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India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) experienced an anomaly during the third stage of the launch. Palantir USG selected to provide US Space Command and Control Data Platform solutions in support of the Department of Defense and Joint Force missions. SpaceX has acquired Akoustis Technologies for approximately $30.2 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Parker Wishik, Communications Lead for Commercial and Civil Space at the Aerospace Corporation brings us the Space Nexus Segment with guests Jaydee Dyess from Agile Space Industries and Aimee Hubble. You can connect with Parker on LinkedIn, and learn more about the Aerospace Corporation on their website. You can read about the Aerospace Corp. EP site here. Agile Dual mode Prop here. Selected Reading Indian rocket launch fails, Earth-observation satellite lost- Space Space Systems Command Advances Space C2 Dominance Decision Making through Data Platform Program- Space Systems Command Akoustis Successfully Completes Sale of Assets to SpaceX China's commercial ZQ-2E rocket sends six satellites into space - CGTN Sophia Space Closes $3.5M Pre-Seed Round to Transform In-Orbit Computing Security and defence partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - GOV.UK Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Third Mission for iQPS in Multi-Launch Contract, Sets Schedule For the Next iQPS Mission Starlab Space and Balance Ophthalmics Partner to Address Astronaut Vision Loss Nancy Grace Roman's 100th Birthday - NASA T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reynald Laurea is Communications Lead at CirPro Innovations, a research-based startup developing zero-waste circular solutions. They're currently turning calamansi peels into jam ingredients and exploring other uses for food waste.Recorded live at Coastline 5023 FTBI, a startup incubator based in UP Visayas in Miag-ao, Iloilo.In this episode | 01:20 Ano ang CirPro Innovations? | 03:17 What problem is being solved? | 10:58 What solution is being provided? | 16:30 What are stories behind the startup? | 30:22 What is the vision? | 33:42 How can listeners find more information?CIRPRO INNOVATIONS | FacebookCOASTLINE 5023 FTBI | Facebook: https://facebook.com/coastline5023THIS EPISODE IS CO-PRODUCED BY:SPROUT SOLUTIONS | Website: https://sprout.ph | Sprout Payroll Starter: https://bit.ly/SproutPayrollStarterAPEIRON | Website: https://apeirongrp.com | Facebook: https://facebook.com/apeirongrpTWALA | Website: https://twala.io | Facebook: https://facebook.com/twalaioSYMPH | Website: https://symph.co | Facebook: https://facebook.com/SymphCoMAROON STUDIOS | Website: https://maroonstudios.com | Facebook: https://facebook.com/maroonstudiosincAIMHI | Website: https://aimhi.ai | Facebook: https://facebook.com/aimhiconstructionCHECK OUT OUR PARTNERS | Ask Lex PH Academy: https://asklexph.com (5% discount on e-learning courses! Code: ALPHAXSUP) | Founders Launchpad: https://founderslaunchpad.vc | CloudCFO: https://cloudcfo.ph (Free financial assessment, process onboarding, and 6-month QuickBooks subscription! Mention: Start Up Podcast PH) | Cloverly.tech: https://cloverly.tech | BuddyBetes: https://buddybetes.com | HKB Digital Services: https://contakt-ph.com (10% discount on RFID Business Cards! Code: CONTAKTXSUP) | Hyperstacks: https://hyperstacksinc.com | OneCFO: https://onecfoph.co (10% discount on CFO services! Code: ONECFOXSUP) | UNAWA: https://unawa.asia | SkoolTek: https://skooltek.co | Better Support: https://bettersupport.io (Referral fee for anyone who can bring in new BPO clients!) | Britana: https://britanaerp.com | Wunderbrand: https://wunderbrand.com | Fail Coach: https://fail.coach | Drive Manila: https://facebook.com/drivemanilaph | EastPoint Business Outsourcing Services: https://facebook.com/eastpointoutsourcing | Doon: https://doon.ph | Hier Business Solutions: https://hierpayroll.com | DVCode Technologies: https://dvcode.tech | Mata Technologies: https://mata.ph | LookingFour Buy & Sell Online: https://lookingfour.com | NutriCoach: https://nutricoach.com | Uplift Code Camp: https://upliftcodecamp.com (5% discount on bootcamps and courses! Code: UPLIFTSTARTUPPH) | Digest PH: https://digest.ph (10% discount on legal services! Code: DIGESTXSUP)START UP PODCAST PH | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Facebook | Patreon | WebsiteEdited by: https://tasharivera.com
At just 26 years old, Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House Press Secretary in U.S. history. In this episode, she shares how growing up in a small New Hampshire town, and how her family life shaped her work ethic, how college sparked her political curiosity and the pivotal moment that led her to Washington. From interning at the White House to serving as Communications Lead for President Trump’s campaign, Karoline walks through the experiences that helped her find her voice and navigate the national spotlight. She also opens up about balancing motherhood with one of the most demanding roles in politics — and what it really felt like to make history. Whether you're interested in politics, leadership, or the path to high-stakes communication roles, this conversation offers a rare look behind the scenes of one of the youngest and most talked-about figures in modern American politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CapeTalk’s Sara-Jayne Makwala King is joined on Weekend Breakfast by Angela Stewart- Buchanan, Communications Lead for Hold My Hand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The African Space Agency (AfSA) has officially opened its headquarters in Cairo. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO( in partnership with the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, launched the NROL-145 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX launched the 32nd resupply mission to the ISS, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest is Parker Wishik, Communications Lead for Commercial and Civil Space at the Aerospace Corporation. You can connect with Parker on LinkedIn, and learn more about the Aerospace Corporation on their website. Selected Reading African Space Agency Now Operational Launches- launch-nrol-145 NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission Bahamas puts SpaceX rocket landings on hold pending review: report- Space Creotech Instruments secures a 52 million euros contract with ESA for the CAMILA constellation – SatNews ULA on LinkedIn China Space Project Investigated by Newsweek Illegal, Chile Says United States – Italy Joint Leaders' Statement – The White House ESA - ACES on its way to space T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Director of Member Engagement Jackie Ruhlin sits down with Myra Rosario, our Communications Lead, for a candid conversation about everything happening in Q1 and what exciting opportunities are coming up next.From new educational programs to upcoming events, Jackie shares key updates every member should know to get the most out of their membership.
This week Ilana's special guest is Ainsley Ryan, the Content and Communications Lead at Built Environment Channel. Ainsley is a strong advocate for architectural research and believes in communicating the value of architecture to the community.
Advancing the practice of engineering with nature is a primary goal for the Engineering With Nature Program, and technology transfer through publications is a critical pathway to achieving this goal. In Season 8, Episode 8, host Sarah Thorne is joined by Amanda Tritinger, Deputy Lead of the Engineering with Nature Program, and Courtney Chambers, Communications Lead for the Engineering With Nature Program. They're discussing the importance of the Programs' key publications, including two new ones in 2025.Publications are critical to advancing the practice and closing the gaps in knowledge. As Amanda says, “They showcase real-world applications of natural infrastructure and inspire others to adopt these strategies in their own projects. By publishing, we make it possible for natural infrastructure to be integrated into more projects and drive innovation across multiple sectors.” This episode highlights several examples of innovative EWN Publications, including:The EWN Atlas series;Natural Infrastructure for Mission Readiness at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Installations – Also known as “The Navy Playbook”; andThe Four Coasts Project Idea Handbook – design concepts that incorporate Engineering With Nature from four of the EWN Proving Grounds districts: San Francisco, Mobile, the Great Lakes, and Philadelphia. Courtney explains that the Atlas series was born out of a conversation that Todd Bridges, founder of the EWN Program, had with the then USACE Director of Civil Works, James Dalton who suggested that people would understand the key principles of EWN if they could see what they look like in practice. Its success has led to these additional innovative publications.Hollie Janson Schmidt, National Director of the Planning Group for Advisory Solutions at Jacobs, was the project executive responsible for developing the Navy Playbook with EWN. She joins the conversation and explains that, “The intention of the book is to really be nontechnical and user friendly so that someone could look at some of these sketches and really understand some of the characteristics and the components that we're addressing.” She adds, “It's just really meant to sort of excite people with the visuals and the beauty of what we were trying to bring forward.”Mindy Strevig, Managing Engineer at Anchor QEA, leads the collaboration on the development of the Four Coasts Handbook. She also joins the conversation and notes “The goal of the Four Coasts Handbook, is to get those solution concepts visualized and conveyed in a way that folks can continue those conversations through their traditional processes to get these projects funded, garner support, and move them to implementation.The EWN team continues to promote the work of the EWN Program and its partners through publications like these, as well as through ERDC Tech Notes and Tech Reports, and peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. Amanda stresses that “these publications are invaluable to our practitioners because they provide a strong scientific foundation combined with the real-world application of natural infrastructure. By publishing this work, we ensure that knowledge is shared, lessons are learned, and innovations are being scaled up. These publications are critical to advancing the practice. They're how we bridge that gap between research and implementation and offer actionable insights.” For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/ Amanda Tritinger – LinkedInCourtney Chambers – LinkedInHollie Janson Schmidt – LinkedInMindy Strevig – LinkedIn
Features Emmy Award Winner, Marketing/Communications Leader, and former NBC Sports Philadelphia Anchor, Digital Producer, Reporter Sara Baicker.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-deal-with-courtney-harden--3678816/support.
Curious about what's next for communicators in 2025? In our second episode of “What to Watch for in 2025”, 12 of PR's Top Pros share their unique perspectives. Topics covered include earned media, evolving client relationships, tech innovations, and more.Diana Littman, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, MSL Chris Hook, Communications Lead, CadenceLucia Lee, Vice President of Media and Public Affairs, Mount Sinai Health SystemMichael Rinaldo, Senior Health Communications Consultant at Michael Rinaldo Health CommunicationsMegan Noel, Global President, Corporate Affairs, GolinJoe Gargiulo, Executive Vice President, Coyne Public RelationsAmira Barger, Executive Vice President of Health Communications and DEI Advisory at EdelmanMichael Kempner, Founder and CEO of MikeWorldWideVanessa Donohue, Vice President of Health, AntennaJeff Winton, Founder and Chairman of Rural Minds and CEO of Jeff Winton AssociatesJackie Cox Battles, New York Consumer Brand Practice Lead and North America Consumer Brand Practice Growth Lead, Weber ShandwickKristi Tyll, Managing Partner, Stratacomm
Joining John Maytham to discuss what’s driving the school dropout crisis, what kind of support is needed, and how the Zero Dropout Campaign is making an impact is Colin Wardle, Communications Lead at the Zero Dropout Campaign.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As South Africa continues to celebrate 2024's record-breaking matric results and starts the new school year, the Zero Dropout Campaign says the country still needs to interrogate the progress of the education system not just over the past year, but the past 30 years. Despite this improvement and South Africa's large investment in basic education, an estimated four in ten learners who enrol in Grade 1 still exit the schooling system before finishing matric. Zero Dropout Campaign conducted a survey to understand South Africa's Education and Dropout experiences and found that financial strain, drugs and criminal behaviour are some of the reasons for the exodus among learners. It adds that many of these young people will remain stuck in poverty and unemployment for life. For more Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Colin Wardle, Communications Lead for the Zero Dropout Campaign.
Miranda's mother was a secular Jewish refugee from the Holocaust in 1938. She was always bitterly opposed to what was being done to the Palestinians in her name as a Jew. Because of that, Miranda became an Ecumenical Accompanier in 2009, spent 3 months in Hebron, and has been back many times since. She is a member of the Holocaust survivor Descendants Network and attends demonstrations under that banner. In 2017 she produced a documentary entitled ‘Balfour to Banksy: Divisions and Visions in Palestine‘. She is a trustee of Sabeel-Kairos UK, the Communications Lead for Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine as well as being on the Advisory Forum of the Balfour Project and a founder member of CAMPAIN.
As the federal government journeys into uncharted territory with the adoption of AI, it's no surprise that the nation's space exploration agency is one of the most innovative among the bunch. Krista Kinnard is NASA's Digital Transformation, Culture and Communications Lead and was recently promoted to that agency's deputy chief AI officer, where she'll continue to play a key role shepherding the cultural push behind the agency's AI revolution. The Daily Scoop recently caught up with Kinnard at ACT-IAC's Imagine Nation ELC event in Hershey, Pa. During our conversation, we touched on her role at the agency and how it relates to AI, the progress the agency has made in adopting AI, and what's ahead. The Department of Homeland Security has built an artificial intelligence-based chatbot it's calling DHSChat, the latest in a string of agency experimentations with generative AI. DHSChat is designed as a chatbot meant for internal use within the agency, according to a press release shared Tuesday. The tool was developed by DHS's AI Corps and its director, Michael Boyce, after employees experimented with commercial generative AI tools, including Claude and ChatGPT. In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the “cutting-edge tool” would help workers across DHS “draft vital reports, summarize critical information, develop new software, streamline administrative tasks, and much more." The Department of Health and Human Services was among the first federal agencies to release its 2024 AI use case inventory Monday, reporting a roughly 66% increase in uses from the previous year. In a post accompanying the inventory, Steven Posnack, HHS's principal deputy assistant secretary for technology policy and principal deputy national coordinator for health IT, highlighted the health agency's increase from 163 to 271 use cases and noted the varying stages of development. The new figure, for example, includes uses for operation and maintenance and in acquisition and development, as well as 16 uses that are retired. The inventory comes as agencies across the federal government are expected to release new and expanded lists of AI use cases for 2024. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.
Grace, who was on America's 2016 Olympic Team placing 5th in the quadruple sculls. A much-decorated rower, she was on 4 national teams, a 2015 World Rowing Champion and walked on the team at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to eventually help the team win their first Big 10 Championship in Women's rowing.She will be in a different role this year as one of four Olympians selected for the Paris 2024 Olympian Artist-in-Residence Program to implement collaborative and community-based art. Through reassembling donated uniforms and equipment from Olympic sports through a local recycling center, she created a large-scale tapestry of the Olympic rings with the support of senior Parisian citizens in the lead up to the 2024 Olympics. The piece will be on display during the Paris 2024 Games at Clubhouse 24 and will subsequently become part of the collection of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. (2:45) Grace tells how all this happened from her initially learning to sew and the strength of the women in her family. (4:27) Grace isn't a traditional quilter, she challenges the rules to develop her creations. She talks about this here. (6:49) “Traditional processes with non-traditional materials with surprising results”> What does this mean to her? She also talks about a project she created in college made from plastic bags. (9:30) Grace's work is “collaborative and made with many hands” She tells us what that means in regard to who owns a piece of art. Does it have to be made by one person to be a quality craft?! (11:49) What's it like to be an Olympic athlete? Grace shares her story with us. And how did she find this sport? Well, this story is remarkable! Let's just say, it's good to be tall. ((16:27) Grace is one of 4 Olympians chosen to be in the Olympian Artist-in-Residence Program. She explains the program and how it began. Then, she tells us about how she came up with the idea of her special project. (21:24) It was very important to the IOC that she work with local materials and local citizens. Hear why she chose to work with senior citizens and how she got the materials for her project. And she shares her experience of walking the same streets or Picasso, Van Gough and Renoir…and riding the metro with a huge quilt! (30:00) Hear about how she created her quilt…and why she made the choices she made! (31:42) Will any of the women who helped with the project will be able to travel to the Olympics to view the quilt? (33:14) In her role as a participant in the Olympian Artist-in-Residence Program, what will she be doing? Also, hear about how she and her team connected BERNINA and securing their support and sewing machines. The universe certainly interceded! (39:32) While is college Grace received the University's student in athlete community service award, and she now is Communications Lead at the Huron Waterloo Pathways Initiative. The environment is paramount to her. She shares with us why environmental activism is important to her. (45:48) What's next for Grace and what's her dream? (48:25) And finally, what didn't I ask?!! Well, what pieces did she include in the project on her own that were personal to her? There were 4 special pieces…find out what they were! And hear about Olympians are viewed and learn a new way of relating to them! (55:42) How can you reach out to Grace? On Instagram @gracelatz, and on her new website www.gracelatz.com. If you know someone who has an outstanding story that should be shared on this podcast, drop Meg a note to Meg@sewandsopodcast.com or complete the form on our website. Be sure to subscribe to, review and rate this podcast on your favorite platform…and visit our website sewandsopodcast.com for more information about today's and all of our Guests.
Matthew is the Communications Lead at the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub ( MACH2). As one of the leading figures in the hydrogen energy sector, he recently delivered a compelling Opening Keynote at the North American Hydrogen Summit 2024, highlighting the transformative potential of green and pink hydrogen in achieving significant environmental goals. 1. Green and Pink Hydrogen Initiatives:Explore how MACH2 plans to integrate green and pink hydrogen into its operations and the broader implications for the energy industry. 2. Environmental Impact: Delve into MACH2's ambitious goal to reduce up to 25 million Metric Tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and criteria pollutants per year through innovative hydrogen solutions. 3. Hydrogen Hub Development:Gain insights into the progress and challenges of developing one of the seven hydrogen hubs across the United States and the role of MACH2 in this nationwide effort. 4. Future of Clean Energy: Discuss the broader vision for the hydrogen economy in the U.S. and how MACH2's initiatives align with national and global sustainability goals. This interview presents a rare and exclusive opportunity to gain insights into the future of hydrogen energy directly from a key leader in the field. Matt Krayton's expertise and insights will provide invaluable perspectives on how clean hydrogen solutions can drive significant environmental and economic benefits. Topics covered include: Hydrogen colors and definitions Green hydrogen Blue Hydrogen Turquoise Hydrogen Yellow hydrogen Brown hydrogen and black hydrogen (coal) Pink hydrogen (nuclear) Orange hydrogen Grey hydrogen (most common) SMR = Steam Methane Reformation Hydrogen hub Smart pipe Sensors Using existing methane (natural gas) pipe Re-sleeving Retooling Refurbishing IRA = Inflation Reduction Act Ammonia NH3 Hydrogen H2 Methane CH4 Lithium Ion Batteries EV = Electric Vehicle Climate Change Amtrak Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Reach Matthew Krayton here: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkrayton/ Publitics Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/publitics-solutions-llc/ Influence IQ: www.influenceiq.publitics.com/ Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking Sean's classes at www.heatspring.com/sean
Rohini Bajekal, Nutritionist and Co-Author of Living PCOS Free is a board-certified Lifestyle Medicine professional. Prior to becoming a nutritionist, she studied Theology at Oxford University. Having previously worked in India and Singapore, Rohini is based in London and provides evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle advice and group programmes to her clients around the world. She is also the Communications Lead at Plant-Based Health Professionals UKRohini co-authored her first book Living PCOS Free: How to Regain Your Hormonal Health with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which was published in April 2022. She also wrote the chapter on lifestyle medicine for the book How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You and Your Family by Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella.Rohini regularly comments in the media with a focus on myth-busting around plant-based nutrition. She has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, Refinery 29, SheerLuxe, Cosmopolitan and Women's Health. She has been following a plant-based diet for almost 20 years.In this episode I draw on Rohini's personal experiences with hormonal health and we discuss how eating a varied plant-based diet is important for hormonal balance. We discuss REDs and when it's right to stop and rest from training, we also talk about how runners need to take further considerations about their nutrition.Sign up for her free newsletters at www.rohinibajekal.com and follow her on Instagram @rohinibajekal for daily tips on healthy living.
RADIOTHON IS ALMOST HERE! Please consider donating to the Breakfast Teams' crowdraiser, where we're doing our bit to contribute towards the station's goal of $275,000 to stay on air for another year. Don't forget to nominate your favourite brekky crew, i.e. Thursday ;) when you donate. Want to make a donation another way? Head to 3cr.org.au/donate for more options. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Sound on for solidarity with 3CR Breakfast, Monday to Saturday mornings on 855AM! Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listen back to an interview from 3CR's Doin' Time show with Nina Storey, a formerly incarcerated woman and member of Flat Out and the FIGJAM collective (formerly incarcerated justice advocates based in Melbourne). In this segment, Nina talks about a joint submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into legal responses to sexual violence, prepared with Karen Fletcher (Flat Out), Sohini Mehta and Monique Hurley (Human Rights Law Centre), and including contributions from formerly incarcerated people and other members of the FIGJAM collective.// Bundjalung Githabal and Worimi Saltwater woman Phoebe McIlwraith, Communications Lead for First Nations Futures, spoke with us about the Redistribution Week initiative running across this week from May 27 to June 3. The Redistribution Week campaign amplifies First Nations experts advocating for the redistribution of wealth, land, power, labour and responsibility as the next step beyond Reconciliation, encouraging non-Indigenous people to both learn and engage in material redistribution of resources obtained through colonial violence.// Last week, the NSW Government revealed a secret deal with Origin Energy to extend operation of Eraring power station, one of Australia's oldest coal-fired power plants, for an additional two years past its agreed-on closure date in 2025. Annika Reynolds from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) joined us to discuss the impacts of this extension. Annika is the ACF's National Climate Policy Advisor, leading the organisation's work on federal climate and energy law reform. Previously, Annika has worked at an international climate think-tank and within the environmental and energy legal sector.// Gamilaraay and Kooma organiser Boe Spearim spoke with us about the Treaty Before Sports campaign's planned Aboriginal solidarity delegation to meet with the Kanak community in so-called New Caledonia as part of building a broader network of anti-colonial resistance. Boe also shared a critical reflection on Reconciliation Week. Donate to the delegation's fundraiser here, and listen to Boe's podcast ‘Frontier War Stories' here.// Community Announcements:NO Northern Incinerator Wollert! are calling for community members to register their interest in attending a public consultation meeting being held by the Environmental Protection Authority on Thursday 20 June to discuss Cleanaway's proposed development of a waste to energy garbage incinerator in Wollert. The facility, which would be located in close proximity to residential areas and within 1.2km of the Merri Creek, will be used to burn over 1,000 tonnes of garbage per day. RSVPs are required by 11:59PM on Sunday the 2nd of June - register here.//
Maggie Michalczyk initially came up with the idea for her Instagram page, Once Upon a Pumpkin, as a dietetic intern. Now, with more than 109k followers, countless brand partnerships and appearances on national news outlets, Maggie shares the secrets to her success (hint: you can't get TOO comfortable). In this episode, Maggie candidly talks about getting her start in PR, how she got her first “big gig" and the highs and lows of being a dietitian entrepreneur. Hosted by Kristin Houts Meet Kristin Houts, the newest co-host of The Dietitian Connection Podcast. Based in Chicago, Kristin is our US Marketing and Communications Lead, and a Registered Dietitian specialising in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and chronic GI issues. Don't miss our upcoming podcast episode where you'll get to know Kristin better and hear from our other host, Brooke Delfino. It's the perfect opportunity to learn more about the voices behind our podcast and gain valuable insights into what's on the horizon. Stay tuned! In this episode, we cover: Maggie's path from nutrition student to business owner Strategies that skyrocketed her to 109k Instagram followers A typical day-in-the-life of a dietitian entrepreneur The highs and lows of working for yourself– and wearing all the hats Upcoming trends and opportunities for dietitians For the shownotes: https://dietitianconnection.com/podcasts/taking-leap-how-turn-your-personal-brand-successful-business/ This podcast is not, and is not intended to be, medical advice, which should be tailored to your individual circumstances. This podcast is for your information only, and we advise that you exercise your own judgment before deciding to use the information provided. Professional medical advice should be obtained before taking action. Please see here for terms and conditions.
Will some of California's biggest factory farms be shut down? A groundbreaking ballot measure to ban massive animal factories, aka CAFOs, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, will be decided by Sonoma County, California voters this November! Will this spread across the nation? UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell speaks with leaders of The Coalition to End Factory Farming which collected over 37,000 signatures, easily qualifying for the ballot, including: Samantha Faye, Coalition to End Factory Farming, Sarah Van Mangtem, co-founder of Farm Animal, Climate and Environmental Stewards of Sonoma County and Cassie King, Direct Action Everywhere's Communications Lead.
Tamlyn Shimizu (Global Partnerships & Communications Lead at BABLE Smart Cities, Germany). We are talking about: -Smart City and the podcast -What is a smart city? -Based on Tamlyn and what she hears from her guests: what should urban planners stop doing when they plan smart cities? why? -What skills should urban planners learn? why? Everyone is invited to explore the BABLE Use Case database and join the community here. Join BABLE Academy here. ___ Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️ All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated. Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin. Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel. Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design) AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/urbanistica-podcast/message
K.A. Owens interviews Deanna "Stretch" Rushing, Belle Townsend, and Noelle Tennis Rushing. Topic: Ceasefire in Palestine. Stretch is currently doing a hunger strike on behalf of a Ceasefire in Palestine. Belle is Communications Lead for Louisville Showing Up For Racial Justice. Noelle is with LSURJ Faith and Care Not Cages Campaign. Belle , Stretch and Noelle are all asking for a Ceasefire in Palestine. Recorded Thursday December 14, 2023, 2PM
Covering everything from the scientific theory of rewilding (diversity, disturbance and distribution!) to the art of tree planting on his very own nature reserve, the inspirational communicator that is Chris D'Agorne will leave you both enthused and resourced to enhance biodiversity in your own green space.Our GuestChris is an entrepreneur and a founder of a number of websites including How to Rewild, Life to Land and Buy Native. If you're interested in rewilding and regenerative farming, these are all fantastic and ever evolving sources of guidance and support. Previously, Chris has held a number of roles including Communications Lead for Ecosulis (Ecology Consultancy focusing on Rewilding). Chris is also rewilding 3.5 acres in Somerset; taking an ecologically barren former horse paddock into his very own nature reserve.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdagorne/Your HostsTom Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/Chloe Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-constable-24155821b/Grange Project Contact & Social MediaEmail: hello@grangeproject.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/grange.project/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grangeprojectYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrangeProjectLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/Listen out for:[00:00:00] Tom and Chloe briefly share updates from the Grange Project - rain, mud and fence removal, before introducing their guest for today's episode - Chris D'Agorne.[00:06:32] We meet Chris and he shares his passion for rewilding, the childhood dream of a nature reserve and some of the construction required to establish it.[00:12:00] We learn about Chris' interpretation of the science behind rewilding - diversity, disturbance and distribution. [00:23:12] Chris highlights the importance of the philosophy of rewilding; connection with community, financial viability and consideration of neighbours.[00:28:45] We hear about the story of Chris' nature reserve, how he found the field, the state it was in initially and the interventions that have taken place to date.[00:33:30] Chloe questions Chris about the approach he's taken to tree planting at the nature reserve and the importance of prioritising a naturalistic feel.[00:42:25] We discuss Chris' fantastic website resource - buynative.co.uk.[00:45:00] The conversation concludes with hopes for the future and the importance of stories.[00:48:18] Tom and Chloe reflect on the interview and what resonated for them both.Keen for more: Gerry the RangerInstagram:
Unsere heutigen Gäste haben wir im Rahmen der Campus Eröffnung bei Beiersdorf gesprochen. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Münster, absolvierte sie nach ihrem Abitur einen BWL-Bachelor und sammelte Berufserfahrung in der Gastronomie und im Tourismus. Eine Asienreise führte sie schließlich nach Hamburg, wo sie bei Deloitte im Bereich Employer Branding ein Praktikum begann. Dort erkannte sie schnell die Bedeutung dieses Themas für die Zukunft. Dies inspirierte sie, parallel zu ihrer Tätigkeit bei Deloitte, einen Master in Wirtschaftspsychologie in Hamburg zu verfolgen. Nach einer kurzen Tätigkeit bei AboutYou im gleichen Bereich, trat sie im Juli 2022 bei Beiersdorf als Managerin für Employer Branding & Recruitment Marketing ein. Im Rheinland aufgewachsen, zeichnet ihn seine Kontaktfreudigkeit, sein Talent fürs Netzwerken und seine Kommunikationsstärke aus. Diese Eigenschaften spiegeln sich in seinem Lebensmotto wider: Menschen zu verbinden, um gemeinsam Großes zu erreichen. Seit 2005 lebt er in Hamburg. Seine Lebenserfahrungen haben ihn nachhaltig geformt: Eine liebevolle Familie und seine mittlerweile drei Kinder, denen er als aktiver Vater („dad.icated“) zur Seite steht. Seine Wurzeln als „Rheinländer in Hamburg“, die Ausbildung zum Veranstaltungskaufmann in einem renommierten Hotel, die ihm eine Hands-on-Mentalität verlieh, das BWL-Studium und seine parallele Selbstständigkeit sowie seine Rolle als freigestellter Betriebsrat haben ihn geprägt. Ebenso prägend waren die Organisation seiner Grassroot-Initiative New Work und die beiden New Work Festivals bei Beiersdorf. Heute, als Communications Lead in der IT, führt er ein eigenes Team und wendet täglich seine Überzeugungen zu New Work und sein Verständnis von Leadership an. Seit über 6 Jahren beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, wie Arbeit den Menschen stärkt - statt ihn zu schwächen. In über 400 Folgen haben wir uns mit über 500 Menschen darüber unterhalten, was sich für sie geändert hat und was sich weiter ändern muss. Wir sind uns ganz sicher, dass es gerade jetzt wichtig ist. Denn die Idee von “New Work” wurde während einer echten Krise entwickelt. Wie geht New Work im Konzern und welche Rolle spielt das Büro dabei? Wie können außerdem Grassroots-Initativen helfen, Arbeit zu verbessern?Wir suchen nach Methoden, Vorbildern, Erfahrungen, Tools und Ideen, die uns dem Kern von New Work näher bringen! Darüber hinaus beschäftigt uns von Anfang an die Frage, ob wirklich alle Menschen das finden und leben können, was sie im Innersten wirklich, wirklich wollen. Ihr seid bei On the Way to New Work - heute mit Julia Nuyken und Julian Kupfer.
Seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady has nutrient supplements designed for him because off the shelf supplements don't meet his specific needs — why should your crops be any different? Be the Tom Brady of farming with AcreEdge products. In this episode, John King hosts guests who are responsible for the launch of the brand new AcreEdge Performance Portfolio—a special line up of products that are designed to enhance critical inputs, optimize application practices, and elevate crop performance throughout the growing season. Listen in as John King, Optimization and Procurement Lead; Edwin Suarez Araya, Technical Agronomy Manager; Matt Jones, Executive Vice President of Sales; Ryan Grant, Marketing and Communications Lead; have to say about AcreEdge and what it provides for the farmer. •View the full AcreEdge Performance Portfolio here •Purchase any AcreEdge product and be entered into the Edge of Your Seat Sweepstakes! View the contest details here •Read more on the state-of-the-art facility being constructed in Boone here •Connect with us
As fall gets into full swing, we're kicking off the second half of Season 6 of the EWN Podcast by talking with members of the EWN leadership team about what they've been working on and what's ahead. In Episode 5, host Sarah Thorne is joined by cohost Jeff King, National Lead of the EWN; cohost Amanda Tritinger, Deputy Program Manager, EWN; and Courtney Chambers, Communications Lead, EWN.The summer of 2023 was an unprecedented summer in many ways. As Sarah notes, “Mother Nature certainly demonstrated that climate change is upon us.” Jeff agrees, revisiting the topic Canada's worst wildfire season ever, covered in Season 6, Episode 4, as well as the wildfires that devastated Lahaina, Hawaii. He also talks about the extreme rainfall and flooding in the southwest caused by Tropical Storm Hillary and the extraordinary flooding and devastation caused by Hurricane Idalia to the big bend area of Florida. As Jeff notes, “People in all parts of the US, Canada, and around the world are experiencing the effects of climate change firsthand.” This global wakeup call is challenging and motivating for the EWN Program. Jeff notes that there are 49 active research projects being led by personnel at the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center to address the climate change imperative by integrating nature-based solutions.As Communications Lead, Courtney Chambers is responsible for sharing the incredible work that is going on with EWN. In her discussion with Sarah, Courtney describes some of what she has been doing to support the development and promotion of publications critical to broadening the reach of EWN, including the next volume of the EWN Atlas series, which captures the essence of EWN and nature-based solutions through images. As Courtney notes, “If you've seen Atlas I or II, you know that these books really showcase the potential for EWN and the diversity they can include.” Sarah adds, “You're helping to share the stories of all of the brilliant scientists, engineers, landscape architects, and other collaborators—and the EWN projects that they're working on—to inspire others. It's important work.”Sarah also speaks with Amanda Tritinger. Amanda shares highlights from her recent trip to Taiwan, coordinated with the USACE Pacific Ocean Division (POD). She was invited to talk about opportunities to engineer with nature as part of the information and technology exchange with the Taiwan Water Resource Agency. “The TWRA has a lot of really cool projects. It was exciting to share what EWN has going on but also to learn a lot of what Taiwan has been doing.” Amanda notes that through the POD they have been involved with a lot of opportunities in Southeast Asia with colleagues in Japan and Vietnam. “It's really exciting that the world is a big place and what seems like a problem can be its own solution through the use of natural infrastructure and better understanding the environment around us.”In closing, Jeff notes, “The climate change that we've all been experiencing is really challenging and motivating our EWN colleagues and collaborators to be innovative—to conduct research and field work on a range of projects that can help mitigate the impacts of climate change and help communities adapt and become more resilient. I really look forward to sharing some of the truly groundbreaking work underway on future episodes of the EWN Podcast. I don't think we're going to run out of interesting things to share with our listeners!!”For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN Podcast page on the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/ • Jeff King at LinkedIn• Amanda Tritinger at LinkedIn• Courtney Chambers at LinkedInThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5872676/advertisement
It Happened To Me: A Rare Disease and Medical Challenges Podcast
Corinne Merlino was born with Pierre Robin Syndrome, a rare congenital birth defect that affects craniofacial development. Navigating life as a patient from a young age sparked her passion for science, medicine, and advocacy, and ultimately inspired her to pursue a career in genetic counseling. Corinne currently works as a clinical research coordinator for -The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research- or (PAIR) Center- at The University of Pennsylvania. There she supports multiple studies focused on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of specialty palliative care services for seriously ill patients. With our Executive Producer, Kira Dineen, Corinne also serves as Communications Lead for the DNA Today Podcast for over 3 years. Kira is also joining us today as a guest host for this conversation! In 2020, Corinne received her B.S. in Biology and Healthcare Ethics from Saint Joseph's University. Corinne is currently a graduate student in genetic counseling at the University of Pennsylvania. During the episode we mentioned Philly Phaces and the book and film Wonder. Stay tuned for the next new episode of It Happened To Me! In the meantime, you can listen to our previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “It Happened To Me”. It Happened To Me is created and hosted by Cathy Gildenhorn and Beth Glassman. DNA Today's Kira Dineen is our executive producer and marketing lead. Amanda Andreoli is our associate producer. Ashlyn Enokian is our graphic designer. See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website, ItHappenedToMePod.com. Questions/inquiries can be sent to ItHappenedToMePod@gmail.com.
How will the recent explosion in AI change how we find out about what's going on in the world? What sources will AI rely on to deliver trustworthy news? Will it put journalists out of work? This week we answer these questions and more. Guests: Madhumita Murgia, Artificial Intelligence Editor, Financial Times; Tom Clarke, Science and Technology Editor, Sky News; Eliz Mizon, Communications Lead, The Bristol Cable; Jackson Ryan, Science Editor, CNET Presenter: Katie Razzall Producer: Simon Richardson
One mom's journey into patient advocacy started after two of her daughters were diagnosed with galactosemia, a rare disease. There's finally a potential new treatment for this condition, which families say has helped their children who have participated in the clinical trial. But they're worried their voices are being ignored. Jodie Solari, Communications Lead for the Galactosemia Foundation shares how the diagnosis changed her life into a life of advocacy, and why she's pushing for the voices of families like hers to be considered when reviewing new treatments. Galactosemia Foundation Webpage Glactosemia Foundation Webpage: Advocating for a Treatment Voice of the Patient Report: Galactosemia Fierce Healthcare News Article: Another PBM reform bill has been introduced in Congress. Here's what it includes Patients Rising Now Webpage: Ask Your Representative to Support the Protecting Patients from PBM Abuses Act Protecting Patients Against PBM Abuses Act Need help? The successful patient is one who can get what they need when they need it. We all know insurance slows us down, so why not take matters into your own hands? Our Navigator is an online tool that allows you to search a massive network of health-related resources using your zip code so you get local results. Get proactive and become a more successful patient right now at the Patients Rising Helpline. Have a question or comment about the show, or want to suggest a show topic or share your story as a patient correspondent? Drop us a line: podcast@patientsrising.org The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the guest(s)/ author(s) and do not reflect the official policy or position of Patients Rising, nor do the views and opinions stated on this show reflect the opinions of a guest's current or previous employers.
In this episode, Iain Stewart, an expert in geoscience and sustainability, highlights the need for the scientific community to communicate differently to engage communities in developing sustainable climate solutions, learning to move away from the 'tell and sell' approach, to one of 'sense and respond' in order to build trust.Iain explains to host, Sue Stockdale about his latest project in northeastern Jordan, where a wetland has dried up due to climate change, and what he has learned in getting the project off the ground in the desert landscape.About Iain StewartIain Stewart is the El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society (Jordan) and Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth (UK). The founding director of the University of Plymouth's ‘Sustainable Earth Institute', Iain's long-standing research interests are in disaster risk reduction, climate change, and Earth science communication.His Earth science communication work has built on a 15-year partnership with BBC Science television presenting popular documentary series, such as ‘Earth: The Power of the Planet', ‘Earth: The Climate Wars', ‘How Earth Made Us', ‘How To Grow A Planet', ‘The Rise of the Continents' and ‘Planet Oil'.Iain was also academic advisor on David Attenborough's acclaimed BBC series ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet'. Awarded an MBE for his services to geography and geology education, he was President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, was the Communications Lead and Evidence Chair for the Scottish Government's Climate Citizen's Assembly, and is the UNESCO Chair for Geoscience and Society.Connect with Iain Stewart on Twitter and find out more at the Royal Scientific Society (Jordan).Key Quotes"Water scarcity is the number one problem here in Jordan. And I think you can't really be a geoscientist working on sustainability here and not have a project on that.""One of the solutions is empowering communities to be able to make their own adaptations.""To be able to cope with the effects of climate change I think adaptability and flexibility will be absolutely the key""Authentic listening, where you're genuinely shutting up, is something that scientists and experts don't do very well.""Some people would argue from a sustainability perspective that we should effectively stop traveling.""The worst people for traveling in terms of flights are academics and the worst academics are climate scientists.""We need to show leadership here. We need to show the motivation, the sense of purpose to be doing this.""One of the unpalatable messages is that the low carbon green energy economy is going to need more stuff. And that stuff is going to have to come from somewhere, and the place it's going to come from is the ground. And therefore, a future with less carbon in it is a future that's going to have a lot more mining in it."Partners and SupportersWe partnered with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society to bring you this series. Take a look at their Climate Solutions course, developed by leaders and experts in climate change and endorsed by the Institute of Directors.We are also supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations.Connect with us on Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn : Read our Impact ReportActions to take after listening to the podcastWe have created a list of questions to help you reflect on the podcast episode and what you heardSign up for our Zoom listener discussion on the topics raised in this series on Friday 21st July from 1300 to 1345hrs BST.Credits:Sound Editor: Matias de EzcurraProducer: Sue Stockdale
Ronda Miller-Ernest, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for more than 30 years, discusses the importance of RSV vaccines and the Vaccines for Children Program in the wake of an ACIP meeting; the FDA has opened up its public comment period for guidance regarding how to incorporate patient experiences into the drug development and regulatory review process; Jodie Solari, Communications Lead for the Galactosemia Foundation, explains a clinical trial took place where the drug did not meet all of the FDA's established markers, but the improvements to families should not be ignored; and the FDA and several other agencies are some of the few recipients of increased funding thanks to a new bill from the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Patients Rising Podcast Webpage: The Fight Against RSV Revs Up CDC Webpage: ACIP Presentation Slides – June 21-23, 2023 Meeting CDC Webpage: Vaccines for Children Program FDA Comment Period Webpage Galactosemia Foundation Webpage
Guest: Robin Lennon Bylenga, Information Security Awareness, Education and Communications Lead at DWS Group [@DWS_Group]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinlbylenga/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/pedalchic____________________________Hosts:Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/sean-martinMarco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli____________________________This Episode's SponsorsPentera | https://itspm.ag/penteri67aSemperis | https://itspm.ag/semperis-1roo✨ ➤ Sponsorship Signup Is Now Open — And Yes, Space Is Limited!____________________________Episode NotesIn this Chats on the Road to Infosecurity Europe Conference podcast episode, In this episode of ITSPmagazine, hosts, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli, invite Robin Lennon Bylenga, a human factors expert, to discuss the impact of culture on cybersecurity.The conversation emphasizes the importance of involving humans in cybersecurity instead of just relying on technology. Robin advocates building a cybersecurity awareness culture by making cybersecurity relevant to individuals' daily routines. Robin shares valuable insights on folding security into an organization's culture, making it relevant to employees, and using storytelling to build a security culture.Sean and Marco highlight the significance of Robin's upcoming keynote speech at Infosecurity Europe, where she will explain the importance of a good security culture using stories. The conversation also touches upon GDPR and avoiding over-reliance on technology while making metrics to measure success.The conversation provides an holistic perspective on how the culture of an organization influences cybersecurity, as cybersecurity is not just about technology, but it's also about the way people make sense of it.____________________________ResourcesLearn more, explore the programme, and register for Infosecurity Europe: https://itspm.ag/iseu23Catch Robin's session: ‘Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast' - Building a Strong Cyber Security Awareness CultureBe sure to tune in to all of our Infosecurity Europe 2023 conference coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2023-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverageCatch the full Infosecurity Europe 2023 YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllTOeLEfCLJlToZIoJtNJB6B____________________________If you are a cybersecurity vendor with a story to share, you can book your pre-event video podcast briefing here (https://itspm.ag/iseu23tsv) and your on-location audio podcast briefing here (https://itspm.ag/iseu23tsp).Explore the full conference coverage sponsorship bundle here: https://itspm.ag/iseu23bndlFor more ITSPmagazine advertising and sponsorship opportunities:
Guest: Robin Lennon Bylenga, Information Security Awareness, Education and Communications Lead at DWS Group [@DWS_Group]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinlbylenga/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/pedalchic____________________________Hosts:Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/sean-martinMarco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli____________________________This Episode's SponsorsPentera | https://itspm.ag/penteri67aSemperis | https://itspm.ag/semperis-1roo✨ ➤ Sponsorship Signup Is Now Open — And Yes, Space Is Limited!____________________________Episode NotesIn this Chats on the Road to Infosecurity Europe Conference podcast episode, In this episode of ITSPmagazine, hosts, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli, invite Robin Lennon Bylenga, a human factors expert, to discuss the impact of culture on cybersecurity.The conversation emphasizes the importance of involving humans in cybersecurity instead of just relying on technology. Robin advocates building a cybersecurity awareness culture by making cybersecurity relevant to individuals' daily routines. Robin shares valuable insights on folding security into an organization's culture, making it relevant to employees, and using storytelling to build a security culture.Sean and Marco highlight the significance of Robin's upcoming keynote speech at Infosecurity Europe, where she will explain the importance of a good security culture using stories. The conversation also touches upon GDPR and avoiding over-reliance on technology while making metrics to measure success.The conversation provides an holistic perspective on how the culture of an organization influences cybersecurity, as cybersecurity is not just about technology, but it's also about the way people make sense of it.____________________________ResourcesLearn more, explore the programme, and register for Infosecurity Europe: https://itspm.ag/iseu23Catch Robin's session: ‘Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast' - Building a Strong Cyber Security Awareness CultureBe sure to tune in to all of our Infosecurity Europe 2023 conference coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2023-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverageCatch the full Infosecurity Europe 2023 YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllTOeLEfCLJlToZIoJtNJB6B____________________________If you are a cybersecurity vendor with a story to share, you can book your pre-event video podcast briefing here (https://itspm.ag/iseu23tsv) and your on-location audio podcast briefing here (https://itspm.ag/iseu23tsp).Explore the full conference coverage sponsorship bundle here: https://itspm.ag/iseu23bndlFor more ITSPmagazine advertising and sponsorship opportunities:
Congratulations to everyone who matched with a genetic counseling program last week! Special shoutout to our Communications Lead, Corinne Merlino, for matching with the University of Pennsylvania! Check out DNA Today Episode #101, Genetic Counseling Match Day, to prepare you to start grad school. We also provide advice for applicants that didn't match in this cycle and offer inspiration to apply next round.In the spirit of recent matches, upcoming graduation, and DNA Day we thought it was time for another giveaway! This time we are giving away GC Genius' top two study materials: their study guide and flashcards featuring the top 100 genetic conditions to know. Enter on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn before May 2nd! You can even enter on all three to increase your chances of winning. Fun Fact: The flashcards were co-created by Ashlyn Enokian, MS, CGC, who designed our DNA Today logo! She is also a genetic counselor featured on DNA Today Episodes 101, 111, 135, and 212.Can't wait to see if you won? Use the code “DNATODAY” for a discount in the GC Genius Etsy store through May 31st, 2023. —---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We are going back in time in this episode of DNA Today to explore the history of the genetic counseling field. In part 1 of this 2-part series, we are focusing on the first annual conference for the National Society of Genetic Counselors which was in 1981, 54 years ago! Joining me are two rockstars in the field of GC, Michelle Fox and Debra Collins!Michelle Fox, MS, CGC, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA. For over 30 years, Michelle coordinated the UCLA Genetics Clinic, providing genetic counseling services to both pediatric and adult populations, including the UCLA Predictive Huntington Disease Testing Program, early onset Alzheimer and genetic neurodegenerative disorders. She is also a faculty member of the UCLA Genetic Counseling Program. Michelle served on the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Heritable Disorders of Newborns and Children Follow-up and Treatment sub-committee and on the National Society of Genetic Counselors Public Policy Newborn Screening Task Force in 2014. She was a member of the Western States Regional Genetics Network from 2010-2013. Michelle served on the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Hearing Loss Guidelines Committee (2013), the American Board of Genetic Counseling Engagement Task Force (2016) and the National Society of Genetic Counselors Conflict of Interest Task Force (2017-2018). She currently serves on the Mt. Sinai Medical Center Genetic Counseling Program Advisory Board, UCLA Genetic Counseling Program Advisory Board and was a member at large of the National Society of Genetic Counselors board of directors (2019-2020). Michelle was awarded the Natalie Weissberger Paul Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 recognizing her contributions to the field of genetic counseling!Debra Collins, M.S., CGC, has been a genetic counselor at University of Kansas Medical Center for four decades. She has been working there as a genetic counselor for about four decades and her current roles include being a hereditary cancer genetic counselor, with special expertise in von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, and advisor to the genetics and neoplasia medical school curricula.. She has been an active member of the NSGC, including being a past President, serving on the Board of Directors, the Professional Status Committee and currently in the Cancer Genetics Special Interest Group. In 2006, she was awarded the Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship Special Award for an online course on grant writing for genetic counselors. Collins also had leadership roles in organizations such as the American Society of Human Genetics, The American Board of Genetic Counseling, and many family support / advocacy groups. Debra graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, the first genetic counseling program, with her Master's Degree in Human Genetics. She has enjoyed working as a genetic counselor every day: providing education, advocating, counseling, translating complex information, and making a difference in the lives of patients and families. On This Episode We Discuss:Why it's important to understand the history of the genetic counseling fieldWhy the year 1969 is an important one for the professionThe first annual education (NSGC) conferenceThe role of the March of DimesThe number of people who attended the first conferenceThe next few annual education conferencesWhat has changed since thenNSGC conferences todayIf you want to learn more about the history of the GC field, check out Episode 136 with Linda Robinson . Episode 31 with Robin Schwartz also gives a great overview of the field. Stay tuned for part 2 of this series with Ed Kloza and Ann Walker where we will focus on the Formation of the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC).You can learn more about the past, present, and future of NSGC conferences here!Stay tuned for the next new episode of DNA Today on May 5th, 2023 where we'll be continuing this history of genetic counseling discussion by chatting about the formation of the ABGC with Ed Kloza and Ann Walker. New episodes are released every Friday. In the meantime, you can binge over 235 other episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “DNA Today”. Episodes since 2021 are also recorded with video which you can watch on our YouTube channel. DNA Today is hosted and produced by Kira Dineen. Our social media lead is Corinne Merlino. Our video lead is Amanda Andreoli. Our Outreach Intern is Sanya Tinaikar. Our Social Media Intern is Kajal Patel. And our Graphic Designer Ashlyn Enokian.See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website, DNAToday.com. Questions/inquiries can be sent to info@DNAtoday.com. Want to become a genetic counselor? Looking for ways to engage with the field and boost your resume for grad school applications? Then you should check out Sarah Lawrence's “Why Genetic Counseling Wednesday Summer Series”! Every Wednesday this June (plus the last Wednesday in May) Sarah Lawrence is hosting a series where you can interact through Zoom with genetic counselors from different specialties. It kicks off on May 31st! You can sign up at SLC.edu/DNAtoday. Again visit SLC.edu/DNAtoday to register to level up your resume for applications in the fall. (Sponsored)Are you interested in the rapidly growing field of genetics and want to learn more about clinical genetics, molecular genetics, and laboratory science? Then you should check out the Genetic Assistant Online Training Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine!By taking part in the program, you will be joining both national and international learners with the same passion for genetics. Interact directly with your Johns Hopkins instructors and fellow learners throughout the program. Limited spots are available for the summer cohort starting June 5th, 2023. Click here for more information. (Sponsored)As many of you know through podcasting I have become an entrepreneur including consulting for other podcasts. Since I don't have a business degree I have learned a lot through podcasts like Porch Talks. The inspiration to start this show was from the host Melissa Bradley who wanted to inform, instruct, and inspire fellow entrepreneurs, especially in people who identify as women, people of color, immigrants, veterans, people with disabilities, and folks in the LGBTQIA+ community (which drew me in initially). 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In this compelling episode of the Stories to Create Podcast, our guest takes us on a journey through her life, having grown up in the vibrant landscape of southwest Florida. She shares her affinity for the University of Florida, proudly declaring herself a big Gator fan, and discusses her career in communications, which has spanned across corporate, agency, and nonprofit sectors.The conversation delves into her current role as a Communications Lead at Collaboratory and her involvement in the on-the-table SWFL talk. It explores the notion that being assertive is often perceived as a healthier communication style, offering a multitude of benefits. They discuss how assertiveness helps prevent individuals from being taken advantage of and how her Italian background has played a significant role in building her self-confidence, self-esteem, empowerment, emotional awareness, and ability to earn respect from others.She goes on to share how assertiveness has improved her communication skills, fostered win-win situations, honed her decision-making abilities, nurtured honest relationships, and ultimately enhanced her job satisfaction. Listen in as Noelle Casagrande divulges these valuable insights and more. Support the showThank you for tuning in with EHAS CLUB - Stories to Create Podcast
Scott is joined by Tyler Bianco, Communications Lead of Sandals Church. Scott and Tyler discuss Southern California recently being hit with historic storms leaving many residents without power, running low on food, supplies, and medicine in the San Bernardino County Mountains. Sandals Church is helping the community with much needed supplies. They also speak on how others can get involved. Also, President Biden proposed a $6.8 trillion budget that sought to increase spending on the military and a wide range of new social programs while also reducing future budget deficits. The Budget is receiving backlash from people on the other side of the aisle. Scott looks at what is in the budget and breaks it down. Plus, our absurdity of the week where VP Kamala Harris stated that that kids are facing 'climate mental health' issues. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Juliana Roxa is the GSI Workforce Strategy and Communications Lead at AWS. Prior to that, she was Global Customer Marketing Director & Executive Communications Lead at SAP, where she led the charge to unify the post-sales experience and build the customer marketing function from the ground up. Mapping out customer journeys can be a considerable undertaking...
Women are playing an extraordinary role in support for Ukraine, by raising awareness of its cause in their host countries and within the international community. Anastasiia Marushevska is a Ukrainian Communications expert, speaker, writer, and traveller. Like many Ukrainians, she is involved in a whole range of initiatives to support the war efforts, and to raise awareness of Ukraine as a culture and voice in the world. She is Communications Lead at Ukraїner and Co-founder at PR Army and Where Are Our People?
Chris and George talk with UVIMCO's Cornelia Horner for insights on how one of the largest and most well-respected endowment managers committed to and is implementing a responsible investment strategy. Guest Cornelia Horner, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communications Lead at the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO). Background Colleges and universities are at the forefront of education and research on issues such as sustainability and climate change. Not surprisingly, endowments of those institutions are being engaged, often pressed, by its stakeholders to align investment strategies with the beliefs and carbon neutrality commitments of the university at large. UVIMCO has always considered environmental, social, and governance issues as part of its due diligence process for investments, but prior to 2021, had not formalized such practices in its investment policies. UVIMCO recognized the growing need to address climate change more directly and to align with the University of Virginia's ongoing leadership and commitment to sustainability. Conversation The discussion ranges from policy development to implementation, and the practical challenges of aligning ESG, net zero and DE&I with the endowment's primary responsibility of generating returns to support the broader university mission. Cornelia describes the benefits and challenges of establishing policies that integrate ESG broadly, and climate and DE&I specifically, into what is a proven investment process for selecting managers.
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. Your host is Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp. This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from November 15 where Peter Block spoke with Jenn Hoos Rothberg, the Executive Director of the Einhorn Collaborative, about "A Call to Connection." Abundant Community conversations happen every couple of months on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme. Jennifer Hoos Rothberg leads Einhorn Collaborative, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to addressing America's growing crisis of connection by advancing the science and practice of empathy, mutual understanding, and relationship building in the United States. Jenn, who joined in 2007, oversees all aspects of the foundation in partnership with its Founder and Trustee, David Einhorn, including setting strategic priorities and building collaborative partnerships that advance our ability to embrace our differences, see our common humanity, and solve our country's biggest challenges together. Jenn is a member of the Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community, the Town School Board of Trustees, and the NationSwell Council. She received her Master's in Regional Planning and Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Studies with Honors from Cornell University. She lives in NYC with her husband, two children, and cockapoo, Zucca. You can follow Jenn on LinkedIn and Twitter.In addition to being the Communications Lead at Einhorn Collaborative, Chi Nguyễn is an interdisciplinary artist who uses textiles and community-engaged practices to examine the intersection of identities in the U.S., explore the concept of belonging, and reflect on her recent transition to motherhood. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Washington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, BusinessWeek, Vice, and Bustle, among others. She is based in The Bronx, New York where she lives with her husband, daughter, and their dog, Uni. Here is the recited poem, "Turning to One Another" by Margaret Wheatley:There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about.Ask “What's possible?” not “What's wrong?” Keep asking.Notice what you care about.Assume that many others share your dreams.Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.Talk to people you know.Talk to people you don't know.Talk to people you never talk to.Be intrigued by the differences you hear.Expect to be surprised.Treasure curiosity more than certainty.Invite in everybody who cares to work on what's possible.Acknowledge that everyone is an expert about something.Know that creative solutions come from new connections.Remember, you don't fear people whose story you know.Real listening always brings people closer together.Trust that meaningful conversations can change your world.Rely on human goodness. Stay together.This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.
Our guest in this episode is Jorge Contreras, author of The Genome Defense. In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for the fundamental right to control our genes.We're giving away 5 copies of The Genome Defense, so be sure to check out our social media accounts for the giveaway details. If you don't win, you can get a copy here. When you buy a copy of the book, half of the proceeds are donated to FORCE, an organization that strives to improve the lives of individuals and families facing hereditary cancer. You can learn more about the book on Contreras' website, genomedefense.org. Jorge Contreras (he/him) is the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Human Genetics. His research focuses on intellectual property, technical standards and science policy, and he is one of the co-founders of the Open COVID Pledge, a framework for contributing intellectual property to the COVID-19 response. He is the editor or author of twelve books and more than 150 scholarly articles and book chapters. During his career he has served on the NIH Council of Councils and the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, and as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. His most recent book, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Algonquin, 2021) describes the litigation that ended gene patenting in America. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA). Learn more about Jorge here.On This Episode We Discuss:Why the ACLU and other groups felt so strongly that gene patents should be bannedFactors that lead to the ACLU choosing Myriad and specifically the BRCA related gene patents for the lawsuitThe role that public perception played in the AMP vs. Myriad caseThe predicted impact of banning gene patents on the economy and public healthThe main points that were argued in the AMP vs. Myriad casecDNA and gDNAHow the ban of gene patents has impacted the biotech industry Legislation and current cases that we should be aware of that affect the field of geneticsWe also asked listener questions on this episode, so tune in to see if we answered yours!You can follow Jorge onTwitter and LinkedIn to stay up to date on his latest work! Stay tuned for the next new episode of DNA Today next week where our host, Kira Dineen, will be recapping the NSGC Annual Meeting! New episodes are released on Fridays. In the meantime, you can binge over 210 other episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, streaming on the website, or any other podcast player by searching, “DNA Today”. Episodes since 2021 are also recorded with video which you can watch on our YouTube channel. DNA Today is created, hosted, and produced by myself, Kira Dineen. Our team includes Communications Lead, Corrine Merlino. Video Lead, Amanda Andreoli. Outreach Intern, Sanya Tinaikar. Social Media Intern, Kajal Patel. And Graphic Designer Ashlyn Enokian.See what else we are up to on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website, DNApodcast.com. Questions/inquiries can be sent to info@DNApodcast.com. TrakGene has designed a genetics electronic health record. Here's what it features: pedigrees, demographic data, genetics information, risk tools, and sophisticated reporting, all within a clinician designed workflow. It integrates within other clinical genetic software, databases, and hospital information systems to maintain accurate patient records. Go check it out at Trakgene.com. Be sure to check out Episode 208 and Episode 210 of DNA Today featuring Trakgene. [Sponsored]
Kim Koelmeyer is the epitome of someone who is boldly carving out their unique place in our profession. She is ambitious, kind, interested and interesting and it has been an absolute pleasure to see Kim create her own niche in Legal Communications and proceed with her career journey according to her own values and goals. Kim studied Law and Journalism at Deakin Law School, graduating in 2020. While she loved the law, she also loved writing and storytelling, her experience in CLCs made her realise that there was an imperative for diverse voices and perspectives to be celebrated in the legal profession. So, she founded the hugely successful and impactful Law In Colour. Kim pursued a Communications Graduate role with the State Government and she recently landed a dream, ideal role for her at Justice Connect as Communications Lead where all her passions and experiences are combined. In this honest conversation, Kim and I discuss: - Her law school experience - Why missing out on seasonal clerkships and a legal graduate role was the best thing that ever happened to her - Why she started Law in Colour - How social media can be used to promote social justice - What she has learned through interviewing so many legal POC for LIC - Juggling PLT and full time work - How she does it all - Her advice to others I hope you enjoy listening to this honest conversation between friends and it helps open your eyes to the limitless possibilities of where your legal career may take you. Your host, Rose You can follow Kim on: Instagram here: @lawincolour Law in Colour website: https://www.lawincolour.com Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-koelmeyer-a0861b117/ The book Kim referred to was “Why I am No Longer Talking to White People about Race” by Reni Eddo Lodge, published by Bloomsberry Circus and available at Readings here. A long read article written by the same article on the same topic was published by The Guardian and can accessed here. Cristabel Gekas's RTL podcast, which also deep dives into seasonal clerkships and soul searching, is Episode 5. You can connect with me, Rose Inglis on: Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/rosetintedlaw/ Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roseinglis/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/rosetintedlaw/ And via my gorgeous new website! https://rosetintedlaw.com.au Mixed by Julie Reynolds: https://www.audiolemonade.com
Do we fear or embrace the changes that life brings? Sam Jo is now balls deep in drag. Kennede is using his voice louder than ever. And Joshua is single again. The boys come together, over a bottle of sparkling wine, to reflect on where they are currently in their lives. Subscribe and connect with us on Instagram: @TheSGBoys For media requests or collaborations, contact our Communications Lead, Rachael De Foe comms@rachaeldefoe.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Everybody say REPEAL! Singapore is finally repealing 377A, the law that criminalises gay sex. We celebrate this historic moment with the return of OG SG Boy Kennede to relive the euphoria and tears from repeal night, and ask the bittersweet question that's on all our minds: what next? Subscribe and connect with us on Instagram: @TheSGBoys For media requests or collaborations, contact our Communications Lead, Rachael De Foe comms@rachaeldefoe.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A "veteran" of Lenovo, Alexandre Blumenthal looks after EMEA Marketing and Communications within the company's ISG segment - the Infrastructure and Solutions Group, so everything that has to do with the data centre. His Shiny New Object is all about being real with consumers. Instead of focusing on abstract slogans and doing "too much" marketing, brands should make it clear what they bring to the table and nothing more. Honesty, transparency, and simplicity are Alexandre's top priorities when it comes to advertising strategy. Listen to his top marketing tips and more on his views about the future of marketing in the latest episode.
How do you try to keep things straight… when you're anything but? Queer people in Singapore have had to 'act straight' for so much of their lives. Either to navigate rules which do not favour them, avoid discrimination or simply fit in and be accepted in society. This is the premise for Wild Rice's Straight Acting, a hopeful, heartfelt comedy about two couples and the drama of trying blend a little hetero fiction into their queer realities. We speak to two of the play's stars, Darren Guo and Deonn Yang, about what they've learned about queer life, family values and finding one's tribe. Subscribe and connect with us on Instagram: @TheSGBoys For media requests or collaborations, contact our Communications Lead, Rachael De Foe comms@rachaeldefoe.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Do you want to create solutions, become a leader, and drive networks to help reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Then take a listen... Welcome back SDG Talkers!! Thanks for joining us for another episode of highlighting change makers and their inspirational work towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)! IN THIS EPISODE: - What is UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab? - What is the UNLEASH methodology? - What can we expect from UNLEASH 2022? Fun fact: host Kevin Sofen attended UNLEASH 2019 which inspired him to start this podcast plus connected him with an abundance of likeminded activists - such as today's guests Ana Jiménez Núñez and Serene Habbal! So who better to get the inside scoop about UNLEASH other than the team behind-the-scenes? Ana is UNLEASH's Communications Lead while Serene is the Talent Experience Lead, and both also work full-time as Communications Consultants for Dalberg Media, a media consultancy aiming to increase awareness and mobilize partners and resources to the global development agenda. Ana and Serene have dedicated their careers to uniting media with international development and finding powerful insights that bring sustainability projects to their full potential. The next UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab will take place in the state of Karnataka in India (at Infosys Mysore, the world's largest corporate university!) from December 3 – 11, 2022. The lab will gather 1,000 young teams of participants between the ages of 18 - 35 to brainstorm ideas and co-create innovative initiatives through human-centered design thinking – a process that focuses on the real needs of the people that the solution focuses on. Experienced facilitators and experts will guide the participants through different stages of the innovation process. You can apply for UNLEASH India HERE until June 19. Follow UNLEASH: LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Let's get SDG Talking!! Got a good story or want to collaborate? Send us an email at sdgtalkspodcast@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can! And don't forget to check out our Virtual Roundtables on our website! Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
If we care about organisms like bumblebees, we need to protect and restore their habitats and plants are that habitat. In this episode we hear from Senior Program Officer, Communications Lead,WWF Northern Great Plains Program Clay Bolt about the work being done to restore habitat and bolster bumblebee populations. This episode was produced in part by Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
Today on Midday: strategies to help people who are homeless. Tom's first guest is Dr. Sam Tsemberis, a clinical psychologist and the founder of Pathways Housing First Institute. He is the creator of what's come to be known as the “Housing First” model, which Tsemberis calls the “vaccine for homelessness.” Sam Tsemberis joins us on Zoom from Los Angeles, California. Then, Tom speaks with Katie Allston, the president and CEO of Marian House, a Baltimore organization that has been helping formerly incarcerated women with housing and support services since 1982. On Friday night, they will celebrate their 40th anniversary with an event at the R House Garage in Remington, hosted by the actor Rachel Hilson and Denise Koch of WJZ Television. We also hear from recent Marian House graduate Juanita “Nita” Bowie. Juanita Bowie and Katie Allston join us on Zoom from Baltimore... The United Nations estimates that more than 11 million people have been displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roughly half of them have fled their homes to other places in Ukraine, but nearly 5 million people have fled to other countries, including the United States. Airbnb is coordinating with federal officials to provide free, temporary housing for refugees from Ukraine here and throughout Europe. Tom's next guest is Liz DeBold Fusco, the Communications Lead for North America for Airbnb. She joins us on Zoom from Colts Neck, New Jersey. BTW, local musicians are collaborating to help Ukraine. Tomorrow night, members of the Baltimore Symphony will partner with The Creative Alliance for a concert at the Meyerhoff. For more info, click here. And on Saturday night, An Die Musik in Baltimore will present pianist Lisa Weiss, hammer dulcimer virtuoso Ken Kolodner, klezmer clarinetist Seth Kibel, and mandolin master Joel-Michael-Schwartz in a concert to benefit Ukraine. For information on that concert, click here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
About JohnnyJohnny was born in Cleveland, OH and graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering. He began his career as a software engineer focused on embedded device protocols and systems engineering. Eventually he realized that Program Management worked better with the grain of his brain, so he took his career in that direction.In 2019, he was hired by Google Cloud to serve as a Communications Lead on their incident management teams. Most recently, he joined Waymo in November 2021 as a Technical Program Manager, acting as an anti-entropy agent for the self-driving car company's offboard infrastructure teams.Outside his day job, Johnny enjoys mountain biking, playing piano and trumpet, personal finance, coaching, and studying complex systems. He currently lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife Emily, and is expecting their first child in April 2022! Links: Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1436129343399346184 Personal website: https://jmpod.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/gratitudeisfree/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gratitudeisfree/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured and fully managed with built in access via key-value, SQL, and full-text search. Flexible JSON documents aligned to your applications and workloads. Build faster with blazing fast in-memory performance and automated replication and scaling while reducing cost. Capella has the best price performance of any fully managed document database. Visit couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud to try Capella today for free and be up and running in three minutes with no credit card required. Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by LaunchDarkly. Take a look at what it takes to get your code into production. I'm going to just guess that it's awful because it's always awful. No one loves their deployment process. What if launching new features didn't require you to do a full-on code and possibly infrastructure deploy? What if you could test on a small subset of users and then roll it back immediately if results aren't what you expect? LaunchDarkly does exactly this. To learn more, visit launchdarkly.com and tell them Corey sent you, and watch for the wince.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Every once in a while I get feedback from people who I've encountered who are impacted in various ways. Most of it is feedback delivered of the kind you might expect, like, “Unsubscribe me from this newsletter,” or, “Block,” or sometimes bricks thrown through my window. But occasionally, I get some truly horrifying feedback, and far and away one of the most horrifying things I can ever be told is, “So, I was reading one of your tweet threads and it changed the course of my career.”It's like, “Oh, dear,” because nothing good is going to happen after something like that. It's, “Yeah, they were going to name something terrible here at AWS, so I ran over my boss in the parking lot,” is sort of what I'm expecting to hear. But I got that exact feedback about life-changing tweet threads from today's guest. We'll get into what that tweet thread was a little bit, but let's first let the other person talk for a minute. Johnny Podhradsky is a technical program manager at Waymo. Specifically, of Offboard Infrastructure. Johnny, thanks for suffering through a long, painful introduction, as well as, more or less, the slings and arrows that invariably come with being on the show.Johnny: Thanks, Corey. I'm grateful to be here.Corey: So, first things first. I always like to find out what people actually do for a living that is usually a source of entertainment, if nothing else. You are a technical program manager—or TPM as they say in tech companies—of Offboard Infrastructure. I'm assuming because Waymo, is at least theoretically, a self-driving car company, ‘offboard' means things that are not on the vehicle themselves.Johnny: That's exactly right. Yeah.Corey: Fantastic. Now, ask the dumb question because I'm still not sure I have an answer after however many years in this industry. What does a technical program manager do?Johnny: [laugh]. I get that question a lot. Often people try to distinguish between what's a technical program manager do versus what does a product manager do.Corey: Or a project manager, too, because there's a lot of different ways it can express itself, and I'm a PM, and it's, “Oh, wonderful. That's like four different acronyms I can disambiguate into and I'm probably going to get it wrong.”Johnny: And to make it even more confusing, it varies company by company. So, just focus in on specifically what I do as a technical program manager, I'm an anti-entropy agent, right? I make sure things stay on track, specifically embedded into technical teams. So, I have a degree in engineering; I'm able to speak fluently about technology. And the entire idea, the entire purpose of my existence is to make sure that things don't fall apart. So, I'm keeping track of people and resources; I'm keeping track of overall timelines; risks and mitigations for programs that are ongoing, whether they're small with just a few people or cross-org, cross-functional teams; serving as an unblocker and making sure that all the dependencies that exist between the various tasks in the teams are addressed ahead of time so that we know what needs to be done when.Corey: It's one of those useful almost glue functions, it feels like that is, “Well, what have you actually built? Point at the thing you've constructed yourself from your hands on your keyboard?” And it's hard to do and it's very nebulous, when you're not directly able to point to a website, for example. “Yeah, you see that button in the corner? I made that button.” Great.Like, that's the visceral thing that people can wrap their heads around. Project and program management feels to me like one of those areas that, in theory, you don't need those people to be a part of building anything, but in practice you very much do. Another example of this—from my own history, of course—is operations because in theory, you just have developers write code correctly the first time and then they leave it where it is and it never needs to be updated again, and there's no reason to have operations folks. Yeah. As they say, the difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is none.Johnny: I'll buy that. Yeah, when it comes to actual, I mean, digital, but physical deliverables and things that you can show that you've done, there are standards that you can have with documentation, like Gantt charts and risk registers and all that sort of thing, but it is very much a glue role. It is very much a gentle nudge to get things done. And it really revolves around the transparency and making sure that the people who are invested in the success of whatever it is that you're doing program-wise are aware of what's going on as far ahead of time as possible. That's why I like to consider it sort of an anti-entropy role because things will just naturally go off the rails if no one is there to help guide them.I mean, that doesn't happen in every situation, of course, but having someone dedicated to the role of making sure that things are moving according to a good rhythm is a critical role. And it just so happens that that is sort of the way the grain of my brain works and I discovered that throughout the course of my career.Corey: So, let's get back to the reason you originally reached out to me. I think that is always an interesting topic to explore because whenever someone says, “Wow, your tweet really helped me with my career,” I get worried. Because as I said before, I am one of the absolute best in the world at getting myself fired from jobs, so when it comes to being a good employee, mostly my value is as a counter-example of advice I'll give [unintelligible 00:05:49] job interviews. For example, when they say something condescending and rude, insult them right back because A, it's funny, and that plays well on Twitter. And B, interviews are always two-way streets, and if they're going to treat you like crap, you don't want to work there anyway, so you may as well have some fun with it. But a lot of what I say doesn't really lend itself to the kind of outcomes that lead to happy employment scenarios. So, I've got to ask, what the hell did I say?Johnny: Yeah, it was kind of serendipitous. I'm in a number of Slack communities, one of them being the Cleveland Tech Slack—if you're in Cleveland or around Cleveland, I highly recommend it—and someone just randomly posted this thread right in the middle of me interviewing at Waymo. So, previously before Waymo, I was at Google, and I loved my job. I loved the team that I was on, I loved the—I mean, I was still very much in the honeymoon phase of Silicon Valley. I had moved to Silicon Valley from Cleveland in 2019 with my then fiance.And so I was just, you know, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and everything was just incredible to me; why would I ever consider leaving this? So, I had an interview at Waymo and I ended up getting an offer and I just didn't know whether I should take it. Because I loved where I was at and I really enjoyed the opportunities, so it was just, you know, ten out of ten. One of the things that I was thinking about then was, you know, I kept thinking back to our first team dinner where our teammates were sharing their stories of their careers. And my mentor, Ted, had mentioned how he had worked on the iPhone at Apple and was in the same room with Steve Jobs.And me being a Cleveland boy, just it sounded like, “Whoa.” My eyes got really big like dinner plates. And it's just like, “I'm sitting at a table with people who have done these things with these people.” And I was wondering, like, what did that mean for my career? And so where did I want to take my career and have those kinds of stories? So fast-forwarding, you know, I was interviewing at Waymo; I ended up getting the offer. And I was just on the fence; I couldn't decide if that was the way I wanted to go, if I really wanted to leave my amazing job at Google.Corey: What was holding you back on that? Was it a sense of well you want to be disloyal to the existing team? You were thriving in the role you're in? Was it the risk of well, I don't know how I'll do in a different company solving different problems? What was it that was holding you back?Johnny: It was all of those. When you do an apples-to-apples comparison, you don't really know what you're getting into when you're going to a new company, and that's part of why your thread was so critical in making my decision. Just to say exactly what you said in the tweet, “So, an anonymous Twitter person DM'ed me this morning with a scenario. Quote, ‘I work at a large cloud company that makes inscrutable naming decisions, and I have an offer elsewhere for 35% more. Should I take it?'” to which you said, “Oh, good heavens, yes. A thread.”What followed is a number of questions that you asked exactly like you just asked now and your short answers to them. And they were just so on point and so quick, and it was so serendipitous for me to see that because this ended up being the tipping point that made me decide that, yes, this is the direction that I want to go. And you know, I'm—let's see, I started in November, so five months into the role. It was more than I ever expected; it's harder than I ever expected, but I'm growing so much, I'm getting a ton of eustress, if you're familiar with that concept of the positive stress that makes your muscles grow. And just wanted to give back to you and in thanks and gratitude for being that tipping point. And that thread definitely led me down this path, so thank you for that.Corey: It's interesting because so far as of this recording, there are no two podcast episodes that came out of that thread because, to be clear, this was the thread-summary of a half-hour conversation I had with the person who messaged me about whether or not she should take the role. Because her manager had gone to bat for her to give her a raise and… yeah, she wanted to be loyal and show thanks for that. Which I get, but the counterpoint to that is okay, you turn down the offer out of loyalty. Great. A month goes by.Now, your manager tells you that he or she is leaving to go work at a different company. Well, that opportunity is gone. Now, what? When it comes to career management, you can't love a company because the company can't ever love you back. And I got some pushback on that from Brian Hall, the VP of Product Marketing at Google Cloud—something about Google seems to be inspiring feedback on this one—because he spent something like 20 years at Microsoft and learned how to work within an organization, and then transfer jobs a couple of times to Amazon, they tried to non-compete lawsuit him on the way out—because, I don't know, his PowerPoints were just that amazing or something, or they're never going to replace his ability to name services badly—who knows why.But he took the other position on this. And I'm not saying that my way is always right, it is provably not, as a self-described terrible employee, but it really is interesting that that's the thing that resonated the most. I take a very mercenary approach to my career and I'm not convinced that's at all the best way, but when someone dangles a significant opportunity in front of you, I always take the view that it's better to explore and learn something about yourself if it appeals and the rest of the stars tend to align. And there's a certain reluctance to go out and try new things, but it's not like you're leaving your family. It's not like you're selling out people who've come to depend on you.Employment is fundamentally a business transaction and the company is never going to be able to have any sort of feeling for you, so you shouldn't necessarily have this sense of loyalty, and oh, it'd be it would leave the team in the lurch if I left. That is the company's problem to deal with. No one is irreplaceable.Johnny: Yeah, and a lot of times when you were talking there, you talked about ‘the company, the company,' but really, it's the people that you're working with that—and that was really what was weighing on me the most. I found myself in the same position. I had just recently gotten promoted. You know, my manager, and my team had gone to bat for me a lot, and so it's hard for me to walk away. But it was ultimately the strong relationships that I had built with the team and my managers over time that allowed me to make this step because as a program manager, I'm always thinking that anything I work on needs to survive multiple generations of stakeholders.So, everything that I do on a day-to-day basis has a breadcrumb trail, so that, hey, if I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow, someone with minimal amount of effort, can pick that up and move forward. And I've actually built that mindset into my entire career. Walking away from a role, you know, it'll always leave a gap, it'll always be challenging for the people and the teams around you, especially if you, you know, have a great affection for them, but by setting myself up to exit and still being there, since you know, Waymo is within the Alphabet companies and I can still talk with my old team, it wasn't like I was completely leaving; I was kind of still there if I needed to be, if they needed help or needed to find something. But I can definitely see what how that would be challenging moving to a totally different company. But yeah, it's really important that if you're thinking about exiting, you have a good exit plan. And I'm all about planning as a program manager, and that just helped kind of grease the wheels a little bit.Corey: I want to call it my own bias. You're right, I use the term team and company interchangeably because that's been my entire career. I, right now, have 12 employees here at The Duckbill Group and it is indistinguishable for me to make any meaningful distinction between team and company. Personally, I'm also not allowed to leave the company, given that I own it, and it looks really bad to the rest of the team if I decide, yeah, I'm going to go do something else now. People don't like playing games with their future.You're on the exact opposite end of a very wide spectrum. It's not that Google slash Alphabet is a big company, but you went from working on cloud computing to self-driving cars and you didn't leave the company, you're still at the same place as far as the benefits, the tenure, the organization, the name on the paycheck in all likelihood, and a bunch of other niceties as well. It almost presents is looking a little bit more like a transfer than it does leaving for a brand new job slash company.Johnny: It definitely was a soft landing to go from Google to Waymo. There were a lot of risks—again, talking about risks and mitigations—that I was concerned about that we're just kind of alleviated by the fact that okay, you can keep your same health care plan and various other things. So, that made it a soft landing for me. But yeah, it really was just making sure that the thing that I was working on at Google was able to be carried forward by the team and the people that I really enjoyed working with. So.Corey: As you went through all of this, you said that you were in Ohio before you wound up taking the job at Google—Johnny: Yeah, Cleveland [crosstalk 00:14:22].Corey: —and one of the best parts about Ohio [unintelligible 00:14:22] family and spending time there is you get to leave at some point. And—Johnny: [laugh].Corey: There was a large part of that of, great. I felt the same way growing up in Maine, let's be very clear here, where when I came to California, it was going to this storied place out of legend. And that was wild. And once your worldview expands, it feels very hard to go back again. At least for me.It took me years to really internalize that if this particular job or this particular path didn't work out, my failure mode—if you want to call it that—was not and then I return to Maine with my tail between my legs and go back to the relatively dead end retail fast food job that I was working before, comparatively. No. It's like, you go in a different direction; you apply the skill set; you have the stamp of validation on you. I mean, you have something working for you that I never did, which is the legitimacy of a household name on your resume. Whereas you look at mine, it's just basically a collection of, “Who are they again?” And, “You make that company up?”Which, fine, whatever. There's a bias in tech—particularly—towards big company names because that's a stamp of approval. You've already got that. The world is very much your oyster when it comes to solving the type of problem that you've been aimed at. I'm used to thinking about this from a almost purely technical point of view.It's like I'm here to write some javascript—badly—and I can write bad JavaScript for you or I can write bad JavaScript for that company across the street, and everyone knows what it is that they're going to get from you: Technical debt. Whereas when you're a technical program manager, that is something that you said varies from between company to company. And you hear founders talking about, “Oh yeah, our first engineering hire, we're going to bring in a VP of engineering; we're going to bring in a whole bunch of engineers; it's going to be great.” You very rarely hear people talk about how excited they are like, “Oh yeah, employee number three is going to be a technical program manager, and we're going to just blow the doors off of folks.” Which haven't been through the growth process myself, yeah, we really should have had a technical program manager analog far sooner; it would have helped us blow the doors off of competition. And great, the things we learn, but only in hindsight.Articulating the value of what a software engineer does is relatively straightforward, even for folks who aren't great salespeople for their own work. Being a TPM inherently requires, on some level, a verification that your understanding and the person that you're talking to are communicating about the same thing. Like, if you wind up having to solve code on a whiteboard, maybe that is part of your conception of it—I mean, you work at Google, probably—but for most companies, it's yeah, my ability to write shitty JavaScript is not the determining factor of success in a TPM role. How do you go about even broaching that conversation?Johnny: So, part of the way that program managers can be successful is through anticipating what's coming next and understanding not only the patterns that were implanted over time, but also thinking ahead. And this actually kind of takes me back to why I learned program management in the first place. Pretty early in my life, I started feeling a great deal of anxiety, especially thinking towards future situations, or, you know, even in the present moment. I mean, we've all been through it right? Right before the big test, you're feeling anxious; maybe talking to your crush—or before you talk to your crush—you're feeling this anticipatory anxiety; in hindsight replaying that interview that you just went through.For me, I was kind of like, constantly stuck in this future-state mode about being anxious about what's coming next, and that combined with ADHD—which is something that I also have—is kind of a wicked combination. And we can talk about that separately, but once I started understanding what program management did and how program management allowed businesses to keep things on track, I realized that there was a parallel into my own life there. The skill of program management actually became my defense against the crippling anxiety that I felt anticipating future events. And it's really become kind of the primary lens by which I understand and synthesize the world around me. And I know that sounds kind of weird, but with ADHD, I have a tendency to either being total diffuse mode and just working on nothing in particular, and letting my attention take me, or being in hyperfocus mode. And when you're hyper-focused and anxious, it can be a deadly combination, right?So, what I learned was taking that hyperfocus and taking that idea of program management and figuring out what it takes to get from here to there. I'm a strong believer in go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see further. And this skill of program management kind of becomes the stepwise function by which I get to that later point, very much like you were saying with coming to Waymo: You never know what you're going to get until you get there. Well, now I see further and in hindsight, it was the right decision. So, the concept of program management is bringing structure, is bringing order, is bringing hierarchy to the chaos and uncertainty that we all naturally navigate in whatever we're doing and trying to transmute that into some kind of transparent order and rhythm, not only for my own benefit to reduce my overall anxiety, but also for the benefit of everyone else who's interested in what's going on. Does that answer your question?Corey: No, it absolutely does. Dealing with ADHD has been sort of what I've been struggling with my entire life. I was lucky and got diagnosed very early, but I always thought it was an aspect of business, but in many respects, it's not just about owning a business; it's about any aspect of your career, where the hardest thing you're ever going to have to do, on some level, is learn to understand and handle your own psychology where there are so many aspects of how things happening can impact us internally. I can't control what event happens next, of people yelling at me on Twitter, or I get a cease and desist from Amazon after they finally realized five years in, “You're not nearly as funny as we thought you were. Stop it.”Great. I can deal with those things, but the question is how I'm going to handle what happens in that type of eventuality? It's, am I going to spiral into a bitter depression? Am I going to laugh it off and keep going on things that are clearly working? Am I going to do something else? And so much of it comes from—at least in my experience—the ability to think through what's going on in a somewhat dispassionate way, and not internalize all of it to a point where you freeze. It's way easier said than done, I want to be very clear on this.Johnny: That's absolutely right. Stepping back, seeing the forest for the trees. I've recently become fascinated with systems thinking. You know, I'm in Silicon Valley, so I might as well start looking into a complex adaptive systems—Corey: Oh, no.Johnny: —[crosstalk 00:21:09] buzzword. We don't have to go down that thread because I'm very much an amateur when it comes to it, but what it does is it forces you to look at the connections between the components rather than the reductionism approach of let's look at this component, let's look at this component… instead, it forces you to step back and see the system as a whole. And so when you're responding to you just got a cease and desist, you know, of course you're going to feel depression, of course you're going to feel anxiety, and understanding all those as part of the system of experiencing that situation, it lets you kind of step back and say, okay, it's normal to be feeling this, it's normal to be feeling that. How can I harness these and structure my approach so that I can get to some further point where I not only know what I can do, and what options are available to me, but I have a clear path forward and strategy for how I want to approach this.Corey: How long have you been in your career at this point?Johnny: So, I graduated college in 2009. And I worked at my first company for about ten years from 2005, so I guess you could say 17 years, plus or minus, if you don't count internships.Corey: Looking back, it's easy to look at where we are at any given point in our career and feel that, oh, well, here's where I started, and here's where I am now, and here are the steps I took along the way where there's a sense of plodding inevitability to it. But there never is because when you're in the moment, in the eternal now that we live in, it's there are millions of things you could do next. If you were to be able to go back to your to talk to yourself at the beginning of your career, what would you do differently? What advice would you give yourself that would have really helped out early on?Johnny: You know, I think the thing that gave me the most leverage in my career was—as I move forward—is seeking out communities of like-minded, positive people. On the surface, that sounds a little shallow; of course, you would want to seek out communities, but what I've observed is that the self-organizing communities that pop up around technologies, or ideas, or roles, their communities of people who want to help you succeed. And I think, you know, one of the ways I reached out to you and was able to contact you was through one of these communities, right? So, you know, I talked a little bit the Cleveland Tech Slack earlier; most people aren't familiar with what mediums are even available. There's Discord, there's forums, there's Slack, there's probably other areas that I'm not aware of, where you can find people who will help you find that next step in your career.Actually [laugh] I got my first taste of community in online video games, so—Corey: Oh no.Johnny: —playing World of Warcraft back in 2003, you know you would have a guild—I was, gosh, how old was I in 2003, basically, early-20s and, you know, you'd have a guild of 40 people trying to coordinate all over one single voice chat server. And there was various groups and subdivisions, and so that was almost a project management exercise in itself. That's where I first learned project management. By the way, I have a sneaking suspicion that the roles that we play and that we are have an affinity for in video games mirror the roles that were best suited to play in life. So, I find myself playing a support class in League of Legends or a priest in World of Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online. I'm always that support person, the glue that helps keep things moving. And surprise, that's exactly what I do for my career. And it works perfectly. So.Corey: The accountant I keep playing gets eaten by goblins constantly, but, you know—Johnny: [laugh].Corey: —that's the joy that I suppose.Johnny: So, pretty early on, I developed this skill of creating friendships, and those friendships, in turn opened me up to these new communities. So, if I were to give one piece of advice to my early self, it would be to put more emphasis on finding and seeking out the communities that consists of people who are interested in the things that you're interested in, but also are willing to help you get to where you want to go. How do you succeed? Well, you find someone who is doing what you want and you talk to them. About it and you figure out how to get to where you're at from where you're at.And maybe they can't help you, maybe they can help you but, you know, we have a unique ability to crowdsource our questions, whether it's on Reddit, whether it's on Slack or Discord, and just say, “Hey, I'm thinking about this thing. Does anyone have any thoughts?” You're immediately—you know, if you ask the question correctly—given five or six different opinions, and then you can kind of meld and understand, okay, here are the options. Again, going back to what we were saying about how do you even decide what the next steps are? You can crowdsource that now, and so the one piece of advice that I would give is to seek out communities of like-minded positive people.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. 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My thanks to them for sponsoring this ridiculous podcast.Corey: And I think the positivity is important. There's a lot as particularly in tech, that breeds a certain cynicism that breeds a contempt almost. And Lord knows, I'm not one to judge; I revel in a lot of that when it comes to making fun of companies' ridiculous marketing and some of the nonsense we have to deal with, but it has to be tempered. You can't do what some of the communities I started out with did. IRC, learn how to configure Debian or FreeBSD, where it was generally, “Oh, great, someone else joined? Let's see what this dumbass wants.”It doesn't work that way. It's like just waiting for someone to ask a question so you can sink the knives in is not helpful. Punch up, not down. And making people feel welcomed and valued, even if they don't understand the local behavioral norms quite yet is super important. I'm increasingly discovering, as I suspect you are as well, that I'm older than I thought were when I talk to folks who are just starting their careers about here's how to manage a career, here's how to think about this, I am veering dangerously close to giving actively harmful advice, if I'm not extraordinarily careful because the path that I walked is very much closed.It is a different world; there are different paths; there's a different societal understanding of technology and its place in the world. There's a—what worked for me does absolutely not work the same way for folks who aren't wildly over-represented. And I increasingly have to back off lest I wind up giving the, I guess, career Boomer advice style of irrelevant and actively harmful stuff. How are you thinking about that?Johnny: So, I guess that kind of gets into the underpinnings of what I think it takes to be successful, right, and how do you find success in any aspect of your career? And—Corey: And what is success?Johnny: It differs for every person—yeah, what is success? And we were talking just before the show about how every person experiences not only what is success, but what does success mean and what do you believe the key is differently. For me—and this is pretty on—brand with where I am in my career and what I do—is I think the key to success is preparation. And it really ties into finding those communities and asking those questions, right?There's three key aspects to it, right? First is understanding how you learn. Everyone learns differently, and so knowing how you learn—and you know, college and school is kind of meant to kind of eke that out; it's how best do you learn? How best can you succeed with these tasks that we give you, study for this test, learn these concepts? If you can understand how you learn, that's the first step in preparing correctly, right, building your personal knowledge systems around that, taking notes, ordered hierarchy, structured thinking, that sort of thing.Knowledge management is a good field, if you ever have some time to figure out what you want to do with your external hard drive of your whiteboard like I have back behind me here. The second aspect is just mastering how to seek out information, right? So, how do you prepare? Well, you have to understand how to seek out information. You mentioned, you know, positive communities versus potentially cynical or toxic communities. Their opinions are still very valid.They might be jaded and they might provide a cynical opinion, but you still need to encompass that within the spectrum of your understanding of the world, right, because they have something that happened to them, or they have some experience that still is very valid from their perspective. So, seeking out information, understanding the people and the tools at your disposal, the communities that you can go to knowing how to discern the signal from the noise. And again, that's really where your thread that really helped me—because you nailed a bunch of the questions that I just wasn't entirely sure on in that Twitter thread, and when I went through that, it hit some of the major points that I was just uncertain on, and you just gave very clear, albeit, you know, somewhat tongue in cheek cynical advice, to say like, don't worry about the company, worry about yourself. And that really was helping me get to that next step.And then lastly, how do you prepare? And this is the one I always struggle with. It's calibrating your confidence barometer. What does that even mean? How can you calibrate your own barometer of your confidence? It's a knowingness; it's knowing what to expect.And so for example, when I was getting into Google, I had no idea what to expect in terms of the interviews. So, what's the first thing I do? I go out and I ask a bunch of people, people who know people who are at Google people who are at Google, what do I expect? What should I prepare for? What communities should I join? What books should I read? What YouTube videos should I watch?I ended up finding a book called Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle—I think her name is Laakmann McDowell. There's a Cracking the Coding Interview as well. That ended up being, like, exactly what I needed, and going through that cover-to-cover got me into Google, amongst other things, and talking with the community. So, calibrating your confidence parameter, that knowingness of, I know that I'm ready enough for this. There will always be things that catch you by surprise, but knowing that you're ready and having that preparation and that internal knowingness not only increases your confidence, but it also increases your ability to operate improvisationally when you're in the moment.And in fact, that's exactly what I went through for this podcast. I have a little document in front of me where I just jotted my notes down last night, I was thinking through, what do I want to cover? What do I want to say? How can I respond to the questions that he's going to ask me? He might ask me, you know, a curveball, but I have some thoughts that are structured, I'm prepared for this so that no matter what happens, I'll be okay. And again, that really gets down to that essence of philosophy of program management that I have. No matter what happens, I'll be okay; no matter what happens, we'll be okay. And believing in that and having a level of knowingness—[laugh].Corey: I am not a planner at all. For me, my confidence comes from the fact that I can't predict what's going to happen so I don't even try. Instead, what I do is I focus on preparing myself to be effectively dynamic enough that whatever curveball comes my way, I can twist myself in a knot and catch it, which drives people to distraction when they're trying to plan a panel that I'm going to be on. “Okay, so we're going to ask this, what's your answer going to be?” I have absolutely no idea until I find the words coming out of my mouth.And if I try and do a rehearsal, I'll make completely different points, and that really bothers folks. It's, I don't know; I'm not here to read a script. I'm here to tell stories, which is great for, you know, improv panel activity and challenging if you're trying to get a software project off the ground. So, you know, there are different strengths that call us in different ways.Johnny: Exactly. I mean, the flip side of preparation is improvisation. And you know, I spent ten years as a jazz musician playing trumpet in a swing band back in Cleveland before I moved out here. And that really helped me understand how to think improvisationally, right? They give you the chords, the underlying structure by which you can operate, and then you can kind of choose your own path through there.And sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, you learn over time, you come up with libraries of ideas to pull out of your head at any given time. So, there is an aspect of preparation to improvisation. And I think if you, I would encourage you to think about it more; I bet you do more planning than you think you do; maybe you just don't call it that.Corey: No, I have people for that now.Johnny: [laugh]. “I have people for that.”Corey: I am very deliberately offloading that. Honestly, that was part of the challenge I had psychologically of running my own place. If I were just a little better at following a list or planning things in advance, all these people around me wouldn't have to do all this extra work to clean up my mess. Instead, it's okay, let it go. Just let it go and instead, focus on the thing that I can do this differentiated. That was my path. I don't know how well it works for others, and again, I'm swimming in privilege when I say it.One last topic I want to get into, I think it might be part of the reason that you and I are talking so much about the future, the next generation, and the rest is we're recording this on March 9th. I don't know the date this is going to air, but there's a decent chance that will be after April 22nd, where you and your wife Emily are expecting your first child. So congratulations, even though I'm a little early. I definitely want to get that in there.Johnny: Thank you.Corey: Have you found that since you realized you were expecting a child—with an arrival date, which is generally more accurate than most Amazon order dates—that you find yourself thinking a lot more about the future and how you're going to wind up encapsulating some of the lessons you picked up along the way for, I guess, the next generation of your family?Johnny: Yeah. I mean, everyone who finds himself in this situation, finds himself somewhere between panic and bliss, right? There's some balance that I have to find there. And fortunately, my wife Emily, and I have a very strong rapport when it comes to how I think and how she thinks, and so we're able to—you know, our emotional intelligence is very high; we talk about that sort of thing a lot. And we try to plan for the future as best we can, knowing that things will go off the rails as soon as you know, what's the old saying about the best laid plans and how, you know, every plan is—Corey: Man plans and God laughs.Johnny: Yeah, or goes awry as soon as the first shot is fired, et cetera. Thinking more than five years out is still pretty challenging for me, but thinking within the first five years, we can already sketch out some plans. I already have some ideas of where we want to go and what we want to do and how we want this new child, this being, to experience the world and how we want to impart the things and the wisdom that we've learned and experiences and skills that we've developed—Emily and I—to this new child, realizing that I have no idea what's coming and I have no idea what to expect because I just really haven't had much exposure to babies or children at all in my life, so I'm just kind of rolling the dice here and trusting that it'll all work out really well. And again, going back to communities, the communities that I'm in, there are parenting channels, there are friends and family that I can talk to. So, I have everything that I need in terms of knowledge.Now, I just need to go through the experience, right? So, I'm definitely thinking a lot about the future. In fact, I've got a—I don't know if you can see it here—quarterly plan for my life up here on the wall that I [unintelligible 00:35:33]. It's just something that I can glance at every so often, and there it is, right, there: ‘Q1 2022: Kid.'Corey: How long has that ‘Q1 2022: Kid' been on the board? Like oh, since 2014? Like that is remarkably good planning.Johnny: Mid-2021.Corey: Okay, fair enough.Johnny: No joking: Mid-2021.Corey: [laugh].Johnny: Yeah, just even having that up there and writing a sticky note and slapping it on there for, like, a hey, here's what I think, some of them fall off, some of them don't fall off, but I'll tell you what, more than more often than not, it actually ends up working and happening and being realized, no matter what it is. Because just having it there and glancing at it every so often is that repetition, it keeps it on my mind. It's like, hey, I should probably think about that. The next thing you know, it's done. And then I can take it off and put it in my binder of accomplishments.Corey: I am about five years ahead of you on that particular path that you're on because five years ago, I was expecting my first child. And I don't want to spoil the surprise entirely, but I will Nostradamus this prediction here, five years from now, when you go back and listen to or watch this episode and listen to yourself talk about how you're planning to parent and your hopes and your dreams, you are going to, in a fit of rage, attempt to build a time machine to travel back to what is now the present day for us, in order to slap yourself unconscious for how naive you are being [laugh] because that is—I'm hearing my words coming out of your mouth in a bunch of different ways, and oh my God, I was—it's the common parent story you all these hopes and dreams and aspirations for kids and then they hand you a tiny little baby and suddenly it becomes viscerally real in a different way where, “It's going to be a little while until I can teach you to do a job interview, isn't it?” And other things start wind up happening to, like—Johnny: [laugh]. Right.Corey: —what do I do? I've never held a baby before. How do I not drop it and kill it? And later in time they learn to talk. They talk an awful lot, and then it's like, how do I give them a bath without drowning them in the process? Not because I'm bad at it, but just because I'm at my wit's end because I haven't slept in three days.Parenting is one of the hardest things you'll ever do and everyone has opinions on it. And it's gratifying to know that the world continues to go on even in these after-times where things have gotten fairly dark. It's nice to see that flash of optimism and remember walking down at myself. It's exciting times for you. Congratulations.Johnny: Yeah. Thank you. It's a beautiful thing. And I'm self-aware and I have a knowingness of my naivete, right? And that's part of the fun.And the whole idea of it is an explorative journey. I have no idea what to expect, but I have a good support system; my wife is incredible. She has an early childhood education degree, so that's going to be really useful. Yeah. And so kind of going back to that concept of preparation.And I don't feel a lot of anxiety about it because I am feeling like I have the knowledge, the community, the friends, the family in place so that no matter what happens, I'll be able to maneuver through it. And I can ask, and I can get help. Yeah, so that's where my head is at with that. [laugh].Corey: We'll be checking back in once you're up to your elbows and diapers and I assure you, you'll be lucky if it stops your elbows.Johnny: [laugh].Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to talk to me about your own journey and, I guess, a variety of different things; hard to encapsulate it all at once. If people want to learn more or chat with you, where's the best place to find you?Johnny: Yeah, thanks for asking. So, I have a website jmpod.com, JM Pod. My middle name is Michael. So, John Michael Podhradsky. jmpod.com. That links to my blog, there's links to LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram. I'm most active on Instagram.I'm always looking to connect with and just chat with new people, people who want a new perspective, people who are interesting or want to share their stories with me. Coaching is something that I thought of doing in the long-term. It's not on the plate right now because I'm focused on my current career, but that's something that I'm very interested in doing, so you know, happy to field that questions or if anyone wants to reach out and hey, what communities can I look for or where should I be looking for communities, I'm happy to help with that as well.Corey: I will, of course, put a link to that in the [show notes 00:39:39]. Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it.Johnny: Yeah, this was a fantastic experience. It's the first podcast I've done, I'm hoping it went well, and I really appreciate that you even asked me to do this. It was a surprise. My eyes went like dinner plates when you said, “Hey, why don't you come join me?” And I said, “Absolutely. That sounds like a fantastic idea.” So, thank you again, Corey. I really appreciate spending time with you and looking forward to doing it again sometime in the future. With a baby in the background, screaming. [laugh].Corey: Oh, yes. They do eventually sleep; you won't believe it for the first three months, but they do eventually pass out. Johnny Podhradsky, technical program manager of Offboard Infrastructure at Waymo. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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