Podcasts about Christy Brown

Christy Brown: Self Portrait - Midas Man - John McAuliffe

Christy Brown is CEO of Dr. Noze Best, an innovative pediatric healthcare company committed to bringing hospital-grade respiratory devices into the home. After only two years with the company, Christy already has a plan to launch their direct-to-consumer medical device in 10 countries. She's a mover and shaker!  The company's mission is to make sure that every child can breathe – and for parents to feel “confident and supported” when caring for their child's health. Current offerings include nasal aspirators and accessories, and a full product line designed to help children breathe better is also in development.  To launch globally with purpose and intention, the Dr. Noze Best team developed a proprietary tool – the “Complexity Calculator.” The Calculator measures various elements that could affect a product launch in a new country – population and birth rates, economics, legal frameworks, regulatory requirements, and logistics, for example – so the team could prioritize the countries by opportunity and ease of doing business.  At the outset, Christy describes feeling “isolated” by her lack of connections in global trade – she didn't know who to turn to for advice and guidance, or how to find partners. A fortuitous post on an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) WhatsApp chat group connected us – my brother Scott suggested Christy reach out to me.  Thereafter, the company worked with the US Commercial Service (USCS) in Atlanta to make connections in their initial target countries. Christy raves about the services they received from both USCS Atlanta and the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD). With assistance from both agencies, Christy connected with consulates within initial target countries to acquire valuable information about how to enter local markets.  There will be challenges along the way, Christy says. Her team struggled to meet projections when faced with unanticipated and uncontrollable issues and with setting up direct-to-market shipping from their Asian manufacturer, finding capable distributors, and steering the medical device through the various regulatory bodies.  Regardless, her first and best advice for others starting the export journey is simple: “Do it!” Once you do:  Have patience: it can take time for success.  Build a good team: you are only as good as your team.  Stay tenacious.  Find your resources: agencies like the USCS, GDEcD, District Export Councils, and Chambers of Commerce can direct you to meaningful services, support, and in-country connections.  Christy's favorite foreign word is “bonjour”! It's a welcome “hello” in France and other French-speaking countries, she says, and to share the joy in Atlanta she's localized the phrase to “bonjour y'all”!    Links:  christy@drnozebest.com  Website: www.drnozebest.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-brown-a54aa0/     Connect with Wendy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendypease/  Music: Fiddle-De-Dee by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

May 28, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, California, Chad O'Melia and Bryn Spejcher were smoking marijuana out of a bong. Bryn became acutely psychotic and stabbed Chad over 100 times, ending his life. Listen to Amy describe her relationship with Bryn, her opinions of the trial, and how she learned about cannabis-induced psychosis. Listen to Heidi A. Swan and Dr. Christy Brown, the only podcasters and advocates who attended the trial, describe the details of this case. Press release: Woman Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughterhttps://everybrainmatters.org/wp-cont...To learn more about cannabis-induced psychosis(CIP), visit these links:https://everybrainmatters.org/what-is...https://everybrainmatters.org/cannabi...The Vicious Link Between Marijuana and Violencehttps://everybrainmatters.org/2022/08...Please donate to support our efforts:https://everybrainmatters.org/donate/Join the Every Brain Matters Community:https://everybrainmatters.org/join/List of other violent acts related to cannabis psychosis. https://everybrainmatters.org/thc-psychosis-and-violence/Support the show@EveryBrainMatters

Today I am sharing a recent conversation with Christy Brown, Senior District Manager at Medtronic, and her work to help advance childhood cancer research.   This is a best of replay in an effort to share the amazing work she is doing and an upcoming event you can help be a part of. There are so many ways you can help in the efforts so be sure to listen to what she and her husband are doing, why it's important, and how you can help.   Check out these links to learn more: https://fundraise.rallyfoundation.org/WeBeelieveinAlexanderStrong https://medtronic.yourcause.com/#/newvolunteer/event/1194484 https://alexanderstrong.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/webelievealexanderstrong/ www.linkedin.com/in/christy-brown-chicago https://rallyfoundation.org/board/   Link for full notes and to listen:  https://michellebourquecoaching.com/ep-281-best-of-replay-conversation-with-christy-brown-childhood-cancer-research-and-how-you-can-help/

Please join me for this special Multiply Your Impact episode of the It's Your Time podcast. Today I am sharing a recent conversation with Christy Brown, Senior District Manager at Medtronic, and her work to help advance childhood cancer research. There are so many ways you can help in the efforts so be sure to listen to what she and her husband are doing, why it's important, and how you can help.   Check out these links to learn more:   https://fundraise.rallyfoundation.org/WeBeelieveinAlexanderStrong https://medtronic.yourcause.com/#/newvolunteer/event/1194484 https://alexanderstrong.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/webelievealexanderstrong/ www.linkedin.com/in/christy-brown-chicago https://rallyfoundation.org/board/   Link to full notes: https://michellebourquecoaching.com/ep-275-multiply-your-impact-a-conversation-with-christy-brown-childhood-cancer-research/

On May 28, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, California, Chad O'Melia and Bryn Spejcher were smoking marijuana out of a bong. Bryn became acutely psychotic and stabbed Chad over 100 times, ending his life. Listen to Amy describe her relationship with Bryn, her opinions of the trial, and how she learned about cannabis-induced psychosis. Listen to Heidi A. Swan and Dr. Christy Brown, the only podcasters and advocates who attended the trial, describe the details of this case. Press release: Woman Convicted of Involuntary ManslaughterTo learn more about cannabis-induced psychosis(CIP), visit these links:https://everybrainmatters.org/what-is-cannabis-induced-psychosis/https://everybrainmatters.org/cannabis-science/marijuana-psychosis-schizophrenia/The Vicious Link Between Marijuana and ViolencePlease donate to support our efforts:Join the Every Brain Matters Community:List of other violent acts related to cannabis psychosis. Support the show@EveryBrainMatters

On May 28, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, California, Chad O'Melia and Bryn Spejcher were smoking marijuana out of a bong. Bryn became acutely psychotic and stabbed Chad over 100 times, ending his life. Listen to Kevin "Ras" Rasmussen describe his relationship with Bryn, his opinions of the trial, and how he learned about cannabis-induced psychosis. Listen to Heidi A. Swan and Dr. Christy Brown, the only podcasters and advocates who attended the trial, describe the details of this case. Press release: Woman Convicted of Involuntary ManslaughterTo learn more about cannabis-induced psychosis(CIP), visit these links:https://everybrainmatters.org/what-is-cannabis-induced-psychosis/https://everybrainmatters.org/cannabis-science/marijuana-psychosis-schizophrenia/The Vicious Link Between Marijuana and ViolencePlease donate to support our efforts.List of other violent acts related to cannabis psychosis. Support the show@EveryBrainMatters

We finally complete our mini-series on the 1980s movies released by Miramax Films in 1989, a year that included sex, lies, and videotape, and My Left Foot. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we complete our look back at the 1980s theatrical releases for Miramax Films. And, for the final time, a reminder that we are not celebrating Bob and Harvey Weinstein, but reminiscing about the movies they had no involvement in making. We cannot talk about cinema in the 1980s without talking about Miramax, and I really wanted to get it out of the way, once and for all.   As we left Part 4, Miramax was on its way to winning its first Academy Award, Billie August's Pelle the Conquerer, the Scandinavian film that would be second film in a row from Denmark that would win for Best Foreign Language Film.   In fact, the first two films Miramax would release in 1989, the Australian film Warm Night on a Slow Moving Train and the Anthony Perkins slasher film Edge of Sanity, would not arrive in theatres until the Friday after the Academy Awards ceremony that year, which was being held on the last Wednesday in March.   Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train stars Wendy Hughes, the talented Australian actress who, sadly, is best remembered today as Lt. Commander Nella Daren, one of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's few love interests, on a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as Jenny, a prostitute working a weekend train to Sydney, who is seduced by a man on the train, unaware that he plans on tricking her to kill someone for him. Colin Friels, another great Aussie actor who unfortunately is best known for playing the corrupt head of Strack Industries in Sam Raimi's Darkman, plays the unnamed man who will do anything to get what he wants.   Director Bob Ellis and his co-screenwriter Denny Lawrence came up with the idea for the film while they themselves were traveling on a weekend train to Sydney, with the idea that each client the call girl met on the train would represent some part of the Australian male.   Funding the $2.5m film was really simple… provided they cast Hughes in the lead role. Ellis and Lawrence weren't against Hughes as an actress. Any film would be lucky to have her in the lead. They just felt she she didn't have the right kind of sex appeal for this specific character.   Miramax would open the film in six theatres, including the Cineplex Beverly Center in Los Angeles and the Fashion Village 8 in Orlando, on March 31st. There were two versions of the movie prepared, one that ran 130 minutes and the other just 91. Miramax would go with the 91 minute version of the film for the American release, and most of the critics would note how clunky and confusing the film felt, although one critic for the Village Voice would have some kind words for Ms. Hughes' performance.   Whether it was because moviegoers were too busy seeing the winners of the just announced Academy Awards, including Best Picture winner Rain Man, or because this weekend was also the opening weekend of the new Major League Baseball season, or just turned off by the reviews, attendance at the theatres playing Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train was as empty as a train dining car at three in the morning. The Beverly Center alone would account for a third of the movie's opening weekend gross of $19,268. After a second weekend at the same six theatres pocketing just $14,382, this train stalled out, never to arrive at another station.   Their other March 31st release, Edge of Sanity, is notable for two things and only two things: it would be the first film Miramax would release under their genre specialty label, Millimeter Films, which would eventually evolve into Dimension Films in the next decade, and it would be the final feature film to star Anthony Perkins before his passing in 1992.   The film is yet another retelling of the classic 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson story The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, with the bonus story twist that Hyde was actually Jack the Ripper. As Jekyll, Perkins looks exactly as you'd expect a mid-fifties Norman Bates to look. As Hyde, Perkins is made to look like he's a backup keyboardist for the first Nine Inch Nails tour. Head Like a Hole would have been an appropriate song for the end credits, had the song or Pretty Hate Machine been released by that time, with its lyrics about bowing down before the one you serve and getting what you deserve.   Edge of Sanity would open in Atlanta and Indianapolis on March 31st. And like so many other Miramax releases in the 1980s, they did not initially announce any grosses for the film. That is, until its fourth weekend of release, when the film's theatre count had fallen to just six, down from the previous week's previously unannounced 35, grossing just $9,832. Miramax would not release grosses for the film again, with a final total of just $102,219.   Now when I started this series, I said that none of the films Miramax released in the 1980s were made by Miramax, but this next film would become the closest they would get during the decade.   In July 1961, John Profumo was the Secretary of State for War in the conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when the married Profumo began a sexual relationship with a nineteen-year-old model named Christine Keeler. The affair was very short-lived, either ending, depending on the source, in August 1961 or December 1961. Unbeknownst to Profumo, Keeler was also having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, a senior naval attache at the Soviet Embassy at the same time.   No one was the wiser on any of this until December 1962, when a shooting incident involving two other men Keeler had been involved with led the press to start looking into Keeler's life. While it was never proven that his affair with Keeler was responsible for any breaches of national security, John Profumo was forced to resign from his position in June 1963, and the scandal would take down most of the Torie government with him. Prime Minister Macmillan would resign due to “health reasons” in October 1963, and the Labour Party would take control of the British government when the next elections were held in October 1964.   Scandal was originally planned in the mid-1980s as a three-part, five-hour miniseries by Australian screenwriter Michael Thomas and American music producer turned movie producer Joe Boyd. The BBC would commit to finance a two-part, three-hour miniseries,  until someone at the network found an old memo from the time of the Profumo scandal that forbade them from making any productions about it. Channel 4, which had been producing quality shows and movies for several years since their start in 1982, was approached, but rejected the series on the grounds of taste.   Palace Pictures, a British production company who had already produced three films for Neil Jordan including Mona Lisa, was willing to finance the script, provided it could be whittled down to a two hour movie. Originally budgeted at 3.2m British pounds, the costs would rise as they started the casting process.  John Hurt, twice Oscar-nominated for his roles in Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, would sign on to play Stephen Ward, a British osteopath who acted as Christine Keeler's… well… pimp, for lack of a better word. Ian McKellen, a respected actor on British stages and screens but still years away from finding mainstream global success in the X-Men movies, would sign on to play John Profumo. Joanne Whaley, who had filmed the yet to be released at that time Willow with her soon to be husband Val Kilmer, would get her first starring role as Keeler, and Bridget Fonda, who was quickly making a name for herself in the film world after being featured in Aria, would play Mandy Rice-Davies, the best friend and co-worker of Keeler's.   To save money, Palace Pictures would sign thirty-year-old Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones to direct, after seeing a short film he had made called The Riveter. But even with the neophyte feature filmmaker, Palace still needed about $2.35m to be able to fully finance the film. And they knew exactly who to go to.   Stephen Woolley, the co-founder of Palace Pictures and the main producer on the film, would fly from London to New York City to personally pitch Harvey and Bob Weinstein. Woolley felt that of all the independent distributors in America, they would be the ones most attracted to the sexual and controversial nature of the story. A day later, Woolley was back on a plane to London. The Weinsteins had agreed to purchase the American distribution rights to Scandal for $2.35m.   The film would spend two months shooting in the London area through the summer of 1988. Christine Keeler had no interest in the film, and refused to meet the now Joanne Whaley-Kilmer to talk about the affair, but Mandy Rice-Davies was more than happy to Bridget Fonda about her life, although the meetings between the two women were so secret, they would not come out until Woolley eulogized Rice-Davies after her 2014 death.   Although Harvey and Bob would be given co-executive producers on the film, Miramax was not a production company on the film. This, however, did not stop Harvey from flying to London multiple times, usually when he was made aware of some sexy scene that was going to shoot the following day, and try to insinuate himself into the film's making. At one point, Woolley decided to take a weekend off from the production, and actually did put Harvey in charge. That weekend's shoot would include a skinny-dipping scene featuring the Christine Keeler character, but when Whaley-Kilmer learned Harvey was going to be there, she told the director that she could not do the nudity in the scene. Her new husband was objecting to it, she told them. Harvey, not skipping a beat, found a lookalike for the actress who would be willing to bare all as a body double, and the scene would begin shooting a few hours later. Whaley-Kilmer watched the shoot from just behind the camera, and stopped the shoot a few minutes later. She was not happy that the body double's posterior was notably larger than her own, and didn't want audiences to think she had that much junk in her trunk. The body double was paid for her day, and Whaley-Kilmer finished the rest of the scene herself.   Caton-Jones and his editing team worked on shaping the film through the fall, and would screen his first edit of the film for Palace Pictures and the Weinsteins in November 1988. And while Harvey was very happy with the cut, he still asked the production team for a different edit for American audiences, noting that most Americans had no idea who Profumo or Keeler or Rice-Davies were, and that Americans would need to understand the story more right out of the first frame. Caton-Jones didn't want to cut a single frame, but he would work with Harvey to build an American-friendly cut.   While he was in London in November 1988, he would meet with the producers of another British film that was in pre-production at the time that would become another important film to the growth of the company, but we're not quite at that part of the story yet. We'll circle around to that film soon.   One of the things Harvey was most looking forward to going in to 1989 was the expected battle with the MPAA ratings board over Scandal. Ever since he had seen the brouhaha over Angel Heart's X rating two years earlier, he had been looking for a similar battle. He thought he had it with Aria in 1988, but he knew he definitely had it now.   And he'd be right.   In early March, just a few weeks before the film's planned April 21st opening day, the MPAA slapped an X rating on Scandal. The MPAA usually does not tell filmmakers or distributors what needs to be cut, in order to avoid accusations of actual censorship, but according to Harvey, they told him exactly what needed to be cut to get an R: a two second shot during an orgy scene, where it appears two background characters are having unsimulated sex.   So what did Harvey do?   He spent weeks complaining to the press about MPAA censorship, generating millions in free publicity for the film, all the while already having a close-up shot of Joanne Whaley-Kilmer's Christine Keeler watching the orgy but not participating in it, ready to replace the objectionable shot.   A few weeks later, Miramax screened the “edited” film to the MPAA and secured the R rating, and the film would open on 94 screens, including 28 each in the New York City and Los Angeles metro regions, on April 28th.   And while the reviews for the film were mostly great, audiences were drawn to the film for the Miramax-manufactured controversy as well as the key art for the film, a picture of a potentially naked Joanne Whaley-Kilmer sitting backwards in a chair, a mimic of a very famous photo Christine Keeler herself took to promote a movie about the Profumo affair she appeared in a few years after the events. I'll have a picture of both the Scandal poster and the Christine Keeler photo on this episode's page at The80sMoviePodcast.com   Five other movies would open that weekend, including the James Belushi comedy K-9 and the Kevin Bacon drama Criminal Law, and Scandal, with $658k worth of ticket sales, would have the second best per screen average of the five new openers, just a few hundred dollars below the new Holly Hunter movie Miss Firecracker, which only opened on six screens.   In its second weekend, Scandal would expand its run to 214 playdates, and make its debut in the national top ten, coming in tenth place with $981k. That would be more than the second week of the Patrick Dempsey rom-com Loverboy, even though Loverboy was playing on 5x as many screens.   In weekend number three, Scandal would have its best overall gross and top ten placement, coming in seventh with $1.22m from 346 screens. Scandal would start to slowly fade after that, falling back out of the top ten in its sixth week, but Miramax would wisely keep the screen count under 375, because Scandal wasn't going to play well in all areas of the country. After nearly five months in theatres, Miramax would have its biggest film to date. Scandal would gross $8.8m.   The second release from Millimeter Films was The Return of the Swamp Thing. And if you needed a reason why the 1980s was not a good time for comic book movies, here you are. The Return of the Swamp Thing took most of what made the character interesting in his comic series, and most of what was good from the 1982 Wes Craven adaptation, and decided “Hey, you know what would bring the kids in? Camp! Camp unseen in a comic book adaptation since the 1960s Batman series. They loved it then, they'll love it now!”   They did not love it now.   Heather Locklear, between her stints on T.J. Hooker and Melrose Place, plays the step-daughter of Louis Jourdan's evil Dr. Arcane from the first film, who heads down to the Florida swaps to confront dear old once presumed dead stepdad. He in turns kidnaps his stepdaughter and decides to do some of his genetic experiments on her, until she is rescued by Swamp Thing, one of Dr. Arcane's former co-workers who got turned into the gooey anti-hero in the first movie.   The film co-stars Sarah Douglas from Superman 1 and 2 as Dr. Arcane's assistant, Dick Durock reprising his role as Swamp Thing from the first film, and 1980s B-movie goddess Monique Gabrielle as Miss Poinsettia.   For director Jim Wynorski, this was his sixth movie as a director, and at $3m, one of the highest budgeted movies he would ever make. He's directed 107 movies since 1984, most of them low budget direct to video movies with titles like The Bare Wench Project and Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, although he does have one genuine horror classic under his belt, the 1986 sci-fi tinged Chopping Maul with Kelli Maroney and Barbara Crampton.   Wynorski suggested in a late 1990s DVD commentary for the film that he didn't particularly enjoy making the film, and had a difficult time directing Louis Jourdan, to the point that outside of calling “action” and “cut,” the two didn't speak to each other by the end of the shoot.   The Return of Swamp Thing would open in 123 theatres in the United States on May 12th, including 28 in the New York City metro region, 26 in the Los Angeles area, 15 in Detroit, and a handful of theatres in Phoenix, San Francisco. And, strangely, the newspaper ads would include an actual positive quote from none other than Roger Ebert, who said on Siskel & Ebert that he enjoyed himself, and that it was good to have Swamp Thing back. Siskel would not reciprocate his balcony partner's thumb up. But Siskel was about the only person who was positive on the return of Swamp Thing, and that box office would suffer. In its first three days, the film would gross just $119,200. After a couple more dismal weeks in theatres, The Return of Swamp Thing would be pulled from distribution, with a final gross of just $275k.   Fun fact: The Return of Swamp Thing was produced by Michael E. Uslan, whose next production, another adaptation of a DC Comics character, would arrive in theatres not six weeks later and become the biggest film of the summer. In fact, Uslan has been a producer or executive producer on every Batman-related movie and television show since 1989, from Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan to Zack Snyder to Matt Reeves, and from LEGO movies to Joker. He also, because of his ownership of the movie rights to Swamp Thing, got the movie screen rights, but not the television screen rights, to John Constantine.   Miramax didn't have too much time to worry about The Return of Swamp Thing's release, as it was happening while the Brothers Weinstein were at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. They had two primary goals at Cannes that year:   To buy American distribution rights to any movie that would increase their standing in the cinematic worldview, which they would achieve by picking up an Italian dramedy called, at the time, New Paradise Cinema, which was competing for the Palme D'Or with a Miramax pickup from Sundance back in January. Promote that very film, which did end up winning the Palme D'Or.   Ever since he was a kid, Steven Soderbergh wanted to be a filmmaker. Growing up in Baton Rouge, LA in the late 1970s, he would enroll in the LSU film animation class, even though he was only 15 and not yet a high school graduate. After graduating high school, he decided to move to Hollywood to break into the film industry, renting an above-garage room from Stephen Gyllenhaal, the filmmaker best known as the father of Jake and Maggie, but after a few freelance editing jobs, Soderbergh packed up his things and headed home to Baton Rouge.   Someone at Atco Records saw one of Soderbergh's short films, and hired him to direct a concert movie for one of their biggest bands at the time, Yes, who was enjoying a major comeback thanks to their 1983 triple platinum selling album, 90125. The concert film, called 9012Live, would premiere on MTV in late 1985, and it would be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.   Soderbergh would use the money he earned from that project, $7,500, to make Winston, a 12 minute black and white short about sexual deception that he would, over the course of an eight day driving trip from Baton Rouge to Los Angeles, expand to a full length screen that he would call sex, lies and videotape. In later years, Soderbergh would admit that part of the story is autobiographical, but not the part you might think. Instead of the lead, Graham, an impotent but still sexually perverse late twentysomething who likes to tape women talking about their sexual fantasies for his own pleasure later, Soderbergh based the husband John, the unsophisticated lawyer who cheats on his wife with her sister, on himself, although there would be a bit of Graham that borrows from the filmmaker. Like his lead character, Soderbergh did sell off most of his possessions and hit the road to live a different life.   When he finished the script, he sent it out into the wilds of Hollywood. Morgan Mason, the son of actor James Mason and husband of Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle, would read it and sign on as an executive producer. Soderbergh had wanted to shoot the film in black and white, like he had with the Winston short that lead to the creation of this screenplay, but he and Mason had trouble getting anyone to commit to the project, even with only a projected budget of $200,000. For a hot moment, it looked like Universal might sign on to make the film, but they would eventually pass.   Robert Newmyer, who had left his job as a vice president of production and acquisitions at Columbia Pictures to start his own production company, signed on as a producer, and helped to convince Soderbergh to shoot the film in color, and cast some name actors in the leading roles. Once he acquiesced, Richard Branson's Virgin Vision agreed to put up $540k of the newly budgeted $1.2m film, while RCA/Columbia Home Video would put up the remaining $660k.   Soderbergh and his casting director, Deborah Aquila, would begin their casting search in New York, where they would meet with, amongst others, Andie MacDowell, who had already starred in two major Hollywood pictures, 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and 1985's St. Elmo's Fire, but was still considered more of a top model than an actress, and Laura San Giacomo, who had recently graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh and would be making her feature debut. Moving on to Los Angeles, Soderbergh and Aquila would cast James Spader, who had made a name for himself as a mostly bad guy in 80s teen movies like Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero, but had never been the lead in a drama like this. At Spader's suggestion, the pair met with Peter Gallagher, who was supposed to become a star nearly a decade earlier from his starring role in Taylor Hackford's The Idolmaker, but had mostly been playing supporting roles in television shows and movies for most of the decade.   In order to keep the budget down, Soderbergh, the producers, cinematographer Walt Lloyd and the four main cast members agreed to get paid their guild minimums in exchange for a 50/50 profit participation split with RCA/Columbia once the film recouped its costs.   The production would spend a week in rehearsals in Baton Rouge, before the thirty day shoot began on August 1st, 1988. On most days, the shoot was unbearable for many, as temperatures would reach as high as 110 degrees outside, but there were a couple days lost to what cinematographer Lloyd said was “biblical rains.” But the shoot completed as scheduled, and Soderbergh got to the task of editing right away. He knew he only had about eight weeks to get a cut ready if the film was going to be submitted to the 1989 U.S. Film Festival, now better known as Sundance. He did get a temporary cut of the film ready for submission, with a not quite final sound mix, and the film was accepted to the festival. It would make its world premiere on January 25th, 1989, in Park City UT, and as soon as the first screening was completed, the bids from distributors came rolling in. Larry Estes, the head of RCA/Columbia Home Video, would field more than a dozen submissions before the end of the night, but only one distributor was ready to make a deal right then and there.   Bob Weinstein wasn't totally sold on the film, but he loved the ending, and he loved that the word “sex” not only was in the title but lead the title. He knew that title alone would sell the movie. Harvey, who was still in New York the next morning, called Estes to make an appointment to meet in 24 hours. When he and Estes met, he brought with him three poster mockups the marketing department had prepared, and told Estes he wasn't going to go back to New York until he had a contract signed, and vowed to beat any other deal offered by $100,000. Island Pictures, who had made their name releasing movies like Stop Making Sense, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, The Trip to Bountiful and She's Gotta Have It, offered $1m for the distribution rights, plus a 30% distribution fee and a guaranteed $1m prints and advertising budget. Estes called Harvey up and told him what it would take to make the deal. $1.1m for the distribution rights, which needed to paid up front, a $1m P&A budget, to be put in escrow upon the signing of the contract until the film was released, a 30% distribution fee, no cutting of the film whatsoever once Soderbergh turns in his final cut, they would need to provide financial information for the films costs and returns once a month because of the profit participation contracts, and the Weinsteins would have to hire Ira Deutchman, who had spent nearly 15 years in the independent film world, doing marketing for Cinema 5, co-founding United Artists Classics, and co-founding Cinecom Pictures before opening his own company to act as a producers rep and marketer. And the Weinsteins would not only have to do exactly what Deutchman wanted, they'd have to pay for his services too.   The contract was signed a few weeks later.   The first move Miramax would make was to get Soderbergh's final cut of the film entered into the Cannes Film Festival, where it would be accepted to compete in the main competition. Which you kind of already know what happened, because that's what I lead with. The film would win the Palme D'Or, and Spader would be awarded the festival's award for Best Actor. It was very rare at the time, and really still is, for any film to be awarded more than one prize, so winning two was really a coup for the film and for Miramax, especially when many critics attending the festival felt Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was the better film.   In March, Miramax expected the film to make around $5-10m, which would net the company a small profit on the film. After Cannes, they were hopeful for a $15m gross.   They never expected what would happen next.   On August 4th, sex, lies, and videotape would open on four screens, at the Cinema Studio in New York City, and at the AMC Century 14, the Cineplex Beverly Center 13 and the Mann Westwood 4 in Los Angeles. Three prime theatres and the best they could do in one of the then most competitive zones in all America. Remember, it's still the Summer 1989 movie season, filled with hits like Batman, Dead Poets Society, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Lethal Weapon 2, Parenthood, Turner & Hooch, and When Harry Met Sally. An independent distributor even getting one screen at the least attractive theatre in Westwood was a major get. And despite the fact that this movie wasn't really a summertime movie per se, the film would gross an incredible $156k in its first weekend from just these four theatres. Its nearly $40k per screen average would be 5x higher than the next closest film, Parenthood.   In its second weekend, the film would expand to 28 theatres, and would bring in over $600k in ticket sales, its per screen average of $21,527 nearly triple its closest competitor, Parenthood again. The company would keep spending small, as it slowly expanded the film each successive week. Forty theatres in its third week, and 101 in its fourth. The numbers held strong, and in its fifth week, Labor Day weekend, the film would have its first big expansion, playing in 347 theatres. The film would enter the top ten for the first time, despite playing in 500 to 1500 fewer theatres than the other films in the top ten. In its ninth weekend, the film would expand to its biggest screen count, 534, before slowly drawing down as the other major Oscar contenders started their theatrical runs. The film would continue to play through the Oscar season of 1989, and when it finally left theatres in May 1989, its final gross would be an astounding $24.7m.   Now, remember a few moments ago when I said that Miramax needed to provide financial statements every month for the profit participation contracts of Soderbergh, the producers, the cinematographer and the four lead actors? The film was so profitable for everyone so quickly that RCA/Columbia made its first profit participation payouts on October 17th, barely ten weeks after the film's opening.   That same week, Soderbergh also made what was at the time the largest deal with a book publisher for the writer/director's annotated version of the screenplay, which would also include his notes created during the creation of the film. That $75,000 deal would be more than he got paid to make the movie as the writer and the director and the editor, not counting the profit participation checks.   During the awards season, sex, lies, and videotape was considered to be one of the Oscars front runners for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and at least two acting nominations. The film would be nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress by the Golden Globes, and it would win the Spirit Awards for Best Picture, Soderbergh for Best Director, McDowell for Best Actress, and San Giacomo for Best Supporting Actress. But when the Academy Award nominations were announced, the film would only receive one nomination, for Best Original Screenplay. The same total and category as Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, which many people also felt had a chance for a Best Picture and Best Director nomination. Both films would lose out to Tom Shulman's screenplay for Dead Poet's Society.   The success of sex, lies, and videotape would launch Steven Soderbergh into one of the quirkiest Hollywood careers ever seen, including becoming the first and only director ever to be nominated twice for Best Director in the same year by the Motion Picture Academy, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America, in 2001 for directing Erin Brockovich and Traffic. He would win the Oscar for directing Traffic.   Lost in the excitement of sex, lies, and videotape was The Little Thief, a French movie that had an unfortunate start as the screenplay François Truffaut was working on when he passed away in 1984 at the age of just 52.   Directed by Claude Miller, whose principal mentor was Truffaut, The Little Thief starred seventeen year old Charlotte Gainsbourg as Janine, a young woman in post-World War II France who commits a series of larcenies to support her dreams of becoming wealthy.   The film was a modest success in France when it opened in December 1988, but its American release date of August 25th, 1989, was set months in advance. So when it was obvious sex, lies, and videotape was going to be a bigger hit than they originally anticipated, it was too late for Miramax to pause the release of The Little Thief.   Opening at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City, and buoyed by favorable reviews from every major critic in town, The Little Thief would see $39,931 worth of ticket sales in its first seven days, setting a new house record at the theatre for the year. In its second week, the gross would only drop $47. For the entire week. And when it opened at the Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, its opening week gross of $30,654 would also set a new house record for the year.   The film would expand slowly but surely over the next several weeks, often in single screen playdates in major markets, but it would never play on more than twenty-four screens in any given week. And after four months in theatres, The Little Thief, the last movie created one of the greatest film writers the world had ever seen, would only gross $1.056m in the United States.   The next three releases from Miramax were all sent out under the Millimeter Films banner.   The first, a supernatural erotic drama called The Girl in a Swing, was about an English antiques dealer who travels to Copenhagen where he meets and falls in love with a mysterious German-born secretary, whom he marries, only to discover a darker side to his new bride. Rupert Frazer, who played Christian Bale's dad in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, plays the antique dealer, while Meg Tilly the mysterious new bride.   Filmed over a five week schedule in London and Copenhagen during May and June 1988, some online sources say the film first opened somewhere in California in December 1988, but I cannot find a single theatre not only in California but anywhere in the United States that played the film before its September 29th, 1989 opening date.   Roger Ebert didn't like the film, and wished Meg Tilly's “genuinely original performance” was in a better movie. Opening in 26 theatres, including six theatres each in New York City and Los Angeles, and spurred on by an intriguing key art for the film that featured a presumed naked Tilly on a swing looking seductively at the camera while a notice underneath her warns that No One Under 18 Will Be Admitted To The Theatre, The Girl in a Swing would gross $102k, good enough for 35th place nationally that week. And that's about the best it would do. The film would limp along, moving from market to market over the course of the next three months, and when its theatrical run was complete, it could only manage about $747k in ticket sales.   We'll quickly burn through the next two Millimeter Films releases, which came out a week apart from each other and didn't amount to much.   Animal Behavior was a rather unfunny comedy featuring some very good actors who probably signed on for a very different movie than the one that came to be. Karen Allen, Miss Marion Ravenwood herself, stars as Alex, a biologist who, like Dr. Jane Goodall, develops a “new” way to communicate with chimpanzees via sign language. Armand Assante plays a cellist who pursues the good doctor, and Holly Hunter plays the cellist's neighbor, who Alex mistakes for his wife.   Animal Behavior was filmed in 1984, and 1985, and 1987, and 1988. The initial production was directed by Jenny Bowen with the assistance of Robert Redford and The Sundance Institute, thanks to her debut film, 1981's Street Music featuring Elizabeth Daily. It's unknown why Bowen and her cinematographer husband Richard Bowen left the project, but when filming resumed again and again and again, those scenes were directed by the film's producer, Kjehl Rasmussen.   Because Bowen was not a member of the DGA at the time, she was not able to petition the guild for the use of the Alan Smithee pseudonym, a process that is automatically triggered whenever a director is let go of a project and filming continues with its producer taking the reigns as director. But she was able to get the production to use a pseudonym anyway for the director's credit, H. Anne Riley, while also giving Richard Bowen a pseudonym of his own for his work on the film, David Spellvin.   Opening on 24 screens on October 27th, Animal Behavior would come in 50th place in its opening weekend, grossing just $20,361. The New York film critics ripped the film apart, and there wouldn't be a second weekend for the film.   The following Friday, November 3rd, saw the release of The Stepfather II, a rushed together sequel to 1987's The Stepfather, which itself wasn't a big hit in theatres but found a very quick and receptive audience on cable.   Despite dying at the end of the first film, Terry O'Quinn's Jerry is somehow still alive, and institutionalized in Northern Washington state. He escapes and heads down to Los Angeles, where he assumes the identity of a recently deceased publisher, Gene Clifford, but instead passes himself off as a psychiatrist. Jerry, now Gene, begins to court his neighbor Carol, and the whole crazy story plays out again. Meg Foster plays the neighbor Carol, and Jonathan Brandis is her son.    Director Jeff Burr had made a name for himself with his 1987 horror anthology film From a Whisper to a Scream, featuring Vincent Price, Clu Gulager and Terry Kiser, and from all accounts, had a very smooth shooting process with this film. The trouble began when he turned in his cut to the producers. The producers were happy with the film, but when they sent it to Miramax, the American distributors, they were rather unhappy with the almost bloodless slasher film. They demanded reshoots, which Burr and O'Quinn refused to participate in. They brought in a new director, Doug Campbell, to handle the reshoots, which are easy to spot in the final film because they look and feel completely different from the scenes they're spliced into.   When it opened, The Stepfather II actually grossed slightly more than the first film did, earning $279k from 100 screens, compared to $260k for The Stepfather from 105 screens. But unlike the first film, which had some decent reviews when it opened, the sequel was a complete mess. To this day, it's still one of the few films to have a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Stepfather II would limp its way through theatres during the Christmas holiday season, ending its run with a $1.5m gross.   But it would be their final film of the decade that would dictate their course for at least the first part of the 1990s.   Remember when I said earlier in the episode that Harvey Weinstein meant with the producers of another British film while in London for Scandal? We're at that film now, a film you probably know.   My Left Foot.   By November 1988, actor Daniel Day-Lewis had starred in several movies including James Ivory's A Room With a View and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He had even been the lead in a major Hollywood studio film, Pat O'Connor's Stars and Bars, a very good film that unfortunately got caught up in the brouhaha over the exit of the studio head who greenlit the film, David Puttnam.   The film's director, Jim Sheridan, had never directed a movie before. He had become involved in stage production during his time at the University College in Dublin in the late 1960s, where he worked with future filmmaker Neil Jordan, and had spent nearly a decade after graduation doing stage work in Ireland and Canada, before settling in New York City in the early 1980s. Sheridan would go to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where one of his classmates was Spike Lee, and return to Ireland after graduating. He was nearly forty, married with two pre-teen daughters, and he needed to make a statement with his first film.   He would find that story in the autobiography of Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, whose spirit and creativity could not be contained by his severe cerebral palsy. Along with Irish actor and writer Shane Connaughton, Sheridan wrote a screenplay that could be a powerhouse film made on a very tight budget of less than a million dollars.   Daniel Day-Lewis was sent a copy of the script, in the hopes he would be intrigued enough to take almost no money to play a physically demanding role. He read the opening pages, which had the adult Christy Brown putting a record on a record player and dropping the needle on to the record with his left foot, and thought to himself it would be impossible to film. That intrigued him, and he signed on. But during filming in January and February of 1989, most of the scenes were shot using mirrors, as Day-Lewis couldn't do the scenes with his left foot. He could do them with his right foot, hence the mirrors.   As a method actor, Day-Lewis remained in character as Christy Brown for the entire two month shoot. From costume fittings and makeup in the morning, to getting the actor on set, to moving him around between shots, there were crew members assigned to assist the actor as if they were Christy Brown's caretakers themselves, including feeding him during breaks in shooting. A rumor debunked by the actor years later said Day-Lewis had broken two ribs during production because of how hunched down he needed to be in his crude prop wheelchair to properly play the character.   The actor had done a lot of prep work to play the role, including spending time at the Sandymount School Clinic where the young Christy Brown got his education, and much of his performance was molded on those young people.   While Miramax had acquired the American distribution rights to the film before it went into production, and those funds went into the production of the film, the film was not produced by Miramax, nor were the Weinsteins given any kind of executive producer credit, as they were able to get themselves on Scandal.   My Left Foot would make its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 4th, 1989, followed soon thereafter by screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13th and the New York Film Festival on September 23rd. Across the board, critics and audiences were in love with the movie, and with Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. Jim Sheridan would receive a special prize at the Montreal World Film Festival for his direction, and Day-Lewis would win the festival's award for Best Actor. However, as the film played the festival circuit, another name would start to pop up. Brenda Fricker, a little known Irish actress who played Christy Brown's supportive but long-suffering mother Bridget, would pile up as many positive notices and awards as Day-Lewis. Although there was no Best Supporting Actress Award at the Montreal Film Festival, the judges felt her performance was deserving of some kind of attention, so they would create a Special Mention of the Jury Award to honor her.   Now, some sources online will tell you the film made its world premiere in Dublin on February 24th, 1989, based on a passage in a biography about Daniel Day-Lewis, but that would be impossible as the film would still be in production for two more days, and wasn't fully edited or scored by then.   I'm not sure when it first opened in the United Kingdom other than sometime in early 1990, but My Left Foot would have its commercial theatre debut in America on November 10th, when opened at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City and the Century City 14 in Los Angeles. Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times would, in the very opening paragraph of her review, note that one shouldn't see My Left Foot for some kind of moral uplift or spiritual merit badge, but because of your pure love of great moviemaking. Vincent Canby's review in the New York Times spends most of his words praising Day-Lewis and Sheridan for making a film that is polite and non-judgmental.    Interestingly, Miramax went with an ad campaign that completely excluded any explanation of who Christy Brown was or why the film is titled the way it is. 70% of the ad space is taken from pull quotes from many of the top critics of the day, 20% with the title of the film, and 10% with a picture of Daniel Day-Lewis, clean shaven and full tooth smile, which I don't recall happening once in the movie, next to an obviously added-in picture of one of his co-stars that is more camera-friendly than Brenda Fricker or Fiona Shaw.   Whatever reasons people went to see the film, they flocked to the two theatres playing the film that weekend. It's $20,582 per screen average would be second only to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, which had opened two days earlier, earning slightly more than $1,000 per screen than My Left Foot.   In week two, My Left Foot would gross another $35,133 from those two theatres, and it would overtake Henry V for the highest per screen average. In week three, Thanksgiving weekend, both Henry V and My Left Foot saw a a double digit increase in grosses despite not adding any theatres, and the latter film would hold on to the highest per screen average again, although the difference would only be $302. And this would continue for weeks. In the film's sixth week of release, it would get a boost in attention by being awarded Best Film of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle. Daniel Day-Lewis would be named Best Actor that week by both the New York critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, while Fricker would win the Best Supporting Actress award from the latter group.   But even then, Miramax refused to budge on expanding the film until its seventh week of release, Christmas weekend, when My Left Foot finally moved into cities like Chicago and San Francisco. Its $135k gross that weekend was good, but it was starting to lose ground to other Oscar hopefuls like Born on the Fourth of July, Driving Miss Daisy, Enemies: A Love Story, and Glory.   And even though the film continued to rack up award win after award win, nomination after nomination, from the Golden Globes and the Writers Guild and the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, Miramax still held firm on not expanding the film into more than 100 theatres nationwide until its 16th week in theatres, February 16th, 1990, two days after the announcement of the nominees for the 62nd Annual Academy Awards. While Daniel Day-Lewis's nomination for Best Actor was virtually assured and Brenda Fricker was practically a given, the film would pick up three other nominations, including surprise nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Jim Sheridan and co-writer Shane Connaughton would also get picked for Best Adapted Screenplay.   Miramax also picked up a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for sex, lies, and videotape, and a Best Foreign Language Film nod for the Italian movie Cinema Paradiso, which, thanks to the specific rules for that category, a film could get a nomination before actually opening in theatres in America, which Miramax would rush to do with Paradiso the week after its nomination was announced.   The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony would be best remembered today as being the first Oscar show to be hosted by Billy Crystal, and for being considerably better than the previous year's ceremony, a mess of a show best remembered as being the one with a 12 minute opening musical segment that included Rob Lowe singing Proud Mary to an actress playing Snow White and another nine minute musical segment featuring a slew of expected future Oscar winners that, to date, feature exact zero Oscar nominees, both which rank as amongst the worst things to ever happen to the Oscars awards show.   The ceremony, held on March 26th, would see My Left Foot win two awards, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, as well as Cinema Paradiso for Best Foreign Film. The following weekend, March 30th, would see Miramax expand My Left Foot to 510 theatres, its widest point of release, and see the film made the national top ten and earn more than a million dollars for its one and only time during its eight month run.   The film would lose steam pretty quickly after its post-win bump, but it would eek out a modest run that ended with $14.75m in ticket sales just in the United States. Not bad for a little Irish movie with no major stars that cost less than a million dollars to make.   Of course, the early 90s would see Miramax fly to unimagined heights. In all of the 80s, Miramax would release 39 movies. They would release 30 films alone in 1991. They would release the first movies from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith. They'd release some of the best films from some of the best filmmakers in the world, including Woody Allen, Pedro Almadovar, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Atom Egoyan, Steven Frears, Peter Greenaway, Peter Jackson, Neil Jordan, Chen Kaige, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, and Zhang Yimou. In 1993, the Mexican dramedy Like Water for Chocolate would become the highest grossing foreign language film ever released in America, and it would play in some theatres, including my theatre, the NuWilshire in Santa Monica, continuously for more than a year.   If you've listened to the whole series on the 1980s movies of Miramax Films, there are two things I hope you take away. First, I hope you discovered at least one film you hadn't heard of before and you might be interested in searching out. The second is the reminder that neither Bob nor Harvey Weinstein will profit in any way if you give any of the movies talked about in this series a chance. They sold Miramax to Disney in June 1993. They left Miramax in September 2005. Many of the contracts for the movies the company released in the 80s and 90s expired decades ago, with the rights reverting back to their original producers, none of whom made any deals with the Weinsteins once they got their rights back.   Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a 23 year prison sentence in upstate New York after being found guilty in 2020 of two sexual assaults. Once he completes that sentence, he'll be spending another 16 years in prison in California, after he was convicted of three sexual assaults that happened in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013. And if the 71 year old makes it to 107 years old, he may have to serve time in England for two sexual assaults that happened in August 1996. That case is still working its way through the British legal system.   Bob Weinstein has kept a low profile since his brother's proclivities first became public knowledge in October 2017, although he would also be accused of sexual harassment by a show runner for the brothers' Spike TV-aired adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Mist, several days after the bombshell articles came out about his brother. However, Bob's lawyer, the powerful attorney to the stars Bert Fields, deny the allegations, and it appears nothing has occurred legally since the accusations were made.   A few weeks after the start of the MeToo movement that sparked up in the aftermath of the accusations of his brother's actions, Bob Weinstein denied having any knowledge of the nearly thirty years of documented sexual abuse at the hands of his brother, but did allow to an interviewer for The Hollywood Reporter that he had barely spoken to Harvey over the previous five years, saying he could no longer take Harvey's cheating, lying and general attitude towards everyone.   And with that, we conclude our journey with Miramax Films. While I am sure Bob and Harvey will likely pop up again in future episodes, they'll be minor characters at best, and we'll never have to focus on anything they did ever again.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 119 is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

We finally complete our mini-series on the 1980s movies released by Miramax Films in 1989, a year that included sex, lies, and videotape, and My Left Foot. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we complete our look back at the 1980s theatrical releases for Miramax Films. And, for the final time, a reminder that we are not celebrating Bob and Harvey Weinstein, but reminiscing about the movies they had no involvement in making. We cannot talk about cinema in the 1980s without talking about Miramax, and I really wanted to get it out of the way, once and for all.   As we left Part 4, Miramax was on its way to winning its first Academy Award, Billie August's Pelle the Conquerer, the Scandinavian film that would be second film in a row from Denmark that would win for Best Foreign Language Film.   In fact, the first two films Miramax would release in 1989, the Australian film Warm Night on a Slow Moving Train and the Anthony Perkins slasher film Edge of Sanity, would not arrive in theatres until the Friday after the Academy Awards ceremony that year, which was being held on the last Wednesday in March.   Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train stars Wendy Hughes, the talented Australian actress who, sadly, is best remembered today as Lt. Commander Nella Daren, one of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's few love interests, on a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as Jenny, a prostitute working a weekend train to Sydney, who is seduced by a man on the train, unaware that he plans on tricking her to kill someone for him. Colin Friels, another great Aussie actor who unfortunately is best known for playing the corrupt head of Strack Industries in Sam Raimi's Darkman, plays the unnamed man who will do anything to get what he wants.   Director Bob Ellis and his co-screenwriter Denny Lawrence came up with the idea for the film while they themselves were traveling on a weekend train to Sydney, with the idea that each client the call girl met on the train would represent some part of the Australian male.   Funding the $2.5m film was really simple… provided they cast Hughes in the lead role. Ellis and Lawrence weren't against Hughes as an actress. Any film would be lucky to have her in the lead. They just felt she she didn't have the right kind of sex appeal for this specific character.   Miramax would open the film in six theatres, including the Cineplex Beverly Center in Los Angeles and the Fashion Village 8 in Orlando, on March 31st. There were two versions of the movie prepared, one that ran 130 minutes and the other just 91. Miramax would go with the 91 minute version of the film for the American release, and most of the critics would note how clunky and confusing the film felt, although one critic for the Village Voice would have some kind words for Ms. Hughes' performance.   Whether it was because moviegoers were too busy seeing the winners of the just announced Academy Awards, including Best Picture winner Rain Man, or because this weekend was also the opening weekend of the new Major League Baseball season, or just turned off by the reviews, attendance at the theatres playing Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train was as empty as a train dining car at three in the morning. The Beverly Center alone would account for a third of the movie's opening weekend gross of $19,268. After a second weekend at the same six theatres pocketing just $14,382, this train stalled out, never to arrive at another station.   Their other March 31st release, Edge of Sanity, is notable for two things and only two things: it would be the first film Miramax would release under their genre specialty label, Millimeter Films, which would eventually evolve into Dimension Films in the next decade, and it would be the final feature film to star Anthony Perkins before his passing in 1992.   The film is yet another retelling of the classic 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson story The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, with the bonus story twist that Hyde was actually Jack the Ripper. As Jekyll, Perkins looks exactly as you'd expect a mid-fifties Norman Bates to look. As Hyde, Perkins is made to look like he's a backup keyboardist for the first Nine Inch Nails tour. Head Like a Hole would have been an appropriate song for the end credits, had the song or Pretty Hate Machine been released by that time, with its lyrics about bowing down before the one you serve and getting what you deserve.   Edge of Sanity would open in Atlanta and Indianapolis on March 31st. And like so many other Miramax releases in the 1980s, they did not initially announce any grosses for the film. That is, until its fourth weekend of release, when the film's theatre count had fallen to just six, down from the previous week's previously unannounced 35, grossing just $9,832. Miramax would not release grosses for the film again, with a final total of just $102,219.   Now when I started this series, I said that none of the films Miramax released in the 1980s were made by Miramax, but this next film would become the closest they would get during the decade.   In July 1961, John Profumo was the Secretary of State for War in the conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when the married Profumo began a sexual relationship with a nineteen-year-old model named Christine Keeler. The affair was very short-lived, either ending, depending on the source, in August 1961 or December 1961. Unbeknownst to Profumo, Keeler was also having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, a senior naval attache at the Soviet Embassy at the same time.   No one was the wiser on any of this until December 1962, when a shooting incident involving two other men Keeler had been involved with led the press to start looking into Keeler's life. While it was never proven that his affair with Keeler was responsible for any breaches of national security, John Profumo was forced to resign from his position in June 1963, and the scandal would take down most of the Torie government with him. Prime Minister Macmillan would resign due to “health reasons” in October 1963, and the Labour Party would take control of the British government when the next elections were held in October 1964.   Scandal was originally planned in the mid-1980s as a three-part, five-hour miniseries by Australian screenwriter Michael Thomas and American music producer turned movie producer Joe Boyd. The BBC would commit to finance a two-part, three-hour miniseries,  until someone at the network found an old memo from the time of the Profumo scandal that forbade them from making any productions about it. Channel 4, which had been producing quality shows and movies for several years since their start in 1982, was approached, but rejected the series on the grounds of taste.   Palace Pictures, a British production company who had already produced three films for Neil Jordan including Mona Lisa, was willing to finance the script, provided it could be whittled down to a two hour movie. Originally budgeted at 3.2m British pounds, the costs would rise as they started the casting process.  John Hurt, twice Oscar-nominated for his roles in Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, would sign on to play Stephen Ward, a British osteopath who acted as Christine Keeler's… well… pimp, for lack of a better word. Ian McKellen, a respected actor on British stages and screens but still years away from finding mainstream global success in the X-Men movies, would sign on to play John Profumo. Joanne Whaley, who had filmed the yet to be released at that time Willow with her soon to be husband Val Kilmer, would get her first starring role as Keeler, and Bridget Fonda, who was quickly making a name for herself in the film world after being featured in Aria, would play Mandy Rice-Davies, the best friend and co-worker of Keeler's.   To save money, Palace Pictures would sign thirty-year-old Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones to direct, after seeing a short film he had made called The Riveter. But even with the neophyte feature filmmaker, Palace still needed about $2.35m to be able to fully finance the film. And they knew exactly who to go to.   Stephen Woolley, the co-founder of Palace Pictures and the main producer on the film, would fly from London to New York City to personally pitch Harvey and Bob Weinstein. Woolley felt that of all the independent distributors in America, they would be the ones most attracted to the sexual and controversial nature of the story. A day later, Woolley was back on a plane to London. The Weinsteins had agreed to purchase the American distribution rights to Scandal for $2.35m.   The film would spend two months shooting in the London area through the summer of 1988. Christine Keeler had no interest in the film, and refused to meet the now Joanne Whaley-Kilmer to talk about the affair, but Mandy Rice-Davies was more than happy to Bridget Fonda about her life, although the meetings between the two women were so secret, they would not come out until Woolley eulogized Rice-Davies after her 2014 death.   Although Harvey and Bob would be given co-executive producers on the film, Miramax was not a production company on the film. This, however, did not stop Harvey from flying to London multiple times, usually when he was made aware of some sexy scene that was going to shoot the following day, and try to insinuate himself into the film's making. At one point, Woolley decided to take a weekend off from the production, and actually did put Harvey in charge. That weekend's shoot would include a skinny-dipping scene featuring the Christine Keeler character, but when Whaley-Kilmer learned Harvey was going to be there, she told the director that she could not do the nudity in the scene. Her new husband was objecting to it, she told them. Harvey, not skipping a beat, found a lookalike for the actress who would be willing to bare all as a body double, and the scene would begin shooting a few hours later. Whaley-Kilmer watched the shoot from just behind the camera, and stopped the shoot a few minutes later. She was not happy that the body double's posterior was notably larger than her own, and didn't want audiences to think she had that much junk in her trunk. The body double was paid for her day, and Whaley-Kilmer finished the rest of the scene herself.   Caton-Jones and his editing team worked on shaping the film through the fall, and would screen his first edit of the film for Palace Pictures and the Weinsteins in November 1988. And while Harvey was very happy with the cut, he still asked the production team for a different edit for American audiences, noting that most Americans had no idea who Profumo or Keeler or Rice-Davies were, and that Americans would need to understand the story more right out of the first frame. Caton-Jones didn't want to cut a single frame, but he would work with Harvey to build an American-friendly cut.   While he was in London in November 1988, he would meet with the producers of another British film that was in pre-production at the time that would become another important film to the growth of the company, but we're not quite at that part of the story yet. We'll circle around to that film soon.   One of the things Harvey was most looking forward to going in to 1989 was the expected battle with the MPAA ratings board over Scandal. Ever since he had seen the brouhaha over Angel Heart's X rating two years earlier, he had been looking for a similar battle. He thought he had it with Aria in 1988, but he knew he definitely had it now.   And he'd be right.   In early March, just a few weeks before the film's planned April 21st opening day, the MPAA slapped an X rating on Scandal. The MPAA usually does not tell filmmakers or distributors what needs to be cut, in order to avoid accusations of actual censorship, but according to Harvey, they told him exactly what needed to be cut to get an R: a two second shot during an orgy scene, where it appears two background characters are having unsimulated sex.   So what did Harvey do?   He spent weeks complaining to the press about MPAA censorship, generating millions in free publicity for the film, all the while already having a close-up shot of Joanne Whaley-Kilmer's Christine Keeler watching the orgy but not participating in it, ready to replace the objectionable shot.   A few weeks later, Miramax screened the “edited” film to the MPAA and secured the R rating, and the film would open on 94 screens, including 28 each in the New York City and Los Angeles metro regions, on April 28th.   And while the reviews for the film were mostly great, audiences were drawn to the film for the Miramax-manufactured controversy as well as the key art for the film, a picture of a potentially naked Joanne Whaley-Kilmer sitting backwards in a chair, a mimic of a very famous photo Christine Keeler herself took to promote a movie about the Profumo affair she appeared in a few years after the events. I'll have a picture of both the Scandal poster and the Christine Keeler photo on this episode's page at The80sMoviePodcast.com   Five other movies would open that weekend, including the James Belushi comedy K-9 and the Kevin Bacon drama Criminal Law, and Scandal, with $658k worth of ticket sales, would have the second best per screen average of the five new openers, just a few hundred dollars below the new Holly Hunter movie Miss Firecracker, which only opened on six screens.   In its second weekend, Scandal would expand its run to 214 playdates, and make its debut in the national top ten, coming in tenth place with $981k. That would be more than the second week of the Patrick Dempsey rom-com Loverboy, even though Loverboy was playing on 5x as many screens.   In weekend number three, Scandal would have its best overall gross and top ten placement, coming in seventh with $1.22m from 346 screens. Scandal would start to slowly fade after that, falling back out of the top ten in its sixth week, but Miramax would wisely keep the screen count under 375, because Scandal wasn't going to play well in all areas of the country. After nearly five months in theatres, Miramax would have its biggest film to date. Scandal would gross $8.8m.   The second release from Millimeter Films was The Return of the Swamp Thing. And if you needed a reason why the 1980s was not a good time for comic book movies, here you are. The Return of the Swamp Thing took most of what made the character interesting in his comic series, and most of what was good from the 1982 Wes Craven adaptation, and decided “Hey, you know what would bring the kids in? Camp! Camp unseen in a comic book adaptation since the 1960s Batman series. They loved it then, they'll love it now!”   They did not love it now.   Heather Locklear, between her stints on T.J. Hooker and Melrose Place, plays the step-daughter of Louis Jourdan's evil Dr. Arcane from the first film, who heads down to the Florida swaps to confront dear old once presumed dead stepdad. He in turns kidnaps his stepdaughter and decides to do some of his genetic experiments on her, until she is rescued by Swamp Thing, one of Dr. Arcane's former co-workers who got turned into the gooey anti-hero in the first movie.   The film co-stars Sarah Douglas from Superman 1 and 2 as Dr. Arcane's assistant, Dick Durock reprising his role as Swamp Thing from the first film, and 1980s B-movie goddess Monique Gabrielle as Miss Poinsettia.   For director Jim Wynorski, this was his sixth movie as a director, and at $3m, one of the highest budgeted movies he would ever make. He's directed 107 movies since 1984, most of them low budget direct to video movies with titles like The Bare Wench Project and Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, although he does have one genuine horror classic under his belt, the 1986 sci-fi tinged Chopping Maul with Kelli Maroney and Barbara Crampton.   Wynorski suggested in a late 1990s DVD commentary for the film that he didn't particularly enjoy making the film, and had a difficult time directing Louis Jourdan, to the point that outside of calling “action” and “cut,” the two didn't speak to each other by the end of the shoot.   The Return of Swamp Thing would open in 123 theatres in the United States on May 12th, including 28 in the New York City metro region, 26 in the Los Angeles area, 15 in Detroit, and a handful of theatres in Phoenix, San Francisco. And, strangely, the newspaper ads would include an actual positive quote from none other than Roger Ebert, who said on Siskel & Ebert that he enjoyed himself, and that it was good to have Swamp Thing back. Siskel would not reciprocate his balcony partner's thumb up. But Siskel was about the only person who was positive on the return of Swamp Thing, and that box office would suffer. In its first three days, the film would gross just $119,200. After a couple more dismal weeks in theatres, The Return of Swamp Thing would be pulled from distribution, with a final gross of just $275k.   Fun fact: The Return of Swamp Thing was produced by Michael E. Uslan, whose next production, another adaptation of a DC Comics character, would arrive in theatres not six weeks later and become the biggest film of the summer. In fact, Uslan has been a producer or executive producer on every Batman-related movie and television show since 1989, from Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan to Zack Snyder to Matt Reeves, and from LEGO movies to Joker. He also, because of his ownership of the movie rights to Swamp Thing, got the movie screen rights, but not the television screen rights, to John Constantine.   Miramax didn't have too much time to worry about The Return of Swamp Thing's release, as it was happening while the Brothers Weinstein were at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. They had two primary goals at Cannes that year:   To buy American distribution rights to any movie that would increase their standing in the cinematic worldview, which they would achieve by picking up an Italian dramedy called, at the time, New Paradise Cinema, which was competing for the Palme D'Or with a Miramax pickup from Sundance back in January. Promote that very film, which did end up winning the Palme D'Or.   Ever since he was a kid, Steven Soderbergh wanted to be a filmmaker. Growing up in Baton Rouge, LA in the late 1970s, he would enroll in the LSU film animation class, even though he was only 15 and not yet a high school graduate. After graduating high school, he decided to move to Hollywood to break into the film industry, renting an above-garage room from Stephen Gyllenhaal, the filmmaker best known as the father of Jake and Maggie, but after a few freelance editing jobs, Soderbergh packed up his things and headed home to Baton Rouge.   Someone at Atco Records saw one of Soderbergh's short films, and hired him to direct a concert movie for one of their biggest bands at the time, Yes, who was enjoying a major comeback thanks to their 1983 triple platinum selling album, 90125. The concert film, called 9012Live, would premiere on MTV in late 1985, and it would be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.   Soderbergh would use the money he earned from that project, $7,500, to make Winston, a 12 minute black and white short about sexual deception that he would, over the course of an eight day driving trip from Baton Rouge to Los Angeles, expand to a full length screen that he would call sex, lies and videotape. In later years, Soderbergh would admit that part of the story is autobiographical, but not the part you might think. Instead of the lead, Graham, an impotent but still sexually perverse late twentysomething who likes to tape women talking about their sexual fantasies for his own pleasure later, Soderbergh based the husband John, the unsophisticated lawyer who cheats on his wife with her sister, on himself, although there would be a bit of Graham that borrows from the filmmaker. Like his lead character, Soderbergh did sell off most of his possessions and hit the road to live a different life.   When he finished the script, he sent it out into the wilds of Hollywood. Morgan Mason, the son of actor James Mason and husband of Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle, would read it and sign on as an executive producer. Soderbergh had wanted to shoot the film in black and white, like he had with the Winston short that lead to the creation of this screenplay, but he and Mason had trouble getting anyone to commit to the project, even with only a projected budget of $200,000. For a hot moment, it looked like Universal might sign on to make the film, but they would eventually pass.   Robert Newmyer, who had left his job as a vice president of production and acquisitions at Columbia Pictures to start his own production company, signed on as a producer, and helped to convince Soderbergh to shoot the film in color, and cast some name actors in the leading roles. Once he acquiesced, Richard Branson's Virgin Vision agreed to put up $540k of the newly budgeted $1.2m film, while RCA/Columbia Home Video would put up the remaining $660k.   Soderbergh and his casting director, Deborah Aquila, would begin their casting search in New York, where they would meet with, amongst others, Andie MacDowell, who had already starred in two major Hollywood pictures, 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and 1985's St. Elmo's Fire, but was still considered more of a top model than an actress, and Laura San Giacomo, who had recently graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh and would be making her feature debut. Moving on to Los Angeles, Soderbergh and Aquila would cast James Spader, who had made a name for himself as a mostly bad guy in 80s teen movies like Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero, but had never been the lead in a drama like this. At Spader's suggestion, the pair met with Peter Gallagher, who was supposed to become a star nearly a decade earlier from his starring role in Taylor Hackford's The Idolmaker, but had mostly been playing supporting roles in television shows and movies for most of the decade.   In order to keep the budget down, Soderbergh, the producers, cinematographer Walt Lloyd and the four main cast members agreed to get paid their guild minimums in exchange for a 50/50 profit participation split with RCA/Columbia once the film recouped its costs.   The production would spend a week in rehearsals in Baton Rouge, before the thirty day shoot began on August 1st, 1988. On most days, the shoot was unbearable for many, as temperatures would reach as high as 110 degrees outside, but there were a couple days lost to what cinematographer Lloyd said was “biblical rains.” But the shoot completed as scheduled, and Soderbergh got to the task of editing right away. He knew he only had about eight weeks to get a cut ready if the film was going to be submitted to the 1989 U.S. Film Festival, now better known as Sundance. He did get a temporary cut of the film ready for submission, with a not quite final sound mix, and the film was accepted to the festival. It would make its world premiere on January 25th, 1989, in Park City UT, and as soon as the first screening was completed, the bids from distributors came rolling in. Larry Estes, the head of RCA/Columbia Home Video, would field more than a dozen submissions before the end of the night, but only one distributor was ready to make a deal right then and there.   Bob Weinstein wasn't totally sold on the film, but he loved the ending, and he loved that the word “sex” not only was in the title but lead the title. He knew that title alone would sell the movie. Harvey, who was still in New York the next morning, called Estes to make an appointment to meet in 24 hours. When he and Estes met, he brought with him three poster mockups the marketing department had prepared, and told Estes he wasn't going to go back to New York until he had a contract signed, and vowed to beat any other deal offered by $100,000. Island Pictures, who had made their name releasing movies like Stop Making Sense, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, The Trip to Bountiful and She's Gotta Have It, offered $1m for the distribution rights, plus a 30% distribution fee and a guaranteed $1m prints and advertising budget. Estes called Harvey up and told him what it would take to make the deal. $1.1m for the distribution rights, which needed to paid up front, a $1m P&A budget, to be put in escrow upon the signing of the contract until the film was released, a 30% distribution fee, no cutting of the film whatsoever once Soderbergh turns in his final cut, they would need to provide financial information for the films costs and returns once a month because of the profit participation contracts, and the Weinsteins would have to hire Ira Deutchman, who had spent nearly 15 years in the independent film world, doing marketing for Cinema 5, co-founding United Artists Classics, and co-founding Cinecom Pictures before opening his own company to act as a producers rep and marketer. And the Weinsteins would not only have to do exactly what Deutchman wanted, they'd have to pay for his services too.   The contract was signed a few weeks later.   The first move Miramax would make was to get Soderbergh's final cut of the film entered into the Cannes Film Festival, where it would be accepted to compete in the main competition. Which you kind of already know what happened, because that's what I lead with. The film would win the Palme D'Or, and Spader would be awarded the festival's award for Best Actor. It was very rare at the time, and really still is, for any film to be awarded more than one prize, so winning two was really a coup for the film and for Miramax, especially when many critics attending the festival felt Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was the better film.   In March, Miramax expected the film to make around $5-10m, which would net the company a small profit on the film. After Cannes, they were hopeful for a $15m gross.   They never expected what would happen next.   On August 4th, sex, lies, and videotape would open on four screens, at the Cinema Studio in New York City, and at the AMC Century 14, the Cineplex Beverly Center 13 and the Mann Westwood 4 in Los Angeles. Three prime theatres and the best they could do in one of the then most competitive zones in all America. Remember, it's still the Summer 1989 movie season, filled with hits like Batman, Dead Poets Society, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Lethal Weapon 2, Parenthood, Turner & Hooch, and When Harry Met Sally. An independent distributor even getting one screen at the least attractive theatre in Westwood was a major get. And despite the fact that this movie wasn't really a summertime movie per se, the film would gross an incredible $156k in its first weekend from just these four theatres. Its nearly $40k per screen average would be 5x higher than the next closest film, Parenthood.   In its second weekend, the film would expand to 28 theatres, and would bring in over $600k in ticket sales, its per screen average of $21,527 nearly triple its closest competitor, Parenthood again. The company would keep spending small, as it slowly expanded the film each successive week. Forty theatres in its third week, and 101 in its fourth. The numbers held strong, and in its fifth week, Labor Day weekend, the film would have its first big expansion, playing in 347 theatres. The film would enter the top ten for the first time, despite playing in 500 to 1500 fewer theatres than the other films in the top ten. In its ninth weekend, the film would expand to its biggest screen count, 534, before slowly drawing down as the other major Oscar contenders started their theatrical runs. The film would continue to play through the Oscar season of 1989, and when it finally left theatres in May 1989, its final gross would be an astounding $24.7m.   Now, remember a few moments ago when I said that Miramax needed to provide financial statements every month for the profit participation contracts of Soderbergh, the producers, the cinematographer and the four lead actors? The film was so profitable for everyone so quickly that RCA/Columbia made its first profit participation payouts on October 17th, barely ten weeks after the film's opening.   That same week, Soderbergh also made what was at the time the largest deal with a book publisher for the writer/director's annotated version of the screenplay, which would also include his notes created during the creation of the film. That $75,000 deal would be more than he got paid to make the movie as the writer and the director and the editor, not counting the profit participation checks.   During the awards season, sex, lies, and videotape was considered to be one of the Oscars front runners for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and at least two acting nominations. The film would be nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress by the Golden Globes, and it would win the Spirit Awards for Best Picture, Soderbergh for Best Director, McDowell for Best Actress, and San Giacomo for Best Supporting Actress. But when the Academy Award nominations were announced, the film would only receive one nomination, for Best Original Screenplay. The same total and category as Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, which many people also felt had a chance for a Best Picture and Best Director nomination. Both films would lose out to Tom Shulman's screenplay for Dead Poet's Society.   The success of sex, lies, and videotape would launch Steven Soderbergh into one of the quirkiest Hollywood careers ever seen, including becoming the first and only director ever to be nominated twice for Best Director in the same year by the Motion Picture Academy, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America, in 2001 for directing Erin Brockovich and Traffic. He would win the Oscar for directing Traffic.   Lost in the excitement of sex, lies, and videotape was The Little Thief, a French movie that had an unfortunate start as the screenplay François Truffaut was working on when he passed away in 1984 at the age of just 52.   Directed by Claude Miller, whose principal mentor was Truffaut, The Little Thief starred seventeen year old Charlotte Gainsbourg as Janine, a young woman in post-World War II France who commits a series of larcenies to support her dreams of becoming wealthy.   The film was a modest success in France when it opened in December 1988, but its American release date of August 25th, 1989, was set months in advance. So when it was obvious sex, lies, and videotape was going to be a bigger hit than they originally anticipated, it was too late for Miramax to pause the release of The Little Thief.   Opening at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City, and buoyed by favorable reviews from every major critic in town, The Little Thief would see $39,931 worth of ticket sales in its first seven days, setting a new house record at the theatre for the year. In its second week, the gross would only drop $47. For the entire week. And when it opened at the Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, its opening week gross of $30,654 would also set a new house record for the year.   The film would expand slowly but surely over the next several weeks, often in single screen playdates in major markets, but it would never play on more than twenty-four screens in any given week. And after four months in theatres, The Little Thief, the last movie created one of the greatest film writers the world had ever seen, would only gross $1.056m in the United States.   The next three releases from Miramax were all sent out under the Millimeter Films banner.   The first, a supernatural erotic drama called The Girl in a Swing, was about an English antiques dealer who travels to Copenhagen where he meets and falls in love with a mysterious German-born secretary, whom he marries, only to discover a darker side to his new bride. Rupert Frazer, who played Christian Bale's dad in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, plays the antique dealer, while Meg Tilly the mysterious new bride.   Filmed over a five week schedule in London and Copenhagen during May and June 1988, some online sources say the film first opened somewhere in California in December 1988, but I cannot find a single theatre not only in California but anywhere in the United States that played the film before its September 29th, 1989 opening date.   Roger Ebert didn't like the film, and wished Meg Tilly's “genuinely original performance” was in a better movie. Opening in 26 theatres, including six theatres each in New York City and Los Angeles, and spurred on by an intriguing key art for the film that featured a presumed naked Tilly on a swing looking seductively at the camera while a notice underneath her warns that No One Under 18 Will Be Admitted To The Theatre, The Girl in a Swing would gross $102k, good enough for 35th place nationally that week. And that's about the best it would do. The film would limp along, moving from market to market over the course of the next three months, and when its theatrical run was complete, it could only manage about $747k in ticket sales.   We'll quickly burn through the next two Millimeter Films releases, which came out a week apart from each other and didn't amount to much.   Animal Behavior was a rather unfunny comedy featuring some very good actors who probably signed on for a very different movie than the one that came to be. Karen Allen, Miss Marion Ravenwood herself, stars as Alex, a biologist who, like Dr. Jane Goodall, develops a “new” way to communicate with chimpanzees via sign language. Armand Assante plays a cellist who pursues the good doctor, and Holly Hunter plays the cellist's neighbor, who Alex mistakes for his wife.   Animal Behavior was filmed in 1984, and 1985, and 1987, and 1988. The initial production was directed by Jenny Bowen with the assistance of Robert Redford and The Sundance Institute, thanks to her debut film, 1981's Street Music featuring Elizabeth Daily. It's unknown why Bowen and her cinematographer husband Richard Bowen left the project, but when filming resumed again and again and again, those scenes were directed by the film's producer, Kjehl Rasmussen.   Because Bowen was not a member of the DGA at the time, she was not able to petition the guild for the use of the Alan Smithee pseudonym, a process that is automatically triggered whenever a director is let go of a project and filming continues with its producer taking the reigns as director. But she was able to get the production to use a pseudonym anyway for the director's credit, H. Anne Riley, while also giving Richard Bowen a pseudonym of his own for his work on the film, David Spellvin.   Opening on 24 screens on October 27th, Animal Behavior would come in 50th place in its opening weekend, grossing just $20,361. The New York film critics ripped the film apart, and there wouldn't be a second weekend for the film.   The following Friday, November 3rd, saw the release of The Stepfather II, a rushed together sequel to 1987's The Stepfather, which itself wasn't a big hit in theatres but found a very quick and receptive audience on cable.   Despite dying at the end of the first film, Terry O'Quinn's Jerry is somehow still alive, and institutionalized in Northern Washington state. He escapes and heads down to Los Angeles, where he assumes the identity of a recently deceased publisher, Gene Clifford, but instead passes himself off as a psychiatrist. Jerry, now Gene, begins to court his neighbor Carol, and the whole crazy story plays out again. Meg Foster plays the neighbor Carol, and Jonathan Brandis is her son.    Director Jeff Burr had made a name for himself with his 1987 horror anthology film From a Whisper to a Scream, featuring Vincent Price, Clu Gulager and Terry Kiser, and from all accounts, had a very smooth shooting process with this film. The trouble began when he turned in his cut to the producers. The producers were happy with the film, but when they sent it to Miramax, the American distributors, they were rather unhappy with the almost bloodless slasher film. They demanded reshoots, which Burr and O'Quinn refused to participate in. They brought in a new director, Doug Campbell, to handle the reshoots, which are easy to spot in the final film because they look and feel completely different from the scenes they're spliced into.   When it opened, The Stepfather II actually grossed slightly more than the first film did, earning $279k from 100 screens, compared to $260k for The Stepfather from 105 screens. But unlike the first film, which had some decent reviews when it opened, the sequel was a complete mess. To this day, it's still one of the few films to have a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Stepfather II would limp its way through theatres during the Christmas holiday season, ending its run with a $1.5m gross.   But it would be their final film of the decade that would dictate their course for at least the first part of the 1990s.   Remember when I said earlier in the episode that Harvey Weinstein meant with the producers of another British film while in London for Scandal? We're at that film now, a film you probably know.   My Left Foot.   By November 1988, actor Daniel Day-Lewis had starred in several movies including James Ivory's A Room With a View and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He had even been the lead in a major Hollywood studio film, Pat O'Connor's Stars and Bars, a very good film that unfortunately got caught up in the brouhaha over the exit of the studio head who greenlit the film, David Puttnam.   The film's director, Jim Sheridan, had never directed a movie before. He had become involved in stage production during his time at the University College in Dublin in the late 1960s, where he worked with future filmmaker Neil Jordan, and had spent nearly a decade after graduation doing stage work in Ireland and Canada, before settling in New York City in the early 1980s. Sheridan would go to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where one of his classmates was Spike Lee, and return to Ireland after graduating. He was nearly forty, married with two pre-teen daughters, and he needed to make a statement with his first film.   He would find that story in the autobiography of Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, whose spirit and creativity could not be contained by his severe cerebral palsy. Along with Irish actor and writer Shane Connaughton, Sheridan wrote a screenplay that could be a powerhouse film made on a very tight budget of less than a million dollars.   Daniel Day-Lewis was sent a copy of the script, in the hopes he would be intrigued enough to take almost no money to play a physically demanding role. He read the opening pages, which had the adult Christy Brown putting a record on a record player and dropping the needle on to the record with his left foot, and thought to himself it would be impossible to film. That intrigued him, and he signed on. But during filming in January and February of 1989, most of the scenes were shot using mirrors, as Day-Lewis couldn't do the scenes with his left foot. He could do them with his right foot, hence the mirrors.   As a method actor, Day-Lewis remained in character as Christy Brown for the entire two month shoot. From costume fittings and makeup in the morning, to getting the actor on set, to moving him around between shots, there were crew members assigned to assist the actor as if they were Christy Brown's caretakers themselves, including feeding him during breaks in shooting. A rumor debunked by the actor years later said Day-Lewis had broken two ribs during production because of how hunched down he needed to be in his crude prop wheelchair to properly play the character.   The actor had done a lot of prep work to play the role, including spending time at the Sandymount School Clinic where the young Christy Brown got his education, and much of his performance was molded on those young people.   While Miramax had acquired the American distribution rights to the film before it went into production, and those funds went into the production of the film, the film was not produced by Miramax, nor were the Weinsteins given any kind of executive producer credit, as they were able to get themselves on Scandal.   My Left Foot would make its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 4th, 1989, followed soon thereafter by screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13th and the New York Film Festival on September 23rd. Across the board, critics and audiences were in love with the movie, and with Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. Jim Sheridan would receive a special prize at the Montreal World Film Festival for his direction, and Day-Lewis would win the festival's award for Best Actor. However, as the film played the festival circuit, another name would start to pop up. Brenda Fricker, a little known Irish actress who played Christy Brown's supportive but long-suffering mother Bridget, would pile up as many positive notices and awards as Day-Lewis. Although there was no Best Supporting Actress Award at the Montreal Film Festival, the judges felt her performance was deserving of some kind of attention, so they would create a Special Mention of the Jury Award to honor her.   Now, some sources online will tell you the film made its world premiere in Dublin on February 24th, 1989, based on a passage in a biography about Daniel Day-Lewis, but that would be impossible as the film would still be in production for two more days, and wasn't fully edited or scored by then.   I'm not sure when it first opened in the United Kingdom other than sometime in early 1990, but My Left Foot would have its commercial theatre debut in America on November 10th, when opened at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City and the Century City 14 in Los Angeles. Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times would, in the very opening paragraph of her review, note that one shouldn't see My Left Foot for some kind of moral uplift or spiritual merit badge, but because of your pure love of great moviemaking. Vincent Canby's review in the New York Times spends most of his words praising Day-Lewis and Sheridan for making a film that is polite and non-judgmental.    Interestingly, Miramax went with an ad campaign that completely excluded any explanation of who Christy Brown was or why the film is titled the way it is. 70% of the ad space is taken from pull quotes from many of the top critics of the day, 20% with the title of the film, and 10% with a picture of Daniel Day-Lewis, clean shaven and full tooth smile, which I don't recall happening once in the movie, next to an obviously added-in picture of one of his co-stars that is more camera-friendly than Brenda Fricker or Fiona Shaw.   Whatever reasons people went to see the film, they flocked to the two theatres playing the film that weekend. It's $20,582 per screen average would be second only to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, which had opened two days earlier, earning slightly more than $1,000 per screen than My Left Foot.   In week two, My Left Foot would gross another $35,133 from those two theatres, and it would overtake Henry V for the highest per screen average. In week three, Thanksgiving weekend, both Henry V and My Left Foot saw a a double digit increase in grosses despite not adding any theatres, and the latter film would hold on to the highest per screen average again, although the difference would only be $302. And this would continue for weeks. In the film's sixth week of release, it would get a boost in attention by being awarded Best Film of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle. Daniel Day-Lewis would be named Best Actor that week by both the New York critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, while Fricker would win the Best Supporting Actress award from the latter group.   But even then, Miramax refused to budge on expanding the film until its seventh week of release, Christmas weekend, when My Left Foot finally moved into cities like Chicago and San Francisco. Its $135k gross that weekend was good, but it was starting to lose ground to other Oscar hopefuls like Born on the Fourth of July, Driving Miss Daisy, Enemies: A Love Story, and Glory.   And even though the film continued to rack up award win after award win, nomination after nomination, from the Golden Globes and the Writers Guild and the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, Miramax still held firm on not expanding the film into more than 100 theatres nationwide until its 16th week in theatres, February 16th, 1990, two days after the announcement of the nominees for the 62nd Annual Academy Awards. While Daniel Day-Lewis's nomination for Best Actor was virtually assured and Brenda Fricker was practically a given, the film would pick up three other nominations, including surprise nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Jim Sheridan and co-writer Shane Connaughton would also get picked for Best Adapted Screenplay.   Miramax also picked up a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for sex, lies, and videotape, and a Best Foreign Language Film nod for the Italian movie Cinema Paradiso, which, thanks to the specific rules for that category, a film could get a nomination before actually opening in theatres in America, which Miramax would rush to do with Paradiso the week after its nomination was announced.   The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony would be best remembered today as being the first Oscar show to be hosted by Billy Crystal, and for being considerably better than the previous year's ceremony, a mess of a show best remembered as being the one with a 12 minute opening musical segment that included Rob Lowe singing Proud Mary to an actress playing Snow White and another nine minute musical segment featuring a slew of expected future Oscar winners that, to date, feature exact zero Oscar nominees, both which rank as amongst the worst things to ever happen to the Oscars awards show.   The ceremony, held on March 26th, would see My Left Foot win two awards, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, as well as Cinema Paradiso for Best Foreign Film. The following weekend, March 30th, would see Miramax expand My Left Foot to 510 theatres, its widest point of release, and see the film made the national top ten and earn more than a million dollars for its one and only time during its eight month run.   The film would lose steam pretty quickly after its post-win bump, but it would eek out a modest run that ended with $14.75m in ticket sales just in the United States. Not bad for a little Irish movie with no major stars that cost less than a million dollars to make.   Of course, the early 90s would see Miramax fly to unimagined heights. In all of the 80s, Miramax would release 39 movies. They would release 30 films alone in 1991. They would release the first movies from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith. They'd release some of the best films from some of the best filmmakers in the world, including Woody Allen, Pedro Almadovar, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Atom Egoyan, Steven Frears, Peter Greenaway, Peter Jackson, Neil Jordan, Chen Kaige, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, and Zhang Yimou. In 1993, the Mexican dramedy Like Water for Chocolate would become the highest grossing foreign language film ever released in America, and it would play in some theatres, including my theatre, the NuWilshire in Santa Monica, continuously for more than a year.   If you've listened to the whole series on the 1980s movies of Miramax Films, there are two things I hope you take away. First, I hope you discovered at least one film you hadn't heard of before and you might be interested in searching out. The second is the reminder that neither Bob nor Harvey Weinstein will profit in any way if you give any of the movies talked about in this series a chance. They sold Miramax to Disney in June 1993. They left Miramax in September 2005. Many of the contracts for the movies the company released in the 80s and 90s expired decades ago, with the rights reverting back to their original producers, none of whom made any deals with the Weinsteins once they got their rights back.   Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a 23 year prison sentence in upstate New York after being found guilty in 2020 of two sexual assaults. Once he completes that sentence, he'll be spending another 16 years in prison in California, after he was convicted of three sexual assaults that happened in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013. And if the 71 year old makes it to 107 years old, he may have to serve time in England for two sexual assaults that happened in August 1996. That case is still working its way through the British legal system.   Bob Weinstein has kept a low profile since his brother's proclivities first became public knowledge in October 2017, although he would also be accused of sexual harassment by a show runner for the brothers' Spike TV-aired adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Mist, several days after the bombshell articles came out about his brother. However, Bob's lawyer, the powerful attorney to the stars Bert Fields, deny the allegations, and it appears nothing has occurred legally since the accusations were made.   A few weeks after the start of the MeToo movement that sparked up in the aftermath of the accusations of his brother's actions, Bob Weinstein denied having any knowledge of the nearly thirty years of documented sexual abuse at the hands of his brother, but did allow to an interviewer for The Hollywood Reporter that he had barely spoken to Harvey over the previous five years, saying he could no longer take Harvey's cheating, lying and general attitude towards everyone.   And with that, we conclude our journey with Miramax Films. While I am sure Bob and Harvey will likely pop up again in future episodes, they'll be minor characters at best, and we'll never have to focus on anything they did ever again.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 119 is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Rainer Zitelmann hat für sein 2021 erschienenes Buch „Ich will: Was wir von erfolgreichen Menschen mit Behinderung lernen können“ 20 berühmte Menschen mit Behinderung porträtiert, darunter international bekannte Persönlichkeiten, wie die eben genannten. Im Buch kommen aber auch behinderte Menschen vor, die hierzulande weniger berühmt sind, so etwa die US amerikanische Buchautorin Helen Keller. Die 1880 geborene Literatin konnte von Geburt an weder sehen noch hören. Sie war also das, was man damals als taubblind beschrieb. Oder auch den blind Traveller James Holman, der die halbe Welt bereiste. Ein Kapitel des Buches ist der im Jahre 1847 geborenen Unternehmerin Margarete Steiff gewidmet. Sie hat ein weltweit bekanntes Stofftierimperium aufgebaut, die Teddybären der Marke sind bei Sammlern begehrt. Unter den Porträtierten ist auch ein blinder Bergsteiger, der die sieben höchsten Gipfel der Welt bestiegen hat und ein Motivationsredner, der ohne Arme und Beine geboren wurde.  Das Vorwort zum Buch schrieb übrigens Saliya Kahawatte, der seine Lebensgeschichte im Buch „Mein Blinddate mit dem Leben“ niedergeschrieben hat. Auch der Autor Christy Brown, dessen Lebensgeschichte im 1989 erschienenen irisch-britischen Drama "Mein linker Fuß" verfilmt wurde, ist in diesem Sammelband vertreten. In der Liste der Protagonisten tauchen aber auch Künstlergrößen wie Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Andrea Bocelli und Thomas Quasthoff auf.Auslöser für das Zustandekommen dieser Sammlung von Biographien war, dass bei Rainer Zitelmann selbst eine Augenerkrankung diagnostiziert wurde. Der 1957 geborene Autor hat mehrere Motivationsbücher verfasst und sich auch mit der Soziologie der „Reichen“ beschäftigt. Rainer Zitelmann hat Soziologie und Geschichte studiert und in beiden Fachrichtungen promoviert. Im Gespräch mit Sandra Knopp und Christoph Dirnbacher spricht er über Erfolgsfaktoren und auch über den Neidfaktor. Letzterer begleitet erfolgreiche Menschen mit Behinderung ebenso wie nicht behinderte erfolgreiche Zeitgenossen. „Ich will: Was wir von erfolgreichen Menschen mit Behinderung lernen können“ ist im Juni 2021 im FinanzBuch Verlag erschienen und ist auch als Hörbuch verfügbar. Wenn euch diese Episode gefallen hat, empfehlt uns bitte weiter. Und vergesst bitte nicht, unseren Kanal zu abonnieren. Wir freuen uns auch über eine gute Bewertung.  Diese Interview wurde am 21. Juni 2023 im Ö1 Inklusionspodcast ausgestrahlt.

Honoring the life and art of Christy Brown can be done in a few ways. Aside from reading his books and seeing his art at a gallery, watching My Left Foot isn't a bad start. With moving performances and thoughtful direction from Jim Sheridan, this film is a great entry into the work of a genius whose physical barriers created an even greater depth to his already moving art. In this episode, Jon and Dan spitball ideas of how else Christy Brown's work could be honored in the 21st century.Recommended listening: Cripple ThreatNext episode: After Hours (1985)Contact us, follow us on social media, or buy some merch at linktr.ee/RuinedChildhoods

In honor of National Disability Awareness Month, Christy Brown and Daniel Robinson from Charis Academy will join us to discuss what it's like to be on the spectrum. Christy has been a teacher at Charis Academy for 5 years. She talks to us about what she has learned from her students and how she fosters a positive learning environment tailored to each individual student. Daniel is a student at Charis, as well as the son of their headmaster, JoDee Robinson. He walks us through what it was like to grow up on the spectrum and the stigmas and misconceptions that surround autism.We also discuss what's next with Seaglass Diagnostics. For more details on their consulting services, email seaglass.groups@gmail.com or call (843) 900-6956.Questions about the episode?Contact community@dorchestercac.orgWant to learn more about DCAC?Visit dorchesterchildren.org

Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes.  My name is Jon Birdsong and I'm with Atlanta Ventures.  Event of the Week: Mark your calendars for March 22nd, Christy Brown of Dr. Noze Best is being interviewed at the next Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneurship MeetUp. Dr. Noze Best is an infant nasal suction device that's portable, easy to clean, and designed with hospital-grade suction. This interview will cover several intricacies of healthcare including go-to-market, manufacturing, unit economics, and their origin story.        Raise of the Week:  Cycle Labs out of Raleigh, NC raised $6.5M this week from Jurassic Capital. Cycle Labs  provides a continuous test automation software platform to large enterprises worldwide. Co-founded by CEO, Josh Owen, Cycle Labs has 30 employees and now has some more dry powder to put to use.  Also, AdPipe out of Athens, Georgia raised $3M dollars led by Atlanta Ventures with participation from Tom Noonan. AdPipe repurposes, repackages, and reposts content from your existing library of videos and makes them shorter and crisper with attractive copy so clicks are 3-4x of traditional, static marketing collateral. Congrats to Andrew and Sam!  Several funds are in the process of closing or just closed a new round. Starting first with Cofounder's Capital out of Raleigh, NC. It was announced this week that they closed their 3rd fund of $50M. Cofounders Capital was started by David Gardiner and they invest in the earliest of early opportunities mainly in the RDU area. Congrats on their raise and more fuel for the ecosystem.  Keeping it in the funds category, TTV Capital closed their most recent fund of $250M. Led by Gardiner Gerrard. This Atlanta Stalwart has raised over a cumulative $700M and invests in B2B SaaS, cyber-security, and fintech. Local investments include GreenLight and Cardlytics.      News of the Week: Fast Company came out this week with several lists including a few that we have highlighted before on the podcast. The first category is the Top 10 Innovative Companies with under 10 people and on that list is Franklin Junction. Franklin Junction matches food brands with underutilized kitchen space, making them a host kitchen – which is different from a ghost kitchen. Now a name brand food can be cooked in a kitchen with a completely different name and easily picked up and delivered to your doorstep…even if there is not a traditional restaurant location available.  The next list from Fast Company is the Top 10 Innovative Companies in Wellness and number two on the list is Reframe out of Atlanta. Reframe provides cognitive behavioral therapy on demand, offers a personalized daily alcohol reduction program, craving management tools,  community support groups and coaching.  Beta Product of the Week: Jordan and Scott Arogeti started a new company that helps people grieve around a death. Mi Alma (“my soul”) in Spanish offers resources necessary to not only aid in the initial grieving and times of need, but also creates a space where memories can live on in an active and meaningful way. Features include: community-wide collection of pictures, stories, and memories of the deceased with a “support registry” that makes it easy for anyone that's inclined to give money, meals, or time. If you're grieving over a lost family or friend, check out Mi Alma.  Blog Post of the  Week: The Godfather of SaaS is putting out superb content and the one worth highlighting today is his 5 Learnings from TradeDesk which offers self-service SaaS for Adtech. Here are three: first, the company was founded in 2009 and has been profitable since 2013. Just this past quarter it was announced they had a 42% adjusted EBITDA margin on 1.6B in revenue for the fiscal year. Second, they've been able to keep their sales and marketing spend at about 19%, which is half of what most fast growing companies spend on go-to-market. Lastly, they grew fast but not insanely fast. After hitting $100M in ARR, they grew anywhere from 28-76% a year, each one of them being profitable. Today they are over $2B in ARR, profitable, and in today's markets that efficiency is rewarded through a $28B market cap. We put the post in the show notes.  Annnnd that is five minutes! Links discussed: 

Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes.  My name is Jon Birdsong and I'm with Atlanta Ventures.  Where to Focus in 2023: Over the holidays, I asked each partner Atlanta Ventures, if you had one piece of advice for the entrepreneurs and startup team members listening to the pod what would it be. Their suggestions are below.  First off is Atlanta Ventures' CEO, David Cummings. His suggested area of focus: the distance between you and the customer right now. Staying close to your customers in 2023 is arguably the most important area for one to focus on. Doing so increases product iteration and enhancements, ensures limited churn, and produces optimal chances to upsell.  Second is Atlanta Ventures Partner, Kathryn O'Day. Kathryn's number one area to focus: picking and building in the right market. With the current or eventual recession looming, new companies built today will be forced to solve a real need and the biggest factor to growth potential is market size, not just today, but market size growth in 3-7 years from now.  Third is A.T. Gimbel, who always keeps the most complex as simple as possible — which we all know is very tough to do. His suggestion on one area to focus: assess what you can truly control and focus on that. Whether it be schedule, exercise, learning, diet, market you are building in, regardless of the macro economic uncertainties. My two-cents on where to focus in 2023 is about honing your craft. I've seen so many articles recently about people quietly-quitting now coupled with several companies laying off 10-20% and one starts to wonder, what motivates the entrepreneur or employee of tomorrow. I believe there is an entrepreneurial muscle or even spirit in every motivated individual. I've known several successful founders who didn't like their traditional J-O-B and when they commit to starting something outside of their regular routine, it can be energizing and magical. This starts with scratching your child-like curiosity and building around it.  Product of the Week: This past week I caught up with entrepreneur and Equity Shift co-founder, Will Duckett. Will is building out of Raleigh, NC which we must cover more exciting companies out of Raleigh and North Carolina in general because there are so many, but that is a side tangent. Equity Shift manages all the complex transactions within private companies. Let's say you have a company with 100's of investors. Equity Shift offers a complete digital automation for primary offerings, convertibles, vesting, and a variety of secondary transactions. Track, pause, and approve transfers with ease and simplicity. If you're looking for a company to Keep an eye on them and their product this year.   Events of the Week: On January 11th, A.T. Gimbel is coming out hot in a dynamite interview with John Lariccia of WelcomeHome in the upcoming Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneurs Meetup. WelcomeHome is a quiet giant and growing fast. John does not do many interviews and this one is guaranteed to be insightful. WelcomeHome is senior living CRM software designed to make senior living operators' lives easier. They are currently bootstrapped with over 30 employees and hiring. John's story is fascinating. Before founding WelcomeHome, John spent 20 years at Bain and Company and took the entrepreneurial leap well into his career. More of the story, next week! Companies Worth Applying To: As the coffee shop hours shifted around the holiday, signaling a time for slowing down, Christy Brown, CEO of Dr. Noze Best, was putting in recruiting cycles in the lobby of the ATV. You may remember we highlighted Christy taking over the CEO role last year on the pod and after learning more about their growth, they have some real hiring needs, number one being a product manager. If you want to be part of a company who is in a massive market with authentic demand, Dr. Noze Best is hiring. The product manager will own the relationship with product design firms, prototyping, and the manufacturing relationships in coordination with leadership. Check them out!  Annnnd that is five minutes! Let's go get this year, y'all!  Product of the Week: Equity Shift Event of the Week: Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneur Meetup Companies Worth Applying To: Dr. Noze Best

Myra's Best-Known BishopThough he's best known for traveling the whole world every Christmas Eve, St. Nicholas was actually a bishop beloved for his charity and fidelity to Christ. Christy Brown tells us why this saint is still much loved to this present day.Christina Brown is a certified Catholic Life Coach and Catholic speaker. She also co-hosts the Thanks Mom Podcast with her eldest daughter Grace. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts including the Instagram Live show, Many Hail Marys at a Time, Treasures in Heaven, Made for Greatness, Empowered Modern Woman, as well as Say Yes to Holiness. She is a Life Coaching consultant for Made for Greatness and runs her own Life Coaching business. She has been married to Paul for 23 years, and they have raised 6 incredible children ranging from 22-4. She is passionate about living out her vocation and in doing so, is invigorated to help lead her family and others closer to Christ. She has gifts in speaking and communication and enjoys inspiring and connecting with others in building up the Kingdom of God. She would love to connect with you more about how she can support you in living out, with intention, the fullness of life that God desires for you. Christina can be reached at www.christinambrown.com, @christina__m__brown on Instagram, as well as at https://www.facebook.com/christinambrowncoachandspeakerRead more about today's featured podcaster and saint here: https://www.littlewithgreatlove.com/saint-nicholas/Get your Advent + Christmas free downloads, new Saints for Slackers swag, and Christmas cards here: https://www.littlewithgreatlove.com/shop/This podcast is sponsored by Saint of the Month subscription boxes. Their new Eye of the Needle card game features Saints you collect to complete your missions to win the game. Who said slackers can't have fun? Go buy it at  www.saintofthemonth.com/shop. Use promo code SLACKERS to get 15% off your card game. Link to Eye of the Needle card game: https://www.saintofthemonth.com/shop/product/4720296116 Special thanks to musician Rev. Dr. Martin Lohrmann.

In preparation for Veterans Day, we are honored and excited to chat with Christy Brown and Becca Garrison of the National Military Family Association all about Operation Purple Camps. Tune in to learn about their efforts to provide summer camp experiences for military kids and families, as well as how you and your camp can get involved!  Thank you to our sponsor, ACTIVE Network. Show notes: National Military Family Association Operation Purple Camp Host an Operation Purple Camp Follow ACA @acacamps!

Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes.  My name is Jon Birdsong and I'm with Atlanta Ventures. Company Company Up: This week's company coming up is called Bottle. Co-Founders, Andy Blechman and Will Schreiber have an obsession with solving the pains of local businesses to serve their customers and improve operations. How do they do it? Bottle makes it dead simple for a local vendor to launch a store, communicate with customers, and sell flexible subscriptions all in one place. Customers who use Bottle have a very simple and beautiful way to showcase their products, text and email customers, and batch the orders with suppliers so greater margins are achieved. Ideal customers range from bakers, to florists, to butchers. They launched this product approximately two years ago and customer satisfaction is off the star chart scale. They are currently hiring for sales reps and more. Check them out and keep an eye on their growth! Announcement of the Week: Hypepotamus ran a great article on Christy Brown who just took over the CEO role of Dr. Noze Best. I'm excited about this for several reasons: first, we are happy customers and can't say enough good things about the product. Second, this company was started by an Emory Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Dr. Steve Goudy. This local, direct to consumer company helps suction the ever-present congestion out of babies and infants. This is a great example of commercialization in the healthcare space on the consumer side. It takes significant, fun work to even get a prototype out there, particularly while being a practicing doctor, nonetheless. Congrats to the Dr. Noze Best team on the next major chapter of the business. I'm very excited to see this grow and scale.     Real Real Estate: There's been tremendous coverage on the MailChimp move from Ponce City Market into their new building in the Biz Chron but when it comes to real estate I've found it more interesting to get the take from the folks who make the decision. This is why when MailChimp Co-Founder, Dan Kurzius wrote a descriptive LinkedIn post on the decision making process, where they are going and why I was intrigued. The synopsis is they are moving 10 minutes down the Beltline in Jim Irwin's New City Development. There are three major towers in the development and MailChimp is taking one entire tower and three floors in another tower connected by a sky bridge. In addition to more details about the building itself and the interior designers, Dan includes several images and videos of the new spread. There is a new sheriff in town among the office portfolio on the East Side Trail of the Beltline; the activity and excitement around that area will be even more energizing! No specific date on the move but they are in the test fit phase today.   Beta Products of the Week: Okay, this product isn't even in beta yet, it is still being built and is pre-launch, but nonetheless, we're going to cover it this week as their launch is imminent. The name of the company is called Gatsby and it's founded by Alice Thacker. She is solving the pain point of getting several folks to coordinate schedules while keeping communication simple. How many times have you been on a group thread looking to organize a dinner or gathering, yet a busy recipient and a two-day later response and suddenly you lose all potential fixity. I'm intrigued in this market because I believe Gatsby can disrupt Doodle. I remember using Doodle 25 years ago in 8th grade…and we still use it today! Add to the fact the natural viral coefficient opportunity here and there could be some serious magic. As mentioned, the product is not out but sign up for the waitlist if you're interested in being the first in the know.  Lastly, one of the busiest weeks is on the horizon which is October 17th-October 21st. Techstars Demo Day to Venture Atlanta amongst several other events, happy hours, and more are sprinkled throughout the week. Lock in your plans now!     Annnnd, that's 5 minutes. Thank you for listening to Five and Thrive. We provide 5 minutes of quality information, so you can thrive in the upcoming week. Please subscribe to the show and spread the good word!  Resources discussed in this episode: Announcement of the Week:  Christy Brown Becomes CEO of Dr. Noze Best Company Coming Up:  Bottle Real Real Estate:  MailChimp Real Estate Update Beta Product of the Week: Gatsby  

This week's special guest on the broadcast is Christy Brown, the local Ambassador for ShelterBox USA! ShelterBox USA's vision is "A world where no family is without shelter after disaster". They are a disaster relief charity that HAND-DELIVERS shelter to families impacted by natural disasters and conflict.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's special guest on the broadcast is Christy Brown, the local Ambassador for ShelterBox USA! ShelterBox USA's vision is "A world where no family is without shelter after disaster". They are a disaster relief charity that HAND-DELIVERS shelter to families impacted by natural disasters and conflict.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donald Macleod talks to Peter and Emilie Bernstein about their father, award winning Hollywood film composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote for films during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of ground-breaking jazz infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", Westerns which include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!", before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence", and he also created a remarkable portrait of the artist Christy Brown in "My Left Foot". His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes' "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004. As well as a hugely successful career as a film composer Elmer Bernstein assumed several leadership roles. He also financed a scheme to preserve Hollywood film scores. Among the music he preserved was Max Steiner's King Kong. Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view to the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father. Music Featured: The March from Stripes Prelude to The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (excerpt) To Kill a Mockingbird (excerpt) Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra for two Christophers: II: Reflections The Man with the Golden Arm (excerpt) Walk on the Wild Side: Main title The Magnificent Seven (excerpt) To Kill a Mockingbird (excerpt) True Grit (excerpt) How Now Dow Jones: A Little Investigation The Great Escape: Main title Overture to Hawaii The Birdman of Alcatraz Summer and Smoke (excerpt) Big Jake (excerpt) Zulu Dawn: River Crossing Ghostbusters theme Suite from Airplane! Heavy Metal: Taarna's Theme Ghostbusters (excerpt) My Left Foot (excerpt) The Grifters (excerpt) Far from Heaven: Autumn in Connecticut Far From Heaven (excerpt) Rambling Rose (excerpt) Devil in a Blue Dress (excerpt) Cape Fear (excerpt) The Age of Innocence: Main title Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v23 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

In this week's Acteurist Oeuvre-view, we're still in the early stages of Daniel Day-Lewis's career, and once again the utterly obscure (Pat O'Connor's quirky comedy Stars and Bars (1988)) is paired with a much better-known film (Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989), based on the life of disabled writer and painter Christy Brown). We discuss Stars and Bars' attempt to achieve a tone like Scorsese's After Hours, and why it wouldn't be the same if Hugh Grant were playing Day-Lewis's part. Then we move on to discussing what makes Christy Brown a perfect role for Day-Lewis and what emotional qualities make the performance great. We conclude that My Left Foot is sort of like Lynch's The Elephant Man with a demonic rather than saintly central figure.  Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:    Stars and Bars (1988) [dir. Pat O'Connor] 0h 22m 35s:    My Left Foot (1989) [dir. Jim Sheridan] +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com  

In the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, he accomplished his dream: "To be remembered not for your human frailties but for something achieved something that reached and touched the lives of total strangers." First published August 1982. Written by Stephen Rudley and C. L. Lynes. Read by Zoë Meunier.

Today, I speak with IFBB Pro Christy Brown. Sh earned her pro card in her rookie year of competing in the NPC. She achieved this at the Teen, Collegiate & Masters National Championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in July of 2021.  This was her 5th ever competition! She has a bachelors in Business Management and is a practicing Dental Hygienist, while growing her online coaching business on the side. Her dream is to eventually become a full time online fitness and posing coach where she can help lifestyle clients and new girls coming into the competition world with their journeys and posing.   She love macros and flexible dieting and is quite a wizard in the kitchen, creating new recipes. She is releasing a cookbook very soon! She live in Burleson, Texas with her amazing husband E, her daughter Kennedy, and two fur babies Charmin and Shelby.   Christy explains why she believes it's important to work with a coach and how her struggles with depression have made her an empathetic coach herself. Celeste and Christy go deep in speaking about the importance of having knowledgable fitness professionals to to work with eating disorders. She also shares her experience dealing with food sensitivities and how she deals with them for prep.   We also get to hear some of Christy's favorite strategies to hit macros with fun recipes that she has created! She shares how important her husband is to her success and mental-well being.   This is such an important conversation, you don't want to miss it! Topics covered include: -Working as an online coach -Creating a positive experience for competitors -Working with a coach -Struggles with depression and eating disorders -Macros and eating disorders -Competing with Crohn's disease and IBS -Dealing with food sensitivities -Food prep with a family and busy schedule -The importance of a support system -How competing affects her relationships -Starting in fitness later in life -Power of manifestation CONNECT WITH CELESTE: Website: http://www.celestial.fit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celestial_fit/ All Links: http://www.celestial.fit/links.html CONNECT WITH CHRISTY: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christybrown.ifbbpro/ Fearless Physiques Cookbook: www.fearlessphysiques.com TIME STAMPS [1:00] introductions [5:19] pump up routines [8:40] working as an online coach [13:45] struggles with depression and eating disorders [26:10] pros dealing with the same problems as amateurs [27:50] Crohn's disease and IBS and food sensitivities [37:50] eating mostly whole foods [39:34] planning ahead [46:45] stress management [53:40] Impact of competing on relationships [60:00] family dynamics around food [68:55] background in fitness and becoming a pro [80:00] believing in yourself [81:55] future plans [84:06] advice for competitors CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE FOOD RELATIONSHIP COACHING SERIES   CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE POST SHOW BLUES COACHING SERIES   LEARN MORE AND APPLY FOR MY 5 WEEK FOOD RELATIONSHIP HEALING & DISCOVERY COACHING PROGRAM   FOR OTHER FREE RESOURCES, LIVE EVENTS, AND WAYS TO WORK WITH CELESTE CLICK HERE

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Lorissa talks with Master's member, Christy Brown about her experience of being in the Masters program, participating in both group and one-on-one coaching and growing in her own self-confidence as she pursues some of the dreams God has placed on her heart, including the launch of her podcast "Thanks Mom" that she co-hosts with her daughter Grace. 

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Beauty Queens 1: The Miss America Pageant stopped giving this award for friendliness in 1974. Miss Congeniality Award. 2: Ex-Miss New Orleans who went down the "Road" with Bing and Bob. Dorothy Lamourr. 3: She was 1st runner-up in the 1940 Miss Venice Beach Contest -- she didn't look like Lily Munster yet. Yvonne De Carlo. 4: She won Miss World-USA in '73 --but the headband, bracelets and red, white and blue costume came later. Lynda Carter. 5: This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita". Anita Ekberg. Round 2. Category: Driving Don'ts 1: "Piggish" term for an aggressive driver who invades the lanes of other drivers. "Road Hog". 2: This phrase describes an accident in which the driver flees the scene. Hit-and-run. 3: Don't gun the engine and pop this pedal. Clutch. 4: To make your tires squeak and leave blackmarks is called "burning" this. Rubber. 5: It's the term for what you're doing if you can read an "If you can read this you're too close" bumper sticker. Tailgating. Round 3. Category: British Authors 1: Princess Di's step-grandmother, this "Queen of Romance" passed away in 2000 at the age of 98. Barbara Cartland. 2: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists. Beatrix Potter. 3: His professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a master of diagnostic deduction, was his model for Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle. 4: In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth. Ring (but not the ring he gave her). 5: From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" and "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic. H.G. Wells. Round 4. Category: The Category Of Daniel 1: In 1775 this pioneering American blazed the Wilderness Road. Daniel Boone. 2: One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday". Daniel Defoe. 3: On the big screen he's been Gerry Conlon, Hawkeye and Christy Brown. Daniel Day-Lewis. 4: One of his best-known orations is the Bunker Hill speech of 1825. Daniel Webster. 5: The Pentagon Papers he gave to the N.Y. Times in 1971 revealed deceptions about Vietnam dating back to the 1940s. Daniel Ellsberg. Round 5. Category: "C"Omedians 1: He teamed with Cheech on numerous comedy albums. Tommy Chong. 2: Some of his "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" are now said on TV, especially cable. George Carlin. 3: "The Best Second Banana in the Business", he gained undying fame as sewer worker Ed Norton. Art Carney. 4: She was the first original member of "Saturday Night Live" to score a success with a second TV series. Jane Curtin. 5: This understated comedian played Mr. Peepers and was the voice of Underdog. Wally Cox. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

  Media personality Chris Van Vliet shares the story of how Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson almost got him fired on live TV, and Josh’s new game will give you flashbacks to your childhood…they might be weird flashbacks. - For bonus audio, and early, ad-free access to all of our shows - support us on Patreon starting at $1 a month! Thanks in advance! - AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION WILL CONTAIN COPIOUS TYPOS AND MISIDENTIFICATIONS.IT'S BASICALLY USELESS YOU SHOULD JUST LISTEN Kory: Welcome to theme park pulse, the game, the game show for theme park fans. I'm your host Corey in San Francisco, California. And I'll introduce you to the rest of the panel in just a second. If you'd like to be a contestant email, Nikki with two ks@nomidnightmedia.com or call (213) 935-0513. And leave a message. If you love this podcast, the next logical step in your fandom is to join us on Patrion, where for as little as a dollar a month, you'd help us cover some of the costs associated with this podcast. And you'll pick up several pieces of bonus audio each week. More information at the link in the description. This week media personality, Chris van fleet tries to re-imagine a Disney attraction based on a guy who flicked him off on television. That story. Plus Christie Brown, a former Disney cast member turned author plays, mucked up musicals up first. It's the Park's pop culture pop quiz. If you'd like to play theme park, post the game. Call (213) 935-0513. And leave a message or email Nikki with two ks@nomidnightmedia.com. Let's welcome. Our contestant on theme park pulse, the game from Orlando, Florida. It's Christy Brown. Hey Christie. How are you guys?  Christy: Thanks for  Kory: having me. It's good to see you. Thank you for joining us this week. And just a minute, I'm going to test your Park's knowledge with the Park's pop culture pop quiz. But first I want to introduce you to our panel of lost toys. You know, now that one division is complete. He is back to obsessing over more important things like, you know, tick talk and star Wars and. His hair in Sacramento, California. It's Alby. Hey, yes,  Sean: it's true.  Josh: I've changed my hair color, I think three times already. What  Sean: is this color  Kory: that we're  Josh: looking at now? I mean, I got the Agatha purple up there, so it's kind of like a pink.  Sean: Ish.  Kory: It was Alberta all along, just the lab does in fact, you to reopen on April 1st, there is a pretty good chance that he will get there first for no other reason than simple geography and the energy of the young in San Diego, California. It's Jackie boy. Hey Jack.  Jacky Boy: I feel like probably being on the road with one arm driving is bad, but I will make it happen so I can be the first one in line. Wait, does  Kory: that not, is that not totally healed up yet? That's just how it is  Jacky Boy: now. This is reality.  Kory: It's messy from Jackie Jack, Jack, Jack to Shawnee, just as many Shawn's in Greenville, South Carolina. It's you guessed it, Sean. Hi.  Sean: I feel like now I have to go with the most Southern sounding ridiculous accent I can possibly  Kory: do as the personality and to finger point of an experience Disney cast member, but Disney frankly can not afford to pay for her Disney habit in Morgantown, West Virginia. It's Nicki Drake. Hey Nikki. Hi. Welcome back everybody. And last, but certainly not least he lives in Denver, Colorado for now. That's a tease. And so is he it's Josh Taylor. Hey, Josh.  Josh: I'm so much closer to being on the West coast. You don't know.  Kory: Oh, but is the West coast ready for Josh? I hope so  Josh: because I'm coming in strong  Kory: Christie, you worked for Walt Disney world for the better part of 13 years. What roles did you play while you worked for the County?  Christy: I started with merchandising and then I spent the last 13 years with the Disney's very, to weddings team. What's  Kory: a typical day, like in weddings. It is  Christy: stressful and crazy, and it was so much fun.  Kory: You still live there in the Orlando area with your family. Give your family a shout out. Of course.  Christy: Hi, Phillip Gus, Lila, and Jacoby.  Kory: How did you meet your husband? I was a  Christy: wedding intern back in 2007. They were doing a bridal shoot for the new David Tutera collection. I think I just fit the dress. So they asked if I would put on the dress and step into the role of a bride. I met Phillip. He was the groom for the day and I said, hi, I'm your Bradford today in 2011, we got married. At the wedding  Kory: pavilion at the  Christy: wedding pavilion. Oh, that's so cool. I met him in a wedding gown and then  Kory: theoretically married him in wa yeah. Since you left the Disney company, you've leaned a lot into writing something I'm getting into at this stage in my life. What are you working on right now?  Christy: I've got a book being published. It's being released July 1st. It's called a ring bear. And it's a book for anyone who's been asked to be a ring bearer in a wedding.  Kory: Oh, so it's a ring bear. B E R. Yeah. Yes. The little boy  Christy: thinks he has to be a ring bear. That's  Kory: so cute. And where can people pre-order that book? They can go to  Christy: black Rose writing.com and look for a ring bearer.  Kory: Can't wait to read it. All right, Christie, we're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent parks news. And if you get two out of three, correct, we'll send you a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband. Okay. Okay, here we go. Question one. Walt Disney world recently gave us a first look at artist renderings for new rooms at Disney's Polynesian resort. Featuring a Pacific ocean inspired color palette inspired by witch film franchise. That's right. I actually love this remodel and this film so much that I do not have a bad joke for this. You're welcome. All right. Question two Orlando theme park fans got some exciting news when it was announced that universal is resuming construction on their new theme park called what? Oh, Epic  Christy: universe,  Kory: right? A universal fans are excitedly chomping at the bit for yet another gate while Disney's fans are busy, constructing gallows at Disney Springs over the cancellation of the magical express. And Nikki is  Jacky Boy: the  Kory: lead  Sean: construction worker. Alfred swinging a hammer.  Kory: Last question. A touch of Disney is the name of the now completely sold out food festival, taking place where. In  Josh: my tummy, Kory: is that it? Disneyland? Yeah, Disney, California adventure. The tickets went really fast to the latest of course, is that the California theme parks will be allowed to reopen on April 1st with some restrictions. If it's anything like the bars here in California, you may get to ride pirates. So the Caribbean, but you'll be required to purchase one food item and one beverage in order to clear the state's COVID-19 standards, because reasons Alby, how did Kristi do on the Park's pop culture, pop quiz? I think  Josh: she needs to do my wedding at Epic universe Malanda style. So she got them all. Kory: Christie, will you stick around and play some more games later in the show? This is so fun. Up next to media personality, Chris van fleet plays, elevator pitch on theme park, pulse, the game. Welcome back to theme park pulse. The game. Our guest is the host of the podcast insight with Chris van fleet and he has a wildly popular YouTube channel under his name. Let's welcome to theme park, post the game, my friend and media personality, Chris van fleet. Welcome,  Chris Van Vliet: man. Thank you so much. Good to see you. Good to hear you. All of the  Kory: things it's been forever, where you and I first met in Cleveland, Ohio, many, many moons ago. That is not where you live now. And it's not where you're from. How many places have you lived at this point are  Chris Van Vliet: too many originally from Toronto, but then it was Toronto, Vancouver, Cleveland, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati. And now I live in Los Angeles.  Kory: Well, welcome to California. Yeah. Thank  Chris Van Vliet: you. Thank you. The weather is beautiful here, but I think, I think I'm done moving for a little while. Kory: Canada. What would you say your awareness was of theme parks like at an early age. And did you go to Canada's Wonderland?  Chris Van Vliet: Everyone went to Canada's Wonderland and then Canada's Wonderland became paramount. Canada's Wonderland when paramount. Yeah, paramount bought it. And then they renamed all the rides after their movies. So I can't even remember what the original name was, but we would ride top gun and we would ride the Italian job like it. One day we showed up and all that, all the rides had brand new names. Cool.  Kory: Were there any that were just bad?  Chris Van Vliet: Like the names were bad or the rides were bad either. Italian job. That's so great. Sean: Do you get to drive mini Coopers in a tunnel? Because if you don't then the right is garbage  Chris Van Vliet: and it was very strange. There was the bat and I don't want to get too much off on a tangent here, but the bat was this rollercoaster that went forwards and then backwards. And the one for that was always like two hours long. That's all I did.  Christy: We're loops and  Chris Van Vliet: stuff too, but it was the entire ride. And then backwards, the  Josh: segment was not sponsored by  Sean: paramount  Kory: plus not at all. Chris, you host a podcast and a YouTube channel. What will we find if we look you up on YouTube and check out  Chris Van Vliet: insight? Like, I'm just fascinated with the idea of like people that are like super successful. There's a reason they got to be at that level. So my podcast is all about like reverse engineering. Like what are the habits and techniques that they have, so we can all apply them to our own lives. So some recent interviews are. Lots of wrestlers on big wrestling fan. As I know you guys are as well, but Freddie Prinze Jr. Was on the show. Chris Kirkpatrick from end sync was on the show. I just interviewed Jeff Timmins from 98 degrees. Andrew Yang was on talking wrestling with me, which is so cool. It's been a lot of fun and like I've selfishly do the show so I can learn from these people and go, Oh, you do that thing. Well, I'm going to start doing that thing now. Kory: Tell me about what you did to get the rock to flick you off on television. And why are you still alive?  Christy: And he's now done it twice. He's probably  Chris Van Vliet: out twice, but the first time he was on the red carpet for the ballers premier in Miami, when I was working in Miami and. The interview was supposed to happen at like seven ish. And I was live on TV TV at our, now our seven 30 show at seven 38. And I'm like, Oh, perfect. We'll be able to do the interview with him. We'll like take a clip and I'll be able to throw to the clip, like live on TV. We talked to the rocker, right. Here's what he had to say. Well, as you guys know, red carpet stock are never on time. So the rock starts walking down the red carpet, like super late. And, and I'm like, Oh my gosh, like, he's going to either be here. Like. Right before I'm on TV or right after I'm on TV. And then the rock is walking up and I'm, we're in a commercial break and we're like a minute away from me going live. And we start this interview and I'm like, Oh my God, like, what are we going to do? We're we're in a commercial break. And my producers yelling in my ear. Whatever you do, keep him there. We need him there. Live on TV, watching this interview out as much as I can, like asking like just silly questions. Finally, we come back live and I'm like, rock. Just want to let you know, we're live right now on deco drive. He's like, Oh, we're live. I could. Say anything I want and I'm like, ah, please, please do not. So I turned to the camera at the end of the interview. I go, let's have a people's eyebrow off, you know, where the rock raises the eyebrows. So we do that to the camera, as we're doing it to the camera, unbeknownst to me, he gives me the middle finger on live TV behind my head. I didn't see this happen. So I turn around. Rock. Thank you so much. That's  Christy: so great to talk  Chris Van Vliet: to you. I turned back to the camera. Dairy is one of the biggest stars in the world. Can you believe we got the rock live on TV? And then as soon as the segment ended, my producer calls me and goes, yeah, the rock flipped you off. I'm like, What they said. Yeah. We're not sure if we're going to get fined by the FCC. Now, why I spent the next couple of days, like wondering if we were going to get an FCC fine, which thankfully we did not make for a great viral moment. Then when I saw the rock at the Moana junket a few months later, I said, you know, the last time I saw you, we got in a lot of trouble. Cause you. Flip me off on live TV. He goes, ah, you know what that means? And they gave me another one. So the rock just thinks I'm number one, I guess  Kory: I feel like he's such a good guy though, that if you actually did get fined, you could throw a go-fund me on Twitter and he would take care of it.  Chris Van Vliet: I'd hope. So then that's the same guy who gave me the middle finger on live TV. So I don't know.  Kory: All right, Chris, we've invited you here to play a game that Jackie boy invented where we're going to put your imagination. No. You're Imagineering all to the test. This is elevator pitch, Jack.  Jacky Boy: Chris welcome to elevator pitch is, is a game of speed wits and armchair Imagineering. Imagine walking into an elevator with our panelists and having to explain an idea before we hit the top floor. Okay, I'm going to give you a topic. It could be a holiday, a character, a movie, or a show, and you're going to imagine you're it into an attraction or refurb. Or an overlay. Now you'll have a moment or three to construct your magnificent proposition and then 45 seconds to pitch us your ideas. You'll be competing against Nikki today. And the rest of us will get to vote on our favorite and the most haphazard way possible. And we'll get to that in a little bit. Please note also there's a small chance that I will steal your idea and one day make it a reality. When I become an Imagineer, I like this. Okay. We all know that odd Topia Disneyland needs a good refreshing, as much as I love the little Honda robot, the appeal is lost just about the time you get your license and you actually get to experience LA traffic. So I figured we switched things up a bit. Chris, your friend, Mr. The rock was in a franchise of movies that has to do with fast cars. That may be a little more interesting when it comes to a driving attraction. Now I know we already have fast and furious supercharged at universal, but just like Apple says. Think different. Okay. This week on elevator pitch, we're going to be reimagining OD Topia with the fast and furious Kory: Dawn.  Jacky Boy: Chris, you are our guest, so I will actually let you go second. Cause I feel like that's probably where you want to be. Anyway. Mickey, go first. Okay. Cool. All right, Nikki, you've got 45 seconds. You're walking into the elevator. Are you ready for it? As  Nikki: ready as I'll ever be doors are closing.  Jacky Boy: Let's go. Nikki: Oh, my gosh. I just had an amazing idea because the most boring ride at Disney is  and then even in Disney world, they've got that silly, boring ride there to it.  Jacky Boy: Nice. Okay. All right. Yeah. So.  Nikki: I want to take all of the retired superstar, limo people and change them into the fast and the furious cast and throw them into October would be  Christy: amazing. Nikki: We need that little pep in the step and we can speed up the ride just a little bit, but not too much, but I also need the rock in here somewhere. Not only flipping us off, but taking a giant, like torpedo thingy and turning it around and blasting it backwards. And I ran out of time. I tried to stretch that beginning as long as  Kory: you did  Jacky Boy: it. Very good job. Nikki, do you have a name for this attraction that you've created?  Kory: Um,  Sean: not so fast and mildly annoyed.  Nikki: I'll take it. Thank  Jacky Boy: you, Sean. All right, Chris, do you get the gist? Are you ready for it? Let's do it. Doors are closing. Here we go.  Chris Van Vliet: I Topia is not only the worst ride there. It also has the worst name. So first thing we're going to do is change the name of this guide is now going to be called furious and  Christy: fast. And I think  Chris Van Vliet: one of the biggest problems about this ride is it looks awful. Like these cars are so ugly, so we're gonna, we're going to throw some new cars in there. There's also nothing to do when you're in these cars. It's not like if you turn left actually goes left. He was on this track. So we're going to put some stuff inside the car. Like there's gonna be some buttons in there. One of the buttons. If you push that button, it's going to fire off our  Christy: torpedo and actual torpedo.  Chris Van Vliet: Then the rock is going to jump in just like fast and furious six, I believe. And the rock is going to shoot away with his bare hands because that's what the rock does. Jacky Boy: I can't believe it. Now, the way that we're going to figure out a winner for this is my favorite part of this game. So. The rest of us here on the cast are all going to shout the name of the winner on the count of three, the most haphazard way possible. Okay, here we go. Three, two, one. . Oh, I'll be. Who do we got? What do you think, Chris?  Sean: Yes, you had me at   Chris Van Vliet: and the actual Rockwell be there  Kory: and Disney can afford to get him to not flick the camera's off. So it'll be good, Chris, will you hang out on the panel for a bit and play the eighth dwarf with us at the end of the show? Yeah. Welcome back to theme park pulse. The game. If you'd like to be a contestant, call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message or email Nikki in ikk@nomidnightmedia.com. Let's welcome back to the show from Orlando, Florida. It's Kristy Brown. Hi Christie. Hi Christie. I hope you're wearing your ears Disney humor because you're here to play a game with Josh Taylor, cold mucked up musicals, Josh. Josh: Disney songs are iconic. Even those who don't really care for Disney movies probably still know a handful of classic Disney tunes. So instead of asking you to just name a Disney song, cause that'd be too easy, I've taken these songs. I've run them through my machine and I've spit out something different. No, no. This game I'm going to play three clips. You just have to name the Disney song. Get all three to win the catch here. All of these songs are now being played at an elementary school concert by a student named Jimmy with his musical record. Christie. I hope you're ready for a concert.  Sean: All right, Jimmy,  Josh: give us your first song. can you name Jimmy's tune? Do you want to build a  Sean: snowman?  Josh: You're in the ballpark. There it is frozen. It's let it go. Well, Jimmy, you got a better song for us. Christy: Is it supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Sean: he's reading the lyrics and coming up with music instead of you can't fault, like a seven year old kid. I can I will.  Christy: It's this a real child play?  Kory: No, I think it's Josh.  Sean: I  Josh: heard that girls like musician, so I've been my recorder with me everywhere. Christy: Is  Nikki: that your recorder? Are you happy to see me?  Sean: In  Josh: fact,  Sean: my recorder, maybe we'll give you one more song. Okay. Christy: The bare necessities.  Kory: Yeah, good job. The good news is that's not the standard by which we judge things. Jack Alvey. How did Christie do on mucked up musical  Josh: Christie? Don't let your kids play that please, but you got them. All right.  Sean: Oh,  Kory: thanks. No, no, she got the first one.  Christy: Yep.  Sean: Like I said, you're a winner Kory: and that's why LV is the scorekeeper. We'll wrap up the show with part guests behaving badly. The eighth dwarf is next on theme park, pulse, the game. Before we wrap up the show this week, we're going to play another round of the eighth dwarf. And now you can grab your stylish eighth dwarf t-shirt at theme park, pulse.com. John, take it away.  Sean: All right. So we all know that the seven dwarves were designed to represent specific behaviors, personality traits. And at some point during any Disney trip, we're all likely to see or be sleepy, dopey, happy, or if you're meet with my students this past week, pretty grumpy, but every now and then we will witness people in the parks that we just can't categorize. And one of the seven different names, their behavior is so outrageous. They fit into their own category that we like to call the eighth dwarf. Now the eighth door stories are all based in real life, but I usually embellish a little bit for traumatic effect. However, today's examples are going to be an exception with the behavior, actually running the gamut from dumb to disgusting. I'm just going to go ahead and present them as they are and let them speak for themselves. Surprising no one there. Both pandemic related, suffice it to say it's been a long and exhausting year dealing with COVID-19. And unfortunately that's pretty much exactly how pandemics work. The virus doesn't actually care if you're tired of the imposition on normal life or that you might be too stupid to understand how modern medicine works, the latter of which. Definitely seems to include Kelly, a resident of Louisiana, according to the police report, who recently decided that getting his temperature checked in order to access private property was some kind of violation of his rights. Not content to duck pass the temperature checks. Kelly apparently proceeded directly to the boathouse where he was found berating, a security manager, Kelly, who is a shining example of why variations in your genetic line are desirable, managed to get himself arrested and charged with a misdemeanor of trespass on property. All of this occurred on February 13th. So in honor of that, I wrote a Valentine's adjacent poem just for Kelly. Roses are red. Welcome to jail. That trip was expensive because you had to post bail. Yeah. Very good shot. Corey, what do we call Kelly? If he was the eighth  Kory: auntie Maskey  Sean: legacy.  Josh: Passholder. Sean: Probably probably a good one. Probably. Yeah. Jack,  Jacky Boy: I'm going with Trumpy on this one. You're not wrong,  Nikki: right? Because it has to do with his temperature fiery.  Sean: Oh, yeah.  Josh: I mean, this is clearly Texas governor Greg Abbott.  Sean: Hey guys. Again, Josh has gone from throwing other podcasts under the bus to politicians. Oh yeah. I'll keep going up this  Kory: ladder. That's fine.  Chris Van Vliet: We support you. How about, because Kelly went directly to jail, it will take something out of like the monopoly playbook this'll be, do not pass, go Sean: and Christie that guy. I don't want to be that former employee of Disney, you know, plenty of that guy. Sadly. I think we're going to go with, do not pass. Go eat. So I don't actually know this person's name, but the police report said it was a middle aged man wearing a fedora. Usually I would just refer to that dude as a tool, but let's go with that. Seriously. It's totally acceptable to wear a fedora. If you're in your sixties or a former member of the rat pack, like most of us, Chad is apparently really tired of wearing a mask or he's parked camel. One of those things is understandable. The other would explain a lot, like for instance, his pension for spitting on people, according to the Orlando Sentinel, a security guard at Disney's contemporary resort reminded Chad to put on his mask before entering the resort in response, Chad, spat on the guard and ran into the elevator screaming. I'm a guest. Which honestly sounds exactly like something I'd expect from a tool in a fedora walking, although I'm not sure about him being middle-aged because speaking as a middle-aged man, there's no way in hell I'm running to an elevator or anything else, except maybe a chiro cart. I'm thinking this guy has to maybe be in his late twenties or that I'm in denial about being older than middle-aged. Because I like the last one so much. I decided to go ahead and write a poem for Chad as well. Roses are red. No one likes the foot. Dora. I wouldn't cry. If you were eaten by a banshee from Pandora, Corey, what is Chad's eighth dwarf  Kory: name? Lougie Sean: lb  Josh: Cecil hotel guest E Oh,  Sean: probably. Oh, Jack drew Carey.  Christy: Why because he's wearing  Jacky Boy: Dora and superstar limo. I feel like maybe too much explanation on that one probably should have gone with something else. You think also  Kory: why, why is Josh offended? Sean: Uh, barely drew carries the line for Josh. I'm trying to go up the  Josh: ladder. Like I don't need to fall back down the level.  Kory: Oh  Sean: wow. Oh, Nikki  Nikki: IDG, a F  Christy: E. Sean: All right, Josh. Who's on the bus this time.  Josh: Vanity.  Christy: Oh, I was like, who's that? Josh: the bus  Christy: every day. Kory: I really thought you were  Nikki: going to say Ted Cruz  Sean: in Mexico couldn't have been him, anyone to SeaPak  Chris Van Vliet: literally anyone. I liked it. The fedora was so important to the story that it was written into the police. That is right.  Josh: That's not an embellishment. It was in this story,  Chris Van Vliet: but like, have you ever seen a police report was like, well, the man was wearing like a flannel shirt. It doesn't matter what he's wearing,  Kory: unless it's a fedora. Is it matters  Chris Van Vliet: since most of us are wrestling fans here, I'm going to harken back. To Randy or in his legend killer days, he would spit in the face of the legends before beating them up. This is legend killer.  Kory: I feel like that would go right to this guy's ego though. Dora  Sean: the fedora standing there, go home Dubbo. All right, Christie, bring us home.  Christy: Well, if he's wearing a fedora, he's gotta be douche-y. Sean: Christie. You just cut to the heart like that.  Kory: Christy and Chris, thank you so much for joining us something park, posted the game. Oh, thank you. Thank you so  Jacky Boy: much. The bipolar as the game was created, written and produced by the panelists you heard on the show today,  Sean: Corey Alby, Nikki, Jack, Sean,  Kory: and Chad. We'd like to thank our special guest Chris van fleet of insight with Chris van fleet. And of course our guest Christie. They're in Orlando and  Nikki: all new episode of the doom squirrel drops tomorrow on our Patrion. That show is weekly and at  Kory: all tiers  Josh: assemble each Tuesday. Where right now we're going into a deep dive on Falcon and the winter soldier. Check out the link in the description and support our work for as little as $1 a month. And you'll get that and some other  Sean: cool bonuses. We'd also love to see you for trivia Tuesday on the theme park, pulse Twitch and Facebook live that's at 5:00 PM, West 8:00 PM East every Tuesday night.  Josh: The single most important thing that you can do to help us out is share theme park posts the game with  Sean: all  Kory: of your friends. Like all of them, maybe, actually don't, I'll be we'll know. Yeah. From our family to yours, wear a mask or however many it is. They want you to wear this week, wash your hands, keep your eyes on the road and join us next time for another all new theme park pulse.  Sean: Yay. Oh, the game.  Josh: Sorry. No one likes your content, Jimmy.

In what is without a doubt, the most pretentious movie picked so far, Tate picks Daniel Day Lewis' My Left Foot from 1989. Is our anonymous third co-host finally going to be able to say the word auto-biographical? How many of the hosts suffer from podophobia? Apparently, Al Michaels is a big fan of this movie. The only way to find out the answers to these questions, and how we know about Al's personal movie opinions, is to listen in. This movie was directed by Jim Sheridan. GD4AM: 67/100 IMDb: 7.9/10 Metacritic: 97/100 RT: 98% Christy Brown is born with cerebral palsy to a large, poor Irish family. His mother recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous artist who uses his dexterous left foot to write and paint. Currently available on HBOMAX.

With a passion to help women grow to the “20 Million Dollar Mindset,” Christy Brown became the new President and CEO of Launchpad2x. As an entrepreneur, CEO, Coach, and Founder, Christy people, especially women, find their voice as CEO’s and setting up long-term legacies for their businesses.With skills in talent acquisition & management, organizational needs analysis, strategic planning, management development, team expansion, technology solutions, and so many more analytical spaces, Christy has many insights into the “Idea” Market.Let’s dive into Christy’s wealth of knowledge and experience and learn the use of analytics in building the next big ideas. [00:01 - 05:01] Opening SegmentLet’s get to know Christy BrownChristy talks about Launchpad and what they doToday’s topic [05:02 - 17:18] Using Analytics to Build Out Ideas Towards the Marketplace Christy talks about the startup market and market fitMaturing and improving using data analytics“Gig Work” vs. “Return to work” [17:19 - 28:15] Ventures into People Data & People AnalyticsChristy gives her insights into data ventures and their uses The new cultural norms around infiltration and exfiltration Updating and accessing new tech and data [28:16 - 32:22] Advice Around New Ideas in AnalyticsChristy shares her wisdom and resources to growExamples in using measurements [32:23 - 35:21] Closing SegmentSummarizing our discussion todayFinal Words Tweetable Quotes: “You're constantly questioning who your customer is to determine product-market fit, and there’s no other way to achieve that but through analytics and data.” - Christy Brown “We’ve got to create some good operational synthesis around what your marketing and sales objectives are and I think just kind of knowing your strengths help with that.” - Christy Brown “Act and avoid second-guessing yourself… Know your company’s value! Know the investability and the defensibility of it… and play to win!” - Christy Brown Resources Mentioned: ● Measure What Matters: OKR’sConnect with Christy on LinkedIn. Visit https://launchpad2x.org/ to learn more.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with me: LinkedInTwitterEmail: david@turetskyconsulting.comThis show is brought to you by Turetsky Consulting LLC, our company providing business consulting on Analytics, HR Processes, and Rewards with a focus on getting answers that organizations need by demystifying People Analytics. Did you love the value that we are putting out in the show? LEAVE A REVIEW + Share this episode with like-minded people who can benefit from this content. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hrdatalabs)

Christy Brown, a three-time exited founder and now investor, mentor, and advisor to early stage companies, especially women and minority entrepreneurs. Hear about how Christy learned business acumen from her entrepreneur grandmother and tenacity from her mother, raising her and her sister solo while working. She goes on to excel at male-majority Georgia Tech and then a skillful run of working for big corporate, to startup founder, to acquisition, back to corporate, then back to startup founder - rinse and repeat 3 times. Now she is an investor, volunteers for the causes she cares about, and helps women and underserved founders navigate the waters of early stage business and capital-raising.1:50 Discussion on how first-time founders don’t always understand the long game needed to raise capital, months or years of relationship building before a check is written.2:30 Staying in touch with potential investors is critical. Christy says getting monthly updates from companies is what she values the most.4:00 Discussion on what it says about a founder that takes the time to send out monthly updates to current and potential investors.5:30 If a potential investor has a great feeling about you and what you’re doing, they are likely to introduce you to someone (else) that could invest. The founders that know how to communicate effectively are the ones that win.7:00 How many mentors does an entrepreneur need? If you are growing as a company, it would be normal that you outgrow your mentors along the way and need new mentors as you grow.11:50 SPONSOR: Executive Launch (https://www.execlaunch.com) – from corporate executive to startup founder.13:00 Christy’s bio: President Launchpad2x, advisor to Tone Networks, venture partner w/ Republic crowdfunding, mentor with TechStars, board member with Venture Atlanta Conference, Board Ambassador with American Cancer Society, former chairperson of C5 Georgia for teens, and advisor to several other non-profit and social cause organizations.14:05 Christy is in the 3X club having built and sold 3 companies a.k.a ‘exits’ that provided her financial gains that each time enabled her to recharge for another run.15:00 She lived a playbook of going from corporate to startup, back to corporate, then startup again. This is a winning strategy for exits and acquisition.18:05 Allen & Christy talk about how they both struggle to watch Shark Tank the TV show22:10 Christy talks about the influence of her grandmother and mother. Her grandmother was one of the first women entrepreneurs in the Atlanta area. Working mother of 4, amazing storyteller, stood in the boardroom with men, didn’t take no for an answer. 25:35 Christy talks about the influence of her mother. She demonstrated work ethic, tenacity, and competitiveness. 27:40 At 7 years old, Christy got her first computer, a Commodore 64 and started programming.29:35 She didn’t realize she was unique as a young girl that liked science, complicated math, and computers.31:40 Christy wanted to be a fashion designer, wanted to study textile/fiber engineering at Georgia Tech. An internship with telecom giant WorldCom steered her to electrical & computer engineering.34:20 Christy talks about often being one of the few girls in class at Georgia Tech and the challenges.37:10 Her first job after graduation at WorldCom, what she learned from their massive bankruptcy.39:10 Then her first startup, a web development and e-commerce company. Just one starting client and no money. Later cashed out to her partner and took a year off, competed in several triathlons around the world, contemplated what to do next.45:30 Recruited to open an Atlanta office for a large staffing/recruiting company. Financially exited later to open her own firm – which was then acquired a few years later by a large company.50:00 Able to financially exit again and recruited to be a senior executive with ADP. After four plus years, left to start investing and create another startup.54:40 Began dedicating more time to helping women entrepreneurs and executives – the ‘broken rung’ problem.57:00 Christy describes the challenges for female founders and founders of color.1:04:20 Discussion on the unique psychological challenges of women and minority founders – and the dramatically disproportionate lack of investment.1:06:50 Studies show that women founders outperform male founders in investor ROI. So why are women severely under-represented on both sides of the table?1:09:50 Founder confidence isn’t the only issue, it’s often allowing for the founder’s ‘authentic self’ to shine through.1:13:10 Final thoughts from Christy on how anyone can be an entrepreneur if they set their mind to it. It’s similar to endurance running and triathlons. Not everyone can be a competitive sprinter, but nearly everyone can be a competitive endurance runner or triathlete if they commit.Christy's LinkedIn Page: https://bit.ly/3egZ4RXAllen's Website: https://www.planyourstart.com

After an unexpected break, I have returned with an episode that I pulled basically out of nothing. Movies that I love to hate, the ones that I passionately dislike and react to strongly for reasons that don't necessarily have to do with quality. See what reasons I have for hating the 1984 classic Red Dawn, 2005's Chicken Little, and 2015's The Green Inferno. I also review the 1989 film My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown because it has Daniel Day Lewis painting with his foot. 

As we are now navigating through one of the most challenging moments of running a recruitment business, where should we focus our time, energy and resources for maximum return in both the short and long term? In this episode of the Resilient Recruiter, my special guest Jordan Lawrence reveals the incredibly effective marketing strategies behind the growth of his core business, Payments & Cards Network.  He breaks down how to partner with media companies, events organizers and even local governments to dominate your market niche.   Of course, we'll also dig into what Jordan's doing right now to pivot his marketing during the coronavirus crisis and ensure his company is well-positioned to catch the rebound. You'll also hear Jordan's valuable insights and perspective on building a success culture in different countries, hiring recruiters, keeping your team motivated and engaged, experimenting with the 4-day workweek, and embracing the “next normal.” Jordan founded the Payments & Cards Network around 10 years ago and the business has since evolved into a Micro Niche Recruitment group called PCN Capital which is comprised of Payments & Cards Network, Digital Source, Sekura Capital and PCM (Payments & Cards Media). The three recruitment brands focus on the FinTech Space, Data Science & Cyber Security respectively and operate from offices in Atlanta, Amsterdam & Singapore. Episode Outline and Highlights [3:00] How the business is dealing with the coronavirus. [5:55] An important key to keep your team motivated and engaged in these difficult circumstances. [8:20] Discussion on two areas of adjustments to “up their game”.  [10:15] How to reassure hesitant candidates during the coronavirus crisis - Warning: This is not a recruitment spiel. [13:10]  Jordan's philosophy on building a community with media businesses.   [19:30] A very interesting discussion [+pointers] on how to keep a LinkedIn group relevant. [23:20] Will switching to a four-day workweek work for your business? [29:05] Jordan discusses the “new normal” for recruiting businesses. [32:45] Hear about Jordan's “How to Hire Remotely with Confidence” webinar. [36:00] Benefits of having multinational offices versus having just one head office. [39:20] What led to Jordan's partnership with a local government  Building a Community via the Media Businesses Jordan shared why and how he built a community through media and marketing and how it impacted his business. Dive into Jordan's brilliant ideas on how to make marketing work for his business. For example, hear how using magazines in both physical and digital format helped his recruitment business grow exponentially.  The Philosophy Behind a Four-Day Workweek Will a four-day workweek fly in the recruitment industry? Hear Jordan's perspective on how it can be a huge benefit. One way he puts it is “People before would sort of work really hard over the five days, binge on a Saturday… belly recovering on a Sunday, and stumbling to work on a Monday morning, it may not be so productive.” He added “Arguably, is there much getting done anyway on a Monday morning and a Friday afternoon? I don't know. Now we are giving the opportunity to have a really good rest..” Adding Value to the Ecosystem of the Niche that You are Serving Having a multinational firm, Jordan's success is defined by his mindset on adding value. In his words, “I think it is making yourself a part of the fabric of the industry you are trying to service rather than being seen as someone only taking and I think that's really important.” On having a global presence, this is what he said: “If you are serious about growing globally in a niche market, you have to be on the ground and you have to have facetime. It shows you're there for the long haul rather than just making the sort of hit and run deal which you do see all over the place.” He also discussed their support for the "Free a Girl" foundation which frees young girls from sexual slavery. You may refer to the link in the below section. Jordan Lawrence Bio and Contact Info Jordan Lawrence founded the Payments & Cards Network around 10 years ago and has since started a Micro Niche Recruitment group called PCN Capital which comprises of Payments & Cards Network, Digital Source, Sekura Capital and PCM (Payments & Cards Media) with offices in Atlanta, Amsterdam & Singapore the three brands focus on the FinTech Space, Data Science & Cyber Security respectively. Jordan also Co-Founded Volt Open Banking www.getvolt.io at the start of 2019 with FinTech industry experts sourced from his experience with PCN. Jordan on LinkedIn Jordan on Instagram  PCN Capital website PCN Capital on Youtube PCN Capital on Instagram PCN Capital on Twitter @PaymentsNet We are hiring aggressively at the moment so if you wish to take part in our growth as well as our forward-thinking culture, 4 day week and general good vibes then reach out to our excellent Head of People and Ops Victoria Hammond (who joined us from Google incidentally) at victoria@pcn.capital. People and Resources Mentioned Free a Girl Foundation website Christy Brown on LinkedIn Katie Howard Cross on LinkedIn David Stone LinkedIn Rogier Rouppe van der Voort on LinkedIn Cube19 website Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call: www.RecruitmentCoach.com/Breakthrough Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach Mark on YouTube Related Podcasts You Might Enjoy TRR #15: How Katie Howard Cross Empowers Women to Excel in Recruitment TRR #18: How to Build Your Business During a Recession, with Christy Brown Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter

A global economic slowdown due to the coronavirus has greatly affected the recruitment industry. What type of “proactive” mindset should a recruiter possess in order to avoid just being “reactive” to the situation? How do you build your business despite economic challenges?  In this episode of the Resilient Recruiter, my special guest, Christy Brown shares her story on how she built a company in 2007, yes, you read it right, during the great recession. Listen to how creativity, technology enablement, and being agile helped her build, scale, and sell her staffing companies. Christy is a serial entrepreneur, investor, startup advisor, mentor, founder, futurist, triathlete.  Prior to becoming a Venture Capitalist, Christy was the Executive Vice President of a Fortune 100 human capital management software company where she led the business transformation and client success organizations globally. Christy has scaled three service-based companies focused on digital marketing, human capital, and security consulting. Episode Outline and Highlights [3:00] A former IRONMAN competitor, Christy shared how her competing translates to business. [6:00] Christy's staffing journey.  [8:40] What it was like to start a staffing firm during the recession. [10:00] Christy's two learnings that lead to improvement and innovation. [12:00] Christy's business model that brought significant success in winning new clients. [15:00] Four factors that led to Christy's start-up success. [22:45] A monthly meeting with all your placed candidates? Listen to why Christy did it. [27:30] Convincing clients to hire remotely - Christy mentioned least two elements  [30:00] What Christy believes is the number one growth area in recruiting [35:00] Christy talks about “technology enablement”  [38:30] How technology will drive the future of the recruiting industry. [44:00] Listen to Christy's “regret” from a founder's perspective. [47:02] Two practical ideas to navigate this challenging economy [53:00] Christy's view on inclusion and women empowerment  Starting a Business During the Great Recession Back in 2007, Christy started her own staffing firm.  It may not have been the best time to start a new business, and as she mentioned, “For me, it became a firefight.” Comparing the situation before with what we are facing now, this is how she puts it  “It was a very interesting time, we can compare it to some of the things that are happening in this current healthcare crisis today. Massive fallouts to the economy occurring, a large banking crisis that we are still coming out of.” Despite the situation, Christy focused on the opportunity being presented to build her business. Christy laid out her mistakes and learnings, her business model, and the factors that led to her start-up success. Technology Will Drive the Future of the Recruiting Industry Christy gave her take on “technology enablement” and how technology will drive the future of the recruiting industry. As she puts it, “I think technology enablement and recruiting is probably the number one growth area that I look even from an investment lens. It is one of those things that has to grow, it has to accelerate, and we have to influence it.” Listen to her philosophy on how utilizing technology will help recruiters stay relevant. Inclusion and Woman Empowerment One of the biggest challenges Christy faced is, “Sometimes, being the only female in the room of technologists.” Hear her meaningful thoughts about inclusion and women empowerment in a corporate setting.  Christy Brown Bio and Contact Info Christy has held a number of executive leadership roles over the past 20 years but in 2019, became the Managing Executive Partner of a venture capital firm focused on pairing venture capital with shared services in a studio environment to scale rapidly with services to support early-stage startups.  Prior to assuming the executive investment role, Christy was the Executive Vice President at a Fortune 100 human capital management software company where she leads the business transformation & client success organization globally. Christy is a serial entrepreneur and founder and has scaled three service-based companies focused on digital marketing, human capital and security consulting which she exited across a 12-year interval.  Following the last exit, she became a consummate innovator and aligned to multiple startups incubators as a mentor and advisor.  She also serves as a board member across the Atlanta ecosystem including the Entrepreneur's Organization, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, American Cancer Society,  Technology Association of Georgia and various advisor and board roles across early and series stage startups in technology.    Christy's website Christy on LinkedIn Christy on Twitter @downtown_CB Tone Networks website Launchpad2x on LinkedIn People and Resources Mentioned IRONMAN website AJ Anderson on LinkedIn Lee Charles on LinkedIn Kat Cole on LinkedIn Jordan Lawrence on LinkedIn Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call: www.RecruitmentCoach.com/Breakthrough Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach Mark on YouTube Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter      

Brought to you by OnPay. Built in Atlanta, OnPay is the top-rated payroll and HR software anywhere. Get one month free at OnPay.com. Christy Brown is President of Launchpad2X with a vast amount of previous experience in scaling and growing companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 turnaround business units. In these roles, she has […] The post Christy Brown with LaunchPad2x appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

"My Left Foot" is teeming with talent, from Daniel Day-Lewis to Fiona Shaw to Hugh O'Connor to Best Supporting Actress Brenda Fricker as Christy Brown's devoted mother. This week, we celebrate the Irishness of it all, the set piece of the Restaurant Scene, Fiona Shaw as Medea, the perils of method acting, and the matriarchs in our own lives. Plus, quality drag content that isn't a competition and a review of our list of BSA's in Waiting! Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Twitter: @bsapod Colin Drucker Twitter: @colindrucker Instagram: @colindrucker_ Nick Kochanov Twitter: @nickkochanov Instagram: @nickkochanov

Setting Goals and Dreaming Big is how you can prevent a life of regret. Over 80% of people don't have goals or write them out. In this episode with Christy Brown ( @positively_christy ), we talk about why you want to have goals in life and how you can start setting goals and dreaming BIG!

Christy Brown joins us again to dive into our "WHY" and how important it is to have one.

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 7 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! This episode is titled: Aldi Magic. No this show isn’t sponsored, but if it was it would probably be from a company that is magical like Aldi. Never thought about that with your local grocery store? Well, listen to what our hosts think about theirs. Enjoy!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 6 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! This episode is titled: Not Gonna Change. If you’ve been listening to the show very long you could probably come up with a list as long as your arm of behaviors that our hosts just aren’t gonna change. Listen in to see which ones they chose for themselves to hold on to until the bitter end!

This guy Christy Brown is the physical manifestation of “Never Stop.” I found out about Christy Brown from an assignment I had to do for a Psychology class at Montgomery County Community College. From then on I’ve been amazed by this man. He was born with Cerebral Palsy resulting in him only able to use his left foot. This troubled him heavily as one could only imagine. But this did not kill his spirit. He still found ways to express himself by becoming a writer. This far from reading his autobiography I’ve learned the importance of having a support system. This man’s mother, Bridget Brown, is undoubtably a world class mother. She was more than a mother. This man family supported him and loved him and I believe that made a big difference in Browns life. I’ve also learned the built in need humans have to channel their energy towards something. Brown recounts how he felt like a prisoner in his own body, it was writing that gave him the opportunity to express himself full heartedly. Lastly I’ve also learn to cherish my independence! Just being a able to get up and go where I want is a gift. It is a gift that unfortunately some are not granted. Brown was bound to his wheel chair and had to be fed and washed. Be able bodied permits independence and that is a blessing.

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 5 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Gonna shake things up on you with a new format to start out the new decade. You’ll still see a unique topic each and every episode but our ol' friends the Distractions and Attractions will only make guest appearances going forward. We are always doing our best at OD to bring you quality content in a manner that is entertaining and still honors your time because dang it, we want you to listen!! Enjoy Season 3 Episode 5 titled: New Year’s Give and Take as our crazy hosts do a little Q&A and discuss what they are leaving in 2019 and bringing with them into 2020.

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 3 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! What has our hosts distracted? How about a podcast that has somebody rethinking life and history or a new coffee drink additive that one of our hosts has been on for a while. In this episode they have a little fun admitting some things about their lives that they just aren’t sorry about. You’ll want to listen in! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God lately. Enjoy Season 3 Episode 3 titled: Sorry Not Sorry!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to the start of Season 3 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! We’ll kick it off with some fun! As is with every show something has our hosts distracted. This time it’s the new but not so new schedule for one and…of course…a T.V. series for the other. In this episode they decided to start the season off light hearted with a few rounds of a game, but it’s not always fun and games with these two. You’ll want to listen in! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 3 Episode 1 titled: Would You Rather!

Live from the backcountry of Colorado, it's another episode of the Engearment podcast.  With your host, Sean Sewell and Chloe and Riley dog.  In this quick episode, we will cover what is new with Engearment, who won our Free Solo at Red Rocks Giveaway and a major shout out from Pavel in his newest book - The Quick and The Dead.  Mountain Fitness School - Celebrating 1 year of teaching outdoor fitness!I am proud to announce that the online Mountain Fitness School is celebrating 1 year of operation.  Helping people get in mountain ready condition, from all levels of background.  From weekend warriors, flatlanders and grandparents, to elite-level backcountry skiers and bow hunters.  Check it out!https://mountainfitnessschool.comFree Solo Red Rocks Giveaway!  With Backcountry.com, Red Rocks Beer Garden, Denver Film Society, Bent Gate Mountaineering, Earth Treks, and more!  Congrats to Christy Brown for winning this contest!  She and her boyfriend Dennis Waganaar got to see Free Solo in VIP style at Red Rocks last night.  Plus, win a bunch of other great prizes :)Patagonia Rainshadow Jacket review.  Made from recycled materials, including fishnets!  Check out our review on that here. Much, Much more from the team at Engearment here!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 15 of Opposites Distract titled: Part 2 of What Are You Worried About with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Just what has them distracted on today’s show? Well, a very thought provoking book from one and some funky headgear from the other. Listen in to figure that all out. Our hosts decided that the listener feedback on the topic of worry was so good that it warranted a Part 2 to actually finish off Season 2 and answer some of your questions. In this episode they dive deeper into how they manage the worries they identified in the previous show. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 15!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 14 of Opposites Distract titled: What Are You Worried About with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Something has always got these two distracted. Shockingly in this episode our Opposites agree on their distraction! Our hosts will open up about a few of the things in life that worry them personally and why. They each have one or two that surprise each other. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 14!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 13 of Opposites Distract titled: Recovery with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! As always a couple things have these two distracted. This time it’s a book Tyson was given as a gift that might surprise you and Christy’s tub of uncooked cookie dough, well, may not surprise you! Our couple hits on a little more serious but unique topic today as they answer the question, “What are you recovering from right now?” And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 13!

What are the hot new companies, just how big is the Atlanta startup market, and what does the future of starting a new business in Georgia look like? Christy Brown, the managing director with the Atlanta office of Loeb Enterprises – an unique venture capital fund – and host Bryan Mulligan of Applied Information share […] The post The Atlanta Business Startup and Venture Capital Scene appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 12 of Opposites Distract titled: Summer Vacations with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! As always a couple things have these two distracted. This time it’s Sonic Drive-In drinks and a book adventure we’ve hinted about a couple of times! Since The Browns aren’t taking a vacation this summer they will relive a few from their childhood! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 12!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 11 of Opposites Distract titled: Letters From The Attic with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Oh this one is going to be fun. As always a couple things have these two distracted. This time it’s jumpers and the mailman or maybe it's the mailman in a jumper…we dunno! This episode takes them way back as they stumbled upon a big box of letters and cards to each other from their early years. Included in that was their list of marriage expectations from premarital counseling. And yes they are going to read them off! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 11!

  Do essential oils have healing powers?   Christy healed her tumors completely with the power of essential oils.   She has also been studying oils and their amazing health benefits for years. She drops all the edits about how she healed her tumors with essential oils, what essential oils really are, why they have been used since ancient times for health, and ways we can use them to benefit ourselves in our daily lives and treat almost all health ailments.       Connect with Christy:   Instagram: @christybrownn   Colorado yoga retreat: https://www.facebook.com/events/356062585213745/   Essential Oils Info:   http://www.experience-essential-oils.com/   https://www.youngliving.com/blog/ Charts we referenced: Vita Flex Charts for feet & body Connect with me: Ready to uplevel in both your mindset & Life? Join my Bliss Life Course here: www.pursuitofbliss.net/blisslife   Instagram: @poweredbypineapple_   Website: www.pursuitofbliss.net   Email a screenshot of your iTunes review (before you submit it) to kristenjenna@pursuitofbliss.net with your address to receive an affirmation card and love note in the mail from me xo

Christy Brown was born in Ireland in 1932 with cerebral palsy. At the time, a child born differently-abled was likely to be placed in a home and forgotten. Instead, with the help of his mother who always believed in him, he became a renowned painter and writer. MY LEFT FOOT starring Daniel Day Lewis. Intro/News: Mark Hamill is the new Chucky [13:15] The Dead Don't Die (2019) trailer released [14:15] Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt [18:55] This Week in '89 [25:40] Movie Discussion: My Left Foot background info [27:18] My Left Foot movie discussion [30:29] 5 Questions [53:37] Wrap-Up [1:11:53] Trailers: My Left Foot did not have a trailer I could find, so here are the others mentioned during this episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5ZOcU6Bnw  WARNING: The Dirt trailer has some explicit language and adult scenes, so don't watch around kids! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NOp5ROn1HE 

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 10 of Opposites Distract titled: It’s A Chore with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! As always a couple things have our these two distracted. Things like limited edition Easter candy and March Madness! This episode’s topic will give you a little more insight into what just does go on, or doesn’t, in the Brown house when it comes to chores. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 10!

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Hello to Our People! Welcome to a very special Season 2 Episode 9 of Opposites Distract titled: Love Q&A with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Fried pies and a good book may be discussed as Distractions this week. Go figure… This episode is very special because we will Q&A all things love with our hosts on the 22nd anniversary of their engagement. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 9!

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 8 of Opposites Distract titled: Fighting Fair with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our hosts are distracted with yet another pastor and TV series. What? I think we got some role reversals here lately. And this episode’s topic centers on how to fight fair in our relationships. You know its going to happen. But what are some of the rules of engagement? And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 8!

Welcome to 2019 Our People! It’s Season 2 Episode 7 of Opposites Distract titled: What I Need From You with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! To start off the new year our couple is distracted with red wines and weighted blankets. You may be surprised at who’s distracted by what. This episode’s topic gets deeply personal with what they need from each other in this season of transition! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 7!

Daniel Day Lewis is a rare performer, who approaches his roles with a high level of scrutiny, often acquiring new skills and putting his body through hell in pursuit of artistic growth. Here’s a list of all the stories about his acting techniques and meticulous preparation for most of his roles. #DanielDayLewis, #DanielDayLewisBiography, #DanielDayLewisMagicalPreparations, Daniel Day Lewis was born in London on April 29, 1957, to Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and his actress wife. His status as a rising star was confirmed when he landed the movie A Room With A View. This screen breakthrough was followed by the powerful double whammy of The Unbearable Lightness Of Being and My Left Foot. In 1989, nearly 20 years after he first appeared on film as a child vandal in Sunday Bloody Sunday, Daniel received his first Oscar for My Left Foot, based on the real-life story of Christy Brown, an Irish writer, and painter who had cerebral palsy. Daniel was at the top of his game in a trio of well-received films, The Last Of The Mohicans, The Age Of Innocence and In The Name Of The Father. During this time he became a father after actress Isabelle Adjani bore him a son named Gabriel in 1995. His comeback projects this time around – The Boxer and a role alongside Winona Ryder in The Crucible – weren't so well-received. His last departure from the limelight could have become permanent had Age Of Innocence director Martin Scorsese asked Daniel to return to the Hollywood fold to make 2002 flick Gangs Of New York with Leonardo Di Caprio. Since then jobs have been few and far between with only The Ballad Of Jack And Rose making it onto his CV before 2008's BAFTA- and Oscar-winning turn in There Will Be Blood. Three years later after Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the film industry started to call him by another title – the greatest actor of all time. Playing Honest Abe had secured him a third Academy Award, making him the first man in history to do so. The actor has now taken retirement from the cinema after the spellbinding Oscar Nomination - Phantom Thread. This is not to say he won't miss the pursuit that has been his life since he was a child. He said, "I’ve been interested in acting since I was 12 years old, and back then, everything other than the theater—that box of light—was cast in shadow. When I began, it was a question of salvation. Now, I want to explore the world in a different way." Despite such accolades, the reluctant icon favors a quiet life. He lives in County Wicklow, Ireland with his wife, writer and director Rebecca Miller – daughter of famed playwright Arthur Miller – and their two sons, Ronan Blake and Cashel Blake.

Hello Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 6 of Opposites Distract titled: We Got Goals with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our couple is distracted with a new critter to hunt and food to snack on. Guess who is distracted by what! This episode will finish up 2018 so what's better to talk about than Goals going into 2019! And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 6!

Hello Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 5 of Opposites Distract titled: When The World Is Against You with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our couple is distracted with a new sound machine (THANK YOU OUR PEOPLE FOR PULLING THROUGH) and face wash. In this episode our hosts share their personal techniques for fighting against the world when they feel like it’s crashing in all around them - especially for those who may struggle during the holiday seasons. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 5!

Hello Our People! Welcome to Season 2 Episode 3 of Opposites Distract titled: Accept Yourself with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our couple is distracted with the non-ministry job (a.k.a. the full time job) and some homemade breakfast food. In this episode our hosts get very real as they share what the other has helped them accept about themselves over the last 20 years. This could get up close and personal. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 3! Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hello Our People! This is Season 2 Episode 2 of Opposites Distract titled: This Or That with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our couple is distracted with dogs in the house and just the POTENTIAL of a distraction. What? This episodes topic will be a little something for you to get to know our hosts a little better. How about a round or two of This or That? And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 2! Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hello Our People! Welcome, welcome, and welcome to SEASON 2 Episode 1 of Opposites Distract titled: Do Over with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! We know, who would have thought they would have lasted 1 Season much less 2, yet here we are! Today our couple is distracted with a new TV show and spy novels. No, you’re not on Season 1 again…stay with us! It might get better. This episodes topic lets them discuss just what in their pasts they would Do Over if they had the chance and why. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Season 2 Episode 1! Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hello Our People! Welcome to Episode 30 of Opposites Distract titled: I’m The Star with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today our couple is distracted with being artists and spies…you’ve been listening for a while, you be the judge who is who. This episodes topic lets them put themselves in some of their favorite movie roles, as if they needed the help. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Episode 30! Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hello Our People! Welcome to Episode 29 of Opposites Distract titled: Twenty One Year Old Self, with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Today one of our hosts is distracted with a serious righteous anger while the other in their journal. This episodes topic is exploring what they would go back and tell their 21 year old self. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Episode 29. Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hey hey Our People! Welcome to Episode 28 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! You are going to love this episode. Our hosts are distracted by cardboard characters and plastic cups! What? They explore a few pleasures of life they might feel guilty splurging on. And of course Tyson and Christy will end with where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Episode 28 titled: Guilty Pleasures Sponsor note: You can find our sponsor The Social Way on Instagram at @thesocialway.co Facebook at facebook.com/thesocialway.co Website at www.thesocialway.co Email at hello@thesocialway.co

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 26 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Wow! Our hosts have been a way awhile. Like half the summer! It’s time to catch up. Enjoy Episode 26 titled: All Things Summer

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 25 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! What has our dynamic duo distracted this time? Could it be TV and whipping cream? In this episode they explore if it is possible to be to honest. And as always you’ll hear where they have seen God in their lives lately. Enjoy Episode 25 titled: Lets Be Honest

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 24 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Christy is away and Tyson will play! He has searched and found a very important part of the podcast that our favorite Pajama Mama had hidden. This week he is short and sweet and wants to see you, Our People, getting engaged and distracted. Tyson even brings the kids on to show their commitment to the podcast. Enjoy Episode 24 titled: Tell Us You’re Distracted

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 23 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! What has our hosts distracted lately? Nothing new to see here…reality TV and a coffee! For the topic they’ll get all fired up discussing social media trolls and jerks. And as always Tyson and Christy will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Enjoy Episode 23 titled: Jerks and Trolls

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 22 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! What has our hosts distracted today? Oh nothing, just sock hats and chocolate. For the topic we’ll get a glimpse into their personal life as they’ll be reviewing what’s on their nightstands! And as always Tyson and Christy will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Enjoy Episode 21 titled: Nightstand Inventory

Hello to Our People! Welcome to Episode 21 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! On this episode Christy finds herself distracted by a TV show…again. And Tyson can’t stop flushing those sinus cavities. What?? For the topic they’ll be reviewing their personal policies! And as always our host will close with where they've seen God show up in life recently. Enjoy Episode 21 titled: It’s Personal

Happy New Year Our People! Welcome to Episode 20 of Opposites Distract with your hosts Tyson and Christy Brown! Seems like hot biscuits and eye makeup have them distracted this week! What? How? They’ll deep dive into their words of the year! And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Enjoy Episode 20 titled: What’s Your Word?

Well hello our People! Welcome to Episode 18 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! What’s got them distracted this week? Has Christy rubbed off on Tyson in this department? Will Christy survive a painful and itchy cosmetic fail? Just how well do you think you know our hosts by now? Because in this episode they talk about pliers, toe talent, tattoos, zippo lighters, girl’s jeans, smoking, honeymoon danger, nervous habits and more! What what?? And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Enjoy Episode 18 titled: You Don’t Know Me!

Well hello Opposites Distract People! Welcome to Episode 17 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! In this episode they will be talking about all things Thanksgiving! You will also hear about Tyson and Christy’s hand-me-down distractions, a declaration about pumpkin spice and what is making their clothes smell so fresh. And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this episode titled: Thankful(ish) Mentioned in the show: Smartwool socks Merino wool socks Zum laundry detergent Praying The Word by Bob and LaRue McDaniel

Hello Opposites Distract People! Welcome to Episode 16 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! In this very special episode Tyson and Christy get real and transparent about depression and how it came crashing into their lives. They also give real life advice how they kicked it out the door.

Well hello our People! Welcome to Episode 15 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! In this episode Tyson and Christy will be talking about what life is like with a 16 year old in the house, TV, and Tyson's doing of choice...coffee! You’ll hear about Tyson and Christy’s favorite books, what made them so special, and how a few of these books were even life changing. And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently? Hope you enjoy this episode titled: Book It! Mentioned in the show: Elvis And Me by Priscilla Presley Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Same Kind Of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore 3:16 The Numbers Of Hope by Max Lucado When Heaven Invades Earth by Bill Johnson To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Go And Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Good day our People! Episode 14 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown is here! This episode will talk about some gifts from one of their favorite stores, The Farm Girl Boutique in Ada, Oklahoma! The also discuss Tyson’s imagination and how it has him reading in the world of espionage again, while Christy goes all in on Twitter. You will find out how Tyson and Christy first met and what that first kiss was like. #epicfail As always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this episode titled: First Kiss Mentioned in the show: The Farm Girl Boutique 110 E. Main, Ada, OK 74820 www.farmgirlboutique.com Twitter and Instagram: @farmgirlada Facebook: Farm Girl Boutique Gifts sampled on the show from The Farm Girl Boutique: Stanley travel mugs Journals by Val Marie Paper The Gray Man by Mark Greaney Mitch Rapp series of books by Vince Flynn Soul Keeping by John Ortberg The Practice Of The Presence Of God by Brother Lawrence

Hello our People! Episode 13 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown is here! In this episode we’ll sample pillows and talk tv…again! You’ll find out how Tyson and Christy’s personality tests came back. And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently? Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: Who Are You? Mentioned in the show: Miracle Bamboo Pillow Being Mary Jane (BET) www.16personalities.com for you Myers and Briggs personality test. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Hello our People! Episode 21 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown is here! In this episode we’ll get to see what goes good with coffee and who’s distracted by some reality T.V.! You’ll find out what Tyson and Christy think about “pop-in” friends. And as always they will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: The Pop In Mentioned in the show: Prayers Of My Heart (prayer journal) by Debbie Taylor Williams

Hello to our People! Welcome to Episode 11 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Fried pies and something on social media have them all distracted on this episode. Guess which is which! And what’s the big deal about eating alone? As always Tyson and Christy will close with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently? Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: Table For One

Hello Opposite People! It’s the 10th Episode of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Can you believe they made it this far? Today listen to why they get distracted with the Amazon Echo dot and laser facial hair removal. And the “P” word gets thrown around all over the place! Yes puberty has COMPLETELY struck the Brown household! Tyson and Christy will close, as always, with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: The "P" Word Note: Today the book What's The Big Deal (Why God Cares About Sex) by Stan and Brenna Jones is mentioned on the show.

Hello Opposite People! Enjoy a special Episode 9 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Today listen to why they get distracted with Swedish Fish and kids cereal. And their oldest son, Winston, chimes in as a guest host and distraction. Who doesn't love a good game of global domination? See why this has Tyson so distracted and Christy so frustrated. Tyson and Christy will close, as always, with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: Risk

Hello Opposite People! Enjoy Episode 8 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Today listen to why they get distracted with a good salad and hiking boots. Does a sip from a glass really make it dirty? This topic is sure to bring out their crazy. Tyson and Christy will close, as always, with where they’ve seen God show up in life recently. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: Dirty Glass

Hello Opposite People! Enjoy Episode 6 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Today they both get all distracted with their new and not so new drink addictions. And just why did they install that key/coat/backpack/purse hook next to the back door? We’ll find out! Christy and Tyson will close with what continues to attract them which continues to be their faith. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: The Key Hook.

Hello our People! Enjoy Episode 5 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Today they get all distracted with women’s makeup and internet bloopers. And someone may be sleeping on couch after they discuss bedtime sleeping logistics. Christy and Tyson close with what continues to attract them and that’s their faith. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: His Side Her Side.

Spring break is coming to a close but the fun doesn’t have to! Enjoy Episode 4 of Opposites Distract with Tyson and Christy Brown! Today they get all distracted with Pocket Sockets and imaginary wolf showdowns. They dive deep into Tyson’s toilet phobia. And as always they will close with what continues to attract them. Hope you enjoy this week’s episode titled: Toilet Troubles.

Cincinnati Business Talk highlights the positive side of Cincinnati area businesses. We will be talking to CEOs and authors who have won awards, innovated with new products and services. Today's guest is Christy Brown, COO & Erin Rosiello, VP of CompSource TPA, Inc. and iReportSource. Christy & Erin will share their perspectives and insights on current HOT business issues in the area of Ohio Workers Comp. and her new product iReport. While working with employers as a Third Party Administrator with CompSource, Christi recognized a real gap in processes not only in workers’ comp reporting, but the safety data collection in general.  This became her focus in January of 2015 and thus, iReport was born.  Her mission is to help safety, HR, and risk managers streamline their process and achieve operation excellence.  iReport is a tech start-up with an app and web portal for employers. The show streams live on Friday July 22nd at 4 PM. Listen to this link: http://tobtr.com/9113715 You can listen to the show on Apple iTunes as a Podcast. You can add the podcast at:   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Cincy-Business-talk.rss You can add Cincy-Business-Talk as an RSS feed to your Outlook email program. The exact feed http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Cincy-Business-talk.rss