lead folks to say, "Yes, I would use your product," or, "Yeah, that sounds useful." I purposely asked very open-ended questions like, "Walk me through your experience navigating your health," and just listened. And that allowed me to find patterns across the number of conversations that I had that ultimately led us to build the beta in our product that you see today is through those very open-ended questions and hearing from users themselves as far as what they thought was missing versus me saying, "If we build this feature, would you use it?" VICTORIA: That's very cool. And I learned a lot just from taking the quiz on your website. [laughs] NOELLE: Oh, awesome. [laughs] VICTORIA: So I'm really excited to see what you all come up with next. Are there any final takeaways or thoughts you want to leave for our listeners today? NOELLE: We'd love to hear about your experience using Noula. So you can use Noula free for a limited time. We're offering 30 days of free care coaching for anyone that signs up and discounted access to the hormone testing. So just really excited to share with the world because it's about damn time we get the care that we deserve. VICTORIA: Absolutely. Thank you so much for joining us today. And you can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript of this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter @victori_ousg. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com.

In this episode of the Genetic Genius podcast, we speak with Dr. Lara May, an Advanced Practice Clinical Pharmacist and Functional Medicine Health Coach. Lara's journey began in emergency rooms and adult acute care, where she specialized in counseling nurses, doctors, patients, and families on medication regimens and maximizing treatment outcomes. However, her own health struggles led her to explore the world of reiki, energy medicine, and functional medicine, which ultimately transformed her passion for "band-aid medicine" into a deep-seated desire to empower women to heal themselves on physical, mental, and spiritual levels. Today, Lara combines her expertise in functional medicine with intuitive healing to empower her clients to restore their health and happiness.  Through our conversation, we explore the power of functional medicine in preventing and reversing chronic disease, and how we can all achieve true healing and wellness. Join us as we delve into Dr. Lara May's experience and discover how functional medicine can change the face of healthcare as we know it. Can you share with us how your journey from traditional "band-aid medicine" led you to become a Functional Medicine Health Coach? How does your practice encompass intuitive healing and functional medicine together, and why do you believe it's important to address physical, mental, and spiritual levels of healing? What advice would you give to women who are seeking to restore their health and happiness through functional medicine and intuitive healing? How do you work with other healthcare professionals, such as doctors and nurses, to ensure a comprehensive approach to patient care? How can Type 2 diabetes be prevented and reversed through functional medicine, and what steps can people take to achieve this? What excites you most about the future of functional medicine and energy medicine and its potential to truly transform healthcare? Are you or someone you know struggling with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes? Dr. Lara May is here to help. As a Functional Medicine Health Coach, she specializes in reversing diabetes by addressing sensitivities, deficiencies, and toxicities through a personalized healing protocol. Sign up for a free discovery session with Dr. Lara to learn more about her approach and how it can work for you. If you're ready to take control of your health, visit https://www.tahoefunctionalmedicine.co/discovery-call1669156451171 to sign up for your free session today. In addition, Dr. Lara May is also offering an incredible freebie - four powerful healing sessions designed to help you access your mind, body, and soul at a deeper level. Join Dr. Lara and experience the power of energy healing as you work towards restoring your health and happiness. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity - visit https://drlaramay.com/energy-healing-downloads to download your free sessions today. Be sure to tune in to our next episode for a conversation with Toussaint Stewart, a holistic health and wellness coach, as we explore the power of a Whole Food Plant Based diet and lifestyle, Body Weight Strength Training and Flexibility, and Meditation Breath Work Practices. You won't want to miss it! If you're interested in learning more about how genetics and hormones can impact your health, I'd love to invite you to book a consultation with me, Dr. LuLu Shimek. As a Naturopathic doctor and expert in genetics and hormones, I can help you identify any underlying imbalances and develop a personalized treatment plan to optimize your health and wellbeing. During our consultation, we'll discuss your health goals and concerns, review your medical history and family history, and perform any necessary testing to identify any underlying genetic or hormonal imbalances. From there, we'll work together to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that may include lifestyle modifications, targeted supplements, and other integrative therapies to support your body's natural healing process. Booking a consultation is easy - simply visit this link to select a date and time that works best for you: https://p.bttr.to/2QHd3dF. I look forward to helping you achieve optimal health and vitality!

With Title 42 ending soon, the president is sending 1,500 troops to the southern border. Too little too late. It's episode #381 of The ANEZ SEZ podcast...

Yeah I'm thinking we're back. Back with a big one. Back with Bono. He wrote a memoir called Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story and we're podcasting all about it. Well, not all about it, but about half of it, because Bono's book is so meaty that it requires a two-part podcast. We dig into Bono's early life in bubblin' Dublin, the crucial single week where he asked out his wife and joined U2, his political awakening and initial transition into "foreign dignitary," and the time he made a Parmesan cheese sandwich at Paul McGuinness's house. It's a wild ride, and an Irish one. Missed you guys :) Subscribe to Molly's music newsletter (it costs $0): https://themollyzone.beehiiv.com/ Songs in the episode: "With Or Without You (8-Bit U2 Cover)" - 8-Bit Misfits "Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones "I Will Follow" - U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2 "Pride (In The Name of Love)" - U2 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid "Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2 "Where The Streets Have No Name (Live)" - The Killers "Big Boy" - Viagra Boys and Jason Williamson "The Fly" - U2

The incubator hatch was so-so... A few duds that were iffy when candled and alothough four goslings hatched, one did not make it.  Acorn thinks the egg was too warm and thus a "preemie" pipped too early.  Them another gosling developed spraddle leg from the incubator's "too slick" floor.  When the legs go out sideways, they tend to stay that way.  Bandaids to the rescue!Electric fence is back on and the goat kids have been learning some lessons...  Maybe..  Some seem to be repeat offenders...All in all a good week, and Bling Hog goes off on a tangent...

Why is most of the “conventional wisdom” WRONG when it comes to surviving a total collapse? Because it mostly boils down to “buy more gear.” And all the gear in the world isn't enough if you're making the “conventiona/ wisdom” of survival. Ultimately, your ability to survive a collapse scenario won't come down to a gadget from an online “guru”… …it's about core characteristics inside you. You have to cultivate them. Don't get me wrong, having “bullets, beans and Band-Aids” on hand is great and can save your life. But the “three Bs” won't help much if you haven't mastered the “three Ss” Spirit… the right mindset to keep your wits about you when catastrophe strikes. Skills… the right set of know-how to deal with the unique challenges presented by a collapse scenario. Strategy… a plan for what you're going to do when disaster comes knocking on your door… and another plan for when that plan fails. Best of all, mastering the “three Ss” is simple, costs nothing and anyone can do it, whether you're 70 years old and using a cane to get around or you're 20 years old and moving into your first apartment in a new city. So no matter how much you think you know about survival in a collapse environment, this week's podcast is designed to help you look at the mistakes you might be making with fresh eyes, regardless of whether you've been interested in this stuff for 20 days or 20 years.

Have you noticed how magical band-aids are? A kid with a skinned knee will get one and all of a sudden the meltdown on the playground turns into fun and adventure on the slide again.But kids aren't the only ones who feel better after they get a band-aid. As an (adult) entrepreneur, you might feel the need to apply a band-aid whenever you encounter a problem in your business.But here's the problem: like the skinned-knee wound on a child, the injury (and the pain) is still there. You haven't actually solved the problem. What you need is to stop putting band-aid solutions on business problems and instead get a long-lasting solution.So in this episode of the Time to Level Up podcast, you'll learn scenarios where business owners often try to apply band-aids to problems and why upgrading to using duct tape isn't the solution, either. I'll teach you how to come up with solutions that fix problems and improve your business.3:17 - Why you look to apply band-aids to situations9:43 - A couple of examples of how you might apply a band-aid solution in their business11:43 - Two areas where I see clients apply band-aids in their business13:04 - What happens when you switch from band-aids to duct tape16:09 - What really needs to happen when you experience business problems19:05 - The impact when you rethink your whole processMentioned In How to Switch From Band-Aids to Sustainable Solutions to Frustrating Business IssuesAndrea's LinksI've Got This CoachingRunway to FreedomBook a Call with AndreaDesign Your Ideal Summer MasterclassJoin us for Design Your Ideal Summer the week of May 8th to design and plan YOUR ideal summer. You'll not just learn HOW, but you'll actually build YOUR ideal summer. I'll hold your hand and make sure you have down what you want your summer to look like before it even starts. Sign up by April 23rd and save $20 at designyouridealsummer.com

Zoe Lister-Jones is a bad bitch.  She is the writer, director, showrunner, and lead actor in her latest project SLIP now playing on The Roku Channel. We caught up with Zoe earlier this week to discuss this magically surreal, time jumping, orgasmic ride of a TV show. She enlightened us about when she started working on this script, how Buddhism influenced the story line, how important your ride or dies are in every stage of life, and maybe Captain Party puts Erin on the spot in front of Zoe with a question about life. Cool. Thanks to Zoe for hopping back on the mic with us. If you haven't heard our first interview with her, it was way back in 2017 to talk about her film Band Aid which you can find on most streaming platforms. It is a delightful film to watch and you get treated to Zoe's beautiful singing voice. Listen to that interview here. Follow Zoe Lister-Jones on IG --Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 10 years, 700 episodes or Best of The Bay Best Podcast without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and abortion is normal.--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions 

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Jess Dodson, Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss all things security. Corey and Jess discuss the phenomenon of companies that only care about security when reacting to a breach, and Jess highlights how important it is to have both a reactive and a proactive approach to security. Jess also shares her thoughts on why it's valuable to get security and operations working well together, and why getting the basics right in security is still a more pressing priority than solving for level 10 security threats. Jess and Corey also reveal best practices when it comes to monitoring and revoking admin rights and much more. About JessChances are if you've run into “GirlGerms” online, you've spoken to Jess! Based in Brisbane, Jess joined Microsoft in 2019 and is now a Senior Cloud Solution in Cyber Security, after working in a mixture of both government and higher education industries for over 15 years. Jess regards herself as a 'recovering systems administrator' and still wears her operations hat when looking at security - doing REAL SecOps!Outside of work, Jess is mum to a 5 year old daughter, a cat, 4 chickens and a hive of bees. In her downtime, she spends far too many hours building Lego, playing video games or doing random crafty projects.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/girlgerms Mastodon:https://infosec.exchange/@girlgerms DevNxt: https://devnxt.nz/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Do you wish your developers had less permanent access to AWS? Has the complexity of Amazon's reference architecture for temporary elevated access caused you to sob uncontrollably? With Sym, you can protect your cloud infrastructure with customizable, just-in-time access workflows that can be setup in minutes. By automating the access request lifecycle, Sym helps you reduce the scope of default access while keeping your developers moving quickly. Say goodbye to your cloud access woes with Sym. Go to symops.com/corey to learn more. That's S-Y-M-O-P-S.com/coreyCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest today is Jess Dodson, who's a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Jess, thank you for joining me. We have been passing like ships in the night on social media for years now. It is so good to finally talk to you.Jess: Lovely to talk to you in person. Thank you for inviting me on.Corey: Well, to be clear, we're talking remotely when we record this. You are presumably Australian, and I'm still operating from a somewhat American-centric viewpoint that more or less everything in Australia is deeply poisonous.Jess: Yeah, that includes me. Yes. So, I am in Australia at the moment. I believe it is the ninth of March for you. It is the 10th of March for me [laugh].Corey: Yes, some of us are living in the future.Jess: The future. So yes, it's about seven o'clock in the morning for me, which is fabulous. I'm awake, I'm awake.Corey: So, let's talk about security. It seems to be top-of-mind and everyone's talking about it. Unfortunately, it seems that they're usually talking about it in the form of an email that starts with, “Your security is extremely important to us,” and then transitions into, “Here's how we dropped the ball on it.” I was once told by an analyst client of mine that I was the only analyst who ever told them that companies don't care about security. Like, “No one says that. Why is that?” And my answer was, “Well, no one will say it out loud, but I ignore what people say, I pay attention to what they do, and where they spend the money, and it is clearly not a priority.”And I would argue that in some ways, that's okay, depending upon context and who you are, and what you do. And in other cases, it is the exact opposite of okay; it is an unmitigated disaster for everyone, just waiting to happen. How do you feel about security?Jess: A very loaded question.Corey: Isn't it though?Jess: [laugh]. [crosstalk 00:02:20]—Corey: “I don't care,” is probably not going to be your answer on this one, I'm just going to assume, but let's go.Jess: No. Don't—well, considering my title, I would hope not, considering the work that I do.Corey: You have words in your title, but none of them are, “Cares about,” so we're good.Jess: That's true. That's true. I do care about security and that's my job. I do agree that organizations probably don't care about security until they do care about security, and by that point, it's probably too late. And that's the issue that we're facing. It's that proactive versus reactive. Reactive is great. Reactive is wonderful. But unless you're doing the proactive and spending the money on the proactive, the reactive is just constantly going to be fighting fires.Corey: It's two classes of problems. My world of cost optimization absolutely is in this world as well. Security is buying fire insurance in case the building burns down. These are all things you should probably do, but you can spend infinite money and effort and time and all of those things and it doesn't get you one iota closer to your business goals, whereas speeding time-to-market, launching into new markets, and being able to ship faster, that is transformative that gets you to your next business milestone. So, companies will overwhelmingly bias towards investing in that and not the other stuff until they're caught flat-footed.Jess: And I'm sure that's wonderful, but my issue when I come in as a security person to an organization is, what if something goes wrong and it's no longer—and I hate using buzzwords, but—when we're thinking about zero trust, one of the principles around zero trust is assuming breach, which is, it's not a matter of if but when, and it's not a matter of when but it's happening right now. Because as blue teamers, which is what I think of myself am, we have to plug all of the holes, we've got to try and patch all of the defenses, we've got to be the ones who are blocking out every attempt. An attacker only has to succeed once. And so, the way that we see it is there is going to be something in your environment, so what are you doing to make sure that that is contained as much as possible? And that's proactive work and that's something I don't think you can skimp on.Corey: It is. And it's defense-in-depth. You can also turn it into business value if you're clever enough. For example, whenever a cloud provider releases a new service that I can't figure out how to configure all I do is, I wind up scoping a security role to just that service and then leaking credentials online. I wait, you know, 20 minutes for someone to exploit it and then configure the thing, presumably to mine Bitcoin. Great. Then I turn off the Bitcoin stuff and I take the config that they've built and there we go. It's how we outsource intelligently on a budget. Uh, professional advice: please don't do that.Jess: [laugh]. I was going to say, that's certainly a unique way of configuring services in the cloud. I'm not sure I would recommend it for everyone, but for you, I can totally see that working [laugh].Corey: Yeah, I learned it from my buddy. He works at a bank. What of it? Yeah, it doesn't go well.Jess: [laugh]. When it comes to all of the stuff—and I think that's probably one of the big issues that we have with the cloud, and I love the fact that the title of this is Screaming in the Cloud because we're looking at all of the stuff that keeps coming out, everything is changing so quickly, how do you secure it when you don't know from one week to the next what new services are going to be included, what changes are going to be made to the services that you are already currently using? How do you keep up to date with that? And I think that is what leads to security being seen as ‘the no people,' which I hate. Security shouldn't be ‘no.' Security should be ‘yes, but.'It also leads to, hopefully, our operations teams being a little bit more on the ball when it comes to that security. Because if they're the ones who are looking at putting these new services or new productivity features in place, they should be vetting them from a security perspective as well. I say should. Maybe not necessarily actually happening and that's a bridge we kind of need to cross at the moment.Corey: A couple of years ago, I looked around the ecosystem, trying to find a weekly AWS-centric security newsletter, and there are some great ones now, don't get me wrong. And some of them might have existed at the time, but I didn't trip over them for one reason or another. And they tended to all fall into two buckets. Either they were security people talking to security people with a bunch of acronyms that I wasn't tracking because I don't eat, sleep, and breathe security most days, and/or they were vendor-captured and everything was, “See how terrible it is. That's why you should buy our widget.” And it almost doesn't matter who the vendor is.So, I started a Thursday issue of the newsletter that I write just for the news that is security-centric for people who don't have the word security in their job title. So, all the DevOps people of the world, the folks who are building applications, the folks who do have to care about this, but they don't have time to filter through all of the noise that everyone's putting out, and what is the stuff I should actually be paying attention to this week? And that seems to have struck a nerve, on some level. The thing I'm continually testing and being pleasantly slash unpleasantly surprised about is that I'm rarely the only person who has a particular problem.Jess: And you're definitely not in that regard. And I think when we look at security and how security is marketed, it is very pushed towards CISOs and security analysts and security operations. I, most of my life, and I still regard myself as, a recovering systems administrator. I'm a sysadmin, at heart, so I come from an operations background. The work that I've done in operations is what feeds the work that I do in security because I knew how worked, I helped build those systems.And I don't see it purely through a security lens; I see it through an operations lens. Security is useless without some form of usability. And I constantly talk about the line that divides security and usability, and where that line gets drawn. And for each organization, it's going to be different depending on their risk, depending on their business profile, what they're actually doing, how big their teams are. And we've got to make sure that we get that line right.And that means getting your operations teams involved because they know how their stuff has to work. They know what they need to be able to make the business run. So, security can't just be constantly saying, “No, you can't do that.” We have to be working with operations teams, and in some cases, taking our lead from operations teams because at the end of the day, they know this stuff better than we do. So, it's us providing advice and then providing their expertise for us to come together to a joint agreement on how to secure the thing. And I don't think that's being done at the moment. I call it the operations sandpit. Everyone needs to play nicely in the sandpit. No one should be fighting over toys. Everyone should be playing with each other with no arguments. We're not there yet.Corey: When I read a lot of security researchers and the stuff that they're focusing on in stupendous depth, or I walk around expo halls at security conferences, making fun of the various vendors there, it seems like so many of them are talking about these incredibly intricate in-depth defenses against attacks that seem relatively esoteric. And then I fly home from the security conference that I'm at and I happened, in the airport lounge, see their CEO who's yelling into a phone, and I know that they're using the same password for work that they are for their personal stuff, and it's ‘kitty.' And I know this because the Post-It note on their laptop says it. And it's, it feels like, yeah, you're selling and solving the problems at, like, level ten for complexity, but you need to effectively handle the problems at level two first and do the easy stuff and the basics before you start getting into the world of imagining that the Mossad is coming for you.Jess: And it's not even level two. I'd say we're almost—we're at level zero for a lot of this stuff. And you're a hundred percent right. A lot of security people and security organizations will be talking up all of these heavy-duty, “This is what we can do to protect you,” without even recognizing the elephant in the room of you're not even using MFA. You're not even looking at securing your administrative accounts. You're not using separate administrative accounts and user accounts, so they are the same person and login to everything and can access the internet while still performing full administrative work using that account, which is just terrifying.Corey: I still get constant notifications of security alerts from various vendors when there's a new TLS policy that should be applied to the load balancer that I'm using with them. And it's, you really think that people decrypting TLS-encrypted traffic somewhere between a user and my web server for a website that has the actual term ‘shitposting' in its domain is my number one priority on these things? It just feels like it's such a—it's this incredible cacophony of noise. And then you completely miss the next email that comes in, “Oh, by the way, you put your credentials up on GitHub. Maybe do something about that.” It just becomes this entire walking modern version of a Nessus Report with the 7000 things you need to fix, and number 3768 is, “Oh, by the way, the kitchen's on fire.” It hides this stuff. And it's awful.Jess: The prioritization of what can be done to fix some of the security holes that we see. It's out of whack, I think is the polite term to use. It's absolutely awful because we are prioritizing things that, yes, they are considered high severity in terms of what could happen, but in probability and likelihood, really, really low. Whereas things like having your password stored on a Post-It note that you have taped to your laptop that you then carry around and everyone can see it and they know who you are, maybe that's a little bit more concerning. So, it's trying to, from a security basics perspective, which I've been, I want to say ‘talking about' but it's not; it's ranting about and screaming about since about 2018.It's about making sure that we get those basics right because without the basics, all you're doing is putting Band-Aids over giant holes and giant leaks that anyone can slip through. And it's a waste of time. So, making sure that we are doing those really small basic things that lets be—we've been talking about them for years. I think I've been screaming about MFA for at least ten years now. We've had this available to us as an option. Why are we not doing it? One of the statistics that I saw recently, inside our cloud provider, only 33% of accounts are protected with MFA. 33%? What's happening with the other 66 because that's just, that's a staggering number of accounts that I would consider unsecure.Corey: On some level, you almost have to put this back on the companies themselves. Our timing is apt on this. Earlier today, GIF-hub—which is, yes, how I pronounce it—announced that starting in a couple of weeks, they're going to require MFA for every contributor on GIF-hub—or GitHub if you want to use the old-school pronunciation—and I think that's great. Everyone is used to MFA, on some level. Mandating it for accounts for which the blast radius is significant goes a long way.And yes, down the road longer-term, passkeys might make this a lot easier or not as necessary and/or better methods of authenticating against an MFA because typing in six-digit codes is annoying and goes out-of-bounds on these things. But I don't think it's necessarily the end of the world to make the sensitive accounts just a little bit harder to access.Jess: I understand that for some folks, MFA, it's that next step, it's that next barrier, it's another thing that they then have to do. It sounds terrible finding what I call silver linings in some of the events that have been happening recently, but if anything, particularly here where I am in my very small, tiny neck of the woods in Australia, some of the recent breaches that we have seen over here have made not just operations and technical people, but end-users, consumers, more aware of the fact that it only takes one slip-up, it only takes one small thing for something bad to happen. And anything that they can do to protect themselves is a good thing. So, we're starting to see a bit of a shift towards an acceptance for some of those trickier things like MFA.It's a pain in the bum. It's not something that is what I would consider user-experience-friendly. We're getting better at it, but it's still an issue when it comes to signing in and having to find your phone, which most of the time you have no idea where it is; you've got to use whatever automation, you have to call your phone to find it to be able to find your code so you can actually log in. It is a pain. But anything that we can do to be able to protect even our personal accounts is something that I consider to be really important.And it's not just for organizations. I've got to admit, I'm still working on my parents. They are of that generation where maybe it's still a little bit of a step too far. But just trying to get people that I know who aren't technical to start looking at things like this because as we move forward, it's going to become the norm and I'd much rather people become comfortable with it now than later when it is forced upon them.Corey: One of the problems that I've got is, we just went through our annual security awareness training that we are contractually obligated to provide to everyone and all the vendors that do this, I have problems with it, in different ways, in different degrees. It's all terrible, on some level. And it's not that these vendors themselves are bad, but it's the state of security for most folks. One thing that gets hammered home in all of these trainings is, “Don't click on the wrong link because if you do that it might destroy the company.” And I can't help but think if someone in the accounting department clicks the wrong link and it destroys the company, I can't really get myself to a point where I blame the accountant for that. I don't feel that's the accountant's job.Jess: That is definitely not the accountants job. And there is no way that a single user or a single device should be able to take out an organization. If that is the case, something has gone [laugh] very badly wrong. And I would say the blame is definitely not on the person who clicked the link. There would be a quite a range of people who would probably be hauled over the coals in regards to that one.Educating users on what to be aware of and what to look out for, and what to not click on versus click on, how to spot scams, all of that is helpful and beneficial, not just for an organization, but I also see it as very useful even in their own personal lives. Because we are seeing ransomware scams targeting individuals, we're seeing some of those awful scams coming from tax departments or coming from anything that's talking about, “You've got to fine. You need to pay this. Please go off and buy Target gift cards.” Those are the kinds of things that we want people to be aware of even in their personal lives.But if an organization can be taken down by one of those emails, then there has been something that hasn't been put in place. I would say ‘something.' A lot of things that haven't been put in place. A lot of the work that we do from a security perspective is to limit what we call a blast radius, to try and reduce the impact an incident will have on an organization. And clicking on an email like that should produce an alert. It should say, “Hey, you probably shouldn't be accessing this website.”Even if they put their username and password in, it's the credentials of that account that have been compromised. That can be reset. If necessary, the account can be rebuilt, but it certainly shouldn't be something that brings down an entire organization. And I think our messaging around that puts the burden on users when it should be on those of us who are technical to have the… not necessarily the accountability, but the responsibility for looking after that and ensuring that that is not the case. And again, that comes back to that, number one basics and making sure we've got the basics right. Because if you're clicking on something like that and it's going to be installing malware, you shouldn't have admin rights on your machine. That's just j—no. Bad. But number two, it means that [crosstalk 00:19:41]—Corey: And as part of that, the software we need to do our jobs should not require admin rights to run.Jess: Oh—Corey: There are certain—a couple of vendors that are hearing their ears burn because I'm thinking about them very hard right now.Jess: Oh, if I have one more piece of software, “I need domain admin rights to be able to run.” “I need global admin rights.” No you don't [laugh]. You really, really don't. You are being lazy, you're taking the piss, you're making it easier for yourself, and causing a massive security hole for your customer. Stop it.Back to my point [laugh]. If our operations folks and our security folks can work well together, we can get around some of that burden that we put on our users to be able to work out what it is from a usability perspective they need while still giving them the security they require. And I think when we're looking at putting security in place, it's that putting security first. It's not an afterthought. It's built into whatever we are doing, whatever processes we have, whatever systems we're bringing in, whatever solutions we're looking at using.It's thought of at the beginning, rather than, “Ah, maybe we should talk to security about that.” That involves a little bit of a culture shift, I realize that's going to take a bit of time [laugh]. I can do technology, people are someone else's problem; that is definitely not me to try and fix, and each organization will have their own battle when it comes to that [laugh].Corey: There's also this idea that—you know, companies figure this out after the first time they get it hilariously wrong—that not every person should have access to everything. I appreciate the idea of transparent culture, don't get me wrong, but if I'm not working with a particular customer, why should I have access to that customer's data, just lying around? It should be something that takes work, that you have to affirmatively say, “Yes, this is what I should be looking at right now.” One of the early things I learned back when I was going through one of the innumerable compliance regimens that I have throughout the course of my career is, it's a heck of a lot easier if you can constrain the regulated or sensitive information to as smallest surface area as possible.Here's the PCI environment where all that stuff lives, and yeah, you turn on all the obnoxious, difficult security things involving that environment, but what that means then is you don't have customer data in staging and development environments to worry about and you can relax a lot of the other controls, just because you don't need to have that high-friction process for people to do things that are completely unrelated to the sensitivity of that data. And that still seems like it's a revelation for some folks.Jess: For a lot of folks. So, the idea of role-based access control and giving people the rights they need to be able to do their job, no more and no less. And again, it's a balancing act of trying to work out what that is. And when it comes to the people who are doing that job, I often find when looking at putting role-based access control in place, it's never end-users that are the problem. Ever. It's always technical people because they need all of the access all of the time. You don't.So, it's working out what they actually need versus what they want [laugh]. And that's an even harder discussion to have. So, I find it's not what access do you need, it's what are you trying to do, and let's work backwards from that. And that's something that I still think a lot of organizations haven't managed to get right. And also from an access perspective, that governance—again, we're getting into process and policy and people—ahh—but it's that access governance lifecycle as well.Just because someone had access doesn't necessarily they need that access going forward. And making sure we're reviewing those levels of access going forward and removing people who don't need that anymore. Normally, when I'm talking about that, people are thinking like IT folks who have lots of privilege or finance people who have lots of privilege. I'll be honest. The worst folks in any organization for access privileges are executive assistants.Those people collect access rights like it's going out of fashion because they never get revoked. And they will move from person to person, from organization to internal organization collecting all of those rights, and they'll maintain them for the entire length of their stay with that company. It's an extraordinary amount of rights.Corey: They're like the human equivalent of the CI/CD server because it has access into every environment, it's generally configured by hand and evolves naturally as bespoke. “Infrastructure as Code for everything except the Jenkins box. We just take a disk snapshot of that and kind of hope for the best if we ever have to rebuild it somehow.” Yeah.Jess: [laugh]. They are. And they want—like, don't get me wrong, they are wonderful folks. If something happens to them, usually the organization is in a lot of trouble. But when they leave, looking at the sheer amount of access they have, the mail permissions they have to be able to send on behalf of so many folks in the organization.And you're like, this is a lot of trust and a lot of responsibility to give to one person. So, making sure that the rights that the folks have in your organization are what they need, they… are checked regularly. And I think that's the part that gets skipped a lot. It's easy to give rights; it's harder to remove them. So, it's making sure that those access reviews are being done to say, “Hey, you're no longer the EA for that person. Maybe you don't need sender's permissions on their mailbox anymore. Maybe you don't need access into their personal files and their calendar to be able to see exactly what's going on and being able to look at that personal folder that contains all of their photos and files of what's going on.” So, making sure that [laugh] you're reducing the risk, not just on the organization, but on those people as well. Because that's a lot of responsibility to have should something go wrong.Corey: That's part of the problem, too, I think, is that the surface areas gotten complex and the sheer number of services that we all use to go about our jobs, regardless of what those jobs might happen to be, is so overwhelmingly massive. I remember going through an acquisition at one point, and we had something like 40 people at the company, and we were well over 800 distinct SaaS products that we were using throughout the entire company for different things. And how many of these are important? How many things are going in other directions? And if we look across the entire surface area of these companies and the things that we're using, no one knows what's going on in their environment and where.Okay, you get access to this? I don't know, there's this ridiculous little thing I used to caption funny pictures. Okay, it's technically a SaaS product, but it's probably not critical path. Oh, here's the system we use to do payroll. Yeah, you probably want to double-check that one. And it all ones have lumped together in the big bucket of, “We have no idea what's in this thing.”Jess: Oh, my God. I need people to understand that documentation is important [laugh] and this is exactly why. Unless it is written down, unless someone has been able to take out of their head a decision that was made about this as a product we are using, this as what it does, this is how critical it is to our organization, unless that is somewhere, you end up in exactly the situation you're talking about. You've got all of these products and you don't know which ones are business-critical. You don't know which ones are considered your primary goals, particularly in the case of a BCP, so a Business Continuity Plan or Disaster Recovery perspective.They're the ones that you want to protect and that should be somewhere. But a lot of people seem to think that documentation is boring and documentation is it's not necessary. It's my head. Why would I need to write any of that down? I know it all.Please make sure you're getting it out of your head, I don't want to have to pilfer through your head to find the stuff. And I know that there's a couple of folks, personally that I know who will feel very attacked by this. Just because it's in your head, just because you know, doesn't mean everybody else knows. And I'm very much of the opinion that if someone asks you a question twice, that is a piece of information that needs to be on a piece of paper somewhere that other people can see.And we don't do that enough. We don't pass on information enough and share information enough. There is very much an information-hoarding mentality for a lot of folk of, “I need to protect this information to be able to keep my job.” And that is just not the case. Because in the case of a disaster, in the case of a merger, where you're trying to work out what is actually needed versus what is not, that information is crucial and it can cost time and a lot of money if you don't know that information, if you don't have someone that has put that down and you can reference it in an easy and quick way.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to go through how you think about these things. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you? And please don't say Australia.Jess: Well, yes, Australia, but no one wants to come down here because again, we have things that will kill you. I would say Twitter or Mastodon. You can find me as at @girlgerms, if you haven't found me already. I am on InfoSec.exchange as @girlgerms.I will also be speaking at a number of conferences coming up here in Australia. Again, if you want to come to Australia, please do, but I know that recordings of these will be available at some point, so I will be speaking. Luckily, I've been invited to go and speak in New Zealand, which is very exciting. So, I'm going to be speaking at DevNxt in Christchurch on the 21st of April.And I will also be at [unintelligible 00:29:33] between the 9th and 12th of May this year. Again, that's in the future, literally in the future. So, I will be talking about all sorts of things related to operations and security operations, my talk at [unintelligible 00:29:48] actually going to be really interesting. It's talking about using your operations folks and how to get the best out of them from a security perspective, based on my history being an operations person and how I've moved into security and how that can be a real benefit and an asset to an organization.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:30:08]. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I appreciate it.Jess: [No dramas 00:30:12]. Thank you very much for having me.Corey: Jess Dodson, Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry comment that I'll log in as you and delete later because you use the same password for everything you log into. It's ‘poisonouskitty.'Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Many people in my audience are interested in adrenal health because steroid exposure is a common issue for many (especially those who end up with HPA axis dysfunction because of the steroids). So, I brought in a very popular expert... on thyroid health. Wait, what's the connection between your thyroid and adrenals? Most people who have thyroid issues end up having some form of adrenal dysfunction. So today, she's giving tips on what to do if you actually have adrenal dysfunction and how you can take back your health. My guest today is the compassionate, innovative, and solution-focused integrative pharmacist, Dr. Izabella Wentz. Dedicated to finding the root causes of chronic health conditions, her passion stems from her own diagnosis with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in 2009, following a decade of debilitating symptoms. As an accomplished author, Dr. Wentz has written several best-selling books, including the New York Times bestseller Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause, the protocol-based #1 New York Times bestseller Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Hashimoto's Food Pharmacology: Nutrition Protocols and Healing Recipes to Take Charge of Your Thyroid Health. Her latest book, Adrenal Transformation Protocol, is set to be released on April 18th, 2023. The book focuses on resetting the body's stress response through targeted safety signals and features a 4-week program that has already helped over 3,500 individuals. The program has an impressive success rate, with over 80% of participants improving their brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, sleep issues, and libido. Do you have symptoms of adrenal fatigue? If so, what are you doing about it? Let me know in the comments below! In this episode: What is adrenal fatigue (and is it even real)? The feedback loop between your thyroid + adrenals (hello, cortisol!) Why chronic or unprocessed stress (including unresolved trauma) is a very crucial part of the puzzle Dr. Wentz's helpful tips to get better sleep to regulate the circadian rhythm Pituitary suppression from the use of hydrocortisone (as seen in TSW) from a pharmacist perspective Why cholesterol is IMPORTANT! Quotes "As the stress progresses and whenever we have low levels of cortisol that are too low, this can also be a signal to the body to make more reverse T3 and to slow down the thyroid gland because thyroid hormone breaks down cortisol." [06:31] "I joke about positive affirmations are amazing, but they're like putting a Band-Aid over a leaky fishbowl if you're not working on trauma." [26:47] Links Find and Follow Dr. Wentz on her website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok Order your copy of Dr. Wentz's newest book -- Adrenal Transformation Protocol: A 4-Week Plan to Release Stress Symptoms and Go from Surviving to Thriving (coming April 18th!) Learn how to heal Your adrenals and get your energy back with The ABCs of Adrenals free download Healthy Skin Show ep. 023: How Low Thyroid Plays A Role In Skin Rashes w/ Dr. Izabella Wentz Thyroid Skin Rashes: The Hidden Connection No One Talks About Healthy Skin Show ep. 153: Steroids + Cortisol: How To Pinpoint Adrenal Problems w/ Dr. Carrie Jones

Keegan, Jeff and Mikki get together to discuss a few experiences with kids and teens that reflect important lessons about how kids think, how we respond and the responsibility to pay attention to what they need.Episode Highlights:1:25 Preschoolers and pre class preparation5:53 Teens and coaching moments, "we finish what we start." The case of Not Fran, Kinda Fran and Fran.Please Note: we do not recommend triple Fran for teens.9:30 Band Aid awareness, Movement Exposure surprises and welcoming environmentsHashtags and Links: #thebrandxmethod#youthfitnessstories#youthfunctionalfitness#theathletecoachnetwork#crossfitfranhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CXL2-IKp1f9/https://thebrandxmethod.thinkific.com/collectionshttps://www.instagram.com/theacn.app/

Chris and Rob provide up-to-the-minute analysis of the play-in game between the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat, explain why the Hawks should absolutely consider trading away superstar guard Trae Young this offseason, tell us why Damian Lillard needs to rip the Band-Aid off and finally demand a trade from Portland and discuss what the NBA's fan attendance records mean for the future of Load Management. Plus, the Odd Couple Callers bring the heat in this week's edition of Trash Talk.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recent bank failures are putting a spotlight on risky behaviors in the financial sector. The Federal Reserve is introducing a new way for banks to borrow money that's better for banks, but exposes the government to more cost and risk. Today, we explain the Bank Term Funding Program.For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

As Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Circus Maximus, Ryan Kutscher spearheads strategic and innovative campaigns for established and emerging brands including Amazon Prime Video, Angry Orchard and more. Under his leadership, Circus Maximus was awarded AdAge's Small Agency of the Year in 2017. In building the small agency's roster to a team of 40 in five offices across three continents, Ryan is constantly redefining the boundaries of the traditional agency model. Ryan previously served as Chief Creative Officer of J. Walter Thompson's (JWT) New York office, receiving critical acclaim for his work on Band-Aid, Macy's, Smirnoff and Kraft. His ‘Magic Vision App' campaign for Band-Aid won the Gold Lion at Cannes. He has been named twice on Creativity's World's Most Awarded Creative Directors while he was at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky for his work on Burger King, Volkswagen, Alliance for Climate Protection, and many others. Ryan is a three-time Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Advertising Festival—for Method, VW, and Burger King. He also masterminded the Burger King “Whopper Freakout” campaign, praised by the Wall Street Journal for raising the company's stock price. It also won the Grand Effie. Aside from his experience creating advertising campaigns, Ryan advocates for a creative approach to life, encouraging entrepreneurship outside of employees' daily duties at Circus Maximus, all while raising an Australian Shepherd on the mean streets of New York City.   Follow Alex on Instagram: www.instagram.com/alex.vonderhaar Get the Neuro-Insider: www.neuro-insider.com/insider  

Cody and Matt talk to Rima, a former lobbyist, and current NGO spearhead inside Ukraine. Want to know who's brining the beans bullets and Band-Aids? She'll tell you. Support her work at https://foblueyellowukraineusa.org/

How does a parent help an adult child? When your little boy or girl was small and fell down and hurt himself, you as the parent picked up your child and fussed over him smothering the scratched knee with kisses and love. Your loving care climaxed with the application of a Band-Aid put on with all the tenderness of a mother's love. But, what do you do when you have an adult son or daughter whose heart is breaking, and you desperately wish you could give him or her the same comfort you did when your child was four years old?

Grammy® Honoree, Hollywood Walk of FameLet's Celebrate a Golden Anniversary of Kool & The Gang! Founding Member Brother Ronald Nathan Bell (November 1, 1951 – September 9, 2020), Robert's NEW Brand is.  La Kool. lKool had always envisioned having his own brand out of Europe. For many years, he sought out Grand Cru Vineyards from owners that have been selling for generations and decided to work with Paul Berthelot, a Multi-Vintage Grand Cru Producer since 1884.A couple years ago marked the official launch of Le Kool Champagne, and Kool also recently added a new rosé champagne to keep the summer season going through the winter. Kool & the Gang, officially launched in 1969, after performing for five years under various band titles, has influenced the music of three generations and the band has become true recording industry legends. Thanks to iconic songs like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer Madness and Open Sesame, they've earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums. From Nairobi to Newark, Kool & the Gang has performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history and their bulletproof funk and jazzy arrangements have also made them the most sampled R&B band of all time. A reviewer recently called their performance “a 24-karat show” and every year, even after a half-century on the road, yields a non-stop schedule of shows across the globe. The heavily-in-demand band has continued to tour the world, appearing most recently alongside Kid Rock, Dave Matthews Band, Elton John and The Roots and performing on a recent, 50-city tour with rock legends Van Halen. In 1964, Ronald Bell and his brother, Robert “Kool” Bell, joined Jersey City neighborhood friends Robert “Spike” Mickens, Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, Ricky Westfield, George Brown, and Charles Smith to create a unique musical blend of jazz, soul and funk. At first calling themselves the Jazziacs, the band went through various names – The New Dimensions, The Soul Town Band, Kool & the Flames – before settling on their famous moniker. Over the next several years they solidified their musical chemistry on the rough-and-tumble East Coast music scene supporting acts like Bill Cosby, Ritchie Havens and Richard Pryor. Their self-titled 1969 debut album introduced their signature instrumental sound and fierce horn arrangements and spawned their first Billboard R&B charted single, Kool & the Gang. In 1969, Kool & the Gang released their self-titled debut album/ It was the introduction to a theme, music is the message, that Kool & the Gang stands by today. The instrumental album was an expression of their deep love of music. It was also an introduction to their signature sound and the fierce horn arrangements created by Khalis, Dee Tee, and Spike. Their debut album spawned their first Billboard R&B charted single Kool & the Gang and later Let the Music Take Your Mind. In 1970, their audacious sophomore set Live at the Sex Machine peaked at #6 on Billboard's R&B chart and yielded three hit singles: Funky Man, Who's Gonna Take the Weight, and I Want to Take You Higher. Next came The Best Of Kool & the Gang Featuring The Penguin, Kool & the Gang Live at PJ'S, Music Is The Message, and Good Times, all of which helped solidify a sound that wowed not only fans but such contemporaries as James Brown and Nina Simone. The band's stellar reputation grew with each album, but 1973's gold disc Wild & Peaceful took Kool & the Gang to another level (#6 R&B, #33 Pop), spurred by the immortal party anthems Funky Stuff, Hollywood Swinging and the platinum smash Jungle Boogie. Hits like Higher Plane (#1 R&B), the classic Summer Madness (featured on the Grammy-winning movie soundtrack Rocky) and LPs Spirit of the Boogie, Love & Understanding and Open Sesame followed. The latter's title track was featured on the top-selling movie soundtrack of all time, Saturday Night Fever, earning the group their second Grammy. In 1979, Kool & the Gang unveiled a smooth new sound with Ladies Night. Produced by the legendary Pop/Jazz musician Eumir Deodato, it became their first platinum album. The #1 R&B title track reached #8 at Pop. It was followed by Too Hot (#3 R&B, #5 Pop). The 80's would see them dominate the mainstream, starting with the double platinum-selling album Celebrate (driven by the international monster hit Celebration, which spent six weeks atop the R&B chart and became a #1 Pop single). Celebration, which played as the American hostages returned from Iran, remains de rigueur at joyous occasions worldwide. The smashes Get Down On It, Take My Heart, Let's Go Dancing, Joanna, Tonight, Misled, the #1 R&B, #2 Pop giant Cherish and the #1 R&B anthem Fresh (these last three from the multi- platinum LP Emergency) solidified the group's international stardom. Kool & the Gang landed global commercial endorsements, supported countless charitable causes and were the only American group to participate in Band Aid's 1984 Do They Know It's Christmas project for famine victims in Africa. With the explosion of hip-hop in the 90's, Kool & the Gang's incredible catalog of grooves made them DJ favorites. They were second only to R&B icon James Brown as sources of rap music samples. Today, the group enjoys global fame and recognition and a following that spans generations due in part to the groups widely sampled catalogue. Kool & the Gang's drum beats, bass, guitar and signature horn lines lace the tracks of numerous artists including the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and P. Diddy. Kool & the Gang is the most sampled band in hip-hop by far. Their music is also featured on the soundtracks for Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction, Wreck-It Ralph and countless others. In 2014, they were honored with a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award and in October 2015, in the town they sing about in one of their earliest hits, “Hollywood Swinging,” Kool & the Gang was honored to take their place as American musical icons with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2016, they released a single, "Sexy (Where'd You Get Yours),” which rose to #15 on the Billboard Adult R& B chart. The song signifies a modernization of Kool & the Gang's unmistakable sound, down to the dance floor-tailored bass grooves and the perfectly timed horns. It was their first airplay chart hit in a decade. © 2023 Building Abundant Success!!2023 All Rights ReservedJoin Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

Blake Richards, Shadow Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, Member of Parliament This is an episode that rips off the Band-Aid and exposes the truth about Veterans Affairs Canada, and the work which needs to be done. If we can't get it right with Christine Gautier, then the whole system is broken. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tango-romeo/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tango-romeo/support

The Calgary Flames lackluster effort last night showed management and fans of the team exactly what they are, and that if you think your team is close they usually aren't. On this day in 1981 the Flyers set the single season team penalty minute record and Happy Birthday to Bo Horvat. Be sure to go to Caldera + Lab. Clean, Wild-Harvested, Clinically-Proven Men's Skincare and use promo code 1420LAB and get 20% off the purchase of their all natural men's skin care products. Pick up some 14:20 In The Morning merch at our on line store today! 14:20 In the Morning Merch Store | Fourteen Twenty Sports (fourteen-twenty-sports.myspreadshop.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bold statement alert: You will never reach your goal, and sustain your goal, if you don't get to the heart of what's preventing you from achieving it in the first place. For many, they focus on an unwanted symptom. Whether it's weight gain, inflammation, pain, fatigue, etc. You can't heal and resolve a symptom without getting to the source of the problem. You can put a "Band-Aid" on it like crash dieting, taking pain meds, or stimulants, but the symptom will continue to surface because the root cause hasn't been addressed. The term "root cause" gets tossed around a lot in the media and health industry now. When it comes to almost any disease or condition, nutrition is either directly or indirectly related in some way. So you could say it's a part of a root cause to most conditions, right? Or is it? You aren't at the root until nothing causes it. So what then, is the ROOT of your nutrition? I talk about this and more in this week's episode. In this episode we talk about: - What the root cause of most disease, illness, and symptoms is. - The root cause behind why most diets fail (hint...it's not the fact most are unrealistic). - Examples of how to take your symptoms and conditions and follow it "upstream" to find the root cause. - What YOU can do to get on a better path with your nutritional habits. Mentioned in this episode: - Schedule a free 20 minute consultation HERE! More fun stuff: - The ULTIMATE Smoothie Guide- CLICK HERE - Sugar Reset Mini Course- Click HERE - Connect on FACEBOOK or INSTAGRAM Do you like this podcast? Please make sure to leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts and share it with someone who would benefit from listening!

The movie A Good Person was released in theaters last week. Zoe Lister-Jones plays Simone in the movie.  Matty G wanted to look at another Zoe Lister-Jones film. Why not go with a movie that she wrote, directed, and starred in?  That movie is Band Aid from 2017.Show Notes: Starring - Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally, Fred Armisen; Directed By - Zoe Lister-Jones; Written By - Zoe Lister-Jones; Music - Lucius; Cinematography - Hillary Spera; Editing -  Libby CueninWebsite: https://amoviepodcast.com/Twitter: @ItsaFilmPodcastInstagram: @toomanycaptainsproductions

The Soup Group, split in groups of two, split further as Avery goes to check on her parents, Isla goes to have a long-awaited reunion, and Jason and Kanan continue to have a surprisingly normal evening. Cast Credits: MC: Zachary Tuttle-Robb (@thatguyzackrobb) Nicole Tuttle-Robb (@nicolevoice) Mariah Clawson (@MariahClawson) Freddie Powers (@FreddiePowPow) Marcus Rosenberg (@MarcusRVO) A huge thanks to everyone who supported us over on Goodpods!!! Special Thanks to... Chase Greenlee (@TQLoudly) and Ghostlight Media Nicole Tuttle-Robb @DocAdamVO We are happy to announce TRANSCRIPTS! (Episodes 1-8 now available) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3gClPPZ38Qw8IDwu2N4LcJF1DJfIGIWr6Asii6jI/edit?usp=sharing Music credits Bensound Whitesand Argsound Tune Tank Alexander Nakarada Scott Buckley Justin Allan FSCM Productions Alex Productions Free Stock Music Archives (edited)

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 1, 2023 is: shenanigans • shuh-NAN-ih-gunz • plural noun Shenanigans is an informal word used to refer to mischievous or bold activity or behavior, or to dishonest or questionable practices or conduct. Its oldest meaning, and the one most likely to be encountered as the singular shenanigan, is “a devious trick used especially for an underhanded purpose.” // Reunited at their class reunion, the school's most notorious pranksters were instantly back to their old shenanigans, cracking up their former classmates with hilarious toasts during dinner. // The CEO resigned amid accusations of financial shenanigans and dubious deals. See the entry > Examples: “If ever there was one person who was the master of pulling off April Fools' Day gimmicks, it was my mother. Yearly, I could count on her fooling me particularly when I was in grade school. She would disguise food in my lunch box. I thought I was getting something special, but when I removed the wrapping, I would find she had cleverly packaged a Band-Aid to make me think what she was giving me was something scrumptious and tasty. Did some of her shenanigans rub off on me?” — Paul J. Volkmann, The Latrobe (Pennsylvania) Bulletin, 30 Mar. 2023 Did you know? Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. Either way, we call it shenanigans, employing a word whose history is as tricky and mischievous as its meaning. Etymologists have some theories about its origins, but no one has been able to prove any of them. All we can say for certain is that the earliest known uses of the word in print appeared in the mid-1800s. Although the “underhanded trick” sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are “dishonest or questionable practices” (as in “political shenanigans”) and “mischievous high-spirited behavior” (as in “youthful shenanigans”).

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 1, 2023 is: shenanigans • shuh-NA-nih-guns • plural noun Shenanigans is an informal word used to refer to mischievous or bold activity or behavior, or to dishonest or questionable practices or conduct. Its oldest meaning, and the one most likely to be encountered as the singular shenanigan, is “a devious trick used especially for an underhanded purpose.” // Reunited at their class reunion, the school's most notorious pranksters were instantly back to their old shenanigans, cracking up their former classmates with hilarious toasts during dinner. // The CEO resigned amid accusations of financial shenanigans and dubious deals. See the entry > Examples: “If ever there was one person who was the master of pulling off April Fools' Day gimmicks, it was my mother. Yearly, I could count on her fooling me particularly when I was in grade school. She would disguise food in my lunch box. I thought I was getting something special, but when I removed the wrapping, I would find she had cleverly packaged a Band-Aid to make me think what she was giving me was something scrumptious and tasty. Did some of her shenanigans rub off on me?” — Paul J. Volkmann, The Latrobe (Pennsylvania) Bulletin, 30 Mar. 2023 Did you know? Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. Either way, we call it shenanigans, employing a word whose history is as tricky and mischievous as its meaning. Etymologists have some theories about its origins, but no one has been able to prove any of them. All we can say for certain is that the earliest known uses of the word in print appeared in the mid-1800s. Although the “underhanded trick” sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are “dishonest or questionable practices” (as in “political shenanigans”) and “mischievous high-spirited behavior” (as in “youthful shenanigans”).

Crocs are having a banner year! Shrinkflation and a ‘high tech' Band Aid! That's what Paul Layendecker is BuZzin' about today on The Daily BuZz!!

Nick hurt his finger, and he took his kids to Disneyland. Plus, J-Si had a big birthday party!Dad Bop of the Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wCidXgsMUgS5lXQCFSn2V?si=dff36ec5f2ae46bb Leave us a message or text us at 972.454.0581Follow @ChattyDaddies on Instagram and Twitter and hit us up to ask us a question or tell us we're terrible parents. And click subscribe, so you can get a new episode of Chatty Daddies every Dadurday.

What goes in your fridge and what doesn't?  Anna read an article the other day that revealed just divided people are about what time of food needs to be refrigerated! (:30) Anna has three crazy news stories but Raven can only pick one!  Today his options are; A prison escape with a toothbrush, coleslaw being used to justify thievery; and beachgoers having an unexpected encounter with nudists! (3:38) Washing your clothes is part of being a functioning adult, so if you're using the “smell test” to determine what to wear in the morning, that's all I need to know about you! (7:22) When you get an email from your child's teacher, have you ever wondered if they're sugar coating your child's behavior?  Turns out, teachers have some code words for problematic behavior that you should be watching out for! (10:27) Are you up to date on this week's biggest news stories?  Anna and Raven will get you caught up on what's trending, including the a legendary athlete finally coming clean! (14:26) Sometimes, taking a band-aid off of a kid can be even worse than the initial injury!  Luckily, Anna found a new hack to remove band-aids painlessly and she's gonna test it out on Producer Sean! (17:57) A beloved Hollywood icon was involved in a car crash and even though they're ok, it raises an important question.  At what age should people be retested for their license? (21:37) What food is impossible to reheat?  Anna had a confrontation with a busboy because she refused to bring home her fries. They never taste the same reheated!  Luckily, the Food Network's Chef Plum has some tips on how to make any reheated food delicious! (29:23) It's Best Friends Week on Couple's Court, all week features best friends that are having disagreements!  Matt's getting married and Joe is his best friend and best man. Joe wants to plan the bachelor party they've always talked about, but Matt's fiancée wants to have a "Jack and Jill" bachelor/bachelorette party. Matt thinks it's fine, no big deal, they'll all go to Nashville together. Joe thinks this is a terrible idea, who wants to go on a bachelor party with their wives and girlfriends?! What do you think?  (37:21) Jim thinks he's got what it takes to beat Raven in pop culture trivia!  Can he succeed and win the $400 jackpot? (45:43)

Jon learned a band-aid hack on tik tok but has no faith it will work. Back from an awesome weekend lets recapFollow more@sheischantellauren@jonwatkinshost

[00:30] Trumped Up Charges Distract From Biden Family Crimes (23 minutes) Joe Biden's crime family is being exposed for accepting massive payments from the Chinese government. However, the media is focused on the possibility that Donald Trump will be arrested tomorrow. A far-left New York prosecutor is trying to turn Trump's private legal settlement into a felonious campaign finance violation, and the media is using the story to distract the public from the Bidens' real financial crimes. [23:30] Banking Crisis Continues (6 minutes) European banks are still dealing with the fallout of last week's U.S. bank failures. The Wall Street Journal explained how Joe Biden's $19 trillion Band-Aid for the Silicone Valley Bank failure will create greater problems in the long run. [29:00] U.S. Crime Causes Chaos (5 minutes) Walmart is closing in Portland, likely due to the high crime and shoplifting rates in the area. In New York City, police officers are resigning at record rates, leaving the police force seriously short-staffed. [34:30] America's Modern Romans (21 minutes) In today's “perilous times” (2 Timothy 3:1), parents have a serious and sobering responsibility to protect their children from the satanic influences of the world.

It's Won't You Be My Neighbor Day, Lance Reddick passed away, Sam Neil has blood cancer but is in remission, the cast of Ted Lasso will visit Joe Biden to talk about mental health, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are legally changing their baby's name, a life hack on how to get a Band-Aid off without pain, some jaw dropping first date stories, time yourself when you got to the bathroom, and Vinnie reads your texts!

Sarah tries to rip off a Band-Aid with a new life hack!

On a sidewalk littered with tarps, bicycles and discarded food containers, one tent sat farther away from the rest. It was clean, with the rain fly removed, showcasing the vacant interior."This is an empty tent erected by activists to encourage people to live in tents," Kevin Dahlgren said.Dahlgren's day job is reducing homelessness in the City of Gresham, but he spends most of his free time talking to those who live on the streets of Portland. He often posts videos of his conversations on Twitter, hoping to shed light on the West Coast's "dysfunctional system" for addressing homelessness.During his 27 years in social services, Dahlgren said he's seen a shift from permanent solutions to Band-Aid approaches."When you're not actually helping the permanent solutions, the old homeless stay there and the new homeless come in and everything just grows," he said.Oregon has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the nation. An estimated 17,959 people were homeless in the state during the nationwide count last year, 11,000 of whom were unsheltered, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.The state — and its largest city — have struggled to reverse the trend.Support the showSign Up For Exclusive Episodes At: https://reasonabletv.com/LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople

Happy Worm Week! Every episode this week will dig deep into the wonderful world of worms. Have you ever looked at an earthworm and wondered why some of them have a segment that looks like a tiny Band-Aid? Us, too! Luckily, biologist Andrew Gordus of Johns Hopkins University is here to help us find the answer. Got a question that you're wound-ering about? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we'll help put a Band-Aid on your curiosity! 

On this episode, Tyrus is joined by Trevor Murdoch, Aron Stevens, EC3, Luke Hawx, and Kevin Kiley Jr. as they talk about their trip to Mexico for the NWA vs. AAA live event, and Tyrus breaks down his title defense against AAA wrestler Daga. Later, they share stories of the worst injuries they have suffered over the years, and how they fought through the pain to further their careers.   Follow Tyrus on Twitter: @PlanetTyrus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Marianne Pinkston is a family practice physician and integrative medicine physician in the San Antonio community for over 25 years. Dr Pinkston lost 162lbs in one year having suffered Diabetes and complications of therapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis.  She has been voted Most Compassionate Doctor many years in a row by patients and Best Doctor by her peers.  Dr Pinkston is a radio talk show host and hosts a podcast/YouTube channel both locally and nationally for 3 years, now 930 KLUP, and Sirius XM and PD Labs Healthy Choices Network, all links at Drpbetterlife.com. Dr Pinkston is published and speaks for multiple platforms on TV, Radio, internet, magazines, societies as an educator and motivational speaker. HELPFUL LINKS: Create Your Life 30-Day Devotional & Lifestyle Workbook Powerful Scriptures Bible Study begins April 20, 2023 Instagram Facebook

Hey friends! Today, I get one a little soapbox and we chat about how the Bible is sooooooo much more than a place for temporary spiritual Band-Aids for our wounds and struggles. We go into Proverbs 2, Ephesians 4, and Hebrews 5 and challenge ourselves to grow our perspective of the Bible and it's true purpose: to grow our faith and help us become better teachers of the gospel so we can disciple others well. 

Ryan Kutscher, an award-winning writer, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Circus Maximus shares his thoughts on building award winning campaigns for brands you know and love. Amazon Prime Video, Angry Orchard, Band-Aid, Smirnoff and Kraft. Plus his work on Volkswagen, Alliance for Climate Protection, and finally the Burger King's “Whopper Freakout” campaign. All memorable and incredible! I speak with Ryan about all of his work, lessons and more plus his leadership approach including how he encourages his employees to have an entrepreneurship side hustle. This episode is awesome and you won't want to miss a word.  On this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow. Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let me know by clicking on the links below and sending me a quick shout-out on social. Or reach out to me at karagoldin@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin/ https://www.instagram.com/karagoldin/ https://twitter.com/karagoldin https://www.facebook.com/KaraGoldin/ Check out our website to view this episode's show notes:  https://karagoldin.com/podcast/360 To learn more about Ryan Kutscher and Circus Maximus: https://www.circusmaximus.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-kutscher-a282605/ https://www.circusmaximus.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/circus-maximus/ https://www.instagram.com/ryan_kutscher/ https://www.instagram.com/crcsmxms/

In this episode Brenda and Julia get real and raw on relationships to social media, choosing who to spend your time with, growing pains, true healing vs. band-aids, freedom/autonomy, and so much more!   ♡ Listen on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rawring-twenties-podcast/id1494981855 ♡ Subscribe to RAWring Twenties on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqIjQO1tys3_U-aaHYkHUuA Contact #R20 Squad! ♡Email: RAWringtwentiespodcast@gmail.com ♡Instagram: @rawringtwentiespodcast Host personal pages: ♡Brenda @balancewithbrenda, @officialbrendaa ♡Julia @Julia_tolchin

Jason spent 20 years in technical sales with a w2, all while flipping houses with the BRRR method. After realizing he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in a soul sucking position he decided to make the move to full time real estate. Gino and Jason talk about his journey convincing his wife of the financial move, dealing with the fear and doubt that comes with it and the fear and doubt that comes with moving from single-family to multifamily. The two talk about growing bigger faster, taking action, continued education and the mistakes made along the way that helped foster growth and experience. As Gino always says Education X Action = Results. Contact Jason: Jvalchine@gmail.com +1 734 548 4091 Chatpers: 00:00 - Intro 00:23 - Guest Intro 01:01 - Why Multifamily 03:06 - Leaving the W2 | Ripping the Band-Aid off 03:56 - Advice for Talking to Spouse about the Move to Multifamily 07:10 - Transitioning from Single to Multifamily 08:18 - Before the Leap, Learn 12:31 - How Jason Found his First Deal 17:28 - Jason's Mistakes 22:52 - Mind Belief - Due Diligence - Always Learning 25:31 - Wrap up 26:36 - Contact Jason We're here to help create multifamily entrepreneurs... Here's how: Brand New? Start Here: https://jakeandgino.mykajabi.com/free-wheelbarrowprofits Want To Get Into Multifamily Real Estate Or Scale Your Current Portfolio Faster? Apply to join our PREMIER MULTIFAMILY INVESTING COMMUNITY & MENTORSHIP PROGRAM. (*Note: Our community is not for beginner investors)

The time has come to disclose the true depth of the evil we face. Tonight's video screens at 6 EST. Banned, de-banked and de-platformed. Why risk it? True motives, brutal testing, and the pre-planned VAXXX narrative. What really happened in Ohio? Gov DeWine will be vacating soon. The deep state is throwing the kitchen sink. Saying it's not my kid doesn't work anymore. Global access to medical records for an easy organ search. Fentanyl assisted chop shops. Did she say Wake and Vandy? Reactive fails and proactive wins. Someone has definitely pulled he trigger. You cannot afford the human leather books and child spine purse handles. The life changing peek thru a container portal. We must all concentrate and focus on the things that matter. How they get things done and stopping it all. Have no doubt, these people are truly sick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices