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In this Most Valuable Podcast episode, you'll see why social media captions are one of the most powerful tools you have for turning local followers into paying clients and how to make yours work harder for you.Captions aren't filler or an after thought. They're how you get discovered, connect with your most ready-to-buy audience and move people to take action now. And yes, people ARE reading them - I have the data to prove it!And when you know how to write them, every post becomes an opportunity to bring in your next client.Tune into this episode to learn:How many people actually read your captions and why those are your most ready-to-buy followers5 powerful jobs your captions can do to help you get found, build connection and convert followers into clientsHow to make your captions work for you even if you “don't know what to say”Mentioned in this episode:Mini Training: The Local Instagram FormulaWork with me inside The Localpreneur AcademyFollow me on Instagram @lesliepresnallDownload my Free Guide: How To Grow Your Local Instagram FollowingIf you're ready to grow your local business and bring in a steady stream of clients, you need to check out The Localpreneur Academy. Click here to join me inside.Rate, Review & Follow:“I LOVE listening to the episodes, especially since they're focused on local businesses and it's not just generic marketing advice.” If you love the show too, please leave a rating and review. This helps me reach more people just like you who want to reach more local people and create a business they love.
Betches senior video producers Tess Tregellas and Madeline Mahoney reveal how they transformed a viral social media premise into their flagship scripted comedy series Sisters. They outline the operational mechanics of building an in-house creator studio, maintaining a sponsor-free first season to protect brand voice, and driving multi-platform distribution completely organically.Key Highlights
Can people with MCS fight discrimination even without full medical recognition?In this episode of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Aaron Goodman speaks with human-rights lawyer Paloma Torres López, co-founder of MEDUSA Human Rights in Madrid, Spain.They discuss:Why people with MCS shouldn't have to wait for full medical recognitionDisability rights and the social model of disabilityAccessibility and reasonable accommodationDiscrimination at work, in schools, healthcare and public spacesFragrance-free environments as an accessibility measurePaloma explains how environmental barriers can prevent people with MCS from participating equally in society — and why disability and human-rights law may offer another path toward recognition, access and equality.Listen and subscribe where you get your podcasts:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/19721803-beyond-medical-recognition-mcs-disability-human-rights-paloma-torres-lopezListen and subscribe on YouTube.Transcription available in all languages:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVdvkyZO_ADISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images, and other material contained on this website are for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. No material or information provided by The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, or its associated website is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
Deafness, Captions & Accessibility: Progress Over Perfection with Meryl Evans What does accessibility look like when you have depended on it your entire life? This week on Pushing Forward with Alycia, Alycia Anderson welcomes respected accessibility advocate, speaker, content creator, consultant and CPACC-certified professional Meryl K. Evans for a candid conversation about deafness, captions, communication, advocacy and why lived experience matters when we design more accessible experiences. Born profoundly deaf, Meryl grew up lip-reading, using hearing aids and learning how to navigate a hearing world long before today's accessibility technology existed. She remembers hunting through the TV Guide for the tiny closed-captioning symbol and the moment captions finally gave her access to the conversations everyone else was already having. Today, Meryl helps organizations better understand accessibility through training, workshops, accessible content, user experience testing and speaking. And she brings an important reminder to the work: accessibility does not require instant perfection. It requires a willingness to listen, learn and keep moving forward. Alycia and Meryl explore everything from growing up disabled and finding confidence through sports to the evolution of captioning, accessible social media, reading friction, disability language and the importance of hiring people with lived experience. Meryl also challenges a growing social media trend: captions designed primarily to entertain rather than communicate. As she explains, captions are information first. When words bounce, flash, change colors or appear one at a time, the very accessibility feature intended to provide access can instead become another barrier. The conversation closes with a message that applies far beyond accessibility: progress over perfection. We do not need to know everything before we begin. We need to remain curious, keep learning and continue making progress. And sometimes progress includes knowing when to rest. As Meryl reminds us: “There's a difference between taking a break and quitting.” In This Episode
In this episode of The Instagram Stories - Social Media News, host Daniel Hill breaks down Instagram Head Adam Mosseri's recent Ask Me Anything session. We dive into the most anticipated desktop updates, clarify the real reason why clickable links are restricted in post captions, and explore whether brands face different rules on the platform than individual creators. Plus, we examine practical growth strategies to increase your post reach, best practices for testing content with trial reels, and feature updates for Instagram stories and carousels. Podcast Movement NYC - September 17th/18th (Registration) Key Topics Covered in This Episode: Instagram Edits App for Desktop: Adam Mosseri addresses when the desktop video editing interface is coming for creators who prefer editing on a larger screen. Clickable Links in Captions: Why Instagram restricts clickable links in post captions and comments to prevent spam and preserve photo/video focus. Brand vs. Creator Account Rules: Do business accounts have to follow different content rules than creators? Music & Post Reach: Why adding music to static or carousel posts on average increases your overall reach and discoverability. Optimal Posting Frequency: How to determine the best posting cadence for your audience without suffering from creator burnout. Trial Reels & Scheduling Strategy: Does scheduling a trial reel impact reach, and what happens when you upgrade a top-performing trial reel to your main feed? Requested Instagram Features: Listener suggestions for volume controls on stories with background music and expanding trial features to carousel posts. Industry Event Spotlights: Event details and ticket information for Podcast Movement 2026 at Terminal 5 in New York City. (Register) Links: Podcast Movement NYC - September 17th/18th (Registration) Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill_media The Equipment I Use: Microphone: Shure MV7+ USB-C & XLR Podcast Dynamic Mic with Stand (Amazon) Headphones: Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds (Amazon) Laptop: Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable Detachable 2-in-1 Laptop Tablet Touch | 13" (Amazon) Phone: Samsung S25 Ultra with S-Pen included (Amazon) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
AI-powered captions are becoming increasingly common, but Rylo CEO and co-founder Tomer Aharoni believes accessible communication needs to go much further than simply converting speech into text.Shari Eberts speaks with Aharoni about the evolution of Nagish into Rylo and the company's expansion from FCC-certified captioned phone calls into a broader AI communication platform for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. Aharoni shares how the company began with a simple experiment while he was a computer science student at Columbia and why Rylo now views accessibility as the starting point rather than the end goal.The conversation explores how AI could provide communication context that traditional captions may miss, including emotion, tone, accents and environmental sounds. Aharoni also discusses emerging tools such as sentiment analysis, potential fraud detection features, and Rylo Sign, an effort to use AI to translate between signed and spoken language when an interpreter may not be available.Looking ahead, Aharoni explains why he expects basic captioning to become increasingly ubiquitous and how AI could help reduce the additional planning and communication barriers that people who are Deaf and hard of hearing often encounter in everyday life.For more information on Rylo, visit: https://rylo.com/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/
How can better measurement of MCS and chemical intolerance help reduce misunderstanding, missed cases, and misdiagnosis?In this episode of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Aaron Goodman speaks with Raymond F. Palmer, PhD, a biostatistician and research professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio who has studied chemical intolerance for more than a decade.You'll hear:Why better recognition may help address misunderstanding and misdiagnosisHow the QEESI can help identify and measure MCS and chemical intoleranceThe TILT model and the potential role of environmental exposuresResearch into genetics, mast-cell activation, and biomarkersWhy listening to patients and improving recognition matterA conversation about how researchers are working to better measure and understand MCS and chemical intolerance — and why doing so could help change how people with the illness are recognized and treated.Links:The QEESI (Quick Environmental Exposure and Sensitivity Inventory)Raymond Palmer, PhDSupport the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
Welcome to the Success With Jewelry podcast, hosted by Laryssa Wirstiuk and Liz Kantner, two experts passionate about helping independent jewelry artists thrive. Welcome to episode #186! We're wrapping up our Instagram series with the stuff you can actually change this week - your captions, your calls to action, your posting habits, and a few strategic tweaks that can meaningfully improve how your content performs. A lot of this is simpler than you think. In today's episode, Laryssa and Liz cover: The truth about hashtags in 2026 - and what you should be doing instead Why your captions need to sound like you, and what that actually means in practice How to write captions that are personal and scannable at the same time Why calls to action matter - and how to mix them up so they don't feel repetitive What to do in the 10 to 15 minutes after you post to give your content a boost Why most of your post views happen in the first three days - and why posts are lasting longer than they used to The moodboard content trend Liz has been noticing and saving - and why it works so well for jewelry brands In the bonus segment for Insiders only, they share a practical Instagram audit framework you can use to look at your account with fresh eyes and figure out exactly what to change first. Liz Kantner works with independent jewelry artists to help them find their unique voices and succeed in today's marketplace. With over ten years of experience in jewelry marketing and sales, Liz offers consulting services and digital strategy. She's also the founder of the Stay Gold Collective, a private group providing live training, industry insights, and personalized feedback. Learn more at https://www.lizkantner.com. Laryssa Wirstiuk is the founder and creative director of Joy Joya, a digital marketing agency for the jewelry industry. She's the author of Jewelry Marketing Joy and the creator of JoyDeck, a platform designed to make marketing accessible for jewelry makers and designers. Discover more at https://joyjoya.com. Tune in to hear Liz and Laryssa share valuable insights, tips, and strategies for success in the jewelry industry!
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AI can help you write social media captions faster… but if you're copying and pasting exactly what ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini gives you, people can usually tell.In this video, I'm sharing how I use AI to help write social media captions while still making sure the finished post sounds like ME.I'll walk you through my actual process - from giving AI a video transcript or quick description to reading the caption out loud, shortening it, changing the hook, cleaning up emojis and adding my own personality back in.You'll learn:* How I use ChatGPT to help write social media captions* Why I never blindly copy and paste AI-generated content* The read-it-out-loud trick I use before posting* What I almost always delete from AI captions* How I personalize hooks and calls to action* Why adding opinions, personality and imperfections matters* How to make AI-generated content sound more human* Why sometimes I skip AI and write the caption myselfAI should help you communicate your ideas - not make everyone sound exactly the same.The goal isn't to make AI write like a human. The goal is to use AI as a starting point and then make sure the final content sounds like YOU.
In this episode, Barbara discusses: Why so many viewers watch with the sound off, and why strong headlines, captions, and on-screen text are essential to stop the scroll and immediately communicate your video’s value. How trying to teach everything in one video overwhelms viewers, and why breaking complex topics into multiple short, focused clips creates a powerful, bingeable video library for patients. Why you don't need expensive cameras, microphones, or lighting to succeed, and how a simple smartphone plus clear, compassionate communication beats “perfect” production quality. How most physicians fail with video by quitting too soon, and why consistent publishing—like planting a tree—allows trust and patient relationships to grow over time. The importance of always telling viewers what to do next, whether that's subscribing, visiting your website, sharing the video, or scheduling an appointment, so every video leads to a clear next step. Key Takeaways: “Video marketing works for physicians not because it's flawless or flashy, but because it consistently delivers short, focused, clearly captioned answers to real patient questions—and always guides viewers toward a simple, obvious next step.” Connect with Barbara Hales: Twitter: @DrBarbaraHales Facebook: facebook.com/theMedicalStrategist Business Website: TheMedicalStrategist.com Email: info@TheMedicalStrategist.com YouTube:@barbarahales LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/barbarahalesBooks: Content Copy Made Easy 14 Tactics to Triple Sales Power to the Patient: The Medical Strategist TRANSCRIPT (244) Introduction: The Next Five Video Marketing Mistakes Dr. Barbara Hales 0:02 The five video marketing mistakes that make patients keep scrolling. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Marketing Tips for Doctors. Last week we talked about the first five mistakes physicians make with video marketing. Today we’re going to cover the next five, and I have to tell you, some of these surprise me, not because I did not understand marketing, but because I’ve been learning short-form video myself. Sometimes the smallest changes make the biggest difference. So let’s jump right in. Mistake #6: Forgetting That Many People Never Hear a Word You Say Mistake number six: forgetting that many people never hear a word you say. This may be the most overlooked mistake in video marketing. Many people watch videos with the sound turned off. Think about your own habits. You’re sitting in a waiting room. You’re standing in line at the grocery store. You’re waiting to board an airplane. You don’t want to disturb the people around you, so you scroll silently. Now imagine a physician appears on your screen. They are obviously talking, but there are no captions, no headline, no text. Nothing tells you why you should stop. What happens? You keep scrolling, not because the doctor wasn’t knowledgeable, not because the information was not valuable. You simply had no idea what the video was about. Now imagine that same video begins with large text that says, “Three signs your blood pressure may be too high, or, “The biggest mistake patients make after knee replacement. Suddenly, you know exactly why you should stay. Captions don’t simply help people hear you; they help people understand you before they ever turn the sound on. Think of on-screen text as the title on the cover of a book. Without the title, many people never bother opening the book. Mistake #7: Trying to Teach Everything in One Video Mistake number seven: trying to teach everything in one video. Here’s another mistake I see all the time. Doctors try to explain everything. We want patients to understand the whole picture. That’s wonderful inside the exam room. It’s not wonderful in a 92nd video. I remember working with a physician who wanted to make a video about high blood pressure. He covered how blood pressure works, every medication, diet, exercise, complications, kidney disease, stroke, heart attacks, everything. It was an outstanding lecture. It was also far too much for one video. Now imagine a different approach. One video answers one question: Does high blood pressure have symptoms? Another asks: Why do I need medication if I feel fine? Another: Three foods that quietly raise blood pressure. Instead of one overwhelming lecture, you’ve created an entire video library. Patients can watch exactly what they need, and every video becomes another opportunity for someone to discover you. Mistake #8: Thinking You Need Expensive Equipment Mistake number eight: thinking you need expensive equipment. Let me save you some money. You probably don't need another camera. You probably don't need another microphone. You probably don't need another light. You definitely don't need to wait until everything is perfect. The smartphone in your pocket can produce remarkable videos today. Better equipment will help eventually, but better communication will help far more. People forgive average video quality; they rarely forgive boring content. Focus on helping people. The technology can improve later. Mistake #9: Quitting Before the Results Show Up Mistake number nine: quitting before the results show up. Here's one of the biggest reasons physicians fail with video: they stop. They record three videos, maybe five. They don't go viral. They don't receive hundreds of comments, so they conclude video marketing doesn't work. Imagine planting a tree. Would you dig it up after one week to see if the roots were growing? Of course not. Trust grows exactly the same way. One helpful video, then another, then another. Months later, patients begin saying, “I've been watching your videos. Those are some of the most rewarding words you'll ever hear, because by then the relationship has already begun. Mistake #10: Never Telling People What to Do Next Mistake number 10: never telling people what to do next. You've educated someone. You've answered their question. They've watched until the end. Now what? Too many physicians simply stop talking. Don't make people guess. Invite them. If you'd like more practical medical advice, subscribe. To learn more, visit my website. If this helped you, share it with someone you care about. If you're looking for a physician, schedule an appointment. Every good conversation has a next step. Your videos should too. Lesson: Focus on Communication, Not Technology Here's something I learned recently. I spent far too much time trying to make a better editor. Then I realized that's not my job. My job is to communicate. Dr. Barbara Hales 7:47 Technology can help me edit. Only I can bring my expertise, stories, personality, and compassion. Don’t let the technical side keep you from helping people. This Week’s Challenge: Record One Helpful Video This week’s challenge: Record one video, answer one patient question, and keep it under two minutes. Don’t aim for perfection. Aim for helpful. Press, publish. Then next week, do it again. The Real Purpose of Video Marketing Video marketing isn’t really about cameras. It isn’t about software. It isn’t about algorithms. It’s about becoming the physician people already know and trust before they ever walk through your door. Closing: Communicate With Purpose Thank you so much for spending part of your day with me. If you enjoyed today’s episode, I’d really appreciate it if you’d subscribe to Marketing Tips for doctors. Every week, I share practical strategies to help physicians attract better patients, build stronger practices, and enjoy medicine again. Until next time, keep communicating with purpose, because every question you answered today may change someone’s tomorrow. The post The Mistakes That Make You Scroll first appeared on The Medical Strategist.
EVERYTHING IS THE SAME ANYMORE, AND I COULDN'T BE MORE BORED OF IT! Emails all sound the same. Marketing all sounds and looks the same. Captions on social media, the scripts people are using in reels, even some long texts I have received - they all have the same flavor. They sound the same, they have the same language patterns, and they are removing the human supposedly behind them. In this episode, I am going to talk about this shift happening behind the scenes that is majorly bleeding through into every aspect of our daily lives and reshaping our human experience. And as we allow this "expression" to express for us, what are we losing? More importantly, why did we choose to come here on Earth at all, and what does our self expression have to do with that? If we are looking to a machine to express for us and direct us in every minute area of our lives, what are we losing? I think this matters very much, and I don't think people are thinking about it or consciously noticing it is happening. Here's where we are going in this episode: - Sameness is spreading fast - What authenticity actually means from the soul level - Why your unique creative signature is spiritual power - How to reconnect with your eternal, organic self (and why you MUST!) - What this all means in terms of who will be trusted and remembered in the years ahead Mindful Pregnancy Collection: https://www.karagoodwin.com/pregnancy-collection Subscribe so you don't miss any of the powerful episodes of Soul Elevation: https://www.youtube.com/@soulelevationpodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Listen or Apple or Spotify: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-elevation-guiding-your-ascension-to-new-heights/id1442136034 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Rld3E6a4hWwySD73aBkbe?si=89d00821258844b3
Accessible communication technology is advancing rapidly, but building tools that people can truly depend on requires more than simply adding artificial intelligence.Brian Taylor speaks with InnoCaption CEO Paul Lee about the evolution of captioned communication, the company's milestone of supporting more than 30 million captioned calls, and the importance of keeping users at the center of accessibility technology. Lee also shares the personal story behind his move from finance to InnoCaption and his recent transition into the CEO role as his father, who founded the company, steps back from day-to-day operations.The conversation examines InnoCaption's approach to responsible AI, including why users can choose between automated captions and live stenographers and how human support teams continue to train and refine the company's AI tools. Lee discusses the challenge of designing AI-assisted text-to-speech technology that can make communication faster without taking control away from the person using it.They also explore lessons from InnoCaption's acquisition of CaptionMate, the growing role of accessible video calling, and why visual cues such as facial expressions and lipreading remain important alongside captions.Looking ahead, Lee discusses the broader shift toward captions as a mainstream communication tool and the potential for technologies such as Auracast to expand access to audio in public spaces. Together, these developments point toward a future in which accessibility features are increasingly integrated into everyday communication rather than treated as specialized add-ons.Learn more about InnoCaption:https://www.innocaption.com/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/
This week on the How to Protect the Ocean podcast, Andrew kicks off a science communication series exploring how ocean advocates can spread awareness across every major content format. Today's episode digs into short-form video: TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and what it actually takes to make original content work when you're used to talking for an hour, not ninety seconds. Andrew is candid about his own struggle with the format, since most of his short-form output today is repurposed podcast clips rather than content built for the platform from the ground up. The conversation covers what separates a scroll-stopping short from one that gets skipped: a hook in the first one to three seconds, one idea per video, native casual style over polished production, readable captions, and consistency over perfection. Andrew points to Christian Parton's Shark Bites and KPassionate as creators doing this well across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch, and explains how the algorithm on platforms like TikTok now prioritizes watch time and virality over follower count, meaning a single video from a small account can outperform everything else in a creator's catalog. The episode closes with a candid look at monetization: what TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels actually pay per view [VERIFY figures before publishing], why the real money in short-form tends to come from brand sponsorships, affiliate codes, and funneling viewers to a long-form platform or Patreon-style support, and why short-form works best as an entry point rather than a destination. This is the first episode in a week-long arc on science communication formats, building toward Friday's interview with Amy Weldon of Blue Collar White Coat. Takeaways Short-form content needs a hook in the first one to three seconds or the algorithm moves on Stick to one idea per video, delivered in one to three minutes Native, casual, direct-to-camera style tends to outperform overly produced content Captions matter because most viewers watch with the sound off The algorithm rewards watch time and virality over follower count, so small accounts can go viral Consistency over perfection is what builds a following over time Short-form monetization pay rates are modest [VERIFY]; real income tends to come from sponsorships, affiliates, and funneling to long-form or Patreon-style support Short-form is best used as an entry point into a creator's larger body of work, not the destination Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube
Fragrance pollution, known as kogai, has become a growing public-health concern in Japan, affecting millions of people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and others who experience adverse health effects from everyday fragranced products.In this episode, Aaron Goodman speaks with Keiko Fukaya, Professor Emeritus Ryoichi Terada, and Yuri Kitagawa about the rise of fragrance pollution in Japan, its impact on daily life, and the movement to reduce unnecessary chemical exposures.Topics include:Fragrance pollution and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)Living with MCS in JapanSchools, workplaces, and public accessibilityEnvironmental justice and social exclusionFragrance microcapsules and laundry productsConsumer advocacy and public policyWhat other countries can learn from JapanListen now and subscribe:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/19587898-mcs-and-the-hidden-costs-of-fragrance-pollution-in-japanListen and subscribe on YouTube:https://youtu.be/EzLPXZr0EOcSupport the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
Paid Ads Rebuild: 3 Workflows + 8 Prompts to Fix What AI Broke: https://clickhubspot.com/jgvk Ep. 442 50% of Google searches now result in zero clicks, how does that affect your 2027 ad budget? Kipp dives into how AI has completely disrupted the paid ads landscape, changing where you should spend your marketing dollars and what those ads actually cost. Learn more on which ad channels have become more expensive, where you can still find underpriced opportunities like YouTube Shorts, and why most 2027 marketing budgets are already broken if they don't account for these rapid changes. Mentions Loop: Outlearn. Outmarket. Outgrow https://www.hubspot.com/loop-marketing-book HeyGen https://app.heygen.com/ Captions https://captions.ai/ Canva https://www.canva.com/ Get our guide to build your own Custom GPT: https://clickhubspot.com/customgpt Resource [Free] Steal our favorite AI Prompts featured on the show! Grab them here: https://clickhubspot.com/aip We're on Social Media! Follow us for everyday marketing wisdom straight to your feed YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtXqPiNV8YC0GMUzY-EUFg Twitter: https://twitter.com/matgpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marketingatg Thank you for tuning into Marketing Against The Grain! Don't forget to hit subscribe and follow us on Apple Podcasts (so you never miss an episode)! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-against-the-grain/id1616700934 We really appreciate your support. Host Links: Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat ‘Marketing Against The Grain' is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by Hubspot Media // Produced by Darren Clarke.
LinkedIn just made a real change to how it ranks content, and it's aimed squarely at AI-generated posts. Captions are getting penalized for running too long, hashtags are being deprioritized, and the platform is now rewarding accounts that show up consistently rather than accounts that post the most. For education marketers already stretched thin, this changes what "good" LinkedIn content actually looks like heading into the busiest stretch of the year.At the same time, EdTech just closed out the first half of 2026, and the industry felt it. Several companies made layoffs as they reconciled H1 numbers against annual goals, a reminder that marketing budgets and headcount are under real scrutiny right now. It's also a good moment to ask a harder question: which parts of your own marketing mix are you keeping simply because you've always done them, and which ones actually have the data to back them up?This field notes episode covers what's moving fast right now: LinkedIn's new rules on AI content and consistency, what recent layoffs signal about EdTech budgets, where national conferences like ISTE fit into a shifting events landscape, subject line ideas worth testing before back-to-school email sends, and a full calendar of what to put on your radar for August and September.What You'll Learn1️⃣ Why LinkedIn is rewriting the rules on content, and why it matters more than a ranking tweak Long, AI-sounding captions and heavy hashtag use are getting penalized, while accounts that post consistently (two to three times a week) are getting rewarded. On top of that, posts are increasingly getting indexed and cited by AI search tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode, so what you publish today can still be surfacing your expertise months from now.2️⃣ What the wave of EdTech layoffs after H1 signals about marketing budgets right now Several companies cut staff as they reconciled first-half performance against annual goals, a sign that marketing investment is under real scrutiny. It's a good prompt to look at your own mix and ask what you're keeping simply out of habit versus what the data actually supports.3️⃣ What's actually worth putting on your August and September marketing calendar From back-to-school timing that varies wildly by region, to where national conferences like ISTE fit as attendance shifts toward smaller, regional events, to the literacy, attendance, and gratitude moments worth planning around before October's conference season ramps up.Why It MattersEducation marketers are heading into back-to-school season with less room for error than usual. Budgets are under closer scrutiny after a round of EdTech layoffs, the platform that most B2B education brands depend on just changed what it rewards, and the traditional conference calendar that used to anchor a lot of go-to-market planning is shifting under everyone's feet.None of this is a reason to freeze. It's a reason to be more deliberate: know what you're measuring and why, know what LinkedIn actually rewards right now instead of what worked a year ago, and know exactly when your audience is heads-down in back-to-school mode versus ready to hear from you. The marketers who take the time to recalibrate this summer will be in a much stronger position once the fall buying cycle picks back up.Resources Mentioned in this Episode:Why This EdTech Startup Hired Marketing Before It Had a Product (Karen Borchert, Alpaca)Our episode with Karen Borchert, referenced for her tip on booking demo times on the spot at conference booths instead of relying on post-event follow-up.LinkedIn AI Visibility Study (Semrush)The study behind the stat that LinkedIn was the second most-cited domain across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity, out of nearly 89,000 LinkedIn URLs analyzed.LinkedIn's Algorithm Update on AI Content and Consistency (Search Engine Land)Covers LinkedIn's move to penalize long, AI-sounding captions and heavy hashtag use, and to reward accounts posting two to three times a week.LinkedIn's own post about keeping conversations real on LinkedInLinkedIn Corporate Communications, June 4, 2026 (originally published by Laura Lorenzetti on LinkedIn, May 20, 2026).Fast Company Article on LinkedIn's AI Slop Crackdown Covers LinkedIn VP of Product Laura Lorenzetti's announcement, framing it as an "AI solving AI" approach targeting generic posts, attention-bait videos, and automation-driven comments.LinkedIn's Shift from Relationships to Interests Our breakdown of how LinkedIn's algorithm moved from surfacing content based on who you're connected to, to surfacing it based on what you engage with, meaning smaller, focused accounts can now outperform bigger ones with unfocused followings.Jay Schwedelson's Podcast Episode on Subject Line TestingReferenced for the case for absurdly long, cut-off subject lines and other unconventional formats worth testing.WeAreTeachers: When Do Kids Go Back to SchoolSource for the stat that 48% of U.S. public schools begin before August 16.Pew Research: Back-to-School Dates in the U.S.Additional back-to-school timing data, including the regional split between early-starting Southern states and later-starting Northeastern states.Rye Consulting's Florida deep-dive A live webinar Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET, with registration open.Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence, Back to School 2026Application deadline is September 4.District Administration's 2027 Top EdTech Products AwardsApplication deadline is October 9; notifications go out November 1.Hallie Smith on LinkedInReferenced for her post on ERDI, outcomes-based pricing, and the contradictions district leaders shared about board relationships and screen time.Katie Test Davis, Forthright AdvisingReferenced for her LinkedIn post on the psychology of negative contrast framing in spam emails ("this is not a scam"). Need her correct tagline confirmed before publishing.LCG Newsletter Sign-UpElana curates the best marketing and education jobs monthly. Worth a mention here for anyone affected by recent EdTech layoffs.
If you've ever heard someone say “I'm a visual learner,” you've seen how quickly learning style labels can shape training decisions. In this episode, Jackie unpacks a persistent instructional design myth: that learning styles should drive how we build courses, lessons, and eLearning. Learner preferences are real, but treating them like fixed categories can pull us away from what actually improves performance and understanding.Jackie explores why the myth sticks around, from how personal it feels to how neatly it simplifies something messy. Then I make the key design shift: stop asking what style a learner “is” and start asking what the learner needs to do. When the goal is understanding a process, visuals like diagrams may be the best support. When the goal is sound recognition, audio examples become essential. When the goal is decision-making, scenarios plus feedback often beat more content every time. The format serves the outcome.We also separate accessibility from learning styles. Captions, transcripts, alt text, clear headings, readable documents, and keyboard-friendly navigation are not extras for a certain “type” of learner. They're inclusive, responsible design choices that remove barriers for more people. To wrap up, Jackie closes the episode with a practical myth reset challenge you can use to audit one learning experience this week and make one improvement that better aligns with goals, practice, feedback, and evidence-based strategies.If this helped you rethink how you design, subscribe, share the episode with a colleague, and leave a review so more educators and instructional designers can find the series.
Let me start with a question I get asked more than almost any other when it comes to marketing channels. Should I be using Facebook for my recruitment business? It usually comes with a follow-up. Is it not just for personal stuff now? Has everyone not moved on to LinkedIn or Instagram? Is it worth my time? Here is the honest answer. Facebook can be genuinely useful for recruitment, but only for a particular kind of hiring, and only if you use it in a particular way. A lot of the owners I work with get this wrong on both counts. Some write it off completely and miss a real opportunity. Others pour hours into it expecting it to bring them clients, then feel let down when it does not, because winning clients was never what Facebook was for. So let me clear it up. Here is what Facebook is good for, what it is not, and how to decide whether it deserves a place in your marketing for the rest of the year. Facebook is bigger than you think First, let us deal with the myth that everyone has left. Globally, Facebook has more than three billion people using it every month. It is still the biggest social network in the world. Closer to home, in the markets most of you work in: Around 56% of the UK population have a Facebook account, roughly 55 to 56 million people. In the US, around seven in ten adults use Facebook. In Australia, around 65% of the population are on it. In our markets, the audience is broadly stable rather than growing fast, but it is enormous, and it is not going anywhere. So no, Facebook is not dead. Not even close. But scale is not the same as relevance Here is the thing to hold onto. A huge audience only matters if the right people are on it and you can reach them. So the real question is not how big Facebook is. It is who is on there for you, and whether you can get in front of them. What Facebook is really for in recruitment When it comes to recruitment, Facebook has one clear job. Candidate attraction, and specifically for volume and local hiring. It is not a client channel, at least not organically. It is not where you win business development or reach senior hiring managers. And this is not just my opinion, it is built into how the platform works. On LinkedIn, people show up as professionals. They tell the platform their job title, their company, their seniority. That is why you can target a hiring manager or a head of talent so precisely. On Facebook, people are not there as professionals. They are there as people, catching up with friends, sitting in local groups, watching video. So the targeting recruiters rely on, by job title, by seniority, by company, either is not available or is not reliable. That single difference tells you almost everything. Facebook is brilliant at reaching a broad, local, personal-life audience. It is weak at reaching a specific professional one. One exception, and it is paid There is one important caveat. Everything above is about organic Facebook, the free posting side. Paid is a different lever. When you put budget behind Meta ads, you can build brand awareness with a far wider audience than your own followers, and that can include potential clients, not only candidates. It will not replace LinkedIn for winning business, but it can keep your name in front of the right people. There is a fair bit to running Meta ads well, and we will cover that properly in a dedicated episode later in this series. The reach problem nobody tells you about Now for the single most useful thing I can tell you about Facebook. If your Facebook strategy is a company Page that you post to now and again, I am sorry to say, almost nobody is seeing it. Organic reach on a Facebook Page, the number of your followers who see a post without you paying, has collapsed. The benchmarks now sit at around 2% of your followers per post. So a thousand followers might mean twenty people see a post. Ten years ago that figure was closer to 16%. It has fallen off a cliff, and it is not coming back, because Meta makes its money selling reach through ads. So where is the life on Facebook? Groups. Facebook Groups reach 15 to 40% of their members per post, five to fifteen times more than a Page. The algorithm favours Groups because people opt in and engage there. A niche local jobseeker group, or a sector-specific community, will do far more for you organically than your company Page ever will. That flips the usual advice on its head. The instinct is to build your Page and post your jobs. The reality is that your Page is the weakest tool Facebook gives you, and Groups are the strongest. If you take one thing from this, let it be that. Where it works, and where it does not Let us make it practical. Facebook works well when your hiring depends on candidate volume in a specific area. Retail, trades, hospitality, industrial, warehouse, driving, admin. Roles where you need a steady flow of local applicants, and where those candidates are living their everyday lives on the platform and in local groups. For that kind of hiring, Facebook’s local reach and low cost are hard to beat. Where does it fall down? Executive search. Specialist technology roles. Professional services placements. Anything where the candidates and clients are senior, specific and few. Those people are far easier to reach on LinkedIn or through niche channels, and Facebook’s lack of professional targeting works against you. So the question is not whether Facebook is good or bad. It is whether the hiring you do matches what Facebook is good at. For some of you that is a strong yes. For others it is a clear no. Both are fine, as long as you are honest about which one you are. A real example Here is what this looks like done well. A technical staffing company wanted more applications for the roles it was filling. Rather than relying on its Page, it ran a tightly targeted local campaign, focused on people of working age within about a fifty-mile radius, using job-related search terms, backed by consistent content. Over the year, job applications rose by 82%. They nearly doubled. Follower numbers climbed sharply, and website traffic rose too. Notice the pattern. Local. Targeted. Consistent. A little paid spend to earn reach, rather than hoping the Page would deliver it. That is the Facebook playbook for recruitment in a nutshell. If you use it, here is what works If you have decided the hiring you do fits, here is what works, based on the data rather than guesswork. Lead with Groups, not your Page. Get active in niche and local groups where your candidates already are, or build one if the right group does not exist. That is where your organic reach lives now. Use video, and caption it. Native and live video get the highest reach by a distance, and most people watch with the sound off on their phone. Captions are the difference between being watched and being scrolled past. Do not treat Facebook as free. Pair organic activity with a small, consistent paid budget. Even ten to twenty pounds or dollars a day, run properly and given time to settle, will do more than occasional bigger bursts. Go hyper-local for volume roles. Target by area and by interest, exactly as in the example above. And the mistakes to avoid: relying on your Page as your main channel, posting rarely and expecting reach, using Facebook to chase senior decision-makers it was never built to target, and running paid campaigns on too small a budget for the platform to learn anything. How to decide if Facebook is right for you Three questions to consider Does my hiring depend more on candidate volume in a specific area than on reaching senior client decision-makers? If yes, Facebook is worth a proper look. Do I have even a small budget, say ten to fifty a day, and a few hours a week for content and a group presence? If not, organic-only effort at today’s reach levels probably will not repay the time. Is my priority reaching hiring managers or senior clients in professional services or technology? If so, Facebook is a secondary channel at best, and LinkedIn is where your energy should go. Answer those honestly and you will know. That is the whole point of this series. Not to be on everything, but to choose the channels that fit how you win, and give those your full attention. How we can help you this year Working out which channels are right for your business, and then producing the content consistently, is exactly what we help recruitment and search companies with inside Superfast Circle. Our members get done-for-you content, monthly coaching and a clear plan, so marketing stops being the thing that slips when you get busy. If that is the kind of support you have been looking for, book a call and let us show you how it works. www.superfastrecruitment.co.uk/call Thanks Denise The post What Recruiters Need to Know About Facebook This Year appeared first on Superfast Recruitment.
KI kann politische Social Media Arbeit deutlich erleichtern. Von der ersten Idee über den Redaktionsplan bis zu Reels, Karussell Posts und Captions lassen sich viele Aufgaben schneller vorbereiten.In dieser Folge geht es um den praktischen Einsatz von KI Agenten in der politischen Kommunikation. Du erfährst, wie aus einer kurzen Sprachnachricht nach einer Sitzung ein konkreter Social Media Beitrag entstehen kann und welche Aufgaben weiterhin geprüft und freigegeben werden müssen.Außerdem gibt es ein Update zur EU KI Verordnung ab August 2026: Welche KI Inhalte müssen gekennzeichnet werden? Was gilt für Chatbots? Und welche Verantwortung tragen Parteien, Kommunen und Organisationen?Unseren kostenlosen KI Guide für politische Kommunikation findest du hier:
Are you using AI in your business, or are you already getting left behind?In this solo episode, Katie Godfrey cuts straight to it. AI isn't coming, it's already here, and the beauty and wellness business owners who embrace it now are the ones who are going to win. Katie shares the exact tools she's using to save hours every week, repurpose content at scale, and build a business that runs more efficiently without a bigger team. You'll hear about AI agents for salons and clinics, how to make ChatGPT and Claude sound like YOU, and why your personal brand is the one thing AI will never be able to replace. In this episode:• The AI agent technology transforming salon phone-answering and appointment booking• Why generic AI content is switching people off, and how to fix it• Katie's full content repurposing workflow from a single podcast transcript• The tools she actually uses day-to-day (Claude, Captions, OpusClip, Higgsfield)• KG AI Mentor - now inside the Salon Success Manager appFind out more about our retreats HEREGet your FREE Trial on the Salon Success Manager HERESign up for FREE Demo of AI Agents HERE
The Head of Instagram answers questions weekly, and on this show, I dissect the answers. On today's episode, we break down who can see what on Instagram - if someone can tell you viewed their profile, if there's a way to know who saved and shared your post or Reel, and if someone sends you a DM you haven't accepted yet, if they can tell you read it. We'll also get in to some reach related questions, including if having multiple captions on a carousel will boost reach, and if carousels are still valuable. Plus we get into some feature suggestions, and at the end, I ask for questions so I can do my own Ask Me Anything episode. Links: Creator Live East event - July 29th - NYC (Register!) - Use code "INSTASTORIESPOD20" for 20% off! Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill_media Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
How do regulators decide that a chemical exposure is safe—and what happens when those standards fail to protect people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)?In this episode, Professor Laura Vandenberg from the University of Massachusetts Amherst explains why testing chemicals one at a time, relying on the “average” person, and assuming low doses are harmless may overlook real-world exposures and vulnerable populations.We discuss:FragranceChemical mixturesEndocrine disruptorsIndustry influenceAnd what a more precautionary approach to chemical safety could look like.Listen now & subscribe:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/19539201-mcs-and-the-limits-of-chemical-safety-laura-vandenberg-phdWatch & subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6r3pSMPqpoLaura Vandenberg and colleagues' 2023 paper:A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statementSupport the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
The Broke Agent discusses seven proven tactics to reset engagement and outsmart changing social media algorithms, including shifting video backgrounds, using AI critique boards, and delivering timely local news with personal hot takes.The Broke Agent YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokeagent
Today I'm going to talk about software and software as a service items that I use. I probably forgot some because there's going to be 42 on this list. Okay. Now, I don't want you to get all whacked out and think, oh my God, I got to have 42 different things to be successful online. Well, remember, I've been doing this for 32 years, and a lot of stuff has gone by the wayside and been replaced with new stuff. But you don't have to do everything that I'm talking about today. But there's a lot of good stuff here that maybe you didn't know about. Launch Team - https://www.ScrewTheCommute.com/launchteam Please watch this short trailer to the end and leave a comment - https://www.facebook.com/AmericanEntrepreneurFilm/videos/558575401181955 AI Hacks - https://www.ScrewTheCommute.com/aihacks AI Hacks Video Masterclass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJed0mCFHQ Professional Speaking Masterclass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLR1MLTnf0 Email Marketing Masterclass - https://youtu.be/_wlvw073xP0 How Podcasting Got Me Invited to the White House - https://www.screwthecommute.com/pod Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 1149 How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars See Tom's Stuff – https://linktr.ee/antionandassociates 00:23 Tom's introduction to Software & SaaS 03:00 ChatGPT, Claude, QuillBot, CapCut, Captions, HeyGen 04:43 Hydra, Opus Clips, Eleven Labs, Google Alerts, Outlook, Aweber, Savicom 06:19 Kartra, Elgato StreamDeck, Adobe Premier Pro, Audition, and Creative Cloud, Libsyn 08:59 Roadcaster app, iPICCY.com, fal.ai, Roboform, Keyboard Maestro, Mouse Pose 12:14 Zoom, OBS live stream, Dropbox, iCloud, Chrome browser, Google Maps, Notes/Notepad 13:20 Microsoft Word, Google Sheets/Drive, Kindle Create, Logi Tune, Meetup, Camtasia Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar - https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ Screw The Commute Podcast Producer - https://screwthecommute.com/larryguerrera/ College Ripoff Quiz - https://imtcva.org/quiz Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ This is the shopping cart system Tom uses! Kartra - https://screwthecommute.com/kartra/ Copywriting901 - https://copywriting901.com/ Become a Great Podcast Guest - https://screwthecommute.com/greatpodcastguest Training - https://screwthecommute.com/training Disabilities Page - https://imtcva.org/disabilities/ Tom's Patreon Page - https://screwthecommute.com/patreon/ Tom on TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@digitalmultimillionaire/ Email Tom: Tom@ScrewTheCommute.com Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Gadgets - https://screwthecommute.com/1148/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://screwthecommute.com/wordpressecourse/
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Instagram adds the ability to make a Series, linking videos together, and additional languages that videos can automatically be translated into. The Edits team adds custom font support, lyrics as captions, and the ability to search for effects. In the strategy portion of the episode, we get into how to grow long form YouTube by using YouTube Shorts. Links: Instagram Adds Translations (Instagram) Instagram Adds Series (Instagram) Edits Adds Custom Fonts Support, Lyrics as Captions and Search for Effects (Instagram) YouTube: How To Grow Long-Form with Shorts (YouTube) Links: Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill_media Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The panel is back from Macstock and share highlights and lessons from the conference, including creative experimentation, podcast strategy, video production, accessibility, health, digital legacy planning, and useful Mac tools. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Web Bixby, Jeff Gamet, and Mark Fuccio reflect on the friendships and international community surrounding the event, the emotional impact of inclusive art activities, and how presenters inspired them to improve workflows, pursue projects, and think differently. MacVoices is supported by CleanMyMac from MacPaw. Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code MACVOICES20 for 20% off at http://clnmy.com/MACVOICES Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Macstock wrap-up and opening comments01:31 Panel introductions and returning home03:58 Lamps, plants, bookshelves, and video backgrounds06:23 Conference humor and memorable moments09:55 Community, friendships, and limited time together12:14 Favorite presentations and key takeaways13:14 Building deeper personal connections14:09 Learning processes beyond individual applications16:17 CleanMyMac sponsor message17:14 Creativity, artistic practice, and experimentation18:30 Accessible drawing creates an emotional breakthrough20:46 Audience participation and creative engagement22:03 Podcast strategy and future project ideas22:35 Planning and protecting a digital legacy23:25 Reflections on presenting at Macstock24:00 Creator Camp, Ecamm, and production lessons25:31 Captions, audiobooks, health, and practical tools27:22 Useful Mac utilities and SpaceJump29:27 Health challenges and caregiving lessons31:25 Digital passes and archived presentations32:04 Macstock 11 and plans to return32:28 International attendance and community appreciation33:18 Ecamm brings the event to a wider audience Links: Macstock Conference:https://macstockconference.com Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site:https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
The panel is back from Macstock and share highlights and lessons from the conference, including creative experimentation, podcast strategy, video production, accessibility, health, digital legacy planning, and useful Mac tools. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Web Bixby, Jeff Gamet, and Mark Fuccio reflect on the friendships and international community surrounding the event, the emotional impact of inclusive art activities, and how presenters inspired them to improve workflows, pursue projects, and think differently. MacVoices is supported by CleanMyMac from MacPaw. Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code MACVOICES20 for 20% off at http://clnmy.com/MACVOICES Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Macstock wrap-up and opening comments 01:31 Panel introductions and returning home 03:58 Lamps, plants, bookshelves, and video backgrounds 06:23 Conference humor and memorable moments 09:55 Community, friendships, and limited time together 12:14 Favorite presentations and key takeaways 13:14 Building deeper personal connections 14:09 Learning processes beyond individual applications 16:17 CleanMyMac sponsor message 17:14 Creativity, artistic practice, and experimentation 18:30 Accessible drawing creates an emotional breakthrough 20:46 Audience participation and creative engagement 22:03 Podcast strategy and future project ideas 22:35 Planning and protecting a digital legacy 23:25 Reflections on presenting at Macstock 24:00 Creator Camp, Ecamm, and production lessons 25:31 Captions, audiobooks, health, and practical tools 27:22 Useful Mac utilities and SpaceJump 29:27 Health challenges and caregiving lessons 31:25 Digital passes and archived presentations 32:04 Macstock 11 and plans to return 32:28 International attendance and community appreciation 33:18 Ecamm brings the event to a wider audience Links: Macstock Conference: https://macstockconference.com Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
Why do some health conditions gain recognition while others remain difficult to classify, diagnose, or accommodate?Aaron Goodman speaks with Geoffrey Bowker, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences, about medical classification systems and what they can teach us about MCS.You'll hear:• Why MCS remains difficult for many healthcare systems to classify and recognize• How medical classifications influence diagnosis, accommodation, and support• Why some health conditions fit established categories while others remain contested• The role of patient knowledge and lived experience in healthcare• What lessons Long COVID may offer for the future recognition of MCS• What could help MCS gain broader recognition within medicine and societyListen now and subscribe:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/19445366-the-recognition-gap-mcs-medical-classification-geoffrey-bowker-phdWatch & subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjGCEIMre0Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
The Meta team announced Muse Image, the company's first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Also the Edits team added the ability to automatically generate bilingual captions, and the Head of Instagram explains how to create a shared collection. In the strategy section of the episode, we get into the value of cross-posting Reels to Facebook and how to use YouTube Shorts to create an engaged community. Links: Meta: Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World (Meta) Edits: Bilingual Captions Now Available (Instagram) Instagram: Shared Collections (Instagram) Instagram: Cross-Posting Reels to Facebook (Instagram) YouTube: Use Shorts to Grow Channel - Build a Fanbase (YouTube) Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill_media Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Episode Summary: Abundance in the Startup Ecosystem with Naseem Sayani In this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe sits down with investor, ecosystem builder, and female founder advocate Naseem Sayani to explore how capital, community, and visibility can create a more abundant and equitable startup ecosystem. Naseem shares her journey from management consulting and digital innovation to venture investing, where she became increasingly aware of the disparities women founders face when raising capital. After leaving a successful consulting partnership, she dedicated her career to supporting female entrepreneurs, investing in overlooked founders, and helping reshape how venture capital recognizes opportunity. The conversation dives into practical fundraising advice for women founders, including why founders should "lead with the money, not the empathy," how gender bias shows up in investor questioning, and how pitch decks can be strategically designed to guide investor conversations. Naseem also discusses the research-backed differences between the questions male and female founders receive during fundraising and offers actionable strategies for reframing those interactions. Brenda and Naseem explore several of Naseem's current initiatives, including her podcast The Capital Flex, which amplifies real fundraising stories from women founders, and the newly launched SoCal Women's Health Collective, a community focused on advancing innovation and collaboration in women's health. The discussion also examines the future of healthcare investing, where Naseem advocates for shifting the conversation from "women's health" to precision health—a broader framework that highlights the enormous market opportunities in personalized care, diagnostics, and health solutions that have historically been overlooked. Naseem emphasizes the power of abundance over scarcity, encouraging women to share networks, knowledge, and opportunities rather than competing for limited seats at the table. She argues that true progress will come when more capital flows from traditional funding sources into diverse founder communities, creating better outcomes for investors, founders, and society alike. Captions: 00:09 All right, welcome back to the Founder's Sandbox. I'm Brenda McCabe, your host, now in this fourth season of the Founder's Sandbox. And my mission is quite simple. With the Founder's Sandbox, I have guests that are business owners, service providers, VCs, and corporate directors. 00:36 who like me want to use the power of the enterprise to make change for a better world. And with stories in the sandbox on resilience, scalability, and purpose-driven experiences of my guest, um we have an origin story and we get to really understand what's under the hood of the businesses that my guest, um our owners have. So I'm absolutely delighted to have Naseem Sayani as my guest this month. Welcome, Naseem. 01:06 Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah. So Naseem and I go back um many, many years. She touches, um checks many, many boxes. Our first encounter was while I was m leading a women's corporate, a women's investment fund. So we invested in women owned companies with a minimum 33 % equity holding of uh the woman uh founder or m C-suite. 01:34 member and Nassim at that time was within Emily Ventures. She's since moved on to other firms and we've we're she's my first port of call when there is a very talented woman founder, particularly in the life science or digital health area. So I was absolutely delighted when the same also launched her own podcast podcast. So we'll get into that in a minute. So let me just make a uh bit more proper. uh 02:04 Introduction to you, Naseem. You're an investor, ecosystem builder, and speaker, as you guys are going to see here. Currently, the operating umbrella for all of the different ventures um that Naseem is orchestrating is Game Changers, World Changers. I love the title of your umbrella. You lead, and I've seen it in real life, commitment to empowering female founders. um 02:34 Her network across the United States and elsewhere is uh has no paragon. She is amazing. She's largely focused in health tech and fintech. And there's something that you've been doing recently, which is really giving a voice to women founders and what's it like raising capital. So with that, we're going to jump into uh our podcast today, abundance in the startup ecosystem. how, why are you doing what you do today? 03:04 Tell us about your origin story. Oh goodness. Yeah. No, back in time, back in time. Back in time. You were a consultant. all. I was. Yeah, we all grew up somewhere. So I like, I like to say I'm a recovering consultant. So I spent many, many, many years in core management consulting. So really problem solving. 03:27 at various strategic levels with Fortune 100s. I was working across healthcare, financial services, consumer, little bits of energy and other things along the way. But it was really those three sectors that I spent most of my time in. And this is early, early 2000s. So digital was a thing, but it wasn't. And we had Facebook that was happening already, you know, early 2000s. But it was in 2007 that we got iPhones in our hands and something shifted. 03:56 Right? It dramatically changed what the words digital strategy might mean. And that's when I started doing very continuously, very core digital strategy work with all of those same clients. And to put this in context, they didn't know what those words meant. Those words didn't mean anything. Like, what is digital strategy? What does it mean to my business? How does it change how I organize? How does it change how I go to market? 04:26 personalization moving from a one to many advertising model to a one to one ad model. That was a, it was a whole new paradigm, right? Of how we might interact and talk to the market as a brand or as a business. And that was all of the work I was doing in mid 2000s. And so it was fascinating to be in the center of, of that much problem solving. Well, that's what it feels like now. 04:54 That's what it feels like now, but at the time we didn't know that we were on the front end of what was this massive transformation, right? We were just doing the work and having fun and a bunch of young people straight out of MBA programs, problem solving. But it was great because you learn so much so quickly when you do that kind of work. And then a couple of years into it, we realized that our clients couldn't really execute against the strategies that we had built because they don't have 05:21 product and tech and UX and UI and scrums don't mean anything. Like this language that we take for granted now was just getting established mid late 2000s. And so we launched a product studio inside of the consulting firm to help them build product and launch experiences. And we, I was living in New York at a time. We launched this product studio out of Los Angeles. And in that same window, I moved back to LA. So I ended up being the person who ran the studio. 05:51 for about two and a half, three years. And so I was doing core strategy work. I was running the product studio and for about three years, every single digital proposal for the firm went through my inbox. Oh my gosh. Globally. it was every single project, every single client, we were tacking on the studio effort onto the back of that proposal. And so I didn't sleep for three years. I worked harder than I've ever worked in those three years. 06:20 But it was tremendous because I got to see so many different things so quickly. And we built a really great studio team. We were doing really great work in that team. And then the firm that I was at got acquired. There was lots of transformation things that happened. And then that product studio went and got acquired by a different management consulting firm and grew up into a full venture incubator. So the products we were building 06:47 ultimately needed different governance, different KPIs, different growth models, different leadership than what the corporate owner was able to do. So now we were, it was a different business. was a spin out turned into a spin out. So the value proposition turned into, we're not just building products. We're actually helping you build the startup that would otherwise put you out of business. That became the thing that we were doing. So now, now we're building startups and we're doing it at scale and we're doing with our clients and we're doing it. Now it's early. 07:17 2010s, 2011, 2012, and we're building startups and in parallel, right? Things like Uber and other things are happening in parallel and we're watching all kinds of change happen in how we engage and what kind of tools we're using across the marketplaces and what's broadly from a digital perspective. And it was great. I got to learn a lot really, really quickly. But in these... 07:43 Rooms right and you can imagine because you've been in these rooms also uh There's not enough women. There's not enough diversity We're building great product, but we don't really cover all the use cases because we're missing women and because we're missing diversity and so I was in parallel trying to meet as much of the I was trying to more founders I wanted to just see what else was out there. So I gravitated towards a lot of the the events that had more women and I was also 08:12 I'd led the diversity efforts inside of the incubator. was always protecting the careers of the women behind me. I held the diversity flag. I was one of three female partners in the incubator of like 50, right? So we were already standing on top of a pretty, on top of pretty small The token women, right? Right, right, exactly. So I was meeting a lot of women outside the building and building great products, building incredible businesses, but like, 08:41 fighting to the nail to raise capital for the companies that they're building. Meanwhile, my day job has capital. We're pouring money into building startups, but I'm surrounded by men all day. So this contrast between my day job and the struggle of what was happening for the female founders outside of the building, this contrast became... just this cognitive dissonance was too much. 09:09 stick too much to handle, right? It just doesn't work. And so I ultimately decided that I had to shift all of my energy, all of my focus. I know how to do things. I know how to build businesses. I know how to think strategically. I know how to problem solve. I can look at a market and hopefully figure it out. So let me just redirect all the energy to actually helping the whole other half of the ecosystem raise some capital and move some money and build some businesses because the boys have all the help that they need, right? 09:39 But the women don't. You left a partner position. I did. Yeah. No, my husband is super excited about that. I left my partner job at the consultancy to go full venture and decide to move some capital. Absolutely. And I started investing. This was 2019-ish and started writing some angel checks, larger angel checks, got deeper in the ecosystem. It was in that window that I met the two women. 10:08 that I launched Emmeline Ventures with. We raised about six and a half, seven million seats, stage focus, healthcare, fintech, sustainability, wrote some fantastic checks. I got some great capital out the door. And then I jumped, as you mentioned, to go do a whole host of other things. Now much more embedded, almost an ecosystem level, so more horizontal than just the vertical of the fund. And it's been great. It's, it's... 10:35 serendipitous that I got involved in the ecosystem in a moment where the female founder ecosystem was growing up the way that it was the women's health ecosystem was growing up the way that it was. And so the notion that I'm a pioneer comes up a lot because people like you've been in this for a while. Like you, you were one of the few people who built this thing. uh 10:57 But it doesn't feel that way to me. But there's a few of us who have been here since the beginning, really crafting this. And so it's really kind of fun to have been in it since the beginning, it feels like. So one of the things that we did with you uh from Ty last year is you did a master class with a cohort of women-owned businesses on how to pitch. Oh, yeah. And granted, I don't want to steal your thunder. 11:27 You're tagline with this, but we go into a room with VC, Rangel Investors. It's largely male. So what are your two or three core messages from that training? I used to it a lot. I attribute it to Naseem Sayani, but it is when women hear this, they're like, oh, I've got to go back and redo my text. 11:54 Yes. Yeah. So there's a couple of things I tell that I coach, I should say, female founders on all the time. One is you need to lead with the money and not the empathy. What we have been conditioned to do as women, and it's not conditioned, it actually comes from a lot of where our core empathy and how women move in the world is. We lead with the emotion. It's how we engage, it's how we build relationships. 12:21 But when you are in a money driven ecosystem, such as venture, you cannot lead with empathy. You have to lead with money. You have to tell me and tell who you're talking to how much this thing is worth. And you have to tell them that quickly. What typically happens with a pitch deck from a female founder is that there are four or five pages on pain. 12:46 pain and stress and how hard it is and just all this stuff that is so, so hard and you don't get to the size of the market until page seven. And that's too far, right? Because by then the people are bored and they don't care. you have do it in a page. Fine. But it's not five pages. Pull the market up sooner. Talk about the size of the opportunity sooner. I don't want any personal stories at the front of that deck. 13:14 The place where I want you to put the personal story is in how you're going to win. Because if you understand the market so closely and this pain point so closely because it happened to you, that is why your hustle is so much stronger. That's why you're after it so much more that your founder market fit comes from that. So put it there. Don't put it into product market fit. That's the wrong place. Right. Founder market fit. 13:42 Put it into founder market fit because that's the reason you're going to win is because you care about it in a way that other people don't care about it. So it's in the wrong place in the story. So put the empathy in the appendix. Nobody cares. I love you, but nobody cares. Lead with the money. That's point number one. Point number two is that there is data. It is validated that women get different questions in pitch meetings than men do. Yes. Harvard research. 14:08 Harvard research proves it. Two out of every three questions that a male founder gets will be about growth and vision and opportunity and how big this market can be. Two out of three questions that a woman gets will be risk related. So, oh my gosh, that CAC number is so high. And oh my goodness, what if you can't find the customers? And oh my goodness, what if somebody else does this? It is prevention. Yeah, it is prevention minded questions. Men get promotion minded questions. And if you're not... 14:37 prepared for that. You will be on the defense of the entire time in that meeting. So you have to practice. You have to spend a weekend with your camuja or your glass of wine or whatever it is and write down all of the prevention questions you might get on your deck, whether it's a main page or a footnote or something on the bottom of page 10. Write down everything. Be horribly brutal. 15:03 and then let it sit for a day, come back and write down your answers. And your intention with the answers is not to answer the question, but to flip that question into a promotion-based response. Excellent. Shift the power dynamic back. As an example, you have a revenue page that has the chart, revenue goes up from zero, year one to year five, and then you've got three bullets, you've got three data points on the right-hand side. Everyone should have a page that looks like this. You've got CAC, you've got AOV, you might have LTV as well. 15:33 More than likely, as a female founder, they're going to ask you about CAC. They're say, oh my God, CAC is $28. That's so high. How are you going to manage that? A male founder is going to get a question on AOV. AOV is $1,200. That's incredible. Can it get to $1,500? That's the difference in the questions. If you get that CAC question, your natural response might be, yeah, it's $28. We're going to work on it. We're going to run some tests. We really think we can get it to $25. 16:03 That might be how we naturally respond. What you should say is, it's $28, but our AOV is $1,200. So we actually think it's performing pretty well. 16:16 Very, very convincing. And that's it. Yes. Yeah. You don't respond to the defensiveness. You redirect them to the data point that actually matters. And you take back the power in that conversation. And it may also be that you have to reformat your deck. Yes. Yes. Yes. 100%. Yeah. So that's the third. That's the third thing is that your deck is a strategic asset. 16:44 Okay. And you should be very thoughtful about what you put in the deck so that you are teeing up the questions that you want to answer. Okay. There's a thing is too much information and there's a thing is too little information. The line in the middle is that if you're putting data on that same page on the right hand side, yes, put AOV at the top, put LTV next, put CAC at the bottom. Don't put CAC at the top because everyone's going look on the top right. It's natural. 17:14 Eyelines go to the top right of a page. Don't put CAC at the top. Put AOV at the top. Is that the biggest number? Put that one at the top. Be very deliberate about where you put data on the page so that you can tee up the questions that you want to get. You can bait the document with the things that you want to answer and set up the conversation that you want to have at least halfway. Right. It takes practice though. It takes practice. It takes practice. Yes. 17:42 And where are you now dedicating a lot of your uh time? We are fellow podcasters. And I know it was some time in the making. So you launched, was it six months ago, the Capital Flex podcast? Yes. Yes. And this is where you hear real stories, right? So to share a bit with my little. Yeah, absolutely. So I launched. 18:08 I launched the Capital Flex in January. I've been working on it since mid last year. It's been living on a post-it on my desk for the last two years, maybe more. So I get a lot of inbound from founders on the crazy things that happen when they're fundraising. A weird conversation, uh a offhand comment, an unfortunate behavior. Just the things that we know happen to women when they're out fundraising. 18:37 So I do a lot of, call myself, I've become this like de facto therapist for the female founder side of the ecosystem. And so I've been making notes on just the crazy that happens. And what I started, what happens is that there's founder, founder in New York and founder in California who are dealing with the same problem, but they don't know each other. So I'm, I'm sharing information across these two women when they should just know each other. So I'll bridge the connect, but you can't, I can't scale that. 19:04 quickly, right? And so instead I said, what if we just talked about it out loud on a podcast and just shared the stories and made it real and not just stories for the sake of, you know, kind of the victim hood that might come with that. That's not the intent. That's not my stance in any case, but I want to share the story so that we know that they're real. And then I want to share the learnings from that experience so that when another founder listens to any one of these episodes, you go, Oh my God, 19:34 Yes, that happens to maybe that's happened to me too. So I'm not alone. It's not just me and it's not personal and three That's a great way to deal with it because that founder dealt with it that way. Maybe I can do that too So it's really the toolkit that comes out of each episode. That was that was the end game And so episode, uh, sorry season one has just wrapped about a week ago 12 20:00 Great conversations, 12 fantastic founders. Each story is just tremendous. You learn a lot. They're very candid. It's very raw. And it's great. it's on Spotify and everywhere you can find it. called the Capital Flex. Everyone should go listen. It's tremendous. And then season two is going to drop in just a few weeks. And we've got another slate of 12 great founders. And we're running. Yeah, that's great. um 20:26 the impulse to actually launch a podcast, and the scene, if I hear you correctly, is you really wanted to amplify and scale these lessons that and experiences that other women founders have lived in their own skin. Yes. And not so much. It's not in a private way, but you really what do you think you're going to get out of this in terms of effectuating change in how people write checks? 20:55 It's visibility on really what's different about the rooms that women walk into versus the rooms that men walk into. It's awareness and accountability on behavior. Because if we know what's happening and we see it happen, we can call it out. Because now there's proof, right? And we go, oh, it's not her being sensitive. These things are really happening. 21:23 And then three, there's a pattern recognition problem in the ecosystem. And there's been so much money has moved in certain ways. there's indicators of success that a lot of the money moves on. But a lot of that is based on a very historical founder profile. And that profile doesn't include women. And it doesn't include people of color. And those levers of success look different in women. And they look different. 21:53 in founders of color. And unless we are understanding the impact of not seeing that we're never going to move capital in bigger ways. And ultimately we're just missing huge opportunities. We are missing massive opportunities spaces because we, our pattern recognition is stopping us from writing checks into spaces that we don't know enough about. So if you were to pitch yourself, right? Or, um, 22:22 game changers, world changers in front of investors. What would be your top line? Do you want to effectuate change over x million of women founders? Are you going international? mean, do a pitch here if you want. I don't know if I'll do that, but I can. So what would be your key guys, right? And yeah, yes. Yeah. So it's how much capital do we shift from? 22:51 from kind of the core buckets, the capital goes to, to founders that they haven't written checks before. Okay. That's, and so that's a big one. Uh, and, and how that, and what's the profile of the check writer? Because we have, there's been a increase in women who run funds in the last 10 years. So there's a lot more diversity in who's running funds, which is great. There's also a lot more diversity in who's building companies. So there's a lot more women, a lot more people of color. 23:20 building companies, but the bulk of the money is still sitting in traditional hands going to traditional profiles of builders. I want both of those things to move. So if we have better awareness of who's building and how they're building and what they look like and how they move in rooms and how they might show up in rooms, then the people writing the profile of who writes the check should also shift, right? It's not just women who should be writing checks to women. Men should be writing checks to women as well. 23:50 So how do we cross the social and gender circles better? capturing that metric, like that's the KPI that I want, is how much capital is going from male-led funds into female-founded teams. That's the metric that I want to be able to track. Because right now what's happening is that all the women-led and diverse funds are who's funding the women-led and diverse founded companies. Say that again. 24:19 for my listeners, because this is important. Women-led and diverse-led funds are the bulk of the money that's funding women-led and diverse founded companies. 24:30 And that cannot persist because we need big capital to go into these companies because they are building fantastic game changing businesses and everybody should make money from what they're doing. And they're going to hit a series a, a series B, a series C, and they're going to need bigger checks. You heard it here on the founder sandbox. Let's, let's, let's change to sectors. largely health tech, fintech. 24:59 Where do you see um greater, where are you focusing your initiatives in terms of um getting more check writers, right? uh Into the ecosystem and where have there been the greatest deficiency in, you you talk about these big product or these sectors, right? That have not addressed women's needs. So, so the answer is the same for both of those. I'm, I'm calling. 25:27 This will come out. This is a semantic problem, but I'm causing I'm calling it precision health. This is a place where I'm spending where I'm spending all of my time where I want to be investing in where the biggest opportunity is is our ability to leverage precision health. This is insight driven health care, whether it's in care delivery, whether it's in diagnostics, whether it's in understanding cancer, whether it's in 25:56 delivering smarter insights based on the type of human we're talking to, that is where we're going to change the game in healthcare. And that's where I want more capital to go and where it should go. Now, we've historically called this women's health, right? You've flipped the term use. So we've called this women's health for a long time. We're still calling it women's health. The problem that we've now uncovered is 26:24 Women's health carries stigma. The language carries stigma. You hear women's health and still I'll have people that say, oh my gosh, no, yeah, we've one or two things. We've made our women's health investment this year. Check the box. We're good. Yeah. Or they'll say, oh, but it's, it's, it's just so niche. We're half of the population. Yeah. Half of the population is not niche. just, I can't even, I have to just look at them and say I'm half the population. 26:55 And then the third thing you'll hear is, there just haven't, we just haven't seen the exit. So we're just not sure that the value is there. And so on the third one, have my, I hope there's two responses. One is, you know, when Google and Facebook and Amazon came to market and we're raising capital, there were no exits for search and e-commerce and social. No, we didn't know what it was. These things were brand new. 27:22 The reason the money went there was because there were behaviors and there was demand and there was money that was moving towards these categories. That was the reason we invested was there was a behavior trend that was shifting. There was a market trend that was shifting. There was something we were after because there was going there was a value pool that we could get after. That's why the money moved. This is what's happening with women's health right now. There is demand. There's behavior. There's money moving there right now. Menopause is a 60 billion dollar category. 27:52 When it comes down to it, women will spend money on their health care and they'll do it out of pocket. They're doing it right now. Right. We have no interest in our grandma's health care. We're absolutely going to go get what we need to solve for the hot flashes and the brain fog and whatever it is. And that's we have the proof now. Now, in January of this year, 2026 at JPMorgan, there was a report that was launched. There's a fantastic team that spent the last year doing the work to reanalyze all of the health care exits for the last 20 years. 28:21 The report is called follow the exits. Okay. And what they did was reclassify all of the exits in healthcare for the last 20 years into three different buckets, assuming that they qualified. If those exits were aligned to conditions that exclusively differently or disproportionately affected women, they bucketed them that way to recast the exits against conditions that affected women. When they're not 28:50 They weren't talked about that way in the market already. But when they did that, they were able to quantify $100 billion of returns that have already made its way back to investors from exits related to companies that built and exited because they were in conditions that exclusively, differently, or disproportionately affected women. 29:13 So people have made money from women's health already. But we don't know how to talk about it. They weren't calling it women's health. They were calling it diagnostics in oncology. It didn't matter that it was breast cancer. It was diagnostics and oncology. So this is why the semantics problem has to get solved and addressed is that when we call it women's health, we're trying to prove a horizontal over and over again, or saying people to believe in this horizontal that has value. And it's not. 29:43 semantics aren't landing. What has been working is just the proof of value in cardiology or in cardiovascular or an autoimmune or in diagnostics where you go, there's money there. Let's go invest because there's money there. And that's the shift that we have to have. And this is why precision health is how I'm phrasing it now is that we need to get after precision health because if I can prove value in precision health because I can solve for cardiovascular disease. 30:11 for women differently than men and there's value in that and I can deliver better services, better care. I can access reimbursement codes. I can do all of these things differently because I understand what a heart attack looks like in a man versus the woman. And that means that they'll end up at their doctor's office and not in the ER, which is more expensive. That's a place we can invest. it's a semantic change, but that's why I'm now calling it precision. I hope it doesn't. 30:38 take another 20 years after the... I don't think it will. I think there's more and more of us talking about it now and actively talking about the semantics differently. And from this Follow the Exits report, what I'm working on, and this is through my role at Women's Health Access Matters with WAM, is that we're taking the data from that report and we're creating assets that founders can use in their pitch decks to actually showcase the exits that line up with the category that they're in. Amazing. 31:07 So here's the market. Here's three exits. I'm good. I have proof. Yeah. So I think we can get there faster. Excellent. So that's a great segue um to yet another initiative that um is near and dear to your heart, which is it's still in a seed stage. Talk to us about the SoCal Women's Collector. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is brand new. Me and five other fantastic women here in Southern California. 31:37 decided that we wanted to better connect the ecosystem here in SoCal. So from LA to Orange County to San Diego, there are fragmented groups of wonderful humans, all building, researching, investing, et cetera, into women's health, whether they are at universities or at accelerators or independently investing or they're founders, et cetera. So we launched what's called the SoCal Women's Health Collective. 32:04 And we are actively focused on connecting community. So it's budding, it's growing. We're organizing and still setting full strategy. But at the very least, we are bringing people together at events. We're hosting virtual and live events, whether it's happy hours or panels. We're doing things virtually where we're doing coaching sessions with founders. And we're building a mailing list so that we can get this community connected and talking to each other and at least know who else 32:33 is in Southern California touching this category and building in this category. And it's been really incredible because we were just sitting around dinner one night going, my God, couldn't we do this? And now we have a mailing list that's more than 500 people long. And we meet people everywhere that want to be part of it, want to join, want to come to events. And it's really grown. And we're only within a year. It's really only 10 or 11 months old. 33:00 But it's really taken off. It's great. So we can do a lot with it. I love it. And are you at all working with, is it GLG or the Women's Collective? It's an advocacy group in Washington, DC. Yes, the policy group. Yes, the policy group. Yes. So there's a parallel group called Women's Held Advocates, which is the policy and lobbying organization that's focused in Washington. 33:29 that is entirely organized around uh supporting policy initiatives focused on women's health. So across breast cancer, menopause, we now have recently added bone health, fertility, et cetera. We have sub teams under the women's health advocates umbrella that are focused on policy initiatives to get budget lines or policy lines into different things in Congress to make sure there's a tension on women's health across, again, aligned by conditions. 33:58 so that we can get things done in Congress. So, Women's Health Collective and Women's Health Advocates, at least in SoCal, there's high overlap in the leadership across these two groups. So, we can do a lot of good things together because the women on the steering committee for Women's Health Advocates who are in LA are the same women who launched the SoCal Women's Health Collective. It's symbiotic uh and I've attended... 34:26 sessions with both groups and it's a very exciting moment. It's there's bipartisan bills going to Congress on just why are knee replacements for men being birthed at a higher rate than for women? We all have the same. So it's like really just providing the transparency. pulled that thread. It's a whole different podcast. I know. know. know. So anyway, so you heard it here. 34:55 What else? I could go on and on, Naseem, but we have a certain time here. And I just wanted to give you this moment to share with my listeners how to contact you, how to get involved in your multiple initiatives. These will be in the show notes. 35:16 Yeah, no, absolutely. So I love that the so find the podcast. It's on Spotify and Apple and all the places where you listen to your podcast. It's called the Capital Flex. So all the subscribers would be amazing. Come and listen. I love feedback. Tell me what you think. Season two will drop on May 6th and season one is tremendous. So start from the top. The second thing is I also host something called a Founders Coven, which is a monthly meetup for female founders. And it's a virtual session. It's an hour. 35:45 uh once a month and the entire intent is to infuse expertise, insight, education into the female founder half of the ecosystem. So we've had three sessions so far and I was doing these in a previous life and I've now rebooted it this year. We've talked about vibe coding. We've talked about healthcare reimbursement. uh Our next session is in two weeks. We have a exited founder coming to talk about how she built her business and then led to the exit. So 36:12 You can join the coven. It's on my LinkedIn. You can find the sign up sheet so you can join the coven and join us when you can each month. And then I also I do a lot. I'm very active on LinkedIn. I'm always writing and posting. I'm speaking at lots of events so you can find me out in the wild pretty easily also because I tend to be around a lot. So that's the easiest. as a pioneer, this is a question that just came to my mind. You were so in the early stages of social media, right? um 36:42 Would you dare to give an opinion on what is the best type of platform to get your voice out there as a, as a leader, a change leader like you, is it LinkedIn? Is it how it. I believe it's LinkedIn. I tell a lot of founders this, that if you want to build credibility and thought leadership in parallel to building your company, start to build a platform on LinkedIn. Got it. Build a point of view. 37:13 have a point of view on what the future looks like when your company wins and start to talk about it. And it doesn't have to be long. It's a couple of it's like blog posts type things and use headlines, right? Use what's going on in the news and in healthcare to express a point of view and to talk about what it means and what are the implications and what are the so what's of what's going on and how does that tie back to what you're building and why you're building it? Because when investors go out to research a company and to research the founder, 37:40 If they, will look at your data room with a look at financials, a look at what you're building. All of that has to be up to snuff. And then they're going to go research the founder. And if they go on LinkedIn and they see that you're writing and publishing and that you've built an audience and that you're somewhat prolific in terms of communicating a point of view, those things are important. They pay off, right? You go, well, she, she's talking about what she wants and she has a perspective that's valuable because it means that you're really committed to the thing that you're after. And 38:09 And women don't spend enough time building platforms. We don't spend enough time standing on soap boxes talking about the things we care about. And we should be doing it more. And all of your friends should like comment and share every single thing that you post. And so I also tell everyone once you share it, send it to all your friends and tell them they have to comment and post on it. We have to keep building the flywheel. A flywheel. You heard it here on the Founder's Sand. 38:38 All right, we're going to go to the sandbox. I like to close out asking my guests, um what is the meaning to you for the following three terms, which I am passionate about and how I work with my founder clients. What does scalability mean to you? Oh, scalability means an ability to grow and navigate the market. 39:03 in line with market trends and market behaviors. knowing, having a good perspective on what's going on, dynamics in the sector that you're in, and having built enough mobility in how you navigate your organization so that you can turn left, turn right, etc. in line with what's going on outside the business. That's scalability. Perfect. How about resilience? 39:32 Resilience. one is it's that. So one, it's a necessary skill. We'll start there. And two, it's an ability to take in what's going on in the market, not take it personally, reflect and keep going. uh Feedback can come from everywhere. A lot of it from places that maybe aren't relevant and not that useful. So knowing how to filter and listen and then really be able to be open minded and take the good feedback when you get it. 40:02 And I had one founder on my podcast say that she spent a lot of time on the floor while she was fundraising, like curled up in a ball because it was so hard. But she got up again every single time and she raised the capital and she built a business and she can use to do that. And that's resilience. Right. I'm after something big and it matters. So I'm going to get it done. Amazing. Amazing. And I heard you when we were talking about the subtitle for the episode. uh 40:32 Abundance. What's abundant? Why is abundance so important for you? Abundance is really important for me because we have been, we women have been conditioned so badly in scarcity where there's not enough. There's only one, only one of us can win. We can't all win. And so we don't share our networks easily. We don't share our relationship easily. We, we feel like we have to keep things really close because if I share it, then I lose it. 41:02 It's a mentality I hear em from founders and it's a bit generational as well. And I don't want us to do that. I have found more than once that the more I put into the ecosystem, the more I get back. Comes back to me in spades. so opening up our networks, sharing what we know, being open about the learnings, pulling everyone forward with us. All of that is going to... 41:29 it's going to benefit all ships rise. it's how our male counterparts have been doing it for years. The golf course is the golf course for a reason. Right. And so we don't have a golf course, but we do have our networks and we do have our relationships and women are very innate relationship builders. It is superpower territory and we should be using it. And that means abundance. That means not worrying about 41:57 being the only one because you know what? We're building our own tables and we're pulling up more chairs and that's how we're gonna get this done. I love it. have goosebumps just listening to this last part about bandits. Thank you, Naseem. Final question. What does purpose, purpose driven mean to you? No, purpose driven means that 42:21 your the things you are doing and the things that bring you joy are lined up. Amazing. Yeah. And you can make money from it. Yeah. Without the joy, right? Yeah. Make money better. Yeah. Final question to Jeff on here in the sandbox. This was great. Yes. Thank you. Amazing. I really enjoyed listening. Just I enjoy our friendship, our working together on 42:50 Common theme, which is getting more money into the female. This is 100%. Yep. So to my listeners, if you like this episode with the same, so Yanny sign up for the monthly release of the founder sandbox, you can find it on any major streaming platform. You've got to find founders, business owners, corporate directors and service providers that are building resilience, scalable and purpose driven companies with great corporate. 43:19 uh governance. So thank you for joining us today and see you next month. Thank you.
This episode discusses Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), suicide, disability, chronic illness, and end-of-life decision-making. Please listen with care.If you need support, call or text 988 in the United States or 9-8-8 in Canada (24/7).Outside the United States and Canada, contact your local crisis line, healthcare provider, or emergency service.If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.About the episode:What can Sophia's story teach us about disability, housing, healthcare, and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)?This episode features two conversations: one with disability ethicist Heidi Janz, PhD, and another with a Toronto woman living with severe MCS who was friends with Sophia, a woman whose 2022 MAiD death brought international attention to the challenges many people with disabilities and chronic illnesses face.Together, they explore disability rights, healthcare, housing, social support, and the broader questions Sophia's case continues to raise.Professor Janz participated in this interview with the assistance of a support person who repeats her words for listeners.Listen now and subscribe:Watch & subscribe on YouTube:Professor Heidi Janz:2025 paper - "First they came for the Physical Crips: The Eugenic Logic Driving MAiD." https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/bioethics/2025-v8-n4-bioethics010388/1121337ar.pdfFaculty profile:https://www.ualberta.ca/en/john-dossetor-health-ethics-centre/about/people/adjunctmembers/heidijanz.html#MCS #MultipleChemicalSensitivity #DisabilityRights #MAiD Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
The Head of Instagram announced on Threads that the Instagram app is now available for Samsung TVs. Also, the Instagram team announced on Friday that carousels now support multiple captions - so you can make one caption per slide. In today's episode, the Head of Instagram answers questions about Reach, Engagement, Stories, and short form vs. long form video. Links: Instagram: App Now Available on Samsung TVs (Threads) Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill_media Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Windermere Coaching Minute with Michael FanningAbout Your HostMichael Fanning is Senior Vice President and co-owner of Windermere Coaching with nearly three decades of experience coaching real estate agents through every kind of market. A mindset-first leader, Michael believes in holding people capable and that your knowledge is complimentary, not free.Episode SummaryWhat if your next client already trusted you before they ever picked up the phone? That's not a fantasy that's what consistent social media video builds. In this episode, Michael breaks down why video is the single biggest untapped opportunity for real estate agents today and how to actually start without a ring light, a production crew, or a perfect script.What You'll LearnThe psychology of parasocial relationships why they create the same trust in the brain as real friendships and what that means for your businessWhy raw, slightly imperfect video consistently outperforms polished, produced contentThe AI + Captions app workflow that takes a video from idea to posted in 35 minutesThe Crawl → Walk → Run framework for building the habit without burning outWhy even top-referral agents with strong spheres can't afford to ignore social mediaHow to handle every objection "I'm not good on camera," "I don't know what to talk about," "nobody will watch"Key Takeaway"The agents who build something lasting are not the most talented or the most polished. They're the most consistent."Action StepsOpen your notes app and write down one topic you already know well that's your first videoDownload the Captions app (free to start) your production studio in your pocketWant the full 6-month Social Media Video Playbook? Email Michael at fanning@windermere.com subject line: PlaybookReady for one-on-one coaching? Visit windermerecoaching.com for a complimentary callBe awesome and help somebody. Make it a great day.
This episode is a repurposed Hybrid Hub marketing mastermind call about short-form content for photographers and hybrid photo and video business owners. I walk through how to write searchable captions, why captions matter more than pretty content alone, and how to connect every Instagram Reel, TikTok, or short-form video back to your SEO strategy. We also get into hooks, calls to action, batching captions, using AI without watering down your voice, and creating content that leads people toward an inquiry instead of chasing likes. Snag the Video Upsell Starter Kit: https://hybridhangout.com/starter-kitIf you're a photographer who already wants to add video but keeps getting stuck in research mode, this is for you. Your clients are already asking, and you're leaving money on the table. The free Video Upsell Starter Kit shows you exactly how to start using the camera you already have and simple add-ons. If you're running your photo or hybrid photo and video business from your inbox, you're making it harder than it needs to be. I use HoneyBook to manage everything — inquiries, emails, scheduling, contracts, and payments. It keeps my pipeline organized and saves hours every week. If you want a smoother system, grab my discount here: https://share.honeybook.com/shayna29637 Hybrid Hub teaches photographers how to add video so they can make more per booking. Learn how to shoot, edit, market, and sell photo and video together with a simple, repeatable system. Ready to raise your booking value? Book a free strategy call so we can chat 1x1 about how to scale your photography business with video, and if Hybrid Hub is right for your business: https://hybridhangout.com/book-a-callThanks for listening to Hybrid Hangout!! Don't forget to rate and review on your fave podcast platform -- it helps me grow, get amazing guests, and climb in the charts! DM me a screenshot of your review so I can say thanks :) Andddd say hi @hybridhangout on Instagram!
This episode marks the 100th episode of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!Thank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation for its support that makes this work possible.Gratitude to listeners and viewers around the world for being part of this journey. If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and on YouTube, and share it with others who may benefit from these conversations.http://listen.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/Here's to 100 episodes and more to come!In this episode:What can the history of lead exposure teach us about risk, regulation, and MCS?Aaron Goodman speaks with Bruce Lanphear, MD, PhD, about lead as a model for understanding chemical harm.Topics include:What lead teaches us about body burden and cumulative exposureRisk, regulation, and the precautionary principleWhy listening to affected people matters—and lessons for MCSListen and subscribe: http://listen.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/Watch & subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastingMCSLink: Dr. Bruce Lanphearhttps://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/bruce-lanphear.htmlSupport the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
What can the daily chemical exposures faced by nail salon workers teach us about MCS, chronic illness, and the environments many people live and work in every day?Aaron Goodman speaks with Reena Shadaan, PhD, from the University of Toronto, about chemical exposure, worker health, body mapping, and chronic illness in nail salon environments.Topics include: • The hidden chemical exposures faced by nail salon workers • What nail salon environments may reveal about MCS and chronic illness • Body mapping and citizen science as tools for advocacy and documenting lived experience • How marginalized workers are pushing back against unsafe environmentsListen & subscribe:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/19262474-nail-salon-workers-chemical-exposure-body-mapping-mcs-reena-shadaan-phdWatch & subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhaCO-FAYgU Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast has a new trailer!Please share with anyone interested in learning more about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).Listen to the podcast — new episodes twice a month!http://listen.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/8HJadAGuLaESupport the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
Can public spaces ever truly be safe for people living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)?In this episode of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Aaron Goodman speaks with Aimi Hamraie, Associate Professor at York University whose work focuses on disability justice, accessibility, and inclusive design.They explore:• Why MCS is often overlooked in accessibility conversations • Remote access as a vital form of inclusion • How chemicals and fragrances can make public spaces inaccessible • Why some people with MCS leave cities • What truly MCS-inclusive public spaces could look like
Instagram möchte sich um die Creator:innen kümmern, die Langformatvideos herstellen. Wir wissen zwar bislang nicht, wie und auch nicht wieso - aber hey, wenigstens mal wieder etwas Neues. Also würden einzelne Captions für jede Bilder in einem Carousel nicht reichen. Gleichzeitig könnte Musk in Frankreich ein Haftbefehl (nicht der Rapper) drohen und wie sieht das jetzt eigentlich mit diesen ganzen Alternativnetzwerken aus? ➡️ Ja, Gavins Newsletter kommt jetzt wirklich: https://www.omgwtflol.de ➡️ Mit der "Haken Dran"-Community ins Gespräch kommen könnt ihr am besten im Discord: http://hakendran.org
The Threads team continues to add features, and this one is important - being able to send DMs from your laptop (or desktop). Now you finally can! Also the Edits team has some new features, including one called "Fuse" that I really like, and we get into Edits features to help you with your workflow. Lastly the YouTube Creator Insider team interviews Adam Savage from the TV show "Mythbusters" all about his strategy. Links: Threads: DMs from the Web! (Threads) Threads: Trending Topics Expands to More Countries (Threads) Edits: Updates to Captions and New Effects (Instagram) Edits: Customize Your Edits Workspace (Instagram) YouTube: Interview with Adam Savage from Mythbusters on Strategy (YouTube) Wednesday Waffle: Valley Heat (Podcast) Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Connect with me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on Threads: @danielhillmedia Connect with me on YouTube: @danielhill.media Leave a Review of the Podcast: Apple Podcasts Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Continuing the dive into my vault this week, I decided to share one of the most popular episodes of all time. And it is about video. It turns out the biggest mistake we make with video isn't bad lighting or awkward pauses. It's thinking we have to be the star of the show. In this conversation, I sat down with Mechelle MacDonald, a writer, entrepreneur, and growth coach who helps people show up with confidence and clarity. We talked about why video matters and how to make it feel a whole lot less intimidating. If video has been sitting on your “I really should do this” list, this one's for you. Here are a few takeaways that stuck with me: You don't have to be on camera to get started Michelle shared a simple idea that feels like a relief. Start with your hands, your process, your product. Show something in action. You're still building connection, just without the pressure of being front and center. Short beats perfect every time Aim for about 60 seconds. That's your sweet spot. People are scrolling fast, and you've got just a few seconds to catch their attention. Think of it as giving a sample, not the whole meal. Silent video still needs to speak A lot of people are watching with the sound off. Captions aren't optional, they're essential. If they can't follow along without audio, you're losing them before you even begin. Don't assume they already know Even if you've been in business for years, your audience needs reminders. New people are discovering you every day. Keep explaining what you do and why it matters. Make it feel like you The tone of your video should match the experience someone gets when they call you or walk in your door. If it feels disconnected, trust breaks fast. Video isn't about being polished. It's about being present and giving your audience something they can see, feel, and connect with. Start small. Your audience isn't looking for perfect. They're just looking for you.
This episode is great to share with your doctor or healthcare provider. We explore how medical visits could become more supportive for people living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).We focus on listening, trust, and the responsibility clinicians have to support people with chronic illness. And how small changes can lead to more respectful, effective care.Aaron Goodman speaks with Téa Christopoulos, PhD candidate and sessional instructor at the University of Toronto, working across the Faculty of Kinesiology and the Joint Centre for Bioethics. Her research explores narrative medicine and Chronic Invisible Disabilities, examining how lived experience can reshape care to be more ethical, responsive, and truly patient-centered.
What happens when people's lived experience with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is dismissed in medicine? And how can it become a vital form of knowledge?In this episode, Aaron Goodman speaks with Megan Moodie, a medical anthropologist and disability studies scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work explores patient activism and how knowledge is produced in medicine. Megan also brings lived experience to this conversation, including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and chemical sensitivities.You'll hear Aaron and Megan discuss: Why people with MCS are often dismissed or psychologized in clinical settings. How lived experience becomes meaningful knowledge in medicine. What more equitable collaboration between researchers and affected communities could look like.And more!
Long COVID has pushed millions into a reality people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) have faced for decades: severe symptoms, disbelief, and no clear diagnosis.This episode of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast explores what these conditions share:Medical dismissal.Stigma and social isolation.And epistemic injustice—when patients' knowledge of their own bodies is questioned or ignored.Aaron Goodman speaks with Professor Deborah Lupton, a leading sociologist of health and medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and editor of the recent book, Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives.It's always great to hear from people who listen and watch the podcast!Please share your experiences with MCS, Long COVID, or about anything you hear on the podcast.Listen now:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/18945867-mcs-long-covid-shared-struggles-stigma-endurance-deborah-lupton-phdWatch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/pN6UGkaddisThe podcast has a new webpage!http://listen.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/Please share with anyone interested in learning more about MCS. DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images, and other material contained on this website are for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. No material or information provided by The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, or its associated website is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a monthly or one-time supporter:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/supporters/newhttps://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
Brain fog is something many people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) experience.In this episode, we explore what brain fog is, how it affects thinking, memory, and what research reveals about its links to distress and quality of life.Aaron Goodman's guests are researchers Tara Packham, PhD, and PhD candidate Ronessa Dass from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.It's always great to hear from listeners!Please share your experiences with brain fog and MCS or about anything you hear on the podcast.Listen now:https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/episodes/18821290-brain-fog-mcs-ronessa-dass-and-tara-packham-phdWatch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/j4PulfsHX_UThe podcast has a new webpage!http://listen.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/Please share with anyone interested in learning more about MCS. Links:Ronessa Dass - email: dassr5@mcmaster.caPain and Movement Research in the IMPRinT Lab, McMaster University:https://painmovementresearch.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/people-2/Understanding the Experience and Impacts of Brain Fog in Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review - Ronessa Dass, Tara Packham, et al. (2023):https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37441085/DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images, and other material contained on this website are for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. No material or information provided by The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, or its associated website is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Support the showThank you very much to the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation generously supporting the podcast!If you find the podcast helpful, please consider becoming a supporter!https://buymeacoffee.com/mcspodcast Follow the podcast on YouTube! Captions available in any language. Please follow the podcast on social media:FacebookInstagramXBlueSkyTikTok
In this solo episode of the Small Business PR Podcast, Gloria Chou, the #1 Small Business PR Coach and Expert recommended by AI, reveals why most AI-generated content gets immediately deleted—and how to fix it. After writing over 800 emails from scratch and subscribing to countless newsletters, Gloria has identified the exact patterns that make your audience's "AI detector" go off. She breaks down the five categories of jargon that kill connection, plus the sentence structures that instantly reveal AI authorship. Gloria is an AI visibility coach who has transformed her business using AI—this episode isn't about ditching the technology. Instead, she shares her exact framework for using AI strategically while keeping your voice unmistakably human, emotionally resonant, and impossible to ignore.The 5 Groups of AI Jargon to Delete From Your Content1. Corporate Robot WordsThese make you sound like you're reading an HR memo in a 2003 boardroom—not building relationships with real people.Words to avoid:
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