Podcast appearances and mentions of Brandon West

Brandon West, CPA walks you through various tax planning strategies to help you keep more of your hard-earned money. Today, we talk about the habits of successful investors. Higher earners often fall into "lifestyle inflation" where they never feel they can get ahead. Implement these habits to successfully build your wealth, regardless of your tax bracket!Have a question or topic you want to hear covered in a future episode? Send us a direct message here: ⁠⁠⁠Contact - West & Walters⁠⁠⁠Want to talk to a professional investment advisor, or schedule your FREE financial planning meeting? ⁠⁠⁠Schedule A Call - West & Walters

Brandon West, CPA walks you through various tax planning strategies to help you keep more of your hard-earned money. Today, we talk about whether you are a passive real estate investor, a "Real Estate Professional," or in operation of a trade or business involving real estate. Each of these designations come with tax deductions and strategies, so understanding them can help save you thousands on your tax bill!Have a question or topic you want to hear covered in a future episode? Send us a direct message here: ⁠⁠⁠Contact - West & Walters⁠⁠⁠Want to talk to a professional investment advisor, or schedule your FREE financial planning meeting? ⁠⁠⁠Schedule A Call - West & Walters

Brandon West, CPA walks you through various tax planning strategies to help you keep more of your hard-earned money. Today, we get really honest about your money! Are you sure you're working with the right people to handle your investments? Learn how to start getting better financial knowledge and avoid industry pitfalls!Have a question or topic you want to hear covered in a future episode? Send us a direct message here: ⁠⁠Contact - West & Walters⁠⁠Want to talk to a professional investment advisor, or schedule your FREE financial planning meeting? ⁠⁠Schedule A Call - West & Walters

Brandon West, CPA walks you through various tax planning strategies to help you keep more of your hard-earned money. Today, I'm going to cover a taboo but important topic: why and how should churches (and other 501(c)(3) organizations) invest their wealth to multiply the giving of their members. We talk about how church investments are different from other entities, and the effect a growth mindset can have on church finances!Have a question or topic you want to hear covered in a future episode? Send us a direct message here: ⁠Contact - West & Walters⁠Want to talk to a professional investment advisor, or schedule your FREE financial planning meeting? ⁠Schedule A Call - West & Walters

Brandon West, CPA walks you through various tax planning strategies to help you keep more of your hard-earned money. Today, I'm going to cover one of our more complex topics we've discussed: tax-loss harvesting through Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs). Let's dive into one of the tools of the ultra high net worth individual, where investments are separately managed in a brokerage account designed to capture losses to offset other income, without increasing risk exposure or sacrificing diversification. Have a question or topic you want to hear covered in a future episode? Send us a direct message here: Contact - West & WaltersWant to talk to a professional investment advisor, or schedule your FREE financial planning meeting? Schedule A Call - West & Walters

Send us a textIn this episode of the Biblical Leadership at Work podcast, host Jason Woodard interviews Brandon West, the founder and Chief Purpose Officer of PHOS Creative. Brandon details his path from a university student pursuing classical studies to establishing a successful digital marketing agency. He discusses the trials he and his wife faced early on, including the loss of their mothers and raising a family while building a business. Emphasizing purpose-driven leadership, Brandon shares how integrating faith into the workplace has shaped his company culture and his own leadership style. He also reflects on the importance of intentionality, love, and faithfulness in leadership, and offers practical advice on balancing efficiency with empathy. Highlighting his own journey to faith and his spiritual practices, Brandon speaks on the transformative power of regular retreats and scripture reading. Additionally, Brandon shares insights from his book, 'It Is Not Your Business to Succeed,' which challenges leaders to measure success through faithfulness rather than outcomes.The Intentional Father book Support the showBe sure to rate and follow our podcast!

Are your professional pursuits driven by purpose or merely profit? In this episode of Seek Go Create - The Leadership Journey, guest Brandon West shares his transformative journey from viewing himself as a CEO to embracing his role as a "chief purpose officer." Join host Tim Winders and Brandon as they delve into how integrating faith with business can create impactful, purpose-driven leadership that transcends traditional success metrics. Discover practical insights and inspiring stories that will challenge you to rethink your approach to work and life."In business, we should shift from profits-centered to purpose-driven, focusing more on 'we' than 'me'." - Brandon West Access all show and episode resources HEREAbout Our Guest:Brandon West is a visionary entrepreneur, author, and pastor who founded PHOS Creative, a purpose-driven marketing agency dedicated to integrating faith and business. With a profound commitment to marketplace ministry, Brandon has launched 17 care centers across 11 countries. His debut book, "It's Not Your Business to Succeed," challenges conventional success metrics, advocating for leadership grounded in faith and purpose. Brandon's blend of business acumen and pastoral wisdom offers unique insights into leading with integrity and impact.Reasons to Listen: Discover Purpose Beyond Profits: Learn how Brandon West integrates faith and business to transform traditional profit-driven models into purpose-driven missions, establishing 17 care centers in 11 countries.Navigate Modern Workforce Pressures: Delve into Brandon's insights on tackling the anxiety and high-pressure success metrics faced by today's young professionals, especially those in academic environments like the University of Florida.Reframe Leadership and Success: Explore the enlightening conversation on shifting from control to stewardship, emphasizing faithfulness over outcomes, and embracing gentleness and emotional intelligence in leadership.Episode Resources & Action Steps:Resources Mentioned:Book: "It's Not Your Business to Succeed" by Brandon West - Available on Amazon and provides insights on leading with trust in God's purpose rather than focusing solely on success outcomes.Website: BrandonMichaelWest.com - Houses additional resources such as podcasts, articles, and further information about Brandon West's work and philosophy.Agency: PHOS Creative - Offers marketing and branding resources and has published free guides for strategic planning and fostering a flourishing workplace culture.Action Steps:Embrace Purpose Over Profit: Reflect on the mission and vision of your own business or professional endeavors. Consider how you can shift from a profit-driven to a purpose-driven approach, integrating values and a higher purpose into everyday business practices.Practice Gratitude and Reflection: Implement a regular gratitude exercise within your team or personal routine, similar to the gratitude exercise mentioned by Brandon West's team. This can help maintain emotional wellness and keep focus on the small blessings and positive aspects of life.Transition to Stewardship Leadership: Work on changing your leadership approach from one of control to stewardship. Focus on leading...

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk about an important concept for any investor: is it worth it to work with an advisor? Listen as we discuss the advantages of an AUM fee advisor who charges a percentage, as opposed to fixed fee financial planners. 

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we break down good financial habits to exercise when years end. Check the yearly returns on your investments, ask your CPA some questions, and make sure your financial strategies are still in line with your goals.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we get in the spirit of the Holidays with a dive into the ways to give to others. From tax-sheltered contributions to invested charitable gifts, we break down how to better compound your generosity!

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we take an honest look at some of our stocks we've been watching this year to see how they've performed. Subscribers to the newsletter will recognize many of these stocks. And, let's talk about our investment philosophy and our expectations for future market performance overall.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk about one of the most important market factors in recent history: the upcoming "Great Wealth Transfer" that will pass over 80 TRILLION dollars to younger generations. Statistics say most people are not prepared to effectively manage a financial windfall. Learn how to be prepared so you can avoid the common pitfalls of inheritors.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk about insurance :when you should get it, what type of insurance you need, and why insurance as an investment is a terrible option.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk about a constant worry of investors, "is it time to sell?" Let's dive into how different investors answer this question and whether or not any investor can beat the market and perfectly time their investments.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk about the concept of "risk tolerance." Let's explore investment strategies that can lower risk in your portfolio.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we discuss the often "false promise" of creating tax sheltered income in retirement. Learn when it IS important to incorporate tax strategy into your investments and the imapct it can make!

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we peak behind the curtain. What type of advisors are there, what fees do they charge, how do their potentially conflicted incentives affect their investment recommendations, and how can you use this information to pick a great advisor for your situation.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we answer a fear lots of our listeners might have: I'm approaching retirement but I don't have much invested and I'm worried I can't retire. Listen as we walk you through HOW to answer the question "cant I retire soon," and learn what to do if the answer is "no" in your current situation.

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we explore the sadly underutilized world of retirement planning for small business owner. Learn how to aggressively invest into your retirement and reduce taxes by tens of thousands of dollars!

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we explore the perverse incentives of financial "influencers" and explain how to search for sound, accurate financial advice instead!

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we talk numbers, and help you plan for retirement by calculating how much money you need at YOUR age to retire a millionaire!

Brandon West, CPA and James Walters, CRPC discuss weekly topics surrounding personal finance, small businesses, investing, tax strategy, and retirement planning. In this episode we dive into the details of the 457(b) plan and how its many advantageous set up every first responder to retire a millionaire!

Send us a Text Message.Brandon West - Chief Purpose Officer at PHOS Creative, Author and Speaker on Leadership and Company Culture - welcomes us into his faith journey and how it informs his life and work, including being raised in a Christian home (in name only); repenting to the bus driver; God giving fuel for the next season through relationships; protecting God's daughters; the beauty of the Christian version of imposter syndrome; adoring God in prayer; learning how to retreat; declaring for his company and for clients that they will be the light of the world; business as a ministry (BaaM); caring for their five key groups physically, emotionally and spiritually; what happens when a client's values are at odds with your company's values; explaining the Buffalo Culture and the three Ps of PHOS culture; repentance as chlorine; where Preach Where You Reach begins; explains the "Manhood Initiation Ceremony" and much more. https://brandonmichaelwest.com/https://phoscreative.com/Support the Show.

In this week's episode of The Venue Rx podcast, our host Jonathan Aymin sits down with Brandon West, CPA and Co-Owner of 77 Financial Group. They cover the importance of separating funds owed to vendors from taxable income, advocating for the safety of a high-yield savings account over riskier options like stocks or cryptocurrency. Additionally they discuss tax planning and retirement, and touch on the needs of venue owners considering succession and what that planning process entails.  About Our Guest:  Brandon West is a certified CPA based in California, specializing in tax matters for individuals and small businesses. He earned his degrees in Accounting and Finance from Point Loma Nazarene University. Initially, Brandon gained valuable experience at CBIZ, one of the nation's top ten accounting firms. However, driven by a desire for more direct client engagement and business development opportunities, he established his own practice. Today, Brandon's clientele spans across 8 states and encompasses individuals, LLCs, S Corporations, C Corporations, and Sole Proprietorships. He is deeply passionate about supporting his clients' growth journeys, offering expert guidance through the intricate landscape of tax regulations. Find Him Here:  Email: brandon@77financialgroup.com Website: https://www.77financialgroup.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/77financialgroup/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-west-0814a686/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WdL2X4ShOSn7YrnmwOECT?si=53c44c9571324638

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Hello, Darlings!The celeb gossip EXPERT Brandon West from Front Page Pop joins the Pod to discuss "The Valley".We discuss everything from TMZ early 2000's days to why we love gossip just so much."The Valley" DID NOT DISAPPOINT this week, Brandon shares his thoughts on all of the cast, why Kristen is reality tv gold, and what is really going on at Jax and Brittany's house...who is cheating???Enjoy! Access bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Step into the world of PHOS Creative with Brandon West, the visionary founder who started it all from his home office at just 26. Based in sunny Florida, PHOS Creative isn't your typical digital marketing agency—it's a strategy-first powerhouse that's earned accolades from the Inc. 5000 to Florida Trend Magazine. In this episode, we explore how PHOS Creative's growth and vibrant culture reflect Brandon's mission to cultivate true flourishing in people and organizations while embodying the love of Jesus.Guest Links:Brandon's LinkedInPHOS CreativeIt Is Not Your Business to SucceedCredits: Host: Lisa NicholsExecutive Producer: Jenny HealMarketing Support: Landon Burke and Joe SzynkowskiPodcast Engineer: Portside Media

Brett interviews his longtime friend, Brandon West, who recently published an outstanding book on the topic of success. Discover why business owners, entrepreneurs, pastors, and stay-at-home Moms are being impacted by this Brandon's powerful message. This 25 minute interview could literally change your life!

We start the show by speaking w/ former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it. We also weak with Tara Currie of Brooklyn for Peace about the Move the Money campaign to divert money from the Pentagon to meeting human needs, and then we learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College. Plus updates from Ashley Marinaccio about a protest for a Palestinian theatre and Amba Guerguerian about the latest from Gaza.

We speak with former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it.

When BSN Sports Construction and Varsity Brands toured Daktronics this fall, they sat down in our studios for a conversation about their business, how they work with schools and how they work with Daktronics to bring new technology into those school's facilities. Joining Justin and Matt for this conversation are Julie Jackson, Vice President of Varsity Brand Impact Program and BSN Sports Construction, and Erik Rios and Brandon West, Project Managers of BSN Sports Construction.    Links: BSN Sports: https://www.bsnsports.com/ 

Are you ready to explore the extraordinary journey of a purpose-driven entrepreneur? In this inspiring episode, join Elzie as he sits down with Brandon West, the Chief Purpose Officer and Founder of PHOS Creative, which is a remarkable marketing agency with a mission to restore dignity, purpose, and freedom to those impacted by extreme poverty and sex trafficking. Discover Brandon's unique insights on entrepreneurship, from building a successful business to intertwining profit with a profound mission. Explore the concept of the "care matrix" model, where revenue generation and meaningful impact converge at local and global levels. Dive into the essence of leadership, the importance of purpose, and making a difference both at work and at home.Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur seeking a purposeful journey or an established leader aiming to create a positive impact, this episode holds valuable insights. Brandon's profound experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur offers a blueprint for intertwining business success with transformative missions. Learn how to align your heart with your skills, discover your true purpose, and create a meaningful legacy through leadership when you tune in!Episode Highlights:03:57 - I have found that neither one of those are all that exciting for me. Neither one of those ideas of building an equity business to sell it out or a lifestyle business just so I can go play a bunch of golf, I hate golf. Top golf is like the best–I don't like fishing, like I love what I do. Neither one of those two perspectives on business have been enough to sustain me. We have built something exceptional and different at PHOS. It's a different type of business. It's not equity, It's not lifestyle. We call it business as a ministry. BAM. Business as a ministry. What if business wasn't just about equity and you living a lifestyle that you wanted to live? What if your business and your life and your leadership was actually about other people?10:52 - We had grown to such a size that I had delegated so much of my roles and responsibilities away. I was walking and going, "What do I do here again?" I had delegated so much away and people are like, "Oh, well done. A leader worth following. Delegation is such a great leadership quality." Until you're looking at it and you're just like, "I don't even know what I'm supposed to do when I wake up tomorrow morning." I went to my leadership team. I shared this with them, my executive team. I said, "Here's what I'm struggling with." And they were like, "We know exactly what you're supposed to do here, Brandon." I was like, "Well, please tell me." "You're supposed to guard our purpose." 15:19 - That's why leadership is hard. In the middle of all that, you're trying to figure out purpose. You're trying to figure out, how am I supposed to do? What am I called to? What an interesting blend of roles and responsibilities. For me, as I've tried to answer that question about purpose, one of the best tools I've seen for doing so, Andy Stanley, great leadership guy in my life, he says that purpose is found at the intersection of three things. What breaks your heart? Start there. You want to understand your purpose, then be willing to go on all. It took me years to answer that question.20:07 - I have more potential inside of me, and I choose not to pursue that because of the things that that potential for business or for leadership, or for influence or for growth, or for revenue, or for impact, or for ministry would threaten the things that are most acutely I'm called to in life. I would willingly lay aside potential for the sake of purpose, and people who God's called me to minister to. The life most wasted is not the one who wastes the most amount of potential but spends their potential on the things that they were never meant to spend it on.

Step into a transformative episode and prepare to be inspired by Brandon West as he talks about the powerful lessons and goals that drive his life and leadership. Discover Brandon's profound realization that leadership at home should be just as much of a passion project as his work. Explore the profound impact this perspective shift has had on his personal and professional life, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing family and creating a positive influence within his own household. Brandon shares that they are opening three care centers in Rosita, Nicaragua with the aim of serving 500 children annually. His commitment to this cause is a testament to his unwavering determination and desire to bring tangible change to communities in need. He is also off to Guatemala with Compassion International, where he will explore existing care centers and seek opportunities for further involvement. Get ready to be amazed by Brandon's goal of launching 30 care centers worldwide to support women and children affected by extreme poverty and sex trafficking. Learn about the passion that fuels this mission and the unwavering dedication to making a real difference in the lives of those who need it most. Tune in to gain insights into the incredible work being done on the ground and how individuals can make a meaningful impact on the lives of those in vulnerable situations.Episode Highlight:04:33 - I want my life to count for something and not just because I gave my money. We talk about at PHOS, the acronym, LIFE. You gave it to me. Didn't you give me this acronym, LIFE? I don't know. Maybe you did. LIFE, Labor, Influence, Finances, and Expertise. If you're to give away your LIFE, it's not just about you opening your wallet. Sometimes that's much easier for me. Sometimes it's easier for me to take out my wallet, write a check, and just say, "I've done my due diligence for the day." I'm supposed to give my labor, my influence, my finances, and my expertise away. As much as that's hard because it fights my selfishness, it's also so life-giving because it leans into my purpose.Connect with ElzieLinkedInConnect with Brandon WestLinkedInWebsiteMentioned in this episode:Podcast TownCheck out our services for your B2B brand! Grow With Podcast Town

Brandon West shares the importance of embracing purpose and prioritizing family amidst the pursuit of success. Let's explore the poignant realization in this episode where being present as a father holds more significance than seizing every opportunity that comes your way. Tune in to hear the transformative wisdom Brandon derived from his wife when they discussed the delicate balance of building a business without compromising family relationships. Reflect on the notion that faithful leaders are willing to set aside potential in favor of purpose. Gain a deeper understanding of the true essence of leadership, one that encompasses not only professional achievements but also the cultivation of meaningful connections and nurturing of personal relationships.Join us in this thought-provoking episode as we challenge conventional notions of success and inspire a paradigm shift towards purpose-driven living. Together, let's embark on a journey of purpose, growth, and creating a lasting impact in all aspects of our lives.Episode Highlight:03:32 - I have more potential inside of me, and I choose not to pursue that because of the things that that potential for business or for leadership, or for influence or for growth, or for revenue or for impact, or for ministry would threaten the things that are most acutely I'm called to in life. I would willingly lay aside potential for the sake of purpose, and people who God's called me to minister to. The life most wasted is not the one who wastes the most amount of potential but spends their potential on the things that they were never meant to spend it on. Connect with ElzieLinkedInConnect with Brandon WestLinkedInWebsite Mentioned in this episode:Podcast TownCheck out our services for your B2B brand! Grow With Podcast Town

Get ready to navigate the complexities of leadership and the pursuit of purpose as Brandon West delves into the complexities and challenges of being a leader. Discover the often thankless nature of leadership, where leaders continuously pour themselves out for others without always receiving the same support in return.Explore the skillset required for leaders to navigate the delicate balance of understanding and guarding their purpose, not only for themselves but also for the organization and the people they lead. Uncover the importance of being led while leading others, a tricky concept that requires intentionality and self-awareness.Tune in as Brandon sheds light on the tension that exists between leaders and followers, acknowledging that even the best leaders are subject to criticism and differing perspectives. Discover the transformative power of purpose and let's explore the challenges and rewards of leadership and discover how to face difficulties with resilience and determination. Together, let's empower and inspire one another on the journey of leadership.Episode Highlight:02:32 - That's why leadership is hard. In the middle of all that, you're trying to figure out purpose. You're trying to figure out, how am I supposed to do? What am I called to? What an interesting blend of roles and responsibilities. For me, as I've tried to answer that question about purpose, one of the best tools I've seen for doing so, Andy Stanley, great leadership guy in my life, he says that purpose is found at the intersection of three things. What breaks your heart? Start there. You want to understand your purpose, then be willing to go on all. It took me years to answer that question.Connect with ElzieLinkedInConnect with Brandon WestLinkedInWebsiteMentioned in this episode:Podcast TownCheck out our services for your B2B brand! Grow With Podcast Town

Finding Your True North with Brandon WestBrandon West explores the deep introspection and self-mastery required to embark on a purpose-driven journey of building a business and executing a vision in this episode. He also shares the evolution of his company's mission statement and the constant refinement of their "why" over time, as they strive for deeper meaning and significance in their work. Learn from Brandon's journey as he highlights the importance of self-mastery and embracing the role of a leader, as well as the crucial responsibility of guarding and reinforcing the organization's purpose, keeping every team member focused and aligned. Brandon's analogy of flipping the reeds in a diffuser serves as a powerful reminder that leaders must consistently remind and realign their teams to the core purpose, as it tends to leak over time.Discover how a clear sense of purpose and unwavering commitment can drive your organization forward and inspire others to go above and beyond. Together, let's uncover the transformative power of purpose and forge a path to success and fulfillment when you tune in to this episode.Episode Highlight:03:15 - We had grown to such a size that I had delegated so much of my roles and responsibilities away. I was walking and going, "What do I do here again?" I had delegated so much away and people are like, "Oh, well done. A leader worth following. Delegation is such a great leadership quality." Until you're looking at it and you're just like, "I don't even know what I'm supposed to do when I wake up tomorrow morning." I went to my leadership team. I shared this with them, my executive team. I said, "Here's what I'm struggling with." And they were like, "We know exactly what you're supposed to do here, Brandon." I was like, "Well, please tell me." "You're supposed to guard our purpose." Connect with ElzieLinkedInConnect with Brandon WestLinkedInWebsiteMentioned in this episode:Podcast TownCheck out our services for your B2B brand! Grow With Podcast Town

The Falls City Cheerleaders held a successful 22nd annual golf tournament at River Bend Golf Course in Floresville July 29. Congratulations to the following winners: Cib Braun and Mitch Lyssy, first place; Cody Houdmann and Brandon West, second place; Brent Houdmann and Bobby Gawlik, third place; Andrew Rohrs and John Lamestra, fourth place; Colby Vandever and Noah Bellamy, fifth place ; Jeff Crawford, closest to the pin; and Colby Vendever, longest drive. The Falls City Cheerleaders look forward to their next tournament in 2024, to be held on July 27.Article Link

In this SimpleCoach to Coach Interview I talk to Brandon West, Head Women's Coach at PSU - Harrisburg.  We cover a range of subjects. For information on the Women's team, you can find it here - https://athletics.hbg.psu.edu/sports/wsoc/index If you are looking to be recruited, fill out the form here - https://athletics.hbg.psu.edu/prospectiveAthletes/online_recruiting_forms/wsoc Twitter - @PSHbgWSoc @PSHbgAthletics @PSUHarrisburg Thanks to Coach West for the time and great conversation! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simplecoach/support

On this episode, Brandon West shares how his company operationalizes business as a ministry throughout their organization. Brandon West founded PHOS Creative at the age of 26 out of his home office. A strategy-first digital marketing agency headquartered in Florida, PHOS' growth and culture have been highlighted in the Inc. 5000, Gator100, and Florida Trend Magazine. PHOS' driving passion is to fulfill its mission: to be a company that team members never want to leave, clients can't do without, and the world is better for and, in so doing, exemplify the love of Jesus Christ.   https://phoscreative.com/  https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mp3mqkhhpYDSEFnFVeQ0z?si=76703b8cb6a64e9b&nd=1  Christianity in Business is the show that helps Christian business leaders to integrate biblical values into business. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.ChristianityInBusiness.com 

On this episode, Brandon West shares how his company operationalizes business as a ministry throughout their organization. Brandon West founded PHOS Creative at the age of 26 out of his home office. A strategy-first digital marketing agency headquartered in Florida, PHOS' growth and culture have been highlighted in the Inc. 5000, Gator100, and Florida Trend Magazine. PHOS' driving passion is to fulfill its mission: to be a company that team members never want to leave, clients can't do without, and the world is better for and, in so doing, exemplify the love of Jesus Christ.   https://phoscreative.com/  https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mp3mqkhhpYDSEFnFVeQ0z?si=76703b8cb6a64e9b&nd=1  Christianity in Business is the show that helps Christian business leaders to integrate biblical values into business. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Business as Mission | Faith and Work | Faith | Success | Leadership | www.ChristianityInBusiness.com 

Welcome to our new listeners! We appreciate the enthusiastic response for last week's interview with sportscasting legend Peter Young about the life and times of the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull. Here's an 11 minute excerpt that touches on the fans and his friends: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/pnK0ht3nnxb You'll want to hear a reaction we received from a listener explaining the out-of-context slant of most of the local media coverage, and their suggestion for the next talk with PY The Sports Guy. 8:40 Back to our political coverage: A recent Manitoba election poll showed an 11 seat swing between Wab Kinew's NDP and the reigning Tories - but Marty points out what the new result really shows. Will it help spur renewed enthusiasm at the grassroots to modernize the appeal of the Manitoba PCs? 11:44 Exhibit A? A change of plans for a potential candidate in Brandon West, Jordan Sisson. Hear about his background and why this is a bit of a big deal. There was also a change in plans in Spruce Woods. Some may ask what the rush was, before the nomination meeting was postponed? Some media doesn't seem to give a full picture of the candidates and Marty fills in the blanks. One of them was endorsed sight unseen by 'she who finished second' to Heather Stefanson to become Premier. But that isn't the only race where Shelly Glover has tapped a favorite. 16.40 In Kildonan-River East, longtime political strategist and former Glover campaigner Braydon Mazurkiewich is posting high-profile endorsements that cut across social and political lines. Hear who's backing him in his effort to unite the party. 23:18 Part 2 To start, a shout-out to Scott Taylor for his own reflections on Bobby Hull in Senior Scope. 27:40 Spirited Kenny noticed a pattern with a couple of the PC candidates - we mull over how the anti-Pallister backlash is going to affect the party. Are the not-Stefanson conservative voters who were alienated in a position to upset some Tory applecarts in rural Manitoba? 32:15 Harvey Pollock, a legendary city lawyer and a mensch, passed away last week. * Certain * newsrooms didn't seem to notice. They get shamed after Marty provides a history lesson to the journalists who ignored the importance of Pollock to the legal profession, how he made history at the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, and helped build a bond between First Nations and the Jewish community. Marty even whistles in his honour. 44:40 City Hall briefs; then, a rookie city councilor in Peterborough, Ontario took some flak for urging residents to donate more than just tarps to help maintain homeless encampments. Based on his own experience, he wants folks to contribute... pot and booze. We talk about the idea and what would happen if a Winnipeg councilor tried that 'harm reduction' stunt. 51:55 - Part 3 Crime round up - why hasn't the media mentioned that an accused in homicides #4 and #5 made similar headlines 20 years ago? Then hear the odd court sentence of a maniac who crippled a woman in a Transit stabbing. And, Kenny talks catfish/alligator DNA! Marty has undertaken an investigation that will lead to the doors of 2 cabinet ministers. Help support that work: Donate via Paypal https://www.paypal.me/MartyGoldMedia To sponsor or advertise on our show: martygoldlive@gmail.com

New York State Assembly Members and Senators headed back to Albany last week for the start of the 2023 legislative session. We caught up with Queens Assembly Member and socialist Zohran Mamdani the night before the session began to learn how he's feeling about this year's prospects to pass legislation that will help the working class and the addition of two new socialist legislators. We also talked to him about why his office joined as an intervening party to stop Con Edison from raising gas and electric bills and his platform of legislation to fix the MTA. We're also joined live tonight by Lizzy Oh and Brandon West to talk about one of New York City DSA's priority campaigns this year - taxing the rich.   To submit a public comment against ConEd's proposed rate hike visit: bit.ly/NoConEdRateHikeFor more information on the Fix the MTA platform, visit: www.fixthemta.orgFor more information on the Tax the Rich campaign, visit: www.taxtherichny.com

On this Escape Break Interview we are joined by Brandon West of Top Tier Escape in Oceanside CA. Brandon and Michelle broke into the escape room world almost 4 years ago and have produced 3 stellar adventures: Atlantis, Undercover: Escape The Safehouse, and Outside In. We discuss a bit about each room and also their decisions to make some crucial changes to each of the room as time passed. Escape Room Owner by title but basketball player by heart we talk a bit about who the best hoopers are in the escape room world and clear the record on some comical matters. Will Brandon ever play a scary room with us? Does he have a NBA doppelganger? Ezekiel Cager Ky thinks so! All this and more on this episode of Escape Break.

Last Tuesday New York State held its second primary of the summer and New York City voters are sending another socialist senator to Albany. DSA endorsed candidate Kristen Gonzalez trounced Elizabeth Crowley winning the democratic primary in the newly formed Senate District 59, which includes portions of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. We were at Kristen's victory party in Long Island City and will share some sounds from the ground. And we are joined live tonight by former New York City Council candidate and NewsGuild of New York organizer, Brandon West. We'll talk about the significance of Kristen's win and the results of two other Brooklyn Senate races - Jabari Brisport's run for re-election and David Alexis' challenge of Senator Kevin Parker in Flatbush. Jack Devine also speaks with Nic, a fellow PSC union member, about the year ahead for thousands of teachers organizing for a more just CUNY. 

About BrandonBrandon West was raised in part by video games and BBSes and has been working on web applications since 1999. He entered the world of Developer Relations in 2011 as an evangelist for a small startup called SendGrid and has since held leadership roles at companies like AWS. At Datadog, Brandon is focused on helping developers improve the performance and developer experience of the things they build. He lives in Seattle where enjoys paddle-boarding, fishing, and playing music.Links Referenced: Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwest TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it's hard to know where problems originate. Is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I've got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other; which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability: it's more than just hipster monitoring.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Fortinet. Fortinet's partnership with AWS is a better-together combination that ensures your workloads on AWS are protected by best-in-class security solutions powered by comprehensive threat intelligence and more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Integrations with key AWS services simplify security management, ensure full visibility across environments, and provide broad protection across your workloads and applications. Visit them at AWS re:Inforce to see the latest trends in cybersecurity on July 25-26 at the Boston Convention Center. Just go over to the Fortinet booth and tell them Corey Quinn sent you and watch for the flinch. My thanks again to my friends at Fortinet.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest today is someone I've been trying to get on the show for years, but I'm very bad at, you know, following up and sending the messages and all the rest because we all struggle with our internal demons. My guest instead struggles with external demons. He is the team lead for developer experience and tools advocacy at what I can only assume is a Tinder for Pets style company, Date-A-Dog. Brendon West, thank you for joining me today.Brandon: Hey, Corey, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Finally, like you said, it's been a couple of years. But glad that it's happening. And yeah, I'm on the DevRel team at Datadog.Corey: Yes, I'm getting a note here in the headset of breaking news coming in. Yes, you're not apparently a dog dating company, you are a monitoring slash observability slash whatever the cool kids are calling it today telemetry outputer dingus nonsense. Anyone who has ever been to a community or corporate event has no doubt been tackled by one of the badge scanners that you folks have orbiting your booth, but what is it that you folks do?Brandon: Well, the observability, the monitoring, the distributed tracing, all that stuff that you mentioned. And then a lot of other interesting things that are happening. Security is a big focus—InfoSec—so we're adding some products around that, automated security monitoring, very cool. And then the sort of stuff that I'm representing is stuff that helps developers provide a better experience to their end-users. So, things like front-end monitoring, real-time user monitoring, synthetic testing of your APIs, whatever it might be.Corey: Your path has been somewhat interesting because you—well, everyone's path has been somewhat interesting; yours has been really interesting because back in 2011, you entered the world of developer relations, or being a DevReloper as I insist on calling it. And you were in a—you call it a small startup called SendGrid. Which is, on some level, hilarious from my point of view. I've been working with you folks—you folks being SendGrid—for many years now. I cared a lot about email once upon a time.And now I send an email newsletter every week, that deep under the hood, through a couple of vendor abstraction layers is still SendGrid, and I don't care about email because that's something that I can pay someone else to worry about. You went on as well to build out DevRel teams at AWS. You decided okay, you're going to take some time off after that. You went to a small scrappy startup and ah, nice. You could really do things right and you have a glorious half of the year and then surprise, you got acquired by Datadog. Congratu-dolances on that because now you're right back in the thick of things at big company-style approaches. Have I generally nailed the trajectory of the past decade for you?Brandon: Yeah, I think the broad strokes are all correct there. SendGrid was a small company when I joined, you know? There were 30 of us or so. So, got to see that grow into what it is today, which was super, super awesome. But other than that, yeah, I think that's the correct path.Corey: It's interesting to me, in that you were more or less doing developer relations before that was really a thing in the ecosystem. And I understand the challenge that you would have in a place like SendGrid because that is large-scale email sending, transactional or otherwise, and that is something that by and large, has slipped below the surface level of awareness for an awful lot of folks in your target market. It's, “Oh, okay, and then we'll just have the thing send an email,” they say, hand-waving over what is an incredibly deep and murky pool. And understanding that is a hard thing requires a certain level of technical sophistication. So, you started doing developer relations for something that very clearly needed some storytelling chops. How did you fall into it originally?Brandon: Well, I wanted to do something that let me use those storytelling chops, honestly. I had been writing code at an agency for coal mines and gold mines and really actively inserting evil into the world, power plants, and that sort of thing. And, you know, I went to school for English literature. I loved writing. I played in thrash metal bands when I was a kid, so I've been up on stage being cussed at and told that I suck. So I—Corey: Oh, I get that conference talks all the time.Brandon: Yeah, right? So, that's why when people ask me to speak, I'm like, “Absolutely.” There's no way I can bomb harder than I've bombed before. No fear, right? So yeah, I wanted to use those skills. I wanted to do something different.And one of my buddies had a company that he had co-founded that was going through TechStars in Boulder. SendGrid was the first accelerator-backed company to IPO which is pretty cool. But they had gone through TechStars in 2009. They were looking for a developer evangelist. So, SendGrid was looking for developer evangelist and my friend introduced me said, “I think you'd be good at this. You should have a conversation.” My immediate thought was what the hell is a developer evangelist?Corey: And what might a SendGrid be? And all the rest. Yes, it's that whole, “Oh, how do I learn to swim?” Someone throws you off the end of the dock and then retrospect, it's, “I don't think they were trying to teach me how to swim.” Yeah. Hindsight.Brandon: Yeah. It worked out great. I will say, though, that I think DevRel has been around for a long time, you know? The title has been around since the original Macintosh at Apple in 1980-ish. There's a whole large part of the tech world that would like you to think that it's new because of all the terrible things that their DevRel team did at Microsoft in the late-90s.And you can go read all about this. There were trials about it. These documents were released to the public, James Plamondon is the lead architect of all of this nastiness. But I think there was then a concerted effort to memory-hole that and say, “No, DevRel is new and shiny.” And then Google came along and said, “Well, it's not evangelism anymore. It's advocacy.”Corey: It's not sysadmin work anymore. It's SRE. It's not on-prem, it's Sparkling Kubernetes, et cetera, et cetera.Brandon: Yeah, so there's this sense in a lot of places that DevRel is new, but it's actually been around a long time. And you can learn a lot from reading about the history and understanding it, something I've given a talk on and written a bit about. So.Corey: My philosophy around developer relations for a while has been that in many cases, its biggest obstacle is the way that it is great at telling stories about fantastically complex, deeply technical things; it can tell stories about almost anything except itself. And I keep seeing similar expressions of the same problem again, and again, and again. I mean, AWS, where you worked, as an example: they love to talk about their developer advocates, and you read the job descriptions and these are high-level roles with sweeping responsibilities, broad basis of experience being able to handle things at a borderline executive level. And then they almost neuter the entire thing by slapping a developer advocate title on top of those people, which means that some of the people that would be most effectively served by talking to them will dismiss them as, “Well, I'm a director”—or a VP—“What am I going to do talking to a developer advocate?” It feels like there's a swing and a miss as far as encapsulating the value that the function provides.I want to be clear, I am not sitting here shitting on DevRel or its practitioners, I see a problem with how it [laugh] is being expressed. Now, feel free to argue with me and just scream at me for the next 20 minutes, and this becomes a real short show. But—Brandon: [laugh].Corey: —It'll be great. Hit me.Brandon: No, you're correct in many ways, which makes me sad because these are the same conversations that I've been having for the 11, 12 years that I've been in DevRel now. And I thought we would have moved past this at some point, but the problem is that we are bad at advocating for advocacy. We do a bad job of relating to people about DevRel because we spend so much time worried about stuff that doesn't really matter. And we get very loud voices in the echo chamber screaming about titles and evangelism versus advocate versus community manager, and which department you should report up to, and all of these things that ultimately don't matter. And it just seems like bickering from the outside. I think that the core of what we do is super awesome. And I don't think it's very hard to articulate. It's just that we don't spend the time to do that.Corey: It's always odd to me when I talk to someone like, “Oh, you're in DevRel. What does that mean?” And their immediate response is, “Well, it's not marketing, I'll tell you that.” It's feels like there might be some trauma that is being expressed in some strange ways. I do view it as marketing, personally, and people who take umbrage at that don't generally tend to understand what marketing is.Yeah, you can look at any area of business or any function and judge it by some of the worst examples that we've all seen, but when someone tells me they work in sales, I don't automatically assume that they are sending me horrifyingly passive-aggressive drip campaigns, or trying to hassle me in a car lot. It's no, there's a broad spectrum of people. Just like I don't assume that you're an engineer. And I immediately think, oh, you can't solve FizzBuzz on a whiteboard. No, there's always going to be a broad spectrum of experience.Marketing is one of those awesome areas of business that's dramatically misunderstood a lot. Similarly to the fact that, you know, DevRel can't tell stories, you think marketing could tell stories about itself, but it's still struggles, too, in a bunch of ways. But I do believe that even if they're not one of the same, developer relations and marketing are aligned around an awful lot of things like being able to articulate value that is hard to quantify.Brandon: I completely agree with that. And if I meet someone in DevRel that starts off the conversation by saying that they're not in marketing, then I know they're probably not that great at their job. I mean, I think there's a place of tech hubris, where we want to disrespect anything that's not a hard skill where it's not putting zeros and ones into a chip—Corey: And spoiler, they're all very hard skills.Brandon: [laugh]. Yeah. And so, first off, like, stop disrespecting marketing. It's important; your business probably wouldn't survive if you didn't have it. And second of all, you're not immune to it, right?Like, Heartbleed had a logo and a name for vulnerability because tech people are so susceptible to it, right? People don't just wake up and wait in line for three days for a new iPhone because tech marketing doesn't work, right?Corey: “Oh, tech marketing doesn't work on me,” says someone who's devoted last five years of their life to working on Kubernetes. Yeah, sure it doesn't.Brandon: Yeah exactly. So, that whole perspective is silly. I think part of the problem is that they don't want to invest in learning how to communicate what they do to a marketing org. They don't want to spend the time to say, “Here's how the marketing world thinks, and here's how we can fit into that perspective.” They want to come in and say, “Well, you don't understand DevRel. Let me define DevRel for you and tell you what we do.” And all those sorts of things. It's too prescriptive and less collaborative.Corey: Anytime you start getting into the idea of metrics around how do you measure someone in a developer advocacy role, the answer is, “Well, your metrics that you're using are wrong, and any metrics you use are wrong, and there's no good way to do it.” And I am sympathetic to that. When I started this place, I knew that if I went to a bunch of events and did my thing, good things would happen for the business. And how did I articulate that? Gut feel, but when you own the place, you can do that.Whereas when you are a function inside of another org, inside of another org, and you start looking at from the executive leadership position at these things, it's, “Okay, so let me get this straight. You cost as much as an engineer, you cost as much as that again, in your expenses because you're traveling all the time, you write zero production code, whenever people ask you what it is you do here, you have a very strange answer, and from what we can tell, it looks like you hang out with your friends in exotic locations, give a 15-minute talk from time to time that mentions our name at the beginning, and nothing else relevant to our business, and then you go around and the entire story is ‘just trust me, I'm adding value.'” Yeah, when it's time to tighten belts and start cutting back, is it any wonder that the developer advocacy is often one of the first departments hit from that perspective?Brandon: It doesn't surprise me. I mean, I've been a part of DevRel teams where we had some large number of events that we had attended for the year—I think 450-something—and the director of the team was very excited to show that off, right, you should have seen the CFOs face when he heard that, right, because all he sees is outgoing dollar signs. Like, how much expense? What's the ROI on 450 events?Corey: Yeah, “450 events? That's more than one a day. Okay, great. That's a big number and I already know what we're spending. Great. How much business came out of that?”And that's when the hemming and hawing starts. Like, well, sort of, and yadda—and yeah, it doesn't present well in the language that they are prepared to speak. But marketing can tell those stories because they have for ages. Like, “Okay, how much business came from our Superbowl ad?” “I dunno. The point is, is that there's a brand awareness play, there's the chance to remain top of the mental stack when people think about this space. And over the next few months, we can definitely see there's been a dramatic uptick in our business. Now, how do we attribute that back? Well, I don't know.”There's a saying in marketing, that half of your marketing budget is wasted. Now, figuring out which half will spend the rest of your career, you'll never get even close. Because people don't know the journey that customers go through, not really. Even customers don't often see it.Take this podcast, for example. I have sponsors that I do love and appreciate who say things from time to time on this show. And people will hear it and occasionally will become customers of those sponsors. But very often, it's, “Oh, I heard about that on the podcast. I'll Google it when I get to work and then I'll have a conversation with my team and we'll agree to investigate that.”And any UTM tracking has long since fallen by the wayside. You might get to that from discussions with users in their interview process, but very often, they won't remember where it came up. And it's one of those impossible to quantify things. Now, I sound like one of those folks where I'm trying to say, “Oh, buy sponsorships that you can never prove add value.” But that is functionally how advertising tends to work, back in the days before it spied on you.Brandon: Yeah, absolutely. And we've added a bunch of instrumentation to allow us to try and put that multi-touch attribution model together after the fact, but I'm still not sure that that's worth the squeeze, right? You don't get much juice out. One of the problems with metrics in DevRel is that the things that you can measure are very production-focused. It's how many talks did you give? How many audience members did you reach?Some developer relations folks do actually write production code, so it might be how many of the official SDK that you support got downloaded? That can be more directly attributed to business impact, those sorts of things are fantastic. But a lot of it is kind of fuzzy and because it's production-focused, it can lead to burnout because it's disconnected from business impact. “It's how many widgets did your line produce today?” “Well, we gave all these talks and we had 150,000 engaged developer hours.” “Well, cool, what was the business outcome?” And if you can't answer that for your own team and for your own self in your role, that leads pretty quickly to burnout.Corey: Anytime you start measuring something and grading people based on it, they're going to optimize for what you measure. For example, I send an email newsletter out, at time of this recording, to 31,000 people every week and that's awesome. I also periodically do webinars about the joys of AWS bill optimization, and you know, 50 people might show up to one of those things. Okay, well, from a broad numbers perspective, yeah, I'd much rather go and send something out to those 31,000, folks until you realize that the kind of person that's going to devote half an hour, forty-five minutes to having a discussion with you about AWS bill optimization is far likelier to care about this to the point where they become a customer than someone who just happens to be in an audience for something that is orthogonally-related. And that is the trick because otherwise, we would just all be optimizing for the single biggest platforms out there if oh, I'm going to go talk at this conference and that conference, not because they're not germane to what we do, but because they have more people showing up.And that doesn't work. When you see that even on the podcast world, you have Joe Rogan, as the largest podcast in the world—let's not make too many comparisons in different ways because I don't want to be associated with that kind of tomfoolery—but there's a reason that his advertisers, by and large, are targeting a mass-market audience, whereas mine are targeting B2B SaaS, by and large. I'm not here shilling for various mattress companies. I'm instead talking much more about things that solve the kind of problem that listeners to this show are likely to have. It's the old-school of thought of advertising, where this is a problem that is germane to a certain type of audience, and that certain type of audience listens to shows like this. That was my whole school of thought.Brandon: Absolutely. I mean, the core value that you need to do DevRel, in my opinion is empathy. It's all about what Maya Angelou said, right? “People may not remember what you said, but they'll definitely remember how you made them feel.” And I found that to be incredibly true.Like, the moments that I regret the most in DevRel are the times when someone that I've met and spent time with before comes up to have a conversation and I don't remember them because I met 200 people that night. And then I feel terrible, right? So, those are the metrics that I use internally. It's hearts and minds. It's how do people feel? Am I making them feel empowered and better at their craft through the work that I do?That's why I love DevRel. If I didn't get that fulfillment, I'd go write code again. But I don't get that sense of satisfaction, and wow, I made an impact on this person's trajectory through their career that I do from DevRel. So.Corey: I come bearing ill tidings. Developers are responsible for more than ever these days. Not just the code that they write, but also the containers and the cloud infrastructure that their apps run on. Because serverless means it's still somebody's problem. And a big part of that responsibility is app security from code to cloud. And that's where our friend Snyk comes in. Snyk is a frictionless security platform that meets developers where they are - Finding and fixing vulnerabilities right from the CLI, IDEs, Repos, and Pipelines. Snyk integrates seamlessly with AWS offerings like code pipeline, EKS, ECR, and more! As well as things you're actually likely to be using. Deploy on AWS, secure with Snyk. Learn more at Snyk.co/scream That's S-N-Y-K.co/screamCorey: The way that I tend to see it, too, is that there's almost a bit of a broadening of DevRel. And let's be clear, it's a varied field with a lot of different ways to handle that approach. I'm have a terrible public speaker, so I'm not going to ever succeed in DevRel. Well, that's certainly not true. People need to write blog posts; people need to wind up writing some of the sample code, in some cases; people need to talk to customers in a small group environment, as opposed to in front of 3000 people and talk about the things that they're seeing, and the rest.There's a broad field and different ways that it applies. But I also see that there are different breeds of developer advocate as well. There are folks, like you for example. You and I have roughly the same amount of time in the industry working on different things, whereas there's also folks who it seems like they graduate from a boot camp, and a year later, they're working in a developer advocacy role. Does that mean that they're bad developer advocates?I don't think so, but I think that if they try and present things the same way that you were I do from years spent in the trenches working on these things, they don't have that basis of experience to fall back on, so they need to take a different narrative path. And the successful ones absolutely do.Brandon: Yeah.Corey: I think it's a nuanced and broad field. I wish that there was more acceptance and awareness of that.Brandon: That's absolutely true. And part of the reason people criticize DevRel and don't take it seriously, as they say, “Well, it's inconsistent. This org, it reports to product; or, this org, it reports up to marketing; this other place, it's part of engineering.” You know, it's poorly defined. But I think that's true of a lot of roles in tech.Like, engineering is usually done a different way, very differently at some orgs compared to others. Product teams can have completely different methodologies for how they track and manage and estimate their time and all of those things. So, I would like to see people stop using that as a cudgel against the whole profession. It just doesn't make any sense. At the same time, two of the best evangelist I ever hired were right out of university, so you're completely correct.The key thing to keep in mind there is, like, who's the audience, right, because ultimately, it's about building trust with the audience. There's a lot of rooms where if you and I walk into the room; if it's like a college hackathon, we're going to have a—[laugh], we're going to struggle.Corey: Yeah, we have some real, “Hello fellow kids,” energy going on when we do that.Brandon: Yeah. Which is also why I think it's incredibly important for developer relations teams to be aware of the makeup of their team. Like, how diverse is your team, and how diverse are the audiences you're speaking to? And if you don't have someone who can connect, whether it's because of age or lived experience or background, then you're going to fail because like I said that the number one thing you need to be successful in this role is empathy, in my opinion.Corey: I think that a lot of the efforts around a lot of this—trying to clarify what it is—some cases gone in well, I guess I'm going to call it the wrong direction. And I know that sounds judgy and I'm going to have to live with that, I suppose, but talk to me a bit about the, I guess, rebranding that we've seen in some recent years around developer advocates. Specifically, like, I like calling folks DevRelopers because it's cutesy, it's a bit of a portmanteau. Great. But it's also not something I seriously suggest most people put on business cards.But there are people who are starting to, I think, take a similar joke and actually identify with it where they call themselves developer avocados, which I don't fully understand. I have opinions on it, but again, having opinions that are not based in data is something I try not to start shouting from the rooftops wherever I can. You live in that world a lot more posted than I do, where do you stand?Brandon: So, I think it was well-intentioned and it was an attempt to do some of the awareness and brand building for DevRel, broadly, that we had lacked. But I see lots of problems with it. One, we already struggle to be taken seriously in many instances, as we've been discussing, and I don't think we do ourselves any favors by giving ourselves cutesy nicknames that sort of infantilize the role like I can't think of any other job that has a pet name for the work that they do.Corey: Yeah. The “ooh-woo accounting”. Yeah, I sort of don't see that happening very often in most business orgs.Brandon: Yeah. It's strange to me at the same time, a lot of the people who came up with it and popularized it are people that I consider friends and good colleagues. So hopefully, they won't be too offended, but I really think that it kind of set us back in many ways. I don't want to represent the work that I do with an emoji.Corey: Funny, you bring that up. As we record this through the first recording, I have on my new ridiculous desktop computer thing from Apple, which I have named after a—you know, the same naming convention that you would expect from an AWS region—it's us-shitpost-one. Instead of the word shit, it has the poop emoji. And you'd be amazed at the number of things that just melt when you start trying to incorporate that. GitHub has a problem with that being the name of an SSH key, for example.I don't know if I'll keep it or I'll just fall back to just spelling words out, but right now, at least, it really is causing all kinds of strange computer problems. Similarly, it causes strange cultural problems when you start having that dissonance and seeing something new and different like that in a business context. Because in some cases, yeah, it helps you interact with your audience and build rapport; in many others, it erodes trust and confidence that you know what you're talking about because people expect things to be cast a certain way. I'm not saying they're right. There's a shitload of bias that bakes into that, but at the same time, I'd like to at least bias for choosing when and where I'm going to break those expectations.There's a reason that increasingly, my Duckbillgroup.com website speaks in business terms, rather than in platypus metaphors, whereas lastweekinaws.com, very much leans into the platypus. And that is the way that the branding is breaking down, just because people expect different things in different places.Brandon: Yeah and, you know, this framing matters. And I've gone through two exercises now where I've helped rename an evangelism team to an advocacy team, not because I think it's important to me—it's a bunch of bikeshedding—but it has external implications, right? Especially evangelism, in certain parts of the world, has connotations. It's just easier to avoid those. And how we present ourselves, the titles that we choose are important.I wish we would spend way less time arguing about them, you know, advocacy has won evangelism, don't use it. DevRel, if you don't want to pick one, great. DevRel is broader umbrella. If you've got community managers, people who can't write code that do things involving your events or whatever, program managers, if they're on your team, DevRel, great description. I wish we could just settle that. Lots of wasted air discussing that one.Corey: Constantly. It feels like this is a giant distraction that detracts from the value of DevRel. Because I don't know about you, but when I pick what I want to do next in my career, the things I want to explain to people and spend that energy on are never, I want to explain what it is that I do. Like I've never liked those approaches where you have to first educate someone before they're going to be in a position where they want to become your customer.I think, honestly, that's one of the things that Datadog has gotten very right. One of the early criticisms lobbed against Datadog when it first came out was, “Oh, this is basically monitoring by Fisher-Price.” Like, “This isn't the deep-dive stuff.” Well yeah, but it turns out a lot of your buying audience are fundamentally toddlers with no visibility into what's going on. For an awful lot of what I do, I want it to be click, click, done.I am a Datadog customer for a reason. It's not because I don't have loud and angry opinions about observability; it's because I just want there to be a dashboard that I can look at and see what's working, what's not, and do I need to care about things today? And it solves that job admirably because if I have those kinds of opinions about every aspect, I'm never going to be your customer anyway, or anyone's customer. I'm going to go build my own and either launch a competitor or realize this is my what I truly love doing and go work at a company in this space, possibly yours. There's something to be said for understanding the customer journey that those customers do not look like you.And I think that's what's going on with a lot of the articulation around what developer relations is or isn't. The people on stage who go to watch someone in DevRel give a talk, do not care, by and large, what DevRel is. They care about the content that they're about to hear about, and when the first half of it is explaining what the person's job is or isn't, people lose interest. I don't even like intros at the beginning of a talk. Give me a hook. Talk for 45 seconds. Give me a story about why I should care before you tell me who you are, what your credentials are, what your job title is, who you work for. Hit me with something big upfront and then we'll figure it out from there.Brandon: Yeah, I agree with you. I give this speaking advice to people constantly. Do not get up on stage and introduce yourself. You're not a carnival hawker. You're not trying to get people to roll up and see the show.They're already sitting in the seat. You've established your credibility. If they had questions about it, they read your abstract, and then they went and checked you out on LinkedIn, right? So, get to the point; make it engaging and entertaining.Corey: I have a pet theory about what's going on in some cases where, I think, on some level, it's an outgrowth of an impostor-syndrome-like behavior, where people don't believe that they deserve to be onstage talking about things, so they start backing up their bona fides to almost reassure themselves because they don't believe that they should be up there and if they don't believe it, why would anyone else. It's the wrong approach. By holding the microphone, you inherently deserve to hold the microphone. And go ahead and tell your story. If people care enough to dig into you and who you are and well, “What is this person's background, really?” Rest assured the internet is pretty easy to use these days, people will find out. So, let them do that research if they care. If they don't, then there's an entire line of people in this world who are going to dislike you or say you're not qualified for what it is you're doing or you don't deserve it. Don't be in that line, let alone at the front of it.Brandon: So, you mentioned imposter syndrome and it got me thinking a little bit. And hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, but I kind of starting to think that imposter syndrome is in many ways invented by people to put the blame on you for something that's their fault. It's like a carbon footprint to the oil and gas industry, right? These companies can't provide you psychological safety and now they've gone and convinced you that it's your fault and that you're suffering from this syndrome, rather than the fact that they're not actually making you feel prepared and confident and ready to get up on that stage, even if it's your first time giving a talk, right?Corey: I hadn't considered it like that before. And again, I do tend to avoid straying into mental health territory on this show because I'm not an—Brandon: Yes.Corey: Expert. I'm a loud, confident white guy in tech. My failure mode is a board seat and a book deal, but I am not board-certified, let's be clear. But I think you're onto something here because early on in my career, I was very often faced with a whole lot of nebulous job description-style stuff and I was never sure if I was working on the right thing. Now that I'm at this stage of my career, and as you become more senior, you inherently find yourselves in roles, most of the time, that are themselves mired in uncertainty. That is, on some level, what seniority leads to.And that's fine, but early on in your career, not knowing if you're succeeding or failing, I got surprise-fired a number of times when I thought I was doing great. There are also times that I thought I was about to be fired on the spot and, “Come on in; shut the door.” And yeah, “Here's a raise because you're just killing it.” And it took me a few years after that point to realize, wait a minute. They were underpaying me. That's what that was, and they hope they didn't know.But it's that whole approach of just trying to understand your place in the world. Do I rock? Do I suck? And it's that constant uncertainty and unknowing. And I think companies do a terrible job, by and large, of letting people know that they're okay, they're safe, and they belong.Brandon: I completely agree. And this is why I would strongly encourage people—if you have the privilege—please do not work at a company that does not want you to bring your whole self to work, or that bans politics, or however they want to describe it. Because that's just a code word for we won't provide you psychological safety. Or if they're going to, it ends at a very hard border somewhere between work and life. And I just don't think anyone can be successful in those environments.Corey: I'm sure it's possible, but it does bias for folks who, frankly, have a tremendous amount of privilege in many respects where I mentioned about, like, I'm a white dude in tech—you are too—and when we say things, we are presumed competent and people don't argue with us by default. And that is a very easy to forget thing. Not everyone who looks like us is going to have very similar experiences. I have gotten it hilariously wrong before when I gave talks on how to wind up negotiating for salaries, for example, because well, it worked for me, what's the problem? Yeah, I basically burned that talk with fire, redid the entire thing and wound up giving it with a friend of mine who was basically everything that I am not.She was an attorney, she was a woman of color, et cetera, et cetera. And suddenly, it was a much stronger talk because it wasn't just, “How to Succeed for White Guys.” There's value in that, but you also have to be open to hearing that and acknowledging that you were born on third; you didn't hit a triple. There's a difference. And please forgive the sports metaphor. They do not sound natural coming from me.Brandon: [laugh]. I don't think I have anything more interesting to add on that topic.Corey: [laugh]. So, I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. If people want to learn more about what you're up to and how you view the world, what's the best place to find you.Brandon: So, I'm most active on Twitter at @bwest, but you know, it's a mix of things so you may or may not just get tech. Most recently, I've been posting about a—Corey: Oh, heaven forbid you bring your whole self to school.Brandon: Right? I think most recently, I've been posting about a drill press that I'm restoring. So, all kinds of fun stuff on there.Corey: I don't know it sounds kind of—wait for it—boring to me. Bud-dum-tiss.Brandon: [laugh]. [sigh]. I can't believe I missed that one.Corey: You're welcome.Brandon: Well, done. Well, done. And then I also will be hiring for a couple of developer relations folks at Datadogs soon, so if that's interesting and you like the words I say about how to do DevRel, then reach out.Corey: And you can find all of that in the show notes, of course. I want to thank you for being so generous with your time. I really appreciate it.Brandon: Hey, thank you, Corey. I'm glad that we got to catch up after all this time. And hopefully get to chat with you again sometime soon.Corey: Brandon West, team lead for developer experience and tools advocacy at Datadog. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry and insulting comment that is talking about how I completely misunderstand the role of developer advocacy. And somehow that rebuttal features no fewer than 400 emoji shoved into it.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Brandon West joined SendGrid, a customer communication platform for transactional and marketing email in 2011 as their first Developer Evangelist. Since then he's had a brilliant career, working at AWS and CoScreen, which has just been acquired by Datadog. Scaling DevTools is the podcast that investigates how dev tools go from zero to one. Created by Jack Bridger, founder of BitReach. BitReach helps DevTool companies reach more developers. In this series Jack will explore how startups sell to developers, build tools and become successful.Brandon WestBrandon West is among the most qualified people on the planet to tell you how to become more popular with developers. In this episode of Scaling DevTools we discuss what DevRel looks like in the early stages, how to build credibility and learnings from passed roles.What we cover(00:57): What does DevRel look like at startups at the earliest stage? (05:13): How do you balance doing the right things and building credibility with the fact that you're also willing to push and demo things, which aren't perfect yet. (07:13): What was it like when you were at SendGrid? (11:46): What did the relationship look like with the product team?(17:04): Where can people learn more?Guest linksTwitter: @bwest Site link: http://bwe.stDataDog: https://www.datadoghq.com/ CoScreen: https://www.coscreen.co/Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Scaling DevTools. To keep up to date with the podcast, check out the below links. Twitter: @JackSBridger Site link: https://blog.bitreach.io Newsletter: https://www.bitreach.io/

An oath is taken. Memories are shared. The torch is passed.Created, Written and Directed by Austin Lee MatthewsProduced by Mark Allen Jr. and Austin Lee MatthewsFeaturing the voices ofAmanda Kay as ConnieMichelle Deco as LaurelJason Marnocha as KirbyPM Seymour as Captain ValiantAlex Weitzman as MoisheBill Butts as ChristopherDeven Mack as Adam  Christopher Smith as JulianAdditional Voices by Mark Allen Jr., Alex Weitzman and Austin Lee MatthewsArt and character design by Austin Lee Matthews, Jeremy Mackrell and Ama SchwindenhammerMusic and Sound Mixing by Austin Lee MatthewsExtra Special Thanks to the Heroes over at Patreon.Com/MegatonGirlBubbly 'Bubs' Lemon, Cappybara, Brandon West, George Stankow, Mia Portnoy, Daniel Gore, tucker maltby, Glitchy, Pocketsquatch, HylianDerp, BigMountainCat, Jazzy Oliver, Jackie O'Bryan, Seriously Funny, Liam Ware, Steven Anderson, Maybe_A_Cat, Christopher Craft, Isla Edmond, LookWhosFhtagn, Matthew Byas, Saiou, Warzy Raptor, Nikki SPlease consider becoming a Patron today to support the future production of this series.Be sure to let us know what you think on social media with the #MegatonGirl hashtag, follow us on Twitter, and join the Megaton Girl Fans Discord ServerMegaton Girl is copyright Austin Lee Matthews 2022Thank you for listening, and thank you for being youEpisode 7 will be released on Patreon April 24, 2022Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/megatongirl)

Brandon West is the Chief Purpose Officer at PHOS Creative in Gainesville, Florida. PHOS is a digital marketing agency—but that's not all they are. Sure, their goal is to help clients around the country grow the right way. And yes, they're experts in their field. Beyond that, they're life-changers, donating a percentage of profits to help restore dignity, purpose, and freedom to women and children who've been impacted by extreme poverty and sex trafficking. Brandon hasn't always had this as his "why," and he walks Will and Chris through his realization journey. It's a fascinating story, and one that most Christian entrepreneurs can relate to. Check it out and let us know what you think! Recommended Resource: • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Learn more about Phos Creative here: www.phoscreative.com Listen via Android devices: https://bit.ly/eternal-roi-google Listen via Apple devices: https://bit.ly/eternal-roi Learn more about His Way at Work at www.HWAW.com

On this week's episode of the Police Softball Video/Podcast | Ep. 43 John Scollo Memorial Tournament, Good Cop Bat Cop & Player Spotlight , Trini Trinidad and Joe Monahan will preview the John Scollo Memorial Tournament with Brandon West. This weeks player spotlight we will be highlighting Michael J. Faul of The South Florida Lawmen. The “Good Cop Bat Cop” video is the best video highlighting the importance of Police Softball to all that participate and will be shown on this episode. We will also be highlighting Dan Potter's Raffle to help get umpires out to the World Series in October! You can listen, watch, comment and ask questions live on YouTube or Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/c/TriniTrinidad  https://www.facebook.com/TriniTrinidad11 The best way to stay up to date with the Police Softball Podcast is to subscribe and turn on all notifications on YouTube! You can also find Trini on social media: Instagram: @trinitrinidad__ Facebook: @TriniTrinidad11 TikTok: @trinitrinidad11 Check out the Police Softball Podcast Twitter at @Police_Softball! You can listen anytime on Apple Podcast, iHeart Radio, Spotify, Stitcher, Law Enforcement Today, Pocket Casts, TuneIn and Overcast!

In the third part of his interview with business entrepreneur Brandon West, we hear more of how his "business as ministry" philosophy is carried out on the ground level. It's one thing to philosophically view business as ministry, it's quite another thing to actually do it. Brett asks the questions that draws out the answers we want to know from Brandon.

Brett continues his interview of Brandon West, who is the Founder and CEO of PHOS Creative, a fast growing and award-winning company based in Gainesville, Florida. What makes PHOS unique is their significant emphasis on viewing the business as a ministry.

Brett interviews Brandon West, founder of PHOS Creative, who shares his personal testimony of coming to saving faith in Christ.

Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast, and we'd like to welcome our special guest, friend of the pod, entrepreneur, comedian, and CEO of West West Clothing, our guy Brandon West! (0:31) This episode starts with a Fan Question. Did Brandon West quit comedy? (8:00) Is it necessary for an artist to put down the pen, and search for influence in order to stay relevant? (20:58) RIH Virgil Abloh. We lost an inspiration and an innovator. Gone, but definitely not forgotten. (27:30) People went after Chadwick Boseman while he was sick and turned it into a joke. Why didn't Virgil get that same treatment? (36:34) The guys break down how badly black people treat each other while calling screaming King and Queen. (42:50) True or False? All p***y is the same, but all head is not. (58:00) Women to men: why do you care if I swallow? You can't feel it. Men to women: Stop trying to tell me what I feel! Thank you Mr. West (@bwestf50 and @westwestclothing) for coming through, and thank you again for listening to Illegal Opinions, the podcast for people that don't like podcasts. Available every Sunday on your favorite ghatdamn streaming platform so check us out, and tell a friend to tell a friend. Be safe. Show love. Peace.

Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast, and we'd like to welcome our special guest, friend of the pod, entrepreneur, comedian, and CEO of West West Clothing, our guy Brandon West! (08:10) It's raptors out here! Bradon gives insight on how his success has changed his lifestyle, he speaks on marketing his brand, and the way he may be newly viewed in LA. (17:43) The fellas get into a conversation about the podcast game, what the future holds, (28:35) and will there ever be a time when we're “not sayin' shit”. (33:40) We talk about Ryan “Reynolds-ing” in all of his movies, (45:10) and Ghislaine Maxwell snitches on Chris Tucker. Money definitely talks. (1:06:12) Pete Davidson is out here knocking down all of your favorites. Is being funny enough to beat down top shelf baddies? (1:15:10) What would've happened to Beyonce's career if after the babies she stopped looking like Beyonce, (1:19:55) is Jay-Z a bad friend, and did Brandon West quit comedy? Follow him @bwestf50 and go to WestWestClothing.com to purchase some fly shit! Thank you again for listening to Illegal Opinions, the podcast for people that don't like podcasts. Available every Sunday on your favorite ghatdamn streaming platform so check us out, and tell a friend to tell a friend. Be safe. Show love. Peace.

Introducing our Keynote Speaker...Damon West, world-wide best selling author and motivational speaker, talks with Buck and Brad about...growing up in Port Arthur;attending school at Woodrow Wilson and Edison Middle Schools;attending Thomas Jefferson High School, where he was a three-year starting quarterback;his journey from college quarterback to convicted felon to redemption;the people along his life's path that believed in him;his mission to give back and effect positive change--a mission that has made him one of the top motivational speakers in the nation; and other topics!The podcast brings up a wide range of names from Southeast Texas, including Bob West, Genie Montie West, Brandon West, Grayson West, Chief Jimmy Singletary, Joe Washington Jr, Coach Joe Washington, Bill Maddox, John Bass, Jacob Bass, Jason Bass, Todd Dodge, Brent Duhon, Charles Getwood, DeCedric Shawn Giron, Chad Johnson, Mike Owens, Charlie Jehlen, Pearce Pegross, Joey Mouton, Lyndon Henry, Joey Foster, James Brown, Jay Musser, Thad Stein, Toby Guidry, Heath Hebert, Jake Burnett, Claire Barras, Thomas Jefferson HS teacher Mrs. Cummings, Dow Wynn, Coach James Knowles, Leland MccElroy, Frank Middleton, Patrick Palmer, Jimmy Johnson, Janis Joplin, Kenny Harrison, Walter Umphrey, Ed Roddy, Teresa Lee Burnett, Chief Paul LeMoine, Michael Orta, Kendell Romero West and Clara, and more! Other well-known names that are included in the podcast are  Norv Turner, Rep. Dick Gephardt, Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban, Lincoln Riley, Chip Kelly, Lane Kiffin, John Gordon, and more!Damon West has a message of both hope and victory!Your front-row seat to a keynote motivational podcast is just a download away!Right here on Down Trails of Victory podcast!!!!

Special guest: Brandon West. Brandon West is a single Dad, basket ball coach, successful entrepreneur and most of all a very intuitive human. There are many ways one can work on loving themselves, Brandon shares with us how he started the processes of self love and what the end result was and is. What happens when we listen to that little voice inside our head? What are promptings and how and what form do they come in? Last but not least we talk about letting go of those things in which we can not control and how to replace fear with faith and hurt with love. Listening to this episode will make you a better person, buckle up for this emotional/ heartfelt ride. Next Release & Connect is 07/16/21- Get your spots here- https://bookme.name/BeckaHays/release-connect-716?from=master Please email in anytime if you have any questions or have something to say regarding any episode. Also if you would like to be a guest on “The Becka Hays Show” or know of someone please email a brief description about yourself and or that person and why you think you/they should be a guest. Email to - beckahaysmediagroup@gmail.com -This podcast is sponsored by, “Enevive” Educational Research Center. Get your water checked today for FREE and be educated on WHAT you're DRINKING. Not only will @Enevive educate you on what is in your water they also offer solutions to help you get rid of all those CHEMICALS and TOXINS in your water that you're drinking and bathing in. Mention my name -Becka Hays and receive a Chemical Remover for 50% off. Contact my friends today @ www.enevive.org or call 801-993-0080

Fear cannot live in the same heart that faith lives in. Come listen to my good friend Brandon , his doggie child & I touch on our personal fears, insecurities and what ways we've deemed helpful in learning to overcome those fears. It is a long one, but a very good one! In the middle of editing this show, I had a crying session because some of the things I said spoke directly to me, I hope it can do the same for you all. Enjoy! Thank you for coming along this journey with me. Especially on Ye Day!

On this episode of the Police Softball Video/Podcast | Ep. 28 John Scollo Memorial Tournament, Throwbacks & Mega Draft, Trini and Joe, will be joined by Brandon West to discuss the John Scollo Memorial Tournament, Dan McIntyre to introduce the Music City Mega Draft and Thomas Eldridge for some Throwback Thursday photos! You can listen, watch, comment and ask questions live on my YouTube or Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/c/TriniTrinidad  https://www.facebook.com/TriniTrinidad11 The best way to stay up to date with the Police Softball Podcast is to subscribe and turn on all notifications on my YouTube channel! You can also find Trini on social media: Instagram: @trinitrinidad__ Facebook: @TriniTrinidad11 TikTok: @trinitrinidad11 You can listen anytime on Apple Podcast, iHeart Radio, Spotify, Stitcher, Law Enforcement Today, Pocket Casts, TuneIn and Overcast!

New York City Council Candidate for District 39 (Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, Kensington) joins us to talk about his campaign & the left's objectives in City Council – plus new music, remembering Constance Demby, & more https://westforcouncil.com

Micah moderated a recent discussion between Chicago Democratic Socialists of America city council members (Alds. Jeanette Taylor, Daniel La Spata, and Byron Sigcho-Lopez) and New York City DSA city council candidates (Tiffany Cabán, Jaslin Kaur, Adolfo Abreu, Michael Hollingsworth, Brandon West, and Alexa Avilés).

As the budget fight continues to heat up in Albany, workers in New York City are continuing the struggle for power and equity on the job and at school. On tonight’s episode, we’ll visit the picket line at Columbia University, where unionized graduate students are on their second week of a strike to demand fair pay and healthcare. We also hear an update from last Saturday’s NYC-DSA march to Tax the Rich and Impeach Cuomo.We’re joined LIVE by NYC-DSA endorsed candidate for City Council District 39 (and community radio fan!), Brandon West, to hear about his work to Defund NYPD, defeat machine politics, fund excluded workers, and build working-class power. To learn more about Brandon West and get involved with his campaign, please visit https://westforcouncil.com/.

This week on Sittin' and Sippin', the guys discuss social media and their first logins on sites like Xanga, Myspace and Gay.com. Y'all remember those?! They dive into conversation around social media's affects, who it represents and the sought out intimacy it conjures.Now, it wouldn't be Sittin' and Sippin' without a proper education on how to sip. Maurice plugs you into how to think and approach whiskey and mezcal as they sip on Few Rye Whiskey and another very special treat. Tune in, turn up and kick back with Brandon West, Maurice Brooks and Andres Alulema. This is Sittin' and Sippin'.

The Brandon West story and diversity equity and inclusion in VR along with Alexis Duggan’s new videos. [audio mp3="https://vrworkforcestudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/0092BrandonWest020121-1.mp3"][/audio] The post Voc Rehab proved I could bust out 100 words per minute with no errors and “Shocker” I’m now employed. appeared first on VR Workforce Studio.

John Tarleton, Editor-in-Chief of the Indypendent newspaper, interviews: --Steven Wishnia, the Indypendent’s longtime housing correspondent about his latest article on evictions, eviction moratoriums and the struggle for housing justice for millions of people during this pandemic. He also fills us in about the recently extended eviction moratorium here in New York state. --Manon Vergerio, a member of Unlock NYC, an all-women tech collective that just released easy-to-use chatbot for would-be renters to use when confronted with unscrupulous landlords. --Brandon West, a member of the DSA for the City slate that has 6 candidates running for City Council this year. From the perspective as a former staffer at City Council and organizer of movements to defund the NYPD, he talks about how City Council could achieve defunding the police if the socialist squad wins in the 2021 election.

John Tarleton interviews Brandon West, a member of the DSA for the City slate that has 6 candidates running for City Council this year. From the perspective as a former staffer at City Council and organizer of movements to defund the NYPD, he talks about how City Council could achieve defunding the police if the socialist squad wins in the 2021 election.

Happy Thanksgiving from Jeffrey Meldon & Chris Qualmann! Brandon West of PHOS Creative joins the program during the first segment. He has spoken at multiple tech events, including the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, and PHOS Creative was ranked #147 on the Inc. 5000 list. For the remainder of the program, we have Ron DeFilippo, former owner of the gameday hotspot The Swamp Restaurant, to share some stories from over the years and to give a special announcement!

A short phone call with my friend, Brandon.

A short look at Revelation chapter one, then the conversation develops into other ideas.

Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast! This is Part 2 of "Tony Would Never". (1:35) The guys get into a heated discussion over the appeal of Amber Geiger, the murderer of Botham Jean. (17:00) Naked and Afraid? Are they fu**kin'? (23:08) We ask Can you grow to be sexually attracted to someone because phat assets exist, (25:20) and why doesn't a woman believe a guy when he tells her that her male "friend" wants to beat? (36:18) Did you hit your peak in high school, (39:00) and should men just approach women and tell them exactly what they want from them since women say they like aggressive guys? (43:05) In the future there will be a firm that goes through social media and confirms the amount of bodies someone has before you pop the question...yep, back on that body count, and if their count is too high can you go back to their hometown? (53:25) I'm not gonna lie, we go through a plethora of sexual deal breakers for us and it gets kinda wild. Enjoy the ride. Thanks again to Brandon West for coming to kick it with us, and thank you for listening. This is Illegal Opinions, the podcast for people that don't like podcasts. We'll see y'all next Sunday. Be safe. Show love. Peace.

Episode 28!!! Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast! Big Dawg Brandon West came to kick with us once again, so you already know what time it is. (4:50) Mr. West is still out there protesting, burning things with white people but in another setting. (10:15) We have a bone to pick with the ladies and the "legs in the pool" pictures, (13:45) and talk about being desensitized to a lot of the things that we come across on the day to day. (17:00) Here's a non-spoiler review of Project Power (y'all have 2 weeks before we really get into it), (26:40) and should you ever feel safe around Mike Tyson? (37:00) Kat Williams dropped some knowledge with his perspective of today's climate, and the guys chopped it up a bit. Is there a parallel between the careers of Kat and Dave Chappelle? (54:00) Brandon and Sam tell us about the times they almost gave up on Stand Up, and there are some jewels in there so pay attention. Hey, do you remember how it was to see Kill Bill: Part one and not know that there was a Part 2? Well, that's what this is like! We'll see you guys next Sunday for the second half of our conversation with Brandon West. As always, thank you for listening to Illegal Opinions. The podcast for people that don't like podcasts. Be safe. Show Love. Peace.

On this week's show, Chris Pellissier and Brandon West have a colorful conversation around proposed legislation to deal with racially motivated police calls and this week's small business feature. Also, Chris shares the importance of supporting music spaces, such as Hyde Street Studios, while Brandon puts an emphasis on the importance of mental health during this time.

You’ve said the words, “Black Lives Matter.” You’ve put your money where your mouth is. You’ve shown up for the marches. What next? What exactly is the change we’re showing up for, and how exactly can we commit to making that change in our own communities? In this bonus episode, we’re passing the mic to Jaime Sunwoo (a Korean American interdisciplinary artist and former housing advocate) and Brandon West (a longtime Black organizer for democracy rights and racial justice). Jaime and Brandon’s experiences in community service, city budgeting, and organizing work clarify why and how today’s movement for racial justice is asking us to defund the police. Resources and Links Jaime Sunwoo (@jaimesunwoo) worked in homeless services from 2015-2017. She's a multidisciplinary artist and is developing Specially Processed American Me, a performance project on the significance of SPAM in the Asian diaspora. You can learn more about her at jaimesunwoo.com. Brandon West (@btwest) is a campaign manager for voting rights at the Center for Popular Democracy, and collaborates with a great many community organizers in Brooklyn. He’s also a candidate for New York City Council, which you can learn more about at westforcouncil.com (full disclosure: our Managing Producer James Boo is Brandon’s roommate, and volunteers for Brandon’s campaign). Both Jaime and Brandon support the work of Communities United for Police Reform, a coalition of community groups seeking to defund the New York Police Department and create greater accountability for police misconduct. Jaime worked as a housing advocate for Breaking Ground, a non-profit organization that provides housing and wraparound services to over 8,000 New Yorkers a year. The Brooklyn Liberation march for Black trans lives ended up attracting an estimated total of 15,000 people. Many organizers intersecting with that action support the repeal of “Walking While Trans” laws across the country. You read about the underlying issues here. If you’re still looking for ways to learn and donate in support of Black lives, then check out our latest newsletter for a curated list of some of our favorite works (almost all by or centering Black voices) and Black-led groups. Credits Produced by James Boo and Julia Shu Edited by Julia Shu, with assistance from Prerna Chaudhury Sound mix by Timothy Lou Ly Self Evident theme music by Dorian Love Thanks to Dolly Li of Plum Radio for helping us record some of the protest tape heard on this episode!

Brandon West (https://twitter.com/westforcouncil), candidate for New York City Council’s 39th District, joins the podcast’s “Allyship Series” with the Black community to discuss what “defund the police” actually means from a policy and budgetary perspective, how...

Episode 18!!! Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast. We have a special guest! Comedian/Entrepreneur/Activist Mr. Brandon West in this bih! (2:50) The fellas speak on the importance of having mentorship in the comedy game and how to dodge the pitfalls that most encounter. (13:00) As an in the streets reporter, Brandon gives his first hand account of the protests and other demonstrations happening in LA, and the Police dropping him off in Compton. (35:20) Given the climate we are in, is it more important to be with someone who looks like you, or does that even matter? (47:00) PSA: Being closer to the water may save your life in the South (don't worry, we'll explain), and (52:00) Sam tries to get Brandon cookout canceled. (54:45) We discuss comics that may be using the stage to camouflage their racism. (1:12:45) Sam thinks virgins have the best sex...(1:20:50), then we roll right into "You Coulda Just STFU". (1:43:30) Should the NFL go ahead and fire Jay-Z now that the players have forced them into acknowledging BLM?...Again, thank you guys for listening. It's appreciated. Be safe. Show love. Peace.

ON THIS WEDNESDAY'S EPISODE OF TALKING SHOP! The guys get to talk shop with Brandon West! We all get updated on Brandon's quarantine life as well as the life of one who works in hospitality during a pandemic and maybe some even some of the more shocking things Brandon has saw himself while working in hospitality. We Talk food as well and that sides are just as important as the main entree. This and much more on episode 53 of TSP! TWITTER: @TalkingShopPod TSP MERCH/DONATIONS: https://talkingshoppodcast.square.site/

THIS WEEK ON TALKING SHOP... Brandon West Interview (10:35) Hurricane Dorian (47:20) Post Malone New Album "Hollywood's Bleeding" Breakdown (51:20) NFL (1:02:43) Food/Candy Reviews (1:24:08 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TalkingShopPod

In the first of a series of interviews with people we think are cool who also happen to be soccer fans, I talk to Brandon West (@btwest) the president of New Kings Democrats, about grassroots organizing in Brooklyn, the county committee and Democratic Party reform, and his theories of politics. And also we talk about Liverpool's preseason and Adam Lallana at the 6!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport the show (http://patreon.com/doublepivot)

Welcome back to the Wild West Crypto Show! And yes, we are not in Kerville this week as we made our way to Louisville, Kentucky to attend the Run for the Unicorns event and Kentucky Derby!  We kick of the first set of interviews with Andrew Prell who orchestrated the event. Of course we couldn't resist bringing in some key speakers onto our show including Rick Tumlinson, Brandon West, and Tim Totten! And not to forget we finally got to meet Jonathan with CryptoCurrencyWire for the first time in person!  Exciting lineup for this show be sure to watch the full episode! Catch us again next week as we return back to our studio in Kerville. We at The Wild West Crypto Show and C-Suite radio work at the speed of crypto to bring you all the latest content! Please subscribe to our Youtube Channel and we promise to give you all the latest news and content in the crypto space! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Depression and burnout are common problems, especially in the tech industry. In this episode I discuss my person experience of them in the hope that it will open a dialog. Brandon West’s video discussed in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQTu4yCk-Q Intro music for this Podcast is “Sunshine version 2” by Kevin MacLeod

On this week's episode of [Un] Correct New York, Stephen Witt, Tom Russotti and Kelly Mena sat down with one of Brooklyn's leading progressives,  New Kings Democrats President Brandon West, whose political club is making waves amongst new and established Democrats in the borough.West talks about the history and the future of the Democratic party and its relationship with New York politics. He also talks about some of the club's controversial initiatives such as Rep Your Block and it's Visioning Program.

Brandon West, a loyal Crown Refs supporter, is a first-year official from Worcester, MA. Recently, we connected on Instagram and he expressed his interest in coming to observe a game of mine. So in February 2019, Brandon drove 2 hours to Connecticut to watch the game and hang with the crew afterward. I'm excited to work with young officials who have a passion and desire to improve. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/crown-refs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crown-refs/support

This postgame session features Joe Flick, Dave Masino and Brandon West, a first-year official who drove 2 hours to come observe the game. The topics include: missing travels, marginal contact and a difficult cheerleader. Enjoy the laughs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/crown-refs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crown-refs/support

The Chevrolet BCHL Playoffs are underway and we hear from West Kelowna bench boss Brandon West plus one of the stars of opening night in the postseason, David Melaragni of the Cowichan Capitals. The play-by-play voice of the Penticton Vees Craig Beauchemin checks in with his view from the broadcast booth as well.

In this week's program things get started with more analytics from ZimmComm media content. This time it's photos and videos. Think Flickr and YouTube. But then we go back to last week and I share some interviews from the Develop with Deere Conference. First up is Kayla Reynolds, Digital Business Development Manager, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group.  Following Kayla is Brandon West, Evangelism Leader, Americas, AWS, who gave a keynote speech during the conference. The last interview is with Ryan Heiniger, Pheasants Forever, who talks about working with John Deere.

Brandon West talks about his efforts to reform NYS Govt

Jason Hurst, the Gainesville charter store for Maple Street Biscuit Company and Brandon West of PHOS Creative, a Gainesville Digital Marketing Agency stop by for another amazing conversation on creating a great culture through mission, vision, values. CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS: JASON HURST https://maplestreetbiscuits.com/ BUTLER PLAZA: https://www.facebook.com/maplestreetbutlerplaza/ https://www.instagram.com/maplestreetbutlerplaza/ TIOGA: https://www.facebook.com/maplestreettioga/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maplestreettioga/ BRANDON WEST PHOS CREATIVE https://phoscreative.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/phoscreative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoscreative/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phos-creative/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoscreative/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whoa-gnv-podcast/support

Grits! with Anyi Malik features the US American comedian talking to his friends and comedians about current events, slang, life and of course GRITS! Tune in to Red Guerilla Network for new episodes and hear the original Guerilla Episodes (ft Ian Edwards, Klee Wiggins, and King Uncle Dame Time)on www.AnyiMalik.com