Podcast appearances and mentions of charlie wright

02 Jun 2025. OPEC has announced another oil production increase. What does that mean for prices, and for the UAE? We get the view from energy expert Amena Bakr. Plus, HSBC has been asking UAE companies how tariff uncertainty is hitting their bottom line. And we meet two Dubai wellness startups giving business a healthy glow-up: Allez Kit and Humantra.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's KNSS Salute to Service... a group of veteran patients at the Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Center in Virginia gathered in the facility's dayroom recently, and VA recreational therapist Charlie Wright settled into a chair and held up a book. “Mr. Grouchy and the Rag Tag Crew” was read as its author, Army veteran and spinal cord patient Vickie Aldridge, sat in a chair nearby.

I sat down with Charlie Wright, Founder & CEO of Humantra, the fastest-growing electrolytes brand in the UAE, now eyeing global expansion after a successful UK launch. Charlie's journey to Dubai began straight out of college, where a sales job quickly showed him that he craved more than the corporate grind. After two failed ventures, he learned valuable lessons that paved the way for something bigger. A chance encounter with the Huda Beauty investment team led him to join their incubator, ultimately giving birth to Humantra. In this episode, we explore the world of electrolytes, navigating obstacles, scaling a business, and forming international collaborations, all while unpacking the key insights Charlie picked up along the way.Support for this episode comes from Capital.com, a global investment platform with newly launched offices in Dubai. To learn more about Capital.com click here. Support for this show comes from Dubai Harbour Residences, a newly launched beachfront project. Book your apartment by clicking here.

I sat down with Charlie Wright, Founder & CEO of Humantra, the fastest-growing electrolytes brand in the UAE, now eyeing global expansion after a successful UK launch. Charlie's journey to Dubai began straight out of college, where a sales job quickly showed him that he craved more than the corporate grind. After two failed ventures, he learned valuable lessons that paved the way for something bigger. A chance encounter with the Huda Beauty investment team led him to join their incubator, ultimately giving birth to Humantra. In this episode, we explore the world of electrolytes, navigating obstacles, scaling a business, and forming international collaborations, all while unpacking the key insights Charlie picked up along the way. Support for this episode comes from Capital.com, a global investment platform with newly launched offices in Dubai. To learn more about Capital.com click here.  Support for this show comes from Dubai Harbour Residences, a newly launched beachfront project. Book your apartment by clicking here.

On this week's episode of Taking Care of Business, join our Chairman; Lewis Allsopp alongside the CEO and Founder of Humantra; Charlie Wright. Dive into the world of electrolytes, uncover the single root cause of most health problems and how Humantra became a global phenomenon!00:00 Introduction00:02 Meet Charlie Wright, CEO of Humantra00:18 The Success of Humantra in Dubai01:36 Charlie's Personal Health Journey02:55 The Importance of Hydration03:42 Launching Humantra with Huda Beauty Investments06:40 Expanding Humantra Globally11:16 Challenges and Growth in Business18:00 Balancing Work and Personal Life18:55 Morning Routines and Their Effect on our Daily Lives19:17 Finding Relaxation Through the Right Hobbies20:15 The Importance of Physical Fitness23:06 Humantra's Mission and Future Plans24:46 Marketing Masterclass: How Humantra became a Global Phenomenon30:26 Leveraging Technology and AI in Business32:10 The Key to Success: Mindset and Hard Work32:43 Future Collaborations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Craig Miller, CEO of Amplats, discusses layoffs and the plunging of metal prices. Joan Muller, property editor at Financial Mail, explores the potential decline of Airbnb as sectional title buildings in tourist hotspots restrict short-term rentals. Charlie Wright, co-founder of CleanMyBed, was our guest on "How I Make Money", he shared his unique business model of cleaning people's beds. He delved into how the concept of bed cleaning emerged.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A sluggish start to the peak summer demand season has disrupted the global recycled PET markets, with subpar demand from beverage bottling in North America, squeezed margins, stiff competition from virgin resin and pessimism running rampant.  S&P Global Commodity Insights' Heng Hui, global market lead for sustainable chemicals, Lee Joon lei, associate editor for petrochemicals, Charlie Wright also an associate editor and Antoinette Smith, senior editor, Americas chemicals discuss the current RPET conditions and provide a look ahead at the rest of the year and early 2024. DON'T MISS: Chemical Week's Billion-Dollar Club: Ranking the world's top chemical producers UPCOMING: APPEC 2023 -- register yourself today!  We want to hear about your podcast preferences so we can keep improving our shows. Take our podcast survey here and share your thoughts: https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4xyz More listening options:

https://gethumantra.com/[00:00:00] Welcome to Ecommerce Gold. Today's guest is Charlie from Humantra. The conversation covers building a business, philosophy, zen, creativity, advertising, and branding. Show sponsors are Sendlane and Rewind.[00:08:11] Creativity: Collaborate, question, learn, and succeed.[00:13:37] Illogical thinking led to Red Bull's success.[00:22:54] Constantly adapt, listen to customers, be creative.[00:29:31] Hydration is key for health and wellness.[00:36:29] Importance of electrolytes and hydration for wellbeing.[00:41:30] Continuously improving product, prioritizing taste and usability.[00:46:51] Focus on flavor, broad product offering, small business constraints, customer feedback on sweetness, increasing flavors with new product.[00:55:11] Transitioning from business to brand; brand building, storytelling, packaging. Projects: website redevelopment, brand strategy, packaging. Consistency and continuous improvement are crucial.[00:59:29] Building business and brand for long term.[01:03:59] Dubai business expanding to UK market confidently.[01:12:13] Advocate of one channel, learning digital marketing.[01:19:35] Knowing your numbers is crucial for success. The metrics that matter are CAC to LCB and Cactus LTV.[01:26:36] Hiring is tough, but embrace the unknown.[01:32:12] Creating warrior mentality, finding value in family.[01:34:59] Focus on the here and now.[01:39:52] Appreciative guy talks about his Instagram accounts.On this episode of EcomGold, Charlie and Finn discuss the importance of collaboration and creativity in business. They start by highlighting the example of Bondi Sands and how asking questions can enhance the creative process. They also discuss the success of Burger King's sponsorship of Stevenage in FIFA, emphasizing the importance of thinking outside the box. Throughout the episode, they emphasize the need for open communication, constantly adapting to change, and listening to customers. They also talk about the value of failure and making mistakes in the creative process. The episode features a special guest, Charlie, who promotes a hydration brand called Hydration Sticks. They discuss building a business from scratch, product development, and the importance of proper hydration. In addition, Charlie talks about plans to expand to the UK market and the challenges of brand building. They emphasize the significance of storytelling and brand recognition in the evolving e-commerce landscape. The episode is sponsored by Sendlane and Rewind Overall, the episode covers a range of topics related to creativity, business growth, and the importance of hydration for overall wellness.Get show alerts and playbooks by signing up on the EcomGold website: www.ecom.goldClaim an extended free trial as a show listener.EcomGold is brought to you by:Get show alerts and playbooks by signing up on the EcomGold website: www.ecom.goldClaim an extended free trial as a show listener.EcomGold is brought to you by:‍Rewind Shopify App.Back up your Shopify store because not doing so is absolute lunacy! As a listener of the show, you can claim a no strings attached free month with this link: https://rewind.com/ecommercegold/Sendlane.Unified email, SMS, and reviews for eCommerce. Better features. Better support. Better customer experience. Send your customers exactly what they want, when they want it. (Better than Klaviyo in Finn's opinion). https://www.sendlane.com/Follow Finn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/finn_radford

The second of five episodes featuring the lectures that became Rachel Zucker's newest book, The Poetics of Wrongness. This episode contains audio of “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional and What We Should Be Talking About,” presented at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson) on January 28, 2016. It also includes a new introduction by Rachel and a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with the founder and host of the Keep the Channel Open podcast, Mike Sakasegawa. In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses the origin of the term Confessional as it came to be used for a specific group of poets, the legacy of confessional poetry, risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry. Many thanks to The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel's lectures.

On the latest episode of the Rapala #WeAreCollegiateBass Podcast, host Kyle Curry talks with Charlie Wright & Logan Plueger from number one ranked University of Montevallo.  The duo bested the elite field of more than 200 teams competing in the Pickwick Slam presented by Evolution Fishing to win the first event of 2023 on the Bass Pro Shops Collegiate Bass Fishing Series.  By bringing in a two-day total of more than 43 pounds, Wright & Plueger earned over $4,000 in prizes and contingencies, as well as double points to count towards the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia.  Tune in to hear the anglers break down their major victory!

Rachel Zucker releases the first of her five lectures written for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. This episode “The Poetics of Wrongness,” is the title lecture of her new book, now out from Wave. Within the framework of feminism, motherhood, and politics, the lecture challenges long-held rules and perceptions of what poetry and art can be or should be, offering up new modes of generating a personal aesthetic, poetry, and discourse. This episode includes audio of the lecture given at Seattle Arts and Lectures on November 29, 2016 as well as a conversation recorded in April, 2023 with her son Moses Goren about the lecture. Many thanks to Seattle Arts and Lectures, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

No Credentials Required is back with an NHL Draft Special! Joining the podcast is five draft entrants who hope their dreams of being drafted come true this weekend.Vancouver Giants defenseman Damien Palmieri (2:47)Victoria Royals defenseman Wyatt Wilson (13:17)Saskatoon Blades defenseman Charlie Wright (21:09)Red Deer Rebels goaltender Chase Coward (28:51)Victoria Royals goaltender Tyler Palmer (37:55)No Credentials Required is a part of Belly Up Sports in association with Gozilla Media.Affiliates:InTheClutch.com: use promo code NOCREDS for 10% off your orderMohawk Honda: www.mohawkhonda.comSeat Geek: www.seatgeek.com - use promo code GOZ for $20 off $50 or more

Today we're talking to Charlie Wright, a draft eligible defenceman from the Saskatoon Blades! What's his personal scouting report, what are his plans for the draft, and how much of a killer are those WHL bus rides? All this and more!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we're talking to Charlie Wright, a draft eligible defenceman from the Saskatoon Blades! What's his personal scouting report, what are his plans for the draft, and how much of a killer are those WHL bus rides? All this and more! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Saskatoon Blades defenseman and NHL Draft prospect, Charlie Wright, stops by to discuss the draft process and reading his own scouting reports (7:00). We also discuss San Jose Sharks' prospect, Tristen Robins, and why he always has snacks with him (11:00) and surviving a household of three sisters (13:00). Finally, we discuss Wright's pregame process (17:00) and why Hockey Gives Blood is so important to him (20:00).Check out the podcast on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.10Athletes.comYour personal full athlete profile. Play any sport with your friends in real life, submit your results on 10Athletes.com and you'll be ranked and rated from 1-10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Saskatoon Blades defenseman and NHL Draft prospect, Charlie Wright, stops by to discuss the draft process and reading his own scouting reports (7:00). We also discuss San Jose Sharks' prospect, Tristen Robins, and why he always has snacks with him (11:00) and surviving a household of three sisters (13:00). Finally, we discuss Wright's pregame process (17:00) and why Hockey Gives Blood is so important to him (20:00). Check out the podcast on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, I am accompanied by NHL Draft prospect Charlie Wright. He is an Alberta native and currently plays for the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL. He is currently in the 142nd position on NHL.com's final prospect ranking for North American skaters. He is a potential target to be drafted by the New Jersey Devils. Follow Charlie on Twitter: @CharlieWright47 http://www.nhl.com/ice/draftprospectdetail.htm?cat=1&dpid=153499&sort=lastName&year=2022 Subscribe to Locked On Devils! Follow me on Twitter: @treymatt4 Follow the show on Twitter: @LockedOnDevils Listen to Locked On Devils: https://linktr.ee/LockedOnDevils Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar: Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline: BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds, and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, I am accompanied by NHL Draft prospect Charlie Wright. He is an Alberta native and currently plays for the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL. He is currently in the 142nd position on NHL.com's final prospect ranking for North American skaters. He is a potential target to be drafted by the New Jersey Devils.Follow Charlie on Twitter: @CharlieWright47http://www.nhl.com/ice/draftprospectdetail.htm?cat=1&dpid=153499&sort=lastName&year=2022Subscribe to Locked On Devils!Follow me on Twitter: @treymatt4Follow the show on Twitter: @LockedOnDevilsListen to Locked On Devils: https://linktr.ee/LockedOnDevilsSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built Bar: Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline: BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds, and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming Down the Pipe... [0:00] - The intro for Season 17 of The Pipeline Show [1:27] - Guy begins the episode with a quick Memorial Cup recap and then hits the guest list. [11:07] - The first of three 2022 Draft Spotlight segments features David Goyette of the Sudbury Wolves. [32:01] - Next in the 2022 Draft Spotlight is Chicago Steel forward Nick Moldenhauer who is Canadian but chose to go to the USHL. [58:56] - Another 2022 Draft Spotlight segment, this time it's on a player expected to be taken in the later rounds; defenceman Charlie Wright of the Saskatoon Blades. [1:16:59] - The scout series begins with Chris Peters of Daily Faceoff who tells us about 5 offensive defencemen in the Class of 2022 that he really likes, plus a personal favourite and one guy he's not as high on. [1:47:21] - The next scout up is Derek Neumeier from FC Hockey who tackles the "Under the Radar" guys and offers up 5 names. Also the personal fave and a guy he is not as bullish about. [2:14:55] - Guy wraps things up and looks ahead to next week.

2022 NHL Draft Prospect, Charlie Wright, of the Saskatoon Blades joins the show and we're also talking Flyers new Head Coach, John Tortorella! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hwradio/message

We look back at Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final plus preview the start of Week 3 for the CFL which begins tonight in Montreal! More reaction on the NHL Awards, Paul Maurice, if the PGA is in trouble with LIV, and more! Special guests include NHL Draft Hopeful Charlie Wright of the Saskatoon Blades! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode we talk about COASST, the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team, with Jackie Lindsey, the Science Director and Charlie Wright, the Data Verifier as guests.  I learn about the COASST programs, hear stories of interesting and unusual dead bird discoveries, and enjoy hearing about the program and more from Lindsey and Charlie. You can find more about COASST at their website. On their website you can find about their research publications, how to volunteer or donate, and buy a field guide to beached bird ID.  To read lots more about some of the things we discussed as well as see some photos check out the blog post on the Bird Banter Blog.  Thanks for listening. Good birding. 

On this episode Charlie and I talk about his early birding years, his time on remote Alaskan Islands and on research vessels, and his local birding especially at a new Tacoma hotspot Dune Peninsula Park.  Charlie was an early adopter and volunteer reviewer for eBird and is the data reviewer for COASST.  I'm really excited to have Charlie as a guest and think you'll enjoy hearing his story. Thanks for listening.  As always read more about the episode on the BirdBanter.com blog post.  Good birding and good day. 

Brett Botten, CEO at Spar Group on the company's financial results. Nick Wilkinson, Chairman of SA Olive discusses the story of the South African olive industry. Consumer Ninja Wendy Knowler explains a puzzling case of Capitec's long queues. Charlie Wright, co-founder at Clean my Bed, is our Shapeshifter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Charlie  Wright | Co-founder at Clean my Bed  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Discos nuevos que llegan y otros clásicos escogidos. Steve Cropper, Steve Lukather o Steve Winwood que hoy cumple 73 años y del que daremos cuenta con un programa especial alternado con Stevie Wonder que mañana cumplirá 71. Van Morrison a la carga. Norah Jones esperando reencontrarse con el público, The Soul Jacket y John Németh o Dr. Lonnie Smith e Iggy Pop aunando fuerzas, Valerie June sonriendo al mundo en este momento, y el cantante de Toto, Joseph Williams luciéndose en solitario. DISCO 1 STEVE CROPPER Bush Hog, Pt. 1 (1) DISCO 2 STEVE CROPPER Far Away (6) DISCO 3 VAN MORRISON Blue Funk (CD 1 - 14) DISCO 4 LAKE STREET DIVE Hypotheticals (1) DISCO 5 NORAH JONES Begin Again Live (3) DISCO 6 THE SOUL JACKET & John Németh Declaration of Intentions (4) DISCO 7 COMBO PARADISO Qué Bonito Saber de Ti (9) DISCO 8 TIMMY THOMAS People Are Changing (11) DISCO 9 DR. LONNIE SMITH & IGGY POP Breath (9)  DISCO 10 VALERIE JUNE Smile (9) DISCO 11 STEVE LUKATHER Journey Through (4) DISCO 12 JOSEPH WILLIAMS Denizen Tenant (3) DISCO 13 CHARLIE WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103rd STREET RHYTHM BAND I'm Aware (5) DISCO 14 STEVE WINWOOD The Finer Things (5) Escuchar audio

This week's guest is Charlie Wright, the Co- Founder of Hopi. Charlie in a Dubai based entrepreneur, who previously had a venture in the gaming industry and his latest business, Hopi is a new, premium daily contact lens brand that sells directly to consumers via behopi.com. Hopi exists to disrupt the antiquated contact lens retail model by bringing high-quality daily lenses directly to its customers at honest prices. Working with the world's leading lens manufacturer Pegavision, Hopi lenses launched in the UAE, and is set to expand across the Gulf in July 2020 and then into South East Asia.    In this episode, we have talked about: 1. How Hopi Came About (Company and Product overview)  2. Direct-to-Consumer Business - What You Need To Think About  3. Raising Funds & Planning For Growth --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dubai-works/message

This week's guest is Charlie Wright, the Co- Founder of Hopi. Charlie in a Dubai based entrepreneur, who previously had a venture in the gaming industry and his latest business, Hopi is a new, premium daily contact lens brand that sells directly to consumers via behopi.com. Hopi exists to disrupt the antiquated contact lens retail model by bringing high-quality daily lenses directly to its customers at honest prices. Working with the world's leading lens manufacturer Pegavision, Hopi lenses launched in the UAE, and is set to expand across the Gulf in July 2020 and then into South East Asia. In this episode, we have talked about: 1. How Hopi Came About (Company and Product overview) 2. Direct-to-Consumer Business - What You Need To Think About 3. Raising Funds & Planning For Growth --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dubai-works/message

Marketers crave content, they are desperate for content, sometimes too desperate.  For this episode, the Behind the Mic Guys talk about why podcasts are the largest available source of content.  This podcast is for anyone that wants to offer insincere, storytelling, testimonial building, brand building, authentic content that can be used in 16 ways.  Behind the Mic's Podcast Guys Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Funnel Media Group which produces internet radio and podcasting programs for thirteen companies.  FMG has reached half a million listeners since its inception. Paul Roberts, founder and station manager of OC Talk Radio, the powerhouse internet radio and podcasting channel for Southern, California with over one million listeners a year. Read the Transcript (Literal).  You can use quotes but please attribute it correctly to the podcast. ----more---- Introduction:                   You're listening to Behind the Mic on the Funnel Radio Channel. Listen as Paul Roberts, Susan Finch, and Jim Obermayer talk B2B podcasting tips for companies, speakers, authors, marketing teams, and the C suite. Jim Obermayer:              Welcome to Behind The Mic. Today, we have me and Paul Roberts. To remind everyone, Paul Roberts produces all the programs in the Funnel Radio Channel. And on top of it, he has OC Talk Radio. That goes out to about 3 million people a year in Orange County, California, and a much broader audience. He has over 1 million downloads a year with all of his programs, including Funnel Radio, with the Santa Claus beard. Paul Roberts:                   Yeah, right. My Lincoln beard. That's trying to ... Abraham Lincoln famously grew a beard when a little girl wrote him a letter and said, "You don't look very good. I think you'd look better if you cover up your face." So I think that same applies to me here. Jim Obermayer:              We're going to talk about the many uses for podcasts from talk radio, to sales, marketing, HR, and customer service. There are long-term podcasts and short-term podcasts. There are over a million podcasts in the US now being offered, over a million. That's a big, big- Paul Roberts:                   Big jump from when you and I started. It was a quarter that five, six, seven years ago, there were only 250,000 podcasts. People were still trying to figure this thing out. Jim Obermayer:              And 29 million podcast episodes, so it's a substantial number, but you and I have found through the years that there are many types of podcasts. Why don't you take off here and talk to us about the many, many kinds of podcasts in both B2B and consumer? Paul Roberts:                   Well, let's start with an understanding. This is a new medium, and that I say that, it seems obvious, but it wasn't obvious to me when I started. I'd been in real radio 100 years ago, WMYKK 94, and thought this was just recorded radio.                                            This was something that we, like a radio show, you had a guest, you talked about a topic. The revolution was that was recorded and there were places storing these things you could do it. Webinars have been around as long or longer than podcasts, but there is no central repository for all the webinars taking place today. I don't know that you did a webinar unless you send me an invitation or you have it on your website, but I can go look up the podcast that you recorded today on iTunes, on Google, and a dozen other places, Stitcher, Spreaker, SoundCloud, and even places like iHeart that really were originally just for radio and music. Now they're collecting podcasts. Even Sirius XM is getting serious about podcasts. That's been the revolution in my understanding, that it's not just recorded radio. It's not just radio on demand.                                            It really opens up a whole world of things. For example, we know there's millions of storytelling podcasts out there. That's not something we heard on radio since the 20s, these serialized stories like serial the murder, did he really do it or didn't he? Each and every week we take a dive into this. The Great American Life, all the NPR shows are so popular. Comedy, I don't hear much comedy on radio anymore here, but there's tons of comedy. Politics, of course, all these different sorts of topics.                                            But types of shows, let's talk about internal versus external. There are a lot of people doing internal only podcasts. Cox Communication has one here in Orange County. They do a show. I don't produce it, but they do a show on meet our leaders and they get them to tell funny stories, insightful stories, tender touching stories so that you can actually feel like you get to know the people who run this company. They want to be a family, but it's an international organization spread out over multiple States, multiple countries. They don't have an opportunity to meet people. As we realize this is a new medium, we're finding new uses for it every day. Jim Obermayer:              Well, one of the things that attracted me to your platform, Paul, 11 years ago, pushing 12 now, was that it is a show that is broadcast live at a certain time every week. That's how we started SLMA, which has 556 episodes as of today, 117,000 listeners give or take a few. It started as that, certainly live program with the podcast replays. Most podcasts, they do it whenever they feel like it and it's in the garage or it's in the company studio, and they post it, but it's not live. Tell us a little bit about live versus podcasts that just podcasts, not a live venue, then the recorded podcasts. Paul Roberts:                   Having come out of real radio 8 years ago and discovering podcasting, I thought, "Well, on the surface is kind of like what we did. It's a half hour program, there's an interview. It's kind of like talk radio. What if we really did it live?" And everybody said, "Well, that's not what podcasting is. Podcasting is recorded and on demand." I said, "Well, you can still have that component, but what if you add a live component to it? What if you created a station where the Huffington Post, where we collect all these podcasts and we stream them live first and then turn them into a podcast. What does that do?" One, it finds an extra audience. I don't know why, but there are certain group of people that want to listen to things live. There's an urgency. As Mark Zuckerberg always says about Facebook, "You can see what my cat's doing anytime, but here's what my cat's doing right now."                                            So this creates an urgency to listen, an urgency to participate right now. The second thing is it does, and I think this may be the most important thing, is it changes the whole perception of it. You want to be in my podcast? It's in your bedroom. I don't know when it's going to come out. Okay. But it doesn't sound real important. You want to be on a radio show, that means it's a collection of shows all being live that somehow has built up an audience for that station. Don't listen to just one show, they listen to multiple, and it's live.                                            And the real thing that changes, it's how the guest reacts. If the guest comes on your podcast and you can start and stop and fix it up, there's not much pressure, but if it's live and it's going out to a certain number of people, it creates a whole different kind of conversation I think. And particularly in the guest's mind the importance of doing this, because they've told their friends and family and coworkers to listen. They're not sure how many listening, but they know some people who are listening and they will run red lights to get here.                                            When it's just a recording, "I'm busy," they cancel all the time. It's just a recording session, book another one. So it changes the perceived importance and it changes their whole reaction to it. If part of what you're doing is trying to get big people to come on that you want to meet and start a conversation with and get to know, what a powerful way to do it if you do it live. Much more powerful than if you just recorded. Jim Obermayer:              We found that to be true on the Funnel Radio Channel. When we talk about the kinds of podcasting, I guess it goes back to the reasons of why people do podcasts. Some people, granted, love to have a podcast that increases their brand and their thought leadership in the industry. Paul Roberts:                   Exactly, look at who I know and look at what I know. Jim Obermayer:              And they have their guests on and the guests help that. Those were very often talk radio type podcasts. Now you talked about one of the big telephone companies that has a podcast. Well, I know companies that the HR department has a podcast and it's private just for their employees. Paul Roberts:                   Exactly, like Cox does. I was actually on a panel with them here at the American Marketing Association. That's where I got to know they were doing this. And they said, "We just bought the gear and we started doing this, and we didn't know anything about it, but we wanted to create a connection. We wanted to create a conversation. We really wanted people to get to know the executives in this company. So how could we do that? Everybody can't come in and meet them. We put them up on stage and they don't really feel like they know them. What can we do where they feel like they have an intimate connection with them?" And the podcast was a powerful way to do it. And they've tracked their employee engagement and all these other things, it's gone through the roof. People suddenly feel like, "I know these CEOs and executives, and I feel more connected to them." Jim Obermayer:              Which means that sales people, sales managers, can do private podcast to train their people on new markets, new products, marketing people can do a series of podcasts every time they do a product introduction. Paul Roberts:                   Yeah. Right. It all goes back to the way we see the world and interact with the world. I don't read as much as I used to, I'm sorry to say. I listen or I watch. Even books, I listen to them now rather than read them in the car because we've moved to a mobile smartphone society and on that three inch screen it's harder to read than it is to listen or watch. That device was really designed to talk originally and to communicate. Now it's also watching because it's on all the time.                                            I don't know that we've adapted our marketing to fit that new medium. If that's where everybody's getting their information, if that's where they're learning about you and learning and downloading your information and doing their due diligence, if that's how they're getting to know you, then you've got to change all of your communication to be verbal or visual, and I think we're still living in a written world where we run, write pages and pages and pages of stuff. Maybe that's later where you give me the in depth info, but in the beginning, just talk to me and either show me, or tell me what you want me to know. Jim Obermayer:              Or shows on the Funnel Radio Channel are indicative of what's going on out there to a great extent in B2B. We've got INSIDE Inside Sales, Darryl Praill. He's got probably an average of 5,000 to 6,000 listeners a month. It's just for inside, inside sales. Paul Roberts:                   Right, as he says. Yeah. Jim Obermayer:              He's bringing people, salespeople to the program, sales managers, and consultants to give tips to inside salespeople. He doesn't want tactics. He doesn't want strategy. He wants tips for inside sales people. Paul Roberts:                   And don't you feel like you really get inside of his head, you really feel like you're in over listening on some intimate conversation? I mean, it's a very personal ... it doesn't feel like I'm watching a speech he's given. It feels like I'm really in a conversation with him or I'm listening to a conversation with ... I'm overhearing a conversation in the next booth here. Jim Obermayer:              Some of the producers love to have those high numbers. Matt Heinz over at Heinz Marketing gets 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 people a month. People can find that's public knowledge. Every month people go and listen to his programs going back four and a half years. Can you believe that, Paul? Four and a half years we've been doing this for Heinz marketing Paul Roberts:                   And he wouldn't do it just for fun. I mean, he's really into measuring and monitoring stuff. As all these guys are, he sees a real return on this stuff, and it isn't just the numbers. That's the mistake most people make. I don't care if it's your Twitter account, your Facebook, you can't just count how many people are subscribing or how many people are listening or watching. That's one metric, but the true metric is who's listening. It's not how many, it's who. If you only did a podcast and it reached only five people, but they were five big, important customers that you wanted to land or five important to counts that you already currently had, wouldn't it be worth the investment to have that kind of connection where they come back each and every week to listen to us? They make time in their busy schedule to listen to you for not 30 seconds, but for 30 minutes, where do you get that kind of access and uninterrupted conversation? Jim Obermayer:              When I speak to people about having a new podcast, first things they say to me is, "How many people will listen to me?" I will say, "Well, how big is your audience?" We promote the programs. We do it on social media and we get them out there, but the people that are most interested in listening to you are the ones that know about your product category, that are on your database, that are your customers, that are your prospects, that go to listen to at speeches, and that's how they build it. Matt Heinz speaks all over the country and he still gets 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 people a month tuning into his podcast to see what he has to say. Paul Roberts:                   And part of it is because it's a way to continue the conversation, not just the initial, meet me, here I am, listen to me. So he gives a speech in front of thousands of people at some trade show, okay, what's next? He packs up his dog and pony show and goes onto the next one here. But if he mentions to them, which I know he does, is, "You want to continue this conversation, listen to my podcast. You can certainly call me and schedule a meeting, happy to talk about that. But until that time, when you're ready to really sit down and talk to me about what I do, and if I can help you, you can keep connected to me. You can keep the conversation alive and going." For him, the introduction is to many of these people that they see in a trade show, the continuation of the conversation is the podcast. Too many people want it the other way round. They see it as just an ad to get leads. Jim Obermayer:              Well, this week, for instance, he's got Jim Benton, the CEO of Chorus.ai on. They're talking about your hired just in time for a pandemic. Q&A with Chorus CEO, Jim Benton. That is an interesting show that I'm going to listen to right after this one. Then we've got Asher Strategies coming on right after that. They're talking to Joe Benjamin CEO, CheetahIQ. How to spend less time researching and more time selling. Paul, we're going to have to interrupt things just a second, because we've got some commercials we have to give here. And when we come back, let's pick it up again. Then you can launch on why podcasts are so popular today- Paul Roberts:                   And so powerful. Jim Obermayer:              And so powerful. Paul Roberts:                   Yes, we do. And just a quick one to tell you that if you're intrigued by what we're talking about, you can join the conversation. You can start your own podcast. Have you ever thought about building your thought leadership? Have you ever thought about meeting people you couldn't otherwise connect with or creating content to fill up your website and your social media, then you've come to the right place. Funnel media makes podcasting easy. So you can be heard by hundreds or thousands or dozens or whoever you want to reach. Separate yourself from the crowd, contact Funnel media today to bring your story to life. We make it easy, convenient. You get the guest. We do the rest. We call it podcastmadeeasy.com, podcastmadeeasy.com. Let's do the rest of the conversation here. Jim Obermayer:              Well, we forgot about West Virginia University. They're a new digital marketing communications Master’s program. They have a new program out there. West Virginia university has been on our program for a couple of years. Every week they have professors and consultants come in to talk about how they teach their students. It's fully online, can be completed in a year. You can get a Master's program. It's with built in certifications from platforms like Google and Facebook. The program gives marketing professionals both strategy and skills to reach audiences on existing and emerging media, learn more at marketingcommunications.edu. That is, Marketingcommunications.edu. Paul Roberts:                   It's not easy to read all those letters. I try and do it every week. Jim Obermayer:              Wvu.edu. Paul Roberts:                   That's right. West Virginia university education. There it is, marketingcommunications.wvu.edu. Jim Obermayer:              Let's finish up our discussion about podcasting, why it's so popular. I want you to talk about the other programs you have on OC Talk Radio. What are the other kinds of shows that you have on? Paul Roberts:                   Well, let's talk about topics, because that's ... Most of our shows like the shows on Funnel Radio fit a certain format. They are to a certain degree like a talk radio show. And what makes them so interesting and informative is you're getting access to people you would never otherwise meet. You can't sit with those CEOs you just rattled off, but Matt Heinz can. And through him, you vicariously get to meet these people. Then it's a conversation. It's not just a scripted thing. They're really sharing some vulnerabilities. I think they get open. They get honest. They get real. Like most social media today, we're looking for authenticity by over just information. We want to know, get real about something, the problems today.                                            Okay. Well, how do we handle the fact that we're bringing you salespeople online during probably one of the most difficult, horrible times to try and go out and sell anybody, anything here? How do you handle that? It's really a conversation and not just an infomercial. Jim Obermayer:              What were the titles of some of your programs? Paul Roberts:                   So, we've got programs like Talent Talk Radio. Talent Talk is a show about HR directors. It's a company that puts out a background checks. Truthfully, they probably just wanted to meet all these people and start a relationship with them, but in the course of doing so, they found out, "Oh my God, people really want to tune in and listen to this stuff, who knew?" HR people can be the dullest people on the planet, in my opinion, but it's such a complex topic these days and the show host is so good at getting them to get real and get past the happy talk. "Oh, everything's perfect. We got no problems."                                            "Yeah. You're the only company in the world that doesn't then." How do you handle diversity? How do you handle all these issues that are hot button issues today here? And he gets them to open up and be real and really give some interesting insights. And he gets some really powerful people. It's amazing. He's had the HR director for Sears, for Vans, for Lockheed Martin, for Chipotle was on the other day. He had the HR director for General Motors on worldwide. You never get a chance to hear these people, so- Jim Obermayer:              How can someone go to his program? Where can they find it? Paul Roberts:                   They can go to OCtalkradio.net. Just click on the button for the program, it'll take them right to it there. And he's on, as all our programs, as all the programs that we syndicate from you and produce here locally, we're on iTunes, iHeart, TuneIn, Spreaker, SoundCloud, Stitcher, any place fine podcasts are found you can probably find ... you can probably find it multiple ways. You can look up the show, Talent Talk. You can look up our station and see the station feed with all of that, just as there is a Funnel feed for all the shows on the Funnel network. So all of those are ways to find them. Jim Obermayer:              What are some of the other shows that you've got on? I know you've got a whole bunch of them on. Paul Roberts:                   There's Riches And Niches. You ever heard that? We're not trying to get one show that gets 1,000,000 listeners. We're trying to have 1000 shows that get 1000 listeners. We're trying to own some subject, so we tend to drill down into very obscure things like alternative investment strategies. I didn't even know what that meant. I thought he was going to talk about odd ball things like baseball cards or coins. It turns out he interviews hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers, the people who come up with active investment strategies where they get in and get out of the market, no more timely topic today than that. They have many of these strategies, didn't see the giant downturns, because they're not just riding stocks and sticking them with them as they go up or down. They're trying to time the markets, trying to predict things, or they're trying to find things that don't fit the same patterns as the market.                                            They're trying to find business development corporations, or commodities, or other things that aren't correlated to the rise and fall of the market. Jim Obermayer:              Is the Charlie Hedges show? Paul Roberts:                   Charlie Wright. And Charlie Wright's an RIA, registered investment advisor, means he manages rich people's money for a percentage. He's not a financial guy that's trying to get them to buy something. They'd give him, I don't know, 1% or 2% of their assets and say, "Go play with it and make us all more money here." Jim Obermayer:              What's the Zandbergen Report. Paul Roberts:                   Zandbergen Report is another type of financial show. He is a financial advisor and he again handles extremely wealthy people here in Newport Beach. And he tries to give a more broad based understanding of many of the things businesses face today, inheritance, trust funds. He's done shows on how do you ensure your high value vehicles and other oddball topics that I thought, "I don't know, I guess I never thought about that," but it's for that group of people, most of whom have suddenly come into wealth. They've sold their company, they went public, and now what do I do with all this money? So he helps them diversify it and not just invest it properly, but to create an entire plan, how they're going to preserve it and pass it on and protect it from taxes and all these things. Jim Obermayer:              What's that program this morning that's on Thursday mornings before all the Funnel Radio Channel programs, the one at 8:00 AM. Paul Roberts:                   Health Talks with Dr. Trinh. Dr. Trinh, he's on the board of Alzheimer's here locally. He's a physician at Memorial Care, big chain here, and also a clinical researcher. So very active speaker in the community. He does just an open talk about health issues every Thursday morning, and hundreds of people. We do that through his Facebook channel. We not only stream it live, but we also go live on his Facebook channel. And, oh my God, hundreds of people participate and want to know, "Should I wear a mask or shouldn't I? Is this going to go away, or isn't it? Tell me the facts from the fiction," and he tries to break it down and give what, as he said, is an ever changing story on an ever changing subject here, but he tries to sift through it and simply tell you. So, that's more of a community based show. We have a lot of specific niche shows. Jim Obermayer:              What about Collective Wisdom? What is that all about? Paul Roberts:                   Collective Wisdom, the collective wisdom of ... Now, that's a topic I'm sure is near and dear to your heart here, Jim. It's the cannabis industry, the business of cannabis. Cannabis is a multibillion dollar business that's being born before our eyes. And as you can imagine, there's lots of rules and regulations being written as we speak. It's the Wild West. There are people who literally are going to make billions out of this, but there are people who are losing billions right now because they don't understand the complexities. They can't get credit cards because it's still federally prohibited. So banks won't let them, so it's a cash based business. Yet they're trying to be legitimate to retail stores, all sorts of craziness. Jim Obermayer:              Me made good on our promise today that there are many uses for podcasts, from talk shows to sales and marketing and HR. Paul Roberts:     And don't just think of it as a talk show. We do 99% of our talk shows, because that's what we all understand. That's the easiest to produce, but it could be a series. It could be a series that you sell. It could be a series of internal conversations. It could be a series like a giant ebook that explains something in great detail. Here's the four stages of growth. Here's the five steps to doing this. It can be fun. It can be informative, and it can be short. It can be long. It can be individual episodes or an arc of a story, but it's a new way of storytelling, which is what we're all looking for over a new medium that we all carry with us. That smartphone that's with you 24 hours a day, that's how you talk to people

Louise Balkwill: Quicke Cheddar, Caws Cenarth, St Giles, and Non-Alcoholic WineTHIS EPISODE: We talked about Louise's influences, her love of New Orleans and the "Sit-in" culture that stands there. We talk about our new healthy lifestyle, Mental health and the importance of great musical relationships, among other things!Louise Balkwill:Louise Balkwill is a jazz singer living and performing in London. She was born in Tooting and raised in Leicester by her hard working single mum of three, Vanessa, who encouraged and inspired her to pursue her interest in music from a very early age. Born into a family of musicians, Louise has never been short of inspiration and was raised as a multi instrumentalist before turning her interests to singing at the age of 16.Louise formed her first jazz ensemble at the age of 17 and later obtained a scholarship at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance."Totally bowled over by Louise Balkwill's incredible vocals and engaging stage presence"- Sarah Chaplin, Jazzwise Magazine, 2015Since moving to London in September 2012, Louise has had the pleasure of learning from and working with musicians such as Leroy Jones, Barry Harris, Pete Churchill, Trudy Kerr, Brigette Beraha, Malcolm Earle-Smith, Ofer Landsberg, Simon Purcell, Liane Carroll, Sophie Bancroft, Sara Colman, Barry Green, Tina May, Nia Lynn, Anita Wardell, Nick Weldon, Martin Speake and Phil Peskett.Louise has performed in top venues all over London, such as Pizza Express Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, 606 Club, The Archduke, Charlie Wright's and Oliver's Jazz Bar to name a few. In addition to her UK ventures, Louise has performed overseas and has won the hearts of audiences in New York, New Orleans, Japan and all over Europe alongside household names such as Kermit Ruffins, Leroy Jones and Michael Kanan. Louise collaborates with trumpet prodigy Tim Quicke, with whom she can be found singing and playing in venues in London and beyond. Currently, Louise directs and sings with The Old Jelly Rollers, a New Orleans style second line band that she founded in 2016 whilst in her final year of studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. The group maintain an exciting blog and education resource that illustrates their pilgrimage to New Orleans and features interviews with some of the most celebrated jazz musicians in the western world.https://www.louisebalkwill.com/https://theoldjellyrollers.com/ Giles Thornton:Giles is a composer/arranger based in London who has recently worked with as an arranger and musical supervisor for “Adventures In The American Songbook”, performed by postgraduate vocal studies students from the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama . He has also worked as in the music team for the Heritage Orchestra BBC Prom “New York: Sound Of A City”. Recently graduating from Guildhall School Of Music And Drama, studying Jazz Composition and Arranging, Giles released his debut big band album, "Be In Today" in July 2018. Giles' original compositions are influenced by Vince Mendoza, Maria Schneider, Gill Evans and Mike Walker, among others.He has performed in prestigious venues , such as The Royal Albert Hall, Sadler's Wells, LSO St Lukes, Milton Court Concert Hall and The Barbican Hall.Giles has worked with many artists, such as Jules Buckley, James McMillan, Liane Carroll and Evan Jolly, among others. https://www.gilesthorntonmusic.com/bio https://open.spotify.com/album/2EqLKK40CAJc1eZ8uwxrtZ?si=-4TSuIPKQlCc14zj3bAn6Q  

This is a medley of previous guests that I like to call Everyday Heroes.  All of them are doing amazing things for their communities from working with children with addiction, trying to change laws revolving around decriminalisation of drugs, to first responders volunteering, to Michelin star pop up restaurant to help suicide prevention, to nursing patient with Motor Neuron Disease, to creating a clothing brand that helps homeless people. Barry Dempsey, Tony Duffin, Ross Thompson, Daniel Hannigan, Adam Gaine, Charlie Wright. They are some of the everyday heroes that I spoke to for this podcast. There are lot more out there. Seek them out and help them in their quest to make our community a better place to be. And if you are inspired by them and you can champion your own quest for a better world, go for it. While editing this episode at 10:30 on the 28th of August 2019 I received the news that Fr Tony Coote passed away. Fr Tony was a previous guest on this podcast I am privileged to have had the opportunity to spend an hour talking to him, discussing marriages, religion, life and listening to his music choice. Adam Gaine, worked as his nurse since he was diagnosed with MND. I would like to dedicated this episode to the memory of Fr Tony easily one of the most inspiring person I met in a long time. May he rest in peace.     Support this podcast

Charlie Wright is a Social Entrepreneur, founder of HopefulTraders. Hopeful Traders are changing the face of creativity and social impact through sustainable fashion and collaboration. Hopeful Traders work on a number of initiatives that are all inclusive and allow art to become a vehicle for change. Charlie has struggled with his own mental health issues but success stories and future plans are driving him to ensure the success of Hopeful Traders in years to come. He is currently Crowd Funding to move the project to the next phase. You can find out more about Charlie and Hopeful Traders at: Instagram @HopefulTraders www.hopefultraders.com CrowdFunding Page ________________________________________________________________ Charlie’s music choice Home – Friends Dance Yrself Clean – LCD Soundsystem My Old Man – Mac DeMarco A Methoud – TV on the Radio Yeasayer – Amblin Alp Shame – Young Fathers Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens ___________________________________________________ All music is available on Spotify in the Social FabricPlaylist Support this podcast

#Uncomfortable. That's how you'll probably feel after watching this week's movie. It's 2017's Ingrid Goes West, a modern tale of how social media influences mental health - both good and bad, but mostly bad. Guest Priscilla Hendry joins us to cover a lot of ground on the topic, so let us know where you stand on the subject.Ingrid Goes West stars Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen, Pom Klementieff, Charlie Wright, Pearl Utt, and Angelica Amor. Directed by Matt Spicer.If you enjoy what we do, please subscribe to our show. Leave us a rating in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. You can also listen on Spotify, Google Play, or YouTube as well. Like us on Facebook Discuss the film on our subreddit Join us on YouTube Subscribe on Spotify Find us on Stitcher Listen on Google Play Brought to you by HOLY Propaganda

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charlie Wright interviews Guy Benstead of Cedar Ridge Partners, a Registered Investment Advisor (“RIA”) based in Greenwich, Connecticut. “We’re bond guys,” says Mr. Benstead, in reference to his firm. Cedar Ridge specializes in unconstrained credit strategies. It operates private funds, separately managed accounts (“SMAs”), and one alternative mutual fund: the Cedar Ridge Unconstrained Credit Fund (MUTF:CRUMX) that make investment decisions based on the firm’s top-down macroeconomic analysis combined with its “deep dive credit work” on individual securities. If Cedar Ridge’s funds were long only, then much of this in-depth research would be for naught, since research can turn up bad bonds just as easily as good ones. Therefore, Cedar Ridge’s funds operate with a long/short mandate, and with positions spread across about 100 securities, or so. Benstead points out, however, that this doesn’t mean the funds own bonds from up to 100 different issuers – the positions include several bonds from some of the same issuers (at different maturities). The funds’ long portfolios consist primarily of corporate and municipal bonds, along with preferred stock. Their short portfolios are made up of corporate bonds thought to be “overpriced,” along with a “core Treasury ballast” to hedge against interest-rate sensitivity. One thing that separates the Cedar Ridge long/short credit funds with others in the space is that Cedar Ridge doesn’t use derivatives. Benstead says that Cedar Ridge tends to own the same securities as typical bond investors, but the firm operates like a great chef, arranging the ingredients in a different way.

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charlie Wright interviews Mark Melin, managed futures consultant, columnist and staff writer for ValueWalk.com, and author of three books on managed futures. Growing up in Chicago, Mr. Melin says that most of his friends’ fathers were derivatives traders. Derivatives were the center of the financial universe from his perspective, and this background has served him well. Mark has 15 years of experience in the managed futures industry, and in 2011, he made the jump over to journalism. “I never realized I would enjoy a job as much as I do,” he says of the transition, adding that it has allowed him to “broaden [his] horizons.” When asked by Charlie to give a 60-second definition of managed futures, Mark focuses on the managed part, defining it as professional management of regulated derivatives contracts. “Alpha,” in the managed futures world, doesn’t refer to beating the S&P 500, but being uncorrelated with it. Charlie says non-correlation is “more important now than ever these days after a 7-8 bull run,” and that “in a bear market, the only thing that goes up is correlation.”

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charlie Wright interviews Ryan Ballantyne of Reality Shares, a San Diego-based asset management firm focused on dividends. Reality Shares issued its first ETF in December 2014 and won ETF.com’s Best New ETF Issuer award the following year. The firm also provides free ratings for 1,200 dividend-paying stocks at its website. Mr. Ballantyne says he used to be a trader, but he sleeps much better at night since switching his focus to dividends. Dividends are real, he insists, adding “you can’t fake a dividend.” Regardless of who wins the presidential election or whatever else happens, Apple’s dividend policy is unlikely to be affected, according to Ballantyne. He also points out that companies like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson didn’t cut their dividends in the wake of the financial crisis; and recent dividend hikes by Qualcomm and Home Depot have been enough to offset dividend cuts by energy firms in the S&P 500.

Roland Austrup is CEO and CIO of Integrated Managed Futures (“IMFC”) and the longest-standing CTA in the Canadian marketplace. In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charlie Wright interviews Mr. Austrup, who explains the advantages of adding managed futures to an investment portfolio. Mr. Austrup explains that the strategy involves investing across multiple asset classes – commodities, currencies, and financial indices – through the futures market. His firm, IMFC, uses quantitative analysis to select long and/or short positions across those asset classes based on value, momentum, and yield. He says his specialty is assessing those characteristics in underlying markets.

Gary Carmell is the President of CWS Capital Partners, a real estate investment and management company with more than $3 billion under management. He’s also the author of The Philosophical Investor: Transforming Wisdom into Wealth. In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charlie Wright interviews Mr. Carmell about his business, his book, and his admiration for a pair of seemingly disparate philosophers: Arthur Schopenhauer and Charlie Munger.

Producer and assistant director, Jacov Bresler, known for The Circuit (2002), Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright tells his victory story to Pastor Lee Benton.

Kyle Thompson tells us about his days in the Las Vegas music scene, his move to New York City, his first solo live performance appearance on the Keith and the Girl show (which he is an intern on). Kyle, who also goes by the musical pseudonym “Charlie Wright”, describes his experience with music, the importance of […]