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On today's episode we discuss the DeGods latest announcement, BLAST fud from the investors, SOL Scriptions meta, SOL price action and much more. Today's show is sponsored by courtyard.io and our upcoming collab mint. Courtyard's Twitter Tune in live every weekday Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM Eastern to 10:15 AM. Buy our NFT Join our Discord Check out our Twitter Check out our YouTube Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice.
Part 2 of this episode is amazing! Bela and Lindsay of Smart Dating Academy are back, discussing MORE secrets that have made their clients successful in finding love! Here are some nuggets you'll hear: Where there is smoke, there is fire - Most of my divorced clients can point to something very specific early on that indicated something wasn't right. People make time for things they want! There is no such thing as being “too busy” when someone is ready to date. They will ALWAYS make time. Even if it's just for a quick cup of coffee. The busier someone is and the less they prioritize you is a sign that their “taxi light is not on”….they aren't ready. Believe that you are a catch and act like one! He or she is lucky to meet you and they will earn you. Create an identity around dating. Everyone is afraid of rejection. You are afraid. They are afraid. It's neutralized. What you think about dating decides your outcome! Mindset is everything! Our positive clients who embrace dating (even when it is DRY AS A DESERT) find love because they never give up. Our clients who decide they hate it…usually don't. What can you do to become psychotically optimistic??? Old trauma often shows up in new relationships. · Pay attention to what people tell you in the beginning. · Past trauma has a big impact on ability to find love without therapy · Know their triggers so you can avoid them in a relationship. Clarify if you might have misinterpreted something. Never assume! Just ask. Don't make assumptions…ask. Clearly define the relationship and you won't be surprised down the road Sex changes everything, and how to have the best sex of your life The people around you shape who you are! You are the combination of the 5 people you spend the most time with! When it comes to finding love, make sure you share what's going on with people who are encouraging and supportive. Like us….ahh! Join our free newsletter database by signing up here: www.smartdatingacademy.com/contact Follow us on Instagram at @smartdatingacademy Schedule your consultation with us here! We are on a waiting list, and would love to help you! https://www.smartdatingacademy.com/11-coaching/coaching-call-with-bela
This episode is sponsored by Eckard Enterprises. To start empowering your financial future, visit www.EckardEnterprises.com Money isn't always the key to happiness. What are the key financial planning processes for using your money to live a better life? In this episode of the Finance for Physicians Podcast, Daniel Wrenne talks with his colleague, Jennifer Quire, a fellow Certified Financial Planner CFP®. As financial planners, Daniel and Jennifer's goal is to help physicians use their money to live better lives. This starts with working through the financial planning process. Listen in to find out what this looks like. Topics Discussed: • What is a financial plan? Roadmap of where you are and want to be • How to create a financial plan? ◦ Organize financial affairs ◦ Clarify values and goals ◦ Analyze options ◦ Decide best path forward ◦ Execute next steps • What's most important to you? Money isn't always the answer • Life Planning Questions: If financially independent… ◦ I want you to imagine that you are financially secure, that you have enough money to take care of your needs, now and in the future. The question is, how would you live your life? What would you do with the money? Would you change anything? Let yourself go. Don't hold back your dreams. Describe a life that is complete, that is richly yours. ◦ This time, you visit your doctor who tells you that you have five to ten years left to live. The good part is that you won't ever feel sick. The bad news is that you will have no notice of the moment of your death. What will you do in the time you have remaining to live? Will you change your life, and how will you do it? ◦ This time, your doctor shocks you with the news that you have only one day left to live. Notice what feelings arise as you confront your very real mortality. Ask yourself: What dreams will be left unfulfilled? What do I wish I had finished or had been? What do I wish I had done? [Did I miss anything]? • Analysis Paralysis: Focus on one thing at a time to make progress • Deadlines: Time gets in the way and people don't like change, ask for help • A financial plan becomes worthless if you never execute on it LINKS: www.WrenneFinancial.com
The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy
What's Confidential and What's a Secret? Navigating “No Secrets” Policies Curt and Katie chat about no secret policies. We look at what they are, what needs to be in these policies, how to navigate secrets in therapy, the importance of these policies in relational therapy, and the complexity of “no secrets” when working with kids and teens. Transcripts for this episode will be available at mtsgpodcast.com! In this podcast episode we talk about no secrets policies in therapy In our continuing efforts to touch on all the topics that therapists need to know about, we decided to dig deeply on no secrets policies. What is a no secrets policy? · Typically, these types of policies are created for relational therapy · “No secrets” means that the therapist will not keep a secret that is clinically relevant from a member of the treatment unit, even when someone contacts the therapist outside of session · This policy needs to be understood by all the members of the treatment unit How can therapists navigate secrets in therapy? · If there is communication outside of therapy, it is important to hold the boundaries within your no secrets policy · Flexibility related to when and how secrets are shared (versus rigidity and immediacy) · Explicit discussion around exceptions of the “no secrets” policy related to intimate partner violence · It is important to have a clinical evaluation of when and how the secret is shared into the treatment unit and whether the secret is clinically relevant to the treatment unit · Clarify the treatment unit and clinical orientation to sort through what needs to be in your secrets policy · Determining how not to be triangulated by members of the couple or family What needs to be in a therapist's secrets policy? · Clear guidance on who is included in the treatment unit · What secrets will be kept or not kept (e.g., intimate partner violence) · How secrets will be handled as they come up · Assessment of the capacity of each member of the treatment unit to participate in these conversations about confidentiality and secrets What about no secrets when you're working with kids and teens? · Clarity on the treatment unit (individual kid or family, etc.) · Identifying how confidentiality is held for kids and teens · Working with the kids and teens to plan for disclosure to caregivers · For parents of young/school-aged children, there may be work to help caregivers to disclose information appropriately over time (thus the therapist holds the secret for a period of time) Stay in Touch with Curt, Katie, and the whole Therapy Reimagined #TherapyMovement: Our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/therapyreimagined Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Creative Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano https://groomsymusic.com/
Productivity ON, distractions OFF.Join George as he shares an Instagram post that inspired today's episode on productivity. The struggle between busy work and genuine productivity can be overwhelming.Listen in to learn how to…Do an honest check-in with your mind, body, and energy.Embody different modes to use your energy more effectively without getting burnt out. Clarify your vision and set your next milestone. Remove distractions and tackle tasks. Understanding your current mode and embracing it without shame is the key to unlocking your best performance. Embrace them, use them intentionally, and watch your productivity soar.Don't forget to check out Caleb Duplane's post linked HERE. Craving more episodes on mindset + productivity? Check out the episodes listed below.—→ Have you picked up YOUR owner's manual?→ How To Declutter Your Mind & Unlock The Secrets To Clarity With Jamie Smart→ When You Want to Quit: How to Flip Your Mindset and Recognize Your Entrepreneurial Gifts→ How To Attract and Manifest Success Into Your Life with Giulia Guerrieri→ Uncovering Your Biggest Fear and Taking Your Power Back with Traver Boehm→ Changing your identity and reality as your future self with Giulia Guerrieri→ Embracing Awareness and Unleashing Your Entrepreneurial Potential with Giulia Guerrieri—Looking for access to my entire book recommendation library? Check out my Amazon Storefront -- your hub for a curated collection of transformative books covering business, marketing, mindset, and personal development. Shop HERE
If there's one thing I talk about a LOT, it's being very intentional about having a strategy for your podcast. And while that sounds nice, it might leave you wondering, “But Caroline, what exactly does that look like? What are the different pieces that make up a podcast strategy?” Well, I'm going to paint you a picture that answers precisely those questions. In today's episode, I'm sharing the different components that I've had to consider in developing my own podcast strategy and in helping my clients to do the same. We'll cover everything from including a clear call to action in your episodes, to generating leads in your sleep, to preserving the longevity of your podcast as your business continues to grow. Start converting your listeners into leads and clients for your business! Grab my FREE Guide to structuring your episodes for sales with our best tips and a guide for solo episodes. Download today to get started! What's in this episode: [02:08] A problem we solved about how to stay excited and get your podcast growing again [05:05] Creating episodes based on the action that you want your listeners to take [07:48] Mapping out a schedule so you can outline and record episodes in advance [09:13] Ensuring that your podcast is helping you generate leads in your sleep [10:32] Repurposing podcast content for other platforms like social media [15:31] Clarifying your message and allowing your podcast to evolve with your business For full show notes and a transcript of today's episode, head to wildhomepodcasting.com/podcast/150
Much of the impact of storybranding is subconscious, yet very powerful. Proper presence can answer questions instantly, making people feel heard and understood. And when your online presence is accurate, up-to-date and showcases what you do for people, you can send them to it with confidence. But crafting an online presence also brings with it an unexpected yet extremely valuable benefit: It can actually help you bring clarity and refinement to your program or offer. To talk about all this, I invited Kris Jones, StoryBrand guide and Founder of Red Door Designs, back on the podcast. We have also collaborated for an amazing webinar we're excited to bring you, The Powerhouse Program. “When you solve a really important problem, you can charge a premium for that.” – Kris Jones What You'll Learn Feeling heard and understood Articulating accurately Defining your program Your story, your foundation The hero and the guide Elite Framework, Storybrand Copywriting, and 2024 Your Best Income Year Yet Contact Info and Recommended Resources Join Molly and Kris for a collaboration webinar, The Powerhouse Program: Craft a Killer Program and a Sales Page That Converts on December 4, 2023 at 12:00 Central Time. Reserve your spot today! In this action-packed session, you'll uncover secrets to: Supercharge Your Coaching Business with a Killer Program Master the art of 'StoryBrand' Copywriting Make 2024 Your Best Income Year Yet Create A Killer Program For Your Clients: Registration fills fast so get on the January 2024 waitlist! This interactive workshop-style Masterclass teaches you: How the right program can fuel your marketing and sales efforts 3 key ingredients to effective coaching programs How to build a program that will set you apart as an expert Connect with Kris Jones Kris Jones is a StoryBrand guide and Founder of Red Door Designs. She helps service providers and small business owners get compelling website copy that sells in 2.5 hours flat, so they can multiply their revenue and focus on what they do best. Kris is no stranger to the struggles of starting, running and growing a business. As an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped and sold one company, and created another that doubles in revenue every year, she has in-the-trenches experience. In addition to building her own businesses, Kris has been an ad agency art director and worked at Nike. Using her extensive expertise, she's here to bring balance and clarity to brands while giving them a boost to their bottom line. reddoordesigns.com Kris' FREEBIE: Write Compelling Copy—in 5 minutes Flat Kris' Done for You options: reddoordesigns.com/copy Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin Connect with Molly Claire Master Coach Training 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Masterful Coach Foundations + The 10K Accelerator Method: Designed for mission-centered Life Coaches who are ready to build a profitable and purposeful business? mollyclaire.com/foundations. Have a question or thoughts about the podcast? Don't hesitate to contact Molly at: Instagram | Molly Claire Coaching IG molly@mollyclaire.com Facebook Molly's book: The Happy Mom Mindset: mollyclaire.com/book Please help Molly reach even more like-minded individuals! Simply post a review of the podcast on your favorite platform (or two). It is so appreciated. Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Amazon Music | RSS
Laying memories to rest, Worlds is back, the self destructive nature of greedy business decisions, and more on this week's visit to the Time Sink! Haunted Lighthouse Haunted Lighthouse Video Worlds 2023 T1 JDG Faker Ruler The Escapist Yahtzee Croshaw Nick Calandra Nick's Tweet Second Wind GCP Grey rock paper scissors DropOut Linus Media Group Linus Media Group Revenue Corridor Digital Louis Rossman Grayjay
Back by popular demand, Cy and Alex sit down to talk about the latest topics in leadership as they are out speaking on the circuit with the top leaders across the globe. The hottest topic that is coming up is all around trust and how it fits with leading in a Reality-Based way. How does trust fit in? Can you use the tools and principles you are talking about if trust isn't there? Trust is absolutely important on a team and in a leadership moment when you are calling teams to greatness. However, trust can be layered with so many other things as a way for someone to avoid a call to greatness that could help them evolve. Cy and Alex do a deep dive into trust in the workplace, some misconceptions with the topic, how it affects the team, and how trust isn't solely the responsibility of the leader to create. So if you are looking for tips and ideas to: Create more trust on your team Build more trust in your culture Understand how to truly create sustainable trust at work Clarify why trust is such a hard thing to build with others Become more trustworthy in your life in a variety of work situations Then this is the podcast for you. Be sure to share this episode with all of your team members and discuss your biggest insight or takeaway. Download the Edit Your Story Tool. Cy Wakeman is the President and Founder of Reality-Based Leadership. Alex Dorr is VP of People Evolution at Reality-Based Leadership and has been standing side-by-side with Cy for almost a decade. Together, they have been helping leaders modernize their approach to leadership and to ditch the drama in the workplace. To learn more or to book Cy or Alex to speak at your next event or training be sure to visit Reality-Based Leadership or fill out this form to connect with the team!
Hi beautiful human! I'm really grateful to be welcoming Shirlee Williams back to the podcast.. This is a co-creative episode arising from our collective experience of ENOUGHNESS. Simply put, this is an episode about ENOUGH. The concept of enoughness in all it's derivations. AND I'm really inspired to be having this conversation with Shirlee Williams, a spiritual mindset coach, yoga teacher, mama to two adult twin boys and a behemoth dog. She's a partner to a fabulous endurance coach, Andrew. A breathwork facilitator, Yoga Teacher Trainer to women over 45 years of age [her YTT program is called Wisdom]. Shirlee and I co-create retreat experiences together for women - in the form of multiday retreats in extraordinary locations and one day events. [scroll down to see Reclaim - Mexico April 2024 and The Gathering - Ontario Canada July 2024]. In this episode, we talk about: Laura open's the circle in a way that we often do during retreats + special events. The concept of "enoughness" and the struggle to feel "enough" and "happy" with what one has in life. Having enough versus Being enough. The importance of knowing and living by one's values to achieve fulfillment and make meaningful decisions. Staying present and connected to the present moment to feel fulfilled. Complexity as the default and the desire for simplicity in life, referencing the rat race of always wanting "more." Listening to the heart's voice and prioritizing feelings over thoughts, as thoughts can lead to overthinking and feeling "mucked up". The need to stay aligned with oneself and not be swayed by external influences or judgments from others. The pressure to live up to certain standards and expectations in daily life. Seeking fulfillment versus seeking happiness. Living one's values leading to a greater degree of fulfillment in life. Shirlee shares her practices and how she stays connected inward to keep rooting into being enough, doing enough and having enough. Shirlee's "brag notes" as a simple technique for reminding herself how exceptional she is. The "inner work" involves asking difficult questions, listening for truth, and staying conscious of your inner work through journaling, breath work, and self-reflection. Inner work is personal and can change over time, and it is important to have agency and bring it into consciousness, even during busy seasons of life. The need to stay aligned with oneself and not be swayed by external influences or judgments from others. The one word close of the episode. The Power of Letting Go: "And it became a metaphor for life for me about what was weighing me down externally and how I could shed more of the external components, almost, of the baggage."— Shirlee Williams The Importance of Trusting and Listening to Find Truth: "It's asking the really hard, open-ended questions and listening for the truth that I know is there. And it's also, I mean, these days it's taking a tremendous amount of trust to sit and be a little uncomfortable, but know that the answer is going to come."— Shirlee Williams Self-reflection and Leaving a Lasting Impact: "I ask myself a lot, how do I want to leave the world? What kind of impact? I don't know. Maybe it's like above 50 year old message. I want to leave the world a better place. So then how am I going to show up? What kind of work do I need to do on myself to make that happen? I think that's the inner work for me these days."— Shirlee Williams The Pursuit of Happiness: "Do you want to be happy, or do you want to be fulfilled? Because I think they're just two deeply different things.'"— Laura Foster The Power of Self-Worth: "Is it true that you're not enough? Why am I not feeling enough in this moment? Or, why am I not feeling like this is enough in this moment? And I think we have to be willing to tell ourselves the truth of it. Poke some holes in our own story of not being enough."— Laura Foster Mindful Living: "What you need to do is get very clear on what those actually are like. They're already present, but you just pay attention to them. Because if you focus on living your top four or five values, chances are you're going to feel a lot more fulfilled."— Laura Foster [00:01:19] Shirlee is curious and effective mentor. [00:08:50] Exploring feelings of inadequacy and self-comparison. [00:15:20] Laura discusses deeper conversations with clients. [00:17:46] "I discern my worth, combat feelings of inadequacy." [00:24:27] Questioning pursuit of happiness vs. fulfillment. [00:30:09] Questioning one's worth, seeking external validation. [00:37:06] Desire for a stunning purse in store. [00:43:34] Clarify values to make fulfilling choices. [00:46:28] Younger generation seeks work-life balance, simple life. [00:49:55] Preparing to walk, pondering life's impact and purpose. [00:56:51] Debunk limiting beliefs and embrace self-belief. [01:02:17] Upcoming Mexico retreat, inspiring and joyful experience. Working With Shirlee: Website / Instagram / The Circle Shirlee is a spiritual mindset coach that is deeply committed to living and helping others live a full authentic life. She wants to guide you to understand that every situation, every life experience up to this point has been for your own awakening. She believes that each and every one of us deserves to take up space in the world. You have a gift that needs to be shared! Strengths: Yoga Teacher, Creator of Wisdom [Yoga Teacher Training for women over 45 years of age], Elemental Rhythm Breathwork Facilitator, Spiritual Mindset Coach. Working With Laura + Attending Retreats: WEBSITE INSTAGRAM I have recently opened up some opportunities for women to work 1:1 with me in personal leadership coaching. This year my group programs are on pause … I can feel a deep level of 1:1 work that's emerging for me and I'm creating as much space as possible for what's coming through. I have two upcoming group retreats: April 6-13, 2024 Mexico, July 19-23, 2024 Ontario, Canada. I also curate 1:1 personal, 4-5 day deep-dive retreats that are intimate and powerful – here in Costa Rica. One opportunity Jan 2024. One opportunity March 2024. Contact me for more info on this and future opportunities. Coach with me and step into yours, fully and completely. I lead Elemental Rhythm Breathwork in person (Dominicalito, Costa Rica) and online. You can book a free discovery call right here. You can also reach out to me through direct message on INSTAGRAM and we can take the next step. Please share, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts. It makes a massive difference in supporting this work and we deeply appreciate it. Blessings, L
Want to grow your visibility through strategic websites and SEO strategy? You'll love today's episode with guest Stephanie O'Keefe!Key Takeaways: Stephanie emphasized that understanding SEO requires an understanding of your target audience and their journey.It's challenging to explain SEO, especially to those unfamiliar with technology.Working in SEO changes one's perspective towards online shopping.SEO is essential for online visibility and involves understanding who you help and how you help them.The way you explain SEO can shift depending on who you're talking to and where they are in their brand journey.Brand messaging and content creation is a key part of anSEO strategy.Determine clear goals for each page on a website.Start with a simplified design and then evolving by adding pages as needed.Facilitate a smooth customer journey through user experience in web design.Have up-to-date and relevant content on your website.Heat map trackers can help you audit user behavior on your website.Hotjar helps you review interactions on your website.Visual cues play a vital role to create trust and impart personality to the brand. Top tips for a great website:Show your face!Include your face on your website to build trust.Clarify their goals and expectations while hiring a website designer.Connect with Steph:WebsiteInstagramSelf-guided website auditDarrell's Case StudyOTHER EPISODES:Leah BryantNow is the time to supercharge your SEO efforts with a special offer from CrystalWaddell.com: a content audit! Get insight into what pieces of content you need to create to dominate your nice! Visit CrystalWaddell.com/content to learn how you can easily increase website traffic and bring more visitors to your site. Don't miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your SEO performance! Start today. Get your content to the top of search results! Support the showApply to be our podcast guest!
When it comes to the future of our church, we all want to pursue God-sized dreams. In this episode, Tony and Amy explain how to clarify your next bold move—including how to know if your goal is too bold or not bold enough—and how to begin communicating your bold moves once you've defined them. Free Webinar: 4 Bold Moves for Churches & How to Make Them Happen Ready to make a bold move in 2024? Join the Unstuck team and guests Derwin Gray, Rick Atchley, and Jonathan Smith on November 16 to help you clarify the next bold move God may be calling your church to make—and unpack the next steps to get there. This Episode is Sponsored by BELAY Between your ministry and your life at home, managing your time as a church leader can feel impossible. If you're feeling overwhelmed, our friends at BELAY can help. Since time is the most valuable resource we have, BELAY wants to help you maximize it by offering our listeners an exclusive free download of their newest ebook, The Power of Productivity. Start making the most of the time you have each day and lead with BELAY. For the full episode transcript, links mentioned during the show, and to download the Leader Conversation Guide, visit this episode's Show Notes at theunstuckgroup.com/episode321. Join the Live Conversation on Social Media If you're listening on Wednesday when the episode first releases, join the live conversation The Unstuck Group's team will be having on social media about this week's topic. We use hashtag #unstuckchurch on Twitter. Or you can join in on Facebook.
This is another episode of the Profit Producer Podcast, where we see the tough beginnings of successful entrepreneurs that made up their whole journey, hosted by our Virtual COO, DeKesha Williams. Today's guest is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, TEDx organizer, strategist, and coach. She helps clients CLARIFY their message, stand out in the market place, and grow their business. She is none other than Dolores G. Hirschmann. Today, she shares how she managed to get out from the cubicle she's at before and be able to find that clarity on what she's really good at and what she really wants to do.For our profit-producing moment, she shares a clarity strategy that our listeners can utilize in their business and get immediate results. This is to work on your organic, human connection and commit to have one on one conversations with 3 or 5 people every day and guide them to have a consultation with you.For more of Dolores' tips and advice, tune in and join us in this week's episode!To join our Facebook page and learn more about monetizing your webinar click this link >>https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitProducers
Introduction (Shawn)Topic: GRiT Preseason Event Review (Brian)28 Oct: Warrior Creek4 Nov: Medoc MountainTalking points (more detail included in the event reports):TTC ClinicAmbassador projects (leadership)Mentor ProgramTopic: New Team Shout out (Shawn)Asheville School (OTBS101 clinic 4 Nov)Cabarrus County: Hope Academy and Concord HighDurham County: Riverside HighWake County: Broughton MagnetTopic: Season 8 Event Registration (Brian)Athletes: 453 (340 HS, 113 MS)(129 new)HighlightsEvents registration opens 13 November (minus championship)A la carte ($35 each) and discount package ($140 = 4 of 6) optionsCaution: no refundsTopic: Sponsor Announcement (Brian)Fidlock is a returning sponsorSupport to our Adventure program: Adventure passport (logo with QR code on cover), they'll be joining us at the Whitewater Center on 18 Nov)Topic: Pre-season Date Reminders (Brian and Shawn)Regional Event 10-12 Nov in FairHill MDRacing registration closed but general admission remains open20 NC athletes registered (16 race, 4 non-race)Adventure - open to returning student athletes. (mention form in coaches conversation about new athletes) Must attend with their team. Clarify does not count as a pre-season event and teams may attend both. Each event is capped at 200 participants.- 18 November at Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC- 2 December at Browns Creek, ElizabethtownClosing (All)Dad joke
No matter what, you are either creating Chaos or Clarity in life. Choose Wisely. High performers know the importance of creating goals in life, but many who desire the heights of success don't practice the level of clarity needed to achieve their largest goals. Instead of bringing clarity and harmony to their future vision of themselves, many people try to do too much and end up bringing Chaos into their lives, or even worse, burn out. In this Episode of Build with Rob, Rob Dyrdek gives clear strategies for managing our expectations in the present and bringing a simple clarity to our goals that will allow us to reach them faster. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
No more victim mentality, no more codependency, and no more suppressed emotions. It's time to reclaim responsibility for your own behaviors. Design and manifest the life you desire, and open the door to the realm of possibilities! Don't miss this video if you are on a journey of self-discovery, and if you want to unleash your superpower! Join us on this journey with Eve Taylor and step into a life of conscious awareness and leave behind old patterns that no longer serve you. Say goodbye to the victim mentality and embrace your true power. #BreakFreeFromPatterns #ConsciousAwareness Dive into the process of preparation and integration. Clarify your intentions, and what you need to clear from your life. Are you truly ready to let go of your old narrative and embrace a brighter future? #DMT #Transformation #ConsciousAwareness #BreakFree FromPatterns #SelfEmpowerment #UnlockYourPotential #PositiveLife #EmbraceTheMagic #Limitless Possibilities #Psychedelic #plantmedicine #psychedelics #psychedelicjourney #psychedelicandhealing #plantspirit #selfhealing #selfdiscovery #Ayahuasca For a treasure trove of free content head over to my website and subscribe to my mailing list: www.avatarhealingarts.com
#RingRust with my #NWAsamhain pay-per-review... I also lay into the dad jokes, hot & heavy... & I mashup some swasome wrestling tunage, in this week's #3WayDanceOff! #TagMeIn ~ ~ ~ I'd like to hear from you! Please drop me a line @ ring-rust@hotmail.com {Subject Line: Ring Rust} & let me know what you like {or dislike} about my show! I'm always on the lookout for constructive criticism {if you want playlists again, start giving me feedback, people!} ~ ~ ~ Check out my #Unboxing videos, all that snazzy anti-social media & support all my shows http://markjabroni.mysite.com/ ~ ~ ~ RECORDED LIVE @ CHMR-FM Studios in Sunny St. John's NL! Learn more @ https://www.chmr.ca/ If you want to contribute to Betty Cisneros' Stage 4 Cancer treatment, please donate @ https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-betty-battle-her-cancer-away SHOW NOTES... 0:07:04 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 1 0:08:45 Musicular Interlude 1 0:17:19 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 2 0:19:11 Musicular Interlude 2 0:28:40 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 3 0:31:58 Musicular Interlude 3 0:42:41 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 4 0:45:36 Musicular Interlude 4 0:55:08 Assuming the Intermissionary Position 1:00:33 This Week's Macho Fact 1:11:29 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 5 1:14:33 Musicular Interlude 5 1:24:38 This Week's 3-Way Dance-Off: Under-Asuka-Taker & the Nightmare Boogie! 1:34:24 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 6 1:37:02 Musicular Interlude 6 1:44:21 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 7 1:48:34 Musicular Interlude 7 1:56:48 Pay-Per-Review: National Wrestling Aliance's Samhain 8 2:01:58 Musicular Interlude 8
At the AI Pioneers Summit we announced Latent Space Launchpad, an AI-focused accelerator in partnership with Decibel. If you're an AI founder of enterprise early adopter, fill out this form and we'll be in touch with more details. We also have a lot of events coming up as we wrap up the year, so make sure to check out our community events page and come say hi!We previously interviewed the founders of many developer productivity startups embedded in the IDE, like Codium AI, Cursor, and Codeium. We also covered Replit's (former) SOTA model, replit-code-v1-3b and most recently had Amjad and Michele announce replit-code-v1_5-3b at the AI Engineer Summit.Much has been speculated about the StackOverflow traffic drop since ChatGPT release, but the experience is still not perfect. There's now a new player in the “search for developers” arena: Phind.Phind's goal is to help you find answers to your technical questions, and then help you implement them. For example “What should I use to create a frontend for a Python script?” returns a list of frameworks as well as links to the sources. You can then ask follow up questions on specific implementation details, having it write some code for you, etc. They have both a web version and a VS Code integrationThey recently were top of Hacker News with the announcement of their latest model, which is now the #1 rated model on the BigCode Leaderboard, beating their previous version:TLDR Cheat Sheet:* Based on CodeLlama-34B, which is trained on 500B tokens* Further fine-tuned on 70B+ high quality code and reasoning tokens* Expanded context window to 16k tokens* 5x faster than GPT-4 (100 tok/s vs 20 tok/s on single stream)* 74.7% HumanEval vs 45% for the base modelWe've talked before about HumanEval being limited in a lot of cases and how it needs to be complemented with “vibe based” evals. Phind thinks of evals alongside two axis: * Context quality: when asking the model to generate code, was the context high quality? Did we put outdated examples in it? Did we retrieve the wrong files?* Result quality: was the code generated correct? Did it follow the instructions I gave it or did it misunderstand some of it?If you have bad results with bad context, you might get to a good result by working on better RAG. If you have good context and bad result you might either need to work on your prompting or you have hit the limits of the model, which leads you to fine tuning (like they did). Michael was really early to this space and started working on CommonCrawl filtering and indexing back in 2020, which led to a lot of the insights that now power Phind. We talked about that evolution, his experience at YC, how he got Paul Graham to invest in Phind and invite him to dinner at his house, and how Ron Conway connected him with Jensen Huang to get access to more GPUs!Show Notes* Phind* BigScience T0* InstructGPT Paper* Inception-V3* LMQL* Marginalia Nu* Mistral AI* People:* Paul Graham (pg)* Ron Conway* Yacine Jernite from HuggingFace* Jeff DelaneyTimestamps* [00:00:00] Intros & Michael's early interest in computer vision* [00:03:14] Pivoting to NLP and natural language question answering models* [00:07:20] Building a search engine index of Common Crawl and web pages* [00:11:26] Releasing the first version of Hello based on the search index and BigScience T0 model* [00:14:02] Deciding to focus the search engine specifically for programmers* [00:17:39] Overview of Phind's current product and focus on code reasoning* [00:21:51] The future vision for Phind to go from idea to complete code* [00:24:03] Transitioning to using the GPT-4 model and the impact it had* [00:29:43] Developing the Phind model based on CodeLlama and additional training* [00:32:28] Plans to continue improving the Phind model with open source technologies* [00:43:59] The story of meeting Paul Graham and Ron Conway and how that impacted the company* [00:53:02] How Ron Conway helped them get GPUs from Nvidia* [00:57:12] Tips on how Michael learns complex AI topics* [01:01:12] Lightning RoundTranscriptAlessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Residence and Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of Smol AI. [00:00:19]Swyx: Hey, and today we have in the studio Michael Royzen from Phind. Welcome. [00:00:23]Michael: Thank you so much. [00:00:24]Alessio: It's great to be here. [00:00:25]Swyx: Yeah, we are recording this in a surprisingly hot October in San Francisco. And sometimes the studio works, but the blue angels are flying by right now, so sorry about the noise. So welcome. I've seen Phind blow up this year, mostly, I think since your launch in Feb and V2 and then your Hacker News posts. We tend to like to introduce our guests, but then obviously you can fill in the blanks with the origin story. You actually were a high school entrepreneur. You started SmartLens, which is a computer vision startup in 2017. [00:00:59]Michael: That's right. I remember when like TensorFlow came out and people started talking about, obviously at the time after AlexNet, the deep learning revolution was already in flow. Good computer vision models were a thing. And what really made me interested in deep learning was I got invited to go to Apple's WWDC conference as a student scholar because I was really into making iOS apps at the time. So I go there and I go to this talk where they added an API that let people run computer vision models on the device using far more efficient GPU primitives. After seeing that, I was like, oh, this is cool. This is going to have a big explosion of different computer vision models running locally on the iPhone. And so I had this crazy idea where it was like, what if I could just make this model that could recognize just about anything and have it run on the device? And that was the genesis for what eventually became SmartLens. I took this data set called ImageNet 22K. So most people, when they think of ImageNet, think of ImageNet 1K. But the full ImageNet actually has, I think, 22,000 different categories. So I took that, filtered it, pre-processed it, and then did a massive fine tune on Inception V3, which was, I think, the state of the art deep convolutional computer vision model at the time. And to my surprise, it actually worked insanely well. I had no idea what would happen if I give a single model. I think it ended up being 17,000 categories approximately that I collapsed them into. It worked so well that it actually worked better than Google Lens, which released its V1 around the same time. And on top of this, the model ran on the device. So it didn't need an internet connection. A big part of the issue with Google Lens at the time was that connections were slower. 4G was around, but it wasn't nearly as fast. So there was a noticeable lag having to upload an image to a server and get it back. But just processing it locally, even on the iPhones of the day in 2017, much faster. It was a cool little project. It got some traction. TechCrunch wrote about it. There was kind of like one big spike in usage, and then over time it tapered off. But people still pay for it, which is wild. [00:03:14]Swyx: That's awesome. Oh, it's like a monthly or annual subscription? [00:03:16]Michael: Yeah, it's like a monthly subscription. [00:03:18]Swyx: Even though you don't actually have any servers? [00:03:19]Michael: Even though we don't have any servers. That's right. I was in high school. I had a little bit of money. I was like, yeah. [00:03:25]Swyx: That's awesome. I always wonder what the modern equivalents kind of "Be my eyes". And it would be actually disclosed in the GPT-4 Vision system card recently that the usage was surprisingly not that frequent. The extent to which all three of us have our sense of sight. I would think that if I lost my sense of sight, I would use Be My Eyes all the time. The average usage of Be My Eyes per day is 1.5 times. [00:03:49]Michael: Exactly. I was thinking about this as well, where I was also looking into image captioning, where you give a model an image and then it tells you what's in the image. But it turns out that what people want is the exact opposite. People want to give a description of an image and then have the AI generate the image. [00:04:04]Alessio: Oh, the other way. [00:04:06]Michael: Exactly. And so at the time, I think there were some GANs, NVIDIA was working on this back in 2019, 2020. They had some impressive, I think, face GANs where they had this model that would produce these really high quality portraits, but it wasn't able to take a natural language description the way Midjourney or DALL-E 3 can and just generate you an image with exactly what you described in it. [00:04:32]Swyx: And how did that get into NLP? [00:04:35]Michael: Yeah, I released the SmartLens app and that was around the time I was a senior in high school. I was applying to college. College rolls around. I'm still sort of working on updating the app in college. But I start thinking like, hey, what if I make an enterprise version of this as well? At the time, there was Clarify that provided some computer vision APIs, but I thought this massive classification model works so well and it's so small and so fast, might as well build an enterprise product. And I didn't even talk to users or do any of those things that you're supposed to do. I was just mainly interested in building a type of backend I've never built before. So I was mainly just doing it for myself just to learn. I built this enterprise classification product and as part of it, I'm also building an invoice processing product where using some of the aspects that I built previously, although obviously it's very different from classification, I wanted to be able to just extract a bunch of structured data from an unstructured invoice through our API. And that's what led me to Hugnyface for the first time because that involves some natural language components. And so I go to Hugnyface and with various encoder models that were around at the time, I used the standard BERT and also Longformer, which came out around the same time. And Longformer was interesting because it had a much bigger context window than those models at the time, like BERT, all of the first gen encoder only models, they only had a context window of 512 tokens and it's fixed. There's none of this alibi or ROPE that we have now where we can basically massage it to be longer. They're fixed, 512 absolute encodings. Longformer at the time was the only way that you can fit, say, like a sequence length or ask a question about like 4,000 tokens worth of text. Implemented Longformer, it worked super well, but like nobody really kind of used the enterprise product and that's kind of what I expected because at the end of the day, it was COVID. I was building this kind of mostly for me, mostly just kind of to learn. And so nobody really used it and my heart wasn't in it and I kind of just shelved it. But a little later, I went back to HugMeFace and I saw this demo that they had, and this is in the summer of 2020. They had this demo made by this researcher, Yacine Jernite, and he called it long form question answering. And basically, it was this self-contained notebook demo where you can ask a question the way that we do now with ChatGPT. It would do a lookup into some database and it would give you an answer. And it absolutely blew my mind. The demo itself, it used, I think, BART as the model and in the notebook, it had support for both an Elasticsearch index of Wikipedia, as well as a dense index powered by Facebook's FAISS. I think that's how you pronounce it. It was very iffy, but when it worked, I think the question in the demo was, why are all boats white? When it worked, it blew my mind that instead of doing this few shot thing, like people were doing with GPT-3 at the time, which is all the rage, you could just ask a model a question, provide no extra context, and it would know what to do and just give you the answer. It blew my mind to such an extent that I couldn't stop thinking about that. When I started thinking about ways to make it better, I tried training, doing the fine tune with a larger BART model. And this BART model, yeah, it was fine tuned on this Reddit data set called Eli5. So basically... [00:08:02]Alessio: Subreddit. [00:08:03]Swyx: Yeah, subreddit. [00:08:04]Alessio: Yeah. [00:08:05]Michael: And put it into like a well-formatted, relatively clean data set of like human questions and human answers. And that was a really great bootstrap for that model to be able to answer these types of questions. And so Eli5 actually turned out to be a good data set for training these types of question answering models, because the question is written by a human, the answer is written by a human, and at least helps the model get the format right, even if the model is still very small and it can't really think super well, at least it gets the format right. And so it ends up acting as kind of a glorified summarization model, where if it's fed in high quality context from the retrieval system, it's able to have a reasonably high quality output. And so once I made the model as big as I can, just fine tuning on BART large, I started looking for ways to improve the index. So in the demo, in the notebook, there were instructions for how to make an Elasticsearch index just for Wikipedia. And I was like, why not do all of Common Crawl? So I downloaded Common Crawl, and thankfully, I had like 10 or $15,000 worth of AWS credits left over from the SmartLens project. And that's what really allowed me to do this, because there's no other funding. I was still in college, not a lot of money, and so I was able to spin up a bunch of instances and just process all of Common Crawl, which is massive. So it's roughly like, it's terabytes of text. I went to Alexa to get the top 1,000 websites or 10,000 websites in the world, then filtered only by those websites, and then indexed those websites, because the web pages were already included in Dump. [00:09:38]Swyx: You mean to supplement Common Crawl or to filter Common Crawl? [00:09:41]Michael: Filter Common Crawl. [00:09:42]Alessio: Oh, okay. [00:09:43]Michael: Yeah, sorry. So we filtered Common Crawl just by the top, I think, 10,000, just to limit this, because obviously there's this massive long tail of small sites that are really cool, actually. There's other projects like, shout out to Marginalia Nu, which is a search engine specialized on the long tail. I think they actually exclude the top 10,000. [00:10:03]Swyx: That's what they do. [00:10:04]Alessio: Yeah. [00:10:05]Swyx: I've seen them around, I just don't really know what their pitch is. Okay, that makes sense. [00:10:08]Michael: So they exclude all the top stuff. So the long tail is cool, but for this, that was kind of out of the question, and that was most of the data anyway. So we've removed that. And then I indexed the remaining approximately 350 million webpages through Elasticsearch. So I built this index running on AWS with these webpages, and it actually worked quite well. You can ask it general common knowledge, history, politics, current events, questions, and it would be able to do a fast lookup in the index, feed it into the model, and it would give a surprisingly good result. And so when I saw that, I thought that this is definitely doable. And it kind of shocked me that no one else was doing this. And so this was now the fall of 2020. And yeah, I was kind of shocked no one was doing this, but it costs a lot of money to keep it up. I was still in college. There are things going on. I got bogged down by classes. And so I ended up shelving this for almost a full year, actually. When I returned to it in fall of 2021, when BigScience released T0, when BigScience released the T0 models, that was a massive jump in the reasoning ability of the model. And it was better at reasoning, it was better at summarization, it was still a glorified summarizer basically. [00:11:26]Swyx: Was this a precursor to Bloom? Because Bloom's the one that I know. [00:11:29]Alessio: Yeah. [00:11:30]Michael: Actually coming out in 2022. But Bloom had other problems where for whatever reason, the Bloom models just were never really that good, which is so sad because I really wanted to use them. But I think they didn't turn on that much data. I think they used like the original, they were trying to replicate GPT-3. So they just use those numbers, which we now know are like far below Chinchilla Optimal and even Chinchilla Optimal, which we can like talk about later, like what we're currently doing with MIMO goes, yeah, it goes way beyond that. But they weren't trying enough data. I'm not sure how that data was clean, but it probably wasn't super clean. And then they didn't really do any fine tuning until much later. So T0 worked well because they took the T5 models, which were closer to Chinchilla Optimal because I think they were trained on also like 300 something billion tokens, similar to GPT-3, but the models were much smaller. I think T0 is the first model that did large scale instruction tuning from diverse data sources in the fall of 2021. This is before Instruct GPT. This is before Flan T5, which came out in 2022. This is the very, very first, at least well-known example of that. And so it came out and then I did, on top of T0, I also did the Reddit Eli5 fine tune. And that was the first model and system that actually worked well enough to where I didn't get discouraged like I did previously, because the failure cases of the BART based system was so egregious. Sometimes it would just miss a question so horribly that it was just extremely discouraging. But for the first time, it was working reasonably well. Also using a much bigger model. I think the BART model is like 800 million parameters, but T0, we were using 3B. So it was T0, 3B, bigger model. And that was the very first iteration of Hello. So I ended up doing a show HN on Hacker News in January 2022 of that system. Our fine tune T0 model connected to our Elasticsearch index of those 350 million top 10,000 common crawl websites. And to the best of my knowledge, I think that's the first example that I'm aware of a LLM search engine model that's effectively connected to like a large enough index that I consider like an internet scale. So I think we were the first to release like an internet scale LLM powered rag search system In January 2022, around the time me and my future co-founder, Justin, we were like, this seems like the future. [00:14:02]Alessio: This is really cool. [00:14:03]Michael: I couldn't really sleep even like I was going to bed and I was like, I was thinking about it. Like I would say up until like 2.30 AM, like reading papers on my phone in bed, go to sleep, wake up the next morning at like eight and just be super excited to keep working. And I was also doing my thesis at the same time, my senior honors thesis at UT Austin about something very similar. We were researching factuality in abstractive question answering systems. So a lot of overlap with this project and the conclusions of my research actually kind of helped guide the development path of Hello. In the research, we found that LLMs, they don't know what they don't know. So the conclusion was, is that you always have to do a search to ensure that the model actually knows what it's talking about. And my favorite example of this even today is kind of with chat GPT browsing, where you can ask chat GPT browsing, how do I run llama.cpp? And chat GPT browsing will think that llama.cpp is some file on your computer that you can just compile with GCC and you're all good. It won't even bother doing a lookup, even though I'm sure somewhere in their internal prompts they have something like, if you're not sure, do a lookup. [00:15:13]Alessio: That's not good enough. So models don't know what they don't know. [00:15:15]Michael: You always have to do a search. And so we approached LLM powered question answering from the search angle. We pivoted to make this for programmers in June of 2022, around the time that we were getting into YC. We realized that what we're really interested in is the case where the models actually have to think. Because up until then, the models were kind of more glorified summarization models. We really thought of them like the Google featured snippets, but on steroids. And so we saw a future where the simpler questions would get commoditized. And I still think that's going to happen with like Google SGE and like it's nowadays, it's really not that hard to answer the more basic kind of like summarization, like current events questions with lightweight models that'll only continue to get cheaper over time. And so we kind of started thinking about this trade off where LLM models are going to get both better and cheaper over time. And that's going to force people who run them to make a choice. Either you can run a model of the same intelligence that you could previously for cheaper, or you can run a better model for the same price. So someone like Google, once the price kind of falls low enough, they're going to deploy and they're already doing this with SGE, they're going to deploy a relatively basic glorified summarizer model that can answer very basic questions about like current events, who won the Super Bowl, like, you know, what's going on on Capitol Hill, like those types of things. The flip side of that is like more complex questions where like you have to reason and you have to solve problems and like debug code. And we realized like we're much more interested in kind of going along the bleeding edge of that frontier case. And so we've optimized everything that we do for that. And that's a big reason of why we've built Phind specifically for programmers, as opposed to saying like, you know, we're kind of a search engine for everyone because as these models get more capable, we're very interested in seeing kind of what the emergent properties are in terms of reasoning, in terms of being able to solve complex multi-step problems. And I think that some of those emerging capabilities like we're starting to see, but we don't even fully understand. So I think there's always an opportunity for us to become more general if we wanted, but we've been along this path of like, what is the best, most advanced reasoning engine that's connected to your code base, that's connected to the internet that we can just provide. [00:17:39]Alessio: What is Phind today, pragmatically, from a product perspective, how do people interact with it? Yeah. Or does it plug into your workflow? [00:17:46]Michael: Yeah. [00:17:47]Alessio: So Phind is really a system. [00:17:48]Michael: Phind is a system for programmers when they have a question or when they're frustrated or when something's not working. [00:17:54]Swyx: When they're frustrated. [00:17:55]Alessio: Yeah. [00:17:56]Michael: For them to get on block. I think like the single, the most abstract page for Phind is like, if you're experiencing really any kind of issue as a programmer, we'll solve that issue for you in 15 seconds as opposed to 15 minutes or longer. Phind has an interface on the web. It has an interface in VS code and more IDEs to come, but ultimately it's just a system where a developer can paste in a question or paste in code that's not working and Phind will do a search on the internet or they will find other code in your code base perhaps that's relevant. And then we'll find the context that it needs to answer your question and then feed it to a reasoning engine powerful enough to actually answer it. So that's really the philosophy behind Phind. It's a system for getting developers the answers that they're looking for. And so right now from a product perspective, this means that we're really all about getting the right context. So the VS code extension that we launched recently is a big part of this because you can just ask a question and it knows where to find the right code context in your code. It can do an internet search as well. So it's up to date and it's not just reliant on what the model knows and it's able to figure out what it needs by itself and answer your question based on that. If it needs some help, you can also get yourself kind of just, there's opportunities for you yourself to put in all that context in. But the issue is also like not everyone wants these VS code. Some people like are real Neovim sticklers or they're using like PyCharm or other IDEs, JetBrains. And so for those people, they're actually like okay with switching tabs, at least for now, if it means them getting their answer. Because really like there's been an explosion of all these like startups doing code, doing search, etc. But really who everyone's competing with is ChatGPT, which only has like that one web interface. Like ChatGPT is really the bar. And so that's what we're up against. [00:19:50]Alessio: And so your idea, you know, we have Amman from Cursor on the podcast and they've gone through the we need to own the IDE thing. Yours is more like in order to get the right answer, people are happy to like go somewhere else basically. They're happy to get out of their IDE. [00:20:05]Michael: That was a great podcast, by the way. But yeah, so part of it is that people sometimes perhaps aren't even in an IDE. So like the whole task of software engineering goes way beyond just running code, right? There's also like a design stage. There's a planning stage. A lot of this happens like on whiteboards. It happens in notebooks. And so the web part also exists for that where you're not even coding it and you're just trying to get like a more conceptual understanding of what you're trying to build first. The podcast with Amman was great, but somewhere where I disagree with him is that you need to own the IDE. I think like he made some good points about not having platform risk in the long term. But some of the features that were mentioned like suggesting diffs, for example, those are all doable with an extension. We haven't yet seen with VS Code in particular any functionality that we'd like to do yet in the IDE that we can't either do through directly supported VS Code functionality or something that we kind of hack into there, which we've also done a fair bit of. And so I think it remains to be seen where that goes. But I think what we're looking to be is like we're not trying to just be in an IDE or be an IDE. Like Phind is a system that goes beyond the IDE and like is really meant to cover the entire lifecycle of a developer's thought process in going about like, hey, like I have this idea and I want to get from that idea to a working product. And so then that's what the long term vision of Phind is really about is starting with that. In the future, I think programming is just going to be really just the problem solving. Like you come up with an idea, you come up with like the basic design for the algorithm in your head, and you just tell the AI, hey, just like just do it, just make it work. And that's what we're building towards. [00:21:51]Swyx: I think we might want to give people an impression about like type of traffic that you have, because when you present it with a text box, you could type in anything. And I don't know if you have some mental categorization of like what are like the top three use cases that people tend to coalesce around. [00:22:08]Alessio: Yeah, that's a great question. [00:22:09]Michael: The two main types of searches that we see are how-to questions, like how to do X using Y tool. And this historically has been our bread and butter, because with our embeddings, like we're really, really good at just going over a bunch of developer documentation and figuring out exactly the part that's relevant and just telling you, OK, like you can use this method. But as LLMs have gotten better, and as we've really transitioned to using GPT-4 a lot in our product, people organically just started pasting in code that's not working and just said, fix it for me. [00:22:42]Swyx: Fix this. [00:22:43]Alessio: Yeah. [00:22:44]Michael: And what really shocks us is that a lot of the people who do that, they're coming from chat GPT. So they tried it in chat GPT with chat GPT-4. It didn't work. Maybe it required like some multi-step reasoning. Maybe it required some internet context or something found in either a Stack Overflow post or some documentation to solve it. And so then they paste it into find and then find works. So those are really those two different cases. Like, how can I build this conceptually or like remind me of this one detail that I need to build this thing? Or just like, here's this code. Fix it. And so that's what a big part of our VS Code extension is, is like enabling a much smoother here just like fix it for me type of workflow. That's really its main benefits. Like it's in your code base. It's in the IDE. It knows how to find the relevant context to answer that question. But at the end of the day, like I said previously, that's still a relatively, not to say it's a small part, but it's a limited part of the entire mental life cycle of a programmer. [00:23:47]Swyx: Yep. So you launched in Feb and then you launched V2 in August. You had a couple other pretty impactful posts slash feature launches. The web search one was massive. So you were mostly a GPT-4 wrapper. We were for a long time. [00:24:03]Michael: For a long time until recently. Yeah. [00:24:05]Alessio: Until recently. [00:24:06]Swyx: So like people coming over from ChatGPT were saying, we're going to say model with your version of web search. Would that be the primary value proposition? [00:24:13]Michael: Basically yeah. And so what we've seen is that any model plus web search is just significantly better than [00:24:18]Alessio: that model itself. Do you think that's what you got right in April? [00:24:21]Swyx: Like so you got 1500 points on Hacking News in April, which is like, if you live on Hacking News a lot, that is unheard of for someone so early on in your journey. [00:24:31]Alessio: Yeah. [00:24:32]Michael: We're super, super grateful for that. Definitely was not expecting it. So what we've done with Hacker News is we've just kept launching. [00:24:38]Alessio: Yeah. [00:24:39]Michael: Like what they don't tell you is that you can just keep launching. That's what we've been doing. So we launched the very first version of Find in its current incarnation after like the previous demo connected to our own index. Like once we got into YC, we scrapped our own index because it was too cumbersome at the time. So we moved over to using Bing as kind of just the raw source data. We launched as Hello Cognition. Over time, every time we like added some intelligence to the product, a better model, we just keep launching. And every additional time we launched, we got way more traffic. So we actually silently rebranded to Find in late December of last year. But like we didn't have that much traffic. Nobody really knew who we were. [00:25:18]Swyx: How'd you pick the name out of it? [00:25:19]Michael: Paul Graham actually picked it for us. [00:25:21]Swyx: All right. [00:25:22]Alessio: Tell the story. Yeah. So, oh boy. [00:25:25]Michael: So this is the biggest side. Should we go for like the full Paul Graham story or just the name? [00:25:29]Swyx: Do you want to do it now? Or do you want to do it later? I'll give you a choice. [00:25:32]Alessio: Hmm. [00:25:33]Michael: I think, okay, let's just start with the name for now and then we can do the full Paul Graham story later. But basically, Paul Graham, when we were lucky enough to meet him, he saw our name and our domain was at the time, sayhello.so and he's just like, guys, like, come on, like, what is this? You know? And we were like, yeah, but like when we bought it, you know, we just kind of broke college students. Like we didn't have that much money. And like, we really liked hello as a name because it was the first like conversational search engine. And that's kind of, that's the angle that we were approaching it from. And so we had sayhello.so and he's like, there's so many problems with that. Like, like, like the say hello, like, what does that even mean? And like .so, like, it's gotta be like a .com. And so we did some time just like with Paul Graham in the room. We just like looked at different domain names, like different things that like popped into our head. And one of the things that popped into like Paul Graham said was fine with the Phind spelling in particular. [00:26:33]Swyx: Yeah. Which is not typical naming advice, right? Yes. Because it's not when people hear it, they don't spell it that way. [00:26:38]Michael: Exactly. It's hard to spell. And also it's like very 90s. And so at first, like, we didn't like, I was like, like, ah, like, I don't know. But over time it kept growing on us. And eventually we're like, okay, we like the name. It's owned by this elderly Canadian gentleman who we got to know, and he was willing to sell it to us. [00:26:57]Michael: And so we bought it and we changed the name. Yeah. [00:27:01]Swyx: Anyways, where were you? [00:27:02]Alessio: I had to ask. [00:27:03]Swyx: I mean, you know, everyone who looks at you is wondering. [00:27:06]Michael: And a lot of people actually pronounce it Phind, which, you know, by now it's part of the game. But eventually we want to buy Phind.com and then just have that redirect to Phind. So Phind is like definitely the right spelling. But like, we'll just, yeah, we'll have all the cases addressed. [00:27:23]Swyx: Cool. So Bing web search, and then August you launched V2. Is V2 the Phind as a system pitch? Or have you moved, evolved since then? [00:27:31]Michael: Yeah, so I don't, like the V2 moniker, like, I don't really think of it that way in my mind. There's like, there's the version we launched during, last summer during YC, which was the Bing version directed towards programmers. And that's kind of like, that's why I call it like the first incarnation of what we currently are. Because it was already directed towards programmers. We had like a code snippet search built in as well, because at the time, you know, the models we were using weren't good enough to generate code snippets. Even GPT, like the text DaVinci 2 was available at the time, wasn't that good at generating code and it would generate like very, very short, very incomplete code snippets. And so we launched that last summer, got some traction, but really like we were only doing like, I don't know, maybe like 10,000 searches a day. [00:28:15]Alessio: Some people knew about it. [00:28:16]Michael: Some people used it, which is impressive because looking back, the product like was not that good. And every time we've like made an improvement to the way that we retrieve context through better embeddings, more intelligent, like HTML parsers, and importantly, like better underlying models. Every major version after that was when we introduced a better underlying answering model. Like in February, we had to swallow a bit of our pride when we were like, okay, our own models aren't good enough. We have to go to open AI. And actually that did lead to kind of like our first decent bump of traffic in February. And people kept using it, like our attention was way better too. But we were still kind of running into problems of like more advanced reasoning. Some people tried it, but people were leaving because even like GPT 3.5, both turbo and non-turbo, like still not that great at doing like code related reasoning beyond the how do you do X, like documentation search type of use case. And so it was really only when GPT 4 came around in April that we were like, okay, like this is like our first real opportunity to really make this thing like the way that it should have been all along. And having GPT 4 as the brain is what led to that Hacker News post. And so what we did was we just let anyone use GPT 4 on Fyne for free without a login, [00:29:43]Alessio: which I actually don't regret. [00:29:45]Michael: So it was very expensive, obviously. But like at that stage, all we needed to do was show like, we just needed to like show people here's what Fyne can do. That was the main thing. And so that worked. That worked. [00:29:58]Alessio: Like we got a lot of users. [00:29:59]Michael: Do you know Fireship? [00:30:01]Swyx: Yeah. YouTube, Jeff Delaney. [00:30:03]Michael: Yeah. He made a short about Fyne. [00:30:06]Alessio: Oh. [00:30:07]Michael: And that's on top of the Hacker News post. And that's what like really, really made it blow up. It got millions of views in days. And he's just funny. Like what I love about Fireship is like he like you guys, yeah, like humor goes a long a long way towards like really grabbing people's attention. And so that blew up. [00:30:25]Swyx: Something I would be anxious about as a founder during that period, so obviously we all remember that pretty closely. So there were a couple of people who had access to the GPT-4 API doing this, which is unrestricted access to GPT-4. And I have to imagine OpenAI wasn't that happy about that because it was like kind of de facto access to GPT-4 before they released it. [00:30:46]Alessio: No, no. [00:30:47]Michael: GPT-4 was in chat GPT from day one. I think. OpenAI actually came to our support because what happened was we had people building unofficial APIs around to try to get free access to it. And I think OpenAI actually has the right perspective on this where they're like, OK, people can do whatever they want with the API if they're paying for it, like they can do whatever they want, but it's like not OK if, you know, paying customers are being exploite by these other actors. They actually got in touch with us and they helped us like set up better Cloudflare bot monitoring controls to effectively like crack down on those unofficial APIs, which we're very happy about. But yeah, so we launched GPT-4. A lot of people come to the product and yeah, for a long time, we're just we're figuring out like what do we make of this, right? How do we a make it better, but also deal with like our costs, which have just like massively, massively ballooned. Over time, it's become more clear with the release of Llama 2 and Llama 3 on the horizon that we will once again see a return to vertical applications running their own models. As was true last year and before, I think that GPT-4, my hypothesis is that the jump from 4 to 4.5 or 4 to 5 will be smaller than the jump from 3 to 4. And the reason why is because there were a lot of different things. Like there was two plus, effectively two, two and a half years of research that went into going from 3 to 4. Like more data, bigger model, all of the instruction tuning techniques, RLHF, all of that is known. And like Meta, for example, and now there's all these other startups like Mistral too, like there's a bunch of very well-funded open source players that are now working on just like taking the recipe that's now known and scaling it up. So I think that even if a delta exists, the delta between in 2024, the delta between proprietary and open source won't be large enough that a startup like us with a lot of data that we've collected can take the data that we have, fine tune an open source model, and like be able to have it be better than whatever the proprietary model is at the time. That's my hypothesis.Michael: But we'll once again see a return to these verticalized models. And that's something that we're super excited about because, yeah, that brings us to kind of the fine model because the plan from kind of the start was to be able to return to that if that makes sense. And I think now we're definitely at a point where it does make sense because we have requests from users who like, they want longer context in the model, basically, like they want to be able to ask questions about their entire code base without, you know, context and retrieval and taking a chance of that. Like, I think it's generally been shown that if you have the space to just put the raw files inside of a big context window, that is still better than chunking and retrieval. So there's various things that we could do with longer context, faster speed, lower cost. Super excited about that. And that's the direction that we're going with the fine model. And our big hypothesis there is precisely that we can take a really good open source model and then just train it on absolutely all of the high quality data that we can find. And there's a lot of various, you know, interesting ideas for this. We have our own techniques that we're kind of playing with internally. One of the very interesting ideas that I've seen, I think it's called Octopack from BigCode. I don't think that it made that big waves when it came out, I think in August. But the idea is that they have this data set that maps GitHub commits to a change. So basically there's all this really high quality, like human made, human written diff data out there on every time someone makes a commit in some repo. And you can use that to train models. Take the file state before and like given a commit message, what should that code look like in the future? [00:34:52]Swyx: Got it. [00:34:53]Alessio: Do you think your HumanEval is any good?Michael: So we ran this experiment. We trained the Phind model. And if you go to the BigCode leaderboard, as of today, October 5th, all of our models are at the top of the BigCode leaderboard by far. It's not close, particularly in languages other than Python. We have a 10 point gap between us and the next best model on JavaScript. I think C sharp, multilingual. And what we kind of learned from that whole experience releasing those models is that human eval doesn't really matter. Not just that, but GPT-4 itself has been trained on human eval. And we know this because GPT-4 is able to predict the exact docstring in many of the problems. I've seen it predict like the specific example values in the docstring, which is extremely improbable. So I think there's a lot of dataset contamination and it only captures a very limited subset of what programmers are actually doing. What we do internally for evaluations are we have GPT-4 score answers. GPT-4 is a really good evaluator. I mean, obviously it's by really good, I mean, it's the best that we have. I'm sure that, you know, a couple of months from now, next year, we'll be like, oh, you know, like GPT-4.5, GPT-5, it's so much better. Like GPT-4 is terrible, but like right now it's the best that we have short of humans. And what we found is that when doing like temperature zero evals, it's actually mostly deterministic GPT-4 across runs in assigning scores to two different answers. So we found it to be a very useful tool in comparing our model to say, GPT-4, but yeah, on our like internal real world, here's what people will be asking this model dataset. And the other thing that we're running is just like releasing the model to our users and just seeing what they think. Because that's like the only thing that really matters is like releasing it for the application that it's intended for, and then seeing how people react. And for the most part, the incredible thing is, is that people don't notice a difference between our model and GPT-4 for the vast majority of searches. There's some reasoning problems that GPT-4 can still do better. We're working on addressing that. But in terms of like the types of questions that people are asking on find, there's not that much difference. And in fact, I've been running my own kind of side by side comparisons, shout out to GodMode, by the way. [00:37:16]Michael: And I've like myself, I've kind of confirmed this to be the case. And even sometimes it gives a better answer, perhaps like more concise or just like better implementation than GPT-4, which that's what surprises me. And by now we kind of have like this reasoning is all you need kind of hypothesis where we've seen emerging capabilities in the find model, whereby training it on high quality code, it can actually like reason better. It went from not being able to solve world problems, where riddles were like with like temporal placement of objects and moving and stuff like that, that GPT-4 can do pretty well. We went from not being able to do those at all to being able to do them just by training on more code, which is wild. So we're already like starting to see like these emerging capabilities. [00:37:59]Swyx: So I just wanted to make sure that we have the, I guess, like the model card in our heads. So you started from Code Llama? [00:38:07]Alessio: Yes. [00:38:08]Swyx: 65, 34? 34. [00:38:10]Michael: So unfortunately, there's no Code Llama 70b. If there was, that would be super cool. But there's not. [00:38:15]Swyx: 34. And then, which in itself was Llama 2, which is on 2 trillion tokens and the added 500 billion code tokens. Yes. [00:38:22]Michael: And you just added a bunch more. [00:38:23]Alessio: Yeah. [00:38:24]Michael: And they also did a couple of things. So they did, I think they did 500 billion, like general pre-training and then they did an extra 20 billion long context pre-training. So they actually increased the like max position tokens to 16k up from 8k. And then they changed the theta parameter for the ROPE embeddings as well to give it theoretically better long context support up to 100k tokens. But yeah, but otherwise it's like basically Llama 2. [00:38:50]Swyx: And so you just took that and just added data. [00:38:52]Michael: Exactly. [00:38:53]Swyx: You didn't do any other fundamental. [00:38:54]Michael: Yeah. So we didn't actually, we haven't yet done anything with the model architecture and we just trained it on like many, many more billions of tokens on our own infrastructure. And something else that we're taking a look at now is using reinforcement learning for correctness. One of the interesting pitfalls that we've noticed with the Phind model is that in cases where it gets stuff wrong, it sometimes is capable of getting the right answer. It's just, there's a big variance problem. It's wildly inconsistent. There are cases when it is able to get the right chain of thought and able to arrive [00:39:25]Alessio: at the right answer, but not always. [00:39:27]Michael: And so like one of our hypotheses is something that we're going to try is that like we can actually do reinforcement learning on, for a given problem, generate a bunch of completions and then like use the correct answer as like a loss basically to try to get it to be more correct. And I think there's a high chance I think of this working because it's very similar to the like RLHF method where you basically show pairs of completions for a given question except the criteria is like which one is like less harmful. But here we have a different criteria. But if the model is already capable of getting the right answer, which it is, we're just, we just need to cajole it into being more consistent. [00:40:06]Alessio: There were a couple of things that I noticed in the product that were not strange but unique. So first of all, the model can talk multiple times in a row, like most other applications is like human model, human model. And then you had outside of the thumbs up, thumbs down, you have things like have DLLM prioritize this message and its answers or then continue from this message to like go back. How does that change the flow of the user and like in terms of like prompting it, yeah, what are like some tricks or learnings you've had? [00:40:37]Michael: So yeah, that's specifically in our pair programmer mode, which is a more conversational mode that also like asks you clarifying questions back if it doesn't fully understand what you're doing and it kind of it holds your hand a bit more. And so from user feedback, we had requests to make more of an auto GPT where you can kind of give it this problem that might take multiple searches or multiple different steps like multiple reasoning steps to solve. And so that's the impetus behind building that product. Being able to do multiple steps and also be able to handle really long conversations. Like people are really trying to use the pair programmer to go from like sometimes really from like basic idea to like complete working code. And so we noticed was is that we were having like these very, very long threads, sometimes with like 60 messages, like 100 messages. And like those become really, really challenging to manage the appropriate context window of what should go inside of the context and how to preserve the context so that the model can continue or the product can continue giving good responses, even if you're like 60 messages deep in a conversation. So that's where the prioritized user messages like comes from. It's like people have asked us to just like let them pin messages that they want to be left in the conversation. And yeah, and then that seems to have like really gone a long way towards solving that problem, yeah. [00:41:54]Alessio: And then you have a run on Replit thing. Are you planning to build your own repl? Like learning some people trying to run the wrong code, unsafe code? [00:42:03]Michael: Yes. Yes. So I think like in the long term vision of like being a place where people can go from like idea to like fully working code, having a code sandbox, like a natively integrated code sandbox makes a lot of sense. And replit is great and people use that feature. But yeah, I think there's more we can do in terms of like having something a bit closer to code interpreter where it's able to run the code and then like recursively iterate on it. Exactly. [00:42:31]Swyx: So you're working on APIs to enable you to do that? Yep. So Amjad has specifically told me in person that he wants to enable that for people at the same time. He's also working on his own models, and Ghostwriter and you know, all the other stuff. So it's going to get interesting. Like he wants to power you, but also compete with you. Yeah. [00:42:47]Michael: And like, and we love replit. I think that a lot of the companies in our space, like we're all going to converge to solving a very similar problem, but from a different angle. So like replit approaches this problem from the IDE side. Like they started as like this IDE that you can run in the browser. And they started from that side, making coding just like more accessible. And we're approaching it from the side of like an LLM that's just like connected to everything that it needs to be connected to, which includes your code context. So that's why we're kind of making inroads into IDEs, but we're kind of, we're approaching this problem from different sides. And I think it'll be interesting to see where things end up. But I think that in the long, long term, we have an opportunity to also just have like this general technical reasoning engine product that's potentially also not just for, not just for programmers. It's also powered in this web interface, like where there's potential, I think other things that we will build that eventually might go beyond like our current scope. [00:43:49]Swyx: Exciting. We'll look forward to that. We're going to zoom out a little bit into sort of AI ecosystem stories, but first we got to get the Paul Graham, Ron Conway story. [00:43:59]Alessio: Yeah. [00:44:00]Michael: So flashback to last summer, we're in the YC batch. We're doing the summer batch, summer 22. So the summer batch runs from June to September, approximately. And so this was late July, early August, right around the time that many like YC startups start like going out, like during up, here's how we're going to pitch investors and everything. And at the same time, me and my co-founder, Justin, we were planning on moving to New York. So for a long time, actually, we were thinking about building this company in New York, mainly for personal reasons, actually, because like during the pandemic, pre-ChatGPT, pre last year, pre the AI boom, SF unfortunately really kind of, you know, like lost its luster. Yeah. Like no one was here. It was far from clear, like if there would be an AI boom, if like SF would be like... [00:44:49]Alessio: Back. [00:44:50]Michael: Yeah, exactly. Back. As everyone is saying these days, it was far from clear. And so, and all of our friends, we were graduating college because like we happened to just graduate college and immediately start YC, like we didn't even have, I think we had a week in between. [00:45:06]Swyx: You didn't bother looking for jobs. You were just like, this is what we want to do. [00:45:08]Michael: Well, actually both me and my co-founder, we had jobs that we secured in 2021 from previous internships, but we both, funny enough, when I spoke to my boss's boss at the company at where I reneged my offer, I told him we got into YC, they actually said, yeah, you should do YC. [00:45:27]Swyx: Wow. [00:45:28]Alessio: That's very selfless. [00:45:29]Swyx: That was really great that they did that. But in San Francisco, they would have offered to invest as well. [00:45:33]Michael: Yes, they would have. But yeah, but we were both planning to be in New York and all of our friends were there from college at this point, like we have this whole plan where like on August 1st, we're going to move to New York and we had like this Airbnb for the month of New York. We're going to stay there and we're going to work and like all of that. The day before we go to New York, I called Justin and I just, I tell him like, why are we doing this? Because in our batch, by the time August 1st rolled around, all of our mentors at YC were saying like, hey, like you should really consider staying in SF. [00:46:03]Swyx: It's the hybrid batch, right? [00:46:04]Michael: Yeah, it was the hybrid batch, but like there were already signs that like something was kind of like afoot in SF, even if like we didn't fully want to admit it yet. And so we were like, I don't know, I don't know. Something kind of clicked when the rubber met the road and it was time to go to New York. We're like, why are we doing this? And like, we didn't have any good reasons for staying in New York at that point beyond like our friends are there. So we still go to New York because like we have the Airbnb, like we don't have any other kind of place to go for the next few weeks. We're in New York and New York is just unfortunately too much fun. Like all of my other friends from college who are just, you know, basically starting their jobs, starting their lives as adults. They just stepped into these jobs, they're making all this money and they're like partying and like all these things are happening. And like, yeah, it's just a very distracting place to be. And so we were just like sitting in this like small, you know, like cramped apartment, terrible posture, trying to get as much work done as we can, too many distractions. And then we get this email from YC saying that Paul Graham is in town in SF and he is doing office hours with a certain number of startups in the current batch. And whoever signs up first gets it. And I happen to be super lucky. I was about to go for a run, but I just, I saw the email notification come across the street. I immediately clicked on the link and like immediately, like half the spots were gone, but somehow the very last spot was still available. And so I picked the very, very last time slot at 7 p.m. semi-strategically, you know, so we would have like time to go over. And also because I didn't really know how we're going to get to SF yet. And so we made a plan that we're going to fly from New York to SF and back to New York in one day and do like the full round trip. And we're going to meet with PG at the YC Mountain View office. And so we go there, we do that, we meet PG, we tell him about the startup. And one thing I love about PG is that he gets like, he gets so excited. Like when he gets excited about something, like you can see his eyes like really light up. And he'll just start asking you questions. In fact, it's a little challenging sometimes to like finish kind of like the rest of like the description of your pitch because like, he'll just like asking all these questions about how it works. And I'm like, you know, what's going on? [00:48:19]Swyx: What was the most challenging question that he asked you? [00:48:21]Michael: I think that like really how it worked. Because like as soon as like we told him like, hey, like we think that the future of search is answers, not links. Like we could really see like the gears turning in his head. I think we were like the first demo of that. [00:48:35]Swyx: And you're like 10 minutes with him, right? [00:48:37]Michael: We had like 45, yeah, we had a decent chunk of time. And so we tell him how it works. Like he's very excited about it. And I just like, I just blurted out, I just like asked him to invest and he hasn't even seen the product yet. We just asked him to invest and he says, yeah. And like, we're super excited about that. [00:48:55]Swyx: You haven't started your batch. [00:48:56]Michael: No, no, no. This is about halfway through the batch or two, two, no, two thirds of the batch. [00:49:02]Swyx: And you're like not technically fundraising yet. We're about to start fundraising. Yeah. [00:49:06]Michael: So we have like this demo and like we showed him and like there was still a lot of issues with the product, but I think like it must have like still kind of like blown his mind in some way. So like we're having fun. He's having fun. We have this dinner planned with this other friend that we had in SF because we were only there for that one day. So we thought, okay, you know, after an hour we'll be done, you know, we'll grab dinner with our friend and we'll fly back to New York. But PG was like, like, I'm having so much fun. Do you want to have dinner? Yeah. Come to my house. Or he's like, I gotta go have dinner with my wife, Jessica, who's also awesome, by the way. [00:49:40]Swyx: She's like the heart of YC. Yeah. [00:49:42]Michael: Jessica does not get enough credit as an aside for her role. [00:49:46]Swyx: He tries. [00:49:47]Michael: He understands like the technical side and she understands people and together they're just like a phenomenal team. But he's like, yeah, I got to go see Jessica, but you guys are welcome to come with. Do you want to come with? And we're like, we have this friend who's like right now outside of like literally outside the door who like we also promised to get dinner with. It's like, we'd love to, but like, I don't know if we can. He's like, oh, he's welcome to come too. So all of us just like hop in his car and we go to his house and we just like have this like we have dinner and we have this just chat about the future of search. Like I remember him telling Jessica distinctly, like our kids as kids are not going to know what like a search result is. Like they're just going to like have answers. That was really like a mind blowing, like inflection point moment for sure. [00:50:34]Swyx: Wow, that email changed your life. [00:50:35]Michael: Absolutely. [00:50:36]Swyx: And you also just spoiled the booking system for PG because now everyone's just going to go after the last slot. Oh man. [00:50:42]Michael: Yeah. But like, I don't know if he even does that anymore. [00:50:46]Swyx: He does. He does. Yeah. I've met other founders that he did it this year. [00:50:49]Michael: This year. Gotcha. But when we told him about how we did it, he was like, I am like frankly shocked that YC just did like a random like scheduling system. [00:50:55]Alessio: They didn't like do anything else. But, um. [00:50:58]Swyx: Okay. And then he introduces Duron Conway. Yes. Who is one of the most legendary angels in Silicon Valley. [00:51:04]Michael: Yes.So after PG invested, the rest of our round came together pretty quickly. [00:51:10]Swyx: I'm, by the way, I'm surprised. Like it's, it might feel like playing favorites right within the current batch to be like, yo, PG invested in this one. Right. [00:51:17]Alessio: Too bad for the others. [00:51:18]Swyx: Too bad for the others, I guess. [00:51:19]Michael: I think this is a bigger point about YC and like these accelerators in general is like YC gets like a lot of criticism from founders who feel like they didn't get value out of it. But like, in my view, YC is what you make of it. And YC tells you this. They're like, you really got to grab this opportunity, like buy the balls and make the most of it. And if you do, then it could be the best thing in the world. And if you don't, and if you're just kind of like a passive, even like an average founder in YC, you're still going to fail. And they tell you that. They're like, if you're average in your batch, you're going to fail. Like you have to just be exceptional in every way. With that in mind, perhaps that's even part of the reason why we asked PG to invest. And so yeah, after PG invested, the rest of our round came together pretty quickly, which I'm very fortunate for. And yeah, he introduced us to Ron. And after he did, I get a call from Ron. And then Ron says like, hey, like PG tells me what you're working on. I'd love to come meet you guys. And I'm like, wait, no way. And then we're just holed up in this like little house in San Mateo, which is a little small, but you know, it had a nice patio. In fact, we had like a monitor set up outside on the deck out there. And so Ron Conway comes over, we go over to the patio where like our workstation is. And Ron Conway, he's known for having like this notebook that he goes around with where he like sits down with the notebook and like takes very, very detailed notes. So he never like forgets anything. So he sits down with his notebook and he asks us like, hey guys, like, what do you need? And we're like, oh, we need GPUs. Back then, the GPU shortage wasn't even nearly as bad as it is now. But like even then, it was still challenging to get like the quota that we needed. And he's like, okay, no problem. And then like he leaves a couple hours later, we get an email and we're CC'd on an email that Ron wrote to Jensen, the CEO of Nvidia, saying like, hey, these guys need GPUs. [00:53:02]Swyx: You didn't say how much? It was just like, just give them GPUs. [00:53:04]Alessio: Basically, yeah. [00:53:05]Michael: Ron is known for writing these like one-liner emails that are like very short, but very to the point. And I think that's why like everyone responds to Ron. Everyone loves Ron. And so Jensen responds. He responds quickly, like tagging this VP of AI at Nvidia. And we start working with Nvidia, which is great. And something that I love about Nvidia, by the way, is that after that intro, we got matched with like a dedicated team. And at Nvidia, they know that they're going to win regardless. So they don't care where you get the GPUs from. They're like, they're truly neutral, unlike various sales reps that you might encounter at various like clouds and, you know, hardware companies, et cetera. They actually just want to help you because they know they don't care. Like regardless, they know that if you're getting Nvidia GPUs, they're still winning. So I guess that's a tip is that like if you're looking for GPUs like Nvidia, they'll help you do it. [00:53:54]Swyx: So just to tie up this thing, because so first of all, that's a fantastic story. And I just wanted to let you tell that because it's special. That is a strategic shift, right? That you already decided to make by the time you met Ron, which is we are going to have our own hardware. We're going to rack him in a data center somewhere. [00:54:11]Michael: Well, not even that we need our own hardware because actually we don't. Right. But we just we just need GPUs, period. And like every cloud loves like they have their own sales tactics and like they want to make you commit to long terms and like very non-flexible terms. And like there's a web of different things that you kind of have to navigate. Nvidia will kind of be to the point like, OK, you can do this on this cloud, this on this cloud. Like this is your budget. Maybe you want to consider buying as well. Like they'll help you walk through what the options are. And the reason why they're helpful is because like they look at the full picture. So they'll help you with the hardware. And in terms of software, they actually implemented a custom feature for us in Faster Transformer, which is one of their libraries.Swyx: For you? [00:54:53]Michael: For us. Yeah. Which is wild. I don't think they would have done it otherwise. They implemented streaming generation for T5 based models, which we were running at the time up until we switched to GPT in February, March of this year. So they implemented that just for us, actually, in Faster Transformer. And so like they'll help you like look at the complete picture and then just help you get done what you need to get done. I know one of your interests is also local models, open source models and hardware kind of goes hand in hand.Alessio: Any fun projects, explorations in the space that you want to share with local llamas and stuff? [00:55:27]Michael: Yeah, it's something that we're very interested in because something that kind of we're hearing a lot about is like people want something like find, especially comp
"Talent times Relationships plus expectations plus reward and recognition equals the productivity of a team." Episode Highlights [00:03:02] Gallup's 4 measurements of team productivity. [00:06:22] Giving gratitude and recognition reinforces positive behavior and improves productivity. [00:08:42] Clarify expectations and communicate with your team for improved productivity. [00:12:45] Assess team morale, identify need for friendship [00:15:39] Discuss expectations, recognize team, gather feedback, clarify actions, follow-up. [00:16:40] Use feedback to improve leadership for better results Connect with Dan: www.dancockerell.com About Dan - https://dancockerell.com/about/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dancockerell/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancockerell/ Facebook - www.facebook.com/dancockerellspeaker The Four Elements of Team Productivity There are four key elements that contribute to successful team productivity. During this conversation, Jody and I talk about the importance of setting clear expectations, building strong relationships, implementing effective reward and recognition systems, and ensuring the right talent is in the right roles within a team. There are also four powerful questions I share that you can ask your team to assess your leadership and drive better results. Four Elements Clear Expectations: Ensure your team knows what is expected of them, when to reach out for guidance, and the level of autonomy they have in decision-making. Strong Relationships: Take the time to get to know your team members personally, understand their communication preferences, career aspirations, and passions. Reward and Recognition: Find ways to reward and recognize the achievements of your team members to inspire continued dedication and excellence. Talent Alignment: Understanding your team members' natural talents and passions, and aligning them with their responsibilities, will unleash their potential. This is a must-listen episode for anyone looking to take their team's productivity to the next level. By leveraging these four elements—talent, relationships, expectations, and reward and recognition—you can unlock a team's full potential and achieve exceptional results. Take it a step further by asking questions and gathering feedback. That's how you can identify areas for improvement and make the necessary adjustments to enhance team productivity.
It's time to take the elevator, tap in, and listen to Straight Up Success coach, Kathleen Carlson, as she illuminates part 3 of The Success Trap, CLAIM. You cannot get to the claim level without first clarifying and clearing. This is where you get to claim, decide who you want to be and live in your space. Your conscious language is paramount, your mind feeds on whatever you speak. You must be willing to fight what goes against your heart and soul and will ultimately make you shrivel. Take a step back, pause, allow time to return to a more neutralizing space. What if you could just know that you are something?! Top tip from Kathleen: don't do it alone. Stay connected, have a mentor, and have 8 key people in your life for balance.Kathleen's Music for Inspiration: Greatest Hits of the 60's & 70's various artists … “Train Dance” and get the energy moving!Website: https://www.straightupsuccess.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kzcarlsonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-carlson-a05779a8/Contact: kathleen@straightupsuccess.com262 Project Events: https://debdrummond.com/event-calendar/
Today I'm joined by Dr. East Phillips. East is an acupuncturist, business coach, and former long-time professor at Pacific College of Health Sciences.She's committed to helping others actualize their greatest potential and live with passion and enthusiasm.In her business coaching, East helps fellow acupuncturists build practices that are aligned with their goals and that bring them joy instead of burnout.She also loves to help acupuncturists create online classes and other alternate streams of income so they can have more freedom in their business.I hope you enjoy this conversation with East!Don't forget, Acupuncture Marketing School, the online class, is on sale now for $200 off. Bonus: Anyone who signs up this week gets a FREE 1:1 Marketing Strategy Session with me!This special sale ends on November 6th at midnight Pacific Time.>> Click here to learn more and use code PUMPKIN to save $200!In this episode, we talk about:Knowing when it's time to make a big change in your practiceSetting your pricesRecognizing the many forms of burnoutShould you monetize something you're giving away for free?Feeling aligned in your practice by defining your Light HouseSetting and maintaining boundaries to preserve your time and energyShow Notes:East's website: doctoreast.comFollow East on Instagram @doctoreastFollow East on Facebook @east.haradin.phillipsFollow East on YouTube @doctoreastEast's book, More Than a Treatment: How to Create Exceptional Experiences That Increase Patient Satisfaction and Improve Treatment OutcomesSave $200 on Acupuncture Marketing School plus get a bonus this week! A free 60-minute Marketing Strategy Session with me. Use code PUMPKIN to save before the ends on Monday, Nov. 6th.Thank you to our sponsor:This episode is sponsored by Jane. Jane is an all-in-one practice management software designed to help you streamline your Acupuncture practice. I use Jane in my practice and I love it!
Proverbs 3:11-12 7 Insights on Correction 1. Correction is Making Children Aware of Their Mistakes and Showing Them The Right Way Proverbs 3:11-12, 16:21 2. Correction is Not Particularly Pleasant to The Child or The Parent Proverbs 3:11; 1 Timothy 6:17 3 Basic and Simple Steps to Correction a. Identify what was done b. Clarify how the action or attitude violated God's law c. Rectify, Pray and Reconcile 3. Correction is Essentially a Fatherly Role Proverbs 3:12 4. Correction is a Long Process Proverbs 3:11; Isaiah 43:24 5. Correction Brings Happiness Proverbs 3:12, 20:30 6. Correction is Both Curative and Preventative Proverbs 3:11-12; Romans 7:13; Proverbs 19:25 7. Correction is Good for the Child and Society Proverbs 3:12
Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster of wins and losses. But what if we told you that viewing these losses as opportunities for growth could change everything? In this episode, we're joined again by founder of I Love Ugly, Valentin Ozich, to have a candid conversation about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Valentin returns as a follow-up to our interview last year to explain the mindset shift that helped him continue to grow his brand, even when life got really hard. He explores the power of personal growth and self-care, the importance of celebrating life's mundane moments and how to ease up on ourselves. We explore topics including the fascinating world of subconscious reprogramming, how to overcome obstacles, finding clarity in our goals and finding connection. This episode is motivating, uplifting and real. Join us on this inspiring journey of self-discovery and purpose. Learn more about Valentin:I Love Ugly: https://www.iloveugly.com/ I Love Ugly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iloveugly/ Valentin Ozich on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valentinozich Subscribe to Arcade's Newsletter, SCAN
Nathan Zegura joins the show and Nick and Dustin discuss the need to clarify Deshaun Watson's status and the QB situation.
We often hear phrases like "set high goals" and "chase your dreams," but we often overlook the crucial step of clarifying our goals, making them tangible. Amidst the abundance of motivational quotes, the true essence of achieving goals often gets lost in the noise. In this episode, Rob and Phil discuss the importance of clarifying goals instead of merely setting them. This journey of self-discovery begins with writing down your goals. However, the true magic happens when you infuse these objectives with meaning, purpose, and a clear vision of what success entails. Fed up with goals that fizzle out? Rob and Phil's relatable anecdotes show how clarifying your goals can transform them from vague aspirations to inspiring objectives. Download the Truest Fan Action Plan - https://truestfancoaching.com/claim-free-action-plan-page
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ESTHER 8:3-7 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Opening song, "As the Crow Flies" from the album, "The Clamour and the Crash" by Jeff Foote
Toronto cognitive behavioural therapy counsellor Leanne Matlow says her phone has been buzzing ever since the horrific attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel on Oct. 7. She's been hearing from Canadian parents who don't know how to reassure their children, who are being exposed to gruesome videos and images of blood-stained rooms and also wounded or dead Israeli victims of the massacre–not to mention being nervous since extra squads of police and security guards have turned up patrolling their schools, community centres and synagogues since the violence began. Matlow has worked as a school guidance counsellor and now is in private practice specializing in helping anxious young people as her clients. She's just issued a series of ten tips for adults (and the children they care for) to help them manage their mental health at this difficult time in Jewish history. On today's The CJN Daily, she joins host Ellin Bessner with practical advice that everyone can use. Leanne Matlow's 10 Tips: Here are some suggested tips. As the conflict is dynamic, so must be our responses Take care of yourself and your own mental health first. (Take media breaks, go for a walk, stick to a routine with proper eating and sleeping.) It is okay to ask for help from neighbours, relatives or friends when you need a break. Remember your kids are always watching and listening to you and how you react. Be mindful of the emotional impact of your words and actions. Set boundaries on the news consumption in your house, especially around your kids. This is an opportunity to talk about critical thinking and bias in the world of social media. Are your kids hungry or tired? Very simple, but before you speak to your children about anything difficult, check on their physical needs first. It will not be helpful to have a potentially stressful discussion unless everyone is calm before you begin. Understand your child's level of knowledge and comprehension: Take cues from your child and let them lead the discussion. Ask open-ended questions. ” Please share with me what you've heard and how are you feeling about it?” Avoid jumping in with a lecture or giving more information or details that they are unaware of or are not asking for. Reassure your child that they are safe here. Clarify where the conflict is happening. If you don't know the answer to a question, it is ok to say that you will get the information and answer them later. It's ok to be lenient and be reassuring, but don't set a precedent that is not sustainable. Take what your kids are worried about and turn it into action-oriented tasks. Brainstorm ideas about how what you can we to feel hopeful and helpful? (Give and collect tzedakah, make cards for soldiers or kids who are displaced from their homes/schools, etc.) Ensure that your child has access to you to talk daily and that you are there to listen empathetically. Set a time for this discussion which should NOT be as they are getting into bed. What we talked about Attend The CJN's live emergency mental health seminar at Toronto's Prosserman JCC on Tuesday Oct. 17, 2023. Free but you have to register. It won't be livestreamed, but will be rebroadcast. Read more about Leanne Mallow's work giving hope to anxious young people struggling with their mental health, in The CJN. Meet the Canadians evacuees from Israel who arrived home in Toronto this weekend, on The CJN Daily. Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our intern is Ashok Lamichhane, and our theme music by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here.
Ask Me Anything and takeaways of the day featuring Andy, Randy, Beau, and Abe.
Snippet From the Show “Be sure you are not discerning your self-worth in the things you accomplish each day. You have worth as a child of God, not matter how productive you are.” Would you like an extra 3 or 4 hours in each day? We all feel overwhelmed and crunched for time sometimes. This week, Danielle shares some ideas for ways to make the most of the 24 hours we do have each day. Some of these include: Clarify your priorities. Block your time and batch similar tasks. Create a daily schedule. Eliminate time wasters. Learn to say “No” and “Not now.” Delegate tasks. Set time limits and take breaks. Take care of yourself. Set realistic goals. Another podcast where we discussed a similar topic was 5 ways to Be More Productive. (https://girlfriends.fireside.fm/351) Other links mentioned in this week's show: Pomodoro Technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique) The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcock (https://a.co/d/ac8Wkzw) A Mother's Rule of Life by Holly Pierlot (https://a.co/d/4ocOIr8) At the end of today's show, Danielle shares an email from listener Sarah who was inspired by a recent podcast and offers a book recommendation. For episode shownotes visit www.goodcatholic.com.
John is back from a hiatus with renewed vision and direction for the show. In this episode, John checks in with some updates and then shares a clip of a live lesson that he taught on how to clarify your vision inside one of his mastermind groups. Announcing NEW program open now: Group Practice Accelerator! Find out more and apply here: http://privatepracticeworkshop.com/gpa
Dr. Laura Kiessling is the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Member of the Broad Institute. Laura's research focuses on carbohydrates, particularly all of the different carbohydrates found on the surfaces of cells. We still know relatively little about the functions of these carbohydrates, and Laura is eager to learn more. When she's not doing science, Laura likes being active through rowing, kayaking, cycling, lifting weights, or doing yoga. She also likes to spend her free time cooking, hiking, camping, and enjoying art. She received her BS degree in chemistry from MIT and her Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Yale University. After two years at the California Institute of Technology as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, she joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1991. She returned to MIT in 2017. Laura has received numerous awards over the course of her career, including the Ronald Breslow Award in Biomimetic Chemistry, the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Tetrahedron Prize for creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, the Gibbs Medal, from the Chicago Chapter of the American Chemical Society, the Vilas Distinguished Faculty Award from UW-Madison, and others. Laura is an elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and American Philosophical Society, as well as an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Cancer Society Fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. She is also the founding Editor-In-Chief of the journal ACS Chemical Biology. In this interview, Laura shares more about her life and science.
My guest today is Darcie Warden who teaches people in midlife the Rising Phoenix Method to gain clarity about what's next so that they can enthusiastically step into new possibilities to create the next chapter of their life. Darcie is in an all too familiar season of her business. She's willing to put in the work and wants to do it right. And she's also feeling a lot of pressure to be further along than she actually is right now. So one part of her wants to honor where she's at while the other part of her is judging her progress as too slow or not enough or just flawed in some way. Sound familiar? I think as online business owners, we can all feel this way from time to time. Well, Darcie and I talked through the friction she felt to design an aligned plan to help her feel the way she wants to feel so she can work hard AND honor the natural progression every business takes. WE got there by first exploring how Darcie shows up for her clients. In her words, she holds them in unconditional positive regard. So, I invited Darcie to hold her business in unconditional positive regard. From there, we came up with five steps she could follow in order to find that sweet spot between pushing and allowing success to come. Here's what our plan looked like: Clarify your one year vision. What does success look like in 12 months? Give your business a voice. If your business was a person, what is it asking for? Dig deep to define what specifically your business's needs actually look like. Make that picture concrete by connecting a tangible action to each business need. This was such a creative and intuitive conversation. I hope you'll follow along so, like Darcie, you can hold your business in unconditional positive regard. Key Takeaways Learn to envision your business as a living entity with its own needs and desires. Develop a clear vision and concrete strategy to effectively propel your coaching venture forward. Embrace the power of community and the transformative possibilities of connection. Learn how to identify and hire the perfect team member to build your community and implement your business strategy. If you want to experience the same support and community that Darcie found in The Hive, consider joining The Hive today CONNECT WITH DARCIE: INSTAGRAM: @risingphoenix.mt WEBSITE: www.risingphoenixmt.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/darcie.warden CONNECT WITH ME: INSTAGRAM: @dallastraversbizmentor RELATED EPISODES: 91 - You Are Built for Success 164 - Shift Your Mindset to Enjoy Your Business 66 - Greatest Hits: Build Your Team
Clarify the vision, but shift your focus to winning today.
Introduction (Shawn)Topic: League Summit Review (Brian and Shawn)Give a review of the lessons and some feedback received from coachesSat: 2023 review, TTC, Friday Fails, EAPSun: 2024 preview, Adventure, Dynamic Agility, Team CultureClinics: OTBS101 refresh, 201, course evaluationGive thanks to WWC for being a great hostTopic: Sponsor Announcement (Brian)Constellation Cycling - James Lee (course setter) is a member.CC is hosting their big event of the season (Lions Roar) on 22 OctoberLion's Roar. NCCX, Race #3. Sunday, October 22, 2022 - Lions Park - 516 Dennis Ave. Raleigh, NC 27604Topic: Season 8 Dates and Locations (Brian)Posted on website and announced via Iterable and social mediaHighlightsWalk through the events by dateTwo new venuesOne western venue - private!Qualifying championship (race committee to help determine criteria)Season finale = Adventure Festival Hybrid fee scheme - discount packageTopic: Sponsor Announcement (Brian)CognativeMTB a returning sponsorSupport to our TTC program: big 3000 hour goal in 2024 and Trail Week 24', March 18-24TTC staff is coordinating events with SORBA chapters and various conservancy groups across the state to help provide opportunities for teams during that week (goal of 1,000 hours that week)Topic: Pre-season Date Reminders (Brian and Shawn)GRiT - open to all registered female student athletes and coaches- 28 October at Keowee Park, Wilkesboro (Warrior Creek and Headwaters Hub trails)- 4 November at Medoc Mountain State Park, Hollister, NCAdventure - open to returning student athletes. (mention form in coaches conversation about new athletes) Must attend with their team. Head Coaches may choose one event for their team to attend. Each event is capped at 200 participants. If we have extra space at either event, we will open it to teams wishing to attend both, as space is available. Clarify does not count as a pre-season event- 18 November at Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC- 2 December at Browns Creek, ElizabethtownRegional Event 10-12 Nov in FairHill MDRegistration closes Tuesday 17 October extended to 1 NovClosing (All)Dad joke
Want to know how to navigate the AI landscape to boost your author marketing efforts?Get ready for an exciting episode with James Feldman, a 30-year expert in business growth and author of 16 influential books. In this fast-paced, ever-evolving AI world, we explore how authors can tap into their potential and overcome limitations. We check out some cool tools for grammar and plagiarism checks and how personalized AI interactions can unlock fresh and creative ideas! James will blow your mind with the endless possibilities of boosting your creativity using these mind-blowing and cutting-edge tools.Key takeaways:Clarify instructions matter, as shown by a cautionary AI taleDiscover AI's potential and Grammarly's role in writingPersonalize AI for fresh ideasExplore AI tools to enhance creativityLet your imagination run wild and discover the innovative features that will take your projects to new heights!Click here for James' Business Differentiation Mastery (ChatGPT Magic)***************************************************************************************LIVE PURE proudly sponsors this episode!They offer 100% natural premium products blending science and nature.LIVE PURE NOW! *************************************************************************************** Click here to schedule your 20-minute brainstorming session with Susan!
My incredible guest for this episode of Soul Guide Radio is Marissa Lawton, a conduit and guide for feminine seekers and host of the Rooted Feminine Podcast. Marissa works with awakened women who wish to recall the memory of their unique ancestral magic and design their lives around their feminine power.Marissa helps her clients undergo a powerful reclamation process called ‘re-wilding' - breaking free from toxic patriarchal and colonial practices. Re-wilding helps us to rediscover our natural rhythms, disengage from unnatural or oppressive systems, and return to a soul state of being. This isn't an all-or-nothing process - re-wilding may be done gently and to the degree that best serves your needs!During our discussion, Marissa and I deeply explore how to approach business (and life!) as a powerful, divine woman, how to re-wild ourselves from masculine ideas of success, and how to tap into the nine feminine mysteries. You will NOT want to miss this beautiful and soulful conversation!Start unlocking your spiritual gifts. Listen now to discover: How to engage in gradual re-wilding - even when you can only take small stepsHow to re-tune the energetics of your business from masculine to feminine How to re-energize a stagnant evergreen offer Guest bio: Marissa Lawton is a conduit for ancient women's wisdom who guides feminine seekers to reclaim their divine power. As a former licensed therapist who left the medical model of mental health care, Marissa had a behind-the-scenes look into how patriarchal systems and structures continue to diminish women's ability to rise up - and her work in the world is to change that. By helping women reconnect to nature's rhythms, Marissa aims to reintroduce long-denied mysteries and reestablish deep feminine roots around the world.Timestamps:00:01 Intro03:30 Meet Marissa Lawton05:18 What is re-wilding?11:49 The machine & its cogs15:24 Re-wilding from ‘success'17:12 Facebook ads story19:19 Energetics of business25:23 9 feminine mysteries32:15 Evergreen offers41:01 Bro marketing44:13 Banking stories49:43 Invitation & conclusionLinks:Marissa Lawtonhttps://www.rootedfeminine.com Instagram: Did you know that All the ANSWERS about your soul experience are INSIDE OF YOU. If you're ready to claim the key to unlocking them, then join me in SOUL BLUEPRINT - a certification program that reveals how to ACCESS and AMPLIFY your 5 Spiritual Gifts to CLARIFY your soul's unique blueprint, and ALIGN your energy to your soul-guided intentions so that your DREAMS come true. ENROLL NOW at allysonscammell.com/soulblueprint Stay connected: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulguidecircle Instagram: @allysonscammell Ready to grow a prosperous soul-guided business? Book an Intuitive Consult Seeking a high-vibe speaker or guest instructor for your event? Reach out here! — If Soul Guide Radio resonates with you, please consider leaving a review — this helps us to reach more soul-guided leaders, influencers, and entrepreneurs. Podcast support: https://theultimatecreative.com https://copymagic.agency Interested in being a guest? Learn more: https://allysonscammell.com/podcast
How much time have you committed over the course of your veterinary career to get better at teaching? I'm betting that for most of you, the answer is: not much. Why? Because we're not teachers, right? But maybe we need to think again. Most of us in the veterinary profession spend much of our working lives trying to transfer and translate information. Isn't that, in essence, teaching? Dr Toby Trimble spends a most of his time coming up with better ways to teach. Toby is the founder of Trimble Group, a film production company reinventing education for animal health, making it less like PowerPoint and more like Netflix. He focuses on making education engaging, visual, and memorable. With his team, Toby has created over 800 CPD videos and live broadcasts in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. He's also a specialist in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia and an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia at the University of Nottingham. In this conversation, Toby delves into why we should — and how we could — all be better teachers and communicators. He reflects on the lessons dyslexia taught him about teaching and about our perceptions regarding our own limitations. He discusses why a lot of online teaching falls short and how it can be so much better, the concept of using marginal gains to secure an edge in exam prep and in life, and so much more. Topic list: 01:18 Better communication through visual storytelling. 09:46 Preparation and practice reduce anxiety. 10:41 Verbal fillers can detract from communication. 19:17 Overcoming dyslexia through personalised education. 24:07 Hard work leads to breakthroughs. 27:48 Engaging, visual, experiential learning. 35:49 Education online will shift. 41:48 AI can provide information, but understanding is the key. 48:24 Simulation enhances veterinary skills training. 53:58 Marginal gains improve exam preparation. 58:47 Small things make a huge difference. 65:19 Clarify your message for memorability. Join our community of Vet Vault Nerds to lift your clinical game and get your groove back with our up-to-date, easy-to-consume clinical episodes at vvn.supercast.com. Visit thevetvault.com for show notes and resources related to this episode. Connect with us through our online Vet Vault Network for episode highlights, clinical resources, discussions, questions and support. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here for Hubert's favourite clinical and non-clinical learnings. Get up and running (or working!) with a 10% discount for Tarkine shoes, the official shoe of the Vet Vault by using the code Vetvault at checkout. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vet-vault/message
Lately it seems as though everyone is talking about manifestation. Spiritual leaders, business coaches, journalists, actors, artists, and influencers alike are sharing their thoughts on energy, intention, and the Law of Attraction - some more knowledgeable than others! Even entrepreneur.com recently published an article offering tips on how to manifest success in your business. While it's easy to find different people talking about manifestation, most of them tend to say the same things. In this episode of Soul Guide Radio, I approach manifestation from an angle that you've probably never heard before - and explore the powerful reasons why it should be treated as a LIFESTYLE.Soul-aligned success - the kind that leads to deep, authentic, and lasting happiness - isn't something that happens overnight. It's the result of a journey during which you tend to your dreams and align to their energy. This isn't a one-and-done proposition, but a way of knowing, being, and living - one that allows you to become a creator of your own reality.Tune in as I reveal the incredible shifts that you will experience once you treat manifestation as a lifestyle, the role of self love in manifestation, and how to incorporate energy tuning into your daily schedule with ease!Start unlocking your spiritual gifts. Listen now to discover: The two sides of the manifestation coin, and why you must pay attention to both to receive real resultsThe key to making manifestation work for you in the way you WANT it toAn invitation that will have you manifesting ALL of your soul-guided dreams and intentions - big and small! Timestamps:00:01 Intro & listener review02:57 Law of Attraction04:53 Energy, joy & wounds08:53 Aligned action13:19 Energy frequency of love15:14 Manifestation as a lifestyle17:00 Noom as a tool18:58 Energetic tuning22:56 Tools, conclusion & invitationLinks:Ten High Vibe Minuteshttps://allysonscammell.com/highvibeSleep and Grow Richhttps://allysonscammell.com/sleepandgrowrich Did you know that All the ANSWERS about your soul experience are INSIDE OF YOU. If you're ready to claim the key to unlocking them, then join me in SOUL BLUEPRINT - a certification program that reveals how to ACCESS and AMPLIFY your 5 Spiritual Gifts to CLARIFY your soul's unique blueprint, and ALIGN your energy to your soul-guided intentions so that your DREAMS come true. ENROLL NOW at allysonscammell.com/soulblueprint Stay connected: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulguidecircle Instagram: @allysonscammell Ready to grow a prosperous soul-guided business? Book an Intuitive Consult Seeking a high-vibe speaker or guest instructor for your event? Reach out here! — If Soul Guide Radio resonates with you, please consider leaving a review — this helps us to reach more soul-guided leaders, influencers, and entrepreneurs. Podcast support: https://theultimatecreative.com https://copymagic.agency Interested in being a guest? Learn more: https://allysonscammell.com/podcast
At the core of every business decision is your why. Unearthing your why is the key to success, but honestly, business owners don't do it often enough! Why?! Because it's not sexy. It's not this crazy hack or shortcut to those big income months. It's deep work. Unearthing your why is also very important in laying the foundation for your business and the decisions you're making for your business. Including your next launch! Yup, we're back on the launch train, and I'm talking all about launching –and more specifically, why are you launching? In this episode, I will equip you with four specific questions that you should be able to ask and answer with complete confidence before you go out there and launch. I don't care if you're promoting an event, a podcast, a new offer, a course –whatever the thing is– before you go into the world and put it out there, four specific questions need to be addressed BEFORE you launch...that is if you're ready to reach your biz goals and find the success you crave. Seriously, this episode is a firehose of information that will definitely help your business, so hit that play button, and let's go!! Leave a 5 star review on iTunes! Episode Highlights: Why launching is important for your business Are you launching for the right reasons 2 wrong reasons to launch Is it the right time to launch Why I don't (currently) launch new things Are you launching to the right people Are you launching the right offer The number one thing that's missing in most launches Why your mindset is key for business growth (not revenue) Need help getting shit done? https://www.facebook.com/groups/getshitdoneclub Send us podcast ideas at info@kelseymarieknutson.com Links: Show notes: https://www.kelseymarieknutson.com/podcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelseymarieknutson/ Hangout on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getshitdoneclub Try my favorite greens! Opti-green 50: https://1stphorm.com/products/opti-greens-50/?a_aid=KelseyMarie1 My secret weapon for growing my hair for the wedding: https://1stphorm.com/products/collagen-with-dermaval/?a_aid=KelseyMarie1 Work with Kelsey: Ready for your next big pivot? Maybe it's launching that new side hustle or growing your existing business, whatever the chapter Kelsey's here to help you bridge the gap between new ideas and achieving your goals! VIP Coaching: https://www.kelseymarieknutson.com/vipcoaching
This Sunday we celebrate 10 years of Ridge Church! A whole decade! We are so thankful for all that God has done in and through Ridge over the past ten years. As we reflect on what we have learned, we also look forward and fix our eyes on what's ahead for our Church.
In today's episode, I'll be talking about 7 (or so) qualities of being a better boss and leader. Whether you work alone or have a large team (or just a few people working with you), now's a great time to get your leadership game in place. Being a boss is more than being a visionary who has everyone else "do the work." We go into the following qualities: Don't blame people on your audience or publicly. Let people do their jobs. DO NOT do community looms and expect everyone to follow along with your rattling of ideas/thoughts and half-thought-out projects. Clarify people's tasks/roles and stick to them. Don't hire close friends unless there's a clear understanding of the end. Respect over Passive Aggressive Disrespect. Stop making everything personal. Be Approachable. Check in. Make sure to check out our Monday Refocus sessions - a quick episode to get your inspired, motivated, and re-focused for the week ahead! You'll also get invited to a free refocus session with me!
In this guided meditation, Robyn guides you to close your eyes, take deep breaths, and invite Reiki energy into your body. She encourages you to release what no longer serves you and connect with your inner self. You will end with a visualization exercise where you envision your goals and identify your next steps. There are moments of silences during this meditation for you to have your own inner experience. The Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast: The podcast where we talk about all things Reiki! The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast is for all members of the Reiki community, lineages, and levels of training! Reiki questions and topics can be about everything; personal development, spiritual growth, Reiki healing techniques, teaching Reiki, Reiki training, and other professional Reiki business practices. https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual. Colleen and Robyn can be reached at: ReikiLifestyle.com Contact Colleen: colleen@reikilifestyle.com Facebook: @reikilifestyle Instagram: @colleenbenelli Contact Robyn: robyn@reikilifestyle.com Facebook/Instagram: @robynbenellireiki
Hello to you listening in Ilhéus, State of Bahia, Brazil!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.StruggleYou want a communication transformation.You have something to say but may not know the words to create the change you want to see.You want to advance your business, practice or cause, but don't know how to say what you mean in your own voice. You want to win a case, sell an idea, share a vision, or launch a book, but your story idea is vague.You want to connect with, engage and influence your audience, but can't find the story that will lead them to action.SolutionI'm Diane, your story guide. I help professionals like you find the words you didn't think you had so that you can create a successful: Origin or Brand Story Book or Business Idea Keynote, Presentation or Workshop Series About Page story that's really about you Purpose / Mission / Vision Statement aligned with your valuesResultSo that you:Clarify your story message, direction and strategy, Remove hurdles and obstacles,Develop a plan with tools you can use to build your vision,Speak with confidence and conviction to make the change you seek, andAmplify your message by being seen, heard and understood, and listened to while transforming the lives of those you serveCTA: Whether you are ready to work with me as your trusted story guide or getting ready to be ready, I'm here to support you at Quarter Moon Story Arts! Please stop by to check out the Services, listen to the Audios, subscribe to the NewsAudioLetter, and receive a practical, worthwhile bonus just for signing up! Take advantage of how easy it is to connect with me. All the links are right below. Just Click to be transported to where you want to go!You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Start-up Session,✓ Opt In to my monthly NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.
In the newest episode of Becoming HeadStrong, Dr. Nicole Detling continues her series, "Clarify the Cliche." This week's episode includes what it actually means when we say "Don't get stuck in the suck." Dr. Nicole gives more detail into the meaning behind that and how we can embrace it. Tune in for this cliche and others as well!
My guest for this episode of Soul Guide Radio is my father... and during our conversation, I come out of the spiritual closet to him for the very first time.So many of us hide this deeply meaningful part of ourselves from the people around us, because we're afraid that it will make them feel uncomfortable, or it will cause tension, or they will reject us. In hiding this part of ourselves, we hold ourselves back from being truly authentic — and prevent others from knowing our truest selves. Expressing our authentic selves can be uncomfortable, for sure! It can even be a little scary in some situations. But if you can do it with the right person, at the right time, and in the right way, you can uplevel your relationship and create a profoundly deeper, stronger, and more resilient connection.This episode was an unplanned, spontaneous, and deeply meaningful discussion. At times, it was deeply uncomfortable. I'm sharing it with you because it's a powerful example of communicating your truest self to your inner circle.Start unlocking your spiritual gifts. Listen now to discover: How to talk about your true beliefs — even when you know your loved ones may feel differently or may not like it Why it can be so hard to discuss your spiritual beliefs with other people An invitation that will have you connecting deeply to the voice of your higher self, so you can get clearer on your beliefsTimestamps:00:01 Intro04:39 Meet my father05:30 Doing work you love 08:00 Prayer Rock13:24 Religious experiences & nature15:04 Energy vortex, sand dunes & trees16:57 Historical energetic presence17:58 The afterlife & NDEs21:01 Importance of authenticity & communication24:12 Accommodating v. being uncomfortable 25:35 Religious authority v. spiritual experience 29:04 Knowing each other fully32:48 Ageing & questioning35:22 Crossing over & preparing40:04 Choosing your lifetime41:08 Invitation & conclusionLinks:Soul Guide Radio #105: Accommodate, Ghost, or Get UncomfortableDid you know that All the ANSWERS about your soul experience are INSIDE OF YOU. If you're ready to claim the key to unlocking them, then join me in SOUL BLUEPRINT - a certification program that reveals how to ACCESS and AMPLIFY your 5 Spiritual Gifts to CLARIFY your soul's unique blueprint, and ALIGN your energy to your soul-guided intentions so that your DREAMS come true. ENROLL NOW at allysonscammell.com/soulblueprint Stay connected: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulguidecircle Instagram: @allysonscammell Ready to grow a prosperous soul-guided business? Book an Intuitive Consult Seeking a high-vibe speaker or guest instructor for your event? Reach out here! — If Soul Guide Radio resonates with you, please consider leaving a review — this helps us to reach more soul-guided leaders, influencers, and entrepreneurs. Podcast support: https://theultimatecreative.com https://copymagic.agency Interested in being a guest? Learn more: https://allysonscammell.com/podcast
As a reminder, you can get all the information discussed in today's conversation by visiting our website at integratedpwm.com and clicking on the Learning Center. While there, be sure to subscribe to our monthly “planning life on purpose” newsletter that's filled with tips and ideas to help you plan life on purpose. You can also set up a Triage conversation to learn a little bit more about how we serve in the capacity of a personal and professional CFO: helping OD practice owners around the country reduce their tax bill, proactively manage cash flow, and make prudent investment decisions both in and out of their practice to help them live their best life on purpose. You can also check out any number of additional free resources like our eBooks, blog posts, and on-demand webinars. Lastly, if you're interested in learning more about the launch of the 20/20 Money Membership, please check out the link in the Resources to learn more about what we have in store for you! Resources: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/ https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-104 20/20 Money Community Information ————————————————————————————— Please rate and subscribe to 20/20 Money on these platforms Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher ————————————————————————————— For past episodes of 20/20 Money with full companion show notes, please check out our episode archive here!
In another chat with David Allen, Dave Edwards asks about the Clarify and Organize steps. But they also veer off the agenda to talk about what goes on the calendar and why, the Someday/Maybe list, and feeling good about what you choose to do in any moment. You can listen to the entire conversation from November 2021 at GTD Connect®. -- This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity. Sign up for a free guest pass Learn about membership options Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It's easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You'll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won't find anywhere else. If you already know you'd like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options. If you'd like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what's included and how to get your free trial. During your 14-day free trial, you will have access to: Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book Extensive audio, video, and document library Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick David Allen's exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book. Ready to start your free trial?
Registration is open for the inaugural round of the Organized Coach Academy. There are soooo many bonuses and discounts available for this round. Learn more and sign up here. Be confident and empowered to go into 2024 with your business organized and streamlined. The first cohort begins October 3, 2023. Do you long for a sense of inner peace and balance in your life? And your business? Are you searching for that elusive solution that will help you remain calm and confident in the midst of your busy schedule? Despite being told to simply manage your time better, you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. The pain of constantly juggling responsibilities without seeing any real progress can be disheartening. Look no further, because today I have the key to achieving that desired outcome. I am thrilled to introduce our guest, Danielle, who will be sharing the secret to finding inner strength and inviting God into your life and business. Danielle Thienel is a certified life coach who supports faith-filled moms to create balance in their busy lives. She is a wife, mom of three, member of the Catholic Church, author, speaker, and host of The Peaceful Mind Podcast for Busy Moms. Her mission is to empower overwhelmed and stressed moms to feel more peace and joy in their busy mom-life so they can maximize their full potential. Get ready to uncover the power of faith and the surprising secret behind her process called the Cyclone Mom method. In this episode, Danielle shares how to: View time as a gift. Center your perspective of time using the analogy of the Cyclone. Find more peace and joy using the 5 Steps of her Cyclone Mom Method. The key moments in this episode are: 04:05 - The Concept of Time 05:15 - The Key to Organizing Our Time 08:06 - Tracy's CEO meeting tip 13:08 - Why the Cyclone Mom Method (LOVE this) 15:15 - Step 1: Call on your faith 18:06 - Step 2: Clarify your goals 20:29 - Step 3: Connect with yourself - your identity, know yourself 24:40 - Step 4: Confidently be Mom (yourself) - your worth 28:17 - Step 5: Control your Time 30:38 - Perspective shifts 32:53 - Overcoming time bombs - 5 areas of life to balance 34:15 - Get Danielle's book and learn more about her course. Connect with Danielle Thienel: Website The Peaceful Mind Podcast for Busy Moms Facebook Instagram Pinterest Resources mentioned: Danielle's book --> The Cyclone Mom Method FREE resource --> Time Saving Secrets: 33 Quick & Easy Strategies to Regain Control of Your Schedule (This takes you to her Divine Time Course) My conversation on Neill Williams podcast episode Idea Tracker Client Tracker FREE File Naming Formula Cheatsheet Get Time Freedom with a Systemized and Organized Business FREE Workshop: 3 Secrets to Organize Your Digital Files Connect with me: Website Email Instagram
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