Podcasts about crisis planning

Send us a textWhat does it take to prepare a community for disaster? In this revealing conversation with municipal crisis planning expert Alicia Johnson, we explore the critical differences between organizational readiness and community resilience—and why both are essential when disaster strikes.Drawing from her 20+ years of experience in emergency management, Alicia shares how her journey began with witnessing the Yellowstone fires as a child and evolved into a career dedicated to building community preparedness. She offers a powerful distinction that many emergency planners miss: while organizational readiness is built on procedures and protocols, community readiness depends on trust and relationships that can withstand crisis.The conversation explores recent catastrophic events like the European power outages and the Texas freeze that left Houston homes flooding in freezing temperatures. These case studies reveal how quickly modern infrastructure can fail and the cascading impacts that follow. As Alicia notes, "We have to acknowledge that bad things happen to good organizations"—the first step toward meaningful preparation.We dig into why "checkbox planning" continues to plague emergency response, with organizations creating plans that look impressive on paper but collapse under pressure. Alicia challenges listeners to move beyond the organizational chart to build genuine capacity through regular training, full-scale exercises, and empowered decision-making.Whether you're a municipal leader, emergency planner, or simply someone concerned about community resilience, this conversation offers critical insights into building systems and relationships that can withstand the unexpected. Because when disaster strikes, trust might be your most valuable resource.If you'd like to reach out to Alicia, you can reach her below:LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/aliciadjohnsonWeb: www.twolynchpinroad.com We'd love to hear from you. Email the show at Tom@leadinginacrisis.com.

Let's dive into this newly released "Michael Jackson's Legacy - Untangling the Estate Planning Nightmare, Episode 280"What happens when the King of Pop leaves behind more questions than answers? In this explosive episode, we moonwalk through the chaotic twists and turns of Michael Jackson's billion-dollar estate battle. From questionable signatures to courtroom drama that's lasted over 15 years, we break down who's really controlling his legacy—and what YOU can learn from it before your will becomes a mystery thriller of its own.

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What happens when the Trump administration issues an executive order against your firm, or the EEOC comes knocking to question your DEI policies and programs?  These 9 tips will help you prepare.  In this episode of "Legal Marketing Minutes," I dive into the pressing issue of recent executive actions and public threats targeting law firms, lawyers, and the legal system. As a veteran marketing and business development advisor specializing in content, social, and digital media, I am sharing the 9-Step Framework that I use with my clients. Every law firm should consider using these steps to safeguard its practices, people, and reputation during these challenging times. Join me as I emphasize the importance of preparedness, urging law firm leaders, clients, judges, and legal professionals to take proactive measures. Important Note: This is not about politics.  It is about protecting the legal system and ensuring your firm can respond with clarity, coordination, and strength. Discover strategies for securing your firm's online presence, involving key stakeholders in discussions, maintaining open communication with clients, and leveraging external advisors. I also highlight the critical role of timing, coordination, and effective communication across all channels, from social media to internal discussions. Whether you are a lawyer, managing partner, COO, CMO, or anyone connected to the legal profession, these steps are designed to help your firm stand strong and united in the face of adversity. For more information or assistance in implementing these steps, please contact me at nancy@myrlandmarketing.com. Thank you for spending your valuable time with me on "Legal Marketing Minutes." 

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel and Jennifer Simpson Carr explore how law firm leaders can proactively navigate crisis planning amid uncertain times, addressing the impact of recent executive orders on the legal industry.

A crisis does not have to break your church or nonprofit organization. In this episode, Phil Cooke https://philcooke.com offers an overview of crisis management based on his book and masterclass titled, “Church on Trial: How to Protect Your Congregation, Mission, and Reputation During a Crisis.” Find out how to failsafe your ministry from a crisis with leadership tips on vetting employees, creating a healthy work culture, developing a crisis plan, and offering your employees crisis management training. A crisis can be an opportunity to strengthen your church to weather the storm. Get my FREE DOWNLOAD and transform your creative leadership skills when you sign up for my newsletter here: https://www.philcooke.com/subscribe/   Get the Book: “Church on Trial – How to Protect Your Congregation, Mission, and Reputation During a Crisis”Get your copy here: https://philcooke.com/crisis  Order bulk copies for your pastor team, staff and board members. Contact info@influencelab.com for details on bulk orders.  Sign up for the Masterclass! Church on Trial – Crisis Management Masterclass with Phil CookeIndividual and group rates available at: https://philcooke.com/masterclass Subscribe to my podcast for more career advice and creative leadership skills: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phil-cooke-podcast/id1439369056 Prefer video? Subscribe to my YouTube channel to level up your creative leadership skills: https://www.youtube.com/c/philcookeofficial?sub_confirmation=1  ======================================== Phil Cooke – Media Producer/Writer/Speaker/CoachHelping Creative Leaders Influence the World Do you have a message or story the world needs to hear? I offer advice on creative leadership, digital media, branding, marketing, film and television production – and the faith to take you from where you are in your ministry or career to where you want to be.  As a filmmaker, media consultant and co-founder of Cooke Media Group in Los Angeles, my client list includes Hollywood studios, major nonprofit organizations, and many of the most respected churches and ministries in the world. I've produced media programming in nearly 70 countries and created many of the most influential inspirational TV programs in history.  My philosophy? Get your ideas out there and change the world in the process.  ========================== Connect with me on social media: Twitter https://twitter.com/philcooke Facebook https://www.facebook.com/philcookepage/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/philcooke/ Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philcookes-podcast/id1439369056  Find out about Cooke Media Group here: https://www.cookemediagroup.com ===========================  *More About This Episode* Weather the Storm – Crisis Management Training for Churches and Nonprofits with Phil Cooke Phil Cooke's Church on Trial is an indispensable tool to help church, ministry and nonprofit leaders respond to a crisis thoughtfully, appropriately, and positively. In the book and in the masterclass, you'll find out: ·      Best practices to implement now to avoid a crisis ·      The first thing to do when a crisis hits to maintain congregational trust and unity ·      How to safeguard your church's reputation before it crashes ·      The one thing you should never do in a crisis ·      How to get in front of a crisis with the truth ·      And more... Church on Trial will help you create a transparent culture as a defense against crisis – and if one does happen, serve as a guide to help you respond quickly and effectively.  Get the book: https://philcooke.com/crisis Get the masterclass: Church on Trial – Crisis Management Masterclass with Phil CookeIndividual and group rates available at: https://philcooke.com/masterclass   (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel and allows us to continue making videos like this. Thank you for the support!)

What's with these birthdays that end in a zero? How is it that a mere multiple of ten can wield such power? A touch of wit and love language can help.    Crisis Planning is a world premiere James Stevenson commission from Bay Area-playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (The Making of a Great Moment). Directed by Jason Eagan (Founding Artistic Director of Ars Nova), the play features Andrew Garman (The Holdovers, “The Gilded Age”) and PoA legend April Matthis (Mary Jane, The Piano Lesson).   Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation among the playwright, actors, and Playing on Air's founder, Claudia Catania.   Please be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn or visit us at www.playingonair.org, where you'll find our complete collection of audio plays.  

Here's what you'll find in the episode: 00:00:00 - Introduction: Creating a Bigger, Better Future 00:00:40 - Step 1: Create a Three-Year Painted Picture 00:02:00 - Step 2: Plan for Your Crises and Inflection Points 00:04:10 - Step 3: Curate Your Origin and Brand Impact Stories 00:05:50 - Step 4: Commit to Values and Principles 00:07:30 - Step 5: Double Your Plan and Achieve in Half the Time 00:08:45 - Final Challenge: Think Bigger and Take Action 

Here's what you'll find in the episode: 00:00:00 - Introduction: Creating a Bigger, Better Future 00:00:40 - Step 1: Create a Three-Year Painted Picture 00:02:00 - Step 2: Plan for Your Crises and Inflection Points 00:04:10 - Step 3: Curate Your Origin and Brand Impact Stories 00:05:50 - Step 4: Commit to Values and Principles 00:07:30 - Step 5: Double Your Plan and Achieve in Half the Time 00:08:45 - Final Challenge: Think Bigger and Take Action 

Send us a Text Message.Can AI really revolutionize crisis management? Today, we're joined by Justin Snair, the brilliant mind behind Preppr.ai, to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of emergency preparedness. From his roots in the Marine Corps to his innovative work with under-resourced organizations, Justin shares his unique journey and insights on making planning and crisis exercises more accessible and affordable. We explore how AI could help small organizations and nonprofits (and all of us, really) develop crisis plans  and plan exercises using AI to facilitate/automate those tasks. We'll also tackle some thought-provoking topics, such as the personalization of emergency management through AI - using chatbots to respond to public inquiries during an emergency - and using AI for more mundane tasks like sorting through your inbox. Justin and I dig deep into the biases inherent in AI development, the sustainability challenges, and the national security implications of relying on foreign-produced semiconductors. This episode underscores the need for responsible AI development to ensure accurate information and sustainable solutions during crises. Don't miss this compelling conversation on the future of crisis management and the role AI could play in it.

This episode delves into the intricacies of building a mutual assistance group or survival group, addressing crucial aspects such as identifying the right people, establishing non-negotiable rules, and determining the group's location.  Whether you're a seasoned prepper or just starting your journey, this episode offers a wealth of practical information to help you navigate the complexities of creating a cohesive and resilient community. Mentioned on the Podcast EP - Starting Your Survival Group! EP - Finding a Prepper Group Of Interest Get the Blackout Checklist Support Ready Your Future - CLICK HERE. Join the Exclusive Ready Your Future Email Group Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prepperwebsiteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We dive into the concept of "chaos awareness" - a crucial mindset for navigating the overwhelming challenges of our times in the episode. From economic turmoil and geopolitical tensions to personal crises and natural disasters, life can bombard us with chaos from all directions. Mentioned on the Podcast End Time Vectors - Jacob Prasch No Regrets t-shirt @ Amazon Of Interest Get the Blackout Checklist Support Ready Your Future - CLICK HERE. Join the Exclusive Ready Your Future Email Group Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prepperwebsiteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Alyssa McNamara Reed, CFP® and Justin McNamara, CFP® with their guest, Attorney Stephanie Konarski, for a discussion about protecting assets with medicaid planning and crisis planning. Stephanie Konarski received her law degree from New England School of Law where she graduated with honors. She is also a cum laude graduate of Framingham State College where she received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and a minor degree in Psychology. Attorney Konarski has been providing thoughtful and compassionate legal services since 2004. Her professional practice is devoted entirely to elder law, estate planning, estate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorships, special needs planning and representing buyers and sellers in residential real estate transactions. Attorney Konarski is a long-standing member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (MANAELA). She is also a member of the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP). You can find her online at: https://www.massestateandelderlaw.com/. Alyssa McNamara Reed, CFP®is a financial planner with passion for the intersection of taxes and investing.  Alyssa works with motivated savers, beneficiaries of estates, business owners, divorcees, and pre-retirees. Justin McNamara, CFP® is a Certified Financial Planner with passion for investment strategy and selection. Works with small businesses and owners, parents of college-bound kids, job changers, pre- and post-retirees. To schedule a visit with the team at McNamara Financial, be sure to visit: https://mcnamarafinancial.com/contact McNamara Financial is an Independent, family-owned, fee-only investment management and financial planning firm, serving individuals and families on the South Shore and beyond for over 30 years. COME SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH A FIDUCIARY. http://mcnamarafinancial.com/

Unlock the secrets to securing your financial future even when long-term care is on the horizon. In our latest chat, I, Greg McIntyre, join forces with the astute attorney Samantha Gordon from our Charlotte office to navigate the confusing waters of Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts and Medicaid Crisis Planning. We peel back the layers of these complex legal strategies, revealing how you can shield your assets and ensure your loved ones receive the care they need without draining your bank account. Samantha brings a wealth of knowledge, making this conversation a treasure trove of insights for anyone facing the intimidating prospect of long-term care.This episode is not just a talk; it's a deep dive into actionable solutions, tailored for those who haven't had the foresight to plan ahead as well as for planners who want to stay one step ahead of the game. We explore the nuances of repositioning assets to meet Medicaid eligibility requirements with the urgency that crisis demands. Our benefits department's expertise in crafting Medicaid-compliant strategies comes to light, offering a beacon of hope in what can often be a stressful time for families. From understanding the intricacies of ladybird deeds to utilizing annuities and real property investments, we leave no stone unturned. Join us as we provide a guide through the labyrinth of Medicaid and asset protection, arming you with the knowledge to make empowered decisions for your future.

Welcome to our first ever publicly broadcast planning meeting. And just to get us started, Nick has a few of what he is calling 'Mid-faith Crisis Moderately Interesting Questions'. Snappy. Before that, we talk about haggis, ghosts, whether it's wrong to get angry and the idea of church as a place to share stories. Support the podcast Contact the podcast through your email machine Mentioned in this episode: Haggis Burns Night Ghosts

Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast, and is joined by Qiant Myers AKA Your Boy Q of the Locked on Raiders podcast.The Pittsburgh Steelers haven't played a complete game yet and are looking to solve their identity crisis. Mike Tomlin must do his job to help Kenny Pickett and the Steelers' offense find that identity against their upcoming opponents, the Las Vegas Raiders and Houston Texans. But can they achieve that with Najee Harris, Pat Freiermuth, George Pickens, and a struggling offensive line?Also, the Raiders are a team also in search of their identity. What do the Steelers have to prepare for against Jimmy Garoppolo, Davante Adams, Josh Jacobs and Maxx Crosby?Finally, why could the game still come down to edge rushers again? T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith won the Steelers' game against the Browns, and might have to do so again while the Steelers' offensive line tries to neutralize Maxx Crosby and Tyree Wilson.CALL INTO THE SHOW AT 412-223-6644 or if international, e-mail your audio message to LOSTEELERSTOPICBAG@GMAIL.COMFollow Chris Carter on Twitter: @CarterCritiques.Theme music is 'Soul Kick' by Ceddy P, and 'Too Easy' by Nerdboy. Both from their label Renaissance Music. Find more from their label here.This show is part of the Locked on Podcast Network.DONATE to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation with this link: https://finest.cff.org/pgh50finest/cartercritiquesSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Underdog FantasyThis episode is sponsored by Underdog Fantasy! Sign up HERE with the promo code LOCKEDON to get your first deposit DOUBLED up to $100.Must be 18+ (19+ in Alabama and Nebraska, 21+ in Massachusetts and Arizona) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www dot ncpgambling.org; In Arizona call 1-800-NEXT-STEP; in New York, Call 1-877-8-HOPENY; in Tennessee, call 1-800-889-9789eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL. Terms and conditions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast, and is joined by Qiant Myers AKA Your Boy Q of the Locked on Raiders podcast. The Pittsburgh Steelers haven't played a complete game yet and are looking to solve their identity crisis. Mike Tomlin must do his job to help Kenny Pickett and the Steelers' offense find that identity against their upcoming opponents, the Las Vegas Raiders and Houston Texans. But can they achieve that with Najee Harris, Pat Freiermuth, George Pickens, and a struggling offensive line? Also, the Raiders are a team also in search of their identity. What do the Steelers have to prepare for against Jimmy Garoppolo, Davante Adams, Josh Jacobs and Maxx Crosby? Finally, why could the game still come down to edge rushers again? T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith won the Steelers' game against the Browns, and might have to do so again while the Steelers' offensive line tries to neutralize Maxx Crosby and Tyree Wilson. CALL INTO THE SHOW AT 412-223-6644 or if international, e-mail your audio message to LOSTEELERSTOPICBAG@GMAIL.COM Follow Chris Carter on Twitter: @CarterCritiques. Theme music is 'Soul Kick' by Ceddy P, and 'Too Easy' by Nerdboy. Both from their label Renaissance Music. Find more from their label here. This show is part of the Locked on Podcast Network. DONATE to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation with this link: https://finest.cff.org/pgh50finest/cartercritiques Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Underdog Fantasy This episode is sponsored by Underdog Fantasy! Sign up HERE with the promo code LOCKEDON to get your first deposit DOUBLED up to $100. Must be 18+ (19+ in Alabama and Nebraska, 21+ in Massachusetts and Arizona) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www dot ncpgambling.org; In Arizona call 1-800-NEXT-STEP; in New York, Call 1-877-8-HOPENY; in Tennessee, call 1-800-889-9789 eBay Motors For parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL. Terms and conditions apply. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever found yourself worried about the high costs of long-term care and how it could impact your life savings? The challenge of qualifying for benefits while protecting your assets is a real one and that's what we tackle in this episode. Join us as we venture into the often daunting territory of Medicaid crisis planning. We touch on the importance of having a sturdy plan in place and delve into the valuable tools you can utilize for this, including powers of attorney, trust deeds, and living wills. We also share insights into strategic asset protection, helping you understand how best to navigate the rules and work effectively with the Local Department of Social Services and the Department of Health and Human Services. More so, we urge you not to face the journey alone. With the help of a qualified elder law attorney, you can effectively protect your hard-earned assets and qualify for those all-important benefits. And don't forget - we offer a free consultation to help you discuss your needs and create a strategic plan. So, don't wait, tune in now for some peace of mind tomorrow.

Following the Maui disaster, Dawn is joined by Jackie Ducci to help listeners keep in mind a plan for a tragedy like this, and what to do to prepare your pet for a dire situation. Jackie Ducci (pronounced "DOO-chee") is happy to share tips. She is founder of The Human-Animal Alliance, Jackie shares all her tips and expertise for any situation.  Tune in 10 AM - 12 PM EST weekdays on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT; or on the Audacy app!

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Peter Attard Montalto, managing director at Intellidex on SA's lack of planning around the mitigation of load-shedding.    Lesetja Kganyago, governor at SA Reserve Bank on the confusion around the Xitsonga spelling of The Reserve Bank on the new R100 banknote.    Then investment School Chantal Marx, head of equity research at FNB Wealth and Investments explained the danger of only holding “low risk” investments in the context of high inflation and a weak ZAR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joining us on this week's episode of Coffee with Closers is Dale Buckner, the CEO of the international security firm Global Guardian. A 24-year US Army veteran, Dale explains why many companies are failing to adequately prepare for crises, including regional conflicts, national health emergencies, natural disasters and other security threats. In the face of increased global disruptions, he discusses why the time is now to develop resilient and actionable plans, with foresight, that can protect an organization's people and assets in times of emergency, and the dire consequences that can result from failing to do so.  

Today, we're continuing the conversation that we started last week with Jack Briggs. Jack retired from the air force as a Three-Star General. After that he worked for NYU as their Vice President for Global Resilience and Security, before accepting the call to be the president and CEO of the Springs Rescue Mission in Colorado Springs.  One of the things that Jack has been doing since retiring from the Air Force is conducting a workshop on Crisis Planning, Mitigation, and Leadership. If you work for an organization that is a member of the CityGate Network, your organization may have had Jack conduct this workshop for its board and staff.  If not you're in for a treat today. During the next few minutes, Jack's going to be sharing with us some of the highlights of that workshop and maybe some of his experiences with dealing with crises. If the content of what Jack shares strikes a chord with you, Jack's been kind enough to share his contact data with us. It will be in the show notes.  [00:00:00] Jack Briggs: So, crises are happening all around us. It's the organization that sits down before a crisis happens and starts to think about their framework that will tend to do better. [00:00:11] Tommy Thomas: Today, we're continuing the conversation that we started last week with Jack Briggs. Jack retired from the air force as a Three-Star General. After that he worked for NYU as their Vice President for Global Resilience and Security, before accepting the call to be the president and CEO of the Springs Rescue Mission in Colorado Springs.  [00:00:34] Tommy Thomas: One of the things that Jack has been doing since retiring from the Air Force is conducting a workshop on Crisis Planning, Mitigation, and Leadership. If you work for an organization that is a member of the CityGate Network, your organization may have had Jack conduct this workshop for its board and staff.  [00:00:53] Tommy Thomas: If not you're in for a treat today. During the next few minutes, Jack's going to be sharing with us some of the highlights of that workshop and maybe some of his experiences with dealing with crises. If the content of what Jack shares strikes a chord with you, Jack's been kind enough to share his contact data with us. It will be in the show notes. Jack Briggs: Thank you for the opportunity and I've enjoyed the discussion so far.  As a former military leader and now and then as the Vice President of Global Resiliency for the 15 campuses in 11 countries at NYU And then finally, now as CEO of a rescue mission where we have a semi volatile population at times, depending on how things are going, it's not lost on me that crises happen. [00:01:44] Jack Briggs: Tommy, I'll ask you a question right off the bat. What's a crisis to you?  [00:01:47] Tommy Thomas: Maybe when I lose control of something and can't see my way out.  [00:01:52] Jack Briggs: Okay. All right. So it's this oppressive thing that happens in your mind is just, it's like how fast can my mind move to try to solve this thing? And that's common. That is essentially the reaction that people have when a crisis occurs. And the way to get past that moment is to have a framework of decision making, an ability to identify and mitigate risk. We talked a little bit about risk already and then what kind of actions you're gonna want to take right off the bat. And then finally, I would say that probably one of the things that we don't think about enough, but we really need to practice before something happens is how do you message what you're trying to do as you're working through the crisis. When I look at a crisis gosh, there's all kinds. Hurricane Katrina hit a hospital and several patients died.  They were sued. So, it's a it was a catastrophic loss of life and they were sued. And the reason they were sued, and the reason these folks died is they lost power. They lost power to the facility because their emergency generator was in the basement. And when it flooded, the neighborhood lost power. And then of course, their emergency generator lost power.  People couldn't get the power that they needed, and some people expired.  Harvey Weinstein is a great example of a crisis in behavior. If you could have a behavior crisis in your organization where someone makes a mistake that is beyond just “oops, I made a mistake”, but it's culpable for either an illegal activity or for something that could cause harm to equipment or people. We have cyber crises all the time in organizations now, because the, at the rescue mission, we have donor information, right? So, we want to keep that secure. If we were to get hacked and breached, that's a crisis because now we're exposing data on our donors. And then there's, you see it all the time, active threats. It's people going into schools, it's people at Walmart. It's all of those. So, crises are happening all around us. It's the organization that sits down before a crisis happens and starts to think about their framework that will tend to do better.  When I think about this as a decision maker, a couple of questions I'd like to ask is: What's your organizational culture in a crisis?   Are you panicky or are you methodical. What organizational structure do you use in a crisis? Meaning are you gonna use the same structure with the CEO down during a crisis or are you gonna break off a tiger team that's gonna be your op center? Think about these. Who's gonna solve what problem in your structure? Because too often in organizations that haven't practiced any of this it's six-year-old soccer, everybody runs to the ball, whatever that is, and they don't stay in their lane and solve the problem they should solve, whether it's logistics or communications or whatever. It's how do you make decisions? That's a process. How do you communicate? These are all kind of questions that when I get with a, a group, an organization, we sit down and we peel through these to try to understand from their perspective, how would they answer those questions. And typically we determine gaps when we ask these questions, the process should result in. A crisis is not something you solve, you don't solve a crisis, you solve problem. Something where you have a crisis and a crisis is not something you solve, you don't solve a crisis, you solve problems. What you have to do is you have to create or build a way to move the crisis into a solvable problem and then have some procedures that you use to solve that kind of problem. Power outage weather problem a reputational problem. You come up with tools to solve these problems over time. When you have these problems and you do it routinely, the problems just become issues that you know how to deal with. And then once you've done that over a period of time, quite frankly, what used to be a crisis just becomes a day-to-day thing. It's gonna happen. You have your PR procedures in place, and you take care of them. So you decrease the drama and the trauma of a crisis to a day-to-day thing.  The first thing to do in that process is to understand risk. And you heard me say this, like what is at risk? But another thing is how much risk can you tolerate? [00:06:15] Jack Briggs: Now, I gotta be honest with you.   I was a fighter pilot. I have always been an athlete. I have always been a bit of a risk taker. My risk tolerance is high. I need to know that because I might see something happen and go, eh, I, we'll deal with it. I need people around me who are not at the same. [00:06:34] Jack Briggs: This is what diversity is about. It's finding people that are different than you and bringing them into the team with the same objective, but seeing it from a slightly different perspective because they're gonna see things that you don't. And that's key because there's always blind spots. There's three I use b basically three magic words to determine what's at risk and how I want to address this. Three magic words:  Probability, Likelihood and Severity In the three magic words. The first is probability. So probability means if I flip a coin, the probability is gonna turn up heads. It's 50%, right? But I also use the word likelihood. Let's say I take that same coin and I flip it a hundred times, and 80 times it comes up heads, okay? The probability that I'm gonna flip it that next time is 50%. That's the math, but the likelihood that it's gonna come up, heads, again, is higher. And you have organizational likelihoods. Let me give you an example. Your front door is unlocked and is exposed to the street. It is more likely that someone could come in with a knife than if you had the door locked. The likelihood is higher. [Now, the probability may be very low for the area that you live in, but the likelihood is higher. . And the last thing is severity. I mentioned this before, just what is at risk? How severe is the risk? So when you define that risk, now you start to mitigate things. You say, okay, we're gonna lock the door, or we're gonna have a scan, a scanner, or something like that. But you can't mitigate every risk out because somebody could hide a knife coming into your building. So you have to plan for how you're gonna respond to that. So when we talk about the elements of decision making, I will tell you the first one is the perfect is the enemy of the good. Okay? All too often people are trying to get the perfect decision. I used to say in higher ed that my academic friends were the smartest people I'd ever met. But when it came to crises, they loved to admire the problem.  What does the library have to say about this? Is there any good research on this crisis? And I would say to them, we don't have time for that, we have to make the 80% solution or the 70% solution, and we have to keep moving because our time available may not be as much as we would like, or how many resources do we have available? Another one is when you're doing decision making these ideas of blind spots, you need to have people in the room that see it different than you and feel it different than you. And I mean that by gut feel. Okay, let so I'll ask you, Tommy, when you make decisions based on their, your gut, is it typically turn out well or not so good? [00:09:26] Tommy Thomas: Oh, me.  I don't know. Probably not as good as it could have.  [00:09:30] Jack Briggs: Okay. I will tell you that my, I have a bad gut. All right. And here's why. Because my risk tolerance is so high.  When I see something happen, I'm willing to wade into it because my risk tolerance is so high. It's not that I'm a bad person because I have a bad gut.  It's just my risk tolerance is so high, I recognize that. Somebody may be super risk intolerant, and so every time they see something, they're like, oh, we can't do that.  You need people around you that are feeling it slightly different than you, so that you get that balanced and they have to have the confidence that when they speak up, you're not gonna take their head off. Tommy Thomas  How do you balance that? Somebody like you who's got a high-risk tolerance, and somebody who's afraid they open the door? Hopefully you'll have too many of those on your team, but how do you negotiate that?  [00:10:18] Jack Briggs: For me, because I know that my gut's not all that good, I try to do the opposite of what my gut says. So if my gut says, let's do it, I'm like, wait a minute, maybe we need to think about that. And I'll go get somebody else's opinion, right? So I build a team of people around me who are empowered to speak up. No, I have the final authority and responsibility. That's key. I own it, but I'm also acknowledging the fact that I don't know all the answers. As we move into these things, when we talk about decision making when something happens to you and it surprises you, you're it. What fires in your head is your amygdala, which is way back here in the old part of your head, in your brain. It's the small thing, and that's that fight or flight thing. Something happens and it surprises you and you've probably had that happen to you. Maybe you step off a street corner to cross a side a road and a car almost hits you because you didn't see it, and you'll freeze for just that moment. And what you've gotta do is you've gotta get yourself into a process where, when that happens, you start to make decisions that may be even automated because your decision making is back here and you're frozen and you gotta get it up here in your frontal lobe, which is where you speak and rationalize and problem solve, right? You've got to get your decision making from there to there. And there's ways to do that. The very first thing is you must control your reaction. So I'll use my hands. Okay? if something happens, and this is the scale of the top, of the scale of reaction. Okay. And I react right here As the leader, I give everybody around me, almost no room. Now, why am I, why is my, are my fingers above my reaction? Because the natural tendency of your staff and people that work for you is they wanna react just a little bit more than you do. And it's psychological. It's because they want to show you that they're as bought into whatever it is or more than you are, right? They wanna show you their commitment. So, if I react here and their little space is right here, this is called panic.  What I have to do as a leader is I have to react way down here as low as I can, and then push it even lower every time so that I give them all this space to respond. To take that moment to absorb what's happening, not use the present body reaction, but my mental past, present, and future process to act, not to react, but to respond, right? And so you build these processes in.  One of the best ways to do that is to lay out some things for your staff. The first is, “what's the information I as the leader want to know?” I need to tell them that ahead of time so that when something happens and we respond, that they know what to respond with. And the first thing that my staff needs to tell me when something's wrong is anybody hurt? Is anything broke? Is anybody in jail? Okay. They know that's the answer. That is the first answer. And what that does is it starts to move them from here. to hear because they know respond, responding wise. That's what I'm gonna ask. Now they start to think, they're starting to think about the next thing to answer that. The second is my intent. My intent is to protect people, protect property, and protect our reputation. As a nonprofit, my reputation is key. I can have bad stuff happen, but if my reputation is I can handle it, I, my, my reputation actually can increase during a crisis, as an example.  I like to practice this with tabletops with people. So, I'll have a staff meeting and I'll just throw out a problem and we'll walk through it. I'll talk about how to do that here in just a second. Phone trees. You should know how to call everybody who is gonna help you solve the problem. The issue today is, and I'll pull it out is this thing. (Jack is referencing his cell phone) Yeah. So when I want to use this to make a phone call, I just tap somebody's name. What if I don't have my phone or what if the battery is dead? Do I know their phone number, like their real number, like the digits of their number? Probably not. So, I have to have that written down somewhere on a piece of paper that's near my desk. So, I'm literally pulling from underneath my desk. I can't really, it's hard to see. Yeah. But that's a phone tree on the back of a checklist that I have that's laminated. [00:15:08] Tommy Thomas: And everybody's got one of those,  [00:15:09] Jack Briggs:  For all the people that you're gonna call? Yes, that's what we have. And it's got their phone number on it.  If I have to use somebody else's phone, or if I have to get a land phone or I don't know, a payphone, I, you find one you would, that's what you would do. The last thing here in tools is know your employees. So there's three tiers of employees. They're the first tier, are the people that are, have to be at work to do what they do. So at the Rescue Mission, that's shelters, supervisors, they gotta be there. The second group are people who don't have to be at work to do what they do, but they still have something to contribute during the event. That could be maybe my marketing guys who turn into my press guys and my media people. Okay? The third are people that don't need to be at work and don't have anything to do at this moment. But that doesn't mean they're not important because they're the backfill for the first two groups, right? So maybe it's, I don't know, somebody in finance or something like that we don't need right now during the crisis. But if we go longer than 12 hours, I need somebody who can fill in for the folks that need to go home and sleep, right? So I, we cross train people so that third tier becomes the backup for the other first two tiers. So, when we do this I'll talk about this now, this idea of a checklist, and I just gave you one very simple one, which is anything broke or anybody hurt, anything broke, anybody in jail. But we also have, as I mentioned, these checklists. And these checklists are for senior leaders and for our point of service, meaning where people are actually engaged with clients and they're slightly different. The Importance of a Checklist [00:16:51] Jack Briggs: But the idea is the same. If you have something happen and you have a checklist that you can use, the military uses it, the medical community uses it. What it does is a checklist identifies threats ahead of time. So it reduces risk. It lays out the steps that you're gonna take ahead of time so that you have a process. It's a common reference for everybody, so everybody knows what everybody else is doing. So you don't have to play six year old soccer.  It enhances communication because now I know if you're running a checklist, you don't have to tell me everything you've done, you can just tell me the checklist is complete and it's done. And I know all the steps that you did in there. And it's proven, like I said, in the military aviation medicine. I'll give you two examples. The first is, as a pilot, if I want to land, what do you think one of my checklist items is,  [00:17:45] Tommy Thomas: Can you see the runway? [00:17:46] Jack Briggs:  Okay, that's a good one.  Find the place you're gonna land. Yeah, that's a good one. The second one that I like to say is put the gear down. Yeah, okay. The landing gear, because if you don't put the landing gear down and land, that is called a crash, right? That's not a landing, that's a crash. This process that pilots go through is a checklist. So if they don't forget things, Medicine. There's somebody in that or in the operating room that's running a checklist of how much equipment was used. Why do you think they do that?  [00:18:27] Tommy Thomas: I have an idea. What's left for the next surgery?  [00:18:29] Jack Briggs: That's one thing is yeah, equipment, supply, maintenance. But it's also - Have they accounted for all of the sponges that they have? Oh, so that they don't leave a sponge in you or a scalpel. So there's someone detached back from the whole process cuz a surgeon is doing this four or five times a day and his muscle memory right is sponge in, sponge out, sponge in, sponge out. He's repeating it so many times that he's not gonna be able to account for it every time.   So, they use a checklist at the end before they close everybody up. They say, okay, we, we used eight sponges.  I have seven sponges in the, the bowl. Oh, we're missing a sponge. Oh, there it is. Pull it out, put it in there. Okay, now we've got all eight. That's this checklist mentality. So it does all of these things. It helps reduce risk, it helps you, make those first steps from here to here. And it helps everybody be on the same sheet of music. So checklists are really a valuable way to do this. The OODA Loop – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act The other piece to this is how do you make a decision Now, the Air Force, there's this guy named John Boyd, and he came up with this thing called the OODA loop. The first O is to observe. You observe what is happening. The second O is to orient. You orient your processes and your procedures to what is happening. Nothing will ever go perfectly right on top. You have to adjust just slightly to get it to work. The third thing, the D, so it's observe, orient, decide what you're gonna do. Make a decision for goodness sakes that I tell people this all the time.  Make a decision. Make one.  If you're not sure which one to make err to the conservative, but make one. Don't just hang there and then act. And once you've acted, you've observed oriented, you've decided now you've acted. Now observe the reaction to your action and do this process again. The speed of this initially is very fast because you're trying to get ahead of the problem. But as you start to get the problem in focus, it will slow down. This is how you slow a crisis down. by making this pathway of decision making, right? And you're using your checklist as you do this, and your checklist is informed by the risk tolerance and the risk that you identify that your organization may be at in terms of probability, likelihood, and severity. So, this kind of all nest together, right? Four Questions about Messaging What do we know? What don't we know? What are we going to do about it? Who else needs to know? Last thing we'll talk about is messaging. So there are four key questions. These are the E four things that my staff, once they've gotten themselves into this UTA loop business, is these four questions. The first is, what do we know? Now, when I say that, what do we know? As a fact? Don't hypothesize. Don't tell me what you think. I want to know what do we know? And that could be a very small little group to start with. The second question, and this is probably the most important question of it all, is what don't we know?  This is probably big, but you gotta empower your staff to be able to tell you. I don't know, honestly, I don't know. Then the third question is what are we doing about it? That's a legitimate question. We, what are we gonna do to fill in the gaps of what we don't know? And then the last one is, who else needs to know? Now, a lot of CEOs will not understand what I'm saying here, not because they're not smart, it's because they're focused at the high level. What they need to remember is folks lower in their organization typically are working bilaterally or laterally or with peers, maybe even peers outside the organization that would probably need to know about this. But as the CEO, I wouldn't know that. So, you gotta empower folks throughout the chain to be able to say who else needs to know about this? That group over there.  For us it might be the Red Cross or it might be another shelter or it might be, something like that where we gotta tell them because they may have to take clients or something. I don't know. So when we talk about this, the second element to there's really three elements to this in terms of communication. Three Rings of Communication The People affected by the event The People who can affect the event Those who are neither affected by the event, nor can they affect the event. The first is those four Q key questions. The second is, are the three rings of communication. So the first ring of communication is, let's imagine you have on a piece of paper, a star in the center of the pace paper. Okay. That star is the event. Okay. And I have, I draw a circle around that star those people. Are the people affected by the event? Now let's go do higher ed here, and it's a dorm fire. Okay. So who would that be?  [00:23:28] Tommy Thomas: It'd be the residents and the resident advisors.  [00:23:33] Jack Briggs: Yeah, the people in the dorm, right? The second group of people would be a circle around that first circle that I did. Just a little bit farther out, a concentric circle. [00:23:44] Jack Briggs: These people can affect the event. Who might that be?  [00:23:50] Tommy Thomas: The fire department. The police department. First responders. [00:23:52] Jack Briggs: First responders, right? And then the third circle is even greater than that. And it's around it All. Those are the people that are neither affected by, nor can they affect the event, but they still need to be informed. [00:24:09] Jack Briggs: Who might that be? That's  [00:24:10] Tommy Thomas: the general public or the parents of the parents.  How do you handle the Press? [00:24:14] Jack Briggs: Parents. Your kid is safe. They can't do anything about it, but they want to know. The other group at that is, is the press. The press cannot help you. But they want to know. So how do you talk to them? And I will tell you that that can be the stickiest thing because people will respond to the press. So here's my press statement. I'll just give it out to you right now cuz this is my press statement. We're aware of the situation, we're taking the appropriate actions and working with our community partners. [00:24:43]When we have further information, we will inform the community. Done. That gives me about an hour. . Okay. Now I have had, when this happens, I've had reporters say, so you'll call me back when you know more. I said, Nope. When we know more information, we will let the community know. I don't, because I don't work for the reporter. [00:25:04] Yeah. That they have a job. I totally get what their job is. But I don't work for you. I work for the people that I'm trying to help and the people who can affect this situation. So how do we communicate to these people so that, that inner circle, the ones who are affected by it, you have to have some sort of big voice is what I like to call it. [00:25:25] It's a loud thing that says, get out of the building. Maybe it's a fire alarm, maybe it's a stereo system, or something that announces it to the second medium voice. How do you talk to people who are gonna address the problem? In this particular case, it's 9 1 1, but maybe it's a internal communications capacity that you have with email or teams or Slack, or you need to have something that you can communicate internally with to address the problem. [00:25:52] And the third thing is the small voice. And I like the small voice because it's people to people. Communication. You're now getting into the people that are involved. How are you going to solve this problem with the people that are going to help you do that? You need to know what you're gonna say. So you should have a canned sort of thing. [00:26:11] You're gonna tell the press as an example. I use that, right? The way you practice all of this is you do this with tabletops, and tabletops are simply, you gather your team you, they're sitting around a table and you say, what if this happened? So let's say this I hear reports of loud bangs that sound like gunshots in the courtyard of my rescue mission. What we know is that, and we also know that people are running around and panicking. We also know that we see people lying around in the courtyard. Now, if you're familiar with the rescue mission, you will know that people lie around, yeah. , that's what they do, right? So that's maybe that's not a shooter. [00:26:55] We don't know, right? But we know that those are all facts. What we don't know is this, is it a shooting? , what's the impact of client, staff and neighbors? Has emergency services been called? Okay what are we gonna do about it? We're gonna communicate to our staff safety and security. We're gonna activate our emergency protocols or our crisis protocols. [00:27:17] Jack Briggs: We're gonna get our checklists out, right? And we're gonna start to evaluate the situation. What do we observe? What do we orient ourselves to? What do we decide? What do we act? We get that loop going. And then who else needs to know? Community leaders, the mayor my board of directors, maybe the board members need to know. And then finally, the press. Now again, I'm not gonna reach out to the press. If they call me, then I'll talk to you and this is just me as the CEO throwing this out on the table. And then we work through these and we just practice going through that process. and then periodically we'll do a little, more live activity. You make sure that people around, you know that's gonna happen. And that leads to the, basically the last thing, which is partnerships and resources. You don't have to do this alone. You should pull in your local law enforcement and emergency services, your office of emergency management for your county or city. [00:28:10]  If you reach out to them and say, Hey, can you walk this with me? They'd be love. They'd love to, they get money to do it actually. I mean that literally they get money to do this. And then you'll use that for your planning and exercises and to build communications tools. There's apps that work, there's, if you get too complicated, you'll probably get out in front of your own headlights and doing that thing. That's really when we talk. Decision making in a crisis. If you can build a framework, if you can identify the risks, what is at risk in your organization and what's the, the probability and the likelihood and the severity. What mitigation steps are you gonna take? What plans are you gonna create for the things that you can't mitigate? [00:28:51] Jack Briggs: And then develop and practice acting through this process of checklists and this idea of observing, orienting, deciding and acting and  observing and orienting and deciding and acting. And then build some messaging capacity for those that are affected, those that can affect it. And then the general public, or, those that can't fix it, but want to know you've got this kind of a package that you can then practice periodically. If you do that you put yourself in your staff. Into a situation where a lot of these things that were crises over time become those problems that become just stuff, issues that you deal with, that you deal with on a day-to-day basis. And they are no longer crises.  [00:29:41] Tommy Thomas: We can get in trouble with gross generalizations, but what percentage of the nonprofit community do you think is aware of this or already? Maybe that's a be better way to put it – are ready for the crisis? [00:29:57] Jack Briggs:  I would say that some of the larger, larger nonprofits actually have offices that do this. You think about a national nonprofit probably has folks that do this. My talk really is more for those smaller organizations that don't have the staffing to, to do this independently. And how do you do this as a, a smaller organization? And those organizations, the numbers aren't large. Hope is not a plan – It's just Hope Yeah. I'll just put it that way. They're hoping, which is, hope is not a plan, by the way. It's not a plan. It just a hope. And so if you can do a little bit of this, you will instill confidence in the rescue mission world and in a lot of nonprofits that are social services, safety.  Security is hospitality. No one asks me what my volleyball court looks like, when they're gonna be a client here, they wanna know if they're gonna be safe. Yeah. So this is part of that.  [00:30:53] Tommy Thomas: Can you offhand, can you think of a crisis where you think the people responded and it and the proof was in the pudding, and then probably more where they didn't and the proof was was in that pudding also? [00:31:07] Jack Briggs: Oh gosh. We've had so many of these shooters. But I'll, okay, so I'll give you the Parkland shooting, right? That's a Florida thing. A disaster, right? Just horrific, but there were acts of heroism and acts of decision making that saved people's lives. One of the, in one of the hallways where the perpetrator was, and it's as an example people running all over the place inside the facility because when he was shooting, it was echoing, right? And so people thought the shots were coming from one direction and they were running towards them and away from them. And there were two teachers, one teacher stuck their head out and and saw people running by and was grabbing them and bringing them in the classroom and put them in a storage closet now in, in the room. And had tens of people in that closet, right? A couple of classrooms down. A teacher was outside the room and froze, saw the shooter, froze shooter went that direction. And so it, it's e even inside an event, you're gonna see things that happen. So training is always key. If you can get people to, there's the run, hide, fight of a thing. If you can get away. That is the thing, right? Escape if you can. There's no reason to take anybody on. [00:32:33] Jack Briggs: There's none of that, right? If you can get away, if you gotta hide lock your door jam stuff in front of it be quiet. And if you gotta fight, you gotta fight, right? And fight dirty. I, I tell people one of my, one of my favorite pieces of equipment in a fight, a fire extinguisher. Fire extinguishers are awesome. 100% of people don't like to have foam sprayed in their face a hundred percent. if you know you've got one of those that's got like a little hose on it and that person's coming in, you can surprise 'em from an angle and spray it right in their face. That will incapacitate them for long enough for you to maybe tackle 'em or hit 'em with the, the fire extinguisher or do something like that. But you gotta cheat. This is not a fair fight at this point. that's not really the thing that I hope people take away from this, because what you can do way ahead way, way ahead, is have the doors locked so that the guy can't get in. On a couple of these cases, the perpetrators have just walked in because somebody's kept the door open by jamming it open. because they don't like the idea of having to swipe in or, turn a key or something. Prevent a lot. Yeah. You can prevent a lot of this ahead of time. [00:33:51] Tommy Thomas: Jack, this is great. This is great council. I'm sure the people that come to your CityGate seminars and workshops, walk away better equipped and thank you. Thank you. Hope yeah, this, I've had three or four people on and we've talked about this kind of thing, and I don't think we can ever hear enough about it.  So, thank you for that part you're playing.  [00:34:13] Jack Briggs: If your listeners have any kind of questions or anything like that, it's jackbriggs@frontrightstrategies.com and just send me a note and we'll have a chat.  [00:34:29] Jack Briggs: Yeah. And that way if people wanna reach out and just chat about it, I'm happy. This is my goal, is to talk to people about this and help them understand their situation a little bit better. I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I did Jack's comments on the importance of having a checklist brought back memories of someone else who lived and died by the checklist. In my mid-twenties, I was living in Birmingham, and I had a roommate who had been a C-130 pilot in Vietnam.  He didn't talk much about the war, but I can remember times when he would mention the checklist and how he would mentally go through the checklist as he prepared to land the C-130. Jack mentioned his contact data, jackBriggs@frontrightstrategies.com. I've included this in the episode notes. If you look at the episode notes, you will find that rather than attempt to write cryptic show notes, I've started to include a transcript of the conversation.  Thank you for listening. I hope that you will share Jack's message on crisis planning, mitigation, and leadership with the nonprofit leaders in your network.    Links and Resources JobfitMatters Website Next Gen Nonprofit Leadership with Tommy Thomas Springs Rescue Mission   Connect Tommy Thomas - tthomas@jobfitmatters.com Tommy's LinkedIn Profile Tommy's Twitter Profile Jack Briggs - jackbriggs@frontrightstrategies.com or jack@contactfrs.com 

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Here is Frank Bruno's daily dose of elder law. Elder Law attorneys help their clients facing incapacity, paying for long-term care, or settling an estate. Find us on the web! For more information visits my website at https://www.frankbrunolaw.com Schedule a free telephone consultation on our Website at https://frankbrunolaw.apptoto.com// Say Hi on Social: Visit my Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/frankbrunoesq/?hl=en Visit my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LawOfficeofFrankBrunoJr/ Visit my Linkedin page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-bruno-2aa14799/ Visit my Twitter page at https://twitter.com/_frankbrunolaw Website: https://www.frankbrunolaw.com What we do at our offices: Wills, Trusts, Estates, Powers of Attorney, Nursing Home Medicaid, Long Term Care Planning, Guardianship, Real Property transfers & Probate Frank Bruno, Jr. is an Elder Law and Special Needs lawyer with years of experience handling these types of cases. He is extremely active in the Queens, New York Community, the Queens County Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association and is frequently invited to speak at events about Elder Law. If you'd like to learn more about Elder Law, Medicaid planning, Guardianship, Special Needs Trusts, or Probate law contact the Law Office of Frank Bruno, Jr. today at 718-418-5000. Thank you for listening! Eldercare law is really an umbrella term encompassing multiple areas of law. Some elder care attorneys handle subjects that most people know something about, such as probate, guardianship, estate planning. Other eldercare lawyers focus their practice on other areas of law such as special needs planning, VA benefits planning, and Medicaid planning. So, what is Medicaid planning? Medicaid planning is a way to protect people's assets from the threat of long-term care expenses. Many clients are between 65 and 95, own their own homes, and have between $25,000 and $750,000 worth of assets in addition to the house. What many people don't realize is exactly how expensive long term care expenses can be – In 2020 the average costs of a skilled nursing facility, in New York is $14,250.00 per month. Someone can be solidly middle class or upper-middle class, have saved their whole life, and think that they'll have plenty of money for whatever happens only to suffer a stroke, major heart attack or get an Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diagnosis and need help with their activities of daily living. If they have this six-figure per year care expense, many people spend everything. Medicare does not pay skilled nursing home expenses after 100 days. An elder care attorney, who handles Medicaid planning, is able to legally and ethically protect people's assets to get them qualified for Medicaid. Medicaid, unlike Medicare, has excellent long-term care benefits. This helps them supplement their lifestyle with their own assets (to improve the quality of their life while alive) and make it more likely that they will have something to pass onto their heirs after they pass away. There are many myths and much misinformation surrounding long-term care Medicaid in New York. To learn more please visit... https://www.frankbrunolaw.com

Subscribe to Linda Toupin: https://rebrand.ly/LindaToupin In this Episode you will meet Jennifer Mullins and Rachael Bullock. They each have a very different story but with the same message. Preparing for the unexpected will save people you love money, time and heartache in a time of intense grief. Jennifer's father was tragically murdered. He died without any written legal instructions for his family made in advance. Her advice and what she learned in the months and years that followed may save your family the same heartache. Rachael's mother is dealing with the terminal diagnosis of ALS. Listen as Rachael walks you through the steps her mother and family are taking to insure her legacy and the preparation they are making in advance. Resources mentioned in the podcast: Non-profits: * www.teamgleason.org (funds trips & much more for ALS patients and families) Side note - on amazon prize video is a movie called Gleason that tells the story of NFL player Steve Gleason and his ALS journey after being diagnosed at age 34 (he's still alive) * www.memorieslive.org (will create a FREE video/slideshow for someone with a terminal illness) Apps: * Evernote (Rachael says it is literally her brain - virtual notebooks with notes about anything and everything and she loves that it syncs across all devices; She has a folder called ALS and then subfolders under that like Dr Appts, To Do, To Buy, To Call, Key Contacts, etc.) *Keeper Password Manager (one secure place to store ALL your log-ins for everything)

In this episode, Larry Weiss – an expert in crisis planning so people don't go broke in a nursing home – shares about Funeral Trusts and why they're an important part of crisis or pre-crisis planning.For over twenty years, Larry Weiss has been helping families in Southern Indiana and Kentucky financially plan for the future. Through personal, one-on-one meetings, Larry and the dedicated Elder Advisers team offer clients peace of mind knowing decades' worth of hard work and savings are protected for years to come. He works often with families in crisis planning or pre-crisis planning.Larry and his family are lifelong residents of New Albany, Indiana. An active member of the community, Larry enjoys giving back to the place he is proud to call “home.” In fact, Elder Advisers has been long-time sponsor of the Power of Pink Gala, and Larry remains highly active with the Floyd County Animal Rescue League. In year's past, Larry has served on the New Albany Redevelopment Authority Planning Commission's Board of Zoning Appeals and with Boy Scout Troop 15.For more information go to elderadvisers.comMegaBucks Radio with Nina Hershbergerhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/megabucks-radio-with-nina-hershbergerSource: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/larry-weiss-elder-advisers-crisis-planning-expert-shares-about-funeral-trusts

A member of your senior leadership team does something to embarrass your company. There's an accident at one of your facilities, and people are hurt. Your product fails to perform the way it should. Each  scenario represents a crisis for your company. How prepared are you and your team if such a problem arises? Bottom line: Planning for chaos must be done in the quiet times. Joining guest host, Dave Sladack, on this episode of Hubs & Drivers for insight and expertise on crisis planning and management for building products manufacturers is Jeff Donaldson, senior vice president of PR and content marketing at BLD Marketing. You can also view this episode on YouTube here.Download a copy of the Crisis Planning & Management infographic here.Visit Hubs & Drivers podcast website here.Hubs & Drivers is sponsored by BLD Marketing.About Our Sponsor:  BLD Marketing is a results-based, digitally-focused, full-service strategic marketing firm exclusively serving the commercial and residential building materials category. BLD offers a portfolio of strategic marketing services and implementation capabilities to help clients build, grow, and optimize a healthy digital marketing ecosystem, leading to quicker growth rates and higher profitability. To learn more, visit www.bld-marketing.com

When crises strike, having a plan is essential -- and most strategists know that rule-of-thumb. But what about a crisis that unfolds in real-time, right before one's eyes (and the eyes of hundreds, thousands or even millions of stakeholders), when seconds count and the cameras are on?Kelly and Mary Beth discuss some recent events and several new pieces of industry data that PR pros and client teams alike should take into consideration.   Discover Fletcher Marketing PR Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR  Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Instagram: fletcher.pr Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fletchermarketingpr  Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher  Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest 

Here is Frank Bruno's daily dose of elder law. Elder Law attorneys help their clients facing incapacity, paying for long-term care, or settling an estate. Find us on the web! For more information visits my website at https://www.frankbrunolaw.com Schedule a free telephone consultation on our Website at https://frankbrunolaw.apptoto.com// Say Hi on Social: Visit my Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/frankbrunoesq/?hl=en Visit my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LawOfficeofFrankBrunoJr/ Visit my Linkedin page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-bruno-2aa14799/ Visit my Twitter page at https://twitter.com/_frankbrunolaw Website: https://www.frankbrunolaw.com What we do at our offices: Wills, Trusts, Estates, Powers of Attorney, Nursing Home Medicaid, Long Term Care Planning, Guardianship, Real Property transfers & Probate Frank Bruno, Jr. is an Elder Law and Special Needs lawyer with years of experience handling these types of cases. He is extremely active in the Queens, New York Community, the Queens County Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association and is frequently invited to speak at events about Elder Law. If you'd like to learn more about Elder Law, Medicaid planning, Guardianship, Special Needs Trusts, or Probate law contact the Law Office of Frank Bruno, Jr. today at 718-418-5000. Thank you for listening! Eldercare law is really an umbrella term encompassing multiple areas of law. Some elder care attorneys handle subjects that most people know something about, such as probate, guardianship, estate planning. Other eldercare lawyers focus their practice on other areas of law such as special needs planning, VA benefits planning, and Medicaid planning. So, what is Medicaid planning? Medicaid planning is a way to protect people's assets from the threat of long-term care expenses. Many clients are between 65 and 95, own their own homes, and have between $25,000 and $750,000 worth of assets in addition to the house. What many people don't realize is exactly how expensive long term care expenses can be – In 2020 the average costs of a skilled nursing facility, in New York is $14,250.00 per month. Someone can be solidly middle class or upper-middle class, have saved their whole life, and think that they'll have plenty of money for whatever happens only to suffer a stroke, major heart attack or get an Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diagnosis and need help with their activities of daily living. If they have this six-figure per year care expense, many people spend everything. Medicare does not pay skilled nursing home expenses after 100 days. An elder care attorney, who handles Medicaid planning, is able to legally and ethically protect people's assets to get them qualified for Medicaid. Medicaid, unlike Medicare, has excellent long-term care benefits. This helps them supplement their lifestyle with their own assets (to improve the quality of their life while alive) and make it more likely that they will have something to pass onto their heirs after they pass away. There are many myths and much misinformation surrounding long-term care Medicaid in New York. To learn more please visit... https://www.frankbrunolaw.com

Transportation vs Logistics with Marty Wadle Marty Wadle and Joe Lynch discuss transportation vs logistics. Marty is the Chief Commercial Officer of Ruan Transportation, a transportation company providing Dedicated Contract Transportation, Managed Transportation, Value-added Warehousing, and Brokerage Support Services. About Marty Wadle Marty Wadle currently serves as Ruan's Chief Commercial Officer leading the Commercial Solutions team, which includes sales, marketing, and solution engineering. Previously, Marty served as Senior Vice President of Ruan's Supply Chain Solutions division, consisting of Value-Added Warehousing, Brokerage Support Services, and Managed Transportation. Ruan manages $1.35 billion in annual supply chain spend, employs 4,600 drivers, and operates 4,000 power units and 12,000 trailers out of 300 locations across the U.S. In addition, Ruan operates 1.5 million square feet of dedicated warehouse space and $500 million of managed transportation. Marty has held multiple positions at Ruan over his 25-year career that have given him a wide base of experience in sales and operations. Prior to Ruan, Marty worked for LTL carrier Central Transport and institutional food wholesaler Martin Brothers Distribution. Marty is a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in transportation and logistics. He currently serves on the Iowa State University Supply Chain Forum. About Ruan Transportation Ruan provides Dedicated Contract Transportation, Managed Transportation, Value-Added Warehousing, and Brokerage Support Services to customers across the U.S. Ruan's Integrated Supply Chain Solutions services encompass all aspects of transportation and logistics, providing our customers the ideal combination of asset- and non-asset-based solutions that get your products from point A to point B safely and efficiently. With more than 89 years of transportation management experience, Ruan is one of the top 10 privately owned transportation companies in the country with 300 operations and 6,000 team members. Key Takeaways: Transportation vs Logistics Marty Wadle is the Chief Commercial Officer at Ruan Transportation Management Systems, a family-owned transportation management company, providing Dedicated Contract Transportation, Managed Transportation, and Value-added Warehousing. In the podcast interview, Joe and Marty discuss transportation vs logistics, even though those words are used interchangeably, they mean different things. According to Council of Supply Chain Professionals, a Third Party Logistics (3PL) Provider is “A firm which provides multiple logistics services for use by customers. Preferably, these services are integrated, or "bundled" together by the provider. These firms facilitate the movement of parts and materials from suppliers to manufacturers, and finished products from manufacturers to distributors and retailers.” There are 5 different categories of 3PL services: Logistics, Transportation, Warehousing, Special Services, and Technology. Logistics services add value through planning, while transportation services add value by executing those plans. Transportation services include: Small Package, Air Cargo, Ocean, Less Than Truckload, Truckload, Fleet Acquisition, Equipment / Drivers, Dedicated Contract Carriage, Intermodal, Final Mile, Rail. Logistics services include: 3rd party logistics, 3PL, 4th party logistics, 4PL, Just-in-Time (JIT), Payment Auditing, Freight Auditing, Payment Processing, Freight brokerage, Freight broker, Digital Freight Brokerage. Warehousing services include: Warehouse Storage, Pick and Pack, Sub-assembly, Site Location, Distribution Center Management, Inbound Shipping, Outbound shipping, Receiving, Putaway, Put-away, Order processing, Replenishment, Pulling, Restocking, Picking, Validation, Sorting, Distribution Center Management System (DCMS), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Inventory Management, Cross-docking, Cross-dock, Ecommerce Fulfillment, Packaging. Special services include: Direct to Home, Direct to Store, Sustainability, Green Logistics, Reverse Logistics, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Security Analysis, Contingency planning, Crisis Planning, Global Expansion, Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), Logistics Consulting, Transportation Consulting, Import / Export, Customs, Labor Management, Marketing Services, Customer Service Technology services include: Supply Chain Technology, Freight technology, EDI, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Predictive Analytics, Technology Services, Web Services, Global Trade Management (GTM), Transportation Management System (TMS), Warehouse Management System (WMS), Supplier Management, Customer Management, Cloud Based Solutions, Wireless. Learn More About Transportation vs Logistics Marty Wadle's LinkedIn Ruan Transportation Marty Wadle on Des Moines and Ruan Successful Bulk Food Transport with Chris Fish The Basics of Dedicated Contract Carriage with Bob Elkins Technology Alone Won't Integrate Your Supply Chain with Paul Jensen Ruan White Paper: Selecting the Right 3PL Partner The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

Content Warning: Suicide. Have you ever had thoughts about not wanting to be alive? Would you ever tell your therapist? In today's episode, Mona discusses her experience Crisis Planning for suicide prevention with a therapist based on a time in her own life when she was struggling to cope. Crisis Planning is a common framework many therapists use when a client discloses they are experiencing suicidal ideation. After 18 months of a pandemic, suicidality is on the rise, so we hope to illuminate what help and hope can actually look like. Find out what to expect if you disclose suicidal thoughts to a therapist, how a Safety Plan works, and the power of normalizing and talking about suicide. 24-Hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Instagram: allthetherapies Editing by: Blackwell Post Original music by: Juli Crockett

Content Warning: Suicide. In this episode of All the Therapies, Abby and Mona talk to Scott Rowland, LMFT who is a therapist and supervisor at a community mental health agency. Over the past year with COVID, people have been experiencing more crises including sudden unemployment, isolation, illness, and loss of loved ones. This has led to an increase in suicidality, substance use and increases in mental health distress. Scott unpacks what Community Psychology is all about, what you can expect if you or a loved one needs crisis services and how to talk about these difficult subjects. Even though these are deep topics, Scott's warmth, compassion and skill make this an episode you won't want to miss! Scott Rowland, LMFT Bio: Scott Rowland is a clinically trained psychotherapist with over 20 years of working within culturally diverse communities throughout Los Angeles. He chose to complete both his Undergraduate and Master's degrees at Antioch University, due to their intense focus on community engagement, cultural diversity and social justice. He began his career developing culturally sensitive prevention programs for LA Gay & Lesbian Center, eventually working with agencies throughout South & East LA, Hollywood & Long Beach. Through insight, empathy, and support, Scott is able to develop a safe trusting environment for the therapeutic process. Scott has extensive experience working with adolescents, adults, families, and the LGBTQ community, as well as communities with diverse backgrounds. He specializes in trauma, depression, anxiety, severe mental illness, addiction, & issues related to identity. He is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), & Seeking Safety. Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/scott-a-rowland-los-angeles-ca/843239 Email: scottrowland.therapy@gmail.com Resources: Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center: https://didihirsch.org/services/suicide-prevention/ 24/7 Crisis Hotline: 800-273-8255 NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness): https://www.nami.org/Home NAMI Helpline: 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration): https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline SAMHSA Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) Crisis Textline: https://www.crisistextline.org/ Text HOME to 741741 for free 24/7 help Instagram: allthetherapies Editing by: Blackwell Post Original music by: Juli Crockett

In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 Podcast, Gina Rubel, the CEO of Furia Rubel Communications, a nationally-known law firm, public relations, and crisis communications agency, shares her insight on the importance of public relations and how it can support a law firm's overall business plan. Furthermore, Gina and Guy discuss the marriage between public relations and social media marketing, and provide tips on how to make social media content more meaningful from a PR perspective. Tune in to learn how public relations can assist a law firm's content marketing strategy, business development, and overall strategic business plans. You can read the podcast show notes here.

Anti-coup protests in Myanmar have now entered an even more violent phase with some early signs of protests escalating into an armed uprising. The military, which seems unlikely to compromise on its stance, has progressively escalated its violent suppression of activists. In this podcast, we discuss how these multiple crises are likely to unfold over the coming year, and what this will mean for organisations operating in Myanmar.

The members of the SJSU School of Information’s Leadership and Management Program Advisory Committee participate in a round robin discussion about crisis planning. Leadership and Management Committee Members: Amanda Folk, Assistant Professor, Head, Teaching & Learning Faculty, Ohio State University Library Melissa Fraser-Arnott, Chief, Integrated Reference Services at the Library of Parliament, Canada Annapurna Dandu​, Supervising Librarian Adult & Teen Services, Cupertino Library Kelvin Watson, Executive Director, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Daphne Wood, Director, Planning & Organizational Development Vancouver Public Library, Canada Access the captioned version of this webcast at https://youtu.be/dVrQBd0k0Uw

Business leaders are taking a holistic approach to organisational resilience. Kristin Rivera and Dave Stainback discuss the meaning of resilience and why the conversation around it is changing.

In the midst of massive disruption, is it possible to find silver linings for businesses? Kristin Rivera and Andrew McPherson explore how to harness crisis-era urgency for the post-crisis period.

In which I express the frustration with getting things done, and the patterns on which they can be done -- and particularly the expression of advice relativity. Continue reading →

What good is your crisis plan if you haven't prepared to use it? Building a strong crisis response plan starts with getting your people involved. In this episode, Peter talks with Penny Neferis, Director of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Emergency Response at JetBlue Airways. The two discuss… Best practices for keeping a mobile workforce safe The benefits of collaborating with other organizations during crisis planning The importance of response plan testing and continual improvement How to engage your entire organization in emergency response planning You can contact Penny at penny.neferis@jetblue.com. The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia. You can find this interview and many more by subscribing to The Employee Safety Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or here.

A fascinating episode exploring the connections and lessons we can learn to help our personal and commercial development via insights shared from the world of elite performance and high profile sporting organisations. We take a look at Grant's successful career spanning work for Glasgow Rangers, Middlesbrough FC, Manchester City and the FA, drawing lessons from this experience. We identify key areas where business owners, executives and managers can learn from elite sports management: Crisis Planning and Management Leadership Mindset Physical, Mental and Emotional Fitness Re-purposing and goal planning Consistency and making marginal gains. Grant Downie OBE is a consultant in medical & performance solutions for elite sport & industry. Grant's distinguished career spans over 34 years at the heart of professional football & elite sport. Discover more of Grant Downie and resources he has made freely available at his website - https://grantdownie.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hresource/message

What is the difference between crisis fretting and crisis planning? In this episode of the Building Us podcast, co-hosts Erik Garcia, CFP® and co-host Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT share tips on how to avoid crisis fretting and focus on crisis planning.  Episode Highlights: Matt discusses the difference between crisis fretting and crisis planning. (1:53) Matt shares that crisis fretting is what we all want to avoid as much as possible. (2:03) Matt explains that crisis planning is focused on now or today. (4:25) Matt mentions that there’s a lot of unknowns between now, and a month from now. (5:30) Matt shares that crisis fretting will just drive people crazy. (6:10) Matt explains that crisis planning is live, reassuring, and smart. (6:24) Key Quotes:  “In times when we're feeling really threatened and uncertain about what's next. It's best to just focus more on now. Focus on Now” - Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT “You can really overwhelm yourself looking too far ahead.” - Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT Resources Mentioned: Erik Garcia, CFP® Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT Garcia Financial Group Matt Morris & Associates

Exploring a complex idea which could affect your life!    We will be doing one podcast for every day of December. Come tune in!   Visit https://www.performante.ca/ to join our Discord community, read the Modern Finance blog, or discover our alternative social media platforms.   Thank you for your time, we truly appreciate it. We're forever thankful for the continued support of our amazing community.

Today’s episode features The Sales Guys, Andrew Amrhein and Jim Falk. They have a discussion on a number of topics including what the upcoming Winter looks like from a Sales Perspective, how to implement Identity-Role Theory into your thought process, and the importance of preparation before each and every prospect meeting.

Tobin Moore talks about crisis planning, shutting down, and how his business has shifted dramatically during the pandemic. Tobin is the co-founder and CEO of DC-based Optoro. Under his leadership, Optoro has expanded from a scrappy start-up to a major industry player, helping the nation’s top retailers address the $500B market of returned and excess goods. During this special DC Startup Week edition of Founders Focus, Tobin explains the origins of Optoro and how the company has pivoted and prioritized its operations during the pandemic.Have feedback? Connect with Scott Case on LinkedIn.Visit foundersfocus.com to join the live video sessions, watch past sessions, and see what topics are up next.

Matt Snyder is on to discuss some Long-Term Care options and some pitfalls to avoid.

Matt Snyder is on to discuss some Long-Term Care options and some pitfalls to avoid.

Many of our nonprofits are in trouble because of the pandemic. What can be done? Join us today as Dr. Bob Leonard goes “In Depth” with Laura Olean, with Category 1 Consulting, creators of the free Nonprofit

Until we get through the acute crisis phase, it’s very hard for founders to pay attention to how to take advantage of the uncertainty of now. Historical data indicates that the rebuilding phase will be critical to our nation’s economic recovery, but wrapping a founder’s mind around where to begin is as daunting as ever. Especially with an imminent recession in front of us. Scott is joined by C’pher Gresham, CEO, and Duane Rollins, VP of Impact and Research, at the prominent social impact incubator, SEED SPOT. C’pher and Duane share how SEED SPOT and the entrepreneurs they’re supporting are managing against the future. If you’re a founder looking for practical and actionable solutions to what’s next, this podcast is a must-listen.Dive deeper into the episode here: https://bit.ly/3hOrCUI.Have feedback? Connect with Scott Case on LinkedIn.Visit foundersfocus.com to join the live video sessions, watch past sessions, and see what topics are up next.

In this brief clip from our Wine & Wills Virtual Happy Hour held on July 21, 2020, Attorney Landon Hodges and Long-Term Care Planner Kristin Daugherty talk about the advantages of pre-planning for a potential health crisis rather than waiting for such an event that may require long-term care before beginning the process of estate planning or long-term care planning. They also discuss why you may not want to just transfer ownership of your home to an adult child or other family member. This is the seventh and final podcast in a series of brief informational audio clips taken from this same event, which have been dropped on this podcast channel one per day for seven straight days from Aug. 15-21, 2020.If you'd like to attend our next Wine & Wills Virtual Happy Hour on Sept. 1, 2020, from 4-6 pm, register online using the link below, call 1-800-351-8334 or email info@paeldercounsel.com.https://www.paeldercounsel.com/register-for-a-seminar

If your family doesn't have these four things, there is a pretty good chance that you'll fail to pass your legacy on to future generations. It might not be this generation, it might not be the next, but a weakness in any of these four and your family will lose it all. Examining historic family businesses and historic family wealth has proven time and again that asset protection combined with solid family governance is the way to lasting wealth and prosperity for your family.It is true regardless of wealth and sophistication. Wealthy families have failed at this. Successful families have succeeded even if they are not yet one of the iconic pillars of American society. These 4 things are discussed in this podcast.1. Asset Protection2. Family Governance3. Advisory Boards4. Crisis Planning and ManagementIf you have ever wondered how it all comes together, wondered how all of the things you learn about in this podcast work together, this is it. All failing families can demonstrate a weakness in one of these four. All successful families hit them all.FOLLOW Family Prosperity Partners everywhere:Facebook:Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/FamilyprosperityPublic Group for Families: https://www.facebook.com/groups/familybizgroupPrivate Group for Clients: https://www.facebook.com/groups/familyprosperityLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/19139744Subscribe to the Podcast:Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL2ZhbWlseXByb3NwZXJpdHlwb2RjYXN0Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XKuUhHRdhPWHeLZwxhzVa?si=jli-ywiuQP-nVt4pT_nhHgRSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FamilyProsperityPodcast

Dr. Cynthia Ryals, Principal of St. Alphonsus School in Louisiana, shares her experience of crisis leadership in the face of natural disasters as well as the current pandemic. Her book is "Crisis Planning for Catholic School Leaders: Protecting Schools in the 21st Century and Beyond."

Listen in as I share my thoughts on the powerful protests we're seeing around the US, give some exciting life updates and 6 ways you can prep for another crisis like COVID-19.If you want to support our fight for equality and justice in the Black community, here are some orgs you can donate to and get involved with:- Black Lives Matter- NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.- Color of Change- Know Your Rights Camp- Reclaim the BlockBooks I've read and/or recommend on race relations and the history of racism in America:- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo- The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein- How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates- Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum

Understanding the tensions that exist between various systems, such as the cyber security concepts around Confidentiality, Availability and Integrity. Emphasizing any of these requires de-emphasizing of the others. This creates risk, risk which needs to be identified, and then mitigated and bound where and when possible. Most modern things we enjoy are dependent on power, communications and water.These are all very fragile, and we are seeing this more right now during COVID-19We have taken these for granted that water, electricity and communications will just always flow because the more we try to gain efficiency the more fragile they becomeWe cannot do much about the risks, we can't change the risks of a foreign government attacking a utility for instance BUT you can prepare yourself for if that happens Create a buffer for your family, such as pre-purchasing a two week supply of your critical items to buy space and time to adjust to your new conditions and then not be desperateBuying things in advance that you will use, not things you don't needYou can think stay in front of the curve of disruption 

This special episode of Tribal Talks provides guidance on how tribal businesses can navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Monica King, president of DWH, joins co-hosts Erika Weiss of Barnes & Thornburg and Deidra Mitchell of Waseyabek Development Company to discuss federal resources available to tribal business during the pandemic, options for cash flow planning in the near future, and the importance of having a diverse portfolio to soften the blow of future crises.

Rebecca goes in-depth to discuss how to get your affairs in order when facing a serious health crisis in this discussion of Living Wills and other ways to communicate your wishes to your family. Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

New data coming out of Wuhan is showing that Covid-19 may be far deadlier than originally thought. Moreover, none of us knows what our economy will look like after the virus has run its course (or, more optimistically, after a vaccine is implemented.) The big, glaring takeaway? As leaders, we can no longer arrange our thinking and actions around crisis planning. Crisis planning runs on adrenaline and an unspoken assumption that this is a short-term challenge. Coronavirus is not. In fundamental ways, it’s our new normal. Today I present five steps we can all take to help us shift perspective, turn the corner emotionally and intellectually, and build stronger systems that can endure. Here are the first two: Allow yourself to grieve what’s been lost. Acting like this will all blow over means that you aren’t letting yourself acknowledge what’s been lost. This is the critical first step to being able to move forward. Assess what’s truly needed. If you’re like the rest of us, you’re realizing just how many of your activities weren’t absolutely essential. Now is the time to reassess what you’re doing with your time, energy and energy. What does your organization contribute to the world? If you’re not certain of the answer anymore, that means you need to change what you’re doing. What else can you offer? In today's 3.5-minute episode of my Culture Leadership Charge video series, I outline the three additional steps we need to take – and set short-term crisis planning aside. This is episode eighty-three of my Culture Leadership Charge video & podcast series. In these concise episodes, I presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your neighborhood. This content was released in video format on my website, http://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com, on April 14, 2020. Check out my YouTube channel to view all of my 3-minute Culture Leadership Charge video episodes.

Today's Success Briefing explored at Crisis Planning, why you will benefit from creating one for yourself, your team and your organisation. We also share some great resources and of course there is a chance for you to complete your own Coaching Corner.

During this economic downturn, we are anything but "business as usual." This unique time requires creative leadership by business owners to save their businesses. The last few weeks, I have been thinking about a few critical issues that leaders will have to consider once we have recovered and to be better prepared for the next economic crisis.Business owners and senior leaders must consider the following before the next crisis:1) Does your business have a crisis plan? What is the trigger for initiating it?2) How did you care for your employees during this crisis?3) What IT infrastructure improvements need to be done?4) Is your business recession proof? Can your business withstand a significant drop in revenue over several weeks, maybe even months? Were you able to create new lines of business?Future employees will be asking these questions going forward and will want to know how your organization reacted and how well prepared it was for the current economic challenges.Please click here to join my free Facebook group.For additional resources, please visit stephenmclain.com. 

Episode Three of the COVID19 Special Edition Podcast Series, Helping insurance leaders lead their people, I sat down with Erik Garcia this past Saturday afternoon to give you the leadership knowledge that flows from this man’s brain. Erik and I have done many podcasts together (he even has his own) but this ranks high up there. IMO, as one of the best yet and there is no better time to deliver it. Once you listen to this, your fears of the unknown will subside and the leader that is in you, the one you have been building for years for this moment, will start to rise. #rationaloverconfidence

What do you need to do in these trying times to be prepared? Find out in this eSeminar. We discuss Foundational planning, Trusts and Deed Planning. Watch for the SPECIAL OFFER at the end. Call: 704-749-9244 or online at mcelderlaw.com.

BONUS PODCAST: All churches are wondering about how to best function during the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Crises. Kyle Willis and Dace Clifton share about the ministry and non-ministry related tasks that church leadership should be thinking through this week. You need to be thinking about the next several weeks and this episode will help you begin the discussion for your church. Get your free Coronavirus Church Roadmap by emailing us at kyle@talantonservices.com or thedailypastor@gmail.com. Listen and share this episode of the Thriving in Ministry podcast, brought to you by dailypastor.com and Talanton Church Services.

It saddens me when I hear these common myths or misinformation about Medicaid planning in crisis situations. Elder Law Attorney Melissa O’Connor seeks to encourage you to not believe the nay sayers and seek out legal advise. -- I love comments. I make these videos specifically to help people with no expectations. Please take a second and say ‘Hi’ in the comments and let me and know what you thought of the video… and p.s. It would mean the world to me if you hit the subscribe button.

As worldwide business, governmental and organizational entities face crisis-preparedness demands for coronavirus contingency planning – and as crisis issues and incidents of all forms are part of each daily news cycle – CEOs, management teams and boards of directors must stand accountable to make sure their organizations are prepared for the completely unexpected… or, in the coronavirus case, a fast-evolving and foreseeable disruption with a full-scale impact that is yet unknown.

The coronavirus has upended legal operations at law firms, in-house departments and law schools in the U.S. and abroad. In this episode, you’ll hear from Law.com journaiists who are closely covering how the legal industry is coping with the spread of COVID-19.

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In this episode, Erin & Carrie talk about ways you can be awesome during a crisis - and some tips for being "ready" to be awesome during a crisis. And by crisis, we dont' necessarily mean a problem for your business. It could be a weather event in your community/network, a supplier issue that you can't control, or something happening down the street.We use the Alamo Draft House as our Karma Kudo (great job last week to those folks in Dallas).  And of course, no "Karma Kudo" is complete without a "Karma Catastrophe".... We're talking about you Ernst & Young...Tune in for episode 2 of The Community Karma Podcast! 

Hear from victim-turned-hero and 2019 ASCA Conference keynoter Jeff Bauman. Show notes:  Below are resources mentioned in this episode: US Department of Education: Practical Information on Crisis Planning Brochure- Preparing Your School for a Crisis Safe, Healthy and Ready to Learn: Policy Recommendations to Ensure Children Thrive in Supportive Communities Free from Violence and Trauma (Futures Without Violence) ASCA U Trauma & Crisis Management Specialist Training

Judy Pal will join us on our show on August 8th to discuss the importance of the role of a public information officer in law enforcement. We will discuss the changes and impact that social [...]

Interview with Pete Brooks from North Myrtle Beach CVB and  Andy Windham from Crawford Strategy about Crisis Planning and Communications. Pete Brooks is the Director of Government Affairs and Public Relations with the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce, Convention and Visitors Bureau. He previously served nearly 20 years as the Director of Public Affairs... Continue Reading → The post Passport Travel Marketing & PR #036: Crisis Planning and Communications appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

1. What is Long Term Care Crisis Planning?2. What are the commonly held misconceptions versus the reality of what can be saved and how it works?3. What is the asset protection and application process?These questions discussed and more in this episode of the Elder Law Report.Greg McIntyre, JD, MBAElder Law Attorney

In this episode, K&L Gates Miami partner Elisa D’Amico brings you five digital crisis management “best practices” to help business plan for and recover from the digital effects of any natural disaster.  Hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, can cause unavoidable disruptions to business operations. As we live in an increasingly digital world, business must think not only about the physical losses that a natural disaster may cause, but must be sure to proactively plan for and think about how natural disasters can impact a business from a digital or technological perspective. A comprehensive evaluation of company operations and a specifically tailored crisis management plan are critical to maximizing protection against digital risk and information management disruption and ensuring business continuity. Our goal is to ensure that your business is prepared to weather any storm. Presenters: Elisa D’Amico  Download Transcript

In this episode, K&L Gates Miami partner Elisa D’Amico brings you five digital crisis management “best practices” to help business plan for and recover from the digital effects of any natural disaster.  Hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, can cause unavoidable disruptions to business operations. As we live in an increasingly digital world, business must think not only about the physical losses that a natural disaster may cause, but must be sure to proactively plan for and think about how natural disasters can impact a business from a digital or technological perspective. A comprehensive evaluation of company operations and a specifically tailored crisis management plan are critical to maximizing protection against digital risk and information management disruption and ensuring business continuity. Our goal is to ensure that your business is prepared to weather any storm. Presenters: Elisa D’Amico  Download Transcript

Elder Law Report Unplugged -Today we did a tour at the VFW Post 4066 in Shelby, NC with Commander Gene Ramsey. Their mission is to promote community involvement, communication and financial support to qualified military service members and others in the community. WHAT A GREAT ORGANIZATION TO BE APART OF! If you'd like to donate to some of these great causes please write a check a out to VFW Post 4066 and send it to 855 W Sumter St Shelby, North Carolina. #theelderlawguy #lawyergreg #savingthefarm #hometownheroes #estateplanning #vetbens #medicaidcrisisplanning #assetprotection

Want to be prepared for problems in your business? Wondering how to plan a public response to any issue? In this episode, I interview Gini Dietrich, a crisis management professional. She's the founder and CEO of a site that helps businesses thrive with their public online communications.  Show notes: https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/302

LEARN MORE: http://www.mcelderlaw.com/mcp/ Long Term Care Medicaid Crisis Planning: Elder Law Report Unplugged - The 5th episode of a 6 part educational series. You don’t need to lose your house and retirement to afford care for yourself or a loved one. You can afford to live comfortably while your spouse is in care. LEARN MORE: http://www.mcelderlaw.com/mcp/ #theelderlawguy #lawyergreg #savingthefarm #hometownheroes #estateplanning #vetbens #medicaidcrisisplanning #assetprotection

We always mention nursing homes, the high cost of care, and Medicaid. But many people really don’t understand how all of this ties together. Today, we are going to discuss some real life examples of clients we’ve worked with. Obviously, we can’t share actual client’s names, but we can share enough of the stories for our listeners to get a better understanding! Basics – Healthcare insurance such as Medicare or your Medicare Supplemental policy will not pay for long term care (nursing home) – at most it may pay for up to 100 days. LTC insurance products that are substantially more expensive may pay for a portion of this care. Easy way to remember “Medicare doesn’t care anymore if you need LTC”; what you’d need after Medicare is private pay, LTC ins., or Medicaid Home & car = exempt during your life (and your spouse’s) Crisis Planning – when a person hasn’t planned in advance and uses our services after loved one is in nursing home or needs one in near future (within 5 years) Asset Protection (ie. 5 yr. planning) – when a person/couple plans 5 years prior to a potential care need to protect selected assets Medicaid – state pays most of care costs, but patient’s income will go toward care costs, married person’s outcome may be slightly different. Care costs does not include the maintenance, insurance, taxes related to the home Estate Recovery – WV is required by federal law to recoup what they spent on a Medicaid recipient from their estate upon their death. Countable assets become part of the recipient’s estate upon their death (or their spouse’s death whichever is later. Our more recent clients have received a letter from DHHR upon their death for the state to consider what assets remain. Life insurance – Combined cash value of $1500 counts as an asset. Most people have very little knowledge about what life ins. they have and its value. Keep better records on that! Crisis Planning Rule of Thumb: Marital status: Single person: Can usually save about ½ of assets while spending about ½ of assets on care Married couple: Can usually save most of the assets Pros: Can usually save some assets or proceeds of assets, but must move quickly and liquidate asap Cons: Usually have to liquidate all or most of the countable assets, but

Learn more:http://www.mcelderlaw.com/estateplanni…/ Lady Bird Deed: Elder Law Report Unplugged - Today, we’re going to look at Lady Bird Deeds, including what they are, what they do, and how they differ from traditional deeds, like regular general warranty deeds or life estates deeds. We’ll also look at how they fit into your estate planning, especially when considering the option of possible Medicaid or protecting against that. Learn more:http://www.mcelderlaw.com/estateplanni…/ The 4th episode of a 6 part educational series.

North Korea has been a subject of interest for Risk Advisory clients over the last six months. We've been commonly asked to forecast the likelihood that the crisis will escalate into conflict.  In this podcast, Bhavin Vyas speaks to Tim Powdrill, lead analyst for Asia Pacific, in our Intelligence & Analysis practice to discuss the likely impact of escalation, what companies can do to prepare for the range of outcomes, and identify at what point a decision to evacuate by commercial means should be taken before it is too late.

Elder Law Report - Unplugged: Medicaid Crisis Planning. Planning and protecting assets when a family member needs long term care. Hayden Soloway and Lawyer Greg discuss... . . . . #theelderlawguy #caregivers #savingthefarm #medicaidcrisisplanning #vetbens

In this episode we are talking about whether you can plan for a crisis for any type of event you are planning. Did you know that you can be liable if something happened and you weren't asking the right questions of your attendees? Take a listen in to find out some tips to show that you've done your due diligence for event planning. 

NAMI Medicaid Crisis Planning Conference: What a great audience for this topic! How to save your property and qualify for Long Term Care Benefits. mcelderlaw.com #theelderlawguy #savingthefarm

***FREE*** ***FULL VIDEO*** After much debate we have decided to publish the full Medicaid Crisis Planning Seminar for your viewing, free of charge. Do you have a loved one in or that may need nursing home or assisted living care? Are you or your loved one concerned about how to pay for that care? How to protect assets? The Elder Law Guy explains in depth the many ways to have great care options and keep your families hard earned money and property. mcelderlaw.com . . . . . . . #theelderlawguy #savingthefarm #vetbens

Hayden & Greg talk about this important subject where many seniors and their families lose money and property. How could you save it and still qualify for a Medicaid Benefit to pay for long Term Care? #SavingTheFarm #TheElderLawGuy

Overview: In this episode Peter Munson and I talk about balancing risk and reward, integrating risk planning into operational planning, the importance of adaptability as a managerial skillset and business resilience and continuity planning to prepare for unexpected contingencies. Peter J. Munson’s Bio: Peter J. Munson is Director of Safety and Security for the Cleveland Indians. He has two decades of defense and security leadership experience, having served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and led global security and crisis management programs at Citigroup. In the Marine Corps, Peter was a KC-130 pilot and Middle East specialist. His assignments included command of VMGR-352 Detachment A in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2010 and special advisor and speechwriter for the Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command. Peter is the author of two books on national security issues and regularly speaks and consults on strategic and organizational issues. Show Notes: Effective safety strategies will include an integrated approach to risk management with operations. While safety may be its own entity, safety and operations must work hand in hand. Lessons-learned where some notes are scribbled on a piece of paper and filed away are not really lessons-learned. To truly learn organizations must have a process for using and sharing information recorded during After-Action Reviews. Business continuity, resilience and crisis management planning are critical in today’s unexpected environments and they must be planned and designed into the organization. This must go beyond “checking the box” and move towards getting buy-in from employees because this should help the organization be better equipped to handle the “brutal audit.” With crisis management there needs to be creativity to solve problems. This creativity can be harnessed during execution by practicing and simulating events during planning and exercises ahead of time. Then when novel situations arise on “game day,” organizations, teams and employees may be better prepared due to the capacity to act that has been developed over time. We want people who are willing to plan and exercise different scenarios. We want a detailed plan with an analytical rigor, but a level of intellect and a level of rigor that helps build in adaptability. With a thoughtfully-developed plan it should be easier to deviate in an emergency situation, particularly when teams have a deep understanding of systems behind the plan, rather than a simple memorization of the steps of a plan. If we work with fairly safe systems and organizations we can sometimes get that “wakeup call” when an accident happens. Hopefully we don’t wait until that time to start learning about our systems. It is one thing to memorize checklists and procedures, but without a deeper and broader understanding of the systems, when abnormal or emergency events happen teams may not have the ability to respond and adapt appropriately to these novel situations. Excess zeal to preserve safety may compromise operational effectiveness. For example, “shall” or “shall not” rules and blanket safety policies that include absolute rules may inhibit performance. Adaptive rules that allow options for supervisors to create performance-based calculations and include a safety buffer may actually create safety while improving operational effectiveness and efficiency. There may be times when binary/blanket safety policies are necessary and effective, but considering adaptive rules may provide some benefits to organizations in some cases. Safety should be pushed down to those who are involved in operations and who will be required to make tactical decisions. Cross-functional leaders can bring a great deal of creativity and problem solving skills into organizations and this may serve an organization better than managers who know a very narrow skillset. Sign up for our Newsletter at www.v-speedsafety.com/email-subscription Resources: Book Recommendations: In Pursuit of Elegance by Matthew May, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Dutch Roundabout Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhqTc_wx5EU Contact: Blog: http://peterjmunson.blogspot.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterjmunson Keywords: Disruptive leadership podcast, safety podcast, leadership podcast, safety innovation podcast, high-reliability organizations podcast, HRO podcast

Everybody's talking about Mary Meeker's latest Internet Trends Report, so Arik and Kevin are too - they share a few highlights and the takeaways. Also, KFC's Colonel heads to Twitter, journalists still think PR pros lie for a living, what gives? Plus, native advertising comes to TV newscasts, and the importance of crisis planning in a real-time and mobile world.

Coming to you from Tampa, Florida at a National Elder Law Boot Camp Seminar with Attorney Mario Correa from Chicago, Illinois. Mario and I discuss why it is extremely important for you to choose the correct attorney for your planning needs. Education and resources can make a huge difference. Don't dabble... Be "All In!"

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Imagine the worst happens with your business — perhaps one of your employees is caught trafficking goods from your warehouse, or one of your products is tainted and makes a whole flock of people sick. What would you do to handle the crisis? Having a crisis plan in advance can help. In this episode of […] The post Startup BizCast #54 – Crisis Planning and Communication (Steve Mullen) first appeared on EndGame Public Relations.

Imagine the worst happens with your business — perhaps one of your employees is caught trafficking goods from your warehouse, or one of your products is tainted and makes a whole flock of people sick. What would you do to handle the crisis? Having a crisis plan in advance can help. In this episode of […]