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With AI as an accelerant, marketing is evolving at a breakneck pace, and brands are being challenged to maintain authenticity while scaling globally. How do you build a cohesive, authentic brand identity across diverse markets, cultures, and digital platforms—all while leveraging AI-driven personalization? Joining me today is Emily Ward, VP of Global Marketing at Turnitin, a leading edtech brand focused on academic integrity and student success. Emily has spent more than 15 years in the education space, shaping marketing strategies for institutions under the Laureate Education network, leading global marketing at Anthology (formerly Blackboard), and now overseeing the global marketing strategy at Turnitin. Emily Ward has spent more than 15 years focused on the education space, initially generating enrollments for a broad portfolio of global institutions under the Laureate Education network. She then moved to Blackboard, since acquired by Anthology, working with non-profit academic institutions to better understand how to leverage their marketing investment in order to positively impact enrollments and institutional growth.Over time, Emily's focus expanded to the larger concept of Student Success, helping academic leadership connect the dots of the full student experience from decision making through to matriculation and beyond. During the pandemic, Emily pivoted quickly to lead the launch of an official eCommerce platform, and was soon pulled in to lead North America then Global Marketing efforts for the newly formed EdTech giant Anthology.Today, she oversees global marketing for Turnitin, an academic integrity company focused on supporting educators and empowering students around the world to do their best original work. Emily holds a B.S. from Towson University and an M.B.A from Loyola University Maryland. She resides near Washington, DC with her daughter. RESOURCESCatch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brandsOnline Scrum Master Summit is happening June 17-19. This 3-day virtual event is open for registration. Visit www.osms25.com and get a 25% discount off Premium All-Access Passes with the code osms25agilebrandDon't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstromDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.showCheck out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnowThe Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company
When the time comes, let go. World's Finest Gita Jackson and All-Star Alex Jaffe come to terms with issue 38 of 52, and the long-coming death of Vic Sage. But along the way they'll note the Watchmen parallels with Oolong Island, check in with Steelworks, and answer a listener question about Wonder Woman's magic period. Show Notes: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Le Morte d'Arthur Image Comics Spawn 1: Let's Talk Talent (02:49) Joe Bennett Jack Jadson J. G. Jones Final Fantasy One Winged Angel Vic Sage Jizz 2: Let's Talk About 52 #38 (05:54) Renee Montoya Nanda Parbat Kate Kane Chiller Warped Tour Yeah Yeah Yeahs Oolong Island The Pitt 24 Mercury T. O. Morrow Will Magnus Egg Fu Apokolips Black Adam Black Adam (2022) Subscribe to Aftermath Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Veronica Kale The Question (1986 series) Zhuangzi Hermann Hesse John Henry Irons Superman Doctor Mid-Nite Lex Luthor Natasha Irons Beast Boy Ted Kord Steve Ditko Booster Gold Frank Grimes Ralph Dibny Sue Dibny Alfred Pennyworth Tom King Batman Dan DiDio Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Hal Jordan 3: The Backup (32:38) Red Tornado Phil Jiminez Andy Lanning Todd Nauck Young Justice Justice League of America by Brad Meltzer Jodi Picoult Wonder Woman The Real World Judd Winick Outsiders Percy Jackson Rick Riordan Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn Hades Absolute Wonder Woman Justice League International Ben Stein Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Benchwarmers (2006) Rob Schneider 4: What's your favorite part of the issue? (39:49) 5: The Blackboard (41:20) Watchmen Thomas Szasz Gotham Central Ed Brubaker 6: Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (48:25) Duke of Deception Rip Hunter Robert Kanigher Church of the SubGenius Denny O'Neal 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. Hosting for 52 Pickup is provided by Insert Credit. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Jackie, Vicky, Loan, and I—a.k.a. The Blackboard 4—chat about the Greatest Of All Time Asian things! I always have a great time yapping with my teacher friends. Who knows where our next tangent will take us! In this episode, we discuss our GOATed Asian fruits and veg, movies, comedians, and more. Listen in and let us know if you agree with us or not! As I always mention, you can write to us at: infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com, and please follow us on Instagram and Facebook @infatuasianpodcast Our Theme: “Super Happy J-Pop Fun-Time” by Prismic Studios was arranged and performed by All Arms Around Cover Art and Logo designed by Justin Chuan @w.a.h.w (We Are Half the World) #asianGOATS #asianpodcast #asian #asianamerican #infatuasian #infatuasianpodcast #aapi #veryasian #asianamericanpodcaster #representationmatters
You can always trust me! All-Star Gita Jackson and World's Finest Alex Jaffe cling desperately to issue 36, featuring an update on our beloved space heroes, neckless Trent Reznor, and the lovable and irascible Sobek the Talking Crocodile! Show Notes: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen James Brown From Hell Alan Moore Neil Gaiman Lost Girls Animal Man (1988 series) Lady Styx 1: Let's Talk Talent (07:04) Jamal Igle Supergirl The Ray Firestorm (2004 series) Keith Champagne Green Lantern JSA 2: Let's Talk About 52 #36 (08:09) Lobo Chewbacca Starfire Adam Strange Flash Gordon Alan Grant Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special Ekron Seven Soldiers of Victory The Multiversity Batman Watchmen Captain Atom Doctor Manhattan Renee Montoya Vic Sage Aristotle Rodor Kate Kane Denny O'Neil The Question (1986 series) Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor Osiris Teen Titans Barney the Dinosaur Booster Gold Rip Hunter Starman Cosmic Rod Lord of the Rings Kevin Smith Skeets Bottle City of Kandor 3: The Backup (28:36) Power Girl Leah Williams Adam Hughes Catwoman cover Sidney Sweeney All-Star Squadron Gerry Conway Jay Garrick Alan Scott Carrie Bradshaw Justin Gray Amanda Conner Jimmy Palmiotti Everything You Wanted to Know About Power Girl (But Were Afraid to Ask) 4: What's your favorite part of the issue? (38:50) 5: The Blackboard (40:42) Legion of Super-Heroes Chronos Robin Superman Wally Wood 6: Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (43:57) 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. Hosting for 52 Pickup is provided by Insert Credit. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster ride, and few have navigated its twists and turns with as much grit and adaptability as Vikram Shekhawat. His journey is a testament to resilience, learning, and an unwavering vision when building, scaling, and exiting his many startups. Vikram's latest venture, ModalX, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Plug and Play, Panache Ventures, Combine Venture Builders, and Thin Air Labs.
Giddyup, Jinglehorse! All-Star Gita Jackson and World's Finest Alex Jaffe sleighride into Week 33, the Christmas Issue! Celebrate Lex Luthor's memecoin launch, Batman's canonical Judaism, and lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent: Don't Have Heroes (04:42) Let's Talk About 52 #33 (19:14) The Backup (57:59) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:05:57) The Blackboard (01:08:06) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:15:25) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Brat Taylor Swift Kate Kane Joe Bennett Brad Neely You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant Severance Parks and Recreation Adam Scott Barack Obama Joe Biden Michael Schur Hillary Clinton The Good Place Grant Morrison's Substack Chris Person WeWork Collective Action Comics George W. Bush Ultimate Avengers Death & Return of Superman Bill Clinton Justice League International The Comics Journal José Antonio Muñoz Alack Sinner Sin City Ambush Bug Legion of Super-Heroes J. M. DeMatteis Greg Land Doomsday Clock Tom Derenick Joe Prado Star Trek Blackest Night Generations Shattered Dark Knights: Death Metal Rodney Ramos Jay Leisten Birds of Prey Hawkgirl Mike Baron Dick Grayson 30 Rockefeller Plaza 30 Rock Ralph Dibny Doctor Fate The Flash Barry Allen Edgar Allan Poe Jack the Ripper It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year All I Want For Christmas Is You Jingle Bell Rock Alfred Pennyworth Batman Jeanine Schaefer Dan DiDio Final Crisis Battle for the Cowl Jon Snow Knightfall Jean-Paul Valley LexCorp Lex Luthor Lorem Ipsum Mercy Graves Harley Quinn: the Animated Series Poison Ivy Talladega Nights (2006) Superman Neuralink monkey deaths Planet of the Apes Tom King Vic Sage Renee Montoya Dennis O'Neil Myra Fermin Aristotle Roder Twin Peaks David Lynch Brian Michael Bendis Buddy Baker Lois Lane Firestorm Cyborg Selena Kyle Green Arrow Black Canary Cassie Sandsmark Hawkgirl Hal Jordan Guy Gardner Nathan Fielder Nathan Fillion Red Tornado Jim Gordon John Henry Irons Christmukkah Hanukkah Black Adam Isis Osiris Amanda Waller Suicide Squad Atom Smasher Captain Boomerang Count Vertigo Plastique Electrocutioner The Persuader J'onn J'onzz Justice League Unlimited DC One Million Tom Mandrake DC Universe Infinite GlobalComix Shonen Jump Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Tokyo Ghoul Infinite Crisis Mori Calliope ComicBookReligion.com Helena Bertinelli Cry For Blood Cassandra Cain Doom Patrol Rachel Pollack Shade, the Changing Man 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. Hosting for 52 Pickup is provided by Insert Credit. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
All-Star Gita Jackson and World's Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Music Meister Paul Chin to leap into week 32, featuring talking crocodiles, the least disrespectful ways to pay homage to Watchmen, and Pulsar, Master of Sound. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (21:26) Let's Talk About the Cover (27:34) Let's Talk About 52 #32 (28:40) The Backup (01:21:03) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:23:11) The Blackboard (01:27:26) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:34:48) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Kate Kane The Nice House by the Sea Paul Chin Superman Batman Green Lantern Firestorm Infinite Crisis Superboy Cassie Sandsmark Teen Titans Marv Wolfman George Pérez Final Crisis Mary Marvel New X-Men Robin Damian Wayne Peter Tomasi Dick Grayson Joshua Williamson Ralph Dibny Identity Crisis Angelica Jade Bastién Tom King New 52 Le Transperceneige Snowpiercer (2013) Nanda Parbat Deepak Chopra Neal Adams Patrick Oliffe Drew Geraci Osiris Dan DiDio Paul Dini Harley Quinn J. G. Jones Star Wars Deadman Dennis O'Neil Ra's al Ghul Doctor Fate Kyle Rayner Green Lantern (1990 series) #93 Obi-Wan Kenobi The Great Gatsby Seven Years in Tibet (1997) Brad Pitt Limitless (2011) Young Frankenstein Más y Menos Cyborg Beast Boy Raven Duela Dent Joker Offspring The Kingdom Kingdom Come Miss Martian Supergirl Talon Pulsar, Master of Sound Vogue Red Devil Deathstroke Avengers Black Adam Animal Man Darkseid Jack Kirby Adam Strange Captain Comet Starfire Tamaran The Spectre Jean Loring Great Ten Yao Fei Vic Sage Multiversity Alan Moore Watchmen Sue Dibny Doctor Manhattan Booster Gold Hu Wei Intergang Abbott Elementary It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia David Baron Gene Luen Yang Wu Mei-Xin Barbara Gordon Blue Beetle Cully Hamner Blue Beetle (2023) Black Panther (2018) The Authority Hawkman Doomsday Clock Barry Allen Wally West Simon Spurrier Heroes in Crisis Miles Morales The O.C. Gossip Girl 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. Hosting for 52 Pickup is provided by Insert Credit. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Oy oy, wots all this then?! All-Star Gita Jackson and World's Finest Alex Jaffe flay the skin from issue 31 of 52, exploring Green Lantern cop discourse, DC reinventing the industry to screw Alan Moore, and why Jimmy Olsen is black now. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (06:26) Let's Talk About 52 #31 (10:39) The Backup (40:55) What's your favorite part of the issue? (50:35) The Blackboard (53:05) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (55:38) How DC Screwed Over Alan Moore (01:01:15) Your Reviews of 52 Pickup (01:09:02) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Isis Jewel Kryptonite Fahrenheit 451 Booster Gold Seven Soldiers of Victory Multiversity Final Crisis Chris Batista Justice Society of America Stephen Wacker Dan Green Tarzan Doctor Strange David Meikis Image Comics WildStorm Lobo Hourman Rodney Ramos Infinity, Inc. Wolfenstein series Resistance: Fall of Man Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Star Wars Alex Sinclair J. G. Jones Captain Comet Barry Allen Green Lantern Corps Zatanna Lois Lane Alan Moore Superman Marvel Buck Rogers John Carter Adam Strange Beefeaters Handsome Squidward Atrocitus Larfleeze Guardians of the Universe The CW Superman & Lois Friday Night Lights Natasha Irons Tyra Banks Hannibal Lex Luthor Gossip Girl Cassie Sandsmark Superboy Justice League (2017) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Doctor Fate Ralph Dibny NXIVM Smallville Garth Marenghi Dev-Em Nathan Fielder John Wilson Snapper Carr Jimmy Olsen LeBron James Westworld Far Sector Darkseid The Invisibles The Filth Lady Styx Sheeda Camelot Vic Sage Robin Renee Montoya Tim Drake Freddie E. Williams II James Tynion IV Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Damian Wayne Jason Todd Dick Grayson Stephanie Brown Cassandra Cain Bryan Q Miller Barbara Gordon Leslie Thompkins Batman: The Imposter Catwoman The Batman (2022) Robert Pattinson Christian Bale Nirvana In Bloom Hole Soundgarden Chris Cornell Hole - Doll Parts Mister Terrific For All Mankind Amanda Waller Bzzd Mogo Grover Green Lantern: the Animated Series Watchmen DC Heroes Doomsday Clock Watchmen (HBO series) Central City DC Adventures Dimension 20 Taylor Swift Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt Charlton Comics Blue Beetle Captain Atom Peacemaker Nightshade Crisis on Infinite Earths Dave Gibbons From Hell Jack Kirby Tom King Rorschach Steve Ditko The Visions The Black Casebook Podcast Tim Burton Batman: the Animated Series Nickelodeon Magazine 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. Hosting for 52 Pickup is provided by Insert Credit. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Astonishing Ash Parrish to strike again at 52 #30, including the return of DC's Most Toxic Yuri Couple, deciding the most fuckable Batman, and the true reason for the Dark Knight's cape. Chapters: Let's Talk About The Cover (12:11) Let's Talk About Grant Morrison's Take on Batman and A Little of 52 #30 (12:47) Let's Talk Talent (20:22) Let's Continue Talking About 52 #30, and Marvel Movies (20:39) The Backup (01:03:55) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:06:30) The Blackboard (01:10:43) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen BATMAN: YEAR ONE Animated Film - “Ladies, gentlemen, you have eaten well.” Ash Parrish insert credit Dick Grayson Ctrl + Alt + Delete Megatokyo Questionable Content Penny Arcade MC Frontalot Batman: The Animated Series Justice League Unlimited The New 52 The Authority Top 10 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again Free Comic Book Day Batman Stephen Wacker Identity Crisis Infinite Crisis Jason Todd Barbara Gordon Wonder Woman Superman Black Adam Vic Sage Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan J. G. Jones Killer Croc Tim Drake All-Star Superman Bob Kane Robin Joker Batman: A Death in the Family Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Knightfall Bane Batman: No Man's Land Dennis O'Neil Batman: Under the Hood Captain Boomerang Eat Pray Love The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert Charles Darwin Brother Eye Justice League: Doom Justice League Watchtower Joe Bennett Ruy Jose Damian Wayne Carrie Kelley Frank Miller John Byrne Dark Knight III: The Master Race Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child Rafael Grampá Watchmen Alan Moore The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen From Hell Black Lives Matter Corporation When Death Came For Frank Miller Dan DiDio Holy Terror Tom King Black Adam (2022) Leviathan Talia al Ghul New X-Men Renee Montoya Gotham Central Kate Kane Kieron Gillen The Power Fantasy Kraven the Hunter (2024) Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Anthony Mackie Captain America Falcon Young Avengers Eli Bradley The Falcon and the Winter Soldier James Gunn Superman (2025) James Gunn Superman Trailer Blue Lantern Corps The Dark Knight Trilogy Black Panther (2018) Chris Evans Fantastic Four Stilt-Man Avengers Nikola Scott Gail Simone Intergang Macavity Cats (2019) Idris Elba Ten-Eyed Man Bruno Mannheim Starfire Metal Men Duncan Rouleau Will Magnus Creature Commandos The Suicide Squad (2021) Bob Haney Batman: The Brave and the Bold Music Meister Neil Patrick Harris Wacky Races Alex Ross Kingdom Come Batman: Wayne Family Adventures CRC Payne Rip Hunter Vandal Savage Darkseid Final Crisis Guy Gardner Oliver Queen Terry McGinnis Batman Beyond Inque Maxine Gibson Dana Tan Robert Pattinson Kevin Conroy Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon George Clooney Michael Keaton Batman Returns (1992) Michelle Pfeiffer Adam West Ben Affleck Christian Bale Kendall Roy Ralph Fiennes In Bruges (2008) Tom Hardy Peaky Blinders Venom (2018) 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
This podcast episode discusses the journey of a working mom who chose homeschooling for her daughters, highlighting the flexibility, family bonding, and curriculum customization it allows. The conversation delves into concerns about traditional schooling, modern educational pressures, and the unique perspective of a law enforcement officer.• Exploration of why families choose homeschooling • Balancing work responsibilities with education • The importance of preserving childhood innocence • Concerns about educational agendas in public schools • Factors contributing to student anxiety due to testing • The flexibility of curriculum choices • The benefits of tailored education and personalized learning • Insights from a law enforcement perspective and resource officer on the impact of active shooter drills• The role of family values in educational decisions • Recognition of teachers and the challenges they face Let's Talk, Emergencies! - Cheryl's children's book, and don't forgetThe Activity Book!The Tuttle Twins - use code Cheryl40 for 40% off ages 5-11 book seriesJIBBY MUSHROOM COFFEE - try today with code CHERYL20 for 20% off!Earthley Wellness - use code HomeschoolHowTo for 10% off your first orderTreehouseSchoolhouse for your Fall Nature Study Curriculum- use promo code: THEHOMESCHOOLHOWTOPODCAST for 10% off entire order (if code puts you under free shipping limit- check out the traceable calendar to add to your order!)PLEASE SHARE the show with this link!Venmo, Ko-Fi (no fee)Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of The Homeschool How To! If you've enjoyed what you heard and you'd like to contribute to the show, please consider leaving a small tip using the link in my show's description. Or, if you'd rather, please use the link in the description to share this podcast with a friend or on your favorite homeschool group Facebook page. Any effort to help us keep the podcast going is greatly appreciated. Thank you for tuning in and for your love of the next generation.Support the showInstagram: TheHomeschoolHowToPodcast Facebook: The Homeschool How To Podcast
Dick Death Determined via Dan DiDio! The Dynamic Duo of Podcasting Gita and Alex feast on issue 29, cooking up opinions on Grant Morrison's writing of women, the importance of Thanksgiving tables in DC history, and some unsubtle jabs at the idea of IP rights by the authors of 52. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (08:45) Let's Talk About 52 #29 (11:48) What's your favorite part of the issue? (32:53) The Blackboard (36:50) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (45:49) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Countdown to Final Crisis Stephen Wacker Final Crisis Paul Dini Batman: the Animated Series Multiversity Shonen Jump Lex Luthor Komi Can't Communicate Jamie McKelvie One For Sorrow Alan Moore Stargirl JSA The X-Files Barenaked Ladies - One Week Chris Batista Jack Jadson Reign of the Supermen Egg Fu Alan Scott Jay Garrick Wildcat No Country for Old Men (2007) Jade Rann-Thanagar War Infinite Crisis Monkey D. Luffy Goku Infinity Inc. Nuklon Spider-Man Obsidian Batman Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Doctor Sivana T. O. Morrow Black Adam Will Magnus Veronica Cale Jenna Maroney Jezebel Jet Emma Frost New X-Men Megan Thee Stallion Talia al Ghul James Gunn League of Shadows Dennis O'Neal Batman: Birth of the Demon Intergang Jack Kirby Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1979) John Henry Irons Beast Boy Nightwing Dan DiDio Tom Taylor Superman Robin The Batman (2022) Batman Begins (2005) Tim Burton Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman Zoë Kravitz The Penguin Burgess Meredith Batman (60's tv show) Adam West Elliot Kalan Harley Quinn Forbidden Planet Todd MacFarlane Platinum Collection The Question Starman Zatara Superman & Lois Greg Berlanti Arrow Smallville Crisis on Infinite Earths The CW Gossip Girl The Vampire Diaries Interview with the Vampire Criterion Channel Tyler Hoechlin Hellboy Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense Chase Sugar & Spike Green Lantern Mike Mignola Hellblazer John Constantine Garth Ennis L.A. Noire Superman Returns Batman: The Telltale Series 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
A crocodile ate my parents! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with Emerald Artist Ted Brandt of Connor Hawke's DC Pride story, tackling Australia's place in DC, why Etrigan can't rap, and Jason Todd's tragic origins. Chapters: Let's Talk Supernatural, Connor Hawke, and Rereading 52 (05:09) Let's Talk Talent (23:12) Let's Talk About 52 #28 (23:42) The Backup (46:18) What's your favorite part of the issue? (51:21) The Blackboard (53:11) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:01:49) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen The Question: All Along the Watchtower Alex Segura Crowded DC Pride Connor Hawke Ted Brandt Harley Quinn Pokémon Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Mewtwo Vampire Survivors DC Heroes United Bluesky Phantom Zone Marvel Batman Superman Blitzkrieg Robert Kanigher James Gunn John Ostrander The Suicide Squad (2021) T.O. Morrow Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Robert E. O. Speedwagon Green Arrow Andrea Shea Chuck Dixon Jadzia Axelrod Galaxy: The Prettiest Star Ghost-Maker Supernatural The West Wing The Vampire Diaries Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Buffy the Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon The Boys Garth Ennis Red Tornado Will Magnus Tyler, the Creator Common Chip Zdarsky Etrigan Batman: Damned MF Doom Drew Johnson David Baron Stephen Wacker Vic Sage Renee Montoya Batwoman Poison Ivy Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Mad Max PlayStation 2 Storm Kurt Busiek Brad Meltzer Vision Young Justice Jujutsu Kaisen Tom Taylor Intergang Lobo Emerald Head of Ekron Devilance Legion of Super-Heroes New Gods Cosmos Blackest Night Annihilation Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle (2023) Green Lantern Corps Tatsuki Fujimoto Chainsaw Man Stuart Immonen Kathryn Immonen Moving Pictures The Final Night Hal Jordan Nextwave Adam Strange Animal Man Bruno Mannheim J. H. Williams III Killer Croc Jason Todd Egg Fu Alan Scott Catman Gail Simone Dale Eaglesham Secret Six Villains United Infinite Crisis Kraven the Hunter (2024) Birds of Prey Rag Doll Huntress The Punisher The Guild Felicia Day Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Crime Bible: Five Books of Blood Vandal Savage Australia Invasion! Superman II (1980) Rob Williams Suicide Squad David Ayer Captain Boomerang Rip Hunter Hitman Tommy Monaghan Catwoman DC One Million Joker Stitch Xanthe Zhou Julien Jourdain Taylor Barzelay Bobby Drake Cassandra Cain Stephanie Brown Tim Drake Kelly Thompson King Shark Dennis O'Neil Lois Lane Guy Gardner Bill Burr Batman: the Animated Series This American Life Wonder Woman Tom King Power Rangers Infinity #1 Sam Humphries Titans: Beast World 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Merry Crispmus! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe find acceptance of the self in #27 of 52, as well as vengeance for Identity Crisis, good reasons to quit smoking, and why Dan DiDio may actually be Lex Luthor. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent, Industry Machinations, and Poaching Steve Wacker (02:58) Let's Talk About 52 #27 (14:16) The Backup (41:50) What's your favorite part of the issue? (47:53) The Blackboard (52:46) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (57:05) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Absolute Wonder Woman Rashomon (1950) Stephen Wacker Marvel Comics Slugfest by Reed Tucker Alan Moore Dan DiDio Lex Luthor Dick Grayson Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Shawn Moll Booster Gold Frank Grimes Ruy Jose Nelson DeCastro Mariah Benes Rodney Ramos Prentis Rollins Michael Siglain Gokurakugai Shonen Jump Joker: One Operation Joker James Tynion IV Ralph Dibny Identity Crisis The Spectre Gotham Central James Corrigan Crispus Allen Day of Vengeance Infinite Crisis Doctor Fate Green Arrow Kevin Smith Hal Jordan Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster Superman Hashem Book of Job Sue Dibny Atom Jean Loring Eclipso Oracle Batman: The Killing Joke John Ostrander Jason Todd Robin Batman Waverider Heroes Skeets Renee Montoya Richard Dragon Aristotle Rodor Intergang Vic Sage Kurt Busiek JLA/Avengers Kate Kane Pete Pantazis Final Crisis Black Mirror Red Tornado Black Canary Howard Chaykin American Flagg! Babs Tarr Greg Land Birds of Prey (1998 series) Ultimate Fantastic Four Tyra Banks Tom King Wonder Woman Lois Lane John Byrne Birds of Prey (2023 series) Big Barda Mister Miracle Deathstroke Joker Greg Cox Black Adam Will Magnus One Piece Watchmen V for Vendetta From Hell Frank Miller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Batman: Year One Cormac McCarthy Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child Rafael Grampá Dennis O'Neil David Mazzucchelli Asterios Polyp Seven Soldiers of Victory New X-Men Neil Gaiman insert credit Aftermath.site 404 Media Defector Hearing Things Armageddon 2001 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Brian Cooley is the Chief Marketing Officer at PlayVS, a leading scholastic esports platform in North America, where he brings over 25 years of experience in marketing. His marketing career began in the automotive industry with Land Rover North America, where he spent three years focusing on customer relationship marketing and retail operations. Brian then transitioned to the tech industry, spending six years with IBM. He continued his tech-focused trajectory at Blackboard, where he served as Senior Director of Global Marketing Services before advancing to Vice President of Global Demand Generation. Brian spent the next nine years as CMO at EverFi, deepening his role in edtech by leading the company's marketing strategy. Now, in his first year as CMO of PlayVS, he leverages his rich background in edtech and marketing to drive growth and expand the platform's reach in the competitive scholastic esports market.PlayVS was founded in 2018 and is now a leading esports platform in North America, partnering with the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to provide and host organized competitive gaming in high schools across all 50 U.S. states and Canada. As of November 2023, PlayVS expanded access by removing enrollment fees for its state and regional leagues, making participation free for high schools. This initiative has likely increased the number of participating schools, which was around 4,000 as of late 2023.In today's show, Alan and Brian dive into the booming market for collegiate and scholastic esports, exploring how partnerships with professional sports leagues are creating new opportunities for access and growth. They also discuss PlayVS's collaboration with the Special Olympics to increase accessibility for students and why esports and gaming are essential areas for marketers to watch closely.In this episode, you'll learn:How marketing to the new generations changes the gameWhy marketers should pay attention to esports and gamingWhat to consider when partnering with an influencerKey Highlights:[01:37] How growing up in many different countries has influenced you[03:03] The most interesting meal from your travels[04:52] Career path to PlayVS[08:33] What is PlayVS[10:35] How PlayVS got started[15:17] The esports that PlayVS focuses on[17:42] Partnerships with pro sports[20:35] Partnership with the Special Olympics[22:17] Why marketers should care about esports and gaming[26:02] Experience from your past that defines you[28:10] Advice to your younger self[30:12] A topic that you and other marketers need to learn more about[32:29] Trends or subcultures others should follow[34:45] Largest opportunity or threat to marketers todayLooking for more?Visit our website for the full show notes, links to resources mentioned in this episode, and ways to connect with the guest! Become a member today and listen ad-free, visit https://plus.acast.com/s/marketingtoday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Have you ever met with someone and experienced an explosion of ideas, excitement, and encouragement? I call Sig Behrens “the Spark” because he ignites in people a spirit of possibility and empowers them to do more than they imagined. Sig is CEO of Permuta Technologies, tech industry veteran (former Microsoft, Blackboard), and entrepreneur founder of multiple businesses. My discussion with Sig explores how he is able to be that spark as a leader that creates untold value and drives results. Sig discusses how his experiences early in his life shaped him, the importance of empowering your team from day one, and getting to know people - your team and customers - and their motivations. Sig shares helpful frameworks including C.I.A - challenge, interest, aptitude - to apply to career decisions. Sig is an extraordinary leader motivated by “making the news.” He consistently says that it's his team that gets all the credit for the significant success he has enjoyed. While that may be true, Sig's spark provides a gift to everyone around him, lighting a fire of achievement that builds confidence and a sense of wonder. During this episode, Sig references Simon Sinek's Find Your Why. Executive Access is produced by The Ideal Life, a platform that provides coaching, community, and content for people to grow both personally and professionally.
In today's episode of The Bill Barnwell Show, Bill explains what's happening in Chicago, including if Caleb Williams can turn it around and whether coaching changes will improve the state of the Bears in this week's Bill's Blackboard. Next, The 33rd Team writer Dan Pizzuta joins the show to break down the battle between the Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams. They discuss the offensive staples for Miami and how Tyreek Hill opens up areas for other receivers. Then, they tackle the letdown of the Los Angeles Rams offense and the interesting decision-making in the Sean McVay Era. Plus, they discuss the surprising rise of the Arizona Cardinals and if they are for real. Later, they discuss how the Chargers' defense has shown the biggest improvement and Justin Herbert's growth. All that and more! 0:15 Bill's Blackboard: Struggles of the Chicago Bears & will coaching changes be the fix? 11:08 Offensive victory of the Miami Dolphins 20:30 Struggles of the Los Angeles Rams 38:30 Breakout teams: Arizona Cardinals 50:41 Breakout teams: Los Angeles Chargers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's a two-turkey dinner! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe reach the halfway point of 52, where they encounter Crockamurderer, draft an all-new teen superhero team, and reveal whether or not drug-sniffing dogs react to vacuum-sealed smoked turkey legs. Chapters: Is it pronounced Raahs al Ghul, or Raysh al Ghul? (01:18) Let's Talk About The Cover, and hear some commentary from the creators of 52! (08:38) Let's Talk Talent (18:50) Let's Talk About 52 #26 (25:25) The Backup (53:57) What's your favorite part of the issue? (57:14) The Blackboard (58:54) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:05:13) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Ra's al Ghul Batman Begins (2005) Batman: The Animated Series Arrow Lazarus Pit Neal Adams Dennis O'Neil Batman Iron Man 3 (2013) Fu Manchu Mandarin Batman: Birth of the Demon Norm Breyfogle Vine Lana Lang Interview with the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt Jack Ryder Martian Manhunter Black Adam Tom King Strange Adventures (2019 series) Jenny Sparks Pat Olliffe Drew Geraci Skeets Pete Pantazis Image Comics WildStorm Final Crisis Darkseid DC One Million Beautia Sivana From Lost Harold Perrineau Victor Sage Renee Montoya Isis Congorilla Starman Detective Chimp Deadman Superman Richard Dragon Aristotle Rodor Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter David Carradine Bronze Tiger Lady Shiva Liam Neeson Huntress Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood Bill O'Reilly Jon Stewart Steve Ditko Spider-Man Livewire Lex Luthor Wonder Woman John Henry Irons Natasha Irons Doctor Sivana Fawcett Comics Venus Sivana Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. Georgia Sivana Revenge of the Nerds (1984) Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) Frieza Tony Tulathimutte Rejection Vincent Valentine Final Fantasy VII Auron Final Fantasy X Waverider Kris Kardashian Osiris Oolong Island T. O. Morrow Veronica Cale Marisa Tomei Killer Croc Tawky Tawny Captain Marvel Hawkman Hawkgirl Hawkgirl (2023 series) Joe Bennett Jimmy Palmiotti Hawkman (2002 series) Thanagar Doom Patrol (2009 series) Hawkman (2018 series) Robert Venditti John Ostrander Daily Planet Lois Lane Young Justice Impulse Connor Hawke Green Arrow Chuck Dixon Music Meister Secret Blue Beetle Shining Knight Knights of the Round Table Jessica Cruz Robin Green Lantern The Reach The Lord of the Rings Excalibur X-Men Knights of the Round 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
When you read about our guest this time, Lisa Kohn, the first thing you read is “The best seats Lisa ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother's wedding, and the best cocaine she ever had was from her father's friend, the judge.” Lisa's mother's wedding was a group affair with 4,000 marriages taking place. It wasn't nearly as romantic as one might think as you will discover. You will also get to read about her childhood drug use caused by her father in The Village in New York City. More important, you get to travel with me on Lisa's journey as she eventually overcomes these and other challenges. Lisa did get to attend college and obtain a degree in Psychology and later an MBA in business. Lisa's journey has been a hard and long one, but you will see just how unstoppable Lisa became and is today. She started her leadership consulting and life coaching business, Chatworth Consulting Group, in 1995. The business has thrived and grown. Lisa shares with us her thoughts on life and how easy it can be for all of us to fall into traps that can take our lives in what she would call bad directions and down not good rabbit holes. This episode contains a lot of relevant content we all can use. I hope you enjoy it and, of course, feel free to reach out to Lisa. About the Guest: Lisa Kohn is a transformational keynote speaker, leadership consultant, executive coach, and award-winning author of The Power of Thoughtful Leadership and to the moon and back: a childhood under the influence, a memoir that chronicles her childhood growing up in the Unification Church (the Moonies) with her mom and a life of “sex, drugs, and squalor” in New York City's East Village with her dad. Lisa's unique background has given her a perspective on life, people, and leadership, as well as an expansive array of tools, mind-shifts, and best practices she's found and created, that help her clients find their own paths to powerful, authentic, Thoughtful leadership. With over 25 years of experience supporting senior leaders in areas such as leadership, managing change, interpersonal and team dynamics, strategy, well-being, and life-fulfillment, Lisa partners with her clients as they not only uncover core issues to implement real changes in themselves and their organizations, but also successfully address their own inner challenges and effectively connect with others to ensure the changes stick. Lisa has been described as “leading with love,” and she's honored to teach C-suite leaders of not-for-profits and Fortune 50 organizations about the compelling impact of self-compassion, self-love, fun, delight, and Thoughtful Leadership – being more present, intentional, and authentic. She works with organizations across a broad range of industries, in companies such as New York City Department of Education, GroupM/WPP, Verizon, World Wrestling Entertainment, American Civil Liberties Union, and Comcast. Lisa brings insight to clients that transforms the way organizations develop and manage their people and the way leaders lead their people and live their lives. Lisa earned her BA in psychology from Cornell University and her MBA from Columbia University's Executive Program. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and New York University's Stern School of Business and has been featured in publications addressing topics on leadership, communication, effective teaming, authenticity, selfcare, and, of course, healing from trauma. She has been awarded the designation of Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. Lisa is an Accredited Facilitator for Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, The Leadership Circle™, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. Lisa lives in Pennsylvania but will always tell you that she is “from New York.” Ways to connect with Lisa: Instagram and X @lisakohnwrites LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisakohnccg/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lisakohnwrites My websites are www.lisakohnwrites.com and www.chatsworthconsulting.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi, once again, you are listening to another episode of unstoppable mindset, and today, we get to speak with Lisa Kohn, who is the founder of the Chatsworth Consulting Group. She leads with love. Many people say she deals with nonprofits, C suite, people and others, and dealing with business coaching, life coaching, and I'm not going to tell you anymore, because she's going to spend the next hour telling us all about it. So Lisa, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We are really glad you're here. Lisa Kohn ** 01:55 I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you for having me, Michael, Michael Hingson ** 01:58 now I do have to tell everyone. I'm going to tell on you that we were talking before we started this. Lisa's had to postpone a couple times because she had a concussion, which in in a way, relates to skiing. And having never skied myself, I love to spread the rumor that the trees are out to get us all the time. So one of these days I'll probably ski but but in the meanwhile, my brother in law is as a great skier, and was a certified mountain ski guide for years, and I always tell him that the trees are out to get us, and he can not convince me otherwise, no matter what he says. And he says, No, it's really you the skier. And I said, That's what you say. So you know, that's my conspiracy theory of the day, Lisa Kohn ** 02:37 but I will tend to believe it, because not this concussion, but the last concussion I did, ski into a tree, and I don't know how. I really don't know how. So I am convinced maybe to come out to get me. That makes sense. See, Michael Hingson ** 02:51 there you go. I rest my case. Everyone. You're welcome to let us know what you think, but it is fun to tease about it. My brother in law used to take tours to France, and was, as I said, a certified mountain ski guide, and has done it for years in the winter in Ketchum, Idaho, where he lives, it is all about skiing first foremost and always, and everything else comes second. So that's fine. Well, Lisa, why don't we start by you telling us a little about the early Lisa, I love to start that way. Learn a little bit about you growing up and all that stuff and going to college or whatever you did and anything like that that you want to tell Lisa Kohn ** 03:31 us. Well, I will do that. It's it's not the simplest story. So I'll give you the overview and the highlights, and then we can move on or go deeper, or whatever works for you. So I love lines, right? I have a line that describes my childhood. I say the best seats I ever had at Madison Square Garden were at my mother's wedding because my mom got married in 1982 with 4074 other people in a mass wedding. I was raised Unification Church, the Moonies. I was raised in a cult. So that's that's my life with my mom. And on the other hand, the best cocaine I ever had was for my father's friend, the judge. Because my dad, I lived with my dad and my dad. Life with my dad was, as I like to say, sex, drugs and squalor in New York City's East Village in the 1970s so I am, I am like this true child of the 60s and 70s, because both my parents were involved in the, you know, the hippie culture and then the cult culture of that era. So very short. You know, very long story, very short. After that synopsis, my parents got married way too young. Had my brother had me split up. We lived with my mom for a number of years, and when I was in third grade, we were about to we lived on the East Coast. Of America. We lived in Jersey, and we were about to move drive across country to California to move on to a commune. And my grandmother, my mom's mom, got sick with cancer, and so instead we moved, instead of cross country, moved across state and moved in with my grandparents and lived there. My grandmother died. My mom stayed with we stayed with my grandfather. My mom was taking care of the house and of him. And in 1974 my mom went to hear, actually, the person she with whom she said, hitchhik, cross country with every year, called her and said, You have to go hear Reverend Moon speak. And my mom went to hear Reverend Moon speak and came back a changed person, just enthralled with what she'd heard. And not much happened. And then a couple months later, members of the Unification Church convinced my mom to go up for a weekend workshop, and my mom went away for the weekend and came back and went back up for a week and came back and went back up and basically spent the summer being indoctrinated into the unification Church's ideology. And then, you know, somewhere that summer, my mom took us, my brother, I have an older brother, took my brother, and I have with her, and we the estates called barrytown, New York. We pull up to this estate. This this huge building. It used to be a Christian brother school, and we go down into the gymnasium, and all the women, the sisters, are sitting on the floor on the right side of the room, and all the brothers, the men, are sitting on the floor on the left side of the room. And with moments Moon Reverend Sam young moon walks in and begins speaking with his interpreter, and that was it. I had a Messiah, and we were Moonies, and again, synopsized down. Within about six months, my mom sat my brother and I down and said, kids, I really feel called to be more involved. What should I do? And we said, you should leave. And so she left, and we were with my grandfather, and I was in sixth grade and running the household. And then my grandfather, due to a variety of different things, was put in the hospital on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and we got shuffled around for a little while. And finally, my father came to get us, and we moved in with him in New York City, disease village, the life of sex, drugs and scholar, and live this dual life of like living the outside world with Satan and believing in a Messiah and a puritanical cult. And that continued for a number of years, until I can go into the details at some point. But through this whole soap opera experience, I started to eventually question. And we were literally taught if that, if we ever questioned, it was Satan inside of us, but I fully questioned and pulled away, and over the space of many years, kind of left it all behind. And yeah, went to college. I was, you know, I started questioning in my last year of high school, and then I went up to college. I was at Cornell University, and, you know, it's surrounded with gorges, and nearly jumped off the bridge into the gorge as I kind of self destructed having when I left the church. And, you know, went on to get worse and worse and worse in kind of my own psyche, until I really crashed and burned, and someone pointed me in the direction of getting help in the mid to late 80s, and it's been a journey ever since. So there, that's the that's the 10 minute version of, you know, what's in my memoir? Michael Hingson ** 08:14 What a story. What's your memoir called Lisa Kohn ** 08:18 to the moon and back the influence, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 08:21 yeah. So what about your brother? Lisa Kohn ** 08:22 My brother? My brother, uh, he so I, my brother likes to say, I never actually left, I just slowly drifted away. And that was, you know, from like 1980 through 1985 my brother, who's a year and a half older than me, a year ahead of me, in school, he, when he was in college, he was in a place that was truly surrounded with with there were Moonies there who knew him. So he could not leave. But as soon as he got out of college, he went to Drew University. He literally sat my mom down and said, That's it. I'm out. So he he announced being out. I still haven't told anyone I'm out. And he is, you know. So he's also happy and thriving. And he lives in New York City, you know, very eager to get out of the city. I got out of the city years ago. Yeah. So we're still, well, there's a lot Go ahead. Go ahead. No, go ahead. No. He's the only person who experienced the weird dichotomy going back and forth between these two crazy worlds that I did. So, yeah, we're very close. Michael Hingson ** 09:18 There's, there's a lot to be said for the city, and there's a lot that the city can contribute. But on the other hand, there are so many other parts of the country. I met a woman when my wife and I moved back to New Jersey, I stayed at an apartment for a while in Linden. I'm sorry, no, where was it? Not Lyndon, well, anyway, it was north of Springfield in New Jersey, and this woman, well, we met her because we were staying at a Holiday Inn in Springfield at the time, and she was one of the people who worked there. And she also. Then came to help me in just making sure my apartment was good and clean until Karen moved back and we had our house, and one of the things that we learned from her was that her whole life, she lived in the Springfield area and had never been to New York City, less than 40 miles away. Lisa Kohn ** 10:20 Yeah, people Michael Hingson ** 10:21 are afraid of it. Yeah, there's elizabeth new jersey, where I lived until Karen came back, and then we we had started and built a house in Westfield. But I'm always amazed, and I know of people who live in the city who have never been out. 10:35 That is true as well. Yes, and there's Michael Hingson ** 10:38 so much more to the world, and I just love the fact that I've had the opportunity as a speaker to travel all over this country and enjoy going and meeting new people and seeing new places and seeing so many different aspects of our whole US culture. It's great, Lisa Kohn ** 10:55 absolutely true. There's so much to be said for a lot of different places and and I will always be a New Yorker at heart. Michael Hingson ** 11:01 Well, there you go. There you go. And there's nothing wrong with being a New Yorker at heart. No, I was born in Chicago, but I grew up being a Californian and and I am, and I'm a Dodger fan, but you know, there you go. Of course, there are those who say that the Dodgers, one day will move back to New York, Lisa Kohn ** 11:19 back to Brooklyn. We'll Michael Hingson ** 11:20 see what happens. Yeah, hasn't happened yet. So what did you major in college? Lisa Kohn ** 11:26 I was a psychology major. Michael Hingson ** 11:27 Ah, okay, so now, where do you live? Lisa Kohn ** 11:31 I live in Wayne, Pennsylvania, outside of, Michael Hingson ** 11:34 okay, I know where that is. So that's, that's pretty cool. So you, you certainly had a life that has had a lot of experiences. And I would think that you probably would agree that, yes, there were a lot of things that weren't necessarily great, but they taught you a lot, and it certainly helps you to be able to step back and think about all that and put it in perspective Lisa Kohn ** 12:01 that is true, you know, I am. It's not quite the point you're making. But alongside that, similar to that, you know, when, again, when the memoir came out, people started reaching out to me. And some, you know, late teenager, young adult, I don't really remember, the age, Stranger reached out to me and was kind of giving me the lowdown of a situation, which was, you know, hard, lot of trauma, a lot of lot of tough stuff. And I said, What I often say is, like, I wouldn't wish difficulties and struggles or trauma on anyone, sure, but I do know that when you get through, you know, if you can get through, when you can get through, you have an appreciation of life that people who haven't experienced hardship don't really have so, like, I can look outside, I mean, I love the little gold finches. I can look outside and see a little yellow bird, or actually have about 40 in the house at this point, because people keep sending them to me, right? And I am just filled with joy because I've learned, like, I know how, how low can go. And so even just just okay is really great at times. So so it's a similar thing to what you said, right? You have a perspective. You have a you have, you know, coping mechanisms, some that are wonderful and some that are you really could let go of and be done with. But yeah, I do. I feel like I have more of an appreciation for life and joy and love than some people have who haven't had to go through things. Michael Hingson ** 13:25 I spoke to a life coach on the podcast a couple of days ago, actually. And one of the things that she said, and it's really kind of what you're saying, is that the fact is, she's much better at what she does because she has had a number of life experiences and things happen in her life, and if she hadn't done some of the things that she did and experienced some of the things that she experienced, she would never have been able to be nearly as effective as she is, Lisa Kohn ** 14:02 yeah, you know, before my memoir was published in 2018 I generally never brought up my background in my work, because it, once you say cult, it literally, it sucks the energy out of the room like nothing else matters when you say I was raised in A cult and but once it came out, and if you Google me, you know, before I walk in a room, if you look me up, you know my story, because I'm very public with it at this point, I now get to use it in all of my work, and I get to use what I've experienced, and the multitude of tools and practices and mindsets and positive psychology and neuroplasticity and mindfulness and all of the things I have learned over the years to be okay and to thrive. I get to use it in in like in the most corporate work I do, I'm still bringing up, you know, teaching people. To take care of themselves and love themselves and love themselves first. Most, you know, always, like, is tattooed on my arm, like, really, to change their perspective of themselves, to start and off in the world. So yeah, if I, if I hadn't gone through what I gone through, I wouldn't be who I am, and I wouldn't get to share some of the things I get to share. So yeah, that's and that's why I do it. If sharing my story helps other people, then it's all worthwhile. And yeah, that's why I do it. Michael Hingson ** 15:26 And I I hear that very well. And going back to what we were discussing the other day, Mary Beth and I, she starts her story by saying she took her first drink at the age of 11, and she decided that she liked the taste of alcohol and was an alcohol for alcoholic, or was a drunk for many years. And actually she's near 50, and she only quit four and a half years ago, she became, she became a life coach six years ago, although she was always interested in helping people, but she began to make that her business, and did so six years ago, and she is very clear that having adopted that philosophy and process and undertaking that career, even though it was much later in life, the bottom line is that it did lead to her finally recognizing that she shouldn't drink, and that's not a good thing, and she has not had a drink in four and a half years. Good for her. That's so it is all about what you experience and what you choose to do with it. So I hear you, you know, I Lisa Kohn ** 16:33 hear her. Yeah, last so this is 2024, so two years ago, what you experienced, I was diagnosed by cancer, and you never think you're going to be one of the people who have cancer, until they say cancer to you, and you're thinking, aren't you talking to the person behind me? And I heard, you know, when I was going through the process and going through chemo, which I do not recommend to anyone, unless you absolutely have to do it, I heard a saying from a dialectical behavioral therapy, therapist who did pass from cancer, but the saying was, I will take more from cancer than cancer takes for me. And that, that that just carried me through, right? And I you can look at that with everything, like all the all the different things we experience, I will. I remember when I was first diagnosed, a practitioner said to me, why do you think you got sick? As in, like, what hadn't I healed that caused the cancer? And I, I stopped going to that practitioner, and I very clearly, I've looked at this and I thought, it's never going to help me to think, what did I do wrong, that I had cancer, that I got cancer, I got sick, but it will help me to say I did get sick. And what do I want to learn from that, and how do I want to change and shift and grow from that? So exactly right, Michael Hingson ** 17:45 yeah, and like I always say to people, I'm my own best teacher. I've dropped saying I'm my own worst critic, because such a negative thing, and you don't necessarily have something to criticize, but I'm my own best teacher. I can look at anything I do and go, can I improve on it? How can I improve on it? And adopting the mindset that takes that approach really makes us stronger? Lisa Kohn ** 18:11 Yes, it's called a growth mindset, right? And when we have a growth mindset, when we know that we can grow, when we know that we can learn, when we and yeah, when we stop being so hard on ourselves, like so many of us are, Michael Hingson ** 18:23 yeah, and we learned that, and that's unfortunate that that's what we're taught, and it's so hard to break that cycle, but if you can, you're all the better for it, Lisa Kohn ** 18:33 absolutely and to, you know, I'm, I mean, I teach this stuff. I've been teaching this stuff for a long time. I've been using it for decades, and just today, I was watching my mind go down a rabbit hole of some negative thinking and thinking and thinking that wasn't going to help me and also. And I pause. I'm like, I was driving. I'm like, I put my hand on my leg. I'm like, Lisa, you're right here. You're right now. You're in the car. Look the sky. Pay attention to the road. You don't have to think that right now. You can just be in this present moment and feel better and poof, like magic, the crazy thinking stops, and you're like, Oh yeah, it's actually okay. I don't have to worry about that right now. But, um, yeah, our brains, our brains, we have that, like we have a negativity bias. Our brains are trained, have evolved to, like, look for danger. Focus on danger. Really think about the bad. Play it over and over. See it bigger than it is. Never look at the good. We're as Rick Hansen likes to say, Velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good. But we have a choice to shift that. So I feel like I'm preaching. Sorry, but I get excited about Michael Hingson ** 19:34 it is it is perfectly okay to preach, and it is all about choice, as I tell people all the time, we had no control over the World Trade Center happening. No one's ever convinced me that we could have really foreseen it and not have it happen. But what we all, each and every person in the world, has a choice about, is how we deal with what happened at the World Trade Center, absolutely and how. We move forward or choose not to. And I've seen all sides of that. I've seen people who talk about the conspiracy of the World Trade Center. It really didn't happen. The government did it in so many different things. And I met one guy who had been a firefighter, and he decided to change careers and become a police officer because he wanted to go kill terrorists who were trying to deal with our country would not be the reason I would choose to go to often be a police officer. He did it because his brother was killed in the World Trade Center. But still, there were so many more positive reasons to do it, but that was his goal at the time, and I don't know, having never seen him since, whether that has changed, but it is still just always a matter of we can choose, and do have the right to choose. God gives us that right. That's why we have free will to choose how we want to deal with things or not. Lisa Kohn ** 20:55 It is what it is, and what will I do with it, and how will I be with it? And yeah, yeah, and I can accept it, and then what do I want to do about it? Yeah? Yeah. All true. All true. Michael Hingson ** 21:06 So what did you do after college? So you got a degree in psychology, so I got a degree in psychology, started to psychoanalyze gold finches, but, okay, Lisa Kohn ** 21:15 you started to psycholize goldfinches. I just love my gold finches. Yeah, it's funny because when I when I was when I was writing the book, and there was a in my town, there's a author who lives here, kind of took me under her wing, and at one point she turned to me, she said, Do you realize, like, everything you experienced as a child and then you majored in psychology, and like, yeah, never dawned on me that I needed to cycle analyze myself, but I did. I got out of Cornell, and on the personal side. I very soon got engaged to someone who my dad, at that point, owned a restaurant, a French restaurant, and I got engaged as someone who worked for him and drank with him, and drank a heck of a lot, and was very not nice when he drank. And you know someone your cousin lovingly pointed me in the direction of the direction of the 12 step programs and to Alan on the 12 step program. For those of us with our arms, class Brown, the alcoholic and I crawled into my first meeting practically on my hands and knees, thinking like, tell me if he's an alcoholic, there's no way I would ever be with an alcoholic. I'm too smart for that, only to realize that there were tons of reasons why I would be and so that's that started my healing growth trajectory and journey. And on the professional side, I did a six month stint in direct mail, back when there was direct mail, a direct mail company, and then a six month stint in address, you know, do in advertising, the advertising agency, and then after that, got a job doing entertainment advertising for a small division of gray advertising, which I dearly, dearly loved. It was fun, it was exciting, it was a lot of good things, but I ended up getting I was running the Good Morning America account, and I ended up there wasn't enough work to fill me, but my boss wouldn't take me off the account because the client adored me, so they didn't want to move me. So I got really, really bored, and I decided to go to business school. And I somehow convinced my boss to convince his boss, the head of the whole agency, to send me to Columbia's Executive MBA Program, which you had to be sponsored by your A by your company, and they had to pay for part of it. And that just wasn't, didn't happen in the advertising world. I remember one of my professors once said, You're they eat, they're young in your industry, don't they like you. Just you did not, and they did not invest in you, but they did. They invested in me, and I went, I got my MBA in Columbia's Executive MBA Program, and there, found the disciplines where I now work in leadership and organizational behavior and organizational development, and began to have confidence in my own voice, business wise, and what I knew, and this is maybe why they don't invest you. I got out of the program, and within not too many months, quit, and I went to work, actually, for a large not for profit fundraising organization, which, you know, because I was like, I'm good, I'm smart, I'm going to go do good for the world. And I ended up in a job where, once again, I just it didn't engage me enough. And I literally had a boss who liked to fight with me, because he thought I was good at fighting, and I was just really not happy. And so then in 1995 I, you know, talked to a couple of so long ago, in 1995 I was talking to a couple of my professors saying, you know, I want to do leadership, and can I be a consultant? And they said, Yeah, go ahead, you can do it. And gave me a few gigs to start. And I, I was three months pregnant with my first child, and I hung out a shingle with Chatsworth Consulting Group and started doing leadership, not actually knowing what that was, and do it, a lot of training and different, different jobs. So I actually, I was, like, hugely pregnant, and I was, I almost. Took a job teaching computer skills for American Express at a very low rate, because I was just I was like, I say, I'm a consultant, but I'm not actually doing anything. And I luckily didn't take that job, that gig. And soon thereafter, I started getting different projects from former professors, and I've been doing and growing the business ever since, and of the 1998 I think I was in front of a client doing, you know, teaching leadership skills or doing some sort of program, and the head of the head of the agency, came over to me and said, I want to be you. Do you coach? And I said, Yeah, I coach. And I went and got coach. I got certified as a coach in the late 90s, before anyone was coaching. And yeah, I've been doing it ever since. And I say, you know, when I am not working, I never want to work, and when I am working, I never want to stop. So I'm that was actually true. That's true since I got sick. So I'm either certifiable or I figured something out. I happen to love what I do. I happen to get to make a difference in people's lives. And yeah, that's, that's my those are my stories Michael Hingson ** 26:02 where the name Chatsworth consulting came from. Yeah, so Lisa Kohn ** 26:06 when I founded the company, that is a good question. The funny thing is, when I founded the company, every good name I thought of was already taken, which is actually good, because the what I do and how I do it has so evolved over the years, over the decades, but I lived on Chatsworth Avenue. That's where I lived at the time. And what makes it extra special is, at that point, my you know, someone I met, I literally met my business partner on our first day going to Columbia's executive program. We met on the subway because I introduced myself to her, and she lived in the same building as I did on Chatsworth Avenue. She wasn't my partner at the time, and then number of years later, she said, Can I join you? And so she joined me in 2002 but so now it has even more meaning, because we were both Chatsworth, but it just it was the street on which I lived, because I couldn't come up with any other names, and I didn't want to say Lisa Conan associates. So that's it. Michael Hingson ** 26:55 Hey, man, that works. Lisa Kohn ** 26:56 Hey, what else Michael Hingson ** 26:57 you said? You said you're the guy you were engaged to, drink. Is he still your, your your husband? No, Lisa Kohn ** 27:03 I managed. Wondered about that. Yeah, no. You know, I was a I can tell you I was sitting in an Al Anon meeting. You know, I postponed the wedding, but I was still sticking it out. And I was sobbing my way through some lunchtime meeting in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. And someone came over to me at the end of the meeting, and he said, you know, there are no victims, there are only volunteers. And I was like, Oh, I don't actually have to do this. And so, you know, when you're raised like I was, if I start talking about religious trauma and extremist thinking I was raised, I literally we were raised to live for the sake of others, to sacrifice everything for God and our True Parents, Reverend and Mrs. Moon, and saving the world. And that if we didn't, if we didn't, you know, live to the expectations we were supposed to, we would break God's heart. So I was raised to be a heavenly soldier. You know, when again, my mom left, and, you know, I couldn't cry, I couldn't miss her, couldn't be sad, couldn't be mad. It was all for God. So I just learned that I would do no matter what. And I till this day, I say, if you put something in front of me, I will do it. I will do it extremely well, even if it takes me down in the process, which isn't as true, because I've learned a lot since I got sick. But that used to be me, and so I was engaged to this man, and it was miserable, but I was gonna like, I have Al Anon. I can marry him. I can do it. And when this person came up to me and said, there are no victims, only volunteers, it's kind of was like crack that said you can do it. I just said this to a client the other day, you can do it, but just because you can do it, it doesn't mean you have to do it, or you should do it, and at luckily, at 24 I was able to say, I deserve a life that's easier and has more happiness than choosing to be with someone who was he was just really, he was really mean when he drank. So, so no, I didn't marry him. I didn't marry him. Think, you know I, you know people look at my life and it's like I, I've skirted disaster. I am, I am lucky. I have a steel rod for a spine. I don't know. I, you know, got out of the church. I almost jumped off a bridge, but I didn't I, you know, I became anorexic. And I can tell you, I am not heavy now, and I was almost 30 pounds less, you know, I was 82 pounds. I'm not tall, but I was really quits growing at 82 pounds. But then I started eating again. When I started doing cocaine with my dad, I did a heck of a lot of cocaine, and all of a sudden, every day, I was doing it. And then I just stopped doing that. And then I got into really more and more destructive and mildly or abusive relationships, and I stopped doing that. So I've, I've, I've managed to, like, avoid disaster numerous times. I'm incredibly lucky. So, yeah, well, Michael Hingson ** 29:47 and your mind has, uh, has helped you progress from all this. So did you, did you ever find someone and get married, or have a husband, or any of that kind of stuff Lisa Kohn ** 29:56 I did. I found someone, I my one of my best friends from high. School, set me up with one of his best friends from college as a joke, and we've been married 30 years. Where are you kids? Oh, yeah, we have two kids. So yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. Well, Michael Hingson ** 30:12 congratulations. Well, thank Lisa Kohn ** 30:13 you very much. Michael Hingson ** 30:14 I met my wife a friend introduced us, and he was actually my friend was dating this person, sort of even though he was married, and she said, you said you were gonna leave her, and he didn't, but he was, he was the kind of guy that always had a girl in every port. Well anyway, he introduced her, this, this lady to me. And 11 months or 10 months later, we were married, and it took for 40 years until she passed away in November of 2022 and yeah, as I tell people, she's monitoring me somewhere, I am absolutely certain, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it, so I have to continue to be a good kid. Lisa Kohn ** 30:55 There you go. Well, I Michael Hingson ** 30:56 gotta do Yeah, you know, but I've got 40 years of memories, and can't beat that, yeah, yeah, Lisa Kohn ** 31:02 that's good. I'm glad you did. Yeah. So Michael Hingson ** 31:05 you you formed Chatsworth, which is really pretty cool. I'm curious, though. So you didn't really have when you were growing up, at least early on, as much say about it, why do people join cults? Yes, Lisa Kohn ** 31:20 yes. Why do people join cults? They're in the wrong place at the wrong time. So I used to say everyone is susceptible to extremist thinking. I was not everybody believes that, but I do believe it to be true. I was once corrected and someone said, unless you're a a sociopath, a psychopath, or already in a cult, you're susceptible. Or as there's two cult anti cult activists who were in Nixie and the sex cult a couple years ago, and what they say is, if you think you're not susceptible, you're even more susceptible. Why? Why? Because, as human beings, we crave purpose, certainty and community and having a messiah, believing anything that extremely is absolute certainty, it is, let me tell you, it is the most powerful drug to know that you have the truth, like the Absolute Truth, you have purpose. You know why you're here. You know what you need to do. There's not Sunday, Sunday night, Monday morning, blues, because you have a purpose for your life, and as long as you don't leave or disobey, you have absolute community. So it's you know. As humans, we want to know. We want to understand, right? We make up theories and reasons in our brains, even people who say they don't, they do right? Our brains crave it. And so as you know, I heard someone say a long time ago, I repeat, all it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time, being the wrong person and being in the wrong state of mind, where you're just going to be a little bit open to something, and you're susceptible. And so the ones that are really successful, they know how to work with the brain to keep you in so again, as I said, we were literally taught that if you ever question anything, it's Satan. So as soon as you start to think for yourself, you you know, you do a 21 minute prayer, you fast for three days, you take a cold shower, you're being invaded by Satan, so you're afraid to think. And when you know when they're when they were first bringing people in to my cult, right? They would, one of the things they did so you would go to, they would get you away to, you know, a workshop. They would keep you not give you enough to eat, not give you enough sleep, keep you surrounded by people so you don't have time to think. And they would give you all the teachings. And then at night, they would say, just write one thing you agree with. Write it down in this journal, just one thing. And so you just want them to shut up. So you write one thing. And then you look back three days later, and your brain goes, Oh, I wrote that down. I must have believed it. So you like your brain. They work with the ways your brain wants to believe something, to get you to believe something. And as well, I don't know if you want me to curse, so I won't curse, but I'm going to quote mark Vicente on the vow, which is also about the the next scene cult. He says, No one joins a cult. They really they join a really good idea, and then they realize they were messed with because they join one human kind, under God, they join, you know, self exactly, actualization. They join some positive idea, and only exactly what they think is positive, or what's sold as a positive idea. And by the time you look back your brain, your brain wants to you. We want to think that we know what we're doing. So our brain starts to convince ourselves that we knew what we were doing, like it's just our brains crave, and you work with it, you can, you can get people to believe anything. You can get people to believe anything. It's the Michael Hingson ** 34:58 same. I hear you. It's just. Same thing as just there's so many conspiracy theorists today, yes, and it's the same exact sort of thing. They get you to believe it. They make it sound plausible. There's a woman who is a physicist who has written a book about why the World Trade Center wasn't something that was caused by terrorists or anything like that. It was really the US government, because the the amount of of ground shaking when the buildings collapsed wasn't appropriate, and all sorts of things she brings into it. And she she says it in a very convincing way, unless you look deeper, unless you know what to look for, and but, but she talks about it, and the bottom line is that it wasn't a conspiracy. And my immediate response whenever anyone says that it is and talks about what she talks about, is, I just say the difference is, I was there. I know, yeah, yeah. And you can say what you like, but I know, yeah, and, and I think that it's, it's the usual thing some people say, you know, figures can lie, and liars can figure, and it's very unfortunate that that some people just have to fulfill their lives by by doing some of these things, rather than using that knowledge and using their skills in a much more positive way. So yeah, cults, conspiracies, it's all sort of the same thing, isn't Lisa Kohn ** 36:26 it? It's all extremist belief is extremist belief is extremist belief. And once you believe, once you believe this person's conspiracy theory, then it you can believe the next things they say, like you, you, you keep going like Moon would preach things and do the opposite, and then say was providential, that God told me how to do the opposite, and then you believe. Because, again, we want to believe what we already believe. I was just ot occupational therapy for my concussion this morning, and I was just saying to the occupational therapists, right? We have a we have so many biases in our brain. I love the brain, and we have a bias that tells us we're not biased. So I have a bias that says I'm not biased. I know how objective I am. I'm careful and I'm reflective, but the rest of you are biased, but I'm not biased. So one of our biases is that we're not biased, right? And so once you believe it's you know, people saying, How could people do X, Y and Z, and how can they believe that? And I'm like, once you've chosen to believe, or you've been forced to believe, or you've been tricked to believe, you keep believing, and to break that belief is dangerous. I mean, it's just hard to leave extreme believing is extremely hard. It really is, and Michael Hingson ** 37:37 it's dangerous because somebody told you it wasn't you believe it, Lisa Kohn ** 37:40 yes, exactly, exactly yeah, Michael Hingson ** 37:44 which is so unfortunate, but just so unfortunate, yeah, but it is, it is what we face. It's Lisa Kohn ** 37:50 human nature. So how do we what do we do about it? Yeah, exactly, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 37:53 which is always that Yes. So with your life and all that is has happened, What messages do you want to share with people? What do you want people ultimately to know and to take away from today? Lisa Kohn ** 38:07 Well, I will always start with extremist. Situations exist, and we're all susceptible. They're there. They're intoxicating. They're, you know, a slippery slope. And so beware. And there's places to learn. And if you are, I always say, if you are in what you think might be a cult of any sort, there is help. When I left, I never knew there was help. I never knew there was a community. There is a community. There are a lot of online places and therapists to go to. So Michael Hingson ** 38:32 that's grown a lot over the years, hasn't it? Oh, it's Lisa Kohn ** 38:35 grown so much. I did not know. Yeah, I did not know was there at all. When I left, I left cold turkey, when my book came out in 2018 I found the cult survivor community, and my mind blew open. It's, it's definitely grown. Awareness of it, concept of religious trauma, has grown, like a lot. It's, there's, there's so much more awareness of it now in so many places to get help. The other thing I would say, I always say, if you think you're damaged or there's no hope, you are not damaged, and there is hope. There is always hope. I, you know, when I in my memoir, my my older child read my memoir, and she got to the part where I wrote about meeting their father, and it said something like, I shared my stories and my demons, and I was afraid he would not, you know, he would be able to stay because of how damaged I was, and my kids said, Wait, what's this? And I just look at I think, well, that's, I literally believe that for a very long time, but there was something wrong with me, and there is hope, and you are not damaged. There are, I call them the lies in my head. There are lies. There are lies that were put in my head intentionally to control me, and there are ways many of us have been taught, like you said, to think poorly of ourselves. So there's hope, and there's a way out of that. And I truly believe that, you know, we all need a lot more self love and self care. I do have tattooed on my arm first most, always to remind myself to love myself first most and always, um. Them, because I just think as a, you know, they do call me I lead with love. They call me love embodied when I took my positive psychology course. But really, we, all, many of us, need a huge dose of self compassion, self love, self care, kindness and gentleness, first to ourselves and then to the rest of the world. So those are, those are probably the you know, and whether it's in like, individually, or in an organization or in an offer, profit, like all of that, it is true, we're human, and we make mistakes, but there's an opportunity to really connect on a deeper, truer level, and there's an opportunity to to, it's called Post Traumatic Growth, right to heal from the trauma and heal from the things that have happened to us. And I know there are people with a lot harder stories than mine, and they're people who have gone through things like I have, and there's always, there's always a way to get help and reach out. So yeah, Michael Hingson ** 40:53 tell me about, if you would, your journey in Chatsworth consulting. You teach leadership, you teach people to lead, and you you go to leaders and or they come to you. And how do you how do you help them? Tell us a little bit more about all of that, if you would. Lisa Kohn ** 41:09 So we do a couple of different things. We do executive coaching, one on one coaching, you know, again, one client came up to me and said, do you coach? And I said, Yeah. And I got trained to be a coach back in the late 90s. I was in Al Anon at the time, and I realized it's kind of like being a sponsor only professionally. So it's our coaching is really it's based on a lot of self awareness, self knowledge. We do a incredible there's an incredible online 360 we use with people called the leadership circle profile, which helps us not only look at what like what I'm doing that's working and not but a lot of my thought patterns and beliefs and where they come from. So they call them, you know, they call them the Protect, control and wow, comply behaviors. That's the concussion kicking in. And I call them fight, fight and freeze. But like looking at the ways I coped in the world that get in my way. So we work with leaders, one on one. I'm trying to help them see what they're doing that's effective, what they're thinking that's effective, how they're connecting with other people. That's effective, and what's not we do. We work with a lot of in tech teams, leadership teams, executive teams, helping them have the hard conversations, the strategic conversations, the emotional conversations. You know, we are all human, and we all have triggers, and we all get upset, and we all have agendas, and we all have so much that gets in the way of actually just connecting, one on one with each other. So I get to sit with a group of people and help them find ways to connect more effectively and to more really, more vulnerably, more authentically, you know. And I also, I teach all the general management and leadership skills, you know, connecting with others and giving feedback and authentic leadership and all of that stuff. But truly, what ignites me in the work we do now is really kind of the feel. It's kind of like systems thinking, right? What are the systems within our organization that are operating? Then, how do you look at it, and how do you shift them to be more positive? And what are the systems that's that are operating within me, the belief systems, the you know, the ways I was trained to act, whom to act, and how do I keep the good and shift the ones that are getting in my way. So I am very lucky to do the work I do. I feel very lucky to do it Michael Hingson ** 43:25 and that, you know, that's great, and it's great to have that kind of attitude and to bring that kind of philosophy to it. What are some of the patterns that you see that a lot of leaders and so on bring to you and want fixed, or that you discover that they need to deal with. I mean, they're, they're probably a few at least, that you see a lot. Lisa Kohn ** 43:48 So yeah, I would say, well, one thing that I see so often, right, human nature? So you do a 360 or you gather feedback for someone, and all they focuses on is the constructive feedback. All they focus on is what's wrong, looking for the problem. Again, that's the negativity bias in our head, and a lot of other things. But one thing that comes off so clear is, in general, almost all the time, right people, if they're good at something, that thing that they star a star at, that thing that is like second nature to them, the thing that people so admire about them, they think it's not a big deal anybody could do that, and the thing that they are that isn't their greatest skill, that's the thing they think that's important. And it's it just, I see it over Yeah? People, my clients, be like, Well, yeah, anybody can do that? I'm like, no, nobody does that. Like you do that. Like you do that, you do that in a different way. So it's, you know, I just see that over and over and over. I see so many people like and you talk about leadership, right? So we, we so often in the business world, we promote people for being really good at what they do. And being good at what you do as an individual contributor is very. Very different than actually being able to manage other people or lead other people. And so to a lot of leaders just have a hard time getting out of the details, getting out of the weeds, actually delegating, actually letting go. We we coach our leaders to be dispensable. Our clients not said that to one client. She said, indispensable. And I said, No, dispensable. And she she literally started to cry. She said, Lisa, I spent my whole career trying to be incredibly indispensable. And she was a senior, senior leader at a major Fortune 50 company. She was powerful, she was amazing, but it gets in your way, right? We coach our clients to you know you have to be so dispensable that the people who work with you can do your job so you can go do the bigger, better stuff, more like the next stuff you need to do. Yeah, so it's, it's really, and then, you know, so many of us, right, have, unfortunately, so many people have some sort of trauma in their background. And even people who don't have major trauma in their background have had hardships or whatever, and so it's really people get so caught in their own thinking that they can't even realize that it's their own thinking in their way. So I, you know, I learned to say for my own learning and growth, right? When my brain does its wonky, silly things, it says, I've learned to say, that's the cult talking like, that's the cult. That's the cult. That's what I was trained to believe. That's not true. That's the cult. And I heard a class I'm like, take the word out cult and put in alcoholic father, you know, narcissistic first boss, you know, you know, I had a client who no harm, no blame to her parents. She had immigrant parents. They both ran, they both worked three jobs in order to support the family. And so she was taking care of her siblings when she was six. Six, she was caring for other kids, right? So she was able to say, that's that's that. And my brain, like the helping people being able to see, you know, we're so close to our brains that we don't see the kind of loopy things that we do and why we do it, but helping clients see those loopy things, right? And two, again, honestly, I spent a lot of time with seniors, senior executives, talking about self care, self compassion, being kinder to yourself, that kind of stuff. Michael Hingson ** 47:15 So that woman, who was six taking care of siblings, did she ever get to the point where she could say things like, I really learned a lot, or I value that experience because it helped me in this way or that way, Lisa Kohn ** 47:32 absolutely, absolutely. And she but, and she also got to the point where she can say, I don't have to keep doing that. I don't have to keep sacrificing myself for everybody else, right? I can, you know, I can self selfishly in quotes, in air quotes, right? I can selfishly go home earlier, at the end of the day, and actually take care of my body, because I'm about to have a baby, you know, yeah, it was so so yes and right? It's not about Yeah, it is yes. And not about like, this is awful and it's all bad. It's it is what it is. It made me who I am, and how do I want to choose to be to go forward with it? Michael Hingson ** 48:07 I was very fortunate when I started in sales. I took a Dale Carnegie sales course. The company I was working for sent me to it, because either I went from the job I was doing for them into sales, or I had to leave the company, and I, at the time, didn't want to go look for another job, especially as a blind person, with an unemployment rate among employable blind people in the 70% range, that's a real challenge. So I went into sales and took this course. And I don't even know where it came from or when I first started doing it, but one of the things that I learned as I became a manager and started hiring people and working with people, was to say, you have skills. I have skills, and my job is not to boss you around. If I'm hiring you, I'm hiring you because you convinced me that you can do the job that I'm hiring you to do, but at the same time, what I need to do is to work with you to figure out how I can enhance what you do, because my job as your boss is to enhance what you do and to make you success, or help make you more successful. But we have to do that together now, the people who really got that were successful and, and we found that there are a lot of ways that we could blend our skills together. The people who didn't get it and didn't want to do it ended up not working for the company very long. Yeah, but it was because they weren't successful, they weren't able to sell and, and I know that I have some skills that a lot of other people don't have, but it's my life upbringing, and it's my environment that taught me those things. So that's fine. It isn't to say that other people couldn't get them, and a few people would ask me from time to time, how do you do that? And we talk. It, and they got better at it too, which is fine, Lisa Kohn ** 50:02 yeah, yeah. I mean, that is, that's brilliant, right? But not every manager, not every leader gets that or knows that. So that's your role, is to enhance them, and your role is also to kind of block and tackle, right? What's getting in their way that you can what are the obstacles you can remove, what are the bridges you can build for them to go forward? But yeah, so often again, we get promoted. We get promoted for doing something well, and then we think everybody should do it our way. And it's a huge learning to realize you can do it your way, and as long as it's successful, that's great, as opposed to trying to force other people to do it my way. But I quote, I love tower Brock. Tower Brock's a mindfulness a teacher, and the quote I saw recently was, the world is divided between people who think they're right. Exactly yeah, right. We are going around thinking we're pretty right and what we're doing and yeah. So yeah. Michael Hingson ** 50:56 The other part about that, and the approach that I took, was that I was always so amazed, impressed and pleased when I was able to work with people who, as I said, Got it how much I learned, and I learned some of their skills, which helped me do my job even better, and We had a lot of fun doing it. I Lisa Kohn ** 51:23 my clients, yeah, my clients as I hope they think they learn from me, yeah, and have a lot of fun doing it exactly. People together can be it's just a generative, beautiful process when you let it be absolutely Michael Hingson ** 51:37 Well, I think that it's, it's important to do that. And as I tell people, if I'm not learning at least as much on this podcast and all the things that I get to do and interacting with people, if I'm not learning at least as much as other people, then I'm not doing my job very well. It's fun to learn, and it's fun to be open to exploring new ideas. And I sit back at the end of the day and think about them, think about what I like and don't like, but I base that on everything that I've heard, not only from a particular guest on a particular day, but everyone. So it's it's such a fun learning experience, I can't complain a bit. Lisa Kohn ** 52:18 Yeah, that's good. Yeah, life. Life can be, life can be truly joyful when you are open to learning and seeing new things. Absolutely true. Michael Hingson ** 52:25 So what do you love most about being a leadership consultant and an executive coach, you clearly sound like you're having fun. Lisa Kohn ** 52:32 I definitely have fun, and fun is hugely important. Um, you know When? When? When you see a difference in your clients, when they get something that they needed to get, or they understand, or they move ahead in a way that they hadn't, or when they're, you know, finally standing up for themselves, or finally taking time for themselves, or finally, you know, working better with it, like when they're finally doing those things they set out to do, it is it? Is it is such a gift, right? It is such a gift. And similarly, you know, when you when we're working within tech teams, and you see them connect in ways they haven't connected, or move organization forward, or the team forward, or we were just working with a we're working with one client where there's a department in this organization, and the three areas in the that department are kind of at war with each other. And when you can get them in a room where they can actually start, you know, hearing each other and listening to each other and finding ways to move together forward, it's an organization that does a heck of a lot of good in the world, so they're going to be more effective on what they're doing, even more good is going to be done in the world. So it's, it's very ratifying to be able to be someone who can, I'm told, I inspire people, but I support people. But it's, it's very it's such a gift to be able to give people something that helps them feel better and therefore live and lead better. So Michael Hingson ** 54:02 yeah, and what? And when you see the results of that, when you actually see them putting into practice the kinds of things that you talk about, and maybe they take it in a different direction than you originally thought. But of course, seeds get planted, where they get planted, and so it's the ultimate results that really count. But by the same token, when you start to see that happening, that has to be a wonderful feeling to experience, Lisa Kohn ** 54:30 hugely gratifying. And it's the concussion brain kicking in, because I know there's an example just recently where a client told me of a conversation they had or something that happened. And we have a we have a whole conversation about how you realized six months ago, when I first met you, you never would have done it in that way. You never would have shown up in the way. But I can't remember what it was, but it did happen recently, but it's my short term memory that's the most messed up right now, but we'll get there. Michael Hingson ** 54:55 Well, yeah, as I said, You just never know about seeds. And I've I've told. The story a couple times on the podcast, when I was doing student teaching in at University High School in Irvine, and I was in the teaching program, teacher credentialing program at UC Irvine, I taught high school freshman algebra is one of the two courses I taught. And there was a young man in this course. His name was Marty. He was from the eighth grade, but was very bright, and so he was accelerated for this class and a couple of things to go to a high school algebra class. And we were in class one day, and he asked a question, and it was a very easy question, and I didn't know the answer. Now, mind you, I didn't have a concussed brain. I just didn't know the answer. And immediately I thought, don't try to blow smoke with this kid. Tell him you don't know. So I said, Marty, I gotta tell you I should know the answer. I don't, but I'm gonna go find out, and I will tell you tomorrow. Okay? And he said, Yeah. So the next day, I came into class, and one of the things I love to do as a student, teacher, well as a teacher in general, if we back in those days, we use chalkboards, since I don't write, well, I would always have one of the students come up and be the official writer for the day. Everyone wanted to be the teacher's writer on the board on any given day. Well, I I came in, and I decided, because he hadn't done it for a while, that I'd have Marty come up and write when we started class. And I said, Marty, I got the answer. And he said, I do too. I said, Great, you're the Blackboard writer of the day. Come up and show us. Well, he had it right, and I had it right. So that was a good thing. But 10 years later, Oh, well. So the next thing that happened is, right after class, my master teacher, Jerry Redman, came up, and he said, you know, you absolutely did it the right way. Don't ever try to blow smoke with these kids. They'll see through it every time. Well, 10 years later, we were my wife and I at the Orange County Fair, and this guy comes up, and in this deep voice, he goes, Mr. Hingson, do you remember me? Well, if you didn't sound at all like Marty, and I said, well, not sure. Who are you? Said, I'm Marty. I was in your class 10 years ago, and I remember the algebra thing, you know, you never know where seeds are going to be planted. But that stuck with him all these years. And I didn't, I didn't think about it other than I was glad that Jerry Redman told me I did it the right way, but it was so wonderful to hear that he remembered it. So if I had any effect on him, so much the better. Lisa Kohn ** 57:32 Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Michael Hingson ** 57:35 So what did you learn from cancer? What did I learn from other than, chemo is a pain. Chemo Lisa Kohn ** 57:41 is not fun. I learned. I learned to slow down even more, like that, that again, the the amount My brother used to call me the little engine that will, no matter what you know, and I've learned to, and maybe this does, doesn't sound positive to people, but to go slower, to be gentler, to do less, to lower, you know, the push that was still in me. I mean, push is good, but too much pushes, too much of anything, is not good. I learned to appreciate life even more, nothing like a cancer diagnosis to kind of make you do that li
Happy Halloween, Judeo-Christians! All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Booty of Bludhaven Josh Rivera to descend into issue 25, revealing which wrestling PPV is the good one, which DC characters love musicals, and the origins of Nightwing's hot butt. Chapters: Let's Talk About the Cover and Talent (08:34) Let's Talk About 52 #25 (15:15) The Backup (48:21) What's your favorite part of the issue? (56:19) The Blackboard (01:01:24) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (17:51) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Krakoan Age Jonathan Hickman Legion of Super-Heroes East of West Dandadan Interview with the Vampire Succession Absolute Batman Scott Snyder Batman Nick Dragotta Steel Question Booster Gold Superman Wonder Woman Doctor Fate J. G. Jones The Invisibles John Lennon Joe Bennett Dale Eaglesham Phil Jimenez Pat Olliffe Ruy José Andy Lanning Art Thibert Drew Geraci Heroes Kurt Busiek James Gunn Frankenstein Green Lantern Bruno Mannheim Lex Luthor Crime Bible Jack Kirby Mister Miracle Big Barda Superman & Lois Intergang Darkseid Whisper A'Daire Vic Sage Renee Montoya Black Adam Kite Man Miriam Delgado Magpie Sewer King Crime Doctor Paul Dini The Broker Dwayne McDuffie Kakegurui Sabbac Captain Marvel Jr. Sabacc Mary Marvel Captain Marvel Buffy the Vampire Slayer Isis Osiris Kingdom Come Neon Genesis Evangelion Gundam Gunbuster Power Rangers Watchmen Spider-Man Skeets Seder Anything Chrismukkah WrestleMania Royal Rumble Ralph Dibny Felix Faust House of Mystery Len Wein Etrigan the Demon Klarion the Witch Boy Choronzon Tala Phantom Stranger Gorilla Grodd Justice League Unlimited Alex Sinclair Infinity, Inc. Icicle Jr. Tigress Young Justice America's Next Top Model Green Arrow Alan Scott Mister Terrific Checkmate (2006 series) Gotham Central Oolong Island Will Magnus Kanye West Egg Fu Harley Quinn: the Animated Series Bowen Yang Nightwing George Pérez Tom Taylor Gail Simone Nicola Scott Secret Six (2006 series) Tim Seeley Monitor Jason Todd Trickster I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) Spawn Plastic Man Tim Sheridan Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023 series) Dr. Anonymous Bridgerton Batman: Caped Crusader Bipolar disorder Flex Mentallo Joe the Barbarian Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Stephen Wacker Tom King Batman: The War of Jokes and Riddles Hideo Kojima The Suicide Squad (2021) Condiment King Polka-Dot Man Poison Ivy David Dastmalchian Batman Writer Tom King's CIA Career Questioned Alan Moore Rorschach Watchmen (TV series) Watchmen (2009) Damon Lindelof Cloverfield (2008) Zack Snyder Sucker Punch (2011) 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
This week, Dustin chats with Shawn Boom, CEO of Labster, about the transformative power of immersive learning technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Shawn shares how Labster is reshaping the educational landscape, particularly in STEM fields, by providing students with hands-on, immersive learning experiences. These technologies not only make learning more accessible and engaging but also help students gain the confidence they need to thrive in high-demand fields like healthcare and STEM. They discuss the challenges in education today, from shrinking student populations to the need for relevant, modern learning experiences.Guest Name: Shawn Boom, CEO at LabsterGuest Social: LinkedInGuest Bio: Shawn Boom currently serves as the CEO of Labster. Shawn's prior roles in the edtech industry include working nine-plus years with Blackboard, the online learning management system (LMS) now part of Anthology, where he held the position of global vice president. He previously spent five-plus years as director of sales for The Active Network, with a focus on the higher education market. Most recently, he spent nearly six years with K12 and non-profit focused fintech provider Vanco, serving as CEO and Executive Chairman. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Dustin Ramsdellhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinramsdell/https://twitter.com/HigherEd_GeekAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Geek is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Generation AI and I Wanna Work There. Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Element451 is hosting the AI Engage Summit on Oct 29 and 30Register now for this free, virtual event.The future of higher ed is being redefined by the transformative power of AI. The AI Engage Summit brings together higher ed leaders, innovators, and many of your favorite Enrollify creators to explore AI's impact on student engagement, enrollment marketing, and institutional success. Experience firsthand how AI is improving content personalization at scale, impacting strategic decision-making, and intuitively automating the mundane tasks that consume our time. The schedule is packed with real examples and case studies, so you leave knowing how to harness AI to drive meaningful change at your institution. Whether you're looking to enhance student outcomes, optimize enrollment marketing, or simply stay ahead of the curve, the AI Engage Summit is your gateway to the next level of higher education innovation. Registration is free, save your spot today.
Click the Title to Play or Download. Interview with David King, CTO of Flywire, a company that provides software solutions for student financial services. The interview discusses the company's history, evolution, and its current focus on addressing challenges faced by universities, such as the need to automate processes, improve student recruitment and retention, and streamline the student financial experience. David also highlights Flywire's commitment to technological innovation, particularly in the realm of mobile-first design and AI integration. He emphasizes the company's mission to simplify the financial journey for students and parents, from enrollment to endowment, including the digitization of 529 payments and the introduction of a third-party invoicing product.Introduction and BackgroundDavid King, CTOChallenges and Transformations in Higher EducationThe Role of Technology and InnovationAddressing Financial Literacy and Student TransitionsExpanding Services and Future InnovationsAddressing Key Pain Points and Future RoadmapPodcast TranscriptAI Audio Overview - new experimental AI feature from Google's NotebookLM. Click the Title to Play or Download.
Send a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe team up with Eisner-nominated writer and podcaster Jordan Morris for issue 24, featuring the debut of E. S. Pete, the death of a character introduced last issue, and how Booster Gold caused Reaganomics. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent and the Cover (07:00) Let's Talk About 52 #24 (17:39) The Backup (49:50) What's your favorite part of the issue? (53:53) The Blackboard (58:01) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:03:48) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Superman Batman Wonder Woman Ted Kord Booster Gold Martian Manhunter Firestorm Charli xcx - 360 Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk Jordan, Jesse, Go! Katy Perry Skeets Phil Jimenez George Pérez Andy Lanning Infinite Crisis Civil War Justice League International Countdown to Final Crisis Ralph Dibny Sue Dibny J. M. DeMatteis Super-Chief Bulleteer Seven Soldiers of Victory Ambush Bug Deadpool Forbush Man Stan Lee Bulletgirl Captain Marvel Firehawk Wolverine Jeff Lemire E.S. Pete Green Arrow Great Ten Gene Luen Yang Elliot S. Maggin Just Imagine… Red Tornado Rocket Red Silver Sorceress Tomorrow Woman Flash (Barry Allen) Crisis on Infinite Earths Hippolyta Aztek Ice General Glory Vibe Citizen Steel Amazing-Man Starman Yazz Crimson Fox Shade, the Changing Man Peter Milligan John Ostrander Martian Manhunter (1998 series) Captain America Arrow Ra's al Ghul Alexander Siddig Lazarus Pit Black Adam Isis Dwayne Johnson Osiris Frankenstein Lex Luthor Everyman Project Legion of Substitute Heroes Matter-Eater Lad X-Men Glob Herman Shark-Girl Shade, the Changing Girl Checkmate Amanda Waller Atom Smasher Suicide Squad Victor Sage Batwoman Dan Jurgens Days of Future Past Chris Claremont Justice League by Keith Giffen Babs Tarr Stripperella Leah Williams Power Girl Gotham City Sirens Punchline Empowered Legion of Super-Heroes Brian Michael Bendis JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Brainiac 5 Ronald Reagan Guy Gardner Matt Fraction Jimmy Olsen (2019 series) Tim Drake Saturn Girl Nura Nal Shadow Lass Gwen Stacy Jason Todd Lady Shiva Dennis O'Neil Youth Group Bowen McCurdy Specter Inspectors Buffy the Vampire Slayer Shaun of the Dead Dragon Ball Z Free With Ads The Godfather (1972) Cool World (1992) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) Good Mythical Morning 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
In Episode 150 of The A&P Professor podcast, host Kevin Patton speaks with intellectual property attorney Brenda Ulrich about copyright law and image use in education. They discuss how educators often mistakenly assume they have rights to use textbook images and the complexities of permissions that expire. Brenda highlights the differences in legal standards for physical versus online teaching and emphasizes the importance of understanding licensing agreements and fair use. By the end, listeners gain valuable insights into legally and ethically incorporating multimedia into their anatomy & physiology courses. 0:00:21 | Host: Kevin Patton 0:00:47 | Introducing Brenda 0:03:49 | You Need a License 0:26:12 | Staying Up To Date 0:27:15 | Put Yourself in Their Shoes 0:41:55 | Do You Write? 0:43:54 | I need a handout 1:00:19 | Finding Media 1:02:00 | Can I Put My PowerPoint on YouTube? 1:12:43 | Staying Connected ★ If you cannot see or activate the audio player, go to: theAPprofessor.org/podcast-episode-150.html
In the first of a series of bonus episodes around pop music movies, Holly and James investigate the moral panic over the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle, and try and understand why Bill Haley had those theatre seats ripped.
On today's episode of The Bill Barnwell Show, Bill goes to the drawing board in this week's Bill's Blackboard, discussing the actual reasoning for Jerry Jones passing on Derrick Henry and why there is no excuse for missing on Henry. Then, NFL Network's Gregg Rosenthal joins to discuss the most confusing aspects of the NFL after Week 3 of the season, including the Eagles' defense and the impact of Nick Sirianni. Next, they discuss questions about the Seattle Seahawks' identity, their concern levels for the disjointed Chiefs' offense, and whether we should be concerned about Travis Kelce. Later, they discuss why they aren't giving up on the Bengals and why the Steelers are torturing Bill. Plus, Gregg gives the most confusing stat in the league regarding C.J. Stroud. :15 Bill's Blackboard: Why did Jerry Jones and the Cowboys pass on Derrick Henry? 6:25 Most confusing teams with Gregg Rosenthal 9:41 Eagles 23:15 Seattle Seahawks 27:15 Chiefs 40:05 Bengals 47:00 Steelers 50:20 Most confusing stat in the league Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Look out, my Cricketron's gone berserk! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe collapse onto the beaches of issue 23, detailing mysteries of the Religion of Crime, mad scientists on Hookers & Blow Island, and what Grant Morrison thinks about Ayn Rand. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (02:21) Let's Talk About 52 #23 (07:31) The Backup (29:59) What's your favorite part of the issue? (33:50) The Blackboard (39:01) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (44:46) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Drew Johnson Ray Snyder Wonder Woman (1986 series) Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Green Lantern Dan Stevens Godzilla (2014) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Apocalypse Now (1979) Pietà Batman Supergirl Pieta pose Crisis on Infinite Earths Batman: A Death in the Family Black Adam The Island of Doctor Moreau Renee Montoya Will Magnus Sentinel Metal Men T. O. Morrow Doctor Sivana Ira Quimby Hawkman Dial H for Hero Archie Comics Betty and Veronica The Invisibles Crime Bible: The Five Lessons of Blood Whisper A'Daire Vic Sage Baldur's Gate Shadowheart Captain Marvel Captain Marvel Jr. Isis Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department Britney Spears Osiris Aladdin (1992) Great Ten Doug Rugrats Wildcat Justice Society of America Black Canary Catwoman Morpheus Jerry Ordway All-Star Comics Lost Watchmen Atlas Shrugged The Anarchists Delicious in Dungeon John Galt Charli XCX Spring Breakers (2012) Superman Gorilla Grodd Legends of Tomorrow Gotham Jada Pinkett Smith Jim Gordon The O.C. Ben McKenzie Multiversity Remedial Chaos Theory The Gone World This Is How You Lose the Time War Blackest Night Brightest Day Gotham Central Superman: Birthright All-Star Superman Lex Luthor Lois Lane Frank Quitely The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures Aquaman (2011 series) Booster Gold (2007 series) Flash #8 Eobard Thawne Captain Cold Batman: No Man's Land (novel) Dennis O'Neil Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Smallville Joker: One Operation Joker 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
ou're ownin' for a zonin'! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe smother issue 22, and in the process explain convoluted celebrity antics, examine the history of Native Americans in DC, and venture into The Nute Gunray Hole. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (03:16) Let's Talk About The Cover (07:09) Let's Talk About 52 #22 (10:29) The Backup (52:52) What's your favorite part of the issue? (56:04) The Blackboard (58:06) The Nute Gunray Hole at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:09:14) A Brief Post-Script (01:27:13) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Brat Swifties Vic Sage r/GaylorSwift Harry Styles Liam Payne Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Dave Coulier Eddy Barrows Rob Stull Stephen Wacker The Witcher Magnus, Robot Fighter The Man with the Golden Arm Sailor Moon Sailor Mercury Booster Gold North by Northwest (1959) Batman: The Brave and the Bold Will Magnus Robert Kanigher Lex Luthor Elon Musk Wonder Girl Superboy (Kon-El) Superman Paul Westfield Flashpoint Reverse-Flash Young Justice Teen Titans Jonathan Hickman East of West John Byrne Superman: The Animated Series Justice League Unlimited “Question Authority” Clancy Brown Steel (John Henry Irons) Neuralink Imane Khelif Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! Joss Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Jon Standing Bear Nicholas Hoult Skins Super-Chief Damian Wayne Christopher Priest Julius Schwartz Justice League Gardner Fox Carmine Infantino J. K. Rowling Black Adam True Detective season 4 Stephen Graham Jones Renee Montoya Grimes Azealia Banks Vivian Wilson Metal Men Frankenstein Jeff Lemire Justice Society of America Dan DiDio Sentinel Celebrity Dentist Got Kanye Hooked on Laughing Gas, Milo Yiannopoulos Claims Red Tornado Hal Jordan Ivan Reis Green Lantern (2011) Atlantis Captain Marvel Joker Nute Gunray Bugs Bunny Ralph Dibny Pippin Took Pow Wow Smith They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1960) Batman Robin Man-of-Bats Raven Red Captain Planet and the Planeteers T. Hawk Roy Harper Johnny Cloud Little Sure Shot Apache Chief Black Vulcan Samurai Owlwoman Dawnstar Hawkman Equinox Between Earth and Sky Rebecca Roanhorse A Murder at the End of the World Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther DC Milestone Static Nikolas Draper-Ivey Cyborg (2023 series) Bulleteer Star Wars Tales of the Jedi Conan the Barbarian Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Brotherhood Star Wars: Darth Vader Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Star Wars: Poe Dameron Mitth'raw'nuruodo Yuuzhan Vong The Acolyte Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comic series) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic George Lucas THX 1138 (1971) 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Socratic teaching is a primary pedagogical technique in American law school education. In this episode, Jamie Abrams joins us to discuss barriers this method can impose and strategies for a more inclusive approach to Socratic teaching. Jamie is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program at the American University Washington College of Law. She has published numerous books, chapters, and articles, including several on legal education pedagogy. Jamie is the recipient of teaching awards from Blackboard, the University of Louisville, and the American University Washington College of Law. She also co-founded the Brandeis Human Rights Advocacy Program at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law which works to advance the human rights of immigrants, refugees, and noncitizens. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Ah, Shuddup! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe kick the twenty-first issue of 52 down a flight of stairs, and in the process discuss Jaffe's incredible American Idol experience, Power Boy's deficit of chest exposure, and the death of Manchester Alabama's second fastest speed-based superhero. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (04:44) Let's Talk About 52 #21 (10:43) What's your favorite part of the issue? (41:53) The Blackboard (44:58) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (54:40) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Dan DiDio Teen Titans (team) Teen Titans (Geoff Johns run) Teen Titans (2003 show) Teen Titans Go! Titans (2023 series) Titans (2018 show) Game of Thrones Tyra Banks Joe Bennett Jack Jadson David Baron Will Graham Birds of Prey (team) Birds of Prey (2023 series) Big Barda Cassandra Cain Colossus Wolverine Batman Damian Wayne Barda (graphic novel) Ngozi Ukazu Orion Fourth World Darkseid Mister Miracle Walt Simonson Jack Kirby Raven Beast Boy Natasha Irons Lex Luthor Bart Allen Ralph Dibny Doctor Fate Sue Dibny Gingold Aquaman JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Bugs Bunny The Real Housewives Infinity, Inc. Stephen Wacker Smallville Copyright lawsuits by Superman's creators Superboy Josie and the Pussycats (2001) Booster Gold Hawk Tuah Girl Sydney Sweeney Todd McFarlane Justice Society of America Chris Claremont Lost 24 Effect of the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike on television American Idol The Jazz Singer (1923) Superboy-Prime Zachary Zatara Zatanna Power Boy Firestorm Hot Spot Granny Goodness Brian Michael Bendis Legion of Super-Heroes John Henry Irons America's Next Top Model William Wu Jujutsu Kaisen Vic Sage Renee Montoya Red Tornado Cyborg Bender Cowboy Bebop Frieren Charli XCX Brat Kamala Harris Yes, Kamala IS Brat Kieron Gillen Atom Argent Marv Wolfman Winner Take All Jim Cummings Paul Dini Seven Soldiers of Victory Troye Sivan Wonder Girl Dee Reynolds Matt Fraction Chip Zdarsky Sex Criminals Dennis O'Neil Watchmen George R. R. Martin 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
I Died And Was Reincarnated As The World's Greatest Monster! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe breeze through the Morrison-heavy and story-light issue twenty of 52, making space for Tim King's public apology for being a CIA asset, Steel's exposed penis, Superboy Prime as isekai, and Jaffe's biggest DC blind spot. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (05:14) Let's Talk About The Cover (09:19) Let's Talk About 52 #20 (10:53) The Backup (28:09) What's your favorite part of the issue? (32:49) The Blackboard (33:33) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (43:19) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Shohei Ohtani Los Angeles Dodgers Detroit Tigers Miami Marlins Bat Boys Magic: The Gathering Dreamcatcher Marvel Snap Chris Batista Superman Lobo Vic Sage Star Trek: Voyager Battlestar Galactica Lost in Space Cylons Game of Thrones Bear McCreary Constantine The Crawling Hand (1963) Animal Man Adam Strange Starfire It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Calendar Man Batman Batwoman Jason Todd Countdown to Final Crisis Thanos The Infinity Gauntlet Jeph Loeb Lex Luthor Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Steel Kala Avasti Death Note Tsugumi Ohba Friedrich Nietzsche Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails - Heresy Eye of Ekron Big Barda Little Barda Zachary Zatara Zatanna The Green Lantern Kevin Nowlan Batman: The Animated Series Stephen Wacker Jonny Quest Barry Allen The Jetsons Tom King Vision Mister Terrific Emerald Empress Fatal Five Legion of Super-Heroes Superboy Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds George Pérez Arrowverse Supergirl Lar Gand Brainiac 5 Bruce Timm Triplicate Girl Paul Dini Justin Gray Jimmy Palmiotti Alan Burnett Dwayne McDuffie My Hero Academia Sentai Power Rangers Green Lantern: New Guardians Kyle Rayner Marvel Family A DC Guide to Isekai by Alex Jaffe Warlord Land of the Lost Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld Suicide Squad Isekai Suicide Squad ISEKAI | Opening and Closing Theme Amanda Waller Viola Davis CCH Pounder The Suicide Squad (2021) Suicide Squad (2016) James Gunn David Ayer Gene Luen Yang 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
He knows! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe fly into issue nineteen, taking on Space Pope Lobo, which members of the DC universe are Charli girls vs. Taylor girls, and the most shocking twist of the series so far. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (09:12) Let's Talk About 52 #19 (12:17) The Backup (38:40) What's your favorite part of the issue? (44:11) The Blackboard (45:26) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (52:20) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Toxoplasmosis Ophiocordyceps unilateralis The Snowman (2017) Batman: Hush Westworld Armageddon 2001 Captain Atom Hawk Jeph Loeb Brian Michael Bendis Who Shot Mr. Burns? Pat Olliffe Drew Geraci 52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen Birds of Prey J. G. Jones Skeets Heisman Trophy Dua Lipa Booster Gold Superman Lois Lane Jimmy Olsen Justice League Unlimited Lex Luthor Friday Night Lights Brat Lobo Animal Man Glen Powell Deadpool The Matrix Starfire Space Dolphins 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Game of Thrones Devilance Darkseid Seven Soldiers of Victory Legion of Super-Heroes Emerald Empress Fearsome Five Fatal Five Alan Scott Brainiac 5 Matter-Eater Lad Kieron Gillen X-Men Jonathan Hickman Supergirl Supergirl (TV series) Weather Wizard Flash Wonder Girl Superboy Charli XCX Taylor Swift Young Justice Stephanie Brown Spring Breakers (2012) Rip Hunter Walking simulator Billy West Alan Moore Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Mister Mxyzptlk Brian Bolland Animal Man (1988 series) Animal Man (2011 series) Jeff Lemire Sweet Tooth The Killer (graphic novel series) The Killer (2023) David Fincher Snowpiercer (graphic novel series) Snowpiercer (2013) Sandcastle Old (2021) The Adventures of Tintin Hergé Succession Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) Airplane! (1980) This Is 40 (2012) Knocked Up (2007) New Fun Comics Batman Wonder Woman Barry Allen DC One Million All-Star Superman Final Crisis: Superman Beyond Final Crisis Solaris Garth Ennis Hitman #1000000 Looper (2012) Rian Johnson The Flash (2023) Star Trek Star Wars The Acolyte Manny Jacinto Sol Lee Jung-jae Squid Game The Mandalorian Dave Filoni Clone Wars Andor Andy Serkis Planet of the Apes Rogue One (2016) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars: Visions Palpatine George Lucas Lost 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
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Emancipate the JLA! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe cross over with Questionposting to tackle issue 18, featuring BREAKING NEWS REGARDING DC CANON and the existence of Tracy Thirteen, Dr. Doom arguing with a drunk person, microdosing Fear Toxin, and the secret unpublished origins of Honest Abe, the Super-Hero Protector of Cincinnati. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent, Helmets and what the hell Shadowpact is doing here with Questionposting (04:50) Let's Talk About 52 #18 (09:16) The Backup (53:17) What's your favorite part of the issue? (59:37) The Blackboard (01:04:32) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:10:00) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Questionposting Vic Sage Batman Dennis O'Neil The Question by Dennis O'Neil & Denys Cowan Demon in a Bottle Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood Eddy Barrows Rob Stull Natasha Irons Isis Ralph Dibny Detective Chimp Traci Thirteen Terrence Thirteen Gorilla Grodd Doctor Fate Black Adam (2022) Day of Vengeance Crisis on Infinite Earths Shadowpact Stephen Wacker House of Mystery Cain Croatoans Seven Soldiers of Victory Klarion the Witch Boy Roanoke Colony Stonehenge Easter Island Kaspar Hauser Tim Trench Wonder Woman Edogawa Sangaku Edogawa Ranpo Mysto Injustice: Gods Among Us John Constantine Jack Cole Rob Liefeld Renee Montoya Kahndaq Black Adam Dune (2021) Doctor Doom Namor Victor Zsasz Batman: Shadow of the Bat Alan Grant Thomas Szasz Hannibal Lecter Joker SuicideGirls L.A.W. Vegeta Rorschach Dwayne McDuffie Justice League Unlimited Jeff Lemire The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage Reginald VelJohnson Marseille Lost Arthur Conan Doyle Adam West James Gunn Bill Willingham Planet of the Apes Matt Reeves Booster Gold Blimp Yellow Peri Lucian Crawley Odd Man Beefeater Honest Abe Girls5eva Nicki Minaj Clark Kent Peter David Mark Russell One Star Squadron Creed Ragman Nightmaster Blue Devil Nightshade Enchantress Blue Beetle Tarot The Vision of Escaflowne Fullmetal Alchemist Etrigan the Demon Madame Xanadu Zatanna Amethyst Suicide Squad Isekai Peacemaker Harley Quinn Suicide Squad Isekai Ending Amanda Waller Not Like Us Sue Dibny Stella Codename: Kids Next Door Joe Bennett J. G. Jones Doctor No-Face Blue Beetle (1967 series) The Question (2005 series) The Authority John Cooper Hawksmoor Lois Lane Brat Black Alice Xiomara Rojas Stephanie Brown Tim Drake Gotham Central Patton Oswalt All-Star Superman 52: the Companion Adam Strange Shining Knight Frankenstein Hero Hotline Dial H for Hero Night at the Museum Tempus Fuginaut Anti-Monitor Monitor Justice League: the Darkseid War Vandal Savage Lady Shiva Tom Bombadil Green Lantern Corps Alan Scott Guy Gardner 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Only thirty-five more ta go! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe blast off into issue seventeen of 52, where they witness The Time Hands, weird editorial grudges that end up on the page, and Starfire as Leia Thee Stallion. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (02:25) Let's Talk About the Cover, and Lobo (03:06) Let's Talk About 52 #17 (09:57) The Backup (36:09) The Blackboard (39:19) What's your favorite part of the issue? (41:09) Asking/Answering The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (46:16) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Chris Batista Superman Ruy Jose Jack Jadson David Baron Alex Sinclair Lobo The Omega Men (1983 series) Punisher Wolverine Spawn Gene Simmons The Curse Benny Safdie Stan Lee Superman: The Animated Series Young Justice (1998 series) Brad Garrett Alan Grant Batman Wonder Woman J. G. Jones Lex Luthor Natasha Irons John Byrne Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein Deathstroke Amanda Waller Priest Deathstroke (2016 series) The Apprentice Impulse Kobra G.I. Joe Cobra Karate Kid The Karate Kid (1984) Justin Bieber - Never Say Never ft. Jaden P Diddy Cassie Ventura Andrew Tate Libs of TikTok Dredd (2012) Hannibal Bates The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Starfire Animal Man Adam Strange Kamehameha Swamp Thing Vertigo Comics Animal Man (1988 series) Beyoncé Devilance The New Gods Black Adam Adam Ant Slobo Peter David Master Roshi Plastic Man Megan Thee Stallion Princess Leia Red Tornado Stephen Wacker The Hories Guy Gardner Ambush Bug Harley Quinn Psycho-Pirate Crisis on Infinite Earths Chaz Truog The People's Joker (2022) Vera Drew Tim Heidecker On Cinema Comedy Bang! Bang! The Flash (2023) Flash Gordon (1980) Queen Brian Blessed Hawkman Mark Trail Buck Rogers Buster Crabbe Tarzan The Acolyte Carrie-Anne Moss Amandla Stenberg Doctor Who 20th Century Boys Pluto Fullmetal Alchemist JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Assassination Classroom 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
O zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Uncanny Charles Pulliam-Moore for the Two-Hour Wedding Album that is issue sixteen of DC's 52. Hear whether Captain Marvel is an adult man or three kids in a trench coat, the wedding traditions of the Shazamish faith, and the debut of Cardi Bane. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent, Covers and Pokemon with Charles Pulliam-Moore (03:15) Let's Talk About 52 #16 (23:49) The Backup (01:17:20) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:27:07) The Blackboard (01:32:31) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:41:28) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Pokémon Pikachu Eevee Sprigatito Squirtle Unova Samurott Civil War New X-Men (2004 series) Emma Frost Superboy Infinite Crisis Watchmen Renee Montoya Superman Lex Luthor Tim Drake Batwoman Isis The Secrets of Isis Shazam! Black Adam The Hurt Locker (2008) Vic Sage Jack Kirby Tommy Lee Edwards Barack Obama “Hope” poster Dwayne Johnson Black Adam (2022) Legends of Tomorrow J. G. Jones Alex Sinclair Joe Bennett Ruy Jose Kahndaq Aristotle Rodor Metamorpho Mary Marvel Captain Marvel Egg cream Josie Campbell My Adventures with Superman Vegeta Bulma Goku Justice League International Steven Universe Bart Simpson Shazam (wizard) Intergang 24 Kiefer Sutherland Donald Sutherland Seven Soldiers of Victory Tawky Tawny Uncle Marvel The Muppet Movie (1979) Twilight (2008) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) Gossip Girl Black Panther Storm Wakanda Fallout: New Vegas Speed Force Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood Birds of Prey Huntress Punisher Aladdin (1992) Starfire Adam Strange Strange Adventures Animal Man Vixen Challengers (2024) Lobo The Maltese Falcon Theo Adam Sinestro Namor James Gunn Desperate Housewives Grey's Anatomy Viola Davis Amanda Waller Firefly Krakoan Age Courtney Whitmore Ralph Dibny Opal City Guy Gardner Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder Just King Things The Dreaming Doctor DC Podcast Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Bookclub Newcomers Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Captain America Iron Man Wonder Woman Slender Man The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Smallville Booster Gold Ted Kord Lightray Orion Jimmy Olsen 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Your Donations Keep Lexapedia Running! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by the legendary lead colorist of 52 Alex Sinclair. The towering trio takes on #15 (the Frank Grimes issue), Jason Todd's death poll, and an unused yet fully illustrated and colored cover for 52. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent, Covers and Coloring with Alex Sinclair (03:15) Let's Talk About 52 #15 (24:15) The Backup (42:23) What's your favorite part of the issue? (47:12) The Blackboard (49:35) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (57:44) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Dragon Ball Z Vegeta Akira Toriyama Infinite Crisis Batman: Hush All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder Kurt Busiek Astro City Paul Levitz WildStorm Dan DiDio Martian Manhunter J. G. Jones Steel (John Henry Irons) Red Tornado Drew Struzan Batman Superman Wonder Woman Hawkman Krypto Jim Lee Just Imagine The Death and Rebirth of Superman Newstime Frank Grimes Berserk Alan Moore Booster Gold Bibbo Bibbowski Lex Luthor Shawn Moll Watchmen Tom Nguyen Doug Mahnke Renee Montoya Faith Lehane Vic Sage Darwyn Cooke Amanda Conner Aquaman Justice League Unlimited “The Greatest Story Never Told” Zack Snyder Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster Anakin Skywalker George Lucas Elongated Man Clayface Jon Bogdanove Christopher Priest Steel (1994 series) John Stewart Alex Ross Splatoon 3 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League The OMAC Project Dan Rather William Shatner Penn Jillette John Goodman Mister Mxyzptlk Roger Stern David Baron Michael Holt Batman: The Brave and the Bold Detective Chimp Fire Sunspot New Super-Man Gene Luen Yang Batwing Unknown Soldier Hellblazer The Sandman Neil Gaiman John Constantine Batman: the World Star Wars: Visions Blue Beetle (2006 series) Sabertooth War This episode's cover art was an unused cover for 52 by J. G. Jones and Alex Sinclair. 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Did you know mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with Doctor DC himself Reid Vanier to wear jeans while building robots, ponder articulated cheeks, and determine which triple-A studio should be making a Vic and Renee video game. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent and the Cover (08:57) Let's Talk About 52 #14 (12:46) The Backup (50:18) What's your favorite part of the issue? (56:04) The Blackboard (58:03) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:06:47) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Firestorm Doctor DC Podcast Vic Sage Countdown to Infinite Crisis Day of Vengeance Justice League Unlimited Villains United Young Justice Kon-El Nightwing Swamp Thing Spectre Gail Simone Secret Six Dale Eaglesham Jim Lee Kyle Rayner Art Thibert J. G. Jones Steel Natasha Irons Renee Montoya Apollo Midnighter Green Arrow and Black Canary's Wedding Kahndaq Shaggy Rogers The Question (2005 series) Daredevil Kate Kane Ramones Isis (DC Comics) Black Adam Captain Marvel Dune Dan DiDio Kala Avasti The Martian (2015) Will Magnus Metal Men Mercury Responsometer Robert Kanigher Wonder Woman Prozac Platinum Strong Sad Malice T. O. Morrow The Prisoner Arkham Asylum Elongated Man Megan Thee Stallion Aristotle Rodor Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Batman Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Diana, Princess of Wales Intergang Tom King Whisper A'Daire Max Payne Remedy Entertainment Control Alan Wake Sam Lake Bromine Steven Universe Metamorpho Eric Powell The Goon Machamp Patricia Mulvihill Superman: Legacy Casts Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho Gotham Central Birds of Prey Vixen Showcase Omega (Last Knight on Earth) Nightwing (2016) #87 The Terrifics Damian Wayne Dragon Ball Z Akira Toriyama Wolf Fang Fist Alan Scott Mister Terrific Harley Quinn Gotham City Sirens Gotham Girls Galaxy: the Prettiest Star Shade, the Changing Girl Shade, the Changing Man Blackest Night 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Join us as we embark on a captivating journey with Clarence Cheang, one-half of The FBA Bros, who takes us through his inspiring transition from a full-time civil engineer in Singapore to a successful Amazon FBA entrepreneur. Clarence opens up about the rocky start to his online business back in 2019, where he faced a series of setbacks in the highly competitive niche. Despite facing compliance issues and patent infringement roadblocks, Clarence's relentless spirit and innovative product research techniques eventually led him to leave his day job behind. His story is a testament to the power of perseverance in the face of adversity. Listen in as Clarence shares a remarkable case study on the unpredictability of the Amazon marketplace, illustrated by the unexpected success of doormat sales amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The surge in home decor interest during lockdowns provided a boost for one seller, but also taught a harsh lesson in inventory management as stockouts led to a loss of organic ranking on Amazon. Clarence walks us through the seller's recovery process, employing meticulous data analysis and keyword research, culminating in the serendipitous success of an egg pan product that turned their fortunes around. In this episode, we delve into the nuances of product research and the strategic brand-building essential for standing out on Amazon. Clarence Cheang highlights the crucial role of competition analysis, discussing the tools and techniques necessary to dissect competitors' keyword strategies and assessing product viability. Clarence exemplifies the success of this approach with his 'egg pen' product and underscores the importance of value addition through bundling, which propelled his egg pan to market prominence. We wrap up by exploring the advanced capabilities of Helium 10 tools and the pivotal insights provided by Amazon's Product Opportunity Explorer, emphasizing their role in sustaining a product's top-selling status amidst the ever-evolving marketplace challenges. In episode 562 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and Clarence discuss: 00:00 - Amazon FBA Seller Success Story 01:55 - Career Exploration And Amazon FBA Launch 08:33 - Amazon FBA Success Through Product Research 09:15 - Stock Mistake Leads To A Big Loss 11:48 - Amazon FBA Success Through Research 13:55 - Product Research Success and Brand Building 19:17 - Strategic Niche Domination 24:32 - Amazon Success and Helium 10 Tools 28:24 - Competitor Conversion Analysis and Cerebro Queries ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On YouTube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Bradley Sutton: Today we have Clarence on the show, also known as one half of the FBA bros, and he talks about how he had over two years of Amazon failure but didn't give up and then hit Amazon success and was able to quit his day job thanks to his new product research techniques that he's going to share with us. How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think. Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers Podcast by Helium 10. I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's completely BS-free, unscripted and unrehearsed. Organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. And speaking of serious strategies, we talk a lot about Helium 10 on this show. So if you are interested in giving it a try, if you've never tried it out, make sure you use our podcast discount code, SSP10. Ssp10. Go to Helium10.com, sign up for your account and save 10% off for life. Somebody who's been using Helium 10 for a very long time and coming to us from the opposite side of the world, where it's like almost midnight over there Go ahead and introduce yourself. It's your first time to the show. Clarence: Yeah, so thanks for having me on board, Bradley, it is an honor. So my name is Clarence. I've been selling on Amazon for close to five years now, actually. I started in 2019. And at that time, I was just treating it as a regular side hustle, right? So I worked as a full-time engineer for the government and I was working in the civil industry Basically, it's like construction, right, I think that's the most common term for about close to five years. Yeah, so that's really my background, and I dabbled into Amazon FBA in 2019 after about close to five years in the construction industries, and that's where, as you can see, the rest is history. Bradley Sutton: Okay. So you born and raised in Singapore that's right, that's right, okay. And then went to university there Is being an engineer. Like at what age were you like, hey, this is what I want to do. Or did you just decide once you got to university, or had you been wanting to do that for a while? Clarence: Yeah, I mean it's an excellent question because, for I think, majority of my life I didn't really know what I wanted to do. So it's more like oh, my grades allow me to enter to this program, so why not just give it a try? So I was pretty much aimless, you know, for the better part of my earlier years. Only after that, when I went into the workforce and I realized, oh dang, I don't want to do this for the rest of my life, man. So that's the epiphany moment. And it took me about five years into the job to realize that I need to start a side hustle. And that's why I started researching. And lo and behold, Amazon FBA came out. Bradley Sutton: Your first start was what year again? Your first product that you launched. Clarence: I launched in 2019. 2019. Bradley Sutton: Okay, so pre-COVID still and you launched in Amazon USA, or did you try Amazon Singapore, or where do you launch first? Clarence: Directly on Amazon US, just because it's the largest marketplace. Bradley Sutton: Okay. So at this time, you're still doing your full-time job and you're like hey, let me, let me go ahead and start researching products. Now, the product that you launched way back then. Are you still selling it, or did you get out of it before? What's the situation there? Clarence: Yeah, I've gotten out of it already. It's just when I launched my first products, I made a lot of mistakes and I realized that that's actually not really the best niche to be in. Right, it's in the lighting. What was it? It's in the lighting niche for lighting OK room. Yeah, so that was a pretty brutal market. It's high competition, you need compliance and literally like one year later I got slapped with this compliance issue that I need to show Amazon that I need to get ungated for this entire category. Bradley Sutton: So then pretty much your sales went to a complete stop, because you couldn't provide that compliance? How much did you sell of that product before you had to get out though? Clarence: I sold about close to 1,000 plus units, and that's in a matter of like two to three months. How much did you sell of that product before you had to get out though? I sold about close to 1000 plus units, and that's in a matter of like two to three months, and, lo and behold, I thought I was doing well, and that's where the ungetting email came in. Bradley Sutton: Okay, so you're still making some profit on it, right I'm? Assuming until you couldn't sell anymore. Clarence: Okay, yep, and then so did you lose a lot of money, like did you have a lot of inventory that you just had to throw away? Or I didn't really lose a lot, thank god, because it's more of like, uh, I just need to get the ungating done. But that stopped me from selling in the q4 season because the email came in on october and I took one to two months to get the compliance issues are settled up. So I missed the q4 season and when I'm ungated it's January and yeah, it's back to normal. Bradley Sutton: So you were actually able to get the approval and everything for you. You didn't have to give up on that product. No, I don't have to. Clarence: Okay. Bradley Sutton: So now 2020. Was that 2019? Q4 you were talking about? Clarence: So this is now 2020, the Q4. I mean Q1 when I started selling in January. So I was I mean, I'm happy with that one product and I managed to launch another variation right. And then another tragedy hit, which is at around June, the June of 2020, I got hit by this patent infringement from a competitor, and that is like the last straw for me for this product, because it's just, yeah, it's tough, it's tough, and eventually I found out that, yes, actually I was in the wrong. I didn't do my research properly and somehow I infringed on the design patent that was already approved and somehow I didn't find it out earlier. Yeah, so I spent quite a bit. My lesson here was I spent some of bit, uh. My, my lesson here was uh, I spent some amount of money, uh, to to fight out the case. I actually hired the? Uh, a lawyer to even help me write letters to Amazon and all these things, but it just got nowhere because clearly I'm in the wrong Right. So I think that's my very first knockout punch on Amazon. Okay, yeah. Bradley Sutton: So at that point did you go to zero, or had you launched other products already? Clarence: then I had to go to zero for a while I was fighting this case. So I think the recovery moment was when Amazon asked us to recall all the units because it was just sitting there right, not selling. So it's the right thing to do. We call everything back to our 3PL, the third-party logistics warehouse, and I had to make a decision to take out the offending design, which is just a stand it's like a stand for the lamp and that's the only offending design that's been complained about. So I had to took that out, destroy all the offending design and get my supplier to send in more stands to replace it. So I had to pay a lot of money to get this product out and going, and I remember I had about 800 plus units just to get that retrofitted. And once I got it in, I sent it back to Amazon and I just told myself after this, I'm done with this product, I'm going to move on to the next one. Yeah, so I did sell all 800 and thankfully it is still not too great of a loss at least. Bradley Sutton: You sent the new product in, but then you still gave up on the product because you said you're not selling it anymore today. Right, that one, no more already. Clarence: So as of 2021, I'm out of that market. Yeah, I'm done with that. Bradley Sutton: At what point did you start looking for another product, though? Clarence: That was when I started getting hit with the patent infringement. That was right. That's my epiphany moment and, yeah, I know that I need to have a second product. Bradley Sutton: How did you do your research, trying to find a new product? Clarence: Yeah, I mean back then, you know, in 2019 to 2020,. There were a lot of advice, so I was just figuring things out along the way and I think I fell into this trap where I sell product that I think that it could work. Basically, my gut tells me to work. I mean, looking back right now for what I learned today, that is the foolish mistake that I have done right. So, in essence, the second product that I sold it was a home product like a very simple doormat right, something that's for your, for your entryway, and that product, wow, is also tough. It's a lot of competition, the PPC cost is high and you can't really raise your price as much. So I also learned another valuable lesson there all right, right. Bradley Sutton: So. So then you, you started selling this other product. Now you know some people. You know already a year, two years, a lot of problems, failures and headaches, and lawyers and stuff. You know. Might give up, uh, at this point. But what kept you going? We're like you, just like no, I have to make this work. Clarence: Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, the things that I go through will probably allow like majority of other sellers to give up on Amazon, but I think it's just. I know that this is a viable business model. I've seen it to work for other people and I just tell myself why not me, right? Why not just give myself another shot? So that was like the tenacity that I had in me to just want to make this work so that I don't have to keep getting stuck in the nine to five red race. I think that was my main driving factor. Bradley Sutton: Okay, so then you know all the time you're still at your, your job. Now are we almost in in COVID times. Clarence: Now that's right 2021, that's when COVID hit and the sales boom right. So that was when I the second product, the Dormat product, that one really flew off. I mean that one flew off the shelf really well because of the COVID boom, All right, and I ran out of stock, the doormat sales went up during COVID Doormat of all products doormat. Bradley Sutton: Why, like nobody's visiting your house anymore to wipe their shoe? Clarence: I guess I have more time spending time to decorate the house and doing, okay. So that was the time where a lot of people were doing, yeah, a lot of things at home. So one of the ways, all right, whatever, I don't know. Yeah, okay. So now things are looking up. And then what happened? Exactly? And I ran out of stock. So this is my second mistake. I didn't buy enough, right? The demand just spiked out of nowhere. So I ran out of stock for a good two to three months. And that is where I learned another valuable lesson on Amazon. As you know, right, if you run out of stock for a long period of time, the algorithm literally punishes you in terms of the organic rank. And I lost it all in terms of the organic rank and I thought the sales was good. I had this illusion where this product is doing great, right? So I literally ordered, like, like, doubled the number of inventory as the first inventory and, wow, that was a huge mistake, because I lost all my organic rank during the season where I sold very well. And when I restock, when I'm back in stock, I realized that, hey, my sales is I don't know are no longer like 50 or 60 units a day. They were like trickling, trickled down to like five units or even like three units a day, and that was very worrying because I had doubled the number of inventory I needed to clear right. So that was another great learning lesson for me, which is, hey, manage your inventory well. I think that's really-. Bradley Sutton: How many months were? Clarence: you out of stock. Three months, that was a long-. Okay, yeah, and I'm sure everyone recall that was the period where there's a lot of shipping delays because of COVID and etc. Bradley Sutton: Yeah, so that affected me quite a lot, and that was your only product at the time, that doormat, exactly. Yep, all right, so now, another kind of problem. Now you invested so much money in all this inventory. It's just sitting there. So now, what's your next step? Clarence: So after that, we have like 2000 units of doormats right Stuck in Amazon and I just, yeah, I'm unable to sell it. So what I did was I tried to reduce the price. I did all I can, you know like, increase my PPC budget, reduce the price to even like, like it just doesn't make sense to sell it anymore. So even then I couldn't really sell it as fast as possible, so I had to liquidate that batch of uh doormats right. So that is my second product and it failed spectacularly. Bradley Sutton: yeah, all right. So then you went back to zero then at one point because you didn't have another product going at the same time. So again back to zero. Are we already now in? Clarence: this is like round 22 or two zero. Bradley Sutton: Two to amazon, zero to me all right, yeah, now you're two, or was it? Was this about q1 2021 or q1 2022? Clarence: we're talking about. This is about q still 2022, roughly q3 yeah rightly okay. Bradley Sutton: So about q3? Now you're just like I can't sell these things. So, but again, still, you didn't uh give up. So what was your next step? Clarence: Yeah. So, after learning the actual ropes and I realized a lot of mistakes that I've made, which is, I need to go deep into the data before I choose a product, make sure that the competition is not too great, so that I can win them in PPC in the keywords. So I really learned a lot, Bradley, in that year. It was probably one of the lowest season of my life in my Amazon FBA journey and this is like my final chance, right? If this doesn't work, that's it. Man, I'm stuck in my nine to five right, so I have to make this work. So, and thankfully, when I launched my third product and this time around, it finally took off. So this one is actually one of the more public case study, which is the egg pen right, which I showed that off in a lot of my social medias and even on YouTube channel. So with that launch itself, it set the trajectory that, hey, this is a system that we actually, after we take the inputs from many sellers, we combine it together and we didn't just take it wholesale right, we also tweak it in a way that we want to test some, some items so that we can rely on this proven system to keep launching products on Amazon. So now yeah, by the way, that's 2021, right, that's when we started launching our Egg pan and it became a great success, all because we note down on product research and keyword research. I think these two items really make the breakthrough for us. Bradley Sutton: The FBA. So how did you find that specific opportunity Like, how did that come Like? First of all, let me tell you, I probably never would have found it because I hate eggs. It's funny because now I sell egg trays in the Project X but, like, I hate anything that does with eggs. But how did you find that product opportunity? Clarence: Yeah, that's a great question really, because the egg pan product came to me when I was just I'm just walking around in Singapore. There's a lot of malls, right, there's nothing much you can do other than go to malls after malls and in one of the shops I encountered this Japanese kitchen store. Right, it's just a store that specializes in Japanese kitchen items and, lo miho, I just took a photo of the category out there Basically it's an owl and I went back home and did my research on all of those products and, lo and behold, I found the Japanese egg pen to actually pass our funnel, which is our product research funnel that we have developed. Bradley Sutton: All right, talk a little bit about that. What are those? I know you have something completely fancy. I've even seen the videos. Somehow you have some bots that connect to Discord and connect to Helium 10 and a lot of crazy stuff. But like in a nutshell, like what are the things that you are looking for? That means, hey, there could be some opportunity here. Clarence: Yeah, I mean, I think one of the big deciding factor in choosing a good product is the competition level, which I think a lot of sellers may have missed out in the earlier stages of their product selection. So how we deep dive it is by the use of Helium 10, Cerebra too. We compare or we picked out the top 10 competitor in any of the niche because basically they're doing well, right and we want to learn from them. So by analyzing their keywords and how many of the keywords do they rank on page one and we can have the. It's a very beautiful Excel sheet that we have developed in a way that it allows us to show us how strong each of the top 10 competitors are in terms of keyword strength, right? In fact, I went through that in great detail in one of my YouTube channels I mean YouTube videos, right. So when we did that, we realized it's an epiphany moment, right? Because we realized, oh dang, now we have this tool to analyze competition level for any market on amazon.com. And that is so powerful because it allows us to, even before we invest money into the product, we can roughly tell how easy it is to defeat the top 10 competitors and if it is easy to defeat them roughly, we can win the market. So that is really the initial epiphany moment in our product research journey. And the egg pen right, bringing back to the egg pen, that is one of the products that actually showed us that there's actually like eight in the top 10 competitors. There are eight really weak competitors, as in they don't rank very well on Amazon, and two of them it's just okay, they're good. They're just ranking about 40 to 50% of the overall keyword for this market. So I think that's a no-brainer decision for us to enter. Bradley Sutton: Okay, so you're looking, hey, at their strength. It's not just, oh, I mean, which also is a case like, oh, these people don't even have A-plus content, they don't even have a full image, their listing sucks, but you're also looking at the keyword level. Um, you know, how strong are they in like their, their, their, uh, their SEO and things like that, right, all right, so I'm actually, um, while you were talking, I went and I found your product on Amazon and, and, yeah, you're like still the number one seller on this, so that's pretty impressive. But let's just take a look at your listing here Now. Did you start off with all of these like little accessories at the beginning, or did you like develop this over time? How did you know, like, not just to come up with just the pan, but to have all of these little things as well? Clarence: Yeah, I love that you bring up the screen here, right? So, like I have all the different bundles to the egg pan, so one of the amazing tool is basically to answer your question. I have all of those bundles right from day one, right? That's how I really win the competition in terms of adding a lot of real value to the market. Yeah, so I found this through Helium 10 Blackboard's product targeting, using a comparison of the top ASIN and see Amazon's frequently bought together items. So this is one of the way to think of some bundles for me to get into. Bradley Sutton: So like people were buying the other competitor's pan but with like the serving plate or spatula and stuff like that Exactly. Clarence: And, to be honest, those smaller items are not really expensive. They are less than like 20 cents USD each. So I can just bundle it together, add a lot of value and at the same time, still sell for a decent profit in this market. Bradley Sutton: Yeah, Okay, cool. So you found this opportunity. Now, what kind of sale. You know, I see that you're selling. You know, looks like you know five, six hundred units a month. Now, back when you first started, what were the main competitors doing as far as sales? Like, were the top ones selling also this many, or was it less? Was it more? What's going on? Clarence: So the main competitor right now is going to be it's this neon color, pink color competitor, right? I'm not sure if you can search that up also on Amazon they're probably still there. So initially when we did our research, that guy is the top selling competitor, so he was doing close to about 600 to 700 units a month, right. But if you look at, I think today because the seasonality do change along the way and I think he's doing close to 200, 300 units a month right now, I think yeah, I mean, we basically snatched a bit of its market share. Bradley Sutton: Yeah. Clarence: So that's true from the first week, right the moment we launched, when we have zero reviews, just because we understand keywords and we differentiated a little bit. In terms of bundling, yeah, we managed to get like the top the best selling in terms of sales velocity in a matter of one week for this market. Bradley Sutton: Wow, wow. All right, what was your launch strategy in those days? Was there still like search, find, buy and stuff back in those days, or was that already past the time where you're not allowed to do that anymore? Clarence: I can't do SFB. It's gone already. Those methods are. Bradley Sutton: So then, what was your launch? Just PPCs is what got you there, to page one for those things. That's right, PPC. PPC only launched? Clarence: Yeah. Bradley Sutton: All right. Now what's kept you at the top? You know, like anybody can find a new niche, right, or not new niche, but a niche where there's weak players, right. But then usually somebody comes in and does the right thing, even if they have the right bundle and they got the right keywords. Now the other competitors like, oh man, we better step up our game. And now we're, we're, we're doing it, but but you've still kind of staying almost near number one. Um, here you know, two years later. So what, what has helped you? Clarence: to do that, do you think? Yeah, yeah, great question. In fact, the observation that we had was the moment we launched into this market. I mean, the competitors got spooked right and they will definitely improve their product bundling or even in terms of offering. So we did see new entrants number one, that came into the market. Number two, we did see our current competitors improve, basically, their offering. So, to combat this, I think the number one thing is understanding the keyword basket for this market. So, like example, we did our research and we found out there's actually 241 relevant keywords for this specific market and we definitely want to get page one on all those 241 keywords. And I think that's where our advantage comes in in terms of a keyword basket for ranking, because a competitor will come in later on. They, he or he or she may not understand that there's 241 keywords to rank for this market, but we do and we already know it at our product research stage. Yeah, so we keep doing that again and again and use PPC to rank for them and it has been doing us, yeah, a lot of success so far. Just okay excellent. Bradley Sutton: Now, at this point you know, like you, you got a lot of success. Did you start other accounts and start selling other uh products? Or what was your, your, your next step? Because you know you could have one successful product, uh, but this one successful product maybe is not enough to like, make somebody like, yeah, okay, now I can quit my engineering job, you know yeah, yeah, it's not. Clarence: it's definitely not enough. You definitely need a lot more products. So with this first launch, in a way, it's like a proof of concept to our research formula and we are repeating it again and again. So to date, I think we have close to at least I think we have 10 different products right now across multiple stores. So our brand building strategy is very simple we want to launch one store in one niche and grow that product line right. So basically, let's say, the egg pan niche, right, or the Japanese kitchen niche, so you will launch other products that's in a similar niche for the brand Yamomnom. So, similarly, we are also launching other brands. Like, we just recently went into this camping and outdoor brand and is selling a lot of these kitchen utensils for outdoor camping. So we have been seeing a lot of success in that area as well. So, yeah, that's our brand building strategy there. Bradley Sutton: Okay. So did you already quit your job or you're still doing your job? I've already quit long ago. Already Quit long ago. So now you get to just enjoy being an entrepreneur and not having to work the nine to five. So now, uh, now you get to just enjoy being a entrepreneur and not having to work with the nine to five. So your original purpose of getting into Amazon finally got fulfilled. Now talk a little bit more about your, your strategies. You know, like. One thing is about, you know the, the, the keywords, but is that the only thing you're looking at for the validation steps, or are there other steps of your, your validation? Or is just, hey, looking at the keyword strength? That's, that's enough for you. Clarence: Yeah, um, it's definitely keyword strength is just one of our many criteria to look for in a product to launch. Uh, we have like up to 14 different criteria that we look at. Uh, one of them uh, maybe the easier one is like a return ratio. We don't want to enter into market with, uh, let's say, higher than 5% return ratio, right? So the egg pan shows us it's only about 2.86% return ratio, so that was perfect for us. So that's one of our criteria. The other criteria is like the seasonality and the kind of the trending kind of a season for the product. So that's something that we want to avoid as well. The other one is like the differentiation opportunity. Are we able to find improvements to the product? Can we add value in terms of bundle? How about the premium packaging side of things? Yeah, so we do have a lot of criteria in our research funnel right now that we have tested for many years and we have seen a lot of great success coming out of this funnel. Bradley Sutton: Actually, yeah, now this funnel, actually, yeah, now, some of your you know, you also do a lot of out there and you have a big, you know a lot of students, um, you don't, you don't have to mention their name or their product or anything, but can you, can you describe like one of the success stories, like somebody who came and they had no idea what was Amazon. They found this product and now they're selling this amount or something like that. Clarence: Yeah, yeah, I'm truly very proud of this student. He's based in the UK and he just recently crossed the seven-figure mark on Amazon using the exact formulas that we have teach him. And, yeah, we have so many success stories just by repeating and reusing this formula that we have developed. And, yeah, at the moment, our students like one of them based in Singapore as well. He's just, like, I think, 19 years old. He launched his first product on Amazon ever following this product research funnel that we've created, and he instantly made like 30K sales revenue in the first month of launch. So we're very proud of a lot of these success stories and we're always fine tuning this research funnel. We're not perfect. We're not saying that we have made it there. It's just I think we've got something going on and we are always open to test the system out to make sure that we refine the criterias so that we can increase our probability of success when we launch products on Amazon. Bradley Sutton: You don't get a little jealous sometimes of your students where they get success right away and you had to have three years of failure in Amazon? Clarence: I mean all power to them. And yeah, I always tell my students right, don't do the same way as me. Invest in someone who has been there, done that, and you catch up the learning curve and they really have All right yeah. Bradley Sutton: So let's talk about you. Know how you got connected with Amazon, like, like, how did you get on Amazon's radar? Because you know I'm wearing my like, uh, my project X hat right now. We actually did a filming with Amazon Singapore, but actually in Vietnam where we were filming a new show called project X mini, not out yet, probably be out in a couple of months, based on when you're listening to this. But how? How did you get like on Amazon's radar where, now that you know, they invite you sometimes to their headquarters there in Singapore and doing trainings and stuff like that? Clarence: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's interesting that you brought it up because, to be honest, we we do not know until today, right, I mean David is my business partner as well. I'm just one half of the FBA bros, right, and I mean David runs the social media and the business development side of things for us. Yeah, that's out of blue. One day amazon just reached out to us, I guess I believe that's from social media. And, yeah, and I think one of the one of the employees I believe her name was Yuri, right, so shout out to you, Yuri, for organizing all of this together. And she saw one of my TikTok videos. I was in Egypt and I was just filming some FBA content near the pyramids, and I went to the dead sea as well and just filmed some FBA contents, right, and I think she took some inspiration from that and proposed the entire project and it turned to be Project X Are you talking about Yuri from Amazon Singapore. Bradley Sutton: She's Korean. Yes, that's her. I was just with her in Korea. As a matter of fact, we're doing another film and I was. I was just talking to her, like literally two hours ago on Kakao, talk about hey, when is our project? I didn't realize you. You, she was your first connection, also with Amazon way back. Clarence: Yeah, so you raise the. It's the main guy right, the main person that's in charge of this entire thing. So yeah, kudos to her Okay. Bradley Sutton: All right, cool favorite tool in Helium 10 is probably Cerebro. So so tell me, why is Cerebro your favorite tool in Helium 10 and what's your like your second favorite tool then, next to Cerebro? Clarence: Yeah. So I love Cerebro because I mean, frankly, it has made us a lot of money. I think the investment that we made in Helium 10, which is a no brainer right. I mean, we're just paying, I don't know, sub $200 plus a month, but we're getting close to 10 to 20,000 plus in profit every single month. So, yeah, I think it makes sense. So why I love Cerebro? Because it works right. It helps us to identify all the keywords, like what I mentioned earlier 241 keywords. Even before we invested into the eggpan market, we found it through Cerebro, right. So we have a certain way that we adjust the filters to bring out all those keywords. Yeah. So second tool I love I have to give Amazon their own shout out as well. Amazon's product opportunity explorer. I think that one was. Yeah, it's really a good tool because it's directly from Amazon. The data is, I think, as close as you can get to accurate and, yeah, they display a lot of valuable data. Bradley Sutton: So, I love what are some of your, your, your, the things that you like in Product Opportunity Explorer to look at Awesome. Clarence: Yeah. So I love two main metrics that I see over there. Number one is it will tell you when you search for any of the keywords and Amazon will niche it down for you. It will tell you how many competitors are there or are you going to be competing with. Right. For example, there's this number that said the top 90% of the clicks and there's a number right, so that number itself is going to be a foreshadow of how many guys are you going to be fighting with in terms of your PPC campaign, because these guys are getting 90% of the clicks right and you're probably going to be fighting out with them. So if that number is as low as 25 or lesser, that means you don't have a lot of competition to fight and thereby your Amazon PPC bids will be a lot more favorable. Right, below $1 per click, right. So that's my number one favorite matrix to look at. Number two is when you go to trends under Product Version Explorer, you will see the average search conversion right, and this is something that is a very valuable data, because this shows you, out of the basket of competitors, how well are they converting for that market right. You can even go down to keywords and it will show you the individual keyword search conversion rate itself and when you compare it to your own business reports, especially your unit session percentage, it's like a yardstick for you to measure how well are you performing compared to your competitors. So I always go back to that matrix to see hey, do I need to improve in my conversion rate? Bradley Sutton: so let me see and compare to my competitors okay, now going back to Cerebro, do you have like a diamond account with helium 10 or higher? I, I think I got a diamond account. I'm so sure have you ever used? Then the new I mean actually just recently got to diamond but the, the Historical Cerebro, where you can like kind of like look back over time where somebody was ranking any time in the last two years. Oh, yes, yes, I've seen, I've seen that, yeah, and I think I tested. So then you know, like, like, what are your thoughts now on seasonal products? Like, do you stay away from seasonal? Or now that you know, like now that there's the historical Cerebro, you can kind of really understand what were they making sales for in their season, or do you like only products that are like evergreen throughout the year? Clarence: I think it depends on the level of selling journey that you're in. Like for me, after I've launched a few products already, I'm a little more confident now. So I think I'm willing to go into the seasonal product niche, like the camping niche. That sells out very well in summer and in December, but for the rest of the year it was a little slower right. So I think we're fine with that. But if you're new and you're just starting on Amazon, I will not recommend you to go into seasonal products, just because there's a little more nuances in inventory management. So I love that tool that you mentioned. It allows you to instantly see literally how many units you need to buy. You know in advance in terms of your inventory management based on your competitors, and that is yeah, it's a very helpful tool. Bradley Sutton: Okay Now the other question I asked my guest who used Helium 10 is if I give you the keys to the kingdom, like hey you, you get to direct the product team to make some new tool or some new feature that we don't currently have, what's the first thing you're going to tell them to do, like what's on your Wishlist of something that Helium 10 doesn't do for you right now that you'd like? Clarence: Yeah, I love that because, um, I mean, the one thing that I would love is I I wish there's a way that we can automate product research. Right, like I mean, ai is all the rage we can go through the funnel, like the funnel that we have, and if there's a software right, I'm praying Helium 10 will be it If there's a software that we can just put the top 10 ASINs in there and it will tell us okay, this is your top 10 competitors. They are ranking for this amount of keywords. They are not very strong in a keyword rank, so maybe that's an opportunity there for keyword competition. Maybe another one will be return ratio. Pull the data from Amazon and say, oh, this is the average return ratio, it passes this criteria. Let's move on to the next check and then go all through the 14 checks and at the end it spits out the answer for you it's a pass. Bradley Sutton: All right, Well, hey we actually we started something like that. It's called Product Launchpad, not fully exactly like you said. I'm going to connect you with our product team and maybe you can help guide that tool. But yeah, we do have an AI powered product research tool that is like 50% what you said, so so maybe you can bring it now to 100% with your direction there. So I'm going to connect you to a Vincent for that. But anyways, what about last 30 or 60 second tip of the day? Our 60 second tip? What is a? An Amazon strategy you can share with the community that you think is beneficial for them? Clarence: Yeah, TST right, 30 Second Tips. So I think number one is I think we as Amazon sellers, after we sell for quite a while, we tend to be very detached to the customers because it's all the numbers, right. We download Excel sheets, we look at Helium 10 data, we look at Amazon's data. So I think the number one thing is always go back to the human being, because you're actually selling to the actual human being on the other side of the computer screen. So understand them, right. Like, really, you're selling your products to, let's say, a mom or a father who's buying a gift, right? So if that's your customer profile, then make sure your listing resonates with that as a customer profile. So I think the biggest tip that I can leave you guys is understand your customers, create your customer profile and make sure that your listing speaks to them directly, because the first trick is always click-through rate. Yeah, I mean, click-through rate is a little easy to get, just get your main product, I mean your main images and your pricing right. But the moment they are on your listing right and a lot of customers do bounce away sometimes from. So you need to find out why are they bouncing away from your listing? And this is one of the way customer profile and create images that speaks to them directly. All right? Bradley Sutton: Well, people want to reach out to you, get more information. Find you on the interwebs. How can they find you out there? Clarence: Yeah, so that's. You can search us on either Google YouTube the Google YouTube or Instagram the FBA Bros. So I'm Clarence, so the FBA Bros, as in T-H-E, f-b-a-b-r-o-s. So that's our handle on Instagram, tiktok and YouTube. So feel free to follow us for a lot of the advanced level tips that we share. And we don't hide things, right. I mean, we show our products. We even launched the egg pan in a mini PPC series on our YouTube channel. So we even go through the steps on what we click to launch the product. So I think there's a lot of value that you can learn from there as well. Looking forward to add value to that. Bradley Sutton: Awesome. Well, clarence, thank you so much for joining us, and I hope to be invited again to speak at the Amazon Singapore conference that they usually do in fall, and so maybe we can connect again at that time. But don't try and serve me any eggs in your egg pan because I can't eat eggs. All right. Clarence: I will see you later, man. Yeah, thanks for having me on board, Bradley.
This is what happens when they let me into a church! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by Substitute Legionnaire Tim Marchman to sift through Ralph Dibny's descent into sadness, the X-Men for virgins, Gen-X leftists, and Saltburn Funko Pops. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (06:30) Let's Talk About The Cover (10:26) Let's Talk About 52 #13 (14:12) The Backup (54:16) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:03:43) The Blackboard (01:06:33) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:15:27) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Matter-Eater Lad Legion of Super-Heroes Jerry Siegel Superman X-Men Ralph Dibny Captain Marvel Oliver Queen Hal Jordan Spectre Batman Zauriel Metamorpho Conner Kent Lex Luthor Dune: Part Two (2024) Rao Batman Vs. Robin Sue Dibny Hawkgirl Lost Ethan Van Sciver Green Lantern: Rebirth Green Arrow: Quiver Dev-Em Smallville Final Crisis: Requiem Martian Manhunter Joker Kurt Busiek JLA/Avengers Dwayne Johnson Black Adam Isis Snowpiercer (2013) Top Gun (1986) J. M. DeMatteis Cassie Sandsmark Warren Ellis The Authority James Gunn The Suicide Squad (2021) Watchmen Watchmen (2009) Peacemaker Kanjar Ro Titans Identity Crisis Kevin Nowlan Batman: The Animated Series Alan Moore Tomorrow Stories The Thin Man (1934) Metahuman Mutant Bart Allen Courtney Whitmore Showcase Presents Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special Ricky Gervais Jason Todd Batman Incorporated Batwing Hawkman Flash JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Julius Schwartz Plastic Man Shōgun Star Trek Dennis O'Neil Denys Cowan Vic Sage Young Justice Teen Titans Greg Weisman Gargoyles New Gods Seven Soldiers of Victory Final Crisis Saltburn (2023) Funko Laura Palmer 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
The artificial intelligence genie is out of the bottle, and there's no way to put it back in. All we can do is learn to live with AI as productively as possible. No surprise, today's youth are leading the charge from middle school to college. Amy and Mike invited ed tech expert Annie Chechitelli to describe how students use generative AI. What are five things you will learn in this episode? How are students using generative AI? What are positive and productive ways to use generative AI? What are less-productive ways to use generative AI? Are current detection tools keeping up with AI-generated work? How can educators promote positive adoption and use of AI tools? MEET OUR GUEST Annie Chechitelli has spent the past two decades innovating with educators to expand access to education, meet the quickly changing needs of learners, and empower students to do their best, original work. As the Chief Product Officer at Turnitin, Annie oversees the Turnitin suite of applications which includes academic integrity, grading and feedback, and assessment capabilities. Prior to joining Turnitin, Annie spent over five years at Amazon where she led Kindle Content for School, Work, and Government and launched the AWS EdTech Growth Advisory team, advising education technology companies on how to grow their product and go-to-market strategies with AWS. Annie began her career in EdTech at Wimba where she launched a live collaboration platform for education which was ultimately acquired by Blackboard in 2010. At Blackboard she led platform management, focused on transitioning Blackboard Learn to the cloud. Annie holds a B.S. from Columbia University and an M.B.A. and M.S. from Claremont Graduate University. She resides near Indianapolis, Indiana with her youngest child and husband, with two children attending college on the East Coast. Annie can be reached at LinkedIn. LINKS What is ChatGPT, DALL-E, and generative AI? How To Promote Academic Integrity In Your Classroom RELATED EPISODES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY COLLEGE ESSAYS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HOW CAN TUTORS USE AI? ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.
Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter's consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks' expansion into video streaming. In our conversation, we discuss:• The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon's acquisition• How he turned Twitter's stagnant culture around• Kayvon's thoughts on the limitations of frameworks like Jobs to Be Done• Why Periscope failed• Advice for building consumer products• When to copy, when to innovate—Brought to you by:• Enterpret—Transform customer feedback into product growth• OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster• Heap—Cross-platform product analytics that convert, engage, and retain customers—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/twitters-former-head-of-product-kayvon-beykpour—Where to find Kayvon Beykpour:• X: https://twitter.com/kayvz• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvz/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Kayvon's background(04:31) Getting Elon up to speed at Twitter(11:34) The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon's acquisition(21:09) Changing the product culture at Twitter(29:44) Building the “hide replies” feature(32:02) Sacred crows, taking bold bets, and reigniting growth(34:28) Aquihires and their impact(42:40) Tips for successful acquisitions and staffing(47:00) The limitations of frameworks like JTBD(53:20) Signs you've gone too far with a framework(57:44) Lessons from building Periscope(01:00:41) Reasons why Periscope failed(01:07:24) The challenges of implementing video at Twitter(01:12:05) Copying ideas in good taste(01:17:58) How to get better at building consumer products(01:19:51) What Kayvon is building(01:20:31) Lightning round—Referenced:• Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-on-building-product-sense-navigating-ai-optimizing-the-first-mile-and-making-it-through-t/• What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3• Walter Isaacson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-isaacson-b8b81520/• Elon Musk on X: https://twitter.com/elonmusk• Parag Agrawal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parag-agrawal-5a14742a/• Jack Dorsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dorsey-a43b07242/• Blackboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.• Keith Coleman on X: https://twitter.com/kcoleman• Esther Crawford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esthercrawford/• Twitter acquires Chroma Labs: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-acquires-chroma-labs-story-aqvcRPAoYXqXJuAbefA6cN.html• John Barnett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarnettt/• Jobs to Be Done framework: https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90• Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech's top power couple: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/hot-takes-and-techno-optimism-from-techs-top-power-couple-sriram-and-aarthi/• Nike Is Unveiling the Kobe 11 Tomorrow Using Periscope: https://sneakernews.com/2015/12/13/nike-is-unveiling-the-kobe-11-tomorrow-using-periscope/• Chris Sacca's website: https://chrissacca.com/• Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/formedia/tools/facebook-live• Kevin Hart on X: https://twitter.com/KevinHart4real• Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/• Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)• Paul Davison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davison/• Rohan Seth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanseth/• Cryptonomicon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380788624• Reamde: https://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B004XVN0WW• The Name of the Wind: https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Book-ebook/dp/B0010SKUYM• Star Trek official site: https://www.startrek.com/• Dune: part 2: https://www.dunemovie.com/• Oppenheimer on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer• Tokyo Vice on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/tokyo-vice/e7d93204-7f98-4e62-ab52-6c1da053f942• Devs on Hulu: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs• Nick Offerman on X: https://twitter.com/nick_offerman• 3 Body Problem on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821• Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/• Particle: https://www.particle.news/• Crokinole board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521/crokinole—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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ttttttttt! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe consider issue number twelve of 52, and in the process share the best way to start reading comics, the best ideas for reintroducing Isis (the character! the character!) to comics, and the exact moment The Rock decided to change the hierarchy of power in the DC universe. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent, and How to Start Reading Comics (03:02) Let's Talk About The Cover (05:27) Let's Talk About 52 #12 (07:04) The Backup (37:12) What's your favorite part of the issue? (47:15) The Blackboard (48:02) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (54:01) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Booster Gold Eddy Barrows Rob Stull Travis Lanham David Baron The Sandman Animal Man Locke & Key J. G. Jones Isis Aladdin - A Whole New World Stephen Wacker Kahndaq Maggie Sawyer Gotham Central Renee Montoya Vic Sage Dennis O'Neil The Question (1986 series) Batman Returns (1992) Black Adam Superman Shazam (wizard) The Secrets of Isis Chicago Dark Nemesis Teen Titans (1996 series) Black Adam (2022) Dwayne Johnson Billy Batson Bud Manstrong Whiz Comics Shazam! (2019) Zachary Levi Mark Millar Bart Simpson Steven Universe Finn the Human Legends of Tomorrow Joanna Cameron Jadzia Axelrod Wonder Woman Sabrina the Teenage Witch Motorola Razr Cassie Sandsmark Ralph Dibny Donna Troy Zeus Sue Dibny Superboy Fullmetal Alchemist Kill la Kill Twilight Adam Hughes Laura Martin Mark Chiarello Hippolyta Percy Jackson Wonder Woman (2017) Maxwell Lord Wonder Woman Archives William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals George Pérez Wonder Woman: Eyes of the Gorgon Tom King Philadelphia Liberty Belle Fawcett City Creed (2015) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Abbott Elementary Seven Deadly Enemies of Man the photo Jaffe provided of the Seven Deadly Sins X-Men Avengers Civil War Quicksilver Scarlet Witch Ultimate X-Men Old Man Logan Mark Millar Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Batman: Knightfall hoopla DC Universe Infinite Marvel Unlimited 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Man down in Wife City! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by The Prettiest Star Jadzia Axelrod as they dive into the romantic history of Kate Kane and Renee Montoya, make unintentional Andrew Hussie references, and figure out what to do with Donna Troy. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (11:24) Let's Talk About 52 #11 (12:37) The Backup (55:44) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:06:38) The Blackboard (01:07:23) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:15:10) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Jadzia Axelrod Galaxy: the Prettiest Star Hawkgirl The DC Book of Pride Gotham Outsiders Batman Infinite Crisis Renee Montoya Superman Captain Marvel Super Friends Animal Man Ralph Dibny Sue Dibny Batman Begins (2005) Tenet (2020) Christopher Nolan Batman (1989) The Dark Knight (2008) Patriot Act Heath Ledger Joker Bill Finger Bob Kane Jerry Robinson Joe Bennett Todd Nauck Young Justice Emerald Empress Slobo Lobo Jack Jadson Marlo Alquiza Catwoman Teen Titans Lost Attack on Titan Randy Newman Conner Kent Wonder Girl Opal City Starman Gotham City Vic Sage Atlas Shrugged Dennis O'Neil Lady Shiva Jessica Rabbit Kate Kane J. H. Williams III Huntress Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood Detective Comics Dan DiDio Alex Ross Lauren Bacall Deep Throat Denys Cowan The Question Hub City Gotham Central Lex Luthor 2004 United States presidential election in Ohio Bush v. Gore John Byrne Reductress Intergang Whisper A'Daire Ra's al Ghul Jack Kirby “Fearful Symmetry” Tim Drake Oliver Queen Mister Miracle Oberon Bruce Wayne Andrew Hussie Problem Sleuth League of Assassins Spirit Will Eisner Booster Gold Steel Black Adam Black Adam (2022) Dwayne Johnson Barbara Gordon Kathy Kane Nightwing Dan Jurgens Final Crisis: Superman Beyond Villains United Dragon Ball FighterZ Jujutsu Kaisen My Hero Academia Hisoka Morow Hunter × Hunter Donna Troy Jade Alan Scott The Monitor Robert Kanigher Wally West Barry Allen Six Feet Under Alysia Yeoh Taylor Barzelay Shawn Moll Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance James Robinson Maggie Sawyer Revolutionary Girl Utena Sailor Moon Steven Universe The 52 Gala - a Spotify playlist of Kate and Renee's gala from issue #7, created by Alex Jaffe, Gita Jackson and Jadzia Axelrod My Adventures with Superman All-Star Superman Superman: Up, Up, and Away Batman/Two-Face: Face the Face Superman Smashes the Klan The Golden Age Seven Soldiers of Victory Superman: For All Seasons Jeph Loeb 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Live, laugh, love! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe jump out of a window into 52's tenth issue, where they find out what the Middle East is even like in the DC universe, spend Tuesdays with Morrow, and take a quick quiz on super-vegetarians. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (02:29) Let's Talk About the Cover (03:41) Let's Talk About 52 #10 (04:41) The Backup (43:56) What's your favorite part of the issue? (55:14) The Blackboard (55:59) Asking/Answering The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:02:57) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci Chris Batista Jimmy Palmiotti Starfire Clark Kent Lois Lane Nick and Nora Charles Superman (1978) Supernova Kahndaq Black Adam Axis of evil Doomsday Clock Green Lantern Simon Baz Overwatch Luke Cage Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse Guantánamo Bay Trayvon Martin Billy Batson Cascade Ibis the Invincible August General in Iron Adrianna Tomaz Andrea Thomas Shazam! Michael Gray The Secrets of Isis Metamorpho Hawkman Charlton Comics Blue Beetle Green Hornet Legends of Tomorrow Archer David Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Stardust the Super Wizard Perry White Adventures of Superman Kurt Busiek Booster Gold Black Adam/JSA: Black Reign Doctor Doom Badhnisia Johnny Thunder Vic Sage Lost Arrowverse Wiki Ra's al Ghul Fu Manchu Talia al Ghul The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Deathstroke really sports a Halo emblem in Zack Snyder's Justice League Ralph Dibny T. O. Morrow My Dinner with Andre (1981) Hard Target (1993) On Cinema Brave New World Nineteen Eighty-Four Frankenstein RoboCop (1987) Torment Nexus Will Magnus Doctor Sivana Mister Mind Countdown to Infinite Crisis Dan Jurgens Hank Henshaw Identity Crisis Infinite Crisis The Secret Society of Super Villains Flash: Rogue War Captain Boomerang Wally West Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League John Ostrander Speedy Kevin Smith Wonder Woman Brian Azzarello Jim Lee Batman: Hush Hal Jordan Ethan Van Sciver Spectre Day of Vengeance Batman Brother Eye Rann-Thanagar War Maxwell Lord General Zod Man of Steel (2013) Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Jason Todd Donna Troy OMAC Justice League Unlimited John Stewart Kyle Rayner Bialya Kuraq Cheshire Marv Wolfman Cullen Bunn Sinestro Dex-Starr Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Babu Frik Kobra The Joker Man-Bat Rocket Red Sonar Eurovision Song Contest Lady Zand Zandia Young Justice Kangas Jumpa Ferdinand Jay Garrick Stephanie Brown Mister Terrific Mary Marvel Aquaman Barbara Gordon Beast Boy Poison Ivy Harley Quinn (TV series) Raven Damian Wayne Bat-Cow Zatanna Martian Manhunter Jimmy Olsen Astro City Matt Wagner Sandman Mystery Theater Animal Man Renee Montoya Sand Wesley Dodds Evan Narcisse Gerard Way Frank Quitely Aftermath 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
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In this episode of the Jeff Bradbury Show Podcast, Jeff welcomes Penn GSE Entrepreneur in Residence and Director of the Gamba Foundation, John Gamba Jr. on the podcast to discuss the current state of education in this country, how Penn GSE is supporting entrepreneurs in EdTech, and the importance of creating a pathway for success for startups..If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!Follow Our Host Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury TeacherCast | @TeacherCastAbout our Guest: John GambaJohn Gamba is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, funded and led several education technology ventures and non-profit organizations over his 30 year career. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gamba started his career as a strategy consultant for KPMG where he performed market research for NASA on the commercial development of space. Pursuing his passion for education, John co-founded PACE - The Partnership for Academic and Community Excellence. PACE was a school to home communications network that connected thousands of schools to millions of parents across the United States. PACE was eventually sold to NTI Group and then to Blackboard for $182 million, in an all cash transaction.John currently serves as Entrepreneur in Residence and Director of Innovative Programs at Catalyst @ Penn GSE where he mentors aspiring education entrepreneurs and oversees the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, now in its 15th year. The Milken competition has awarded $2 million dollars to 50 education entrepreneurs and those ventures have gone on to raise $200 million in follow-on capital.John is an industry speaker and a mentor to several entrepreneurs in the global Education space. He's also an Ironman Triathlete, and qualified for the Half Ironman World Championships in Clearwater, Florida in 2010.Links of Interest Twitter: https://twitter.com/johngamba7 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngambaJoin Our PLNAre you enjoying the TeacherCast Network, please share your thoughts with the world by commenting on Apple Podcasts today? I enjoy reading and sharing your comments on the podcast each week.Let's Work Together Host: Jeff Bradbury @TeacherCast | @JeffBradbury Email: info@teachercast.net Voice Mail:
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe head off in pursuit of 52 issue #9, dealing with psychosexual eugenics factories, the LGBTQ+ nightlife scene in Gotham, and Big Mad Meltzer. Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (03:32) Let's Talk About the Cover (07:14) Let's Talk About 52 #9 (11:24) The Backup (41:22) What's your favorite part of the issue? (49:47) The Blackboard (51:41) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:02:46) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Blastoise Scoliosis Shawn Moll Team Zero She-Hulk NO SIGNAL Tom Nguyen Major Bummer Doug Mahnke The Switch Alex Sinclair David Baron Mark Millar Frank Quitely The Authority Wonder Woman Old Man Logan Hulk Suicide Squad Jared K Fletcher Lost Polar bears Devilance Eternals (2021) Jack Kirby New Gods Galactus Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Celestial Lex Luthor Elon Musk Neuralink Jesse Eisenberg Henry Cavill Superman John Henry Irons Natasha Irons Emma Frost Superman Red/Superman Blue Barbara Gordon Punchline Gwenpool Kewpie Herakles Booster Gold This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't Animal Man Starfire Adam Strange Animal Man (1988) Spider-Man Sonic the Hedgehog Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba George Pérez The New Teen Titans Green Arrow Victor Sage James Tynion IV Alysia Yeoh Batman Renee Montoya The Question (1986) Steve Ditko Ted Kord Huntress Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood Intergang Darkseid Batwoman Identity Crisis Brad Meltzer Jean Loring Sue Dibny Donna Troy Doctor Light Watchmen Alan Moore Atom I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Star Trek Entourage The Wire David Simon The DC Book of Pride Jadzia Axelrod Magneto Guy Gardner Jason Todd Scott Lobdell Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Jensen Ackles Mister Miracle Big Barda Orion Lightray Hermes Kalibak Roy family Succession Granny Goodness Tom King Stompa Glorious Godfrey Virman Vundabar Arrowverse Kevin Smith Legends of Tomorrow John Constantine The Shadow Stephanie Brown Bill Willingham Joker Victor Zsasz Cassandra Cain Birds of Prey (2020) DC Challenge Kamandi 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe are joined by Dalton Deschain and Dylan Roth of Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe, covering issue eight of 52. Infectious serums are distributed, welding is performed in anger, Haunted Tankie is conceptualized, and Dumb Bitch Juice is drank in copious amounts. Chapters: Let's Talk About The 2011 Green Lantern Film Starring Ryan Reynolds (06:45) Let's Talk About The Guest's Comic Book Backgrounds (14:42) Let's Talk About 52 #8 (23:37) The Backup (01:15:52) The Blackboard (01:23:37) What's your favorite part of the issue? (01:34:43) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:39:00) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Vincent Price Bobby Pickett Dark Universe Monster Mash Green Lantern (2011) Green Lantern Ryan Reynolds Justice League: Mortal Flash Jay Garrick The Mummy (2017) Angela Bassett Amanda Waller Viola Davis Judi Dench Aquaman (2018) Shazam! (2019) Zack Snyder's Justice League Joss Whedon Cyborg Ray Fisher Deadpool (2019) Madame Web (2024) Adam Scott Parks and Recreation El Muerto Spider-Man Bad Bunny Daredevil (2003) Elektra (2005) Jon Favreau Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Superman (1940s animated film series) Super Mario Bros. (1993) Metroid Prime James Gunn Superman Creature Commandos David Harbour Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein (1935) X-Men: The Animated Series Batman: The Animated Series Ultimate Marvel Thor: The Dark World (2013) Saga Sex Criminals Image Comics Batman Tom King Brian Michael Bendis Batwoman: Elegy Gotham Central Renee Montoya Vic Sage Superman Adventures Batman: No Man's Land Batman: Hush Sasha Bordeaux Countdown to Infinite Crisis Infinite Crisis Kyle Rayner Hal Jordan Dawn of X House of X and Powers of X Jim Gordon The Sandman Neil Gaiman George R. R. Martin J. G. Jones Eddy Barrows Birds of Prey Gail Simone Rob Stull Sequential Art: The Next Step Joe Bennett John Henry Irons Natasha Irons Scrooge McDuck Ebenezer Scrooge Michael Caine The Muppets Social realism Lex Luthor The Boys Ayn Rand Teen Titans Jim Shooter Iceman Cyborg Superman Eradicator Booster Gold Bryan Hitch Howard Porter Jack Kirby Green Arrow Elongated Man Dennis O'Neil Green Lantern and Green Arrow Conner Kent Sue Dibny Man of Steel John Byrne Elon Musk New Universe Clark Kent Gossip Girl One Tree Hill Starfire Adam Strange Animal Man Return of the Jedi (1983) Marilyn Manson Marilyn Monroe Dita Von Teese Greg Land Biff Tannen Donald Trump Mark Russell Batman Incorporated Westworld Dan Jurgens Zero Hour The Final Night Connor Hawke Atom Argent Superman Red/Superman Blue Jessica Cruz Tim Drake Damian Wayne Jason Todd Dick Grayson Jon Kent Young Justice Spectre Supergirl Stephanie Brown Batman: War Games Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire Identity Crisis Jodi Picoult Sub Diego Aquaman San Diego Comic-Con Blackest Night Bernie Sanders Bob Haney The Brave and the Bold Hawkman The Dark Knight Strikes Again Rocket Red Haunted Tank Justice League Unlimited Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe Problem Clown Jeffrey Combs J. M. DeMatteis Etrigan the Demon Donald Faison Kingdom Come Christopher Priest Secret Six Catman Ed Brubaker Catwoman Trickster Pied Piper Judd Winick Outsiders Shift Marvel Unlimited DC UNIVERSE INFINITE The Wicked + The Divine Kieron Gillen Die 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
Join host Elias on Pop Culture Unplugged as he delves into the world of versatile actress Paola Andino, celebrated for her role as Misty in the captivating project, Lisa Frankenstein. From her early days in dance to her breakthrough in acting at age 10, Paola shares her remarkable journey in the entertainment industry. Discover how Paola's talent shone through in her first major role in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Beyond the Blackboard, leading to her meteoric rise with Nickelodeon's Every Witch Way. In this episode, Paola discusses her latest ventures, including her highly anticipated role in the Focus Features film Lisa Frankenstein, alongside Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse, as well as her part in the star-studded independent film Re-Election. Tune in for an insightful conversation as Paola Andino unveils her experiences, insights, and the creative process behind her captivating performances. Don't miss this exclusive glimpse into the world of a rising star. Photo Credit: Leon Bennett - Getty Images More Exclusive Interviews and Behind-the-Scenes Content: https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureUnpluggedwElias Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kHL3kFNPnpw
Betrayal! Public shaming! Pop-punk and toxic lesbians! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World's Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe infiltrate issue seven of 52, the most important comic book of the century and the best series you've never heard of. Use offer code SCOOTS for 20% off! Chapters: Let's Talk Talent (03:51) Let's Talk About the Cover (07:36) Let's Talk About 52 #7 (08:51) The Backup (47:11) What's your favorite part of the issue? (54:01) The Blackboard (57:38) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:06:10) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Trade paperback Rock Lee Ken Lashley Joe Bennett Excalibur Travis Lanham Bruce Timm Gotham Central Booster Gold Lex Luthor J. G. Jones From Under the Cork Tree Fall Out Boy The Simpsons - Three Men and a Comic Book My Chemical Romance Gerard Way Doom Patrol Starfire Animal Man Renee Montoya Two-Face Raymond Chandler Vic Sage Bob Kane Kate Kane Batwoman (TV series) Ralph Dibny J. M. DeMatteis Fire Cassie Sandsmark Sue Dibny Lost Martha Wayne Edmond Hamilton Colt's Manufacturing Company Dennis O'Neil The Question (1986 series) Jonathan Hickman Kieron Gillen Joëlle Jones Jessica Rabbit Jack Kirby Dan Jurgens Blue and Gold Joanne Starer Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville Tim Drake Lois Lane Rush Jonathan Coulton They Might Be Giants Superman The Question (2005 series) Lois Lane (2019 series) Ted Kord Joe Jonas Sophie Turner Devilance The Forever People Galactus Zero Hour Extant Armageddon 2001 Captain Atom Westworld Brian Michael Bendis Hawk and Dove Hal Jordan Crisis on Infinite Earths Hawkman Knight Terrors Barry Allen Animal Man (1988 series) JLA DC One Million Batman Catwoman Seduction of the Innocent Fredric Wertham Injustice 2 Dick Grayson Damian Wayne Tom King Doctor Phosphorus The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Bane Marion Cotillard Talia al Ghul Red vs. Blue Christopher Nolan The War of the Gods Wonder Woman Circe Waverider Jason Todd Stephanie Brown 52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you'd like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show's personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.
In this episode, David Paul interviews Matthew Pittinsky, the founder of Blackboard and CEO of Parchment, about his journey in the educational technology industry. They discuss the genesis of Blackboard and its role in revolutionizing the learning management system (LMS) industry. They also explore the shift from on-premises software to cloud-based solutions and the challenges faced in building a networked system of record. Pittinsky shares his insights on the current pain points in education and the value of a college degree. The conversation concludes with a discussion of favorite books and closing remarks.TakeawaysBlackboard revolutionized the LMS industry by creating a front office system for universities that facilitated instruction and learning.The shift to cloud-based solutions, exemplified by Instructure's Canvas LMS, disrupted Blackboard's on-premises model.Parchment was founded to address the need for a networked system of record that allows learners to collect and manage their academic and professional credentials.The education industry faces challenges such as fragmented technology ecosystems, math achievement gaps, teacher retention, and the perception of the value of a college degree.Chapters03:14 The Genesis of Blackboard08:00 The Shift to the Cloud12:05 The Birth of Parchment15:29 Building a Networked System of Record20:17 Adoption Challenges and Cultural Battles21:47 The Vision of Parchment23:34 Current Pain Points in Education26:18 Is College Worth It?29:55 Favorite Books
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