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Welcome to the Financial Freedom & Wealth Trailblazers Podcast! In today's episode, proven strategies, and expert insights to escape the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle and build lasting wealth.Chris Burch, a Master Certified Financial Coach (FCMT) and Founder of Wealth Consultants USA, has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry. He is dedicated to helping individuals, families, and business owners take control of their money, eliminate debt, and build lasting wealth. As a Master Certified Financial Coach through Dave Ramsey's program, Chris specializes in practical, no-nonsense financial strategies that empower clients to achieve true financial independence.At Wealth Consultants USA, Chris has created a results-driven financial coaching platform designed to help people break free from the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, repair their credit, and build long-term wealth. His approach focuses on financial education, accountability, and real-world strategies that deliver results.Chris's expertise has earned him multiple industry awards, including Best of Florida – Financial Advisors (2023) and Best of Cape Coral – Financial Consultant (2015). These accolades reflect his commitment to guiding clients with clarity, confidence, and expert insight.His expertise includes debt elimination and wealth coaching, retirement planning and private pensions, credit repair and score optimization, smart investing and portfolio education, and business financial optimization—all designed to help clients achieve financial success.More than a financial consultant, Chris is a mentor, educator, and strategist committed to providing the tools for real financial freedom. Whether eliminating debt, improving credit, planning for retirement, or managing investments, his proven strategies and decades of expertise empower clients to take control of their financial future.Connect with Chris Here: www.linkedin.com/in/cwburch, www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559024120468, https://www.instagram.com/wealthconsultantsusa/https://www.wealthconsultantsusa.comGrab the freebie here: Free Consultation calendar: https://wealthconsultantsusa.com/calendar===================================If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends.Thanks for watching the Financial Freedom & Wealth Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com.Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers. QUICK LINKS: APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-applicationDIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/

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In this episode, we dive deep on golf fitness with Chris Finn, the CEO and Founder of Par4Success [get your free Home Mobility Assessment HERE].  They separate fact from fiction when it comes to golf workouts, how to stay fast and safe regardless of your age, and much more.  Check out our previous podcast with Chris HERE and our Golf Myths Unplugged on speed training featuring Chris's original research HERE. Watch this episode on YouTube HERE Listen to the Plugged In Golf Podcast on iTunes HERE

Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.Today's podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: Chris' spiritual journey through AA and sobrietyHow Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knewSeeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in OjaiAllowing oneself to be sad for awhileConscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied wayThe raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful timesHow community and compassion helps us to healAccepting reality for what it isHow familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of lifeThe difficulty in cutting through illusionsThe importance of regular practiceAbout Chris Beaudry:Chris ‘Critter' Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.“Life is hard. You're not getting out of this one alive. You're going to grieve, you're going to lose, that's the nature of reality. But, that doesn't mean we have to harden to it. That doesn't mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris BeaudrySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How does it feel to navigate a career as a Software Developer with ADHD. Matt and Eric speak with Chris Ferdinandi who is a Software Developer who has ADHD. Chris discusses what ADHD is, how it impacts his life, tips on how to have a career when dealing with ADHD, and much more. Leave us a message at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SelfTaughtDevs.net⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Matt's Links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Eric's Links ⁠⁠⁠ Connect with Chris Here

Trust me, thinking you have mold in your home can be a very confusing and overwhelming process. Today, we have on Chris Lockhart, mold remediation expert and owner of Renew Pro Restoration in San Diego. This man is a wealth of information and optimism. This episode will help you understand what to look for in your space that may be pointing to water damage and mold, the steps to take to find the root of the problem, and ultimately, understand that every problem has a solution. I am so grateful I found this man, and I know you will be, too! — Work with Chris Here: www.RenewProrestoration.com Want to work with me: Visit: http://www.doctordeluna.com — Follow Me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dropitlikeitsdoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dropitlikeitsdoc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dropitlikeitsdoc --- #DropitLikesitsDoc #rootcausemedicine #environmentalmedicine #toxicexposure #moldremediation #mold __ *This content is not considered medical advice and is not a substitute for medical care. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any medical condition. Please see a physician before making any medical or lifestyle changes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dropitlikeitsdoc/support

In today's episode Emily Interviews her friend Chris, host of the Nichols and Dimez show. They dive into Chris' journey over the past year hosting his show, including the personal growth, change in mindset, and lessons learned from interviewing 50 entrepreneurs.   Chris shares how surrounding himself with certain communities, like jiu-jitsu, has shaped his values and perspectives. And Emily and Chris banter about the importance of injecting humor and 'romanticizing your life' even as an entrepreneur on a serious mission. With aligned outlooks on living with intention, they explore how practices like journaling and cold plunging prime them to show up fully.   Ultimately, Chris credits the podcast for pushing him to take smart risks and evolve. And he thanks Emily for being an early inspiring force encouraging him to lean into his voice and step into uncertainty on this path. Their infectious energy and drive makes you want to embrace your own capabilities. Today's Key Points: 1. Identifying Your Vision 2. The Power Of Committing To Your Decision 3. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome 4. Loneliness  5. Support & Community  6. What Holds People Back 7. Exposure to a Different Reality  8. Where His Creativity Started 9. Hawaiian Values: Strength & Humility  10. His JiuJitsu Journey +so much more!    Connect with Chris Here:  www.Youtube.com/nicholsanddimezshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholsanddimez/ Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nichols-and-dimez-show/id1667715105   Connect with Emily Here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhayden/  https://stan.store/EmilyHayden   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilyhayden_   Subscribe to The Evolve With Emily Show here:  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3v10YPs iTunes:  https://apple.co/3aqW5Ye Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3dtNINp  

In today's episode Emily Interviews her friend Chris, host of the Nichols and Dimez show. They dive into Chris' journey over the past year hosting his show, including the personal growth, change in mindset, and lessons learned from interviewing 50 entrepreneurs.   Chris shares how surrounding himself with certain communities, like jiu-jitsu, has shaped his values and perspectives. And Emily and Chris banter about the importance of injecting humor and 'romanticizing your life' even as an entrepreneur on a serious mission. With aligned outlooks on living with intention, they explore how practices like journaling and cold plunging prime them to show up fully.   Ultimately, Chris credits the podcast for pushing him to take smart risks and evolve. And he thanks Emily for being an early inspiring force encouraging him to lean into his voice and step into uncertainty on this path. Their infectious energy and drive makes you want to embrace your own capabilities. Today's Key Points: 1. Identifying Your Vision 2. The Power Of Committing To Your Decision 3. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome 4. Loneliness  5. Support & Community  6. What Holds People Back 7. Exposure to a Different Reality  8. Where His Creativity Started 9. Hawaiian Values: Strength & Humility  10. His JiuJitsu Journey +so much more!    Connect with Chris Here:  www.Youtube.com/nicholsanddimezshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholsanddimez/ Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nichols-and-dimez-show/id1667715105   Connect with Emily Here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhayden/  https://stan.store/EmilyHayden   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilyhayden_   Subscribe to The Evolve With Emily Show here:  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3v10YPs iTunes:  https://apple.co/3aqW5Ye Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3dtNINp  

In this episode I sit down with Chris Waldhause fron The Cascade Trails Mustang Sanctuary in Joshua Tree. Chris tells his story from growing up on a Ute reservation in Colorado, to doing security in Hollywood, to eventually bringing his dream to life and opening a mustang sanctuary.  Dontae to The Mustang Sactuary Here Instagram for Cascade Trails HERE Instagram for Chris HERE

Episode SummaryChris Farris, Cloud Security Nerd at Turbot, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the latest events in cloud security, which leads to an interesting analysis from Chris on how legal departments obscure valuable information that could lead to fewer security failures in the name of protecting company liability, and what the future of accountability for security failures looks like. Chris and Corey also discuss the newest dangers in cloud security and billing practices, and Chris describes his upcoming cloud security conference, fwd:cloudsec. About ChrisChris Farris has been in the IT field since 1994 primarily focused on Linux, networking, and security. For the last 8 years, he has focused on public-cloud and public-cloud security. He has built and evolved multiple cloud security programs for major media companies, focusing on enabling the broader security team's objectives of secure design, incident response and vulnerability management. He has developed cloud security standards and baselines to provide risk-based guidance to development and operations teams. As a practitioner, he's architected and implemented multiple serverless and traditional cloud applications focused on deployment, security, operations, and financial modeling.Chris now does cloud security research for Turbot and evangelizes for the open source tool Steampipe. He is one of the organizers of the fwd:cloudsec conference (https://fwdcloudsec.org) and has given multiple presentations at AWS conferences and BSides events.When not building things with AWS's building blocks, he enjoys building Legos with his kid and figuring out what interesting part of the globe to travel to next. He opines on security and technology on Mastodon, Twitter and his website https://www.chrisfarris.comLinks Referenced: Turbot: https://turbot.com/ fwd:cloudsec: https://fwdcloudsec.org/ Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@jcfarris Personal website: https://chrisfarris.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn and we are here today to learn exciting things, steal exciting secrets, and make big trouble for Moose and Squirrel. Maybe that's the podcast; maybe that's the KGB, we're not entirely sure. But I am joined once again by Chris Farris, cloud security nerd at Turbot, which I will insist on pronouncing as ‘Turbo.' Chris, thanks for coming back.Chris: Thanks for having me.Corey: So, it's been a little while and it's been an uneventful time in cloud security with nothing particularly noteworthy happening, not a whole lot of things to point out, and honestly, we're just sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel for news… is what I wish I could say, but it isn't true. Instead, it's, “Oh, let's see what disastrous tire fire we have encountered this week.” What's top of mind for you as we record this?Chris: I think the most interesting one I thought was, you know, going back and seeing the guilty plea from Nickolas Sharp, who formerly was an employee at Ubiquiti and apparently had, like, complete access to everything there and then ran amok with it.Corey: Mm-hm.Chris: The details that were buried at the time in the indictment, but came out in the press releases were he was leveraging root keys, he was leveraging lifecycle policies to suppress the CloudTrail logs. And then of course, you know, just doing dumb things like exfiltrating all of this data from his home IP address, or exfiltrating it from his home through a VPN, which have accidentally dropped and then exposed his home IP address. Oops.Corey: There's so much to dive into there because I am not in any way shape or form, saying that what he did was good, or I endorse any of those things. And yeah, I think he belongs in prison for what he did; let's be very clear on this. But I personally did not have a business relationship with him. I am, however, Ubiquiti's customer. And after—whether it was an insider threat or whether it was someone external breaching them, Krebs On Security wound up doing a whole write-up on this and was single-sourcing some stuff from the person who it turned out, did this.And they made a lot of hay about this. They sued him at one point via some terrible law firm that's entire brand is suing media companies. And yeah, just wonderful, wonderful optics there and brilliant plan. But I don't care about the sourcing. I don't care about the exact accuracy of the reporting because what I'm seeing here is that what is not disputed is this person, who whether they were an employee or not was beside the point, deleted all of the audit logs and then as a customer of Ubiquiti, I received an email saying, “We have no indication or evidence that any customer data was misappropriated.” Yeah, you just turn off your logs and yeah, you could say that always and forever and save money on logging costs. [unintelligible 00:03:28] best practice just dropped, I guess. Clowns.Chris: So, yeah. And there's definitely, like, compliance and standards and everything else that say you turn on your logs and you protect your logs, and service control policies should have been able to detect that. If they had a security operations center, you know, the fact that somebody was using root keys should have been setting off red flags and causing escalations to occur. And that wasn't happening.Corey: My business partner and I have access to our AWS org, and when I was setting this stuff up for what we do here, at a very small company, neither of us can log in with root credentials without alarms going off that alert the other. Not that I don't trust the man; let's be very clear here. We both own the company.Chris: In business together. Yes.Corey: Ri—exactly. It is, in many ways, like a marriage in that one of us can absolutely ruin the other without a whole lot of effort. But there's still the idea of separation of duties, visibility into what's going on, and we don't use root API keys. Let me further point out that we are not pushing anything that requires you to send data to us. We're not providing a service that is software powered to people, much less one that is built around security. So, how is it that I have a better security posture than Ubiquiti?Chris: You understand AWS and in-depth cloud better. You know, it really comes down to how do you, as an AWS customer, understand all of the moving parts, all of the security tooling, all of the different ways that something can happen. And Amazon will say, “Well, it's in the documentation,” but you know, they have, what, 357 services? Are you reading the security pages of all of those? So, user education, I agree, you should have, and I have on all of my accounts, if anything pops up, if any IAM change happens, I'm getting text messages. Which is great if my account got compromised, but is really annoying when I'm actually making a change and my phone is blowing up.Corey: Yeah. It's worth pointing out as well that yes, Ubiquiti is publicly traded—that is understood and accepted—however, 93% of it is owned by their CEO-founder god-king. So, it is effectively one person's personal fiefdom. And I tend to take a very dim view as a direct result. When you're in cloud and you have suffered a breach, you have severely screwed something up somewhere. These breaches are never, “Someone stole a whole bunch of drives out of an AWS data center.” You have misconfigured something somewhere. And lashing out at people who reported on it is just a bad look.Chris: Definitely. Only error—now, of course, part of the problem here is that our legal system encourages people to not come forward and say, “I screwed up. Here's how I screwed up. Everybody come learn from my mistakes.” The legal professions are also there to manage risk for the company and they're like, “Don't say anything. Don't say anything. Don't even tell the government. Don't say anything.”Whereas we all need to learn from these errors. Which is why I think every time I do see a breach or I do see an indictment, I start diving into it to learn more. I did a blog post on some of the things that happened with Drizly and GitHub, and you know, I think the most interesting thing that came out of Drizly case was the ex-CEO of Drizly, who was CEO at the time of the breach, now has following him, for the rest of his life, an FTC order that says he must implement a security program wherever he goes and works. You know, I don't know what happens when he becomes a Starbucks barista or whatever, but that is on him. That is not on the company; that is on him.And I do think that, you know, we will start seeing more and more chief executive officers, chief security or information security officers becoming accountable to—or for the breaches and being personally accountable or professionally accountable for it. I think we kind of need it, even though, you know, there's only so much a CISO can do.Corey: One of the things that I did when I started consulting independently on AWS bills back in 2016 was, while I was looking at customer environments, I also would do a quick check for a few security baseline things. And I stopped doing it because I kept encountering a bunch of things that needed attention and it completely derailed the entire stated purpose of the engagement. And, frankly, I don't want to be running a security consultancy. There's a reason I focus on AWS bills. And people think I'm kidding, but I swear to you I'm not, when I say that the reason is in part because no one has a middle-of-the-night billing emergency. It is strictly a business-hours problem. Whereas with security, wake up.In fact, the one time I have been woken up in the middle of the night by a customer phone call, they were freaking out because it was a security incident and their bill had just pegged through the stratosphere. It's, “Cool. Fix the security problem first, then we'll worry about the bill during business hours. Bye.” And then I stopped leaving my phone off of Do Not Disturb at night.Chris: Your AWS bill is one of your indicators of compromise. Keep an eye on it.Corey: Oh, absolutely. We've had multiple engagements discover security issues on that. “So, what are these instances in Australia doing?” “We don't have anything there.” “I believe you're being sincere when you say this.”Chris: Yes.Corey: However.Chris: “Last month, you're at $1,000 and this month, you're at $50,000. And oh, by the way, it's the ninth, so you might want to go look at that.”Corey: Here's the problem that you start seeing in large-scale companies though. You or I wind up posting our IAM credentials on GitHub somewhere in public—and I do this from time to time, intentionally with absolutely no permissions attached to a thing—and I started look at the timeline of, “Okay 3, 2, 1, go,” with the push and now I start counting. What happens? At what time does the quarantine policy apply? When do I get an email alert? When do people start trying to exploit it? From where are they trying to exploit it?It's a really interesting thing to look into, just from the position of how this stuff all fits together and works. And that's great, but there's a whole ‘nother piece to it where if you or I were to do such a thing and actually give it admin credentials, okay, my, I don't know, what, $50, $100 a month account that I use for a lot of my test stuff now starts getting charged enormous piles of money that winds up looking like a mortgage in San Francisco, I'm going to notice that. But if you have a company that spending, I don't know, between ten and $20 million a month, do you have any idea how much Bitcoin you've got to be mining in that account to even make a slight dent in the overall trajectory of those accounts?Chris: In the overall bill, a lot. And in a particularly mismanaged account, my experience is you will notice it if you're monitoring billing anomalies on a per-account basis. I think it's important to note, you talked about that quarantine policy. If you look at what actually Amazon drops a deny on, it's effectively start EC2 instances and change IAM policies. It doesn't prevent anybody from listing all your buckets and exfiltrating all your data. It doesn't prevent anybody from firing up Lambdas and other less commonly used resources. Don't assume oh, Amazon dropped the quarantine policy. I'm safe.Corey: I was talking to somebody who spends $4 a month on S3 and they wound up suddenly getting $60 grand a day and Lambda charges, because max out the Lambda concurrency in every region and set it to mine crypto for 15 minutes apiece, yeah, you'll spend $60,000 a day to get, what $500 in crypto. But it's super economical as long as it's in someone else's account. And then Amazon hits them with a straight face on these things, where, “Please pay the bill.” Which is horrifying when there's several orders of magnitude difference between your normal bill and what happens post-breach. But what I did my whole post on “17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS,” followed by “17 More Ways to Run Containers on AWS,” and [unintelligible 00:12:00] about three services away from having a third one ready to go on that, the point is not, “Too many ways to run containers,” because yes, that is true and it's also amusing to me—less so to the containers team at AWS which does not have a sense of humor or sense of self-awareness of which they have been alerted—and fine, but every time you're running a container, it is a way to turn it into a crypto mining operation, in some way shape or form, which means there are almost 40-some-odd services now that can reasonably be used to spin up cryptocurrency mining. And that is the best-case breach scenario in a bunch of ways. It costs a bunch of money and things to clean up, but ‘we lost customer data.' That can destroy companies.Chris: Here's the worst part. Crypto mining is no longer profitable even when I've got stolen API keys because bitcoin's in the toilet. So, now they are going after different things. Actually, the most recent one is they look to see if your account is out of the SCS sandbox and if so, they go back to the tried-and-true way of doing internet scams, which is email spam.Corey: For me, having worked in operations for a very long time, I've been in situations where I worked at Expensify and had access to customer data there. I have worked in other finance companies—I worked at Blackrock. Where I work now, I have access to customer billing data. And let me be serious here for a second, I take all of these things seriously, but I also in all of those roles slept pretty well at night. The one that kept me up was a brief stint I did as the Director of Tech Ops at Grindr over ten years ago because unlike the stuff where I'm spending the rest of my career and my time now, it's not just money anymore.Whereas today, if I get popped, someone can get access to what a bunch of companies are paying AWS. It's scandalous, and I will be sued into oblivion and my company will not exist anymore and I will have a cloud hanging over my head forever. So, I have to be serious about it—Chris: But nobody will die.Corey: Nobody dies. Whereas, “Oh, this person is on Grindr and they're not out publicly,” or they live in a jurisdiction where that is punishable by imprisonment or death, you have blood on your hands, on some level, and I have never wanted that kind of responsibility.Chris: Yeah. It's reasonably scary. I've always been happy to say that, you know, the worst thing that I had to do was keep the Russians off CNN and my friends from downloading Rick and Morty.Corey: Exactly. It's, “Oh, heavens, you're winding up costing some giant conglomerate somewhere theoretical money on streaming subscriptions.” It's not material to the state of the world. And part of it, too, is—what's always informed my approach to things is, I'm not a data hoarder in the way that it seems our entire industry is. For the Last Week in AWS newsletter, the data that I collect and track is pretty freaking small.It's, “You want to sign up for the lastweekinaws.com newsletter. Great, I need your email address.” I don't need your name, I don't need the company you work at. You want to give me a tagged email address? Fine. You want to give me some special address that goes through some anonymizing thing? Terrific. I need to know where I'm sending the newsletter. And then I run a query on that for metrics sometimes, which is this really sophisticated database query called a count. How many subscribers do I have at any given point because that matters to our sponsors. But can we get—you give us any demographic? No, I cannot. I can't. I have people who [unintelligible 00:15:43] follow up surveys sometimes and that's it.Chris: And you're able to make money doing that. You don't have to collect, okay, you know, Chris's zip code is this and Bob's zip code is that and Frank's zip code is the other thing.Corey: Exactly.Chris: Or job titles, or you know, our mother's maiden name or anything else like that.Corey: I talk about what's going on in the world of AWS, so it sort of seems to me that if you're reading this stuff every week, either because of the humor or in spite of the humor, you probably are in a position where services and goods tied to that ecosystem would be well-received by you or one of the other 32,000 people who happen to be reading the newsletter or listening to the podcast or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It's an old-timey business model. It's okay, I want to wind up selling, I don't know, expensive wristwatches. Well, maybe I'll advertise in a magazine that caters to people who have an interest in wristwatches, or caters to a demographic that traditionally buys those wristwatches. And okay, we'll run an ad campaign and see if it works.Chris: It's been traditional advertising, not the micro-targeting stuff. And you know, television was the same way back in the broadcast era, you know? You watched a particular show, people of that demographic who watched that particular show had certain advertisers they wanted.Corey: That part of the challenge I've seen too, from sponsors of this show, for example, is they know it works, but they're trying to figure out how to do any form of attribution on this. And my answer—which sounds self-serving, but it's true—is, there's no effective way to do it because every time you try, like, “Enter this coupon code,” yeah, I assure you, some of these things wind up costing millions of dollars to deploy at large companies at scale and they provide value for doing it. No one's going to punch in a coupon code to get 10% off or something like that. Procurement is going to negotiate custom contracts and it's going to be brought up maybe by someone who heard the podcast ad. Maybe it just sits in the back of their mind until they hear something and it just winds of contributing to a growing awareness of these things.You're never going to do attribution that works on things like that. People try sometimes to, “Oh, you'll get $25 in credit,” or, “We'll give you a free t-shirt if you fill out the form.” Yeah, but now you're biasing for people who find that a material motivator. When I'm debating what security suite I'm going to roll out at my enterprise I don't want a free t-shirt for that. In fact, if I get a free t-shirt and I wear that shirt from the vendor around the office while I'm trying to champion bringing that thing in, I look a little compromised.Chris: Yeah. Yeah, I am—[laugh] I got no response to that [laugh].Corey: No, no. I hear you. One thing I do want to talk about is the last time we spoke, you mentioned you were involved in getting fwd:cloudsec—a conference—off the ground. Like all good cloud security conferences, it's named after an email subject line.It is co-located with re:Inforce this year in Anaheim, California. Somewhat ominously enough, I used to live a block-and-a-half away from the venue. But I don't anymore and in fact, because nobody checks the global event list when they schedule these things, I will be on the other side of the world officiating a wedding the same day. So, yet again, I will not be at re:Inforce.Chris: That is a shame because I think you would have made an excellent person to contribute to our call for papers and attend. So yes, fwd:cloudsec is deliberately actually named after a subject line because all of the other Amazon conferences seem to be that way. And we didn't want to be going backwards and thinking, you know, past tense. We were looking forward to our conference. Yeah, so we're effectively a vendor-neutral cloud security conference. We liked the idea of being able to take the talks that Amazon PR would never allow on stage at re:Inforce and run with it.Corey: I would question that. I do want to call that out because I gave a talk at re:Invent one year about a vulnerability I found and reported, with the help of two other people, Scott Piper and Brandon Sherman, to the AWS security team. And we were able to talk about that on stage with Zack Glick, who at the time, was one of basically God's own prototypes, working over in the AWS environment next to Dan [Erson 00:19:56]. Now, Dan remains the salt of the earth, and if he ever leaves basically just short the entire US economy. It's easier. He is amazing. I digress. The point being is that they were very open about talking about an awful lot of stuff that I would never have expected that they would be okay with.Chris: And last year at re:Inforce, they had an excellent, excellent chalk talk—but it was a chalk talk, not recorded—on how ransomware attacks operate. And they actually, like, revealed some internal, very anonymized patterns of how attacks are working. So, they're starting to realize what we've been saying in the cloud security community for a while, which is, we need more legitimate threat intelligence. On the other hand, they don't want to call it threat intelligence because the word threat is threatening, and therefore, you know, we're going to just call it, you know, patterns or whatever. And our conference is, again, also multi-cloud, a concept that until recently, AWS, you know, didn't really want to acknowledge that there were other clouds and that people would use both of them [crosstalk 00:21:01]—Corey: Multi-cloud security is a nightmare. It's just awful.Chris: Yeah, I don't like multi-cloud, but I've come to realize that it is a thing. That you will either start at a company that says, “We're AWS and we're uni-cloud,” and then next thing, you know, either some rogue developer out there has gone and spun up an Azure subscription or your acquire somebody who's in GCP, or heaven forbid, you have to go into some, you know, tinhorn dictator's jurisdiction and they require you to be on-prem or leverage Oracle Cloud or something. And suddenly, congratulations, you're now multi-cloud. So yes, our goal is really to be the things that aren't necessarily onstage or aren't all just, “It's great.” Even your talk was how great the incident response and vulnerability remediation process was.Corey: How great my experience with it was at the time, to be clear. Because I also have gotten to a point where I am very aware that, in many cases when dealing with AWS, my reputation precedes me. So, when I wind up tweeting about a problem or opening a support case, I do not accept as a given that my experience is what everyone is going to experience. But a lot of the things they did made a lot of sense and I was frankly, impressed that they were willing to just talk about anything that they did internally. Because previously that had not been a thing that they did in open forums like that.Chris: But you go back to the Glue incident where somebody found a bug and they literally went and went to every single CloudTrail event going back to the dawn of the service to validate that, okay, the, only two times we ever saw this happen were between the two researcher's accounts who disclosed it. And so, kudos to them for that level of forward communication to their customers because yeah, I think we still haven't heard anything out of Azure for last year's—or a year-and-a-half ago's Wiz findings.Corey: Well, they did do a broad blog post about this that they put out, which I thought, “Okay, that was great. More of this please.” Because until they start talking about security issues and culture and the remediation thereof, I don't give a shit what they have to say about almost anything else because it all comes back to security. The only things I use Azure for, which admittedly has some great stuff; their computer vision API? Brilliant—but the things I use them for are things that I start from a premise of security is not important to that service.The thing I use it for on the soon-to-be-pivoted to Mastodon Twitter thread client that I built, it writes alt-text for images that are about to be put out publicly. Yeah, there's no security issue from that perspective. I am very hard-pressed to imagine a scenario in which that were not true.Chris: I can come up with a couple, but you know—Corey: It feels really contrived. And honestly, that's the thing that concerns me, too: the fact that I finally read, somewhat recently, an AWS white paper talking about—was it a white paper or was it blog post? I forget the exact media that it took. But it was about how they are seeing ransomware attacks on S3, which was huge because before that, I assumed it was something that was being made up by vendors to sell me something.Chris: So, that was the chalk talk.Corey: Yes.Chris: They finally got the chalk talk from re:Inforce, they gave it again at re:Invent because it was so well received and now they have it as a blog post out there, so that, you know, it's not just for people who show up in the room, they can hear it; it's actually now documented out there. And so, kudos to the Amazon security team for really getting that sort of threat intelligence out there to the community.Corey: Now, it's in writing, and that's something that I can cite as opposed to, “Well, I was at re:Invent and I heard—” Yeah, we saw the drink tab. We know what you might have thought you heard or saw at re:Invent. Give us something we can take to the board.Chris: There were a lot of us on that bar tab, so it's not all you.Corey: Exactly. And it was my pleasure to do it, to be clear. But getting back to fwd:cloudsec, I'm going to do you a favor. Whether it's an actual favor or the word favor belongs in quotes, the way that I submit CFPs, or conference talks, is optimized because I don't want to build a talk that is never going to get picked up. Why bother to go through all the work until I have to give it somewhere?So, I start with a catchy title and then three to five sentences. And if people accept it, great, then I get to build the talk. This is a forcing function in some ways because if you get a little delayed, they will not move the conference for you. I've checked. But the title of a talk that I think someone should submit for fwd:cloudsec is, “I Am Smarter Than You, so Cloud Security is Easy.”And the format and the conceit of the talk is present it with sort of a stand-it-up-to-take-it-down level of approach where you are over-confident in the fact that you are smarter than everyone else and best practices don't apply to you and so much of this stuff is just security theater designed as a revenue extraction mechanism as opposed to something you should actually be doing. And talk about why none of these things matter because you use good security and you know, it's good because you came up with it and there's no way that you could come up with something that you couldn't break because you're smart. It says so right in the title and you're on stage and you have a microphone. They don't. Turn that into something. I feel like there's a great way to turn that in a bunch of different directions. I'd love to see someone give that talk.Chris: I think Nickolas Sharp thought that too.Corey: [laugh]. Exactly. In fact, that will be a great way to bring it back around at the end. And it's like, “And that's why I'm better at security than you are. If you have any questions beyond this, you can reach me at whatever correctional institute I go in on Thursday.” Exactly. There's ways to make it fun and engaging. Because from my perspective, talks have to be entertaining or people don't pay attention.Chris: They're either entertaining, or they're so new and advanced. We're definitely an advanced cloud security practice thing. They were 500 levels. Not to brag or anything, but you know, you want the two to 300-level stuff, you can go CCJ up the street. We're hitting and going above and beyond what a lot of the [unintelligible 00:27:18]—Corey: I am not as advanced on that path as you are; I want to be very clear on this. You speak, I listen. You're one of those people when it comes to security. Because again, no one's life is hanging in the balance with respect to what I do. I am confident in our security posture here, but nothing's perfect. Everything is exploitable, on some level.It's also not my core area of focus. It is yours. And if you are not better than I am at this, then I have done something sort of strange, or so of you, in the same way that it is a near certainty—but not absolute—that I am better at optimizing AWS bills than you are. Specialists exist for a reason and to discount that expertise is the peak of hubris. Put that in your talk.Chris: Yeah. So, one talk I really want to see, and I've been threatening to give it for a while, is okay, if there's seventeen ways—or sorry, seventeen times two, soon to be seventeen times three ways to run containers in AWS, there's that many ways to exfiltrate credentials from those containers. What are all of those things? Do we have a holistic way of understanding, this is how credentials can be exfiltrated so that we then as defenders can go figure out, okay, how do we build detections and mitigations for this?Corey: Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Canarytokens myself, for that exact purpose. There are many devices I have where the only credentials in plain text on disk are things that as soon as they get used, I wind up with a bunch of things screaming at me that there's been a problem and telling me where it is. I'm not saying that my posture is impenetrable. Far from it. But you're going to have to work for it a little bit harder than running some random off-the-shelf security scanner against my AWS account and finding, oops, I forgot to turn on a bucket protection.Chris: And the other area that I think is getting really interesting is, all of the things that have credentials into your Cloud account, whether it's something like CircleCI or GitHub. I was having a conversation with somebody just this morning and we were talking about Roles Anywhere, and I was like, “Roles Anywhere is great if you've got a good strong PKI solution and can keep that private certificate or that certificate you need safe.” If you just put it on a disk, like, you would have put your AKIA and secret on a desk, congratulations, you haven't really improved security. You've just gotten rid of the IAM users that are being flagged in your CSPM tool, and congratulations, you have, in fact, achieved security theater.Corey: It's obnoxious, on some level. And part of the problem is cost and security are aligned and that people care about them right after they really should have cared about them. The difference is you can beg, cry, whine, et cetera to AWS for concessions, you can raise another round of funding; there have solutions with money. But security? That ship has already sailed.Chris: Yeah. Once the data is out, the data is out. Now, I will say on the bill, you get reminded of it every month, about three or four days after. It's like, “Oh. Crap, yeah, I should have turned off that EC2 instance. I just burned $100.” Or, “Oh hey, we didn't turn off that application. I just burned $100,000.” That doesn't happen on security. Security events tend to be few and far between; they're just much bigger when they happen.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to chat with me. I'm sure I'll have you back on between now and re:Inforce slash fwd:cloudsec or anything else we come up with that resembles an email subject line. If people want to learn more and follow along with your adventures—as they should—where's the best place for him to find you these days?Chris: So, I am now pretty much living on Mastodon on the InfoSec Exchange. And my website, chrisfarris.com is where you can find the link to that because it's not just at, you know, whatever. You have to give the whole big long URL in Mastodon. It's no longer—Corey: Yeah. It's like a full-on email address with weird domains.Chris: Exactly, yeah. So, find me at http colon slash slash infosec dot exchange slash at jcfarris. Or just hit Chris Farris and follow the links. For fwd:cloudsec, we are conveniently located at fwdcloudsec.org, which is F-W-D cloud sec dot org. No colons because I don't think those are valid in whois.Corey: Excellent choice. And of course, links to that go in the [show notes 00:31:32], so click the button. It's easier. Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it.Chris: Thank you.Corey: Chris Farris, Cloud Security Nerd at Turbot slash Turbo. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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On this episode, the Retro Movie Geek crew is joined by Chris Ballinger (find more from Chris HERE and HERE), and they're geeking out over The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) and three dimensional characters the cast & director scary voodoo as well as scary reality spiked scrotums and much, much more! Synopsis: Wes Craven directs this terrifying story of one man's nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo. A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LISTENER FEEDBACK: Leave us your voicemail feedback at (484) 577-3876. Check out Darrell's other cool podcasts here. Check out Peter's Retro Reviews over at ForgottenFlix.com here. Check out The Forgotten Flix Podcast here. Special thanks to Kevin Spencer for the fantastic show logo! Special thanks to Hayden for the use of his fantastic music for our opening theme this episode! You can check out more from this amazing artist here! Special thanks to Retro Promenade for the use of music from the album Carpenter. Music use permitted under a Creative Commons license. CLICK HERE and get a copy of the album and support these fantastic artists!

When time is running out on the doomsday clock who is the only person you need to call. Thats right Chris Cogswell from the Mad Scientist Podcast. Jay and Chris talk doomsday clock, hotdogs, and other off beat topics this week. Might as well give it a listen because we are only 90 seconds from midnight. ENJOY!!!!Find more from Chris HERE!!!The Mad Scientist Podcasthttps://twitter.com/MadScientistPodhttp://instagram.com/mad_scientist_cogswellhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mad-scientist-podcast/id1114969265?mt=2FIND MORE FROM US HERE!!!!Email: Projectskepticpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/projectskeptic/Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/project_skeptic_podcasthttps://discord.gg/A7rCytVAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/project_skeptic_podcast/Voicemail: 1-814-299-6919www.projectskeptic.comhttps://www.teepublic.com/user/project-skeptic-podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/ProjectSkepticPodcast

On this episode, the Retro Movie Geek crew is joined by Christian León aka Chris Excess (see more from Chris HERE or HERE), and they're geeking out over Dobermann (1997) and Christini vs. Dobermann "holy crap scenes" the graphic novel look Christian's movie Death Spin low budget moviemaking and much, much more! Synopsis: Ruthless, cunning, and sexy, The Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) is a class-A criminal for the 21st century. Along with his stunning partner Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci), The Dobermann leads a crazy gang of bank robbers into one of the most daring heists of all time. Fearless, insane, and packing some of the most awesomely high-tech weaponry ever seen, Dobermann and his gang are thirsty for action. Hot on their trail is the sadistic renegade cop Christini (Tcheky Karyo) who will break every rule, legal and moral, to personally dispense with The Dobermann. Christini sets a merciless trap for his arch enemy and his gang, which culminates in a relentlessly explosive confrontation, finally bringing the two evils face to face… ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LISTENER FEEDBACK: Leave us your voicemail feedback at (484) 577-3876. Check out Darrell's other cool podcasts here. Check out Peter's Retro Reviews over at ForgottenFlix.com here. Check out The Forgotten Flix Podcast here. Special thanks to Kevin Spencer for the fantastic show logo! Special thanks to Hayden for the use of his fantastic music for our opening theme this episode! You can check out more from this amazing artist here! Special thanks to Retro Promenade for the use of music from the album Carpenter. Music use permitted under a Creative Commons license. CLICK HERE and get a copy of the album and support these fantastic artists!

In Episode 49 of The Thrive Factor Podcast, I interview Chris Odegard.Chris is an author and alternative investment strategy specialist.We talk about investing in real estate, what syndication is,  storage units ATM machines and even energy investments.You can reach out to Chris Here:https://theprolificinvestor.net/You can reach me here:https://www.highimpactmedia.io/Buzzsprout gets your show listed on every major podcast platform.You'll get a great-looking podcast website, audio players that you can drop into other websites, detailed analytics to see how people are listening, tools to promote your episodes, and more. Podcasting isn't hard when you have the right partners.The team at Buzzsprout is passionate about helping you succeed.Join over a hundred thousand podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world.Click here to upgrade ==>https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=265955If you enjoyed this episode please leave a review here:Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-thrive-factor/id1475695133Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/79qbDmAVtQjBp4BAl8qyvzStitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstitchercompodcastthethrivefactor/the-thrive-factor?refid=stprI-Heart Radio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-thrive-factor-47834963/Support the showhttps://www.patreon.com/thrivefactorpodcastSupport the show

In this bonus episode, the Retro Movie Geek crew is joined by Chris Ballinger (find more from Chris HERE and HERE), and they're geeking out over his shorts making movies his background future projects and much, much more! .......................................................................................................................... Be sure to pick up your very own copy of Nathan Tolle's amazing book Pumpkin Cinema: The Best Movies For Halloween! You can get it right HERE! .......................................................................................................................... Special thanks to Midnight Syndicate (find more Midnight Syndicate scares here) for letting us use the tunes Welcome to the Carnival and Mesonoxian Visitors from the album Carnival Arcane, for Spooky Flix Fest 2022! .......................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................... LISTENER FEEDBACK: Leave us your voicemail feedback at (484) 577-3876. Check out Darrell's other cool podcasts here. Check out Peter's Retro Reviews over at ForgottenFlix.com here. Check out The Forgotten Flix Podcast here. Special thanks to Kevin Spencer for the fantastic show logo! Special thanks to Hayden for the use of his fantastic music for our opening theme this episode! You can check out more from this amazing artist here! Special thanks to Retro Promenade for the use of music from the album Carpenter. Music use permitted under a Creative Commons license. CLICK HERE and get a copy of the album and support these fantastic artists!

"I'm very disciplined, consistent, determined, and straightforward, you know, and I formulated a couple of skincare lines, so I know a lot about ingredients, and it's something that I live every day, so I do what I live every day This is Chris Gibson's story...Chris Gibson is a skincare expert and YouTuber who has been working in the industry for over 20 years. He has written a book on skincare and has appeared on television to share his knowledge with the world.I've always been interested in health and wellness, and my journey with skincare began when I was 11 years old and started having acne problems. I tried all the traditional treatments, but nothing worked. So I started learning about nutrition and aesthetics and figuring out what worked for me on my own. In 2004, I wrote a booklet on my findings, and it became a bestseller. I started doing television appearances and became known as a skincare expert. In 2018, I decided to start a YouTube channel to share my knowledge with a wider audience. I'm now 59 years old and still going strong, sharing everything I know about skincare and how to age gracefully.In this episode, you will learn the following:1. How lifestyle choices can affect skin health2. The importance of nutrition and skincare3. The benefits of using non-invasive therapies for anti-agingConnect with  Chris Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisgibsonlivehttps://www.tiktok.com/@skincarewithchrislinktr.ee/chrisgibsonfriendsWant to share your story I would love to connect email me at thyme4teamikita@gmail.comFollow me on IG https://www.instagram.com/thyme4teawithmikita/Support the show

Episode SummaryChris Curran is the founder and lead instructor of Podcast Engineering School, teaching folks how to produce podcasts at the highest professional level. He also hosts The Podcast Engineering Show and The Mystic Show. Today, Harry and Chris reflect on spirituality, overcoming limiting beliefs and Chris' expertise in the audio and recording industry. Episode SponsorFocusrite –http://pcjk.es/focusrite ( )http://pcjk.es/vocaster (http://pcjk.es/vocaster) FullCast –https://fullcast.co/ ( https://fullcast.co/) Key Takeaways06:26 – Harry and his good friend and Founder of Podcast Engineering School, Chris Curran catch each other up on all of their latest projects, including the Vertical Farming Podcast 14:09 – Politics, anarchism, and the otherworldly 21:13 – Chris reflects on his spirituality and his liberating journey 28:00 – Leaping beyond your limits 36:32 – Chris' most recent metamorphosis 43:53 – Trends Chris has observed in the podcasting industry 46:23 – Something Chris has changed his mind about recently 49:40 – Harry thanks Chris for joining the show and lets listeners know where they can go to connect with him Tweetable Quotes“Americans are the most ungrateful people ever, like in the history of the world.” (13:53) (Chris) “To me, as a human being, I'm more interested in the unseen, the things that you can't see with your eyes, which is 99.9999 percent of your life is unseen. You can't see it, but it's there. And you know it's there. There's such a depth to this human experience. And to just get caught up in the day-to-day news cycle is so superficial. And again, everyone is on their journey, and all the phases of the journey are good.” (18:37) (Chris) “Our bodies are what they are. Our soul is pure; it's part of God. So, our soul is what it is. Our body is what it is. So, the mind is the only thing that we can change, or manipulate, or massage, or improve, or regulate.” (23:09) (Chris) “If you don't regulate your mind, what happens is your mind runs rampant. You should be the master of your mind. Your mind should not be the master of you.” (27:34) (Chris) “Here's part of the problem. I'm a professional in the audio and recording industry. So, if I try to sing something, I can actually hear how bad it is.” (42:32) (Chris) Resources MentionedChris' LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/fractalchriscurran/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fractalchriscurran/) Chris' Podcasts: The Podcast Engineering School Show – https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/show/ (https://podcastengineeringschool.com/category/show/) The Mystic Show – http://themysticshow.net/host/ (http://themysticshow.net/host/) Chris' Book: Leap Beyond Your Limits – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599303426/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599303426/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) Podcast Engineering School – https://podcastengineeringschool.com/ (https://podcastengineeringschool.com/) Podcast Engineering School YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/PodcastEngineeringSchool (https://www.youtube.com/c/PodcastEngineeringSchool) Podcast Engineering School Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/podcastengineer/ (https://www.instagram.com/podcastengineer/) Podcast Engineering School Twitter – https://twitter.com/podcastengineer (https://twitter.com/podcastengineer) Podcast Engineering School LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/podcast-engineering-school/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/podcast-engineering-school/) Uncut – https://uncut.fm/ (https://uncut.fm/) Books Mentioned: Communion – https://www.amazon.com/Communion (https://www.amazon.com/Communion) Podcast Junkies Website: https://www.podcastjunkies.com/ (podcastjunkies.com) Podcast Junkies YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Podcastjunkies/ (https://www.youtube.com/c/Podcastjunkies/) Podcast Junkies Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastjunkiesjunkies/...

It's the OVERTIME Episode where the LTG Podcast Crew breaks down our most recent interview with Chris Stanley, DYD - Illinois. Connect with Chris HERE.Connect with Eran HERE.Connect with Gilbert HERE.Connect with Caleb HERE.Connect with Jordan HERE.Connect with Colin HERE.Connect with LTG HERE.Get more info on Lead the Generation at www.leadthegeneration.comWanna go deeper into leadership?  Check our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EranHoltEran's LinktreeLTG's LinktreeBe a part of changing the world by providing clean drinking water to over 790 million people in Africa who walk for hours every day to find water.  We can each do our part through our partnership with World Serve International.  Get more info HERE.

Join "The Student Leadership Podcast" hosts Eran Holt & Gilbert Ackerman as we talk leadership with students.Special thanks to our guest for this episode - Chris Stanley, District Youth Director, IllinoisConnect with Chris HERE.Connect with Eran HERE.Connect with Gilbert HERE.Connect with Lead the Generation HERE.Get more info on Lead the Generation at www.leadthegeneration.comWanna go deeper into leadership?  Check our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EranHoltEran's LinktreeLTG's LinktreeBe a part of changing the world by providing clean drinking water to over 790 million people in Africa who walk for hours every day to find water.  We can each do our part through our partnership with World Serve International.  Get more info HERE.

It's the OVERTIME Episode where the LTG Podcast Crew breaks down our most recent interview with Chris Stanley, DYD - Illinois. Connect with Chris HERE.Connect with Eran HERE.Connect with Gilbert HERE.Connect with Caleb HERE.Connect with Jordan HERE.Connect with Colin HERE.Connect with LTG HERE.Get more info on Lead the Generation at www.leadthegeneration.comWanna go deeper into leadership?  Check our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EranHoltEran's LinktreeLTG's LinktreeBe a part of changing the world by providing clean drinking water to over 790 million people in Africa who walk for hours every day to find water.  We can each do our part through our partnership with World Serve International.  Get more info HERE.

Join "The Student Leadership Podcast" hosts Eran Holt & Gilbert Ackerman as we talk leadership with students.Special thanks to our guest for this episode - Chris Stanley, District Youth Director, IllinoisConnect with Chris HERE.Connect with Eran HERE.Connect with Gilbert HERE.Connect with Lead the Generation HERE.Get more info on Lead the Generation at www.leadthegeneration.comWanna go deeper into leadership?  Check our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EranHoltEran's LinktreeLTG's LinktreeBe a part of changing the world by providing clean drinking water to over 790 million people in Africa who walk for hours every day to find water.  We can each do our part through our partnership with World Serve International.  Get more info HERE.

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss James Bickert's Dear God No! WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/94DXPO59kbA https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/Sinfulcelluloid/ For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. The Last Duel is a 2021 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon, based on the 2004 book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager. Set in medieval France, the film stars Damon as Jean de Carrouges, a knight who challenges his former friend, squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) to a judicial duel after Jean's wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer), accuses Jacques of raping her. The events leading up to the duel are divided into three distinct chapters, reflecting the contradictory perspectives of the three main characters. Affleck also stars in a supporting role as Count Pierre d'Alençon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss Ridley Scott's The Last Duel WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/viLoTQZHPN8 https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/Sinfulcelluloid/ For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. The Last Duel is a 2021 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon, based on the 2004 book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager. Set in medieval France, the film stars Damon as Jean de Carrouges, a knight who challenges his former friend, squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) to a judicial duel after Jean's wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer), accuses Jacques of raping her. The events leading up to the duel are divided into three distinct chapters, reflecting the contradictory perspectives of the three main characters. Affleck also stars in a supporting role as Count Pierre d'Alençon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Chris Haghirian worked for The KC Star for 21 years and helped launch INK in April of 2008 where he put together music promotions and events for them. He has worked with and organizes music for, Boulevardia, The Plaza Art Fair, The Kansas City Royals and so much more. With Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine, Chris makes The Middle of The Map Fest happen each year and is looking forward to celebrating the upcoming tenth year of the festival. During COVID, along with John K at Propaganda 3, Chris produced KC Bands Together, a fundraiser for MMF that raised over $42,000 to help keep KC area musicians afloat during these crazy times. Chris gets to share his amazing passion for the Kansas City music scene as host of Eight One Sixty, heard Tuesday nights at 6:00 pm, on 90.9 The Bridge. Chris shares what drives him to invest build so many things in the musical and artistic worlds of Kansas City and beyond. We also have a great discussion about the future of music and the steps artists need to take right now to establish themselves in the new music industry. He also shares the artists he's been listening to and watching that are applying themselves in this way. Connect with Chris Here:concertchris@gmail.com Check out Spray KC instagram.com/spray_kc

Chris Haghirian worked for The KC Star for 21 years and helped launch INK in April of 2008 where he put together music promotions and events for them. He has worked with and organizes music for, Boulevardia, The Plaza Art Fair, The Kansas City Royals and so much more. With Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine, Chris makes The Middle of The Map Fest happen each year and is looking forward to celebrating the upcoming tenth year of the festival. During COVID, along with John K at Propaganda 3, Chris produced KC Bands Together, a fundraiser for MMF that raised over $42,000 to help keep KC area musicians afloat during these crazy times. Chris gets to share his amazing passion for the Kansas City music scene as host of Eight One Sixty, heard Tuesday nights at 6:00 pm, on 90.9 The Bridge. Chris shares what drives him to invest build so many things in the musical and artistic worlds of Kansas City and beyond. We also have a great discussion about the future of music and the steps artists need to take right now to establish themselves in the new music industry. He also shares the artists he's been listening to and watching that are applying themselves in this way. Connect with Chris Here:concertchris@gmail.com Check out Spray KC instagram.com/spray_kc

While the festive season is meant to be a time for friends, family, and connection, it often goes hand in hand with stress, high expectations, and an impossibly long to-do list. Many people are spread thin over this period as they wrap up their work commitments, attend a swell of social engagements and prepare to host an influx of family members. With all of these different elements vying for your attention, it can be extremely challenging to be present in the moment. This is especially true for business owners, who often feel the full weight of responsibility for their enterprise, particularly if they haven't learned to trust their team. While it may seem inconsequential, there is a huge cost to not being present in the moment, depriving you of moments of connection and joy. In this episode, we explore the power of being present, why it requires so much trust, and how to embark on a lifelong journey of learning to live in the present. As we gear up for the holidays, tune in to learn how you can find your way back into the present when things get overwhelming, and why it matters!Key Points From This Episode:This week we talk about being present during the holidays.How the human condition prevents us from living in the moment.How work emails, texts, and phone calls can distract us from the present moment.Why learning to be present is integral to living an outstanding life, both in and outside of work.Why the temptation to not live in the present doesn't dissipate.Why it's important to build a practice to help you live in the moment.How the holiday season spreads people too thin and how that affects one's ability to live in the moment.How Chris has learned to live in the present over the past few years.Learn about the hidden cost of not being present: it robs you of connection and joy.Why being present requires trust, especially if you're a business owner.Trusting your team is an integral part of being more present in your everyday life.Why being present means trusting that our friends and our families value our time and attention more than our dollars.How to recognize whether you're trading dollars for time, attention, and presence.Why learning to live in the present is a lifelong journey of mastery.How deep breathing can bring you back into the present moment.How to create an anchor when you've lost control and you need to redirect your thoughts.Why it's not the first thought that counts, but the second.A reminder that your worth as a human being is not determined by your results.How practicing gratitude can help you live in the moment.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Relentless Growth Podcast EP 54: Stop Wasting Your Potential and Purpose with Pat MancusoGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Welcome to another episode of Relentless Growth! During today's conversation, we cover two topics. The first is a practical peek into what it looks like to coach with Goodman Coaching, and the three ways you can get involved, which include Breakthrough Coaching's one-on-one sessions, Group Coaching for business owners, and one-on-one coaching with Chris, tailored specifically to you. Next, we dive into the tough topic of upholding your standards even when it is uncomfortable. There is a daily temptation we all face to break or bend our standards and Chris tells us what he has observed: that the most successful people are the ones who are at least willing to look at why. It's not about never breaking a standard, but rather examining the reasons you are tempted to bend it. Chris shares a personal story of how he had to put boundaries in place with a client to illustrate why we need to push through discomfort in order to succeed. Join us to hear which steps you can take to excel as you wish to in life. Thanks for tuning in!Key Points From This Episode:The three ways to work with Goodman Coaching.The Breakthrough Coaching option: one-on-one sessions with Audrey and Renee, three times a month.Group Coaching: the 24 hours to freedom group coaching program for business owners.Client Feedback that three sessions in, they were already having their best month ever.One-on-one coaching with Chris for six or twelve months including weekly phone calls with conversations customized to you and your specific needs.How coaches don't graduate out of having to deal with the drama in their heads.The daily temptation we all face to break our standards and how Chris has seen that the most successful people are those who are at least willing to look at why. Why it's not that they won't break a standard, but rather that they will examine the reasons.Chris tells the story of how he had to put boundaries in place with a client. How we need to push through discomfort like we would during fitness training. Why you get what you settle for and tolerate in life.What you need to ask yourself: who do you need to become to get what you want?How the first step is to get really clear on what to do. Why everyone needs a coach or mentor to guide them to excel as they wish to.A reminder of the three ways to get involved with Goodman Coaching in order to do so. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Goodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss The Return of the Living Dead. WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/sJ7usxvLhpQ https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/Sinfulcelluloid/ For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss Conan The Barbarian. WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/9FYTdsSaq7A https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/Sinfulcelluloid/ For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Some people go through extreme experiences that trigger a change inside them, leading them to step out of their comfort zone and into their calling. Finding our life's purpose is something we all deserve though; it is possible for all of us to do and does not require us to experience something traumatic first. All we have to do is learn to believe in ourselves. When Dr. Justin Moseley had a near-death experience in 2018, this led him to realize that his calling is helping others discover their life's purpose, and he joins us on the show today to talk about his journey and philosophy. We hear about the crisis our guest endured while kayaking and how this triggered the shift he made from owning a seven-figure business into serving others. We speak about how to replace the critical inner voices we all suffer from with a firm sense of self-belief through reflection and meditation. Our conversation also covers many of the resources that have made the biggest impact on Dr. Moseley throughout his journey of self-development and personal growth. If you want to learn how to make the shift toward living intentionally and doing the thing you were always meant to, this is the episode for you.Key Points From This Episode:The near-death experience that triggered Dr. Moseley's pivot into mindset coaching.Getting out of our comfort zones and following our calling instead.The journey Dr. Moseley took to grow his personal and mindset coaching calling.How to see the finding of your calling as a matter of life and death.Finding out if you are playing too small by evaluating your purpose and passions.How Dr. Moseley handled the business side of his new passion for serving others.Dr. Moseley's methods of making an impact through self-belief, speaking, and other events.Following your heart's desire versus a pre-defined, step-by-step method.The centrality of self-belief in success and how to find it through meditation.Shifting the body from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.How to get started with meditation by starting small and focusing on breathing.Handling conflict with empathy and by learning see things from another's point of view.The process of overcoming self-limiting beliefs and past painful experiences.Living life motivated by a central force in the form of a desire to serve.Dr. Moseley's favorite books relating to business and finding your purpose.How to get in touch with Dr. Moseley and join his summit.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Dr. Justin MoseleyDr. Justin Moseley on LinkedInDr. Justin Moseley on TwitterDr. Justin Moseley on InstagramComfort to Calling SummitTen Percent HappierNuCalmThink and Grow RichYou Are a Badass at Making MoneyRocket FuelChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

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Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss horror films set in space. WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/5C861fvl7h0 https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/Sinfulcelluloid/ For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

If you're having trouble ceding control and delegating tasks, you are not alone. In Chris' recent group, consisting primarily of CEOs and busy entrepreneurs, 85 percent of them expressed struggling with delegation, citing it as their number one concern that they needed coaching on. Today's guest, Lindsey Mango, has dealt with this challenge extensively, not only in her own life but also as a high-level coach. There are plenty of reasons for leaders to have a tough time delegating tasks and responsibilities to their teams. These include perfectionism, a fear of failure and not trusting your team to consistently achieve your high standards. While it may be difficult to overcome these obstacles and fears, the payoff can have an immense impact on your life and business. In our conversation, Lindsey breaks down how she learned to trust her team by allowing them to fail and why it's essential for entrepreneurs to delegate effectively and recognize the importance of rest. She explains how she is able to have a 15-hour workweek without it impacting her bottom line and why this is possible for anyone who is building a business. To learn more about the power of delegation and what you can do to master this essential skill, tune in today!Key Points From This Episode:Lindsey shares some exciting personal news.Why entrepreneurs need to learn how to delegate.How perfectionism can stop individuals from delegating.The relationship between perfectionism and feeling worthy in life and business.The difference between delegating when you're working 80 hours a week, versus 15 hours a week.Recognizing the importance of time spent on rest and the things that bring you joy.Lindsey breaks down where her business is currently in terms of size and income.Why Lindsey views delegation and leverage as the same thing.Some of the reasons why business owners have trouble ceding control to their employees.How Lindsey gives her employees room to fail and her process for evaluating and inspecting work.The most important thing Lindsey has delegated and the impact it has had.How Lindsey learned to be comfortable trusting that other people would reach her high standard.How to build trust with your employees: don't micromanage, and allow them the opportunity to earn your trust.How your relationship with failure impacts your business and how you delegate.How Lindsey helps other business owners build the right team with the right people.The impact of hiring someone who cares about the outcome as much as you do.Lindsey's advice for anyone struggling to delegate.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Lindsey MangoAnything but Average Lindsey Mango on InstagramGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss horror film soundtracks. WITH VIDEO - https://youtu.be/c8FONVcXJG8 https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! Jenna's Vampire Hookers Teaser - https://youtu.be/fKuohmtiW9c Vampire Hookers - https://youtu.be/T05u2NW1a-M For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss satanic cult films. https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! Jenna's Vampire Hookers Teaser - https://youtu.be/fKuohmtiW9c Vampire Hookers - https://youtu.be/T05u2NW1a-M For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss vampires, nosferatus, draculas, and other bloodsuckers in film. https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS Make sure to watch these and subscribe to Chris' new Sinful Celluloid channel! Jenna's Vampire Hookers Teaser - https://youtu.be/fKuohmtiW9c Vampire Hookers - https://youtu.be/T05u2NW1a-M For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Imagine moving to a new country and then joining their army only four years later? Imagine then becoming a captain in the army, one of the most prestigious ranks there are? Well, today's guest Renea Jones Hudson achieved this and so much more. After serving in the military for over 21 years, Renea decided to retire. This spur-of-the-moment decision meant that she had no plans, but she knew that she was ready for a change. She wanted to do something more for herself and her family, which led her to open IslandJam fitness, her online fitness company that started out of her garage in 2016. She continues to inspire her clients to be the best in every way they can be. In this episode, we talk about Renea's journey and what led her to join the military. As someone who has always been highly motivated, Renea thrived in a structured environment where she could focus on doing her best. She shares how she climbed up the ranks and how she felt when she got to the peak of her success. If your belief is that suffering is temporary, you have to believe that happiness is too, which is why Renea understands the value of chasing something deeper than that. Our conversation also touches on why you should not make excuses, the power of slowing down, and what you can do if you are looking to start your personal growth journey.Key Points From This Episode:Get to know today's guest, Renea Jones Hudson.What drove Renea to become a captain in the army!Why Renea was so drawn to soldiers when she was younger.What Renea's childhood was like and why she is so wise beyond her years.Advice Renea would give her younger self.An example in Renea's life of the fact that there are no coincidences.The value that mentorship and teachers have played in Renea's life.The innate curiosity that Renea was born with.Renea's experience of leaving the military and the shock of re-entering the civilian world.How Renea figures out what to charge; you have to know your worth.Your pricing shows the world how you value yourself.Why Renea believes that there is no room for excuses.A hardship Renea faced that made her realize how powerless you become when you shift the blame.The work Renea has had to do to learn to slow down.High achievers are prone to burnout because they think they have never done enough.What an ideal work situation for Renea would look like. Renea's advice for those who are looking to start their personal growth journey.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Rene Jones HudsonRenea Jones Hudson on InstagramThe Prosperous CoachGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss their favorite and least favorite sequels. https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Not all of us are ultramarathon athletes, extreme sports enthusiasts, or adrenaline junkies. And we don't need to be, to learn the same life lessons taught in these intense scenarios. In today's episode, we find out how hanging onto a chain 1500 feet off the ground taught everyman Chris Goodman three essential life lessons, and how you can apply them to your own life. Over the course of a retreat to Zion National Park, Chris climbed a mountain, hiked a canyon, and raced an ATV over the desert. Tune in to find out how each of these experiences taught Chris that he is stronger, can go further and faster than he thought. While these eye-opening experiences are unique, the perspective gained from them applies to all aspects of life; you simply need a guide to push you. When a coach goes faster, you keep up. Discover how Chris leaned into the chaos, and what this can do for you. He breaks down conditioning yourself to believe in yourself and advises on getting out of living life in the slow lane. Whether it's your physical, emotional, or professional metaphorical gas tank that feels empty, there are ways to dig deep and succeed; you only have to go all in. Don't miss out on exploring your potential in this exciting episode!Key Points From This Episode:An introduction to what Chris has been up to in the last two weeks.Book now for the upcoming 4-month group on personal and professional growth!How a retreat in Zion National Park gave Chris a new perspective.Life lessons learned from Chris' own coaches.Find out how you can control disempowering thoughts and anxiety.How to identify situations in your life that you are avoiding. Why it's important to be honest with yourself.How to apply lessons learned in one scenario to all aspects of your life.Climbing a literal mountain: how Chris found out he's stronger than he thought he was.Why you can always push yourself to go further.Learn to go faster: how racing ATVs changed Chris's perspective.From organizing your house and life to relationships, and business; why you can benefit from a guide. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Goodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss their favorite and least favorite sequels. https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss which horror movie era is their favorite as well as best... https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ Follow the show on Instagram HERE - https://www.instagram.com/sincellpodcast/ PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the streaming show. Something that will change in the future. Movies mentioned in this episode: Scream of the Demon Lover - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_of_the_Demon_Lover The Werewolf Versus Vampire Women - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Noche_de_Walpurgis The Blood on Satan's Claw - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_on_Satan%27s_Claw The House That Dripped Blood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_That_Dripped_Blood Tombs of the Blind Dead - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombs_of_the_Blind_Dead Virgin Witch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Witch Twins of Evil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_of_Evil The Flesh and Blood Show - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flesh_and_Blood_Show Horror Express - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express Tower of Evil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Evil The Hanging Woman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanging_Woman Let Sleeping Corpses Lie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Sleeping_Corpses_Lie_(film) Eyeball - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball_(film) The Murder Mansion - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067396/ The Ghoul - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghoul_(1975_film) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

Writers, Producers, Filmmakers Christopher M. Jimenez and Jeff Frumess discuss the filmography and career of Quentin Tarantino. PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube. Something that will change in the future. __________________________________________________________ https://linktr.ee/FRUMESS For GREAT horror movie recommendations, follow Chris HERE - @sinfulcelluloid on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sinfulcelluloid/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frumess/support

For many business owners, often the fears associated with scaling a team can become a massive hurdle to their business's greater success. Today we discuss what it looks like when business owners don't want to get out of their own way to get some leverage so they don't have to do everything themselves. In this episode, our host, Chris Goodman, pulls back the curtain on what he's personally been working through as he explains how he recently brought on two new coaches. He breaks down the fears he had to work through in order to make this step, including the fear of failure, the fear of being too successful, and the fear that someone else may not be good enough at doing what he does. He describes how things began to fall into place for him after he started considering the question, “What if it works?” and why you should do this too. Tune in today to find out not only how to overcome this hurdle but also practical steps on what to do when you have decided to grow your team. Find out what important factors you should consider before hiring someone, how to build a good working relationship with them, and how to coach them to do a good job so you don't have to do everything in your business. For all this and more, tune in today!Key Points From This Episode:An introduction to today's topic on what happens when business owners don't want to take help from a team. Chris celebrates the win that he and Lindsay are having a baby.How this episode is aimed at those business owners who want to get out of their own way.How Chris recently brought on two new coaches. How hard it was for Chris to get over this hurdle.  The problem of perfectionism and someone else not being good enough at what you do. Thoughts on the fear of failure and the fear of being too successful. How Chris's desire to impact more people is what led him to overcome all these fears.Why you should consider “What if it works?” and how this worked for Chris.How the discomfort that comes with being responsible for others leads to growth.The power of the question: “What would be the one thing you could do that if you did it, everything else would be easier or totally unnecessary?”The temptation to fall back into the old fears when you start to scale your business.How more money doesn't solve the problem, it just changes what the fear looks like. The first tip to grow your team: get clear on your business and personal values so you can find someone who matches them. The importance of building a sense of trust, fostering accountability, and being clear on expectations.Why you need clarity of process. Why you should allow it to be messy and lean into the chaos. How to get permission to help someone improve their performance. The importance of coaching team members, training them, and equipping them to do a good job. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Goodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

1 00:00:03.570 --> 00:00:04.259 Paul Casey: Here we go. 2 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:24.840 Paul Casey: it's a great day to grow forward, and thank you for joining me for today's episode with Chris Porter Chris is partner at Porter Kinney and a fun fact about him is he says he's a little germ of phobic or at least people think he is Chris you gotta go get a color on that one. 3 00:00:25.620 --> 00:00:40.440 Chris: Well it's true it's just been a joke a long standing joke going back decades about my German phobia one time for a birthday present somebody gave me some jello with a hand sanitizer inside the jello just to make sure the agenda was clean. 4 00:00:41.220 --> 00:00:45.330 Chris: The whole bottle of hand sanitizer was kind of molded within the jello and that was my. 5 00:00:46.830 --> 00:00:52.530 Paul Casey: love it love it well, we will dive in after checking in with our tri city influencers sponsor. 6 00:00:53.460 --> 00:01:00.810 Paul Casey: Thank you for your support of leadership development in the tri cities well welcome Chris I was privileged to meet you. 7 00:01:01.140 --> 00:01:09.480 Paul Casey: Man it feels like eight or 10 years ago now, when I visited a you're being I grew up your business networking international group I was a sub and. 8 00:01:09.990 --> 00:01:26.970 Paul Casey: ended up joining be and I certainly after that I think it was 2015 I joined the and I and it's been a great thing ever since and you were able to speak at one of my edge events when we used to do those when we combine pizza and professional development that was fun. 9 00:01:27.870 --> 00:01:28.380 Chris: that's right. 10 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:43.770 Paul Casey: And you spoke for mid Columbia score I think once on the same topic and I just love, how you want to help other businesses out of wide rookie mistakes as you would call them and really help them thrive, as they as they launch and in those first years of development. 11 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:45.420 Absolutely. 12 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:57.060 Paul Casey: Well, how far Tracy and implication to know you better tell us about what your organization does what you spend 80% of your day doing. 13 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:08.430 Chris: yeah so porter Kenny we're a CPA firm and accounting firm, so we provide tax preparation services and other accounting services for individuals and businesses. 14 00:02:09.630 --> 00:02:25.170 Chris: So business could come to us for tax advice for the preparation of their annual tax return and then also if they wanted us to run their payroll for them, keep their books up to date, help them make good business decisions, you know we're here to support small businesses in the tri cities. 15 00:02:25.950 --> 00:02:32.190 Paul Casey: Great stuff and So what do you end up spending most of your day as a partner, doing same thing or other stuff. 16 00:02:32.970 --> 00:02:38.790 Chris: yeah i'm about split 5050 right now, half the time i'll work on client work, making sure. 17 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:45.960 Chris: You know i'm filing my clients tax returns on time, helping them make strategic business moves avoid taxes were legally possible. 18 00:02:46.410 --> 00:03:02.520 Chris: And then the other half of my day is spent on management training employees on sales on trying to improve the business, you know, sometimes with leadership we talked about working in the business versus working on the business and i'm about split 5050 between those two right now. 19 00:03:03.210 --> 00:03:11.220 Paul Casey: Nice and, as we were talking before we started recording you're in a major growth spurt in just the last couple of years right. 20 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.150 Chris: yeah about two years ago, we have seven full time staff at porter kinney and now we have 24 so. 21 00:03:18.210 --> 00:03:20.430 Chris: Definitely had some growth over the last couple years. 22 00:03:20.610 --> 00:03:22.440 Paul Casey: amazing congratulations. 23 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.310 Chris: Thank you. 24 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:25.590 Paul Casey: Why do you love to do what to do. 25 00:03:26.970 --> 00:03:34.350 Chris: You know I just have always enjoyed business It just seems like something that's really fun it's almost like you're playing a strategy game. 26 00:03:34.770 --> 00:03:46.320 Chris: And if you make the right moves you're going to win, and if you don't think clearly enough or you make a mistake you're going to lose and it's just kind of this it's kind of a big game big game of chess. 27 00:03:47.190 --> 00:03:53.430 Chris: Ever since I was probably 10 or 11 i've wanted to start a business in fact i'll tell you Paul, the first business I ever started. 28 00:03:54.180 --> 00:04:06.090 Chris: A friend of mine His name was john and my name is Chris so we got together and we said we're going to combine our two names and we're going to start a lawn mowing business, so instead of Chris and john we call it crowd. 29 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.000 Chris: It was cron lawn. 30 00:04:09.540 --> 00:04:10.740 Chris: Which arrives. 31 00:04:14.010 --> 00:04:14.580 Chris: So. 32 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:23.280 Chris: That was me as a 10 or 11 year old try to be entrepreneurial but i've had a million business ideas, since then and thankfully at least one of them has worked. 33 00:04:24.390 --> 00:04:31.350 Paul Casey: How did you land on accounting and tax prep from all those business ideas, how did you sort through land on that one. 34 00:04:32.010 --> 00:04:45.870 Chris: You know it's what I did when I was at byu That was what my degree was in was accounting, so it was kind of the most natural fit, of course, to start an accounting firm when you have a background in accounting when you have work experience and accounting and a degree in accounting. 35 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.600 Chris: So that's how I settled on that, but yeah I have debated about doing other businesses but. 36 00:04:52.740 --> 00:05:06.360 Chris: I know a lot of tri cities business owners that have their foot in you know many different businesses, they maybe have a portfolio of five to 10 different businesses that hasn't worked for my own personality, I like to be laser focused on just one one business. 37 00:05:06.690 --> 00:05:20.820 Paul Casey: Absolutely so who do you surround yourself with on your team, what makes a great team Member for you to hang around and also who do you who do you tend to associate with in the Community outside of porter kinney. 38 00:05:22.140 --> 00:05:29.940 Chris: Well, within porter Kenny, we have tried to hire the best person for each position and it's interesting as you try to grow a business. 39 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:42.300 Chris: there's the lowest hanging fruit employees and that's going to be, you know your brother or your sister or your friend or your neighbor just kind of the people that are around around you that you know that maybe you're looking for a job. 40 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:53.820 Chris: You could always hire one of them, but but really it is very important if you've read the book good to great you know, Jim Collins really emphasizes putting the right people on the right seat on the bus. 41 00:05:54.450 --> 00:06:06.150 Chris: And spending a lot of time hiring I read a book recently by Dave ramsey who recommends the same thing Dave ramsey says he does like two months of interviews before he hires anyone yeah. 42 00:06:06.690 --> 00:06:18.510 Chris: So we have been very careful in the hiring process to hire the right person for each position, not to hire the easiest person or the lowest hanging fruit or the person that we know or the person we attend, you know church with. 43 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:29.700 Chris: When we hire someone it's it's probably at least 30 hours of my time before we make that higher and so that I think we just have an outstanding team that doesn't need to be micromanaged. 44 00:06:30.270 --> 00:06:37.200 Paul Casey: yeah the measure twice cut once principal at a boss through always said that in hiring you got to do that so way to go. 45 00:06:37.470 --> 00:06:38.760 Chris: Absolutely yeah. 46 00:06:39.690 --> 00:06:43.110 Paul Casey: For outside the organization one who helps you be successful. 47 00:06:43.860 --> 00:06:55.320 Chris: yeah so that's a great question outside the organization, you know, there are a few of business leaders in the Community, that I really respect and i've intentionally take them to lunch and pick their brain and. 48 00:06:55.950 --> 00:07:00.060 Chris: You know it's always good to maintain a spirit of humility about what we do. 49 00:07:00.510 --> 00:07:09.090 Chris: I will be the first to admit that there are you know hundreds of business owners in this area that that do a much better job than I do, and I want to learn from them, I want to. 50 00:07:09.510 --> 00:07:21.720 Chris: have them be my mentor and you know they're further ahead than I am in their business they've been doing it longer than I have and it's good for me to sit down with them over lunch ask him questions learn things from them. 51 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:36.870 Paul Casey: yeah in fact that's on my list there's no that the reason for this podcast was I did what you did, which is take a leader to lunch, and then I thought, what if everybody else could listen in on that conversation, which is how we've gotten to the truth of the input their podcasts, though. 52 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:40.770 Paul Casey: yeah i'm taking me to lunch, right now, but maybe i'll have to send you a grub hub or some. 53 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:41.520 instead. 54 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:58.380 Chris: Well i'll tell you Paul and this ties in several years ago, I took a very successful tri cities business owner out to lunch to anthony's and I sat down with them, and he had grown a business from from one person from just him to over 500 employees. 55 00:07:58.890 --> 00:08:00.660 Chris: As well as the 100% owner. 56 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:07.320 Chris: And then he sold the business for a very large sum which enabled him to you know be financially secure for the rest of his life. 57 00:08:08.010 --> 00:08:19.230 Chris: And I asked him, you know what What was your secret and one of the things that he told me really has stayed with me, and that is, he said, Chris I grew my business one strategic higher at a time. 58 00:08:19.320 --> 00:08:26.040 Chris: um and I thought that was a great focus, because so many of us think about growing our business one customer at a time. 59 00:08:26.850 --> 00:08:35.610 Chris: Well that's also true there's kind of two sides of the coin right, we have to add customers, we have to have clients, we have to you know, keep them satisfied and offer a high level of service to them. 60 00:08:36.060 --> 00:08:47.370 Chris: But the other side of the coin is getting the right people in the business like I mentioned earlier, one strategic hire at a time that's how he went from one employee to 600 employees, to a large sale. 61 00:08:47.880 --> 00:09:03.480 Paul Casey: That is so good, I hear also that the only way you're going to really bust out and grow is, you have to hire leaders, not just followers but leaders that's going to help you to multiply hiring followers just as addition so yeah great stuff one strategic fire at a time. 62 00:09:03.780 --> 00:09:18.120 Chris: yeah and Paul you hit the nail on the head, you also do not want to be intimidated it's okay to hire someone who's smarter than you it's okay to hire someone that's more educated than you are you don't have to be intimidated by that get the best people on your team and grow together. 63 00:09:18.870 --> 00:09:30.060 Paul Casey: Great stuff and speaking of growth leaders have growth mindset So how do you keep evolving as a leader what's in your own personal and professional development plan. 64 00:09:31.710 --> 00:09:48.480 Chris: What are the things i've done, I really love listening to books on my phone I use audible and I like to listen to business books yeah, but I have long time for a long time i've had the philosophy that you shouldn't consume information faster than you're able to apply that information. 65 00:09:48.570 --> 00:09:51.510 Paul Casey: or flow good let's say that again say that again. 66 00:09:51.870 --> 00:09:52.170 well. 67 00:09:53.670 --> 00:09:58.290 Chris: You should not consume information faster than you're able to apply that information. 68 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:06.660 Chris: So, in other words, I hear some people that say hey I listened to one book a week on audible and I think well, are you really able to. 69 00:10:07.380 --> 00:10:13.860 Chris: You know, apply those principles that are being taught in that business book that quickly, maybe some people are I certainly am not. 70 00:10:14.760 --> 00:10:20.670 Chris: So i'll go through a book on audible very slowly, as I drive maybe one book every three months. 71 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:30.000 Chris: And when I get to my location i'll pull up my phone and i'll take notes on a Google sheet as to what I learned during that drive from that business book. 72 00:10:30.780 --> 00:10:43.140 Chris: And then, when i'm done i'll kind of go through all my notes on board those things that I thought were most applicable and i'll try to apply them in my business and I try not to move to the second book until i've made some changes, based on that the first book that I read. 73 00:10:43.830 --> 00:10:53.310 Paul Casey: that's really going deep on a book I do like that I read about 40 a year and, like you said assimilating that so I I to pull over and. 74 00:10:54.270 --> 00:11:01.320 Paul Casey: Then write down the takeaways from the books as I go and then I file them, maybe i'm not assimilating them complete like you're. 75 00:11:01.590 --> 00:11:11.280 Paul Casey: you're talking about, but I do file them in categories for leadership development so that I can pass them on to clients and in seminars, in the future so totally concur with you there. 76 00:11:11.790 --> 00:11:16.830 Paul Casey: And you know i'm probably going to ask you this, so what are a couple of books that everybody's got to read if they're a. 77 00:11:17.250 --> 00:11:26.460 Paul Casey: Business owner or a leader of other people, they want to develop others or develop themselves what are some of those that pop out maybe you've read just the last few years. 78 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:36.420 Chris: yeah i'll recommend three as kind of a must read and and if there's listeners out there that are thinking about starting a business but haven't read these three books read these three books. 79 00:11:36.900 --> 00:11:44.280 Chris: Seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen R covey obviously this you know timeless written what 40 years ago and still relevant today. 80 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:50.190 Chris: Second, one would be good to great by Jim Collins like I just mentioned, also timeless. 81 00:11:51.360 --> 00:12:07.830 Chris: Book so vital to read if you're trying to grow your business, as the title implies from good to great and then the third one would be the E myth revisited by Michael gerber which is really kind of the small business Bible, how to grow a business from one person to 10 people to 50 people. 82 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:13.290 Paul Casey: yeah and I think he was the one that coined that in the biz working in the business or on the business right. 83 00:12:13.500 --> 00:12:14.700 Chris: that's right yeah. 84 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:31.710 Paul Casey: Great great book recommends thanks Chris for that to avoid burnout and negativity and even in the land of Kobe the last couple years here how have you fed your mental your emotional health and wellness on a regular basis. 85 00:12:33.270 --> 00:12:42.540 Chris: yeah that's a great question you know some business owners talk about you know you got to work 100 hour plus weeks in order to be successful, I do not buy into that philosophy and. 86 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:52.140 Chris: Most of the effective successful people I know don't work 100 plus hours they do work, maybe 50 to 60 hours a week, I mean they're not slackers that's for sure. 87 00:12:52.770 --> 00:13:02.490 Chris: But you definitely want to take some time some personal time completely on your own I like to do some you know i'd call it spiritual time each day kind of Bible study time each day. 88 00:13:02.940 --> 00:13:11.250 Chris: That I take on my own I definitely spend time with my wife and kids each day intentionally during certain times of the day, so yeah don't neglect yourself. 89 00:13:12.570 --> 00:13:24.420 Paul Casey: yeah self care huge love, I put in, so your spiritual practice there at the beginning of the day, so setting the tone for the day what successful people do in the morning is is huge. 90 00:13:24.750 --> 00:13:35.220 Paul Casey: And then also making sure i'm sure core values family is one of your top ones as well, and not leaving them the leftovers, but prioritizing them somewhere in your day love that. 91 00:13:35.580 --> 00:13:43.770 Paul Casey: Absolutely, how do you go about getting things done, I love to know the organizational system of Chris porter, how do you organize yourself. 92 00:13:44.430 --> 00:13:53.490 Chris: Well i'll tell you Paul I went to one of your presentations several years ago, where you said that we should make a to do list for the next day. 93 00:13:53.820 --> 00:14:03.480 Chris: At the end of the day, so at the end of today i'm going to make a to do list for tomorrow, while those priorities are still fresh in your mind that was a very helpful suggestion and i've done that. 94 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:09.300 Chris: I don't think I do, that every day, I should, but I do, that a lot of days and I appreciate that suggestion. 95 00:14:10.140 --> 00:14:16.380 Chris: So that's one thing i'll throw out the other thing i'll throw it is from Stephen R covey where he talks about that analogy of. 96 00:14:16.710 --> 00:14:23.310 Chris: Having a jar and everyone's heard this before you have a jar you want to put big rocks and it's small rocks and sand and water in it. 97 00:14:24.180 --> 00:14:31.980 Chris: The only way, you can do that is put the big rocks in first and then the sand and then the water, so the sand kind of falls around the big rocks and everything fits. 98 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:47.700 Chris: And he uses that analogy to basically recommend you take your most important biggest priorities during the week and you schedule them into your calendar at the beginning of the week don't let any anything else interrupt those important items that you have. 99 00:14:49.230 --> 00:14:53.760 Chris: put those in first add the big rocks your calendar first and then other things fall into place. 100 00:14:54.810 --> 00:15:01.770 Paul Casey: That is so good, I was just telling that illustration, is a timeless illustration of the big rocks I was just teaching that and look at a. 101 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:09.030 Paul Casey: Digital summit recently, because it is so applicable don't let anything crowd out those three top priorities. 102 00:15:09.390 --> 00:15:21.930 Paul Casey: And I don't know why we do this, Chris we seem to like blow ourselves off and our priorities, we would never do that to someone in a coffee shop or a client appointment right, but we do this for ourselves all the time and then we're like procrastinated yet again. 103 00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:24.630 Chris: Absolutely yeah. 104 00:15:25.380 --> 00:15:26.670 Paul Casey: And I think we would say Paul. 105 00:15:26.700 --> 00:15:31.890 Chris: Paul you also taught me didn't don't show I say obey your calendar is the phrase that you use. 106 00:15:33.270 --> 00:15:36.960 Paul Casey: is like obey your thirst have a calendar. 107 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.740 Chris: that's right. 108 00:15:39.150 --> 00:15:47.910 Paul Casey: Well before we head into our next question about how Chris looks at the bigger picture versus being reactive and leadership let's shout out to our sponsor. 109 00:15:50.220 --> 00:16:02.430 Paul Casey: Well, Chris it's easy to get trapped in simply reacting to crises and leadership and putting out fires, how do you specifically step back and take a look at the bigger picture and get ahead of stuff. 110 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:05.700 Chris: yeah that's a great question. 111 00:16:06.810 --> 00:16:11.040 Chris: I don't know I don't have a perfect answer for that, but i'll tell you one thing i've done is i've turned off. 112 00:16:12.090 --> 00:16:17.610 Chris: That little notification on the computer where every time you get an email this little thing pings up you got an email from this person. 113 00:16:18.540 --> 00:16:26.910 Chris: You know I definitely spend times during the day when when that's completely off when I don't hear any beeps for my cell phone and it beeps from my computer and I could just be focused. 114 00:16:28.560 --> 00:16:37.860 Paul Casey: You also take time as a company with your your core team to do some strategic planning for the year ahead or the quarter ahead anything like that. 115 00:16:38.640 --> 00:16:48.120 Chris: Absolutely my business partner and I we meet weekly Mondays at 1pm and we talked about yet planning and how our goals are coming along. 116 00:16:48.780 --> 00:16:55.680 Chris: And then we have a group of directors of the company so there's two owners and then for directors of our different departments. 117 00:16:56.250 --> 00:17:07.020 Chris: And we are all reading good to great even if we've read it before we're all reading good to great and then we're meeting on July 30 for an all day retreat with you know some refreshments and a meal and. 118 00:17:07.590 --> 00:17:12.030 Chris: And some activities and we're going to discuss the principles and good to great and how we can apply them to our business. 119 00:17:12.780 --> 00:17:19.050 Paul Casey: love the book study idea and now ramsey himself his organization, when you get hired there you get a box of books. 120 00:17:19.350 --> 00:17:29.280 Paul Casey: Because he wants everyone to be speaking the same language and so that that's a cool thing you're all going to do together, even if it's a reread for many of you it's a new read for others. 121 00:17:29.610 --> 00:17:35.730 Paul Casey: love the off site retreat to i'll put in a plug there as well, I love doing those leading those with companies because. 122 00:17:36.060 --> 00:17:51.300 Paul Casey: You know it's a chance to relationship build like you said eat some food together break bread and look ahead without without that constant notification barrage or interruptions throughout your day so way to go for getting your team away to think ahead. 123 00:17:52.830 --> 00:18:06.000 Paul Casey: What key moves did you make, for your Organization has this whole coven thing went through in the last couple of years, how are you responsive to that how did you become strategic in an uncertain time. 124 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:17.550 Chris: You know, maybe, instead of answering how I did that you know I serve a lot of clients and maybe I could just anonymously talk about how some of them navigated through it. 125 00:18:17.850 --> 00:18:26.790 Chris: Right, it was very interesting, you know we serve like I said a lot of businesses in the tri cities and restaurants, I thought were very interesting during coven. 126 00:18:27.570 --> 00:18:34.410 Chris: We have a lot of restaurant clients and some of them just almost instantly you know when march hit when April hit. 127 00:18:34.830 --> 00:18:48.540 Chris: They quickly got on uber eats and doordash or had their own delivery drivers and just quickly revamped their business model and some of them did very well, some of them were selling more food than before the pandemic. 128 00:18:49.800 --> 00:18:56.130 Chris: Whereas some of them who just kind of dogmatically stuck to the old business model really struggled so. 129 00:18:56.910 --> 00:19:10.350 Chris: Whether it's co founder whether it's another crisis or whether it's just a constantly changing paradigm of technology, we absolutely need to be responsive on our feet, we cannot run our business like we did five years ago, and we cannot be afraid of change. 130 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:17.880 Paul Casey: yeah and you bring up that word change, what do you feel most people don't of course don't like change. 131 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:24.330 Paul Casey: I find leaders are a little bit more comfortable with it because we're the ones, usually driving it you had this huge growth. 132 00:19:24.870 --> 00:19:39.150 Paul Casey: spurt in the last couple of years, so i'm sure with that came some change whether that's procedures, if not just different people, how do you best lead organizational change and how would you recommend other business leaders lead change. 133 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.670 Chris: yeah that's that's a great question there's always resistance to change. 134 00:19:46.230 --> 00:19:50.310 Chris: In fact, well, I probably won't share that story, I was about to share a. 135 00:19:50.310 --> 00:19:53.430 Chris: story, but I don't know if I could do it in a confidential enough medicine. 136 00:19:55.050 --> 00:19:57.600 Chris: But there's always resistance to change but. 137 00:19:58.830 --> 00:20:05.820 Chris: yeah I think you just have to talk about how you know the very obvious truth that if we don't change we stay the same. 138 00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:11.940 Chris: Now that just sounds so stupid, but it's true if we don't change we don't grow if we don't change we don't progress. 139 00:20:12.510 --> 00:20:22.950 Chris: And I think people just need to realize, you know, like my friend my mentor that I talked about earlier that I met at anthony's going from a one person company to a 600 person company. 140 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:28.530 Chris: Their organizational chart must have changed, you know 27 different times, or more. 141 00:20:29.220 --> 00:20:36.630 Chris: And even in Puerto kitty, you know as we went from when, as a seven person company, you know our organizational chart was basically here's the two owners of the top. 142 00:20:37.080 --> 00:20:45.150 Chris: And here's the five people that report to us it was just very basic we had an organizational chart but it's like okay we're in charge and we're the supervisors that's all it is. 143 00:20:45.750 --> 00:20:53.550 Chris: But now as a 24 person company, the two owners don't necessarily want to be in charge of all 24 so we revamped our organizational chart. 144 00:20:54.150 --> 00:21:02.550 Chris: And that is something that i'd recommend that's something that Michael gerber recommends and the E myth, no matter how small your company is make an organizational chart. 145 00:21:03.090 --> 00:21:13.800 Chris: give each person, a job title give each person, a list of their duties that they need to fulfill and, as you grow annually, you should be updating that organization chart. 146 00:21:15.750 --> 00:21:29.010 Paul Casey: What do you do what became a something you delegated to that next level I think you're calling the directors right, the Director level that you did before, but with growth and you know delegated for someone else to supervise. 147 00:21:30.210 --> 00:21:46.230 Chris: Well, one example would be semi annual performance reviews, yes, so I used to do all of them myself and now i'll do the four directors, will do a semi annual review with me and then each of them will do four or five with the people in their department. 148 00:21:47.610 --> 00:21:59.280 Paul Casey: What do you use for performance reviews what system, do you do some self evaluation is it a is it a rating scale is it more narrative what have you sort of landed on lately I know it's probably always in flux, but. 149 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:12.180 Chris: yeah one thing I mean there's a lot we could talk about there, but one thing I think that we've changed recently that's been very effective is give the staff member of the team Member the feedback before the performance review. 150 00:22:13.050 --> 00:22:22.110 Chris: You don't want to be sitting face to face with somebody and all of a sudden just surprise them with some negative feedback or constructive criticism, as we call it in a more politically correct. 151 00:22:22.110 --> 00:22:22.470 Chris: way. 152 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:27.930 Chris: You don't just want to surprise somebody in a face to face setting because naturally they'll become defensive. 153 00:22:28.650 --> 00:22:33.840 Chris: So if you send them an email beforehand and say hey thanks so much for meeting with me tomorrow at two. 154 00:22:34.470 --> 00:22:44.880 Chris: Here are some things that I think have been going really well give them six or seven here's two things that I think we can improve on and set some goals on, then they go into the meeting, knowing what's going to be discussed and there'll be less defensive. 155 00:22:45.750 --> 00:22:56.400 Paul Casey: I found that i've got three other clients that also do that same thing they send their performance review a day in advance it's for the people who like to Milan things you know and it probably. 156 00:22:56.820 --> 00:23:08.850 Paul Casey: Well, for mostly it settles them down because they get freaked out on the day of their performance review, but yeah it's sort of like brings it in and more of a conversation the next day, instead of the surprise or. 157 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:13.800 Paul Casey: This is, you know this is going to be this very tense conversation I think it's a great move. 158 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:17.280 Paul Casey: Speaking of difficult conversations. 159 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:36.180 Paul Casey: Conflict very difficult among teams and when you're a supervisor and you have to confront a direct reports someone on your team it's it's usually not a whoo you know kind of day, how do you first of all bolster the courage to have that conversation, and not just let it keep on going. 160 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:47.220 Chris: yeah I think you bolster the courage by reminding yourself that that conversation is not only good for you, but it's good for that particular team Member to hear. 161 00:23:48.870 --> 00:23:54.990 Chris: You know and Jim Collins again back to good degrade he talks about that a lot he talks about, for example, the ultimate. 162 00:23:55.770 --> 00:24:06.540 Chris: Tough conversation is the conversation where you have to let somebody go and he talks about in his book if there's somebody who is not a good fit for your organization not only. 163 00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:13.920 Chris: Are you doing yourself a disservice by keeping them on you're doing them a disservice by keeping them on the team because. 164 00:24:14.250 --> 00:24:18.930 Chris: They might be a much better fit for another organization with a different culture with different goals. 165 00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:31.830 Chris: And by continuing to keep them on your bus, even though they're in the wrong seat and on the wrong bus you're basically wasting years of their life so do yourself a favor do them a favor by having that tough conversation. 166 00:24:32.190 --> 00:24:50.550 Paul Casey: No, that is so good, because you really want to have the conversation in service of them, and your organization so you're serving two purposes and when people just don't want to have that conversation so you've had to let people go, probably in the course of your leadership over the years. 167 00:24:51.900 --> 00:25:05.940 Paul Casey: Take us there for a moment what have you learned about the the conversation where it's like we're not a match, how does How does that go, but what recommendations would you have to business owners and other leaders who have to have that conversation. 168 00:25:06.930 --> 00:25:10.020 Chris: yeah well there's certainly no easy way to have that conversation. 169 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:16.770 Chris: But you really just want to treat people very well on their way out. 170 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:25.560 Chris: Whether that be giving them a generous severance payment on their way out or allowing them to stay on the health insurance for a couple months. 171 00:25:25.980 --> 00:25:40.860 Chris: Just whatever you can do to really kind of make the transition easier from your place to someone else's and if it wasn't really you know, a specific problem with their job performance, it was just in general they didn't fit the culture. 172 00:25:42.090 --> 00:25:52.440 Chris: That you were trying to promote maybe they would be a great fit at another company and you could even help them try to find that next company try to find that next job where they would be a good fit. 173 00:25:53.610 --> 00:26:02.070 Chris: So I think more than just choosing the right words during the conversation I think you have to look at the whole experience as treating that employee with dignity on their way out. 174 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:15.660 Paul Casey: Oh, so good that we're dignity yeah always helping them save face I had one boss that told me, you know someday I might be working for you, Paul and and as a custodian so I want to make sure we leave on good terms. 175 00:26:16.260 --> 00:26:26.340 Paul Casey: That was good you've never done it in a Community like the tri cities to you're going to run into these folks probably that it's important for us to do it well, always with dignity. 176 00:26:26.790 --> 00:26:31.560 Chris: yeah and Paul that's a key point where we are in a small town, this is not Chicago, this is not New York. 177 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:41.190 Chris: And with customers and staff members even former staff members yeah you're going to run into them at the grocery store, you know, two weeks from now so just treat everybody kindly and with dignity. 178 00:26:42.210 --> 00:26:53.010 Paul Casey: You mentioned the word culture, when you said you know they may not be a fit for the culture, what kind of culture is porter Kenny trying to develop among the staff so that. 179 00:26:53.460 --> 00:27:04.650 Paul Casey: You know if I were to walk in your business, this would be like the feel that I would get you know, in the air, what do you try to promote there and what are you banging the drum on always with your team. 180 00:27:05.850 --> 00:27:15.300 Chris: yeah that is a fantastic question so we definitely have a culture of continuous improvement and with continuous improvement comes change like you mentioned. 181 00:27:15.990 --> 00:27:23.790 Chris: we're a different company, they will were just two years ago, so people that are resistant to change and don't like. 182 00:27:24.180 --> 00:27:38.250 Chris: Learning a new software program or you know learning a new process or having a new organizational chart they would have a tougher time staying with quarter Kenny, because we have this constant pursuit of excellence and improvement in our organization. 183 00:27:39.510 --> 00:27:47.430 Chris: And then on the flip side of that we also like to have fun and we like to you know, have a good rapport with everyone on the team. 184 00:27:48.900 --> 00:28:02.580 Chris: We like to have a fun culture and we'd like to not take ourselves too seriously and those two aspects of our culture, they might seem like you know, oil and water trying to mix, but I think you could have both. 185 00:28:03.540 --> 00:28:07.920 Paul Casey: So i'm not gonna i'm not gonna see some nerf gun wars in the accountants office is that what i'm saying. 186 00:28:09.570 --> 00:28:16.950 Chris: yeah you might just see somebody converting a desk to a ping pong table in the other room a couple days ago. 187 00:28:17.790 --> 00:28:18.090 Paul Casey: Good. 188 00:28:18.210 --> 00:28:18.870 Paul Casey: I like it. 189 00:28:19.170 --> 00:28:24.150 Chris: I didn't know they solve these little small ping pong nets that you can put on top of a desk and you know, have a couple of games. 190 00:28:24.210 --> 00:28:24.510 that's. 191 00:28:25.830 --> 00:28:34.290 Paul Casey: awesome well Chris Finally, what advice would you give to new leaders or anyone who wants to keep growing and gaining more influence. 192 00:28:35.790 --> 00:28:38.370 Chris: Well, I think i've already given it but. 193 00:28:39.870 --> 00:28:52.170 Chris: I was recently talking to a very new business owner probably had two employees and I could tell during that meeting, you know, he did 95% of talking he didn't ask for any advice. 194 00:28:53.460 --> 00:28:55.980 Chris: The impression I got was that he already knew everything. 195 00:28:57.750 --> 00:29:05.940 Chris: Even though I could tell that certainly there were things that he could do better with his business so just having a little bit of humility and just recognizing. 196 00:29:06.990 --> 00:29:13.680 Chris: Wherever you are in your leadership, development or in the business growth, there are people ahead of you that you can learn things from. 197 00:29:14.610 --> 00:29:23.580 Chris: Some of those people are right here in the tri cities, and you know sit down with them ask them questions and some of those people are national experts who have written books read those books. 198 00:29:24.450 --> 00:29:32.190 Chris: don't ever get to the point where you think you just have all the answers, and you know everything because that's the point in which your professional development is going to go downhill. 199 00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:41.850 Paul Casey: Absolutely stay teachable stay coachable tries to the influencers Chris How can our listeners connect with you and your business. 200 00:29:43.410 --> 00:29:48.480 Chris: Well, I can feel free to shoot me shoot me a question at Chris at quarter can u.com that's my email. 201 00:29:50.010 --> 00:29:59.850 Chris: yeah and you know our business information is pretty easy to find our website is porter can you calm, but yeah one of your listeners can can feel free to reach out to me if they wanted to connect. 202 00:30:00.690 --> 00:30:05.940 Paul Casey: Well, thanks again for all you do to make the tri cities, a great place and keep leading well. 203 00:30:06.750 --> 00:30:07.320 Chris: Thank you, Paul. 204 00:30:08.070 --> 00:30:11.820 Paul Casey: We wrap up our podcast today with a leadership resource to recommend. 205 00:30:12.090 --> 00:30:21.390 Paul Casey: i'm starting a membership Community i'm calling it bullseye bullseye is going to be for team leaders, if you supervise other people bulls is for you. 206 00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:28.890 Paul Casey: for less than like 75 cents a day you're going to get some plug and play resources every week in your email box. 207 00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:35.070 Paul Casey: Things videos you can play for your team meeting icebreakers that you can give in your one to ones. 208 00:30:35.340 --> 00:30:41.850 Paul Casey: They all have performance evaluation forms and one to one flow is there's going to be all sorts of great stuff. 209 00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:50.610 Paul Casey: If you're a team leader, so that you'll actually look forward to opening an email from growing forward services, so you can come to my website at Paul casey.org. 210 00:30:50.790 --> 00:31:00.660 Paul Casey: As that begins to launch and get in on the ground floor of this, because then you'll be part of the discussion as we help each other grow in our businesses and leadership development. 211 00:31:02.910 --> 00:31:10.620 Paul Casey: Again this is Paul Casey want to thank my guest Chris porter from porter Kenny, for being here today on the tri cities influencer podcast we also want to thank our. 212 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:19.740 Paul Casey: sponsor and invite you to support them, we appreciate you making this possible, so that we can collaborate to help inspire leaders in our Community. 213 00:31:20.130 --> 00:31:34.530 Paul Casey: Finally, one more leadership tidbit for the road to help you make a difference in your circle of influence when you lose your focus, you lose your momentum until next time KGF keep growing forward.

Today's guest on the Relentless Growth Podcast is Elizabeth Benton, the number one bestselling author of Chasing Cupcakes, host of the widely popular Primal Potential Podcast, and a seven-figure entrepreneur. After 30 years of battling obesity and her finances, Elizabeth made the life-changing decision to create the ultimate transformation. By losing over 100 pounds and eliminating $130,000 of debt in just 13 months, she became committed to helping guide women through their own life transformations and has touched millions of lives through her story, methodologies, podcast, and products. In today's episode, she emphasizes the importance of making conscious decisions in order to create your ultimate transformation and explains the meaning behind the phrase “Success can be scheduled.” We discuss some of the harmful thoughts she had to overcome, why she gives energy to the solution rather than the problem, and how to bridge the gap between acting and reacting. We touch on the importance of focusing on the facts, the difference between fear and danger, and how to break free from the purgatory between the past and the future, and Elizabeth speaks candidly about dealing with grief and leaves listeners with some powerful advice: focus on today's version of the solution instead of yesterday's version of the problem. Tune in today to learn more!Key Points From This Episode:Hear the story of how Elizabeth's book came to be titled Chasing Cupcakes.Chris highlights some of the ways Elizabeth helps to change people's lives, starting with the thought that our pasts are only patterns, not prisons.The key to creating any and all change is the practice of thinking differently.How she reminds herself that, with every choice, she contributes to her healing (or not).What Elizabeth means when she says that success can be scheduled.What it looked like for Elizabeth to make the decision to create her ultimate transformation.Some of the harmful thoughts she had to transform and how she came to terms with taking a slow and gradual approach.The pivotal moments that contributed to Elizabeth's desire to change.How she prevents herself from “being dramatic” by only giving energy to the solution.The opportunities Elizabeth has in her daily life to choose the solution over the problem.Tips for bridging the gap between acting and reacting; it is a constant practice.How to balance the dual perspective of grace and conviction by focusing on efficiency.Shifting perspective from playing the victim card to making empowered decisions.Elizabeth's parting advice: focus on today's version of the solution instead of yesterday's version of the problem.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Elizabeth Benton on LinkedInElizabeth Benton on InstagramPrimal PotentialChasing CupcakesDISC AssessmentNo EgoAlready FreeFuture Proofing YouGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

The Architect of DreamsChris Howard has been blessed to help to transform the lives of millions of people around the planet.A global phenomenon, Chris is one of the most prominent figures in personal development and life style turnaround.Chris helps people to create performance breakthrough results: physically, emotionally, spiritually and financiallyA 3 X Best-Selling author who has done  100 Million in sales globally of his seminars and coaching world-wide....Chris has a black belt in mindset with 3 additional Black Belts that span his 40 years in the martial arts.Holding black belt distinctions in:Brazilian Jiu JitsuTwin Dragon Kung FunChinese GojuChris is known in the personal development industry as the Trainer of Trainer and Coach of Coaches.He is a big believer in the idea that great leaders build other leaders.He's helped not just to unleash the full potential of millions through his live programs, and media appearances but he's also been thrilled to develop many million dollar plus speakers, trainers, consultants, and coaches over the years.The founder of the sciences of Neuro Design Engineering, he built the largest NLP training company in the world and he enjoyed the largest personal development presence in more than one country world-wide.As an entrepreneur, speaker, and performance consultant over the past 25 years, his personal clients have included politicians, celebrities, and Fortune 500 companies, Chris Howard is a long-standing household name amongst many high-achievers.You can find Chris HERE!

Fear, failure, anxiety and other negative emotions are inevitable, but we have the power to choose how we deal with them and to decide the course that our lives take. As Lacy Corcoran knows, it’s not necessarily an easy road to get to the point where we are in control of our own destiny, and she shares some of the main coaching practices and the books which helped her immensely on her personal growth journey. We discuss how Lacy transitioned from a burned-out, fearful working mom who felt like she could never be present, to someone who wakes up every morning excited about the day ahead of her. When she worked out what her values are and put measures into place to make sure that she was living in alignment with them, her life did a 180-degree turn and she now runs a very successful real estate brokerage while still managing to read her children a bedtime story every night. In today’s episode, you’ll also hear about the practice of counterbalancing, the importance of asking for help, and the most challenging elements of Lacy’s journey. If you are feeling unfulfilled, unsatisfied or unhappy, this episode will give you hope and will inspire you to change your life for the better!Key Points From This Episode:Changes in her life that inspired Lacy to begin her career in real estate. The award Lacy’s won during her first year working in a real estate brokerage.Challenges that Lacy experienced trying to maintain a balance between work life and family life with three children.How Chris’s coaching helped Lacy overcome her fear and open her own brokerage. Lacy’s current feelings about her job and her life, compared to her feelings a year ago. Examples of fears that used to have a lot of control of Lacy. The importance of setting your own standards and working out what makes you feel satisfied. Freedom that comes with being in control of your own thoughts. Learning how to make decisions that align with her values has helped Lacy immensely. The processes which Lacy followed in order to figure out her personal values. Patterns of behavior that Chris noticed Lacy was partaking in and how coaching assisted her in changing these.  Counterbalancing; what it means and how it looks in Lacy’s life.  Asking other people for help is not something that anyone should be afraid to do.What Lacy has found to be the most difficult part of her growth journey. Books that Lacy recommends, and where you can get in touch with her. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Lacy Corcoran on LinkedInCorcoran Chaos on InstagramLive in Greater Baton Rouge on InstagramCorcoran and Company Corcoran and Company on FacebookKeller Williams RealtyTony Robbins Unfinished BusinessGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Influencers Justin & Megan Hickman began as a young firefighter family struggling to make ends meet. As they've grown, they've built their dream life. Today they're international travelers, entrepreneurs, parents, investors, Disney World® fanatics, and they're building a social media empire. And out of all their accomplishments, they consider their happy marriage their BIGGEST success. But things haven’t always been so magical for Megan & Justin. Megan started her YouTube channel with a cheap camera when they lived in a 900-square-foot mobile home with NO WIFI, and didn't create revenue in her business for two years. At her breaking point, tempted to quit the project altogether, Justin encouraged Megan to keep going. Now, just 6 years and countless hours of growing in every way imaginable, they have more than 81 MILLION "all-time" views, ONE MILLION views EVERY MONTH, and a massively successful online business. With 700,000 happy followers/subscribers, Justin & Megan have earned the privilege of working with massive brands like Disney, Google, Dyson, SC Johnson, Nickelodeon, and more than we can’t fit in this brief description! You can find Megan's channel at youtube.com/lovemeg, and don't miss their full story on Episode 40 of the Relentless Growth Podcast today!Key Points From This Episode:Justin and Megan's move to Savannah, Georgia from North Carolina and what precipitated the change. The early drive for the couple when they started their journey as scrappy online entrepreneurs!  The challenge of bridging the gaps between the disparate professional lives of spouses.How the early commitment that Megan showed to her business paid off financially after a period. Our guests' reflections on generating income from influencer marketing.  Sticking with the business and dream through external doubts and challenges.The importance of self-belief and how well it has served Megan and her success. Navigating life in the public eye; the evolution of Megan and Justin's approach. Advice from Justin and Megan on how to get started in their line of work; diving in and staying committed. Some of the tricky and uncertain times the couple had to endure on their journey.Adjusting to the continual rocky roads of life as online entrepreneurs.The power of consistently serving an audience over an extended period of time. Thoughts on scaling an influencer-centered business and balancing this with family life. The amazing freedoms that are possible when you stick it out through the growing pains.Intertwining life and business and how our guests maintain and manage this connection.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Love Meg on YouTubeDisney WorldFrank KernDiSC ProfileYou Are a BadassRich Dad Poor DadRise and GrindNo Pain, No GainesGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Welcome to a Live Coaching session with Chris Goodman. Today, you’ll be hearing from Dustin Elliott, a men’s coach and real estate investor and developer based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In this episode, Dustin shares what he is celebrating this week and elaborates on his desire to help others and fine-tune his coaching avatar during the course of this call. Tuning in, you’ll find out what is driving Dustin’s need to niche down and why I don’t believe that is really what his journey is about. It is about the very same things it is about for everybody else, the pursuit of certainty, contribution, service, and a purpose in life, and especially feeling validated that you’re on the right path! We work through how uncertainty prompts this search for external validation, and how Dustin can embody the confident, excited version of himself on a daily basis. When he knows that he is needed, he shows up, and that is a very important part of this session. These coaching calls aren’t always cut and dried but, ultimately, Dustin has a breakthrough and knows exactly what he needs to do: he doesn’t actually want to niche down and, when he believes that he is needed, it fosters confidence, and that confidence manifests in immediate and massive action. Tune in today to discover the power of believing in yourself and taking consistent action!Key Points From This Episode:Where Dustin is located and what he does as a men’s coach and real estate investor.What he is celebrating this week; walking without a limp after struggling with inflammation.He reflects on the reason he went through this pain: to help others get though it.Making changes before you hit rock bottom, rather than waiting to hit rock bottom before you make changes.What would make this call a 10/10 for Dustin, including fine-tuning his coaching avatar.Find out what is driving his desire to niche down, from the opinions of others to offering more specific tools to his clients.Chris highlights the tendency to focus on what we don’t want, rather than what we want.Why Dustin wants to be clear about who he is serving: so he can best serve them.The cycle many go through when they don’t believe what they’re doing is “good enough.”Dustin talks about leveling up, whether it’s financially, physically, or business-related.How uncertainty can prompt you to start searching for external validation.What he would say to someone in his position: what do you genuinely think you should do?How Dustin can best put to use the excitement he feels from deciding not to niche down.Why, to take immediate action, Dustin needs to be the confident, excited version of himself.Find out how he measures whether his actions are having an impact on the lives of others.Chris explains why we often fall off the wagon when we’re not clear about the actionable steps we need to take.How Dustin can induce a state of confidence and excitement by giving himself a pep talk.Translating the statements he used on the football field to be applicable in his daily life.Dustin explains how being part of a team makes him show up in service.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Dustin Elliot on TwitterDustin Elliott on InstagramDustin Elliott on FacebookJoe DispenzaGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Chris Arnade, writer, photographer & author of the book “Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America,” joins us to discuss the inadequate response by the government to myriad crisis, the mocking tone liberals take when discussing economic anxiety and how and why people in forgotten towns disengage from politics after years of being ignored.You can follow Chris HERE & pick up his book HERE.—Drop us a line at theinsurgentspod@gmail.com.You can also listen to the Insurgents on iTunes HERE.On Spotify HERE.On Google Podcasts HERE.And all other links are HERE.If you’d like to become a premium subscriber and gain access to premium episodes as well as our private Discord server, you can do so here: This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at theinsurgents.substack.com/subscribe

Mindset is everything when it comes to your health, and the way you think can completely transform your eating habits and vice versa! Today’s guest, Marie Young, is a nutrition and mindset coach, helping high performers implement their inner nutrition knowledge with simple, practical strategies. Once a dysfunctional dieter and people pleaser, Marie has made it her mission to help others heal their relationship with food so they can experience more joy, connection, and purpose. In this episode, you’ll hear about Marie’s food freedom journey, and she shares the process that she refined over time; the very same process that she takes her clients through now, with incredible results. Her approach is both practical and spiritual, with nutrition strategies, mindset work, visualizations, blueprints, and systems. Making the change internally starts with tuning into what feels good, and Marie believes that you can use food as a starting point for changing anything else in your life. To find out how to break the pattern of all or nothing, experiment with your nutrition to set you up for success, and find out which foods “love you back”, tune in today!Key Points From This Episode:Hear where Marie is based and where she is from (her accent gives you a hint!)How you do one thing is how you do everything; you can use nutrition as a starting point for upleveling your life.From professional athlete, journalist, and pilot to nutritionist: hear about Marie’s journey.Find out how falling in love with cooking helped Marie realize the power of food as healing.The importance of addressing your relationship with food, not just wanting to lose weight.How discovering joy in the kitchen created a ripple effect in Marie’s life.Making the change internally started with tuning into what felt good for Marie.Eating your mindset: using food as a starting point for changing anything else in your life.Marie talks about breaking the pattern of all or nothing.How Marie’s own plant-based journey influenced her husband.Why Marie believes that anything that is hard is an opportunity to practice that skill.Starting with one thing and doing it very well, until you can do it consistently.How experimenting with our nutrition can set you up for success.While you do the deep, inner work, you can still have practical solutions on hand.Inserting a pause between impulse and action helped Marie heal her relationship with food.Marie’s advice for those wanting to start eating their mindset: tackle one thing at a time.Doing the detective work on which foods “love you back”.While high-performers prefer the quick fix, Marie encourages doing the work yourself.How you know when to work with a coach like Marie, and what you can expect.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Marie Young on LinkedInMarie Young on InstagramMarie Young on FacebookBloom with MarieGoodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

The inclination to say yes to everything is understandable, but it isn’t necessarily empowering or right for your business. If you’re an entrepreneur – or an aspiring one – “no” can be the most important word in your vocabulary. Today’s guest, Andrea Crowder is the perfect example of what Relentless Growth seeks to showcase. She embodies the message that you can grow in your life, in your business, and in your wealth, and you can do it all simultaneously and stay happy while you’re doing it! Listen in as Andrea shares actionable advice and pure spiritual wisdom. Learn how she fosters transformation – of the mind, body, spirit, and bank account – through digital courses, coaching, speaking, and physical products, and how she teaches women to master their own minds, bodies, and emotions so that they can create a life that feels good, on purpose. Andrea believes that women who feel good, do good, and feeling good and making decisions that align with your values often starts with saying no to opportunities that don’t. Tune in as Andrea describes the intersection between a strategic approach and an energetic one when launching a concept, how saying no has served her in her business, and her advice for using the tools you already have and hacking them to suit your needs, as well as how you too can be guided by an acronym for FREEDOM. All this and so much more in today’s episode with spiritual entrepreneur, Andrea Crowder.Key Points From This Episode:Andrea explains why she doesn’t like cats, but she can use her allergies as an excuse.As a spiritual entrepreneur, Andrea focuses on releasing judgment and expectation.How the landscape has shifted for women business owners and Andrea’s advice about taking an energetic approach.Taking a concept that feels natural to you and making it 5% different from existing ideas.Andrea’s go-to questions to ask herself – “What do I need?” or “How do I want this to feel?”Putting yourself first in all areas of your life is the most generous thing you can do!Learning to say no graciously was something Andrea learned from her grandmother.How fear and conditioning hold people back from saying no to the simple things.What has worked for Andrea in her journey to mastery, like creating awareness.The importance of allowing emotions in order to move through them rather than resist them.Advice to help men to process their emotions in a healthy way: make it safe to feel.The value of anchoring or being present and sharing information with others.Andrea shares one of her anchors for interrupting anxious thoughts, such as scent.Using an elevated emotional state to store positive feeling and emotions for your benefit.How Andrea owns her individuality by fostering true inner freedom and peeling back the layers of her social conditioning.Why Andrea had to realize that there’s no “best version” of herself.FREEDOM: Fulfillment, Relationships, Expression, Energy, Direction, Opportunity, Money.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Andrea Crowder on LinkedInAndrea Crowder on InstagramAndrea Crowder on FacebookAndrea CrowderFreq Rituals15 Minute Launch Coach Program (Discount Code: 15MLC)Goodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

https://www.patreon.com/landlordtenant Hi. This week, James and Michael talk about the dentist, webcam disasters and toilet horror. Then, east coast correspondent Bryn Pottie joins us to talk about the result of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's mayoral race. Our guest this week is actor and improviser Chris Wilson. Be sure to check out Chris' brand new podcast This Time It's Different With Peter N' Chris HERE. Please rate and review The Landlord And Tenant Podmess on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends if you think this podcast is good. Email: ltpodmess@gmail.com Twitter: @ltpodmess Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/landlordtenantpod/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ltpodmess/ This podcast is part of the Sonar Network. Support The Landlord and Tenant Podmess Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

Chris and I discuss working from home, Waterloo, and telling your own story.You can support this podcast on PATREONYou can hear more Chris HERE  

In this episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast, Jeff Amerine and Caleb Talley have a virtual chat with Blake Reeves and Chris McCroskey from IdeaLoop. At IdeaLoop, Blake is the Enterprise Software Sales Leader, and Chris is the Founder and Ideator. IdeaLoop is a customer software development company that helps some of the largest brands in the world to improve their efficiencies. In this episode, you will get to hear about IdeaLoop's early use of virtual communication, how to get the right people on the bus, and many other pieces of invaluable information for people during these crazy times. Tune in for a great episode!   Find IdeaLoop Here Connect with Blake Here Connect with Chris Here

What’s up. It’s another episode of the Insurgents, the #1 ranked Canadian-American crossover politically left news and political commentary podcast. Today we’re joined by Dwight & Chris from Eat the Rich to talk about the Congressional deliberations over coronavirus relief and capitalists’ suggestions that people should be happy to die so that the Dow Jones may live. This was a fun one.Also, as mentioned in the show, you can leave us a voicemail now. Give us a ring at 202-570-4639. Or drop us a line at theinsurgentspod@gmail.comYou can follow Chris HERE.You can follow Dwight HERE.You can follow the ETR account HERE.You can subscribe to their Patreon HERE.——You can also listen to the show on iTunes HERE.And on Spotify HERE.If you’d like to become a premium subscriber and gain access to our private Discord server as well as the to-come premium episodes, you can do so here: This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at theinsurgents.substack.com/subscribe

Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New (Part 1) - Chris and Cindy BeallRebuilding a Marriage Better Than New (Part 2) - Chris and Cindy BeallRebuilding a Marriage Better Than New (Part 3) - Chris and Cindy BeallFamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Embracing Hope Guest:                        Chris and Cindy Beall                                 From the series:       Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New                   Bob: Rebuilding a broken marriage is not a simple process; it's not a painless process. But Chris Beall—who is doing it—says it is a worthwhile process to go through. Chris: You're walking through a betrayal—you don't know the where to go. The best thing you can do for other people is not tell a story but live a story. It's not time for you to focus on helping other people. Every day you're going to choose to forgive the other person, you are writing a sentence in a paragraph of a story that years from now will be worth telling—and we do that by submitting to God at every moment of this process of healing. Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, August 30th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. If there has been damage done to your marriage, there is a path forward—and it's a path worth walking. Stay with us. 1:00 And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us.  I sent out a tweet a while back and I got a response to it. I'm thinking maybe our guests could help—knowing how I should respond to the response. The tweet I sent out said—it was from when Gary Thomas was here and we were talking about cherishing and what it means to cherish one another in marriage. I said, “Cherishing another person means I'm going to look out for your interests as more important than my own.”  The tweet I got back was from somebody who said, “How do you get there with a lying, betraying husband who has no idea what passion or intimacy is?” I don't know how to answer that in 140 characters—I don't think you can answer that in 140 characters—but it's a very real issue for a lot of people thinking, “How do I fulfill my vows? How do I love and trust and cherish another person when they are a lying, betraying individual?” 2:00 Dennis: That really is a good question—and I'm glad we have the guests that we have on FamilyLife Today.  Bob: So we're off the hook!  Dennis: Chris— Bob: So, we'll let them answer it! Dennis: Chris and Cindy Beall join us again on the broadcast. Welcome back. Chris and Cindy: Thank you! Dennis: Chris is a pastor at Life Church in Oklahoma City. Cindy is an author of a book called, Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New—and Cindy, you're the expert on this because this is what you've done.  Cindy: One of the things that people often say is, “Well, I'm going to do this to them because they are doing this to me”—so through revenge they are getting back at someone. I believe that when we get back at someone, the first person that we're hurting is God. If Chris sins against me and then I then turn around and say, “I'm going to go cheat on him.” I've wounded the heart of God first—I have broken covenant with Him first—and then I might hurt my husband.  For me, I would say to that woman—or to anyone—you've got to do the right thing regardless of someone else's actions.  3:00 That's it. Someone else's sinful life does not give me the right to sin against my God. That's where I lived. It's not easy. It's very challenging, and I can't say I did it 100% perfect all the time—but I don't want to break my God's heart—I don't want to do that. Bob: You've had the opportunity, over that last half dozen years, to sit down with lots of couples who have gone through what you lived through. What you lived through was years of your husband looking at pornography—ultimately that lead to affairs outside of marriage—he fathered a son. You didn't know any of this. He finally comes clean. You have to decide—“Am I going to stay with him? Am I going to try to rebuild this marriage? Can I ever trust him again?”—all of these things facing you.  When you sit down with these couples today, they are at a place that you were at, where there is a road in front of them.  4:00 You can pick one path and that's a path that can feel like it will cause the pain to stop right away—or you can pick the other path which feels like this is going to take me right into the pain. What kind of hope do you give them and how do you point them in a God-ward direction? Cindy: The first thing, I think— just the fact that maybe it's the four of us—maybe it's a couple and Chris and me. I think the fact just seeing us brings them some hope—just the fact that we've lived through it. So when I'm faced with that question a lot of women will say, “What should I do?” Honestly, I cannot make that decision for them. I tell them, “You don't you have to decide the rest of your life today.” I steal that little phrase from my friend Kevin.  5:00 But I also just encourage them, “Look, whatever path you take is going to hurt. Where is God leading you? Let the peace of God be your guide.” If you've got a spouse that is willing to do whatever it takes—you're willing to lay your life down and rebuild this. Consider this path. If you've got a spouse that's still with someone else, or is acting like all this is your fault. Then you might have to play some hardball there, and show some tough love.  Dennis: I'm just thinking of the command in Genesis 2, that says, “for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, shall cleave to one another, and the two shall become one.” If you had not made a covenant between three—a man, and a woman, and their God—there's no way this marriage would be standing today.  Chris: Right! Dennis: There wouldn't be a title of a book, Rebuilding a Marriage Better—Better!— Than New.  Chris: Right. Dennis: The covenant of Almighty God gave you the standard to make this work.  6:00 Chris: Right. One thing that we experienced several years back—I'll set the scenario, but it's super-relevant—almost four years ago, our house burned down. We are going through this process of, “Okay we've lost everything, we have to rebuild. We've got to replace everything.” Our insurance company—that was amazing, I will tell you—they said, “We're going to pay to rebuild your house, but we don't think your foundation is damaged, so we're not going to pay to replace it.”  In our office when we meet with couples—we see this every day—there's some huge catastrophe in their marriage and they want a new house but they are unwilling to replace the old foundation. So how do we communicate? There are behaviors that we've got to go past the foundation and create a new normal. Dennis: What you're saying is, it's not a matter of slapping a new coat of paint— Chris: Right. Dennis: —on a house that is rotting. Chris: Right.  Dennis: But you've got to start with the right foundation.  7:00 I just have to say here, this is why the Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway is so important for couples. I was driven to the airport by a guy whose son and a young lady are getting ready to get married. I told him and I said, “Give your son and your future daughter-in-law the very best wedding gift they will ever receive because it will help them turn their marriage license into a marriage—into a real marriage—” Chris: Right! Dennis: “—into one that is built on the right foundation.” It's very practical—talking about how two imperfect people—from the start—can build a single structure—together—off the same set of blueprints. Give them the conference, the Weekend to Remember marriage getaway as a gift—it will pay off for decades. The guy nodded his head and said, “You know, I'm going to talk to my wife about that tonight because we want their marriage to go the distance.”  8:00 Bob: There's information about the Weekend to Remember online at FamilyLifeToday.com if our listeners are interested. If you have not been—you really ought to check it out.  Dennis: And it's not just for engaged couples.  Bob: No, and that's right! It's always good to take the marriage in for a little preventive maintenance; right? Dennis: We had a couple recently attend who'd been married 60 years.  Bob: Yes. Dennis: They felt it was time for an oil change and a tune-up. There you go!! Bob: I think one of the things that you two have learned in the rebuilding process of your marriage is that as you've invested in other peoples' marriages—God has used that to strengthen the bond between the two of you; right? —Talk about that. Cindy: It is the best part of our story that when we share with others—when we help them with the same help that was given to us—2 Corinthians 1:3-4—when we do that—it's like we heal more. 9:00 Like with each couple we visit with—with each woman I talk with on the phone, or have a FaceTime conversation or meet for coffee—with each conversation, God is redeeming that marriage bit by bit.  What's funny is I love our marriage where it is. We're best friends! We're very healthy—that's the word I use to describe our marriage—very healthy. Not “perfect”, not “good”, not “great”—healthy and strong. What's fun is that it's getting better, because we're going to invest—we are going to continue to steward our story and share and help others so it's just going to get better.  Chris: I'd say for—say for any listener that's in the early stages of just trying to figure out—you're walking through a betrayal, you don't know where to go—the best thing you can do for other people, is not tell a story—but live a story. It's not time for you to focus on helping other people.  10:00 Every day that you walk through a trigger that hits you or you're going to choose to forgive the other person, you're writing a sentence in a paragraph of a story that years from now will be worth telling. You don't need to be focused on telling your story but you need to be focused on writing that story. We do that by submitting to God in every moment of this process of healing.  Bob: I agree with you—I do think though there are some couples who think, “Well, we could never try to reach out and help others because our marriage isn't perfect.”  Chris: Right. Bob: That leaves a lot of people never reaching out and helping anybody— Chris: Right. Bob: —because our marriages are never perfect. At what level of health—where do you need to get to health-wise before you can start to say, “I think maybe we can speak into somebody else's life?” Chris: Early on it wasn't us looking for people to help it was people coming to us. If we felt like we were at least one step ahead of them— Dennis: There you go! Chris: Here we go! Let's go! We can offer you—here's what we're doing, we're on the road too—we're not experts. In these latter days it's been much more where we're looking to pro-actively help people.  11:00 But for the most part of this 15 years, people would come to us, “Hey, I heard you're going through this”—if we really felt like that was a step ahead. That pretty much pertains to every person listening to this—you are a step ahead of someone.  Cindy: Someone. Bob: That's right—and somebody is a step ahead of you. Chris: Correct. Bob: If you can be in a cycle where you're learning from those who are a step ahead of you and you are helping those who are a step behind you. That's how the church is supposed to work—that's what this is supposed to look like; right? Chris: Absolutely! Pauls and Timothys! We each have somebody pouring into us and we each have people that we are pouring into—absolutely! Dennis: You had somebody who invested in you in the early months after the bombshell went off in your marriage.  Cindy: Yes, Jim and Beth Kuykendall—we cannot speak more highly of them. There are not enough words in the dictionary to talk about how amazing they are. Without their input we would just have been a hot mess.  12:00 Chris: Jim and Beth—for the first 30 days—every night—were sitting on our living room floor. There was just this invasive commitment to—“We're going to do life together”—and, “As you guys face things—just today—we're going to process them and speak of life over you—we're going to go to God's word, every single night.”  That may not be realistic for everyone, but that had such a huge impact—not just in the counsel that they gave, but just the relational presence—knowing that they had walked through a similar story. We have a physical example of hope sitting right in front of us on our couch.  Bob: Chris—I have to ask because it's been 15 years now since the story was told. Prior to that time you had been ensnared with pornography and where that led you—the temptation can't have just gone completely away. Over the last 15 years to where you go, yes, you know, I've felt that for a long time and I just never feel it anymore. Chris: I'm all good! I'm fixed!  13:00 Bob: So what's the difference between the temptation today and what it used to be? Chris: How I would answer that is that I am free—but I am not fixed. I'm a human being, I'm imperfect—I have a sin nature just like everyone else. So I am free. I am not a slave to this sin and I haven't been for 15 years—but I am tempted just like everyone else. I‘ll give you an example.  I have learned to see the temptations and respond a little bit more quickly to them. In fact, it wasn't all that long ago, that a young lady that came up to me—a precious young lady—attractive. “Pastor Chris, you've changed my life. I think you could really help me sort through some things in my life.” In that moment, I've got a little bit of warning signs going off—so I called Cindy. “Hey, this just happened to me.” Then I brought my staff—my entire team—I said, “Hey, I want you to keep your eyes on me. If there is anything that you ever see that seems off—intercept it.”  14:00 It wasn't even like an inappropriate conversation on behalf of this girl—it was completely innocent—but it was like just maybe the beginning seed of a temptation that the moment I acknowledged it—and had a conversation with Cindy and my team—it was gone. So I do my best to kind of predict, “Where is the enemy going to come after me?” I am just going to be overly honest when those temptations come.  Keeping it in the dark is like a Petri dish for sin to grow. The moment we bring it into the light I just think that is where the power of healing happens. We do have a spiritual enemy! I believe that in those moments—“I can't, I don't have it in there, I‘m going to have to find a different avenue.” Dennis: I believe it's in Genesis chapter 4 where it talks about sin—  Chris: Crouching. Bob: Crouching at your door? Dennis: Crouching at your door. Chapter 4:7. What I just want every listener—male and female—to know—it may not be pornography.  15:00 I don't know what it is—what your Achilles heel is—but I can promise you—in fact, yesterday when I stepped out of my house, I thought, “I'm stepping out of a safe place.” Not that there isn't sin able to get its way into our house—there is—but I'm stepping into the world where there is a spiritual battle occurring. We don't see what's taking place.  Interestingly a friend sent me a link—and I don't know what my friend was really thinking but I clicked on it and it didn't take long to realize, “This is not a good place to be.” I clicked off and went away. I still think I owe my friend an email back to say, “Why did you send that to me?” By the way, there's a lot of stuff flipped around on the internet and posted in all kinds of places—just be wise.  16:00 You may be throwing something to someone and it may be his or her Achilles heel—spiritually speaking.  Chris: The spirit and the flesh—the Bible says—are at war for what is going to be dominant in their lives. The Holy Spirit wants to be that which propels us and leads every part of our lives—but if the things that we're feeding our mind and our time are the things of the flesh—we're going to be dominated by the flesh. We just have to be very aware that the more we can starve our flesh and feed the things that the Spirit in us craves, those temptations will minimize. They don't go away—but they will minimize. Bob: Most of us are way too casual in our daily battle with sin. Chris: Agreed. Bob: We walk around like there is not a war going on—we walk around like we're in complete safety—and we get ambushed when we do that.  Chris: Right. Bob: As opposed to walking around with the alert system on—your alert system that goes— 17:00 “Okay—this is just a seed here—but a seed can grow into something if I don't deal with it right now.” Dennis: I want to encourage our listeners—every listener who is a follower of Jesus Christ is an ambassador—an ambassador you have a message and a mission. I want to read to you a little bit of your mission and message found in Isaiah 61. If you haven't read the first eight to ten verses of this passage of Scripture you ought to read it because I've thought of this all week as we've interviewed you two—how you guys are really like something that's described in here—I'll get to that in a moment.  Here's what it says about our message and our mission: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, — 18:00 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; and to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor—” It goes on to talk about some other matters and then it says: “that they may be called”—and this is what I thought of you two—“oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities,”—listen to this last phrase—“the devastations of many generations.” Chris: Wow! Dennis: You two are oaks of righteousness—you are providing shade for couples who've gone through the valley and they're in need of someone saying, “You can do it!” 19:00  Chris: Wow! Dennis: The church is there. We will come along side you, we will pray for you, we will minister to you and future generations are at stake. Bob: Tell our listeners about the dinner you had not long ago with somebody who had found Chris and Cindy's story online along with other stories that they've heard on FamilyLife Today—and how God had used that in his life. Dennis: This is a person who been through dark days in his marriage. He became a super sleuth on FamilyLife Today. He went in search of every story of redemption and reconciliation that he could find and he found yours. He said, “I was hopeless but I listened and I listened and I listened.” For three and a half years he battled for his marriage. Chris: Wow! 20:00 Dennis: I asked him—I said, “If I went to your wife right now and asked her what your marriage was like on a ten point scale what would she say?” He said, “A ten!” What about you? A ten! And he's not saying it's perfect, but he's just saying where sin abounds, grace and forgiveness much more. That is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nobody listening to us here is beyond the reach of God's arm to welcome you in to the family and forgive your sin. There's nothing you have done that you can earn God's favor—nor nothing you can do to cause Him to flee from you. You just need to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord, Master, and Savior and then get on with the process— Chris: Amen. Dennis: —of becoming God's man—God's woman, and if you're married—God's couple. Then leave a godly legacy to future generations which you guys have done. 21:00   And I just have to tell you again. I'm really proud of you for not quitting—for still standing—and for using your wounds to proclaim who Christ is. Way to go! Cindy: Thank you! Chris: God is good! Bob: I can imagine there are folks listening who have been thinking—as they've heard you share your story—about a couple they know facing a similar situation—where there's been infidelity, betrayal, where trust has been broken. I‘d encourage them not only to send their friends a link to the conversations we've had here this week, but also send them a copy of the book, Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New—where you share with folks what you've done and how God's worked in your marriage to bring it to where it is today.  We've got copies of the book, Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center. You can go online to order your copy. Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com.  22:00 You can also order by phone. Our number is 1-800-FL-TODAY. So again. the website— FamilyLifeToday.com. The phone number is 1-800-FL-TODAY. Ask about the book, Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New by Cindy Beall when you get in touch with us. And, if you're online be sure to watch the video clip that features Chris and Cindy sharing their story. Maybe you'd want to forward that to your friends as well. Again the website is FamilyLifeToday.com. As summer is coming to an end, the month of August is almost over and that means we're in the home stretch for the matching gift opportunity that we've been telling you about all month long. We had a friend of the ministry come to us back at the beginning of the month. He offered to match every donation we receive during the month of August on a dollar for dollar basis. 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How does a solopreneur take on the highly competitive insurance industry and win marketing mindshare? This week on The Inbound Success Podcast, Chris Greene of the Flood Insurance Guru shares his journey with content creation and why he's committed to creating 365 flood education videos, 150 flood blogs, and 100 flood podcasts this year. Chris proves that there is no excuse to NOT invest in content creation. As a business owner, he runs his company, invests in continuous learning, and still manages to create an insane amount of content every week. The results are pretty incredible. He's closing deals from his YouTube channel and other content on a regular basis, and says that today, 100% of his business comes from his digital marketing and content creation efforts. In this episode, he breaks down exactly how he does it - and how you can too. Highlights from my conversation with Chris include: Chris took a video course and realized there was no educational video on flood insurance. He saw that opportunity and began to create videos for his business. He then realized that his videos would have a greater chance of getting found if he also created written content, so he started blogging. Because he travels so much, he realized that podcasts would also be easy to create and would work well for his audience. Chris creates a new video every single day. He films them himself and keeps them to two minutes or less. Chris took a class called Made You Look Video that got him comfortable on camera and taught him video marketing essentials. Now he has a YouTube channel with separate playlists for each type of person in his audience (ex. realtors, lenders, property owners, business owners, etc.).  To free up more of his time for content creation, Chris hired a virtual assistant to help him run his insurance business and take care of the administrative work. He believes strongly that he needs to be the one creating content because he knows the subject matter best. To save time, Chris will often shoot a whole week's worth of content in one day. He uses Vidyard to create one to one vidoes and to host his marketing videos so that when he sends a video to someone, he can see if they've opened it. He keeps the entire production and editing process simple so that it takes him five minutes or less to edit a video. Chris generates a lot of inbound business from his Facebook presence, and uses his YouTube channel for sales enablement. One interesting benefit that Chris has seen from his content creation is new partnerships with other insurance agencies that don't want to sell flood insurance. They work with him because they see him as the expert on the topic, and that brings him a considerable amount of business. Chris spends about two hours every day creating written content and says that blogs don't necessarily need to be long to be effective - they just need to be as long as they should be to get the point across. In addition to his videos and written content, Chris is creating podcasts that are generally about 10 minutes long. He estimates that, in total, he spends thirty to forty percent of his day creating content. Chris says that 100% of his business comes from his digital marketing and content creation efforts. Resources from this episode: Visit the Flood Insurance Guru website Connect with Chris on LinkedIn Follow Chris on Twitter Connect with Chris on Facebook Email Chris at flood@communityfirstagency.com  Listen to the podcast to learn how committing to creating content can change your business - and your life. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host): Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast. I'm your host Kathleen Booth and today my guest is Chris Greene, who is the president of the Flood Insurance Guru. I got a guru today. Welcome, Chris. Chris Greene (Guest): Thank you. Chris and Kathleen hamming it up while recording this episode. Kathleen: Yeah, thanks for being here. I was really excited to talk to you, because I think your story is exactly the example of what I love to highlight, which is just consistency, and putting in the work really pays off, because I had heard that you had decided to do a year of flood education videos and 150 flood blogs in 150 days. You're doing videos, you're doing blogs, now you're doing podcasts. It's like, man, you're rolling up your sleeves and getting it done. I can't wait to dig into it. Before we do, can you tell my audience a little bit about yourself, your background, and how you came to be doing what you're doing today? Meet Chris Greene Chris: Yeah. My name's Chris Greene, I'm president, owner of the Flood Insurance Guru. I've been in the insurance field for about 10 years. Actually hold a master's degree in emergency management with a focus in hazard and flood mitigation. I had a really bad experience buying a house about 10 years ago. I got about two weeks from buying it, found out I was in a really high risk flood zone. It was going to change my house payment by almost $3,000 a year, and the realtor said "Yeah, that happened on the foreclosure." For four years I just didn't bring it up, because I didn't want it to be an issue. And so what happened is, I discovered this really bad process and lack of education. So, over the next eight to 10 years I was working for Captive Insurance Agencies at the time. I kept getting my feet a little bit deeper and deeper. And when I started my own company about five years ago, I wanted a catchy website, so I came up with the Flood Insurance Guru, as a joke, but when people started learning what our educational background was then, they started saying, "Oh, you really have experience, you guys actually have an educational background on this," and it just kind of took off. And then that brought us to this year. Once you get outside the coast, there is no education on flood. We want to spend one full year where all we do is we provide education. It's not about selling, it's about what's currently going on. If we could just provide that, then I think we can compete with these bigger companies, and I think we can beat them because of the value that we provide. And it's just kind of taken off. I didn't know it would be the worst year in US history for flooding when we did it, but now not only do we do the education videos on flood insurance, we do them on disaster assistance, SBA loans, whatever, every single flood map across the country we do an update on. This morning, I just started a podcast for Houston, Texas on the recent disaster assistance that was approved by the president. What does it mean for the people there, who is it impacting and their resources. A year of flood education videos Kathleen: That is awesome. So, let's roll back a little bit. You decided this year to do a year of flood education videos. You started with videos? Is that correct? Chris: It is. I did. I'm in a video course that's been really good for me, and what we discovered as a community, there's no video, there's no resources on this. So it's like, we're just going to commit to video. And once you start committing to video, you realize, you know, Google is not seeing these videos unless it's YouTube. We need to get some text out there. Then I started blogging with it, but then everyone's like, "I'm always on the road. I wish you had a podcast," and we talked about it for a while and then we finally started one about six months ago. Kathleen: That's awesome. So, let's talk about the videos. You're not a huge company. So, the idea of making a video a day is very ambitious. How did you approach that? Do you have a videographer? Is this something you do yourself? Chris: I do it myself every single day. It's just me and I have a virtual assistant who helps us on the back end. Usually all of my videos are two minutes or less. I want it to be quick, I want it to be educational, and I want somebody to be able to take at least one thing away from our video every day. Kathleen: And how are you filming them? Chris: I was using my iPhone for a while, and actually bought a Canon DSLR, I set it up on location. I shoot all my videos on site. So I travel the entire country. If there's a flood issue going on a thousand miles away, I travel there, I talk to the people in that area and actually shoot my videos there. Kathleen: Okay. And did you have any special training for that? I mean, how did you- Chris: Well, I'm in a video course that has kind of taught me the psychological part of your buyer's, persona, you've got the education part, what people want, really learning to be on camera and things like that. And that's what's really helped me a lot. It was a course called Made You Look Video. What was funny was that the first 10 videos we had to do were, not really inappropriate videos, but they were just like, make you really uncomfortable. Like, "Hey, what's your favorite vacation?" Or, "What's the most embarrassing situation you've been in?" And the whole point was, "Hey, we're doing this because we want you to feel comfortable on video." Kathleen: Yeah, I was going to ask you about that because I think for people who haven't done a lot of video, I actually think that's harder than the whole technical, how to film and how to produce. Everybody I talk to tends to say, "I'm just not comfortable being on video." I'll be honest, I feel the same way. I feel very self conscious. So, was it doing those really kind of honest and as you said, almost embarrassing videos that broke the ice for you? Chris: That did break the ice. But then if you go back and look at some of our videos now they're like... That course has taught me to, "Hey you have to do something to separate yourself." So I've got one video where I'm actually spitting out spoiled milk. I've got another video where I'm dressed up as a grandfather, another video where I'm laying on a mattress. Stuff that catches people's attention and everyone's like, "Oh, I can't watch your videos because you look like an idiot." Everybody else seems to like them. And I said, "If you think I look like an idiot, means you're watching it, means I'm doing my job." Kathleen: Now, you're doing these as part of the flood education series? Chris: Yep. Kathleen: Oh that's so funny. Chris: I have them all broken down on my YouTube. I've built different lists for realtors, lenders, property owners, business owners where they can go exactly to that list and only watch the videos that pertain to them if they want. How Chris makes the time to create video content Kathleen: So you're uploading each of the two minute videos to YouTube. You said you're using a virtual assistant and what does that person do? Chris: Actually, the virtual assistant doesn't really help me at all in the video. They just help me on the insurance, out of the backend. Like they're helping me with the quoting, the paperwork and all that so that I can spend my time on the content because that's what separating us. I've tried to use other people for content, but it's very difficult in niche markets because they don't have your educational background. And you can tell sometimes when you read a blog that they may not know what they're talking about. Kathleen: Yeah, yeah. Now, are you- Chris: Here right now, how to do content creation for us and that's the big struggle. I'm actually having to teach him some stuff on the flood side first so that when he writes it, it makes sense. Kathleen: Are you doing all the editing and production of the videos too? Chris: Takes me less than five minutes to edit because I said they're all short. They're simple. They're easy. Kathleen: Yeah. I was going to say, what's involved in that or what kind of programs, platforms are you using? How complicated is it? Chris: It's fairly easy for me because I just use iMovie and everyone said, "Oh, you screwed up on this word." I said, "That's great, that means people know that I'm human." I will never shoot a video more than twice. Now there's certain situations I'll shoot it more than once, but I will never shoot it more twice because I want people to know that it's real. I want people know it's not a script and yeah I did screw up but that's what you want to see. Just like I use Vidyard for all of our one-on-one videos when I'm doing flood quotes, I send all of our customer's quotes through Vidyard because I want them... They might be 2000 miles away from me, but they feel like I'm next door because of video. Kathleen: I couldn't agree more and we've just had this conversation before I hit record for this podcast where I said, unless all hell breaks loose, we're going to keep going. And people ask me that all the time. Like, how much do you edit the podcast? And I really don't, unless there's some big terrible thing that happens in the middle of it. I believe that people prefer things that are less scripted. And so I leave in a lot, like if the dog barks or I've had podcasts where my 12 year old son walks in, in the middle of it and asked me for a snack, and I think you could see that as unprofessional or you could just see it as lending flavor and context to the life that's happening behind the content as it's getting made. So, I love that approach. All right, so you're spending, let's say, it sounds like less than half an hour a day on the videos. Chris: Like today, I'll actually shoot... This week is the first week I've actually been on a schedule all week. So, this afternoon we'll spend about two hours and I'll shoot the whole week. Kathleen: Oh, smart. So you're bundling it together. Chris: I do that in case somebody comes to me and says, "Hey, we're having a real issue with this." Then I will bump it up in the week. But the reason I do that, I always have a week there. If something comes up, if there's a lot of disastrous stuff going on it may take my time away from video and I like to have a few in my back pocket just in case. Kathleen: Yeah. Yeah. I feel the same way about podcasting. I need to have several in the can because you just never know what life is going to throw at you. So, you're putting these on YouTube. When you first started this year of flood education videos, did you already have a YouTube channel? Chris: I really had... Not for the Flood Insurance Guru, for our old company I did. I just set this up this year and everything in the course I went through, really taught me how to set it up. I use a tool called KeywordTool.io, that has really helped me with tags and seeing what people are searching for. And so we really haven't put any money to the YouTube channel yet because we've done so well with it organically. Chris's results Kathleen: So talk me through what "done so well" means, like what kind of results have you seen in this time that you've been posting? Chris: Honestly, most of our inbound market really has come from Facebook, not so much YouTube. YouTube, what we've done is we've built a knowledge base article for it now, that's using snippets with HubSpot. So our customer has a question, we'll send them the snippet and then they can click on it, takes them over to our YouTube channel. And so we've kind of done that. Kathleen: Oh interesting. Now are you also getting organic reach through YouTube? Chris: I am because we've actually sold a few policies last month actually off YouTube where people have searched our videos. Kathleen: Wow. And how much do your videos get viewed? Chris: Honestly, I don't have that many views. I have one video that has like 108 views on there and I have very low other views on it because I haven't really paid money on it because I'm really just using the YouTube part as a resource library. It's the Facebook organically. What we figured out, is how to use Facebook as a search engine optimization tool instead of like an ad. So everyone else is throwing this money at it. We're sharing it on our personal page, but what I've done with my personal page is I've been very strategic with who my friends, who's sharing and all that. A lot of people, what they do is they go search flood insurance on Facebook in Rhode Island and we come up in Georgia. The tags that we're consistently using is pulling our information up for them. Kathleen: I love what you're saying because I've had this conversation quite a bit with some of the folks that I've worked with over the years about how long should you expect it to take inbound marketing to work and to produce results for your business. And there's kind of two schools around that. One school says, "Oh, don't expect anything for six to 12 months. It's an investment in the long term." And I think that can be true if you're putting all of your eggs in the basket of getting found organically because it does take a little time. But there's this other school that says that inbound marketing should work right away if you're creating content that can be used for sales enablement. And if your sales team, which in this case is you, is actively sharing that content with the prospects they're talking to in the sales process because it can speed up the sales process, it can increase your close rate, et cetera. It sounds like that's what you've been doing. Is that correct? Chris: That's correct. And we knew it was going to be a longterm game, but honestly, I said 12, 18 months. I didn't think that we would build a national brand in six to nine months and not really put any money behind it. Because some of the unique information we were providing people just sharing it like crazy and we created a really cool partnership with some other insurance agencies who don't really know flood, don't want to know it. And that's all we do. And that part has just taken off for us because they keep seeing our content. 150 blogs in 150 days Kathleen: Now blogging. You committed to doing 150 blogs in 150 days. We got to talk about this, Chris, because I have been in this game a long time and I cannot begin to tell you how often I hear people complain about the amount of time it takes to blog. And these are marketers who do marketing for a living, complaining about having to blog. Very often they're complaining about having to do it once a month. That doesn't even get to the CEOs I talked to who think they just don't have the time for it. So we need to unpack this a little bit because I have a feeling you're going to just dispel all of this. Chris: Well someone once taught me, and actually it came from I think originally from Marcus Sheridan. From a company called Agency Nation. His name is Joe Giangola. And he said, "Look, it doesn't matter if you write a 3000 word article, or if you write a 500 word article, write as many words as it takes to get your point across." Kathleen: Oh, so true. So true. Chris: So, it's not, "Hey, I need 3000 words and put a bunch of crap in the article that's not value." I'd rather have a 300 word article to get straight to the point and give people what they need. Kathleen: Well and the truth is most people don't have the time to read long things anyway. Chris: And most of my articles are probably 500 words to a thousand words. Kathleen: Yeah. So, how long does it take you to write these articles? Chris: I would say it takes me about two hours a day and I do it at night, usually from about 10 to 12 at night. What I do is now I'm basically putting a blog out for every single one of my podcasts now, so I basically keep three separate blogs. I keep our podcast blog, I keep what's called a flood map updates, and that's if the flood map changes for an area, we do a blog just on that. And then I run a regular blog and so I mix it up, I write three to five blogs a week between the three. Kathleen: Now is your podcast a blog, is it like show notes or is it just a companion article? Chris: No, a lot of times I'll do a full detailed one. It's not like a breakdown. Here's what I try to do, I write an article, just a generic article on that subject matter, for the podcast and I like to come back with our regular blog and take that same blog, but now relate it to a particular area like Birmingham, Alabama and apply it there. And that's what I've kind of started to... Kind of taught myself that last couple of months. Now, Hey, let's just do it on this generic topic. Now let's come back and apply it to a particular city. First of all, it's for SEO, but now we could relate to that audience and we're giving that audience what they need. What is the ROI of content creation? Kathleen: So you're spending about two hours a night. I think a lot of business leaders listening to this might think, how could it possibly be worth my time? Like why wouldn't I either outsource for somebody to do that or hire somebody junior who gets paid less to do that. Talk me through for you, how you see the ROI of that two hours of your time. Chris: Well, the thing for me with the two hours of my time now, is through this whole inbound marketing and learning all this, what I've learned is that actually I have a passion for writing and I enjoy the blogging. I've actually handed off the other stuff so I could spend more time on the blog. Like the quoting, inside our company, our VA's handle all that. So I can handle the content and like someone goes, "Are you going to outsource the content?" I said, "Probably not. I enjoy it." I enjoy when someone comes to me with a question, I can break that question down and I can turn that question into maybe 10 different podcasts. 10 different blogs and apply to different areas because my educational background, it's very hard to outsource and have someone else do that. Kathleen: Do you find that it's getting easier over time? Chris: Yes. Kathleen: Is it getting quicker? Chris: But I'm also learning to build it out a better way. Like, "Hey, these are the five ways to do this." All right, let's build a pillar post on this subject matter. Now let's put 10 sub posts underneath that for different areas. Kathleen: Yeah, I mean the consistency part is what blows my mind. How do you stay on track? Because that is, that's a major commitment. Chris: It's tough. Now, the podcast actually is pretty easy. All of my podcasts are 10 minutes or less. So, I do a podcast that morning usually and I'll go out, shoot a video that kind of relates to the podcast that afternoon and then put the blog together that night. Kathleen: Wow. So what percentage of your day overall would you estimate that you're spending on creating content? Chris: Probably 30 to 40%. Kathleen: Wow. And- Chris: I'm also doing this... Now, I do have VA that helps me with some research, but also what I'm feeling is, I actually spend a lot of time driving around during the day though, looking at different locations to shoot certain things on. Like I had one the other day where a house was completely crumbled and so it wasn't a plan, but we ended up shooting a video on cracked foundations. Kathleen: Oh wow. Chris: And so that's where a lot of my content comes from as well. How Chris comes up with topics Kathleen: Yeah. So that was going to be my next question. Can you talk me through how you come up with your topics? Chris: Our topics come from every single question we get from our referral partner, a customer or prospect and what's also currently going on. Like last week, FEMA updates their manual every six months. So I broke down the new manual and made a podcast and a blog out of that. There’s disaster assistance that was approved for last week in Texas. I made a blog out of that because those are the things that people want to know what's going on. As I said, we walk them not just through the insurance process, the disaster assistance and all that because no one else will do it. So what happens though is when we do do that, when they do need something for a flood change, a flood insurance. They're going to remember us because we're providing so much education. I'm a terrible salesperson, I'm the worst salesperson in the world, but I'm really good at marketing and education. Kathleen: Do you have a particular system you use for capturing those questions? Because you're literally running around all the time. Chris: My iPhone. Kathleen: And what do you use on your iPhone? Chris: Notes. Like when they call me asking me, I take that question, I'll put it in there. Last night I was going through about 40 different questions over the last two weeks, I wanted to address this week. Kathleen: Wow, that's a great tip. Yeah. Answering questions, it's tried and true strategy. Chris: So, I would use a notepad and paper, but then I would lose the paper. I'd lose the question. Chris's results Kathleen: Yeah, you definitely have to do what works for you, right. So, let's talk about the results you've gotten from this, because we've talked a little bit about the traction you got with the videos, but now you've got videos, you've got blogs, you've got podcasts. As you mentioned, you are in an insanely competitive industry, insurance. That is one of, if not the most competitive industries from a marketing standpoint, from an SEO standpoint. Talk me through the results you've seen. Chris: Actually, we've seen really good results and everyone else says the exact same thing you do, but they don't realize it's actually the complete opposite. You see, once you get outside coastal areas, no one knows anything about flood. And no one's wasting their time on it. So when we can provide the content in areas like Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, we don't have a lot of competition. The other day when I looked at some of our keywords for Arkansas, Nebraska on YouTube, it was $1.12 And $1.50 because no one else is putting it out there or they're not going to waste their time on it. They're going to go to Houston, they're going to go to Miami or New Jersey, but what about all those areas in the middle where there's no resources and we can provide those resources. It doesn't matter how much competition we have, they can't keep up with us on the content. Kathleen: Now, do you find yourself competing against really, really large insurance companies and how does that play out? Chris: [crosstalk 00:19:46] the other day, because we picked up the phone and we called the customer back. Kathleen: Yeah. How does that play out from a digital marketing standpoint though? How do you take on, I can't think of one off hand, but all the big insurers, right? They have so much money to throw at their marketing. Chris: Because like you just said, they're throwing it at their marketing. They're not throwing it at their content. They're saying, "Hey, I can save you 40% on your flood insurance." That's great, but how do you change my floors out? How do you help me through this process? That's what the customer wants to know. Then yeah, I'd love to save money here, but I need you to get me point B before I get to point C. Kathleen: Now, are you spending money on paid ads now? Chris: A little bit, but I do it completely different than the companies you talk about. Kathleen: Okay, talk me through how you do it. Chris: What I do is these companies that said they'll spend all this money and "Hey, let me save you 50% on this." Well, I get a copy of every single flood map change across the country. Well, what happens is you can make a decision to buy insurance before that map changes and if you do, you get a preferred rate. So I target those areas six months before with content every single week through YouTube and walking them through the whole process. So when it does change or it's about to change, they remember seeing our content for six months. Not that we can save them money, but "Hey, here's what's going to happen, here's the process you need to follow whether you go through us or not." And that's how we've been able to beat a lot of them out. No one else wants to spend that time. They want to capture the sale. Kathleen: Now, what percentage of your business these days is coming in through organic and social and these digital efforts that you're undertaking? Chris: Honestly, from a strictly digital standpoint, pretty much a hundred percent of it now. Like even though the insurance companies we deal with, the process we built out for them is when they send us a customer, we actually build a link that's just for that insurance agent. And what happens is if they submit, a customer submits it, we redirect them. For that customer, leave them a review. We have a thank you card that goes to that customer in the mail with their information on there, not ours. We're here to help with a flood. But we're also here to make them look like a rock star so they have a customer for life. It's a win-win. And so we built all that in HubSpot, now. Kathleen: I mean intuitively you've landed on the best channel marketing strategy, which is make your channel partner look like a rock star and make their life as easy as possible. Yeah. I learned that after 13 years as a HubSpot partner, because HubSpot itself has one of the best channel programs around and they do that exact same thing. Chris: Yeah. And they're always like, "Why the link?" I said, "Because no matter where the customer is in the process, we can keep you involved." Kathleen: Yeah. That's great. Chris: And they like that. Kathleen: Yeah. Fascinating. So tell me about how your business is growing and what it's meant for you as a business owner. Chris: Well, I had this goal of, hey, I'd love to sell $1 million in flood insurance over the next five years. Well, I've had to adjust that goal because we've gotten to about 50% of it in our first year. But that was our whole goal, our five year goal. What happened is its just kind of taken off. We've spoken at a couple of conferences, we've been on a lot of different podcasts, not because we're just killing it on sales. But I guess because of the whole video thing, no one else was really doing that in our industry. No one's committing to it, particularly on flood, but no one's committing to it on anything else. And so what's happened is, being on those podcasts and things like that have helped us organically. People start reaching out to us, other insurance agents and we just walk them through and help them with their questions. And then before you know it, they're telling other people and it's just like a snowball going downhill then. Kathleen: Now how- Chris: Once you get going, if you get behind it. Kathleen: How important has it been to your success in doing this that you took on essentially a niche topic? Because you said that a little bit earlier how no one else was talking about flood. Could you do this same approach if it was a broader topic? Chris: Oh, easily. The reason I've done it though is because that's what my background is in and no one really has the background that I have in insurance. Like they've got some training, but they don't have that master's degree. I'm in the middle becoming a Certified Floodplain Manager. Probably less than 1% of insurance agents in the world have that certification as well. So you could do it with anything. But the reason I chose to do it and what I did it in is because of what my background is. I know people that are doing it in other areas as well. Now not the whole video thing, I mean you'd really have to commit, but the video course I'm in, a lot of people committing to two or three videos a week, which is great. My whole thing was, hey, if I can look back a year later, look at the knowledge base articles we've built, look at the library we've built just over a year. Look at the amount of questions we're going to be able to ask. Kathleen: Yeah. That's great. Well it's definitely inspiring and I think anybody who's ever thought, I don't have the time to invest in content or I couldn't possibly do it because I'm not an expert. I think that you provide a great example of somebody who's just taking the bull by the horns and is running with it and seeing great results. So, very cool. Chris: I've thought about starting a digital marketing agency next year, basically, what we're doing is taking the journey of this year we've been on and we're teaching other companies how to do it. Kathleen's two questions Kathleen: Love it. That's so cool. All right. Shifting gears for a minute. I have two questions I always ask my guests and you are a prolific inbound marketer so I want to hear what you have to say. Is there a particular company or person that you think is really killing it with inbound marketing right now? Chris: Yes. Nicholas Ayers, he's the one who actually runs Made You Look Video. I mean his video course, the whole psychological thing he puts behind it. He's got some of the silliest ads on Facebook with fanny packs, but what he's able to do with video, because he's been studying it for 30 years, it's just incredible. Kathleen: So Nicholas Ayers, Made You Look Video? Chris: But also his passion of, "Hey, I'm not going to keep this to myself. I'm going to help whoever I can with it." Now, we do a call every single week, he walks you through whatever you need. I mean, he's just awesome. Kathleen: That's great. Chris: And like I tell people, he's one of the main reasons, where we're at today is because of how they've been able to help us with video. And then Marcus Sheridan is another one. I was turned on to him about nine months ago. About the whole pool company experience. Kathleen: Yeah. Marcus's story is phenomenal. Yeah. And he is a great guy. All right, so things change fast. You are blogging, you're podcasting, you're making videos and putting things on YouTube and Facebook, what have you. How do you stay current and up to date on all of these developments around digital marketing with things changing so quickly? What's your strategy for that? Chris: Well, a lot of it actually is through HubSpot Academy. I spend a lot of my time in there and then I spend about an hour a day studying other things. I've got about 140 podcasts a week that I listen to. Kathleen: Oh my God. Chris: This being one of them, the HubCast, all these different digital marketing ones. Amy Porterfield is a big one. But I stay up to date because I travel so much during the week that I listen to all those. And honestly that's where I give all my content ideas from as well. How to connect with Chris Kathleen: That's amazing. I don't know how you find all the time. I mean, I love podcasts and I think I spend a lot of time self-educating but you make me look like an amateur. That's amazing. So, all right, Chris, you've totally blown me away. I can't wait to see what you do next. I'm betting some people are going to be listening to this and have questions. If they do, if they want to connect with you, reach out and chat with you. What's the best way for them to contact you? Chris: If you go to our website, just floodinsuranceguru.com, we've got our email address on there. It's flood@communityfirstagency.com. They can also find me on Facebook, which is just Chris Greene. They may have to send me a message because I think I am maxed out on friends. Kathleen: Oh no, we can't be friends. Chris: Well, I have to filter it out all the time. I've changed it and added a public image one on there, but I don't do much on there. You can also find me on LinkedIn. I do a lot on LinkedIn. Kathleen: Awesome. All right. You heard it here. I'll put those links in the show notes. If you want to find Chris head over to those show notes and his LinkedIn profile, his email address, his YouTube channel, all of it will be in there. He won't be your friend on Facebook until he clears out some other people, but you can ask him anyway. You know what to do next... Kathleen: That's awesome, Chris, thank you so much for joining me. And if you're listening and you like what you heard or you learned something new, please consider leaving the podcast a five star review on Apple podcasts. It makes a huge difference and helps us get found by other people. And if you know somebody else doing kick ass inbound marketing work, tweet me at workmommywork, because I would love to interview them. That's it for this week. Thank you so much, Chris. Chris: Thank you.

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