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Brian still won't admit why he was on Clybourn.  Chicago's best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page.  Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101.    Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brian still won't admit why he was on Clybourn.  Chicago's best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page.  Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101.    Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The streetcar steers along Michigan and Clybourn streets despite objections from Rep. Bryan Steil.

Crain's health care reporter Katherine Davis talks with host Amy Guth about Walgreens' plan to reinvent itself. Plus: U of I plans marijuana research center at Discovery Partners Institute, Pritzker eyes big EV opportunity for Stellantis, Google gives $3 million to Indiana university to build an equity database and Goose Island is exiting its Clybourn brewpub for a spot next to the Salt Shed.

Lieutenant David Haynes, a police officer who works on the North Side of the city, makes his weekly visit to the WGN Radio studios and the Bob Sirott Morning Show. Lt. Haynes, who co-authored “The Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats,” reviews Fat Shack. Located at 2140 N. Clybourn in Chicago, they are known for serving […]

Episode 145: I will discuss The Diver Dan TV Show and the 41 Elston-Clybourn CTA Bus Route in Chicago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pete-kastanes/message

Episode 145: I will discuss The Diver Dan TV Show and the 41 Elston-Clybourn CTA Bus Route in Chicago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pete-kastanes/message

Episode 65: I will be talking about Screaming Yellow Theater, 1800 N Clybourn Ave Shopping Mall, and the closing of Riverview Park. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pete-kastanes/message

Episode 65: I will be talking about Screaming Yellow Theater, 1800 N Clybourn Ave Shopping Mall, and the closing of Riverview Park. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pete-kastanes/message

Laura says three months after dating Louis she found out she was not his girlfriend, but rather his “side chick.” Laura says Louis’ suspicious behavior has her convinced that he’s been unfaithful throughout their entire relationship.

Each week Rich Roy and Rob Pugliese sit down in Rich’s one bedroom Van Nuys apartment and force someone to talk to them. Credit www.bensound.com for ending music. Credit Raspberry Rox for intro and commercial jingles.

Black Lives Matter protesters were disappointed with Wednesday’s decision by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm to not file criminal charges against Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah. Chisholm had reviewed Mensah's fatal shooting of a Black teenager, Alvin Cole, outside Mayfair Mall in February. The protests that followed Wednesday’s announcement were mostly peaceful, with some exceptions. More than 100 demonstrators stood in the middle of State Street outside the Milwaukee County Safety Building after Chisholm's finding was announced and began to chant Cole's name. READ: No Charges For Wauwatosa Officer In Killing Of Black Teen The group quickly left and headed south. Turns out, they were going to the Interstate 94 westbound ramp at 7th and Clybourn streets. Many of the protesters walked onto the freeway. But John McHugh says police knocked him off his bicycle and stopped him from going onto I-94. In a brief interview with reporters, McHugh defended the civil

This is GBH Out Loud, and I’m Ashley Rodriguez. Today you’ll hear Michael Kiser read “Goodbye to Goose Island's Clybourn Pub for a Season, and Forever,” published on GoodBeerHunting.com on January 9, 2017. Stories about bars and pubs usually focus on the patrons—the folks who rely on their regular spots for connection, a sense of place, or simply as a go-to destination where they can grab a drink with friends. But this article is different. It’s a snapshot of the last moments of Goose Island’s Clybourn Brew Pub in Chicago, and its biggest mourners—the folks who work there and have called this space their home for years.   The closing of Clybourn Pub—not forever but for renovations—was a moment that inspired GBH’s founder Michael to write a tribute. The Clybourn Pub was symbolic of many things for Michael. Sure, it would open again, but as a changed entity: looking new, different, perhaps more modern. Beyond that, its closing and renovation meant something more. It’s not quite clear what, and, as Michael states, he needed a moment to figure it all out.  This is Michael Kiser reading his article, “Goodbye to Goose Island’s Clybourn Pub for a Season, and Forever.” Listen in.

EP187 - Euromonitor Michelle Evans - Commerce 2040   Michelle Evans (@mevans14) is the Senior Head of Global Digital Consumer Research at Euromonitor Intl. She recently published a new report, "Commerce 2040: Revolutionary Tech Will Boost Consumer Engagement." Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 187 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, September 4. 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 187 being recorded on Wednesday September 4th 2019, I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason's going to be back with you welcome back Jason and Scott show listeners Jason the folks over at euromonitor recently released a really awesome report that's right up our alley here at the Jason Scott show it's called Commerce 2040. So if you're doing the math on that is 2019 when recording that so it's about 21 years in the future it's a broad and Really Brave look at where retails going by 2040 as well as some of the intersections of Commerce in the home and entertainment. And help us walk through it here on the show we have the report's author Michelle Evans Michelle is the senior head of digital Global consumer research at euromonitor and joins us live from Chicago. Michelle: [1:28] Thanks for having me. Scot: [1:29] It's great to have you Michelle on the show I just want to report Jason has four words in his title and you have six so I believe you should get paid 50% more so we'll we'll discuss that after the show how the correlation of, titles word titles and compensation should match. Michelle: [1:48] I appreciate the appeal for more. Jason: [1:53] Michelle you're Taylor just one of many reasons you should probably get paid more than you. That kind of time on the show but would you always like to kick out the show by getting a little bit of syrup for your background for a guest so can you tell us a little bit how you found yourself in the. The consumer research world. Michelle: [2:14] Yeah actually I started as a journalist initially in my career and during the recession I had a come-to-jesus moment beside it probably wasn't the best for me a long-term so I started looking for other jobs so I was last at crain's Chicago business which is a business publication in Chicago operates other places as well they have City pubs but, I started looking at research jobs PR jobs that kind of thing euromonitor was actually looking for a former business journalist and so I joined I started focusing first on payments I dream about 9 years ago did that for a good four years and then I brought to leadership Nigeria to launch a product called today and we covered did Chelan are more Berkeley German offers from retail too Foodservice to travel to a beauty and personal-care but I thought we could do something more for our clients provide Marvel 360 look at the digital consumer so it launched in February of 2016. Jason: [3:28] That's awesome and for our most loyal listeners they're going to be somewhat familiar with euromonitor because you are actually the second Michelle from euromonitor that's been on the show. Michelle: [3:38] Correct. Jason: [3:39] But Michelle Grant was on the show number of years ago back in episode 34 when we're still figuring out how to do it so now that we've got all the Kinks worked out. We're at we're excited to have the Aging. Michelle: [3:55] Work work side Reebok. Jason: [3:58] So for folks that they don't have that episode fresh in their mind can you refresh everyone's memory about sort of who your monitor isn't what you guys do. Michelle: [4:08] For sure so you're a reminder we're based out of London we have 15 offices globally and we are market research firm we have we do both strategic and and now have to go research our history has been in more strategic planning so we have data and Analysis to clients subscribed to, as part of a syndicated offer then they also made you custom work with us as well to answer a specific business question for them. Jason: [4:43] That is terrific in the end Michelle Grant had to focus on a particular industry segment which is retail and you have a focus on this particular. I don't know we call it a demographic but the the digital consumer so you're looking through the lens of the consumer's life where as she's walking through the lens of. This this one particular shopping Mission and a consumer has do I sort of had that right. Michelle: [5:11] Yeah you're pretty close so we have within our syndicated database different systems Pages a client subscribe to so there's a 30 + that are more industry-driven so retailing being one of them travel food service and then we have some but are we block them either on their economies or consumers are in my case so what digital consumer we are thinking about it more from the customer vantage point in more like our motto is to think about how Tech is changing Commerce so really it's Commerce that happens you know maybe it's in a store maybe it's online our retail system looks at the sale of goods so in general consumer were thinking about those type of purchases but also travel Food Service entertainment I'm kind of that. Consumer-facing Commerce experience. Scot: [6:13] Colorful next to the background sounds like you got a lot of ground to cover and we were really excited to see the report so you want to jump into that the report probably looks it when I think of his kind of three use cases so you talk about entertainment venue kind of the home and then retail store and I thought just for fun because you told it in that sequence we would actually go the reverse so so because we really Reach Out focused here I thought we'd anchor on that and start without me so the first question I have is you here we are 2019 and there's a record number of stores closing in Mall's closing at least the US and think it's kind of a global Trend and feels like there's still a lot more stores that are going to close side if you read some books a like 30% of malls will close so so I guess my starting question is do we even have stores in 2014. Michelle: [7:03] I think for sure any of the key part is that stores are going to evolve so obviously through the history of retail there's always been changes where you know people in the USA might have lived in shop downtown you know several decades ago and then eventually went to Suburbia specialty retailer is Rose and popularity and you know now we're seeing them to Klein so I think there's a natural kind of evolution of things have happened in terms of what you know clearly it's more of a kind of a. Probably a generational shift it feels more severe what's going on. Certainly some economic factors and Technology playing a role and I'd say you know though we see. Online sales obviously from gross Sandpoint outpacing what is Boston Store you also when you when we serve a consumers you ask, why do you shop and store and it's a c Lexi lore touch things before they purchase some so 47% of global consumers say that they'll want to go in store I just think stores are probably going to change around those. Scot: [8:21] Do you think we'll have them all, format or is it going to be more of just kind of individual little Standalone stores. Michelle: [8:30] I think the mall format cuz it could certainly be feasible and I think what we're seeing as malls today is If you, consider some of the department stores are closing and some you're more of like entertainment Concepts that are coming in more of the restaurants there is a. Little shopping center in Chicago in the north and Clybourn area it's it's small it's not a huge mall by any means but it opened the last couple years and I am always struck whenever I go there because there is a grocery store so I might have more frequent football there there's a jewelry store remember like a candy shop that kind of thing there's also pleather of entertainment options so there's a cinema I think there's some other entertainment and then also a lot of food service options so giving you a variety of reasons to go and enjoy yourself and as your lingering perhaps shopping then. Jason: [9:34] Awesome and I I want to dig into that but before I do I just wanted to compliment you over on the report I think it's super smart. To forecast the future 21 years out Scott and I do these forecast every year and then annoyingly a year later Scott likes to do a show where he reminds everyone of all the things I forecasted a year ago. And that never goes well for me and I'm thinking that like. Bye-bye doing at 21 years out your way less likely to have people pulling out your old report in 21 years. Michelle: [10:07] I hope so that's my that was my makeup there. Jason: [10:11] Going back to our original theme of ways in which Michelle is smarter than Jason. Reading between the lines when you were describing the report in the the specific missions that people would still have in brick and mortar stores, I made an inference and I'm not sure you explicitly call that which is maybe retail isn't as. Maybe physical retail isn't as important or replenishment as it is today and that you know it more has this roll around these these special missions like like something you want to try before you buy, when you just want to serendipitously discover some. Michelle: [10:49] Yeah so when you think about different sort of purchases I think you've hit the nail on the head we talked about this a little bit in the home environment which. Rob is going to talk about in a few more minutes and I think dads were the replenish Amazon you obviously iot is starting to take off Smart appliances and whatnot so the idea of your washing machine belt. Shade or inform you when you need to charge it those kind of purchases could be outside of mice more so in terms of physical Outlet which is what we talked about in the in the retail store section we think that there's going to be kind of suppose by categories that there would be a convenience store for those those purchases that are Shirley just impulse buys I'm where you're walking down the street and and you just want to water or you. You know we're going home to make dinner and you you know you need milk or whatever that item is there that you don't want to have delivered and then the other type of storefront there would be would be more of an experiential Center I'm so this gets to that point of consumers Battle of touch feel, experience products that require oftentimes more consideration so maybe it's something like Furniture maybe it's apparel, beauty products I'm also come to mine. Jason: [12:18] Yeah and in a report when you talk about these sort of experiential centers. It sounds like the bar is significantly raised over like what we think of is experiential retail today so I today you throw a coffee shop into a retail store and now it's it's experiential retail but like what what are some of the examples of. Of the kind of experiential Center that you guys are envisioning and 24. Michelle: [12:44] Yes or no example that we included in the report is around the idea of a sports apparel store so you might have and I think there's there's flavors of this that an Under Armour my do in a flagship store were you you know you can go in and let's say there's treadmills where you might try on shoes you know trying to see how they fit what we're talkin about also in that scenario is why does it have to be a treadmill if you're trying to buy cleats because you play soccer why couldn't it have more of a substance that's more like turf or grass something I've seen in some stores today is this notion of taking a shower of concept in game if I in it so obviously you could go in there it could be for trying on the product or it could just be are you competing against yourself for 6 months ago or competing against a friend and I think a big saying is also like the kind of testing areas so you see some of that with with beauty products today and you'll leveraging AR to kind of see how that. [13:53] Shade looks on you and that type of thing what we are talking about in this world is a room that's sort of changes and you see some of it with changing lighting but we're even talking about change in temperature or changing to rain so a story that we talked about in the report is, this lady is preparing for a trip to Patagonia because I went Patagonia this year so that was top of mind and I you know needed to buy a winter coat so she's prompted to go into the store because they have this type of information on her interest her she's able to go into this room with this winter Co and see how it would truly feel because we know there's, I was like think about when you you know by clothes that they need to keep you warm and it's. 70° in a store it's hard to to kind of get that sense of how it might work and then the other big element that we talked about. With this particular example is this idea of. [15:00] Very much a game that you can play and we think for those retailers that really kind of nail and experience and make it unique that they could certainly even charge entry 2 to allow consumer Steven to play this game so what we've outlined in the report is the idea that you know maybe LeBron James is your favorite player and so you always dream about playing him in NBA Finals so we have some imagery in the report and so there is in the image graphic ran or holographic representation of LeBron. You as a consumer you have the ball and in your getting ready to take the game-winning shot so if there's those kind of experiences that really. Bring to life something that you might not be able to experience I'll swear you know perhaps that's something that a consumer might be willing to pay to build experience. Jason: [16:02] I like it and just a clarification for listeners that LeBron James she's talking about is LeBron James jr. who will be the. Michelle: [16:09] In 2040. Jason: [16:13] And I came back you might be coming up on the end of his career by that but I'm I'm pleased to hear because you know for people that believe in global warming I'm I was somewhat worried you might not need a coat in Patagonia in 20. Michelle: [16:27] Yeah that's that's touch-and-go right now you have a good point there. Scot: [16:33] So you're on the show we're big fans of AR VR 3D printing and some of those things that when Jason I talked a lot about them retailers kind of glaze over because they feel really gimmicky and and not like they're not going in Back to Future I was excited to see those mentioned in the report how do you how do you see those fitting into the store of the future. Michelle: [16:53] Yes I think you're right we actually do an annual survey of Industry professionals globally where we ask them about Technologies and where they're investing right now like looking out 5 years a eyes number one I'll choose number 2 but seems like 3D printing. Still fairly low arvr is kind of middle of the pack so it it certainly mirrors what what I hear as well and I think you know in that survey we asked them all so well why are you not investing in the topic, the top reason back of tends to be a lack of a clear business use case so I think we're still going with how this, you know how smooth the business forward arvr is certainly something that comes in quite a bit in this report for sure. [17:49] I think you know where this, a r I think about the use cases even today and terms of you know you know the being able to try on makeup. Being able to you know see. Clothes on yourself made it when you're not in the store the sizing getting more accurate sizing that type of thing and hopefully you know when we think about VR and we think about those kind of headsets I'm across the worlds we we keep calling them world's or environments in the report when we talk about VR and we think about the headsets we think about them being that more Spiffy's and something like the Google Glasses that we've seen in the past something that. You know you might actually wear that it would be a fashionable piece of I wear it wouldn't be maybe as intrusive as well time to bring things to life 3D printing is something we talked about in the retail store area and I don't know that we're, that it would come to a place where you know everything is printing on-site what we've talked about is if if you're trying on a shirt in the fitting room and in maybe it's a V cop that you want to run to cut maybe you can make small adjustments like that and have it printed. Scot: [19:16] Call how about I think you talked a little bit about kind of to use your Patagonia example where if you were trying on something you could you could see yourself and kind of us an AR mirror so we can see how, maybe they don't actually have the Garment there in the store and you can see how a different color would look or something like that you see that kind of technology being in the store or more kind of in the home. Michelle: [19:41] Why thinking both places are certainly and we can talk about it probably more in the home but, we had a pretty detailed imagery and in the report where we talked about a woman trying on product in the mirror and in what the experience around now with the you know I do think smart mirrors. In the retail environment have been around for a few years for sure and where we're seeing them more and more I think there's definitely a strong use case for those in terms of how they can. Kind of extended use cases and and helps it move. Bring different colors or Cuts or whatever it is to life for a consumer. Jason: [20:33] Yeah said to me it's like there's an it's hard to talk about each of these three things separately because in some ways I feel like they do overlap a lot and since you are. You know I'm kind of taking the the perception of the consumer that makes perfect sense. You talk a lot in the report about like increased demand for personalization and I feel like that's one of the areas where. You know some flavors of this 3D printing make an awful lot of sense is it like it's probably not true in 2040. That very many people are all walking around wearing a carbon copy of the same thing. Like we're using the same thing right like it you don't you don't have the same glasses prescription and it just feels like by 2040. There's going to be much more opportunity for for everything we use a known in life to be much more tailored to us and our unique. Differences in taste and flavor. Michelle: [21:29] I think that's entirely accurate and personalizations a common theme across the report certainly what you're talking about is is more so that product we bring home and the ability to kind of slice and dice it so what we want which I think is going to be certainly more feasible and it is probably, you know what I was describing with that 3D scenario is that if you're trying it on in a fitting room a certain shirt and you can see different cuts of it you can see different colors of it you know maybe this is a shirt today that's only sold in two colors in one cut but in 2040 could be in 03 * 8 Bridal 24 different versions of it that could be slightly different not to mention just the cut of the shirt you know like the way it fits you write the nobility we would have some more Taylor it, to a consumer as well. Scot: [22:28] 2 with the store of the future it wouldn't be a Jason Scott Shofu didn't talk about Amazon is is Amazon play a role in 2040. Michelle: [22:38] Will it be around in 2040. Scot: [22:43] For they are they what's Amazon look like in 2040. Michelle: [22:48] Are they serious. Yeah that's that's quite a ways out I would say if they continue on the same trajectory and and I'll continue to put the customer first and adhere to that sort of business principal than in theory they would still continue to be relevant obviously the world is fast changing so any number of things could happen you know I think with Amazon. And in the in the society that we live in as opposed to somewhere like a China just the sheer amount of of size that they have. Their tentacles so many different areas know they are the antitrust thing also comes up in what they might look at look like come in but you know I think Amazon also knows that, I can't fall asleep at wheel because. You know there's a lot of players like a like a Sears or a blockbuster Kodak they're all classic examples of people that were top of their industry and then. Lost Focus. Scot: [24:00] Yap's alethea you have to kind of self self innovator or else you'll get an intubated. Jason: [24:10] Yeah I do. I mean obviously I could go either either way but I do that you know Jeff Bezos has this quote that I admire, no Empire has successfully predicted it done to my eyes, he seems much more aware of How likely it is that bite by keys I just got a question of if Amazon well. Go pass relevance win and then he has the funny one liner I just want to make sure it out as me. Michelle: [24:41] Yeah and I think they kind of their other strategy is Bill in that defensive mindset right like they're they're always coming out fighting from their regard. Jason: [24:52] I do think it's going to be interesting I do you know I think it's easy to kind of bifurcate retail into the like all that you just sort of Need for filament replenishment and. That's obviously the the way the area that Amazon's dominating and leaning and then there's all of this sort of. Experiential you know personalization all these sorts of things that Amazon doesn't plan as much like I think it's rather Complicated by these non-retail businesses than Amazon's really selling at so like you know. Maybe they're they're the backbone of the internet in 2040 and in retail has become a boring industry that they don't Focus. Michelle: [25:33] If you if you think about Amazon. If we assume what I'm talking about Commerce 24 it comes to fruition and we think about Holly Amazon layers over it obviously they could dominate when it comes to kind of that General the filament of a replenish our products that I talked about in the home area you know maybe in a retail store maybe it's questionable I was so they pushed into stores more so and they certainly could do more I think a big area when we talked about their future as with Alexa and if they're able to win that battle to you to be one of the default choices for consumers because certainly across this report I talked a lot about that kind of voice first mentality. Jason: [26:19] Oh for sure like part of me is like I'll be thrilled it by 2040 they finally know which lights I mean when I say. Michelle: [26:26] Stars of things to be worked out for sure. Jason: [26:32] That's a video of machine learning is it like you're going to incrementally get better every year for the rest of life like I'm like you know the human brain which like does not end. Over over the Long Haul so yeah I know I do think that's interesting and I'll just be at the moment like in some ways they're they're much smarter about trying to make their technology open in ubiquitous. There's like some interesting news about just how much renewed effort they have in winning the the car dashboard and how far they're going to go to give away the voice technology to the car manufacturer or something like that because I. Michelle: [27:10] Well it's it it's the operating system of the future right now is it going to be it feels like the next generation of like the Apple iOS kind of battle. Jason: [27:23] Yeah for sure and I do I'm going to go back up I'm not I'm definitely not going to get in the business of predicting and Amazon's demise but I will say like one thing that is interesting about. You know so today personalization is a lot about personalized they experience and I do believe that increasingly is going to be economically viable to personalize products as we already talked about. And so-so For Better or Worse one of Amazon shoe disadvantages in retail is. They've just invested orders of magnitude more in their fulfillment Network than anyone else since they're able to, hold more good closer to the customer and get it to the much faster and cheaper than anyone in their orders of magnitude ahead of everyone so they made this huge investment. It now gives them this huge advantage and service-level I'm which is all really smart but one thing that's interesting is it the world does go to. Products that are made to order and made on demand a lot of that existing an investment gets depreciated. So it it just either that is one of the things that you could imagine sort of. Being a little bit of a equalizer and reducing some of Amazon's competitive Advantage if it is a place. Michelle: [28:41] Well I'm thinking about you know even if it doesn't go that way to like how fast can it get you know it is it you know they're down to 1 hour for some products can they really get it to me faster it feels like. Jason: [28:57] Oh yeah the patent is they're going to have it waiting in your basement before you know you need it. Michelle: [29:00] Going to be creepy Leo living in my second bedroom or something. Jason: [29:05] I mean the picture of your basement. Michelle: [29:08] Oh that makes sense then that's those people work down there. Jason: [29:16] Bebe cool iron is in 24. Michelle: [29:18] Yeah I just feels like even on that front that other retailers could catch up I guess it's my point. Jason: [29:27] Know for sure it's going to I hope I'm I do want to pick up a little bit though we constantly talk about today and you know his butthole. Digital disruption and like in particular like everything's omni-channel like all these debates about how you measure sit like. Is that all gone away by 2040 like is there like a people still talking about these channels is different things and you know are we still. Segmenting sales by like people that deliver online and people that deliver and store what it what is omni-channel mean in 20. Michelle: [30:05] Well if we're going to get to this Vision I would hope on your channels and non-existent I think that's what it's really about is. Is not looking at it by these various channels and drawing these lines as much as it's about just being you know having a product. When the consumer wants to shop for it and where they want to buy at excetera excetera so if it's picking it up on their way home from a convenience store location or if it's having it shipped from that, that store to their home you know I think that's probably what really holds back retail and additional era today it's those kind of / it started because. Digital camera on 2nd right is so I think you almost have to get past that in and look at solving it from where the consumer vantage point from their point of view. Scot: [31:05] William I'm excited to shop in the store 2040 hopefully we can all do a repeat of this episode and we'll just on January first week of January E-40 we'll get together and I guess Chicago would be convenient for you guys and we'll go see the store of 2042 anniversary this episode so let's go home because you do paint this picture where you know today I don't really think much about shopping at home you've got them really kind of all integrated Ruston Way and when you described that house the future actually reminds me of Jason's house cuz I think he's got like 50 Alexa's you can see through his refrigerator and it orders things is espresso machine knows he needs an espresso every 10 minutes. Self self espressos for those of us who don't already live in the house at 2040 give us a walkthrough of what what you think that looks like. Michelle: [32:00] Yeah for sure so I think we are starting to see some of those Technologies come in as you describe it 20/20 starts we come up the volume higher because that's when several different Appliance manufacturers say that, all lines of their products. Will be connected so you'll see more of that come in at home so you know as we think about it you know voice is Paramount across all these worlds where we talked about it and then you know when the home certainly plays a role certainly the the the speakers are hearing a voice like we should Google home and Alexa as well you know there is an imagery and Aaron Imaging report where we have a connected fridge and it's still the same set up sort of idea that you might have stay we can make a list or order something I didn't see about. You know the 2040 version is the level personalization that comes in is what we're talking about is that it ties in to that individuals Health System let's say you know what maybe you're. [33:11] Wearing something like a Fitbit is tracking your exercise you know tracking your food and and when you go into the fridge at 8 to grab whatever it slaps you on the rest and says you know this is going to know your calorie count or what-have-you we also show a lot more screens couple different places in the kitchen in the bedroom so. You know anything about the interaction screw in the kitchen how you could monitor different levels or whether is energy temperature security excetera. [33:45] In the home or I mean in the the bedroom specifically we have is interactive mirror and this is one of my favorite parts of the world to kind of imagined and wrap my head around is that we have the same mother she's just trying on outfit for the morning two interactive mirror so she can quickly see what's in her closet kind of you using the technology just throw it on or there's ability using social media of tomorrow or private communication channels picture send it either sure girlfriend that she trusts will actually give her an opinion or to a group of random strangers and then there's an element where you could invite a holograph brand rep. Into your home now I don't think this is something that's going to be. [34:35] I'm not going to be invited to every brand into my home but I'm thinking about someone like an apparel retailer in the US whitehouseblackmarket that's a place that I shop at quite a bit it's a place and I'm comfortable buying online because I I've shopped enough in person that I know they're Cuts so I would know what sizes fit me best so if they're also very like a commission driven so there is no stylist there right on top of you when you go into the the outlet and in terms of helping you so I could see someone like that. Kind of Grand where they they already provide value in your life when you shop with them so you can invite them into the home to help you finish out a certain look so you have the skirt but what about a top that would go grade or a certain belter or what have you. Jason: [35:33] Yeah one of the things that excites me about that vision is today as a retailer. You get a lot of data about what consumers own but very little data about how they actually. Use what they write so, yo like it's it's a very but it's very binary like they have skinny jeans are they don't have skinny jeans they have it at you. But there's no contact and so you know when I read that sort of, homes in REO in ueno now like you don't give the customer Ops in and you know all that everything aligns you cannot share with that brand. Analytics on what you know what's actually in your closet and how often you wash it and how and how often you wear it and what you wear it with. And you know you could imagine the the AI recommendation engines of the future. Things bad with that much with your data source could be you know much more accurate at. Sort of you know truly finding things that made my life better than than the kind of basic recommendations that we have today and things like that so. Michelle: [36:43] Yeah and I don't want to creep out your entire audience face by any means I I don't think this is going to be every brand it's going to take a certain, there's a certain trust you would have other brand like that alright to give them that kind of information but once they've established that trust, I could see that type of thing. Jason: [37:02] I think one of the interesting trust ones to play out is the whole and you you paint a little bit of this in the report to is the whole integration of bike shopping and health care right though. You can imagine again that that facilitates a lot of better experiences if. Your grocery store knows that you have diabetes like like forget just like telling you if you're buying your calorie counter not like are you buying doctor approved items and are you know all of those kinds of things to come in a play but they're right there are potentially some. Some huge trust barriers enabling some of those experiences. But I do want to keep the audience out and so. The the potentially cool or creepy part to me is you got you seem to be pretty in on the robotic assistance so it like is are we straight up Jetsons are we going to get a sparrow. Michelle: [37:58] If they can fold my laundry I'm all about them coming so we talked about robotic-assisted from the idea that I might share one there could be different business models like maybe the outright own maybe they're leasing renting that type of thing there's a screen on its belly and stomach where we can see. [38:25] Show me the interactive screen where they able to talk to him or you know maybe they see entertainment program Maine or maybe Brands actually are able to push out messages through there but throughout our images as robot. Plays a role in one of them he. You know gets the products that were delivered that day and bring some to the kitchen in the one. In the bedroom on Mom's getting ready he's playing with the small child so he's not outright the babysitter mom still in the room but it's he's playing educational games with the kid and the scenario where describing here is you know it's a small kid they're playing blocks and the kid says you know where we are. You know what we're bubble he says Mom I'm bored in Oakland by the next Edition so what we're talkin about here's the idea that you know if you have you would. Police are out right on this robot and then you would buy in a certain packages so in that case maybe you bought the package for a two year old to three year old and now I need to upgrade to the four-year-old package something like that. Jason: [39:37] It's going to be interesting are you familiar there's a uk-based television series called humans. Michelle: [39:49] No I'm not but I need to watch it at. Jason: [39:51] Stay awake I think it's on AMC in the US and it a door a couple of Seasons or one season has was dislike. Somewhat distant future when like households were just started by affluent household could now afford the the Schumann eyes robots, and of course they're getting better every year and said they're all these financing plans and if you're middle class family like. You know do you make the financial sacrifices to invest in one of these things or do you have something symport you know and I. Because it's DJ's are psychos off the rails and ultimately you can't figure out like who the Androids are in the humans in. Driver bolt and try to of the pilot is very much in line with with a painted so you should know. Scot: [40:50] Clear you are in the report you suggest a lot of bran ways Brands inject themselves into the house you've given us a couple of those examples you Yeltsin reduce this kind of concept of passive consumption explain what that is and why connected home ring set alarm. Michelle: [41:06] Yeah for sure so I think we're starting to move into the air like I said 20/20 is a key or where there's a lot more appliances in the marketplace Mass consumers naturally upgrade things these appliances will be connected so the kind of Pastor consumption you know it's going to tie to those were punished for products I don't think. Any of us get up in the morning and work like super excited to go buy Tide laundry detergent so those kind of product choices are product decisions purchase decisions that we could just essentially automate so we we see technology today now that it's going to be even better into these machines you know it's able to measure consumption rather than purchase history that the retailer would have so some of this could be I'll try to my settings are still a question if the consumer want to be removed entirely or if they want to be paying down their phone to okay a decision but I think long-term is we think about this idea of passive consumption is certainly starts to. [42:14] You know shake up the retail industry as we know it consumer Appliance manufacturers with with. Attack in these appliances are able to get closer to Consumers offer things like remote monitoring maintenance kind of things to keep that relationship going you know what, just because. You know it's going to notify you need me more laundry detergent doesn't mean a retailer has to fulfill that there's a potential potential probably for a brand to do that as well so I think it starts to change the whole paradigm and it has a big impact anything about loyal to two because, you know you're a lock into a decision so there's less opportunities upon which a cpg brand like a a P&G could influence you to buy Tide I'm just switching by that versus what you might have been buying before. Jason: [43:11] Yeah I I D I think that's. Interesting totally viable in my in my mind that is another scenario that potentially causes Amazon to have to order the Amazons of the world. To have to Pivot right because, again there they build their business to try to be the world's most customer-centric business customer kind of. That their customer Persona today is a human and you know they built they invested in all these warehouses in this huge assortment because they feel like customers like huge assortment and they like to get the goods real fast. If the customer of the future is the LG dishwasher and it is ordering its own soap. You can imagine some of the things Amazon's investing and being less important right like the LG dishwasher might run a reverse auction and buy the soap from whoever can you know provide soap that has meat specs. They can provide it the cheapest and unlike the human that doesn't notice they're out of soap and told her out of soap and they needed in one hour the LG dishwasher that knows exactly how how frequently you've been washing dishes for the last 10 years. Can can order the soap well in advance and wants the cheapest Zillow soap that can be delivered on a very slow cost-efficient method. [44:31] I do think that that's going to be another that that's a potential another interesting. Curve that that some of the players of today might have to think about but I was more excited in your home thing you saw their super practical problem there's no porch piracy in 2014. Michelle: [44:49] I'm glad I did that. Jason: [44:55] Write like in CNS because the the delivery Guy waits until they know you're home and then they deliver the. Stages of close to you and then using this all the spectator they do it when you're home which I think is bad I do want to Pivot the to the entertainment venues in 2040. There are a bunch of a cool ideas and it seems like a VR plays a super prominent role you want to talk about that a little bit. Michelle: [45:22] For sure so you know I live in Chicago I'm actually a Cubs season ticket holder so we go to a ton of games and so when you think about. Dad experience that you have at the stadium today and then what am I be in 20 years you kind of have to just start to. [45:43] Weber jetting more technology to add to that in-stadium experience because it's already commented home I I was in a conversation with friends this weekend and someone was talking about the upcoming Bears game and how much a ticket cost and I don't want to deal with parking and all of that nonsense and I can just watch it when I can watch it at home on my 80 inch whatever TV so you know obviously. The stadium operators are competing in a new way you know against against the streaming services and in the technology you have at home to bring it Sabrina game The Lies We talked about is a are so think about those cool glasses that I described earlier that we would naturally have so how can we take AR and Leo over the action. [46:38] Deep in it so an example might be like from the baseball realm a key stat they often throw around you know what a picture is how many pitches is it you're on the game and you know that's going to start arrest come out as he hits a hundred or hundred five why have you what if you had all their stats because the players. When you could see their endurance level as something else is happening in the sixth inning he's just getting worn out because he pitched on three days rest. What other factors come into a horse's Commerce Elementary as well where you can order food to your seed order it too kind of a click-and-collect kind of location and then also Tynan to you watching the game the ability to order pre-order merchandise as well you know based on what players you might be taking an interest in. Scot: [47:34] Cool one of the things we haven't talked about his drones and there's a little bit of drone delivery in there but but here in the entertainment world you talk about this kind of cool you could be sitting there watching things and then switch to a different camera from from the Drone is how do you see those playing into the whole event situation. Michelle: [47:55] Yes I think it's just about you know. Angles on the game that you know so you know I think about it in terms of what you might see at home that you don't actually see when you're in person at the game from your seat currently you know if you guys I'm sure you guys have been probably Wrigley Field it's going through a lot of upgrades right now but if you think it back a few years ago without the jumbotrons without Cheap Eats around the stadium the idea of being able to see a closed play you know you want to re-watch it you want to build understand how it. What is the Players really say for whatever the scenario was so I think that's another way another kind of layer to it. Jason: [48:43] That like it's going to be awesome to live in that world Michelle in that's actually going to be a great place to me baby cuz once again we have used up our a lot of time for the show but if folks have a burning question and want to continue the dialogue we certainly encourage westerners to jump on our Facebook page or hit us up on Twitter Michelle is Whispers you want to contact you what's the best way to to find you online. Michelle: [49:11] For sure I am on Twitter and also linked Denso on Twitter it would be at Nevins in Evans 1/4 and then online Michelle Evans. Scot: [49:26] Cool we really appreciate taking time out of planning our feet are 21 + years future so to come on the show. Michelle: [49:35] Thank you was a pleasure to be with you guys. Jason: [49:38] Until next time happy commercing.

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Back the Kickstarter. Celebrating a close family member's 50th birthday in the ICU is a worst-case scenario for most people — but for Danni Allen, watching her father battle (and then overcome) weight-related health issues proved to be the catalyst that inspired her to audition for "The Biggest Loser." After beating out 300,000 other applicants to be one of the final 15 featured on the show, Allen showed up to set and was immediately faced with the harsh new reality of her next six months — namely, the signature tough love of trainer Jillian Michaels. "When you meet Jillian Michaels, she gives you no second to think," shares Allen. "There wasn't  a minute to think before she had you on the treadmill." And that first workout? Yeah, it lasted four hours. Jillian Michaels, at the time, "was not my favorite person," Allen says tactfully. But eventually, the trainer wore Allen down. Or as Allen laughingly confides, "she literally beat it out of me!" 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The show also taught Allen the importance of a strong community supporting you — a philosophy Allen promotes in her work with Planet Fitness, the fitness chain known for their Judgment-Free Zone®. "We [the cast members] created a family on the show. I think it's different than other reality TV shows — we're not there to take each other down. We are actually there to support and push each other... we wanted to be there for each other." As far as Allen's takeaway tip towards living your best life, she encourages a twist on a gratitude journal. "I keep a journal, and I always write down three things that I did well that day. That shows me that I'm making progress. You always get bogged down by the negativity or the things you wish you could have done or the "supposed to be's" — instead, it's about seeing what you did right." Sounds like Allen is right where she's supposed to be. This episode is presented by Chicago Sport and Social Club, reminding you that summer is just around the corner. Get into a summer volleyball league now and use code “GOALS” to get 5 percent off through March 31. If you like what you hear, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts. And if this post or anything else we’ve created impacted your life, please support our Kickstarter. --- Transcript: JAC: Hi listeners, it's Jeana Anderson Cohen from aSweatLife.com, and I am here to talk to you quickly before we get to the high achievers who will share their goals with you. But if you have big goals or if you've been watching us help others achieve their big goals through our ambassadorship, we're asking you to help fund our Kickstarter. So if you check the link in the show notes today, you'll see that we are raising $20,000 between now and April 9th to help fund the expansion of our ambassadorship to help women set and achieve big goals in Chicago and across the country. Again, check the show notes or aSweatLife.com to learn more. Thanks so much. Let's get to those goal getters. JAC: Welcome to #WeGotGoals, a podcast by aSweatLife.com, on which we talk to high achievers about their goals. I'm Jeana Anderson Cohen;  with me I have Kristen Geil and Maggie Umburger. KG: Morning, Jeana. MU: Morning, Jeana. JAC: Morning. So Kristen, this week you talked to Danni, who many listeners may remember from The Biggest Loser. KG: Yes, I spoke with Danni Allen who won The Biggest Loser five years ago. She is from Mundelein and she won The Biggest Loser a few years ago and now she has completely transformed her career and is working with Planet Fitness, helping them open new gyms across the Chicago land area and we actually spoke to her right before the opening of one on the Broadway location up in Wrigleyville. JAC: And what's incredible about Danni is how she has sort of managed the change in her life. Starting first and foremost with The Biggest Loser when she had this catalyst in her life.  And then Jillian Michaels was introduced into the fold. What did she have to say about coach Jillian? KG: It was really clear throughout our interview. She references Jillian several times and the impact that Jillian had on her life and encouraging her and scaring her a little bit in really getting that tough love mentality instilled in Danni so she could push herself harder in and out of the gym to really live up to her full potential. And one of the interesting things that she really retained after meeting with Jillian for so many weeks and days in a row was the importance of breaking your goals down into bite size pieces, which is something we have heard over and over again on this podcast. Danni referred to it as Eeyore, the idea that there's this huge seemingly insurmountable goal that you have in the future. Whether it's, you know, losing half your body weight or climbing a mountain, let's just say, and it's really clear that she was able to win The Biggest Loser not by thinking about, I have to lose 120 pounds, but thinking I have to lose five pounds this week. And then just focusing and building it from there. MU: One thing that is so fun about this podcast is that we get to interview these high achievers and talk about something that they might not always get to talk about on interviews or or with the people in their daily lives. We get to ask about how they set goals. And then one element that often comes up about goal setting is how people express gratitude for where they are and that helps them set goals for the future, but Danni has a really interesting take on gratitude, which is something that we love here at aSweatLife. KG: Yeah. One of the things I really loved was when we talked about this, I asked Danni what her best life looks like because at aSweatLife we're all about helping our readers to live their best life and she responded that she took the time each night to write down three things that she had done well that day, not just three things that she was grateful for, but three areas where she specifically thought she had succeeded and she said, you know, at the end of the month you look back and you have 90 things that you did well and that's a huge confidence boost for yourself and helps fight that feeling of the imposter syndrome so many of us have, whether it's in the workplace or in our personal lives. So I thought that was a really great twist on a gratitude journal. Just making it a little bit different and really helping boost your confidence in a new and interesting way. JAC: Chris. We're so excited to hear this interview with Danni, thank you so much. Here's Kristen with Danni. KG: Welcome to the #WeGotGoals podcast. My name is Kristen Geil and I am here today with Danni Allen who is now working for planet fitness and is the former winner of NBC's The Biggest Loser. Danni, how are you today? DA: I am doing fantastic. How are you doing? KG: I'm good. We are so excited to have you here because we know that you are all over Chicago, which is our home base working with Planet Fitness, helping engage their new members. Can you tell me a little bit about what that role is for you and how you're working for it? DA: Yeah, absolutely. If anyone has been to a Planet Fitness before, I mean I'm really, really passionate about making sure the brand stays here in Chicago as well, but we're 1500 locations nationwide and the best part about Planet Fitness is it's the home of the judgment free zone where anybody and everybody can feel comfortable in their own skin. And myself, who used to be, you know, almost 300 pounds at one point felt really intimidating going into a gym. So when I started working with Planet Fitness and seeing the culture that they allow everybody to feel like they belong, I had to dig in deeper and that's why I'm really excited to be part of the branding here in Chicago. KG: What does that mean exactly that Planet Fitness does to make their members feel welcome in that judgment free zone? DA: Well, the first thing you do when you walk into a Planet Fitness, is you'll see, purple and yellow plastered everywhere, which is always fun colors to have and make you just feel excited, but we always have really friendly staff that's always at the front desk to say, welcome you in. Always give you a tour of the gym. But the biggest piece of the puzzle with planet fitness is unlimited fitness training is included for only $10 a month, which is your membership cost. So included in that membership cost is unlimited fitness training, so that way you can have someone to be on your side and help you with your goals and you know, there are different workout sessions--over 40 of them actually every single week that you can be a part of at no additional cost to make you feel comfortable when you first walk in and that's a big goal of ours to spread that word. KG: And let's back up just a little bit. Why don't you tell us a little bit about how you got to be on The Biggest Loser, what prompted you to try and get on that show and then what was your journey like once you're on there? DA: Yes, so about almost, oh, wow, this is at six years ago, almost to the day. Unfortunately my Dad  got really, really sick and was put into the hospital and a lot of his health concerned attributed to his weight and we actually had a very close call there. I really thought there was a moment there. I wasn't going to have my dad with me. We were celebrating his 50th birthday in the ICU hoping that things would turn around and thankfully they did and my dad had lost about a hundred pounds.  He was doing so much better and really getting his life back at 50. I was 25 and just realizing, you know, as a wake up call for me that I needed to get my health in order. I was definitely tipping the scale very close to 300 pounds and knew that I needed to change something so I wasn't 50 and in the ICU and you know, hoping that I would have a longer life. So with that I started Weight Watchers and started to lose a little bit of weight with a girlfriend at work that was helping me while my dad was recovering. And then she happened to call me one night. It was like, Hey, you know, the TV show, The Biggest Loser? They have auditions tomorrow, let's go. And I was like, yeah, I don't really. I've seen what they do on that show. I'm not really sure I could quite handle it.  And you know, the Jillian Michaels is just scary enough as it is. KG: I hear that. DA: Um, and so, but, you know, we bit the bullet, we went the next day and the funniest part was this audition started at 10:00 and I always love when they call it Chicago, but it was actually Lombard. I'm like, this isn't Chicago people, but ... KG: It's false advertisement. DA: Exactly. But we got there at like 7 in the morning thinking, oh, we'll be at the front of the line. No big deal. We were sadly mistaken. We actually had to wait in line for almost eight hours because there's over 3,000 people already in line waiting to get in. But we did. And this was mind you at this point. Now we're in July of 2012. Right. And you know, summers here are just excruciating. And so I came all cute because I'm like, I'm meet some producers or I really didn't know what was going on, but it's eight hours later I got to the front. DA: I was like a sweaty mess. My hair was. I was like, well, there's no shot of making the show. And we were in and out in a matter of 10 minutes, interviewed as a group and I'm like, well, you know, I'm sure they've seen thousands and thousands of people. There is no chance here. But I went home later that evening and I got a call on my phone and it said Los Angeles. I'm like, who's calling? And little did I know it was a call that changed my life and they, I answered the phone and they said, are we speaking to the next biggest loser? Three months later of auditioning, I got to meet my trainer, Jillian Michaels, whom, um, at the time was not my favorite person. But after, after, you know, working sometime with her and she literally beat it out of me. KG: Tough love. DA: Exactly. Exactly. But we created a bond. DA: My season was quite unique where, you know, we were definitely slapped right in the face of working out eight to 10 hours a day, which I do not condone for the average person every day. So we were on a reality televislon show. But I got to know Jillian more and more. And unfortunately my season, my, my entire team got kicked off in the first four weeks, so I was riding solo with her for the entire remaining six months of the show. But I really got to see a side of Jillian that she truly cares. She's hard for a reason and you know, 3,000 people just in my Chicago audition came, but over 300,000 auditioned that season alone. So we had, I was the miracle 15 that actually made the show and she just wants to make sure you work for it. And you know, six months later I was being crowned the champion dropping 120 pounds and you know, having a lot of fun over the last five years. KG: Was there any hesitation on your part at all when you got the call or were you, did you have a gut feeling that says I have to do this for me? DA: Oh, absolutely. I was terrified. And especially I told you, I actually went to the audition with a friend and we thought we were auditioning together and I was the one that got the call back and she didn't. So there was a part of me and you know, my mom always says I have the disease to please, I worry about everyone else before I take care of myself and I know I'm not the only one that's like that. I was ready not to do it. And then I'd seen, you know, my first after my second call audition, you know, they make you do the awesome turnarounds with just like a sports bra showing off your belly KG: Oh, I have nightmares about that. DA: And they're like, oh wait, no, we need to pull it out a little bit more and you can't see my hand gestures right now, but they're literally like pulling your tummy fat out of your pants so you can like see how much weight you truly need to lose. And it was quite a mortifying experience if I might say. And it really made me question. And then of course, you know, day one you're slapped in the face with our first workout doesn't end for four hours. So. And Jillian was just a spitfire. So I didn't even know once I made the show if I could even last more than one more day. But I did do, I took it one day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time, and then we created a family there on the show, so I was thankful for the contestants that were on our season. I think it's different than other reality TV shows. We're not there to take each other down. We're actually there to hopefully support and push. And then every once in a while you hope you've got five extra minutes in the gym just to get that leg up. But we wanted to be there for each other. KG: That's amazing. CK: Hey, it's Cindy Kuzma, the co-host and producer of #WeGotGoals. We'll get back to Kristen's interview with Danni in just a minute, but first I want to say a special thank you to our sponsor this week, Chicago Sport and Social Club--and want to let you know that they're special discount code for beach volleyball. It's been extended through March 31st. That is good news because with Chicago Sport and Social Club, it's more than a game. It's a social sports experience. When this Chicago winter finally ends, you're going to have a lot of reasons to play. It might be feeling the sand between your toes and maybe meeting people and moving your social life outside for season. Whatever your goals are, whatever your reasons for playing. There is a beach volleyball league at Chicago Sport and Social Club for you, so to sign up you can do it as a team of all women, a team of men and women, or you can sign up on your own and get set up with the team. Do that by going to www.chicagosocial.com and use the code goals. That's g o a l s when you register, you'll get five percent off now through March 31st. Thanks so much to Chicago Sport and Social Club. And now let's go back to Kristen and DannI. KG: This is a good time to ask the first question that we ask everyone who comes on our podcast. What is a big goal that you've achieved in the past and why was it so important to you and how did you get there? DA: You know, since winning the show, my life has flipped upside down and I think in a generic sense, what I've learned is that there's no supposed to be. That was like my biggest thing to realize is, you know, I think we matriculate through school, we go from high school hopefully to college, then you get a job and then what the show taught me is things can shake up that you need to take your life and your personal story in your own hands and it might not go the direction that you want, but to take it and, you know, just kinda jump with it. DA: So immediately after the show I ran the Chicago Marathon, which I never thought I would do. Everyone's like, oh, did you want to be a runner? I'm like, no, I thought running was stupid. I really did. Um, but you know, I found one goal with this show and I liked the finish line analogy, is that, you know, as you're running, you can always go a little bit further. So it started with a 5k and then a 10K. And I really wanted the opportunity being from Chicago to run that marathon and the funny part is I did sign up in their lottery and I didn't get in initially and so luckily if you're ever having trouble getting into the marathon, just win a national television show and tell Savannah Guthrie on NBC Today Show that you didn't make it in and then you'll get calls the next day, so. KG: That seems like a reasonable way to get in. DA: Everyone can do that, right? No problem. So that was one of my biggest goals just as far as being a Chicagoan and feeling like I embraced something that is so huge and culturally diverse here, running through all the neighborhoods that Chicago has. So that was one of the big things I had. But also secondly, which is also my future goals, is working with a company like Planet Fitness that really gets the opportunity to change lives and make people feel more comfortable. And I think especially in today's day and age, we need to make sure that we are doing our best to have as many people feel comfortable in their own skin. I like to work with a lot of programs that help people just feel unique and great in their own bodies and though I lost 120 pounds, that doesn't mean that I am defined by my weight. DA: I am not defined by my scale. So over the last five years it's using platforms like Planet Fitness to help people realize that, you know, scale weight tells you the relationship with gravity and that's, that's about it. And since then I've had great opportunities to work with other platforms like Girls on the Run, which is great here in Chicago as well. And if I can continue doing that, I think everything will be great. KG: You mentioned Planet Fitness as being a judgment free zone, which is something that we don't feel oftentimes when we're walking into a gym. How did you feel that first day when you walked in to The Biggest Loser workout warrior coliseum is how I think of it. DA: So I will say I didn't know it quite at the time until I first walked in, but it's actually a Planet Fitness. So yes, it's The Biggest Loser private gym, but it's supplied by Planet Fitness, so it hasn't the gears and the purple and the yellow, so you'll see that. DA: So I wish I had known that at the time. I might have had some sort of comfort level with that, but walking in for the first time now, mind you, I was an athlete my whole life. I wasn't oblivious to what equipment and gyms were, but I had been over 200 pounds since I was 14 years old. I was heavy but I knew how to move it. I was all state in, in Illinois for soccer, I was a goalkeeper, you know, and I was getting ready to go college bound and I think I disappointed my poor father's heart, but I ended up playing water polo in eventually in college as well. And so I was really extremely athletic. I just could never figure out why my body wasn't losing the weight. So when I walked into that gym for the first time, I kind of knew what everything was. DA: And I think if anything it was more impactful because I'm like, I also know what these things can do. KG: Yeah, you know what you're in for. DA: Exactly. And then you know, when you meet Jillian Michaels, she gives, you know, second to think. In all honesty, there wasn't a minute to think before she had you on the treadmill running. People were falling off. It didn't matter. You just had to stay on and pray for the life that she was going to go away soon. KG: You said that you guys spent eight to 10 hours in the gym a day when you were on the show, but at the same time we call this a reality show and that is not realistic for most people. So once you got out of that environment and came back to the real world, how did your personal fitness and health goals for yourself change then from what they had been while you were on the show? DA: Yeah, I would hope to say like it was simple and easy, like a light switch. Turn it on and turn it off. With the show, like any reality show, you're not watching a TV show to see someone lose one or two pounds a week, right? That's the safe and more healthy way to do things, but at the end of the day they want to make an impact and a splash and you want to see the most extreme makeovers, which is great for that scenario, but that's not real life. So after the show, it did take me some time to realize how much can I work out to try and maintain and in all honesty, maintenance wasn't even an option for me right at the beginning because I lost so much weight so quickly. Your body needs that time to adapt. So luckily I did create a great relationship with Jillian and I actually joined her on her tour for a little bit, so she was able to give me that mental strength that I needed, knowing that I didn't need to spend that much time in a gym and she was trying to dwindle me down to about 45 minutes to an hour at a time though, you know, it took time to get to that. DA: That's what I've gotten to today. If you can work out about 45 minutes to an hour, four to five days a week and it doesn't have to be in a gym. Trust me, I work with the gym and I love going to the gym, but just going outside like for the first time here in Chicago, it's what like 50 degrees out? KG: It feels like spring outside. So I saw a guy in shorts and a tank top riding his bike last night. DA: I didn't bring my jacket. It was fantastic. So utilizing just your basic scenarios, going out for an extra walk or instead of you know, if it is nicer like it is today, you know, taking that opportunity to, to move more and at the end of the day move more and watch what you eat. That's the real, you know, the real solution to what we, we've got to get to. KG: What else do people not see happening on The Biggest Loser that might surprise them? DA: Oh, there's a lot. We always said we wanted to have a show called The Biggest Loser After Dark and there are little things, like you said, I can say what I want. We had a, we had a food porn jar so when anyone talks too much about like, oh, I could really go for a chocolate sundae with some--you had to put money in the jar, so we called it our food porn jar, so we would have food porn our where we could talk about it for just an hour, get it all out there, all the foods that we thought we were missing, but I will say as it started to evolve it and go in your body change and your taste buds honestly do change. It will happen. It's not overnight, but that food porn jar got less and less and less and we always said whoever was going to win the show is going to get the pot in that, in that jar. But I never saw any of that. KG: Someone broke a promise. DA: Exactly. But you know those. Those are the little things and at the end of the day, I don't think what they necessarily showed is all the different ways that we worked out. Yes, we definitely went to the gym, but we're lucky enough to be in Calabasas, California, in the in the valley, which was beautiful, so we went hiking almost every single day so that I said we were working out eight to 10 hours a day. It wasn't always in the gym, so we went hiking. I got into yoga and that's actually how I met the love of my life now, David, he was a yoga instructor here in Chicago that I met, so all you ladies that go into those fitness studios and see that cute instructor, it can happen. KG: Like a fairy tale come true. DA: But what they also don't show, like I said, it's a lot of the nutrition as well.  Many people think we have a chef on the show. That is not the case. We have to cook all of our own food. In the beginning they did bring a nutritionist in to kind of help us. We also had Devin Alexander, who's a great chef out of LA as well. She came in a couple of times just to show us a few things, but really at the end of the day, if they could've shown what we were eating now, sometimes it was very basic and boring because all you have time for is-- KG: Chicken and greens. DA: Exactly. But she taught us. Things like spaghetti squash pizza casserole, and you know, turkey roll ups. All these different things that you could eat and kind of have variety in your food because you're eating the same thing everyday. Now some people are black and white. They can do that. I'm not. I needed a change, so when I learned how to make sushi out of cucumbers, right? DA: All these little things that you can still indulge, it's really good food, but it's. It's not. It's not bad for you. Those are the things that I wish they would show in the show because I think I would say you get the size you want to be from what's on your plate. You get the shape you want from the gym. KG: Oh, that's interesting. I'll remember that. What was your approach to goal setting like before The Biggest Loser and how has it changed since then? DA: Oh man, before The Biggest Loser, I think I was so lost in the world of what's the right thing to do, right. And I would try so many different things and probably not give it the length that it needed before I was ready to give up and try something else. So before the show, at least when it came to my health and health and fitness, I was always trying to figure out what's the quickest way for me to lose this weight and if I had just taken a step back and realize that weight was something I struggled with my whole life. DA: So it wasn't something I was going to fix overnight. And that's why like I actually really do appreciate kind of the mindset that Weight Watchers comes from. I think it comes from a good angle, but I was all over the place. I was trying one thing and then jumping to another and then doing this or setting myself up. I kind of call it the Eeyore effect where you set this goal that is just so unattainable. I knew I had well over a hundred pounds to lose, but if I had taken it like five pounds at a time, I probably would've been more successful than realizing, you know, that cloud is following you, that Eeyore cloud, saying a hundred pounds, a hundred pounds, you gotta lose it. And then before you know, losing five pounds at a time, I was actually gaining five pounds at a time. Where after Biggest Loser and especially like I will always, you know, talk about how much Jillian was a big part of, of changing my life. DA: She really helped me break down goals and finding goals in different ways. You know, at the time it definitely was about a scale. We were weighing, you know, in those cute little outfits on this show in front of millions of people. But she, she helped me find successes outside the scale. So like I said, running became a huge part of why I was doing what I was doing because I felt like the easiest thing you could do is put on a pair of gym shoes and just go. And with that we started to focus on those goals. You know, when I did my very first push up, that was huge for me because I didn't think I could ever do that. I'm like, my butt's too big, my stomach's huge. There's no way I can push up and down a 300 pound body. But actually it wasn't very long until I was able to. DA: And I was still probably like a good to 60 pounds when I did my first push up. So your weight doesn't define you and being on the show, it helped me choose smaller goals, hit those, find those successes because that's going to launch you into the next goal versus thinking, what's the big picture goal? Let's find the little pictures and make a movie out of it. KG: I love that. You also mentioned that the group you were with, your other classmates were really impactful in helping everyone work towards that goal rather than be competitive. How did that group mentality and the community support drive you guys all to the finish line of your own stories? DA: You know what I think it was, I was so grateful for it because at the end of the day we are removed from reality. I know it's called reality tv, but we are taken out. There was no TV, no cell phones, no Internet. You're completely cut off from the outside world. Everything that you knew that was home to you was ripped away and when you met 15 or 14 other strangers, you got to know each other pretty quickly and because we had that support and we were all taken out of our own elements, we were really able to support and I think push each other as well. There was one of the contestants Francelina that was on my show is someone that I'm still very close with to this day and she and I, we, we really bonded in the beginning and so when we wanted to get to the gym a little bit extra earlier and then wanted to stay a little bit later, she was always there. She was a driver. She had a force that just like, it was slightly competitive but in the best way, right? DA: Because we wanted to outdo each other, but like strengthening each other at the same time, so when we're in that environment, it really helped knowing that you had a support system because in all honesty there were producers, there's film, everything's going on around you. You felt like you had no control. We were the ones that felt like that constant control. KG: Let's switch gears a little bit and talk more about how your professional goals have changed. So coming off The Biggest Loser as the winner, you have a ton of opportunities. You can really sort of change your life's direction, not just in terms of your physical fitness, but also how you want your professional life to go. Can you talk a little bit about what you wanted to do coming off of that show professionally and how you've worked to achieve that since then, and what goals you've set for yourself in that arena? DA: Yeah. Not too much prior to the show, I had graduated from Clemson University with a degree in architecture. I was ready to be an architect. I was so excited, but I definitely, I think bit off a little bit more than I could chew. When I was in college. I did a five year program in four years, so when it came to that, I was so burned out, but I did have the opportunity of, you know, right away after college you got to start paying those loans off as soon as possible. So I started waitressing and I ended up working for a great restaurant company that I became very quickly the national trainer and got to travel all over the world, opening up restaurants in London all over the US, which was really great as well, and using my architecture degree to help actually do the floor plans. DA: They would send me to a new location and I would be the one to draw that up and then also be the one to train a train the entire team. So it was kind of a little bit of a basket in each. And then after that I started to be a working on the marketing team for Camping World and Good Sam, which was a really great opportunity for me to really dive into marketing and graphic design, which I didn't realize how much my architecture degree would really impact that. I'm like, Ooh, I've really love graphic design. So that's where the trajectory was headed when I had the opportunity of Biggest Loser. Now mind you, when you're in the audition phase of Biggest Loser, they make you sign a contract that you're liable for up to $1.5 million if you say anything. So I was terrified, right? DA: But I did have to tell my boss that what was going on because I had been taking a lot of time off. And then I got to the point where I'm like, I need the next 10 days to six months off is that going to be OK? And my company in Camping World was so supportive of it. They let me do what I had to do and told me I would have a job when I came back and you know, after the show and the confetti fell, you, like you said, I had the world in front of me. So many opportunities, but it actually got almost too overwhelming. You're like, what do I do? What's my next platform and how do I not make this, you know, wasted effort, right? Where can I go? So luckily I met an amazing publicist, Daphne Ortiz, who I still work with today, and she really helped me find goals that I can put my platform before Biggest Loser because I was a good person before Biggest Loser, you know, I was on the trajectory of really making some, I think impactful things and when I got the chance to work with Girls on the Run and specifically Planet Fitness at this point, I've actually helped open over 200 gyms across the country and even at the lowest end of maybe, you know, working out with 30 to 40 people, multiply that by 200 and I've had the opportunity to impact thousands of people. DA: And in doing that I knew that's what I wanted to do and it's only been the last couple of years that those two things kind of came together for me. They allowed me to take my creative direction with graphic design and marketing and merge that into an opportunity to help more people. At the end of the day, like I said before, Biggest Loser, I was so overwhelmed by what's the right decision, what's the path that I need to do to lose weight or to get healthier or--not everyone has to lose weight. They just want. They want to feel better. I always say there's something called skinny fat too, it doesn't--you don't have to look a certain way not to be healthy and what I think Planet Fitness affords people to do, especially like I said, it's only 10 bucks a month and I'm not trying to sell here. I'm just saying it's so affordable for you to do that it just gets you the step in the right direction and whether it's, you know, Weight Watchers or South Beach Diet or all these different things that are over, you know that you can choose from. Pick one thing and that's what I think Planet Fitness helps you do. Pick one thing, let that settle and then find your next ambition instead of being overwhelmed by all these opportunities that you could do. And I think I very long windedly just said that like, you know, over the last five years it's been a great, great run on March 18th is actually exactly five years since the confetti fell. So I'm really excited to cross that finish line and see what else I can do. KG: You mentioned that planet fitness was the sponsoring gym for The Biggest Loser and here in Chicago you don't necessarily see a lot of people gravitating towards big box gyms. There's a lot of studios. How have you seen the balance of studios versus gyms play out in terms of, are people heading more towards these big box gyms that were recently out of trend? Are they stepping away from the more expensive classes for the more affordable? How have you guys seen that reflected in Planet Fitness's popularity or their representation here in Chicago? DA: I actually welcome studio fitness to the areas because I think studio like select fitness can go really, really well with the big box gyms. The problem with that is how do you afford both. And I think Planet Fitness gives you that great alternative. Like I said, it's only $10 a month, so you can still go to that boutique studio. We actually have one in Lincoln Park, SoulCycle is one of my favorite studios to go to right on Clybourn over there, but even though I go to a boutique studio, I go to Planet Fitness as well because I can choose anything there, right? There's a big open platform and you know here in Chicago we're expanding tremendously. We just did our big grand opening at Broadway and Addison, kind of an iconic area of Chicago near Wrigley and we're doing really, really well there. We're headed to Crestwood and a few other neighborhoods in Chicago as well, just expanding, so I hope that shows that, you know, Planet Fitness is doing pretty well in the world of boutique fitness and I think they go hand in hand together for 10 bucks a month. You can still afford to do those boutique fitness, or ClassPass is a great opportunity for it as well. KG: Let's go into the second big question that we ask everyone who comes on the podcast, and you've kind of touched on this a couple of times, but we'll make it explicit. What is a big goal you have in the future and how do you plan to reach it? DA: Oh, man in the future, I definitely, I mean, I think I'm making my footprint here with Planet Fitness, especially in Chicago and across North America and as we expand into Canada as well, but what I really want to make sure I do is keep my platform of I'm the girl from Mundelein, Illinois and though I appreciate being here to help be a spokesperson. I still want to always stay that real person that was able to get her life changed. Whether it's weight or finances. We all have our problems, right? If I could help be that advocate that you can do it, that's my biggest goal. It's not a personal goal. That's, you know, maybe a little geared towards, uh, you know, selfish ambitions. It's really there to help as many people as I can and be real about it. By no means have I ever said I've kept the same weight from when I lost the show. DA: I've always been very real and honest that it's been a struggle in every day you make a decision and if I can help other people see that as well, that'd be a great goal. But, and you know, on a personal level, the more I can travel, the more I can impact, but honestly just see beautiful places, something I've done in the past as well as with Run Like a Girl, which is different than girls on the run. I did host a yoga retreat in Costa Rica so that twice. So that was amazing. So being able to like just see the cultural differences that we have across the world. I would love to just travel more and more and see new places and show people that health and wellness is not just about the food on your plate and the exercise you do. It's about discovering new places and discovering different things that you and your body can do once you hit those goals. KG: That leads in perfectly to another question I had for you. On aSweatLife, we try and show our readers different ways to live their best lives possible. What does that look like for you? DA: Oh, that's a loaded question. Um, you know, I think at the end of the day, you live your best life possible when you can sit down at the end of the day and say, I did one thing right. I think we get so consumed by all the things that we should have done that we didn't get to or you know, you started your day with a list and you got through the first three things when 10 more things got added. But if you could at the end of the day, just take a deep breath and look at what you did well, that's going to help advance you into the next step or the next day or on the next hour, whether whatever's getting you to that next step. DA: And I think that will really help. That's what I tried it. It's not perfect, right? It's idealistic, but at the end of the day I keep a journal and I always write three things down that I did well that day because I think that shows me that I'm making progress. You always get bogged down, like I said, by the negativity or the things you wish you could've done or the supposed to bes, you don't see my air quotes on the "supposed to bes" KG: She's doing air quotes, you guys. DA: It's about you know, seeing what you did right? Because everyone is. It sounds silly, but everyone is amazing in their own unique way and if you could remember that and be reminded and a month later, look at that journal that you wrote down to the three things every single day. That's 90 things that you did well and it hopefully will make you feel better about the person that you are and what you can bring to this world. KG: I love that as a twist on a gratitude journal because that's something that we hear recommended a lot and we hear a lot of our high achievers talking about how important gratitude is as a part of their life and of course still is very important, but I love the like self props that you get by listing things that you did well because I think a lot of people suffer from a minor case of imposter syndrome and comparing themselves to others and that's such a tangible way to have a record of yes, I am just as great as everyone thinks I am. I'm not fooling anybody. I'm not faking anything. DA: Absolutely. And I think you brought up to the point like authenticity is key and it's really hard to feel like you're an authentic person when you're trying to figure out who you are. You're like, what is my mold? DA: And I think that was a thing, a struggle that I had with the show is like how am I Dani Allen, Biggest Loser and how am I just Danni? Right? And how do I, you know, eat a cupcake from Sprinkles down the street and not feel the most guilty about it because honestly that's happened to me before someone takes a picture and posts it on Instagram is like, well, look at Danny eating a cupcake and I'm just like, I'm the most terrible person. I'm supposed to tell people to eat healthy. But you know, every once in a while eat a damn cupcake. It's OK. And so that's where I, I try to find the balance of authenticity of who I am and also know that I'm going to screw up and make mistakes too. And I think you honestly, you learn more when you fall. KG: I love that. I think we can end on that note. Danni, thank you so much for coming in to the #WeGotGoals podcast today. DA: Thank you. And it's been a lot of fun. And to meet you guys as well. CK: This podcast was produced by me, Cindy Kuzm. And it's another thing that's better with friends, so please share it with yours. You can subscribe on Apple podcasts, stitcher, overcast, wherever you get your podcasts, and if you could also leave us a rating or review on apple podcasts, we would really appreciate it. Special thanks to J. Mano for our theme music; to our guest this week, Danny Allen to Texas for the recording studio.

It’s been almost two years since we first recorded in the legendary Chicago institution, and as much as things have changed, Goose Island Clybourn is still about creative small batches from some of the most passionate brewers around. Brewers Jon and Steve join us to talk about the implications of the sale to AB InBev including equipment upgrades, recipe ownership, franchising the brewpub model, and the public reaction to “selling out.” They also pour us some unbelievable beers, including maybe our first recorded experience with a “ghost whale.” Also expect to hear about their current issues with brewing sour beers, how they handle bottle releases and determine pricing, and a little teaser regarding Belgian Fest. Steve also absolutely schools us on Old Ales and Stock Ales, Jon gets to bask in his proudest beer-naming moments, and we all give some sweet love to Cory King. This one is chock full of goofs and goodies, folks, so grab a few beers and enjoy. Beers Tasted: Sara Later (Belgian pale ale) Cran-Bruin (Oud Bruin with cranberries aged in red wine barrels) Barrel-Aged Dark Crusader Coconut (Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels with coconut added during bottling) Nutulhu (Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels with toasted hazelnuts and vanilla beans) Side Project Brewing - Saison du Fermier Pinot (Wild saison aged in pinot noir puncheons)

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000004852 StartFragment:0000002471 EndFragment:0000004816 The brewers at the Goose Island Clybourn brewpub embrace experimentation, and they take on their riskiest one yet when they invite Ryan and Craig into the brewhouse to record. Brewmaster Nick Barron and brewers Jacob Sembrano and Jon Naghski share five of their incredible one-off beers and the inspiration, experimentation, and technique that went into each of them. They’ll also discuss their farmer’s market series, upcoming releases and FOBAB goodies, the world’s most obscure Simpsons reference (seriously), and what it’s like to make bourbon barrel-aged beers in the location where it all began. Pull up a stool, and remember to tip your bartender.     Beers Enjoyed and Discussed:     Pineapple Brettanomite   Gorman’s Biere de Garde   Vainglorious   Cran Bruin   Grimm Vicar  

Boy, Dee Snider has done it all.  Lead singer of Twisted Sister.  Sitcoms, reality TV, broadway, father, husband...and now author.  His new book "Shut Up And Give Me The Mic" is a great read.  You'll realize how a positive attitude can get you through anything - sure worked with him! He has two book signings soon in Chicago May 13: Costco, 2745 N. Clybourn, Chicago 1p-4p May 14: Barnes and Noble, 55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie 7p Get more information at www.DeeSnider.com