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In this episode of the Charity Changemakers podcast, we are joined by Donna-Louise Cobban, the Chief Executive of Emmaus Village Carlton. Donna-Louise shares her inspiring career journey, starting from her foundations in retail and transitioning into the charity sector, eventually working her way up to Chief Executive positions. The episode begins with Donna-Louise discussing her early career in retail, where she excelled in leadership roles and gained valuable experience. She shares how she made the transition into the charity sector, highlighting the importance of peer support, training, and self-belief in her journey. Donna-Louise also talks about her personal interests, including her love for travel, reading, and training in the gym. She shares her experiences with various challenges and competitions, showcasing her dedication to personal growth and resilience. The conversation delves into Donna-Louise's time at the Alzheimer's Society, where she made significant contributions and won awards for her work in dementia support services. She also discusses her role at a homeless charity, where she further honed her leadership skills and passion for making a difference. As Donna-Louise reflects on her recent role as CEO of Beyond Detention, she shares the challenges and successes of leading a small organisation. She emphasises the importance of support networks, including her chair of trustees, coach, and peer group of charity CEOs, in navigating the complexities of the role. The episode concludes with Donna-Louise's transition to Emmaus Village Carlton, where she discusses her first six months as CEO. She highlights the whirlwind of decision-making and projects she has been involved in, showcasing her resilience and dedication to empowering her team and making a positive impact in the charity sector. Overall, Donna-Louise's journey exemplifies the power of passion, resilience, and support in driving meaningful change within the charity sector. Her story serves as an inspiration to aspiring changemakers and highlights the importance of collaboration and empowerment in creating lasting impact. Tune in and get inspired! Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Appreciation 02:15 Getting to Know the Guest: Quickfire Questions 08:13 Hobbies and Personal Challenges: Training in the Gym 11:47 Transition from Retail to the Charity Sector 21:10 Volunteering and First Opportunity in the Charity Sector 25:20 Transferable Skills and Recognition in the Charity Sector 31:28 Passion for the Cause and Mission-Driven Organisations 32:46 The Value of Volunteering 36:37 The Journey to Becoming a Charity CEO 40:46 Challenges and Rewards of Being a Charity CEO 49:05 Empowering and Collaborating with Other Charity CEOs 54:42 Believe in Yourself: The Key to Success in the Charity Sector 57:54 Charity Changemakers - Outro The Charity Changemakers Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Follow us on your favourite platform, like and review the show to help us spread the word and empower the current and next generation of changemakers!

On June 13, 2024, JWE President Helena Cobban gave a talk at the Rossmoor community in Walnut Creek, CA, hosted by Rossmoor Voices for Justice in Palestine. The talk was titled "Palestinian resistance from the PLO to Hamas." In it Helena drew on her 50 years of experience of studying, reporting on, interviewing the leaders of, and analyzing all the main Palestinian resistance movements of the modern era. Look on the JWE blog  for links to the video of this event, the transcript, and more information about JWE's "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters" project.Support the Show.

In March 2024, the Middle East Committee of Westmoreland Church, which is a very active  "UCC" congregation located on the borderline between Maryland and Washington DC, invited Helena to go and speak to their members on the topic "Hamas: A Primer." The event took place on April 21, 2024, and took the form of a conversation conducted, for the first 35 minutes, by longtime Middle East Committee member Robert Mertz. In the second half of the program, several attendees at the gathering asked questions, both in-person from the church parlor, and online via the event's well-populated Zoom feed. This episode contains the recording of nearly the whole of the April 21 event. Here is the "resource list" referred to toward the end of the episode:•Online resource list: bit.ly/Keys-4-H•Sign up for Helena's (roughly weekly) newsletter at: eepurl.com/b-5d_9•Learn about her company's many books on Gaza, Palestine, etc, at: Justworldbooks.comSupport the show

Nick Craig sits down with Paul Cobban, who served as the Chief Transformation Officer at DBS Bank in Singapore for over a decade. Paul shares a vivid account of his first day at DBS and the challenges they faced, such as long wait times, low customer satisfaction scores, and underperforming financial metrics. They discuss the evolution of a purpose-driven approach that propelled DBS to become the best digital bank and earned it prestigious accolades. In this episode, we discuss:●       Purpose-driven transformation vs. traditional transformations●       Enhancing the internal employee experiences●       The implementation of the rituals "meeting mojo" and “racoon”●       How to change culture through design●       What are the characteristics of purpose-driven transformation?

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This episode introduces the people behind a brand new series, PalCast, which will be hosted by Palestinian refugee (and friend of the shack) Dr Yousef Aljamal and his longtime collaborator and friend Helena Cobban, herself an activist and author of great renown. PalCast is a collaboration between Just World Educational and Tortoise Shack Media, which produces the series from its base in Dublin, Ireland. This twice weekly series will discuss the ongoing Gaza-Israel crisis, the geopolitics at play, the place of Palestine in the world, and the struggle for Palestinian liberation, as summed up in the mantra 'One World, One Struggle.' One World, One Struggle which is being used with the permission of the Blood Sunday Families. Music is Sabreen (West Bank 1987) Support the show

On this edition of Parallax Views, recorded before the news that a deal between Israel and Hamas to reach hostages was announced as being close to being made,  Helena Cobban, a non-resident fellow of the Center for International Policy, joins the show to discuss the UN, the Gaza War, international law, Hamas, Israel, and related issues. She also promotes her new podcast, co-hosted by Yousef Aljamal, entitled the Palcast: One World, One Struggle about the Israel/Palestine. Helena Cobban is also the head of Just World Educational. Recorded 11/16/23

In this week's The Power of Storytelling, I'm joined by psychologist, psychotherapist, and coach Nova Cobban. In addition to her work with individual clients, Nova runs Wuum - an inspirational initiative aimed at helping women battling identity crises. Her own life has been a testament to her philosophy, overcoming personal struggles and health hurdles with positivity and honesty about the challenge of finding purpose. Want to connect? Find me here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolajrowleypr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicolaJRowleyPR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NicolaJRowleyPR/ Email: nicola@njrpr.com Website: https://www.njrpr.com/ Take the PR Quiz! https://pr-quiz.com/  Find Nova Cobban: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nova_cobban/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/novacobban.positivepotential/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nova-cobban/  Website: https://novacobban.com/ 

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing global broiling -- "warming" doesn't seem to cover it -- and what's being done and by whom to increase or lessen it. Our guest Helena Cobban is a writer on, and analyst of, international affairs. For two decades she contributed regular columns on global affairs to, respectively, the Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London). Of her seven books, four deal with Middle Eastern issues and the remainder with other international issues. In 2010, she founded Just World Books LLC, which has published 40 titles on Middle Eastern and global issues. Since 2015, she has been Executive Director of the Just World Educational Foundation. Ms. Cobban blogs at Globalities.org.

In this episode, Helena Cobban presents a voiced version of the essay she published today on the Globalities website, which is titled, "Untangling Syria's devastating civil war." In the essay, Ms. Cobban, a long-time analyst of Syria's affairs, expresses her cautiously optimistic assessment of the possibility that recent shifts in West Asian politics and diplomacy may now, finally, allow for a winding down of the conflict inside Syria.If you're interested in what you hear here, head to the essay in the text version, where you will also find all the hyperlinks Ms. Cobban put in there, as well as a map and some other informative graphics.Support the show

In this episode of her Global Shifts series, Just World ed President Helena Cobban looks at the events and developments of the past week that illustrate the big shifts now underway in the global balance. This week, she looks at the continuing fallout from the visit that French Pres. Emmanuel Macron paid recently to Beijing, and also at this week's visit there by Brazilian Pres. Lula Da Silva. Then, she looks at three big ongoing developments in West Asia, concerning Yemen, Syria-- and the current worrying increase in U.S. military deployments in the Persian Gulf region.Ms. Cobban rounds off the episode by taking a step back to survey the 500-year history of Western colonial involvement in the Asian and Indian Ocean regions and the current signs that that era is starting to come to an end.Support the show

Master of His Fate

In mid-January 2023, the veteran analyst of world affairs Helena Cobban published an essay at Globalities.org in which she explored the urgent need for a country-wide ceasefire or armistice for Ukraine, and explored the value of the precedent set by the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953. She also looked at the issue of armistices more broadly and noted several features of the Korean armistice that are particularly relevant to the case of Ukraine today.In late March 2023 Ms. Cobban voiced this essay as the inaugural episode in this new podcast series from Just World Educational. Globalities is a project of Just World Educational.Support the show

Co-author of "Eat Sleep Innovate", Paul Cobban, shares the importance of reframing your competitive set and the concept of MOJO Meetings and Wreckoon. Singapore's DBS Bank has been voted the world's best bank for five years in a row! It wasn't always like that. Today's guest remembered his first day at DBS in 2009: when he asked his taxi driver to take him to DBS, the driver said, “Ah, DBS—Damn Bloody Slow,” referring to the notoriously long queues that plagued its ATMs. We are joined today on Innovation Bytes by the man who led the transformation from Damn Bloddy Slow to the best bank five years in a row. He is also the co-author of Eat Sleep Innovate with a friend of the Show, Scott D Anthony. He is going to share some nuggets about the transformation It is a pleasure to welcome Paul Cobban. Find Paul here: https://paulcobban.com/book/

On May 20, JWE President Helena Cobban spoke at an event on the Ukraine Crisis and the nuclear risks associated with it that was hosted by the Mount Diablo Center for Peace and Justice in Walnut Creek, California. JWE board member Richard Falk contributed a video message to this event, which took the form of a 20-minute dialogue that Ms. Cobban had conducted with him a couple of days before.This podcast episode takes the form of a slightly clunky mix of the live audio from the event, the audio from the Falk dialogue, and some words of introduction and framing. Support the show

This virtual conversation between Helena Cobban and Richard Falk was pre-recorded for the Friends of Mt Diablo Peace and Justice Center for screening on May 20th, 2022.For more information or to download Just World Educational's report “Ukraine: Stop the Carnage, Build the Peace!” please visit www.justworldeducational.org.Support the show

Today's episode features Blue Sky Clothing CEO and Founder Marilyn Cobban. Learn all about this amazing British Columbia, Canada-based, which first began 20 years ago from the back of a VW Van! To learn more about Blue Sky Clothing Co and use your exclusive coupon code download Sustainable Life App (free on Apple and Android) and find them in the Online Shopping section or use the key word search to find Blue Sky Clothing products in your area. Follow ➡️ @sustainablelifeapp on Instagram and Facebook for informative, encouraging and inspiring content to your feed! What is Sustainable Life App?

Launching something new is always tricky. It can be especially challenging be entrepreneurial inside a global brand like Nike. You want to align with the broader goals of the organization while also staying nimble and creative. When you’re also introducing subscription models into a transactionally oriented organization, the stakes are even higher. Dave Cobban spent over 12 years at Nike, many working with the innovation team. A few years ago, as a result of his work as part of a team looking at driving exponential growth at Nike, Dave identified an opportunity for subscription commerce as a potential way to achieve several key Nike objectives. Dave incubated and developed what has come to be known as “Nike Adventure Club,” a shoe subscription for children. Today Dave is a co-founder of Unbrkble, an organization that helps start ups and scaling businesses stay close to their customers as they launch and scale their own businesses. In this interview, Dave and I talk about how to start small with your subscription offering while thinking big, incorporating sustainability into an eCommerce strategy, and best practices for defining your subscription MVP. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Subscription Stories Community today: robbiekellmanbaxter.com Twitter Facebook

The Making of Me - A show where Mikey Cobban sits down with musicians to find out more about the people behind the melodies. What moments in their life made them who they are today?

Even if you want to spark innovation in your organization, the challenges can seem terribly daunting. In their delightful co-authored book "Eat, Sleep, Innovate" DBS Bank's Paul Cobban and Innosight's Scott Anthony make it much easier to engage in everyday innovation. The book is chock-full of practical, fun examples of how you can get rid of frustrating and obsolete controls and replace them with energizing, customer-focused new behaviors. Unlike a lot of books about innovation, this one focuses on the day to day behaviors that are actually in your own control. Have a listen and pick up the book! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thoughtsparksritamcgrath/message

At a time when US-China tensions seem to be increasing, Just World Educational is launching a new project on the shifting balance between the two countries, as Phase 2 of its continuing "World After Covid" project. In this phase of the project, JWE will be releasing the materials from each of the sessions held in podcast format as well as video and text. To see all the materials produced during this phase and the previous phase of the project, visit the "Resources" section of our website, www.justworldeducational.org.In today's episode, Ms. Cobban discusses key aspects of the strategic balance between the United States and China with Dr. Lyle Goldstein, who was the founding diorector of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College in Newport, RI and author of a seminal 2015 book, Meeting China Halfway. Upcoming episodes of the podcast will present the audio from a groundbreaking public dialogue on US-China relations that Just World Edis organizing in collaboration with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Beijing's Renmin University. More details of this dialogue can be found here.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

Helena Cobban is a veteran analyst of international affairs and an anti-imperialist activist who campaigns for human equality at all levels. She's a Quaker who lives in Washington DC, which she describes as "the belly of the beast." Helena has authored seven books on international issues, four of which have been about the Middle East; and for 20 years she contributed a regular column about global affairs to The Christian Science Monitor. She has also been a publisher. Her company, Just World Books, has helped midwife the work of writers like Miko Peled, Laila El-Haddad, Leila Abdelrazaq, and David Swanson. She's the head of the non-profit Just World Educational, which has some great web-based programing, most recently on Syria. She has also resumed blogging on her blog Just World News, where her major current preoccupation is the ways the coronavirus crisis affects the hegemonic role the United States has played in world affairs since 1945. See: https://justworldnews.org

This episode is an inter-season special: an interview Just World Educational President Helena Cobban conducted with Frank Joyce, a veteran antiwar and workers-rights organizer who was the co-editor, along with Dr. Karin Aguilar-San Juan, of the 2015 anthology The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.In July this year, Frank Joyce and four other American antiwar activists went back to Ha Noi again: this time, to celebrate the launching of the Vietnamese edition of The People Make the Peace. You can read more about their latest visit to Vietnam in this blog post on Just World Ed's website. In reflecting on this latest visit to Vietnam, Joyce argued that in the years after the antiwar activists of the 1960s and 1970s had succeeded in persuading the U.S. government to end the war, many of them started to experience an inferiority complex that led them to radically under-estimate the value of what they had achieved. In this this interview with Joyce, Ms. Cobban explored that proposition with him… and also, got his insights on some of the challenging issues that have faced the US antiwar movement in recent years.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

On this week's podcast, Just World Educational's president, Helena Cobban, discusses the currently high tensions between the United States and Iran with Amb. Chas W Freeman, Jr., a very distinguished former American diplomatist and the author of a number of very informative books. The most recent of these are collections of his essays on, respectively, US-Chinese relations and US policies in the Middle East.This week's podcast is linked to a column Ms. Cobban wrote that ran May 15 on the Mondoweiss website, under the title “Bolton pushing United States to over-reach in Iran”.In Ms. Cobban's interview with Amb. Freeman, he warns of some of the very dire effects that Pres. Trump's withdrawal from the six-party, 2015 Iran deal has already had on the rule of law internationally and on the continuing erosion of the safeguards the U.S. Constitution always placed on the executive branch's ability to enter willy-nilly into wars of choice. He warns of the dire consequences to be expected if Washington should get into a shooting war with Iran, and he assesses the roles that China, Russia, and the European countries that were also parties to the Iran deal might be able to play in defusing the tentions and de-escalating the conflict.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

This week's podcast is Number Twelve in our multi-week “Story/Backstory” project, which explores Washington's current policies in the Middle East, and the Middle East itself, in a broader historical perspective. It is a complement to a column by Just World Ed President Helena Cobbanthat ran May 8th on the Mondoweiss website, “Thinking fast and slow in reporting Israeli-Gaza fighting”, in which she drew on her own long background as a reporter in war and conflict situations. There's a handy "Checklist for anti-Palestinian reporting bias" that's posted on our blog, that goes along with this package, as well.In this episode, Cobban delves even deeper into the matter of anti-Palestinian reporting bias in the U.S. corporate media, and starts to explore steps that can be taken to reduce or even (we hope!) eliminate it.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

This episode in the "Story-Backstory" series is a complement to the article that Helena Cobban published on Mondoweiss on April 25, exploring a small window that the Mueller Report provided into the world of the influence-buying operations undertaken by the UAE and other rich Arab Gulf states in Washington DC. In this episode, Ms. Cobban interviews Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy, to discuss the extensive influence operations undertaken in Washington by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel. At one key point, Freeman notes that the same lobbying and p.r. firms that work for many of those actors also work for major US arms manufacturers!(Please note that there was no Episode 9 in this series, as we concentrated on producing online materials for last week's topic, instead.)Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

Just World Educational President Helena Cobban and guest Nora Lester Murad discuss Israel's continuing waves of attack against Palestinian life in Jerusalem, which Ms. Murad describes here as "The front-line of the Palestinians' ongoing Nakba." Ms. Murad is the co-author of the recently published book Rest In My Shade.This episode is a complement to the column Ms. Cobban published on this topic in Mondoweiss on April 3, 2019.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

Just World Educational president Helena Cobban and guest Amb. Peter Ford look at the implications of Pres. Trump's March 25 decision to break with decades of US policy and provide official US support for Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan. This episode is a complement to the column Ms. Cobban published on this topic in Mondoweiss, March 26.Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

This episode of our podcast is the second in a special mini-series we're releasing as part of our “Cast Lead Plus Ten” project. In this episode of our mini-series you can hear the second half of the conversation Helena Cobban had about Cast Lead, with the distinguished international jurist Richard Falk. In the previous episode, Cobban and Falk had discussed mainly what happened during the Cast Lead assault, ending with the ceasefire that Israel and Hamas reached on January 17, 2009. In this episode, they  discuss the broader strategic impact and lasting legacy of “Operation Cast Lead”, including the whole saga of the UN Fact-finding Commission which was headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, and the role Cast Lead and the fate of the Goldstone Commission both had in galvanizing new generations and new forms of activism in the worldwide Palestinian-rights movement.Stay tuned for the next episode in this mini-series, to be released January 3!(The automatically generated transcript that follows has not yet been cleaned up and should not be disseminated elsewhere until it has been.)Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

We are pleased to present an interview that JWE President Helena Cobban conducted July 24th with Peter Ford, who was Britain's ambassador to Syria, 2003 through 2006, and who has remained an informed and close observer of Syrian affairs ever since. He was also, for several years after he left the British diplomatic service, the representative of the UN agency UNRWA to the Arab world, based in Amman. In this half-hour interview Ambassador Ford discussed aspects of the situations of both Syrians and Palestinians. A digest of the conversation will be posted shortly on our blog at www.justworldeducational.org, where you can also find links to the interviews Ms. Cobban conducted with Professor Falk and a wealth of informational resources about Palestine, Syria, and other issues of war and peace in the Middle East. Support the show (http://justworldeducational.org/donate/)

Cedric Cobban joins Scott to talk about Blockchain, Canadian accents and PeerTracks.

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Solid sound design is instrumental to a film or television programme’s success. A sound designer takes advantage of the huge variety of noises we hear in our everyday lives, thinking of experimental ways to create an audio environment that supports on-screen action and engages audiences. Multi award winning sound designer and dubbing mixer John Cobban joined a small group of students and career starters to discuss his craft and career highlights spanning 25 years of crafting sound for numerous films, documentaries, dramas and animations, including Murder, Eve, Two Doors Down and latest BBC hit The Replacement. Clips referenced: Murder – BBC 2 / Touchpaper TV Excerpt from Ep 2 "The Lost Weekend" Directed by Paul Wright Warriors – Saltire Film / BBC 1 Scotland. Directed by Stephen Bennett Eve – CBBC / Leopard Drama. Excerpt from S1 Ep 4 " The Bubble Burst" - Power Station sequence One Thousand Pictures – RFK’s Last Journey - Lichen Films Ltd This event was hosted by journalist Stephen Bennett and is part of the Career Close-Up programme supported by Skills Development Scotland.

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This podcast episode is a part of a series of features from the Future of Music Policy Summit 2015, covered by Dotted Music’s Josh Urban and Cory Wolff. Keep an eye on the Dotted Music blog and this podcast for more coverage, and read an introduction to today’s WeSpin Recipes conversation from Josh below: The lunch line was bustling in the Hoya food court. The Future of Music Coalition’s 15th Annual Policy Summit was well underway at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and I was hungry. I had set out to procure a veggie burger. I found it, and the future of music sales. And to think I would have been excited about a side of fries... It happened like this: While waiting in the cue, two guys in Peertracks polo shirts walked up, also foraging for lunch. We got to chatting, and they explained how they were building a way to sell music with blockchain technology (think Bitcoin), and take it directly peer-to-peer. “Like an iTunes killer?” I queried, eagerly asking if they’d do an interview. The result of this conversation is what you’ll hear in a moment. Founder Cédric Cobban took the time to explain how Peertracks is building a system that incentivizes music discovery, gives unprecedented access to fans by existing artists, solves metadata puzzles moving forward, slashes fees on sales by an order of magnitude, and creates brave new worlds of brand-artist collaborations. Best of all, the system they champion isn’t tied to their company. The platform is independent, transparent, and from what I can tell, the Future. Without further ado, here’s my conversation with Cédric. Go to http://wespin.co/wsr51/ for the show notes and http://getacard.wespin.co/ to learn how to get a free WeSpin postcard by supporting the podcast.

TheToyBoxStudioShow.com Peertracks.com Our guests today are two ground breaking visionaries that join us from both the music world and the cryptographic digital currency world. Eddie Corral and Cédrik Cobban came across my radar when I was doing a Bitcoin podcast called Bitcoins and Gravy with John Barrett. Eddie and Cédrik are taking the technology that powers Bitcoin and applying it to marketing music using a new platform called Peertracks which is built on the Bitshares network. Eddie has over 25 years in the music business working with major label artists and establishing independent talent. From radio promotion to national touring, Eddie brings his vast knowledge of the industry and integrates it with the crypto world. Cédrik got into Bitcoin in 2011, then discovered BitShares and decided to spearhead BitShares Music in february 2014. Understanding the new technology behind block chains, Bitshares, Peertracks and creating new digital currencies can be a lot to grasp  all at once. So hang on tight as Eddie and Cédrik help shed some light on this amazing new platform and the potential to reinvent the music market in a way that gives new meaning to being part of a fan club. Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments about Peertracks and what you would like to see included in a new platform for music:lij@thetoyboxstudio.com ecorral@peertracks.com  You can learn more about what we discussed here: Peertracks and follow them on Twitter or Facebook If you want to get started and  to buy Notes go here To get Bitcoin you can use my affiliate link thorugh Coinbase the most trusted Bitcoin provider I know. And finally here are more helpful linksBitshares Music FoundationBit SharesBitcoins And Gravy a podcast about BitcoinWhat is Bitcoin?I want to get some Bitcoin!Discover Reddit and learn more about Peertracks. See how the voting mechanism could work for bands and music charts on Peertracks 

On today’s show I am pleased to have back on the show Cedric Cobban and Eddie Corral of the Bitshares Music Foundation. Cedric and Eddie talk to me about the music business – past, present and future. And indeed the future looks bright for the music business as we prepare to move away from our old paradigms that keep the power in the hands of music business fat cats and put the power where it belongs - into the hands of the musicians, the music creators, the artists . . . for the first time in world history. How is this possible you might ask? Well you’ll have to listen to the interview to find out now won’t you, but I’ll give you a hint – it has something to do with the world’s first decentralized music label. CREDITS: Cédric Cobban & Eddie Corral www.bitsharesmusicfoundation.org www.peertracks.com We can be reached at: ecorral@peertracks.com cedric@peertracks.com Ode To Satoshi Ode to Satoshi lyrics & melody by John Barrett Copyright 2014 RJM Publishing - BMI Nashville. Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocals, Harmonica, Snare Drum: John Barrett Harmony vocals: John Barrett, Connie Sinclair and Lij Shaw Guitar: Jonathan Brown Mandolin: Ben Miller Bass Guitar: Michael Rinne Initial tracks recorded by Mark Thornton of Sidekick Sound Studios, Madison, TN. All other tracks Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at The Toy Box Studio, Nashville, Tennessee Engineer: Lij Shaw. Assistant to engineer: Don “The Don” Bates Produced by John Barrett & Elijah “Lij” Shaw Special thanks to Alex Munõz Guijarro for his excellent pedal steel playing on many of our shows. Interviews for this episode were edited and produced by John Barrett at The Tree House Studio - East Nashville, Tennessee. Theme song “Gravy” by the band, Eleanor Roosevelt with Lij on fiddle. And a big thank you to my sponsor The Tennessee Bitcoin Alliance: TennesseeBitcoin.org Questions or Comments? Bitcoins and Gravy Hotline: (615) 208-5198 Hey y’all! Leave me your questions, comments or suggestions about the show and please speak slowly and clearly. I would love to use your voice on the show and your feedback really is valuable to me! (NOTE: If you would rather I did not use your voice, please say so on the message and I can simply reply to your question without using your voice). Email me to say Howdy!: howdy@bitcoinsandgravy.com Visit theWebsite: BitcoinsAndGravy.com Bitcoins and Gravy Tipping Addresses: Bitcoin: 1ByqQXLTm9JZGSwnfqCCakaifBt3grQkXS Litecoin: LgqYgxLTBPgr8C1JGLLJVLK4ZN1fveprAp And if you don’t feel like contacting me, just kick back, relax and enjoy the show. I hope you enjoy listening to my guests as much as I enjoy talking with them!

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