Podcast appearances and mentions of Dan Gregory

Welcome back to Let's Talk Ideas.In this episode we are joined by Dan Gregory and Oliver Holtaway, co-founders of social infrastructure practice Popular.Today we talk about social capital and infrastructure, which speaks to the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular place and the essential facilities, services, and spaces that support social well-being and community development.We can't recommend enough the list of resources below that were mentioned at various points in the podcast:Dan Gregory's paper - Skittled Out: The collapse and revival of England's social infrastructureNew Social Spaces in Stir to Action Dan giving evidence to APPG on ‘Left behind' neighbourhoods99% Invisible podcast: Palaces for the PeopleSocial Capital 2025: The Hidden Wealth of Nations by Andy Haldane and David Halpern Britain's Lost SpacesCamerados and Public Living RoomsOnward's landmark research report: The State of our Social FabricIf you'd like to follow up with Dan or Oliver you can go to:www.popular.org.ukDan's LinkedInOliver's LinkedInLocal Trust

Join us this week for a brand new episode with Momentum Youth Conference main session speaker and long-time partner, Dan Gregory! Listen as he and Eric have a helpful conversation when it comes to investing in your student pastor, how to walk alongside them through hardship, and being a valuable resource to them as they navigate the world of ministry.  Listen to Dan's powerful message from Momentum Youth Conference HERE!  Check out www.buildmomentum.org to learn more about our organization and how we seek to partner with local churches in order to equip today's young Christian leaders for tomorrow's opportunities. Submit your questions via email to info@buildmomentum.org. Follow Momentum Ministry Partners on: Instagram: @MomentumMinistryPartners Facebook:  @MomentumMinistryPartners YouTube: @MomentumMinistryPartners Subscribe and be sure to leave us your rating & review!

Do you recline your seat on an airplane? Do you crack jokes in a cramped elevator? Do you pressure your little girl to kiss Grandpa when she recoils at the thought? We bet you'll find this edition of Doing What Works relatable!Here are your show notes…The Impossible Institute's Dan Gregory is the co-author of Selfish, Scared and Stupid.

One of every 10 American adults struggles with an addiction to drugs or alcohol.Dan Gregory isn't one of them. But his son was, so Dan learned all he could about addiction treatment. What he found was a broken system with few options other than short-term outpatient programs that have a poor track record of keeping addicts clean.So Dan created Restore Addiction Recovery, which provides a holistic, Christ-centered, year-long program that's free of charge.Restore opened its doors in January 2021. What's happened since, and what's next at this innovative treatment center?Watch this moving video introduction to Restore.Contact:Mike Hatch: mhatch@clchq.org Chris Bolinger: chris@mensdevotionals.com Resources:Mike's book: Manhood: Empowered by the Light of the Gospel (paperback, audiobook)Join the Empowered Manhood Facebook GroupDaily Strength for Men: A 365-Day Devotional52 Weeks of Strength for MenCLC: https://www.clchq.org/BiblicalLeadership.com

Restore Addiction Recovery Center was born out of Dan Gregory's painful experience with addiction in his own family. Since January, 2021, Restore has already had a tremendous impact in men's lives and they are poised, by God's grace, to expand their reach. In this conversation Dan and I talk about addiction, helping families who are struggling with loved ones, and the foundation of hope, meaning, and purpose. This is a helpful and encouraging conversation that all of us need to hear! Dan Gregory is a business leader with global experience in consumer products, power tools, and the coatings industry with world-class companies such as Stanley Black & Decker, TTI Floorcare, and Sherwin-Williams. His passion is to see organizations and people flourish. Dan serves as President and Trustee of Restore Addiction Recovery, working with the other trustees and strategic advisors to help shape and direct the mission and vision of the organization. You can learn more at: https://restoreaddictionrecovery.com/   Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Seeking purpose is a universal desire, yet it's crucial to question whether we're embarking on this quest with the right perspective. While starting with 'why' aids in directional and strategic planning, it's akin to setting a goal. Real purpose, the kind that profoundly influences our behaviour, motivates us intrinsically, and shapes our habits from the core, begins by delving into who we are—aka our DNA Of Purpose. Understanding purpose as an integral part of our identity allows us to gain insights not only into our own motivations but also into those we lead. It becomes the catalyst for mobilising change and fostering progress. In today's podcast episode, we are joined by two incredible guests, Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan, co-founders of The Behaviour Report. With decades of expertise in advertising, they have transitioned their focus to help leaders, teams, and organisations decipher and lead human behaviour. Explore with us as we decode the true essence of unlocking our DNA Of Purpose. Visit www.TBR.news or connect with @TheBehaviourRpt to delve deeper into the cutting-edge research on Behavioural Trends & Strategy, and gain insights to navigate the realms of personal development, motivation, and fulfilling, purpose-driven lives. Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:25 What Question Is Guiding Your Work? 00:08:54 What Is The Behaviour Report? 00:11:56 Decoding Purpose Through Human Behaviour 00:16:59 Why Maslow's Is A Myth 00:21:01 Apple Started Not With Why But Who 00:24:35 Collaborative Leadership 00:30:31 How Stories Can Unite Us 00:41:05 What Sucks Corporate Genius 00:45:00 Working With The United Nations & The Power Of Words To Change The World 00:54:09 Why We Have Care Fatigue 00:56:46 The Behaviour Gap 00:57:00 AI and Human Behaviour 01:02:07 Unlocking The Core Four Personality Types 01:03:18 Leveraging Our Strengths and Weaknesses 01:11:44 End #purpose #humanbehaviour #howtoinfluence #howtolead #understandingpeople #leadingpeople #scaleyourimpact #scaleyourinfluence #discoveryourpurpose #personaldevelopment #leadershipmastery #personalgrowth #leadership #purposedrivenleadership #humanbehaviour #podcast #dnaofpurpose #UnlockYourSelf #leadership #influence #personalmasterySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kieran Flanagan helps you laugh while you learn to unlock your genius and discover how to "think different".  Kieran is rated in the top 25 C-Suite Speakers and in this episode shares her journey building the business with her partner Dan Gregory, writing books, and the secrets of Behavioural Trends and Strategy. Discover more:  https://tbr.news/  

SOCIAL COMMENTATOR: RESEARCHER: MARKETING: AUTHORDan helps leaders & teams explore critical behavioural insights in search of opportunities, to identify the meaning behind the data and turn information into actionable strategies through keynote presentations, webinars, training, facilitation and strategic consulting. He is the co-author of four books and the co-host of A show called Brandin' (a co-production with LinkedIn and Mi-3) and The Behaviour Report™.Ultimately, Dan helps smart people to be people smart!To find out more about Dan Gregory: www.tbr.news 

Are you leveraging storytelling as part of your content marketing and fundraising strategies? In episode 68 of the Business Storytelling Made Easy Podcast, marketing and sales expert Dan Gregory shares how he raised $5 million simply by telling his story.

In this 16th episode of CultivatED Marketer, hosts Brent Bowen and Matt Tidwell, PhD, talk millennial leadership and networking with Eric Hughey, founder of the GenWhy Leaders Podcast.

Dan chatted with Sue Barrett and I about the shaping of image for politicians

Dan Gregory, CEO of The Impossible Institute, joins the podcast this week to talk about the effects of human behaviour in cyber. Dan explains how to work with the fact that employees won't care as much about cyber as we do and the impacts of leadership democratisation. We then look at how human trust has changed and how design beats discipline and motivation.

Dan talks about the corporate rhetoric supporting political parties during the campaign.

Join Rob in an interesting, reflective and emotive episode where he speaks with entrepreneur and content creator Dan Gregory. Nothing is off limits in this thought-provoking episode and they discuss many topics including the controversial world of politics right now, whether we are on the brink of world war three and the serious implications of social media on society today. KEY TAKEAWAYS With everything happening in the world right now both Rob and Dan agree we are closer to world war three than we have ever been. There has been a large break-down of diplomacy and some of this can be attributed to lack of relationships between world leaders. Language is being used as a weapon, this is exactly what is present in the current ‘cancel culture' we are seeing across media platforms. If we take a step back and look at the current climate as a bigger picture, then we can see we are just at a certain point in an ever moving, continuous and repetitive cycle through history. We all have differing sets of values, this is at the root of all conflict. If we were able to respect each other's differing values and opinions we could navigate conflict better. If you don't fight for freedom of speech for the people you don't agree with, then it's a spiral downwards. Everyone should have the right for free speech and if it gets to a real dangerous or criminal point then that is where the government should step in, not before. There is massive price pressure in the UK and across the world due to lack of innovation, supply issues and political problems. We live in an incredibly complex world, but what works for social media are catchy sound bites. This influences what information gets ‘carried' and broadcasted the most, whatever sounds simple and catchy. Rather than what matters, counts or is the full truth. There is a big difference between capitalism and corporatism. What we are seeing in the world today is corporatism and all the issues and negatives that brings with it. Challenge and stress create space and energy to grow. Without these things individuals and humanity as a whole wouldn't ever evolve. BEST MOMENTS “I think we're the closest to world war three than we've ever been” “I'm frustrated as we surely should be more evolved…I feel like we are going backwards” “Those who hold the greatest wealth and power, determine the future of humanity” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK's No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob's official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Although considered one of Kurt Vonnegut's minor works, 1987's BLUEBEARD is an interesting novel that covers some fresh territory for the author. It follows the life and work of Rabo Karabekian, the son of Armenian immigrants who flee to California after the Armenian genocide. Starting as a highly realistic, technically proficient painter, Karabekian shifts his aesthetics to Abstract Expressionism, and, after “failing” as an artist, becomes a collector with one magnum opus left inside of him, which is tucked away under padlock in his barn. This is a work of modern Expressionism which a pseudonymous writer, Circe Berman, tries to wriggle out of him, a work which touches upon Kurt Vonnegut's own experiences at war.   BLUEBEARD tackles the questions of art and meaning, aesthetic preference, and masculine / feminine conceptions of history in ways both similar and not to Kurt Vonnegut's more well-known works.   You can also watch this conversation on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mMNcCdj6XOM Subscribe to the ArtiFact podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3xw2M4D Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3wLpqEV Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3dSQXxJ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/2SVJIxB Podbean: https://bit.ly/3yzLuUo iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/3AK942L   ArtiFact #24: Kurt Vonnegut's “Bluebeard” | Ethan Pinch, Alex Sheremet   Timestamps:   0:18 – introduction; where does Bluebeard fit among Kurt Vonnegut's other novels; its writerly vs. painterly qualities; why Ethan thinks it's the best novel ‘about' painting that he's ever read, as well as one of Vonnegut's best; Alex on his own ‘writerly' narrative biases when he approaches the visual arts; the pitfalls of ekphrastic poetry; cultural criticism masquerading as art criticism   14:00 – why Bluebeard is a “conflicted” work, and has complex things to say about Abstract Expressionism; the self-destructive streak in AbEx painters; Kurt Vonnegut's empathetic treatment of their work vs. the existentialism within AbEx   21:32 – Alex's love/hate relationship with Abstract Expressionism; conspiracy theories around AbEx going back a century; why non-narrative art or claims to non/anti-narrative are not logically tenable; Ethan's skepticism of (and grudging respect for) Clement Greenberg   34:20 – Kurt Vonnegut's introductory note to Bluebeard; can it be read as both praise and critique of Abstract Expressionism?; would Kurt Vonnegut say something similar about his own work, or literature that he respects?; AbEx machismo & Kurt Vonnegut's response to it   45:18 – Ad Reinhardt's cartoons on the history of visual art; abstraction vs. ‘the tangible' in elements such as brush-strokes; a story about a poor Winslow Homer reproduction; Rabo Karabekian's strange comment about the deaths of his AbEx friends – is he offering an implicit critique of their lack of purpose?; art and art-adjacent financials   01:03:00 – setting Bluebeard in its diegetic & historical contexts; photorealism-adjacent commentary in Bluebeard; the importance of Dan Gregory's ‘forgery' of a ruble; why Dan Gregory, not Rabo Karabekian, is the true Bluebeard of Kurt Vonnegut's title   01:18:20 – Alex's criticism (and praise) of Bluebeard's writing; how Kurt Vonnegut recapitulates his views on art by way of his own structural and aesthetic decisions within the book; comparing these decisions to earlier texts; Dan Gregory, Circe Berman, and the “Jesus” metric; Circe Berman's own character arc; what can we make of her “kitsch” aesthetic, as well as her deeper artistic critiques of Abstract Expressionism & beyond?   01:52:12 – on the nature of storytelling; Alex doubts that Ad Reinhardt offer a valid response to critiques of AbEx; on the nature of meaning   02:14:45 – Alex and Ethan debate the use of Rabo Karabekian in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions; how Kurt Vonnegut critiques Abstract Expressionism by crafting pro-narrative, technical prose; assessing Karabekian's version of The Temptation of St. Anthony; how abstract values pervade life; on “oblique” criticism, and why James Baldwin did it so well in The Devil Finds Work; a story of Clement Greenberg's aesthetic strategies in real life; art and the ego; Kurt Vonnegut as realist   2:50:20 – the ending to Bluebeard; the ‘feminine history' in the text, as reflected in Rabo Karabekian's final painting, “Now It's The Women's Turn”; the idea of women re-creating the world into something better; what of Circe Berman's own strategy for survival, and how it complicates Kurt Vonnegut's other observations?; Sateen Dura-Luxe & other tropes   3:05:12 – how cultural & historical context generates artistic currents: hyper-competition in the arts in ancient Greece; spiritual undertones of Giotto's “perfect circle”; commercialization via Dan Gregory's need to replicate the ruble; why Ethan is skeptical of both capitalism as well as material / anticapitalist analyses of both life and art   Video thumbnail © Joel Parrish: https://poeticimport.com   Ethan Pinch's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnthropomorphicHorse Read the latest from the automachination universe: https://www.automachination.com Read Alex's (archived) essays: https://alexsheremet.com   Tags: #KurtVonnegut, #Bluebeard, #AbstractExpressionism

Dan raises the question, are we becoming a divided nation.

On today's week-in-review, Associate Editor of The Stranger, Rich Smith, joins Crystal to discuss the investigation finding that SPD improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys and escalated and inflamed tensions as CHOP formed, and a Kent PD Assistant police chief being asked to resign for posting Nazi insignia and his wife hiding critical social media posts on the city's official social media accounts. They also chat about bills to pay attention to as the legislative session starts on Monday, as well as what Mayor Bruce Harrell's inaugural press conference revealed about his plans and priorities.    As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com.   Find the host, Crystal on Twitter at @finchfrii, and find Rich Smith at @richsssmith  Resources “Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-police-improperly-faked-radio-chatter-about-proud-boys-as-chop-formed-in-2020-investigation-finds/   “Kent assistant police chief disciplined for posting Nazi insignia, joking about Holocaust” by Mike Carter from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/kent-assistant-police-chief-disciplined-for-posting-nazi-insignia-and-joking-about-the-holocaust/   “Social media posts criticized how Kent police handled Nazi controversy — but they were hidden by chief's wife” by Mike Carter from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/criticism-of-kent-police-nazi-controversy-was-hidden-on-social-media-by-police-chiefs-wife-who-ran-the-accounts/   “A Big List of Bills to Track During Washington's 2022 Legislative Session” by Rich Smith from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/01/06/64661375/a-big-list-of-bills-to-track-during-washingtons-2022-legislative-session   “Harrell Pledges Bold Agenda in Inaugural Speech” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist:  https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/01/04/harrell-pledges-bold-agenda-in-inaugural-speech/   “It's up to Harrell to Save Renters in Peril” by Hannah Krieg from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/01/07/64713950/its-up-to-harrell-to-save-renters-in-peril   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington State through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Full transcripts and resources referenced on the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today we're continuing our Friday almost-live shows where we review the news of the week with a cohost. Welcome to the program again, today's cohost, Associate Editor of The Stranger and noted poet, Rich Smith. [00:00:50] Rich Smith: Good to be back - thanks Crystal. [00:00:52] Crystal Fincher: Good to have you back. Well, we have no shortage of things to talk about this week. And you know what? The SPD just keeps popping up into the news - it doesn't seem to end. And this week, we learned that police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020. What happened here? [00:01:19] Rich Smith: Yeah. Well, it was June 8th, which was the day that the cops had abandoned the [East] Precinct, and lifted the barriers, and allowed protestors who had been gathered at that intersection in Capitol Hill - for several days being variously gassed and beaten up for making vocal their criticisms to the police, and occasionally throwing a rock or two. They released the barricades, let the protestors walk the block that they wanted to walk, and then yeah, and then left the - and then went about their business, basically. And then after that, the cops hopped on the scanner, where they communicate with one another about crimes stuff, reports - stuff that's going on around town, and invented a hoax. They fabricated a maraudering gang of Proud Boys, a violent group known to brawl people in the streets, seek out anti-fascists and beat them up, suggested that they were armed with guns - and it was four cops who were enacting this ruse. And the ruse was overseen and approved by the two commanders, including the Captain of the East Precinct, which was the one that the cops had just abandoned. On Wednesday, the Office of Police Accountability determined that this ruse improperly - or not improperly, sorry - this ruse added fuel to the fire of the situation - it was not a de-escalation tactic to claim that there was a roving gang of white supremacists looking to crack some Antifa skulls downtown. But there was no recommended discipline for the cops who participated in the ruse, and the two cops who signed off on the ruse are no longer employed at SPD. And so- [00:03:48] Crystal Fincher: It's all good, evidently. [00:03:49] Rich Smith: That's what's going on - right, yeah. [00:03:52] Crystal Fincher: I mean, from the OPA, their finding was just, "Shouldn't happen, but don't do it again. We're not looking at this in the context of everything else that has happened." And I mean, just underscoring that - no, it absolutely was not a de-escalation tactic. Yes, it absolutely inflamed tensions. Because this was not some nebulous threat, this was not some theoretical violent threat - these were people who had enacted violence upon protesters recently before that. There was a legitimate fear. [00:04:32] Rich Smith: Absolutely, yeah. I mean, I walked through with the protesters - the barriers that were lifted - when they were happening. I was interviewing people, hearing the chatter and the gossip as that place where eventually the Free Capitol Hill that became CHAZ, that became CHOP - that autonomous zone around the precinct was forming. And the number one thing I heard, the number one concern I heard were these rumors of Proud Boys coming around the neighborhood. They're armed, they're dangerous, they're looking for Antifa. And there was concern that the Proud Boys were going to burn down the precinct and blame it on the Black Lives Matter movement, so suddenly there was this need to protect, ironically, the precinct from an attack. And a need to kind of hunker down and barricade the zone, and protect themselves against the threat that the cops had just invented over the scanner. And you're right, that they also had further reason to believe that these rumors were true, because the day before, a man named Nikolas Fernandez allegedly drove his car into the side of the protests, had shot with an extended clip a man named Dan Gregory, and then ran to the front of the police line, where he was welcomed with open arms, potentially because his brother worked at that very precinct. Now, the defense for that case says that the guy was just confused, and he was on his way to work, and there was road blockages, and so he didn't know what to do, and he suddenly ran into this protest - yada, yada, yada - he's got his story. But, this is all to say that the protestors were very afraid of people attacking them in cars, were very afraid of Proud Boys coming, burning down the precinct, shooting them up in retaliation for the protesting. And this ruse by the SPD was just bad policing - it inflamed the situation, to quote the OPA, but it also was the reason that CHOP formed. It might not have been the only reason, of course, it was non-hierarchical structures there - everyone was there for their own shit. But, that was the word on the street in the moment - was Proud Boys are coming, we've got to circle up, we've got to protect ourselves - and that was the staging grounds for CHOP. [00:07:21] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, and certainly aided the fortification, obviously. Everybody was there, principally initially, mainly, to protest violence against Black lives, particularly from the state. But in the moment, certainly, especially looking at tactics to maximize the effectiveness of this direct action, fortification was what made the most sense when you have an armed threat approaching you, and you're trying to assert your First Amendment right to protest. That is what they inflamed, what they created. And I don't even think, certainly in the aftermath of this, "Hey, this is a commonly used de-escalation tactic." Clearly they wanted to just mess with these protesters and to create chaos, and to provoke action that they could act against. [00:08:26] Rich Smith: Yeah. What was his name - Brian - he was the captain of the East Precinct who now works for ADT, I think, down in Texas - the home security firm or whatever. Anyway, the guy who perpetuated, or who approved the ruse - when asked about it by Myerberg, or investigators with OPA - said that the reason for the ruse was they wanted to let the protestors know that cops were still out there doing stuff, that their position had not been weakened despite the fact that they literally had just abandoned the East Precinct - or a couple hours before - slash, they also wanted to do the ruse because they hoped it would draw protesters away from the precinct, and then, I don't know, maybe give them an opportunity, give the cops an opportunity to retake the precinct that they had already decided to abandon, again, as far as we know, themselves, without telling - [00:09:28] Crystal Fincher: Themselves, yeah. [00:09:30] Rich Smith: - without telling the mayor, who was supposed to be the overseer of the cops. They're Durkan's cops, acting on their own extremely bad, extremely wounded impulses. And they were clearly - it doesn't take a Psych major to determine that they were clearly wounded - and they wanted to show the protestors that the cops were still the top dog, that they still had the power, and the way that they decided to do that was to do what any bully or big brother would do, which is say there's a big, scary monster coming to attack you. And you're going to wish you had us to protect you, you know what I mean? And the protesters - they felt the need to defend themselves, felt the need to suddenly defend the property so that they didn't get accused of burning down a precinct when they didn't even do it, didn't want to hurt the movement. And so, this happened. And then the response from City officials so far has been fun too - newly elected mayor, Bruce Harrell, released a statement saying like, "That sucked. Don't do that, that's totally bad, that's wrong. Don't do this - this ruse was bad." And, what was the action he's going to do? He's going to go down there and talk to Interim Police Chief, Adrian Diaz, and tell him that that's unacceptable behavior, and stuff like that. So, that's nice - the chief is going to get a talking to. And then the Public Safety Chair of the City Council, Lisa Herbold, released a statement saying that what she's calling for is for the cops to fully implement ruse training. [00:11:20] Crystal Fincher: Ruse training? [00:11:22] Rich Smith: Yeah, ruses are acceptable - cops can lie to people in order to arrest them, or get evidence from them - so long as they don't quote the, according to state law, shock the conscience. A cop can't say there's a nuclear bomb headed this way or whatever, just to get someone to move somewhere. They can't do anything that shocking. This maraudering gang of Proud Boys coming to attack you - that would, I think, falls into the bad ruse category. Anyway, OPA - the cops were supposed to fully implement training recommendations on ruses, they had only partially done so according to Herbold. And so, she wants to get those fully implemented - you've got to tell all the cops about how to do ruses properly. And she also wants the ruses fully documented - that was another recommendation from the OPA - every time they do one of these ruses, they should write down that they have done the ruse so that we can go back later and determine whether or not it was a good ruse or a bad ruse. Or, we don't get in a situation like we were in today, where it comes out a year and a half after - like this vital piece of a narrative that the City is telling itself comes out a year and a half afterwards - thanks to, shout out to Omari Salisbury at Converge Media, who asked the cops for body cam footage of these Proud Boys that they were supposedly tracking. When his request turned up nil, OPA initiated their investigation. And also several, I should mention, journalists at the time - particularly Matt Watson, aka Spek - immediately thought that the ruse was a ruse. [00:13:24] Crystal Fincher: He called it at the time, yeah. [00:13:28] Rich Smith: He called it at the time, yeah. And communicated that very clearly, and brought receipts. And so, that prompted questioning from journalists that eventually, through the process of gaining public records and initiating investigations with the OPA, comes out with this vital piece of the story of the protests of 2020. [00:13:53] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. I mean, it's so interesting - one, just the story, and just the - obviously the story on its own is egregious, just another egregious example. But also another example of the loss of control of the department - this was not a mayor directing or controlling anything - nothing in that narrative was directed, influenced, controlled by the mayor. And also, nothing in that narrative, according to the information that's publicly available, was directed or controlled by the Police Chief at the time, Carmen Best. These were officers who had basically gone rogue, and made these consequential, harmful, dangerous decisions on their own with no recourse. We're now finding out about this months, years after the fact - and then following up with laughable accountability, honestly. I mean, if ruse training is what comes out of this, I don't know how people are really looking at that as anything that meaningfully addresses this issue here - both with this specific issue - and with SPD overall. I hope that that was just an idea in the beginning, and we're going to get to the meat of accountability coming up, because that seems wholly just insufficient. [00:15:28] Rich Smith: Yeah, I'm skeptical, yeah, of this reformist answer that the City leaders are currently taking, which is to - you have Bruce Harrell doing an appeal to authority saying, "I know what I'll do, I'll go to the chief, and then we'll have this top-down answer," which is pretty typical, I think, of Harrell's impulse just as a leader. He's constantly talking about how he's going to bring the right people together, he knows everybody in the City, everybody knows him, it's a real top-down kind of coach approach. And so it makes sense that he would be like, "I know what I'll do, I'll go to the lead of the organization, Diaz, and say, 'Hey, this is unacceptable, tell everybody to quit this, whatever.'" Okay, so that's one - that's his approach to this reform. Herbold is saying, "We need more oversight over the cops lying, we need more records of this stuff, we need more training." But, the thing that seems to actually work, and what we're finding out as a result of many of these OPA investigations, is that the cops who perpetuated this bullshit are no longer at the department. And they're no longer at the department not because reformers rooted them out, but because of the Defund movement, which created a culture around policing that is inherently skeptical, that demands real accountability, that says, "You can't be hitting us, and we're going to film you when you do," that demands more of cops, and that doesn't - yeah. And so, that seems to be the thing that worked to root out a number of these officers who've gone rogue, or whose mission as officers don't align with the City's mission - I'll just say that. [00:17:25] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. [00:17:26] Rich Smith: Defund worked - I don't know what to tell you. It probably rooted out more bad apples than any consent decree could have. I really should put asterisks all over that, I don't have any numbers or whatever. But just anecdotally, every time they go to discipline one of these guys, they're not there anymore. And it's for a reason. [00:17:50] Crystal Fincher: I would say increasingly - I think that there's still a number up there. But, certainly increasingly, and certainly it's because there has been pressure applied and accountability demanded, and increasingly made possible by the Defund movement and its demands, and holding other lawmakers accountable for enacting that through policy and through investigation and action. So, we will see how that continues. This is not the only police story that came up this week. In my city of Kent, Washington, we - it came out - have a police chief, an assistant police chief, who displayed literal Nazi propaganda, who was disciplined for posting a Nazi insignia, and joking about the Holocaust. The more that we learn about this, the worse that it gets. He admittedly joked about the Holocaust, he admittedly - this was a long-running thing. He had shaved his facial hair once into a Hitler mustache, and repeatedly told a joke to the effect that - just a horrible joke, horrible anti-Semitic joke, obviously this is all anti-Semitic. And word was given that the discipline for this - for an assistant chief who had repeatedly joked about the Holocaust, who had acted consistent with Nazi behavior and literally posted Nazi insignias on his door in the police department - was a two week suspension. That's what initially came out. [00:19:34] Rich Smith: That'll do it. [00:19:35] Crystal Fincher: Obviously, public outcry. Obviously, a response from other City officials caused the mayor to reconsider and announced that she will be asking the union for this officer's resignation. Now obviously, firing may not be as simple in all of these situations to have it stick, but you can certainly act that way and then be like, "Okay, well, we dare you to try and get your job back, you person who are comfortable with Nazi actions and cosplay, and spreading that nasty infection to the rest of the department." I should note that this was caught because a detective under this assistant chief's command reported him after this insignia had been up for four days. One reported him - everyone else in the department, I'm sure, was not comfortable reporting an assistant chief to this. To me, this speaks a lot about the culture that is currently happening there - that this can happen and only one, thankfully one, but only one reported this. And my goodness, if the recommendation that comes back after an investigation is two weeks, then doesn't that indicate that this entire system is broken? There's a lot more broken here. [00:21:07] Rich Smith: Yeah. I mean, if you can't fire a Nazi cop for putting Third Reich insignia outside of his office door - and he wasn't just like some cop, right? [00:21:22] Crystal Fincher: Nope. [00:21:22] Rich Smith: This guy was the head of the Department of Special Investigations and Detective Unit - [00:21:28] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, Assistant Chief. [00:21:30] Rich Smith: Assistant Chief, yeah. And this guy's safe space sticker is a couple of Nazi patches. It's just - the plausible deniability stretches the bounds of the imagination. He says that he didn't know that the insignia was Nazi stuff, it was from a show. So, if you're fighting an improper dismissal case or whatever, it just - I guess this is where you end up in the process, with a two-week suspension. But you're right, you could try to fight it a little bit harder, and push and push and push on this guy's counter-story, and really continue to gather more of this evidence that he was just flagrantly doing Nazi stuff in the Kent Police Department. [00:22:23] Crystal Fincher: Openly in the Kent Police Department. And if you can't fire a Nazi cop, who can you fire? The investigation found - he tried to say, "You know, despite making anti-Semitic jokes, and despite giving myself a literal Hitler mustache - that Nazi insignia that I posted on my door, I had no idea it was actually a Nazi insignia." And the investigation found that that was not the case, the investigation found that he knowingly posted that, knowing that it was a Nazi insignia. Everything about this screams Nazi cop, because literally Nazi cop. And so, this is a situation - to me - and for a lot of departments when they have egregious actions like this, and then they say, "Well, given the how - with the cop contracts oftentimes are - it's hard to fire them. If they went through arbitration, they'd wind up back on the force." Well, test it, test it. Say, "We're making a stand. And if you force us, perhaps, but we're not doing this willingly." Make that stand. And so, I suppose that is now where the mayor is at, asking for the resignation. If he says no, then what? Kick him off - get him out. [00:23:46] Rich Smith: You know, I think maybe we should do anti-Nazi training. But, anti-Nazi is a little just one-sided, so we probably should do anti-extremist training. [00:23:55] Crystal Fincher: Oh my gosh. And look, I live in Kent - it is not like I haven't noticed the increase in Blue Lives Matter stickers on police vehicles, which has been an issue in other cities. And there's been pushback against in other cities - certainly this has been brought up and basically ignored by City leadership. Would love to hear some accountability on that. There's a lot to find when you look into the City of Kent. [00:24:26] Rich Smith: Yes, yeah, and there should be more - yeah, much more scrutiny on a lot of these, the goings-on in these suburban cities. But, just the whole Nazi cop thing, or alleged Nazi cop thing goes back to this - how do you change the culture in these institutions? And the reformist answer seems to be - you change it by training, you change it by putting pressure on the higher-ups to be accountable to the people they oversee - these are their answers. It just goes back to how challenging it is going to be for reformists to really change the culture of these institutions, especially when the culture right now of these institutions is self-victimization, a feeling like that they're the guardians, literally, against chaos in society. And a number of them are attracted to - everyone goes where they're flattered - and so the cops are going to conservative wings of political thought, where they're bathed and flattered. And this is all contributing to being a little bit more permissive of the old Nazi insignia on the door. I don't know how you rearrange that without drastically changing who a cop is and what a cop does. I think that that's where you have to start making change, rather than saying like, "We're going to tell your boss on you," or, "We're going to train you to not be a Nazi." I think that those reforms haven't worked, as well as- [00:26:09] Crystal Fincher: They have failed. [00:26:10] Rich Smith: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:12] Crystal Fincher: They have failed. [00:26:13] Rich Smith: And yeah, going back to what I said earlier, the Defund movement did more to root out these kinds of cops than any of these reforms seem to. I don't know that for sure, but that seems to be what we're learning anecdotally. [00:26:25] Crystal Fincher: Well, it certainly has brought - it says in no uncertain terms that the resources that we continue to dedicate to the things that have not worked, that have not worked to make us safer - bottom line - and that have not worked to curb this behavior in all of these departments. It has not worked, so why are we continuing to dump more resources in the same types of things? We're at a time now where we just had a lot of new lawmakers sworn in - lots of city councils, new mayors sworn in - and they have the opportunity to lead in a different way than we've seen before. We have a new legislative session that's about to start, and there's the opportunity there for them to take substantive action to fill in the gaps in accountability that exist. And I would just urge these people to look at these situations, and to look at how inadequate our laws, regulations, have been in addressing this - and understanding the need for more accountability. That we've tried training, we've tried all of these types of, "Don't you see how bad this is?" And the only thing that seems to be effective at getting people to see how bad it is is treating them - is acting on our behalf, as if it's actually bad - and holding people accountable. We're having this conversation at the same time that we have a new City Attorney in Seattle who is talking about prosecuting crimes. We are more comfortable as a society talking about the consequences for stealing a loaf of bread than we are for being a Nazi assistant police chief, and I am just sick of it. I cannot stand it, and I urge people to take substantive action. It is time to be bold - this is why people were elected. Please do something. [00:28:18] Rich Smith: Would you mind for a moment if we did see what the legislators are up to over - [00:28:21] Crystal Fincher: Let's look at that - you actually - there was a wonderful article that you wrote about this that covered a lot of this. And one directly ties to - a number directly tie to policing. One, an issue directly tied to the lying - ruses in SPD. What is on tap in the legislative session that's about to start on Monday? [00:28:55] Rich Smith: That's right. We've got a 60-day session coming up - short session - mostly just tweaking stuff going on, mostly just kind of working multi-year bills that people know are going to take a bunch of time to get over the finish line. And of course, we've got to pass, I think, around a $60 billion supplemental budget, so there's some consideration about how to use a lot of one-time millions and one-time federal funding. But, there is some policing stuff going on in terms of the proposed bills, thus far - related to lying - House Bill 1690, if you want to follow it, Rep Strom Peterson, of all people - a Democrat - wants to render inadmissible evidence gathered from cops who lie to suspects during interrogation. So that, if passed - if a cop is interrogating somebody and they invent a ruse or a lie - say, "Your dad told me you did it, your friends told me you did it," and that produces a false confession or some piece of evidence that is going to be submitted in court later. This law passes and says, "We're not going to take that evidence." So, the thinking being that that would deter cops from using this tactic to produce evidence, which would be no good to them in a court anyway. So, that wouldn't stop cops from using ruses of the kind that helped to start CHOP in the City. But, it would potentially lower the use of this tactic, which young people are particularly vulnerable to. For instance, the Central Park Five - they picked them up because the cop lied and said that their friends had already ratted on them. And so, they drew false confessions that way. More recently, in 2019, I think a Seattle police officer was interrogating a guy who they suspected of hitting a bunch of parked cars - didn't injure anybody, but the cop told him that he had left one person in critical condition. A little while after that, the guy, feeling so sad that he had done something that killed somebody - he thought killed somebody - committed suicide as a result of that. So, I don't know if it should be illegal for cops to do ruses. But, these kinds of - I'm sure that they don't want to unilaterally disarm when suspects themselves do ruses to try to escape accountability from laws that we decide that we want as a society or whatever. But, there should be some guard rails around how badly you could lie, to what extent evidence produced through this really tricky, potentially disastrous tactic can be used. And, that seems like a good one in particular. [00:32:15] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, and there's a lot of others. I mean, you've rounded up - there's gun legislation to ban high-capacity magazines, close the ghost gun loophole. There's bills to address income inequality - work continues with Rep Noel Frame. And work on the guaranteed basic income policy, sponsored by Liz Berry. Lots of good stuff in there, lots of criminal justice reform, a number of them - bill to allow for the legal grow and therapeutic guiding of trips for psilocybin - which has been legalized in a lot of other places. Certainly, the frequently-talked about Washington Cares Act, and figuring out what to do with that. Environmental bills to reduce emissions from gas companies, to make buildings more efficient, make packaging more recyclable. One that I am tracking closely and in favor of - by Mia Gregerson - to move local elections to even-numbered years with Rep Debra Entenman. A lot of stuff there - are there any other ones that stick out to you? [00:33:26] Rich Smith: Yeah. The big one for me, this year, that I'll probably be screaming about - I won't be alone in it, I'm sure, is Senate Bill 5670, House Bill 1782. They're identical bills - it's just the House bill and the Senate version - sponsored by Mona Das in the Senate and Jessica Bateman in the House. And it would legalize multi-unit homes statewide - I don't know how you want to put it - abolish single-family zoning statewide under certain criteria. That criteria, not to bore people, but everywhere within a half a mile of rapid transit - that is like bus stops that come every 15 minutes, rail, ferry stop - you're going to legalize up to sixplexes, basically. And then cities with lower populations, under 20,000, they'll have to take less density. I think it goes down to quads. And then cities under 10,000, they have to take duplexes. There's an alternative for cities who don't want to do that - where they have a formula - and then they get to put the density wherever they want to, but they can't perpetuate racism in doing so. So, that's kind of the basic structure of the bill. Oregon has already legalized apartments and homes and multi-unit homes everywhere. California has already legalized apartments and multi-unit homes everywhere. Minneapolis has done this. The sky hasn't fallen. It's absolutely necessary because we have a 250,000 unit-strong housing deficit. This has tragicomically - sorry, this has raised the price of homes to tragicomically high levels. The only place a first-time home buyer can afford to live is in like, Ferry County. There's six counties, there's seven counties, in the eastern part of the state where you can technically afford to buy a home if it's your first one. Everywhere else is astronomical and damn-near impossible to own affordably. We're only building 44,000 units a year, so that's not going to keep up with the number of units we need to solve this housing crisis. They've been trying to pass this bill for four years, and this year there's some reason for excitement, because Governor Inslee has put his weight behind it. However, there's still plenty of opposition - you've got the Association of Washington Cities, which represent cities, which are filled by NIMBYs, because they think that adding more density is going to lower their property values, which is going to tank their retirement prospects, because we live in a society that for some reason links the price of our house to whether or not we get to comfortably retire in old age. That's a separate episode. But, there's a lot of strong opposition to this bill, so - at a press conference yesterday, the leadership didn't sound too enthused about it. So, it's going to take a big - if you want to try to save the housing crisis with a market-based solution this year, you're going to want to be tracking this bill. And every time it gets a hearing you're going to want to sign up to talk about it, say how much you can't afford a house in your own neighborhood, et cetera. And you're going to want to push your lawmakers, because right now they're hearing from NIMBYs - the default is, don't allow this density. So, yeah. [00:37:12] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. And many of them live in those neighborhoods, and have those tendencies themselves - [00:37:16] Rich Smith: That's right. [00:37:16] Crystal Fincher: - realistically, and are hearing this from their literal next-door neighbors. So, it is critical that people make a phone call, send an email to your legislator to say, "Hey, absolutely support this. I'm excited about it. I am expecting you to support it and will be paying attention." And to sign in when the bill has a hearing as it goes through the process. People have to know and hear from people who want this legislation, because NIMBYs mobilize for this, always, big time. And, they're in the minority. We see poll after poll that says that they are not the majority here, but the majority isn't used to advocating in the same way and pushing those same levers of power for these issues. And we really need to. [00:38:02] Rich Smith: Yeah. And it's hard to tell - and you've got to do it blanket. You can't assume because you think you have a progressive representative that they're going to be automatically on board. You cannot name one Democratic Senator in the Senate right now who is like - you could name any of them, and then say, "This person is going to vote against this bill," and that would make sense to me. I don't know who opposes it, but there's a reason it hasn't passed in four years. There's a reason why Mona Das has to keep trying, who's a renter by the way. She's also a mortgage broker, but she's also a renter. And, so any one of these people could be problem children to getting this, again, market-based solution. I mean, we're talking about letting people build. I thought that this was what you all were about, you know? I thought you guys were super into this kind of thing. But yeah, so, anyway, this is all to say - don't give your representative the benefit of the doubt because you think they're progressive. They could be a NIMBY in hiding, you know? [00:39:14] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely correct. Well, I just want to take these last few minutes on the show to talk about another event that was covered this week - the Bruce Harrell inaugural press conference. After being sworn in, he made a speech - we now have Mayor Harrell, Mayor Durkan is no more - no more in office, she's certainly around - who knows where she's going to end, like go, I don't know, maybe she's going to run away from Seattle. But, Bruce Harrell is here, and he made a very bold-sounding speech. And I just wanted to talk about a few of the specifics in his speech, or what he brought, and some of them had specifics. One kind of immediate thing - he's still weighing whether to extend the eviction moratorium, which ends on January 15th. Obviously the Rona is here, the Omicron variant is just continuing to dance through our lives. We are in the middle of a pandemic, we aren't beyond it - certainly parents are struggling with how to approach school, schools are struggling to just be staffed at a level that they can have staff in classrooms. Now we're not even at just teachers in classrooms, just any adult staff member is filling in in many places, in many districts. It's a hard thing. And in the midst of this obviously we're still dealing with the same issues of people taking care of sick relatives, people they are living with, living with immunocompromised people. And so, we don't know - he said he would be looking at the data and figuring that out. So, we can expect an upcoming announcement on whether or not that's going to continue, and I'm sure your feedback on whether he should continue that would be helpful. Chief Diaz is - oh, go ahead. [00:41:05] Rich Smith: Yeah, just to add, there was an important report in The Times this morning that the County doesn't have enough money to handle all of the rent assistance applications that has come its way. So, there's 10,000 requests for rental assistance that the County is not processing - [00:41:25] Crystal Fincher: Oh my gosh. [00:41:26] Rich Smith: - as of November. The County asked for $120 million from the Feds to cover the gap. So, if Bruce doesn't - I mean, and so - that's 10,000 people who say that they're behind on rent - in King County - I don't know how many particularly in Seattle. If Harrell lifts the eviction moratorium, that's that. And then those people could face eviction for non-payment of the rent. [00:41:57] Crystal Fincher: That's the trigger, yep. [00:41:58] Rich Smith: And so, that's something to - hopefully that the Harrell administration is considering. And also he says that he wants to strike some kind of balance between keeping vulnerable people housed, and making it so that vulnerable landlords don't feel like they have to sell their rental property and potentially decrease the rental housing stock. That's another conversation, but this is what he's balancing. Okay, he hinted that he was going to maybe rewrite some version of the moratorium, maybe he'll just keep it for another month based on The Seattle Times report, the amount of need that's out there. But, it's a huge problem, it's a big thing that the Harrell administration needs to deal with right now, and it's happening next week. [00:42:49] Crystal Fincher: Yeah - very, very big thing. And that was a very important data point to be considered. Another one - Chief Adrian Diaz might stay - Bruce Harrell didn't say that he was definitely going to leave, that they had some evaluation to do, that he needed to set expectations, and they needed to talk about those. And so it's possible that Chief Diaz stays, or that he embarks upon a nationwide search. He brought up that the City will pursue climate policies towards net zero emissions so that there'd be an early focus on electric cars. But that there weren't many specifics there, so we will wait to see what happens there. You know, another big thing that I was not expecting - that was intriguing, actually - and that could turn out to be very good. He said that he wanted to provide healthcare for every Seattle resident. That would be big, that would be awesome if that actually turned out to be every Seattle resident, if that included mental healthcare - like comprehensive healthcare for every Seattle resident would be great. Announced that as an initiative, where they said that they're coming up with the parameters to evaluate who does and who doesn't have healthcare so far, and figuring that out. So, we still have to see what the specifics of this are going to be. [00:44:15] Rich Smith: Yeah, finding money in the City budget - if it takes any money to provide healthcare for people as a City, finding that money in the City budget sounds like a real challenge. But, it's a worthy one. I don't know of many municipalities that offer healthcare for all in this way. I think New York City - Bill de Blasio did one - I should have looked that up before we started talking. But yeah, it seems like it would cost a lot of money, and he's got Tim Burgess on the case, the Strategic Initiatives Lead that he hired - former mayor, former City Councilman of many years, I think 12, don't quote me on that - and Burgess is a former cop, but he has led, I think, on some health initiatives. He made a big deal out of the Nurse-Family Partnership whenever he was on the Council. So, it's not crazy to have him do this - he's created healthcare policy, or worked on healthcare policy before. There's another person who's working with Burgess on this, I can't remember her name. But, in any event - so yeah, it would be a big deal, it would be cool, it will be interesting to see what they end up doing. From the sound of it, it was like, "We've got to get a dashboard spreadsheet of who's sick first," and yeah. [00:45:44] Crystal Fincher: One of my takeaways was that this is going to be an administration that loves dashboards - there was talk about data and dashboards for everything. We'll see how that turns out, but that certainly was a big, bold proposal that would be a huge win for everybody. [00:46:02] Rich Smith: Yeah. [00:46:03] Crystal Fincher: For residents of Seattle. He also talked about making noticeable change, noticeable progress, on housing people, on reducing our unhoused population - in the first quarter, I believe he said. And so, I'm going to be excited to see how he conducts that. He said that he's excited to get people into housing. And if he can get people into housing and there's a noticeable difference, I don't know anyone who is opposed to that. Now, if this is a sweeps-based solution, I think there's a lot of people who are not going to be happy with that. But it will be very interesting to see - again, they said that they're still collecting a lot of data, but he said that is one area where we can expect to see noticeable improvement. So, I truly hope - I don't think there's anyone who does not want people to be housed who are not housed. And I hope that there's listening to people who are telling people - there's this narrative about "refusing services." When people are offered services - that can be a very misleading statement - because a lot of times those services aren't available or applicable to their situation. But also, there are reasons why the services available may not meet the needs of the people on the ground. And so, I hope we're listening to what people say will meet their needs, and build towards what will meet their needs and solve this issue and house people. If that happens, I think we're all waiting to applaud Bruce Harrell for that. [00:47:33] Rich Smith: That's right. And he also said - on the getting houses for those people to live in, or for everyone to live in - he talked about housing for all, and making sure everyone had an affordable place to live. His first action was going to be to - he did an executive order to look at permitting processes. And it sounded like he wanted to streamline permitting - which is a thing that people say, but that's going to be interesting to see what he gets back. I mean, permitting - what's he going to get? It's a bunch of ideas that sound good on their own. So if he gets a list back and sees what kinds of permitting people need to do to build housing, what's Bruce Harrell administration going to get rid of? Are they going to get rid of design review, are they going to get rid of MHA, are they going to get rid of sprinklers for town homes, are they going to get rid of environmental review? I wonder if the Bruce Harrell administration is going to get rid of any of these processes that have built up around building housing. We know what it's going to take to get housing for all, and it's a billion dollars a year for 10 years, with the current affordable housing scheme that cities have concocted. Or, it's going to take massive investment in public or social housing, so we can put people inside. And so, maybe streamlined permitting can work a little bit, but it'll be interesting to see how we want to streamline that process. Not saying that there's not room for improvement, there definitely is. I don't give a **** about design review, I imagine the Harrell administration does. But, maybe they don't - I don't know, surprise me. Yeah, there's a lot more reporting to do on this. [00:49:30] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I mean, it will be interesting. Also, there is a - on the subject of zoning specifically - was a little bit fuzzy on that, but he said, quote, "We'll fill in the gaps where zoning is already available for housing and construction and density. And our Chief Operating Officer, Marco Lowe (a name that Hacks & Wonks listeners will be familiar with, as he's a co-host sometimes on Hacks & Wonks) who not only has deep experience in City Hall but also actual experience in the housing industry, will lead this critical effort. So, as we embark on a City-wide master plan update - and again, it's time for that master plan update. As many of you are aware, we'll look at opportunities to address every neighborhood to address the shortage of quality housing at every income level." So, not specifics there - a plan to address it, a point person named, and Marco Lowe to do it. And so, eager to see what results from that, but certainly results are needed. [00:50:26] Rich Smith: More power to - let them know, Marco. [00:50:34] Crystal Fincher: Marco's certainly competent, on the case, and I hope that they can make substantive progress. I believe Marco can - hopefully the intentions of the administration are truly to do that. And again - that happens, everybody wins. People are waiting to applaud that. [00:50:55] Rich Smith: It'll be an interesting four years. [00:50:57] Crystal Fincher: It will be, it definitely will be. Well, thank you. [00:51:00] Rich Smith: If he brings back the Sonics, that's going to be eight years. I've been telling you, this is the one thing - anyway, I don't want to start a new topic, but it'll be an interesting four or eight years depending on whether or not Bruce Harrell brings back the Sonics. [00:51:14] Crystal Fincher: Look, you know what? If he brings back the Sonics - yeah, that's going to be a whole thing, that's going to be a whole thing. And my goodness, looking at some of these other clubs around the country. And look, I don't want to take a team from the other city, but they have really messed things up in Oklahoma City. Wow, they did not earn the Sonics, they did not. They are a mess, they are trifling and shady and ridiculous and shameful. And anyway, I mean, I'm a Lakers fan, so you know. But I mean, the Sonics have a place in my heart. Kevin Durant has a place in my heart, we just - we need the Sonics back here. All right. We are more than beyond our time, but I just want to thank everybody for listening to Hacks & Wonks on KVRU 105.7 FM, this Friday, January 7th 2022. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Lisl Stadler, with assistance from Shannon Cheng. And our wonderful co-host today was Associate Editor of The Stranger, Rich Smith. You can find Rich on Twitter @richsssmith, with three S's in the middle. You can find me on Twitter @finchfrii, with two I's at the end. Now you can follow Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts, just type "Hacks & Wonks" into the search bar, be sure to subscribe to get our Friday almost-live show and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave us a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show - all the great articles that we talked about - at OfficialHacksAndWonks.com and in the episode notes. Thanks for tuning in, we'll talk to you next time.

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You can hear him RIGHT NOW chatting to the former Scarborough News sport editor Dan Gregory on the Extra Time Podcast with Scarborough College- Charlie Hopper also talked Scarborough Rugby and Strongman contests...

The creator of the Extra Time Podcast speaks to one of the new presenters, Charlie Hopper. Dan recounts his favourite interviews and interviewees, as well as those who didn't quite see eye to eye with him.

Dan Gregory host of ‘The Pandemic Podcast' talks with Nick about why following the increasingly one-sided information about the pandemic he felt compelled to speak out and take action with his podcast talking a balanced critical view based on analysis of the data and the science. The pandemic has affected us all and Dan has grown a huge following in a very short time frame exploring the questions and seeking answers to a narrative that had previously had no counterbalance. Hear more about his vision, values, and tribe in this in-depth interview. KEY TAKEAWAYS I become very sceptical about some of the models that were being presented More and more over time, there has been a divergence between the data, the science and what's been portrayed in the media The data was showing young people as been the least susceptible but they were being treated in an unacceptable way so I had to speak out It was about stepping up because this was about children's futures, humanity, and society The impact I was seeing beyond myself created something within myself that said – ‘you have to step up' There was an internal shift to leading and I spoke as my authentic self and to my true self I wanted to use my natural entrepreneurial curiosity to explore the questions and seek answers because there had been a narrative with no counterbalance to it It came from a deep-rooted desire to make an impact in that particular space. It has shifted how I am as a leader and entrepreneur and was driven by concern about what was going to happen to us as a society You need to understand what people are concerned about and the podcast content is built around not only my curiosities but also the curiosities of those who listen A deliberate approach to values was forged early on in the podcast Historical my driving force has been around elevating humanity and enriching the world The podcast has brought clarity around the structural and systemic issues in the world and how I can focus my vision on the areas I want to operate in.  Shifting the ways in which we operate and using my expertise and the tribe I have following me is a way to make changes in the world I want to look at how to create global solutions Where there is a problem there is a solution, where there is a solution there is an opportunity BEST MOMENTS ‘You understand the personal issues and frustrations of people' ‘There have been some seismic shifts in the last twelve months and the world is changing ‘Humans were born to live not to just exist' VALUABLE RESOURCES Empire Builders Podcast  https://keapnow.com/empirebuilders The Pandemic Podcast YouTube ABOUT THE HOST Nick James Nick dropped out of university at the age of 21 and failed spectacularly with his first coaching business, which forced him to take a £16k/yr telesales job.  Within 12 months he was the top performer and left to start his second business at 24. This time he discovered a winning formula and before long had a multi-six-figure company. He then made a huge mistake which nearly put him out of business and cost him £50,000 in personal cash! Fortunately, Nick kept it afloat, turned it around, and sold that business 2 years later in a seven-figure deal.  He then co-founded a multi-million-pound marketing company, which he exited in 2015, and created Expert Empires. Today, Expert Empires is known as the UK's number one business event for Experts, with world-renowned celebrity speakers like Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Chalene Johnson, David Goggins, and Lewis Howes gracing the stage. Nick also specialises in helping Coaches, Consultants, Speakers, Trainers, and Authors take their businesses from zero to six figures and beyond through his Expert Empires Mastermind programme.                                   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week I'm talking to Dan Gregory - Dan is a barber out of London, England who has become the face of Regal Gentleman's YouTube channel. Their growth has been phenomenal over the past two years. People find comfort in watching Dan - a world-class barber - cut a stranger's hair as he explains his thought process. It's a true art. Beyond YouTube, Dan is involved in many ventures. He sells his own hair products, hosts a podcast and, is building a platform to educate aspiring barbers. I don't know how he gets it all done. His work ethic is inspiring. So, let's get to the good stuff. Here's my conversation with Dan Gregory.Check out Dan on YouTube and  Instagram! 

Investors have pumped capital into emerging markets since the beginning of civilization. Egyptians explored basic mathematics and used their findings to build larger structures and even granaries to allow merchants to store food and serve larger and larger cities. Greek philosophers expanded on those learnings and applied math to learn the orbits of planets, the size of the moon, and the size of the earth. Their merchants used the astrolabe to expand trade routes. They studied engineering and so learned how to leverage the six simple machines to automate human effort, developing mills and cranes to construct even larger buildings. The Romans developed modern plumbing and aqueducts and gave us concrete and arches and radiant heating and bound books and the postal system.  Some of these discoveries were state sponsored; others from wealthy financiers. Many an early investment was into trade routes, which fueled humanities ability to understand the world beyond their little piece of it and improve the flow of knowledge and mix found knowledge from culture to culture.  As we covered in the episode on clockworks and the series on science through the ages, many a scientific breakthrough was funded by religion as a means of wowing the people. And then autocrats and families who'd made their wealth from those trade routes. Over the centuries of civilizations we got institutions who could help finance industry.  Banks loan money using an interest rate that matches the risk of their investment. It's illegal, going back to the Bible to overcharge on interest. That's called usury, something the Romans realized during their own cycles of too many goods driving down costs and too few fueling inflation. And yet, innovation is an engine of economic growth - and so needs to be nurtured.  The rise of capitalism meant more and more research was done privately and so needed to be funded. And the rise of intellectual property as a good. Yet banks have never embraced startups.  The early days of the British Royal Academy were filled with researchers from the elite. They could self-fund their research and the more doing research, the more discoveries we made as a society. Early American inventors tinkered in their spare time as well. But the pace of innovation has advanced because of financiers as much as the hard work and long hours. Companies like DuPont helped fuel the rise of plastics with dedicated research teams. Railroads were built by raising funds. Trade grew. Markets grew. And people like JP Morgan knew those markets when they invested in new fields and were able to grow wealth and inspire new generations of investors. And emerging industries ended up dominating the places that merchants once held in the public financial markets.  Going back to the Venetians, public markets have required regulation. As banking became more a necessity for scalable societies it too required regulation - especially after the Great Depression. And yet we needed new companies willing to take risks to keep innovation moving ahead., as we do today And so the emergence of the modern venture capital market came in those years with a few people willing to take on the risk of investing in the future. John Hay “Jock” Whitney was an old money type who also started a firm. We might think of it more as a family office these days but he had acquired 15% in Technicolor and then went on to get more professional and invest. Jock's partner in the adventure was fellow Delta Kappa Epsilon from out at the University of Texas chapter, Benno Schmidt. Schmidt coined the term venture capital and they helped pivot Spencer Chemicals from a musicians plant to fertilizer - they're both nitrates, right? They helped bring us Minute Maid. and more recently have been in and out of Herbalife, Joe's Crab Shack, Igloo coolers, and many others. But again it was mostly Whitney money and while we tend to think of venture capital funds as having more than one investor funding new and enterprising companies.  And one of those venture capitalists stands out above the rest. Georges Doriot moved to the United States from France to get his MBA from Harvard. He became a professor at Harvard and a shrewd business mind led to him being tapped as the Director of the Military Planning Division for the Quartermaster General. He would be promoted to brigadier general following a number of massive successes in the research and development as part of the pre-World War II military industrial academic buildup.  After the war Doriot created the American Research and Development Corporation or ARDC with the former president of MIT, Karl Compton, and engineer-turned Senator Ralph Flanders - all of them wrote books about finance, banking, and innovation. They proved that the R&D for innovation could be capitalized to great return. The best example of their success was Digital Equipment Corporation, who they invested $70,000 in in 1957 and turned that into over $350 million in 1968 when DEC went public, netting over 100% a year of return. Unlike Whitney, ARDC took outside money and so Doriot became known as the first true venture capitalist. Those post-war years led to a level of patriotism we arguably haven't seen since. John D. Rockefeller had inherited a fortune from his father, who built Standard Oil. To oversimplify, that company was broken up into a variety of companies including what we now think of as Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, and Chevron. But the family was one of the wealthiest in the world and the five brothers who survived John Jr built an investment firm they called the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We might think of the fund as a social good investment fund these days. Following the war in 1951, John D Rockefeller Jr endowed the fund with $58 million and in 1956, deep in the Cold War, the fund president Nelson Rockefeller financed a study and hired Henry Kissinger to dig into the challenges of the United States. And then came Sputnik in 1957 and a failed run for the presidency of the United States by Nelson in 1960.  Meanwhile, the fund was helping do a lot of good but also helping to research companies Venrock would capitalize. The family had been investing since the 30s but Laurance Rockefeller had setup Venrock, a mashup of venture and Rockefeller. In Venrock, the five brothers, their sister, MIT's Ted Walkowicz, and Harper Woodward banded together to sprinkle funding into now over 400 companies that include Apple, Intel, PGP, CheckPoint, 3Com, DoubleClick and the list goes on. Over 125 public companies have come out of the fund today with an unimaginable amount of progress pushing the world forward. The government was still doing a lot of basic research in those post-war years that led to standards and patents and pushing innovation forward in private industry. ARDC caught the attention of a number of other people who had money they needed to put to work. Some were family offices increasingly willing to make aggressive investments. Some were started by ARDC alumni such as Charlie Waite and Bill Elfers who with Dan Gregory founded Greylock Partners. Greylock has invested in everyone from Red Hat to Staples to LinkedIn to Workday to Palo Alto Networks to Drobo to Facebook to Zipcar to Nextdoor to OpenDNS to Redfin to ServiceNow to Airbnb to Groupon to Tumblr to Zenprise to Dropbox to IFTTT to Instagram to Firebase to Wandera to Sumo Logic to Okta to Arista to Wealthfront to Domo to Lookout to SmartThings to Docker to Medium to GoFundMe to Discord to Houseparty to Roblox to Figma. Going on 800 investments just since the 90s they are arguably one of the greatest venture capital firms of all time.  Other firms came out of pure security analyst work. Hayden, Stone, & Co was co-founded by another MIT grad, Charles Hayden, who made his name mining copper to help wire up the world in what he expected to be an increasingly electrified world. Stone was a Wall Street tycoon and the two of them founded a firm that employed Joe Kennedy, the family patriarch, Frank Zarb, a Chairman of the NASDAQ and they gave us one of the great venture capitalists to fund technology companies, Arthur Rock.  Rock has often been portrayed as the bad guy in Steve Jobs movies but was the one who helped the “Traitorous 8” leave Shockley Semiconductor and after their dad (who had an account at Hayden Stone) mentioned they needed funding, got serial entrepreneur Sherman Fairchild to fund Fairchild Semiconductor. He developed tech for the Apollo missions, flashes, spy satellite photography - but that semiconductor business grew to 12,000 people and was a bedrock of forming what we now call Silicon Valley. Rock ended up moving to the area and investing. Parlaying success in an investment in Fairchild to invest in Intel when Moore and Noyce left Fairchild to co-found it.  Venture Capital firms raise money from institutional investors that we call limited partners and invest that money. After moving to San Francisco, Rock setup Davis and Rock, got some limited partners, including friends from his time at Harvard and invested in 15 companies, including Teledyne and Scientific Data Systems, which got acquired by Xerox, taking their $257,000 investment to a $4.6 million dollar valuation in 1970 and got him on the board of Xerox. He dialed for dollars for Intel and raised another $2.5 million in a couple of hours, and became the first chair of their board. He made all of his LPs a lot of money. One of those Intel employees who became a millionaire retired young. Mike Markulla invested some of his money and Rock put in $57,000 - growing it to $14 million and went on to launch or invest in companies and make billions of dollars in the process.  Another firm that came out of the Fairchild Semiconductor days was Kleiner Perkins. They started in 1972, by founding partners Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank Caufield, and Brook Byers. Kleiner was the leader of those Traitorous 8 who left William Shockley and founded Fairchild Semiconductor. He later hooked up with former HP head of Research and Development and yet another MIT and Harvard grad, Bill Perkins. Perkins would help Corning, Philips, Compaq, and Genentech - serving on boards and helping them grow.  Caufield came out of West Point and got his MBA from Harvard as well. He'd go on to work with Quantum, AOL, Wyse, Verifone, Time Warner, and others.  Byers came to the firm shortly after getting his MBA from Stanford and started four biotech companies that were incubated at Kleiner Perkins - netting the firm over $8 Billion dollars. And they taught future generations of venture capitalists. People like John Doerr - who was a great seller at Intel but by 1980 graduated into venture capital bringing in deals with Sun, Netscape, Amazon, Intuit, Macromedia, and one of the best gambles of all time - Google. And his reward is a net worth of over $11 billion dollars. But more importantly to help drive innovation and shape the world we live in today.  Kleiner Perkins was the first to move into Sand Hill Road. From there, they've invested in nearly a thousand companies that include pretty much every household name in technology. From there, we got the rise of the dot coms and sky-high rent, on par with Manhattan. Why? Because dozens of venture capital firms opened offices on that road, including Lightspeed, Highland, Blackstone, Accel-KKR, Silver Lake, Redpoint, Sequoia, and Andreesen Horowitz. Sequoia also started in the 70s, by Don Valentine and then acquired by Doug Leone and Michael Moritz in the 90s. Valentine did sales for Raytheon before joining National Semiconductor, which had been founded by a few Sperry Rand traitors and brought in some execs from Fairchild. They were venture backed and his background in sales helped propel some of their earlier investments in Apple, Atari, Electronic Arts, LSI, Cisco, and Oracle to success. And that allowed them to invest in a thousand other companies including Yahoo!, PayPal, GitHub, Nvidia, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Zoom, and many others.  So far, most of the firms have been in the US. But venture capital is a global trend.  Masayoshi Son founded Softbank in 1981 to sell software and then published some magazines and grew the circulation to the point that they were Japan's largest technology publisher by the end of the 80s and then went public in 1994. They bought Ziff Davis publishing, COMDEX, and seeing so much technology and the money in technology, Son inked a deal with Yahoo! to create Yahoo! Japan. They pumped $20 million into Alibaba in 2000 and by 2014 that investment was worth $60 billion. In that time they became more aggressive with where they put their money to work. They bought Vodafone Japan, took over competitors, and then the big one - they bought Sprint, which they merged with T-Mobile and now own a quarter of the combined companies. An important aspect of venture capital and private equity is multiple expansion. The market capitalization of Sprint more than doubled with shares shooting up over 10%. They bought Arm Limited, the semiconductor company that designs the chips in so many a modern phone, IoT device, tablet and even computer now. As with other financial firms, not all investments can go great. SoftBank pumped nearly $5 billion into WeWork. Wag failed. 2020 saw many in staff reductions. They had to sell tens of billions in assets  to weather the pandemic. And yet with some high profile losses, they sold ARM for a huge profit, Coupang went public and investors in their Vision Funds are seeing phenomenal returns across over 200 companies in the portfolios. Most of the venture capitalists we mentioned so far invested as early as possible and stuck with the company until an exit - be it an IPO, acquisition, or even a move into private equity. Most got a seat on the board in exchange for not only their seed capital, or the money to take products to market, but also their advice. In many a company the advice was worth more than the funding. For example, Randy Komisar, now at Kleiner Perkins, famously recommended TiVo sell monthly subscriptions, the growth hack they needed to get profitable. As the venture capital industry grew and more and more money was being pumped into fueling innovation, different accredited and institutional investors emerged to have different tolerances for risk and different skills to bring to the table. Someone who built an enterprise SaaS company and sold within three years might be better served to invest in and advise another company doing the same thing. Just as someone who had spent 20 years running companies that were at later stages and taking them to IPO was better at advising later stage startups who maybe weren't startups any more. Here's a fairly common startup story. After finishing a book on Lisp, Paul Graham decides to found a company with Robert Morris. That was Viaweb in 1995 and one of the earliest SaaS startups that hosted online stores - similar to a Shopify today. Viaweb had an investor named Julian Weber, who invested $10,000 in exchange for 10% of the company. Weber gave them invaluable advice and they were acquired by Yahoo! for about $50 million in stock in 1998, becoming the Yahoo Store.  Here's where the story gets different. 2005 and Graham decides to start doing seed funding for startups, following the model that Weber had established with Viaweb. He and Viaweb co-founders Robert Morris (the guy that wrote the Morris worm) and Trevor Blackwell start Y Combinator, along with Jessica Livingston. They put in $200,000 to invest in companies and with successful investments grew to a few dozen companies a year. They're different because they pick a lot of technical founders (like themselves) and help the founders find product market fit, finish their solutions, and launch. And doing so helped them bring us Airbnb, Doordash, Reddit, Stripe, Dropbox and countless others. Notice that many of these firms have funded the same companies. This is because multiple funds investing in the same company helps distribute risk. But also because in an era where we've put everything from cars to education to healthcare to innovation on an assembly line, we have an assembly line in companies. We have thousands of angel investors, or humans who put capital to work by investing in companies they find through friends, family, and now portals that connect angels with companies.  We also have incubators, a trend that began in the late 50s in New York when Jo Mancuso opened a warehouse up for small tenants after buying a warehouse to help the town of Batavia. The Batavia Industrial Center provided office supplies, equipment, secretaries, a line of credit, and most importantly advice on building a business. They had made plenty of money on chicken coops and though that maybe helping companies start was a lot like incubating chickens and so incubators were born.  Others started incubating. The concept expanded from local entrepreneurs helping other entrepreneurs and now cities, think tanks, companies, and even universities, offer incubation in their walls. Keep in mind many a University owns a lot of patents developed there and plenty of companies have sprung up to commercialize the intellectual property incubated there. Seeing that and how technology companies needed to move faster we got  accelerators like Techstars, founded by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis in 2006 out of Boulder, Colorado. They have worked with over 2,500 companies and run a couple of dozen programs. Some of the companies fail by the end of their cohort and yet many like Outreach and Sendgrid grow and become great organizations or get acquired. The line between incubator and accelerator can be pretty slim today. Many of the earlier companies mentioned are now the more mature venture capital firms. Many have moved to a focus on later stage companies with YC and Techstars investing earlier. They attend the demos of companies being accelerated and invest. And the fact that founding companies and innovating is now on an assembly line, the companies that invest in an A round of funding, which might come after an accelerator, will look to exit in a B round, C round, etc. Or may elect to continue their risk all the way to an acquisition or IPO.  And we have a bevy of investing companies focusing on the much later stages. We have private equity firms and family offices that look to outright own, expand, and either harvest dividends from or sell an asset, or company. We have traditional institutional lenders who provide capital but also invest in companies. We have hedge funds who hedge puts and calls or other derivatives on a variety of asset classes. Each has their sweet spot even if most will opportunistically invest in diverse assets. Think of the investments made as horizons. The Angel investor might have their shares acquired in order to clean up the cap table, or who owns which parts of a company, in later rounds. This simplifies the shareholder structure as the company is taking on larger institutional investors to sprint towards and IPO or an acquisition. People like Arthur Rock, Tommy Davis, Tom Perkins, Eugene Kleiner, Doerr, Masayoshi Son, and so many other has proven that they could pick winners. Or did they prove they could help build winners? Let's remember that investing knowledge and operating experience were as valuable as their capital. Especially when the investments were adjacent to other successes they'd found. Venture capitalists invested more than $10 billion in 1997. $600 million of that found its way to early-stage startups. But most went to preparing a startup with a product to take it to mass market. Today we pump more money than ever into R&D - and our tax systems support doing so more than ever. And so more than ever, venture money plays a critical role in the life cycle of innovation. Or does venture money play a critical role in the commercialization of innovation? Seed accelerators, startup studios, venture builders, public incubators, venture capital firms, hedge funds, banks - they'd all have a different answer. And they should. Few would stick with an investment like Digital Equipment for as long as ARDC did. And yet few provide over 100% annualized returns like they did.  As we said in the beginning of this episode, wealthy patrons from Pharaohs to governments to industrialists to now venture capitalists have long helped to propel innovation, technology, trade, and intellectual property. We often focus on the technology itself in computing - but without the money the innovation either wouldn't have been developed or if developed wouldn't have made it to the mass market and so wouldn't have had an impact into our productivity or quality of life.  The knowledge that comes with those who provide the money can be seen with irreverence. Taking an innovation to market means market-ing. And sales. Most generations see the previous generations as almost comedic, as we can see in the HBO show Silicon Valley when the cookie cutter industrialized approach goes too far. We can also end up with founders who learn to sell to investors rather than raising capital in the best way possible, selling to paying customers. But there's wisdom from previous generations when offered and taken appropriately. A coachable founder with a vision that matches the coaching and a great product that can scale is the best investment that can be made. Because that's where innovation can change the world.

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  Leadership responsibilities start with a compelling vision of what matters most as humans We can feel defeated by a well-established system, be it education, politics, or in an organisation. If we are to flourish as humans though, we need to regain a strong  leadership mindset, one of agency, and wade in boots and all to tip the system to a new form. Educator, global nomad, and futurist Louka Parry shares leadership principles and a model for us to tackle the hardest - and most compelling of challenges. Why you should listen: a practical leadership framework for leading change in complex systems How learning is a central construct for important leadership questions and for the future of education Why education is really about identity and becoming fully human How all systems change starts with beliefs and values and true leadership mindset We explore leadership principles in the future of education and the future of cities Discover the power of asking a great question like, “How do we live a good life in a good society?” Why teachers get discouraged when they are no longer experiencing the lived experience of liberation - what education should really be about How the most important leadership qualities include being an action-based optimist

Dan Gregory has served Community of Christ in a variety of roles. As a gay man who was employed by the church before the USA National Conference, he has faced difficult decisions surrounding ministry and life. Today on the podcast, Dan shares how his drive for justice and Christ's mission of peace keeps him engaged and excited about his community of faith. Host: Brittany MangelsonGuest: Dan Gregory 

Public health experts are calling for an urgent rethink of the public awareness campaign connected to Australia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout and asking for prominent Australians to front the campaign rather than politicians according to Dan Gregory. “Given that a Growth from Knowledge (GfK) study reveals that politicians were the least trusted profession – with marketing and advertising professionals occupying the second place slot – they make a very good point,” Mr Gregory said. The post Using politicians to spruik the vaccine doesn’t work appeared first on Mitchell's Front Page.

Former Scarborough News Sport editor Dan Gregory on Jono Greening's appointment as Scarborough Athletic manager. How does he think he'll do?

In this episode I sit down to talk to a friend of mine that I've known for a number of years. I think one of our favourite times to see each other is when we are jumping up and down together at Chopfest. A great festival held here in Taiwan, annually. It was great to catch up and hear about all the work he is doing with regards to graphic design and art. Check out his work here...    https://www.instagram.com/danielscgregory/   https://www.instagram.com/backtothebasementtw/   Theme music - Back To The  Basement by The Queers

This weeks guest is Grant Carr who is the Founder of Nineteen in Glasgow, Scotland. He is well known for his diverse work within the industry most notably his colour work within his men's hairdressing. We talk about his journey into the hairdressing industry, finding his niche and that hard work really does pay off. Follow Grant on Instagram @grant_carr_creative. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, where they are going and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast @dangregoryhair

Grandpa Bill announces the addition of FreeLife International Former Co-Founder/President Kevin Fournier Brings Global Leadership Skills To CTFO, Inc. 22 years, over $1 Billion in sales across 20 countries is true leadership NEWS PROVIDED BY CTFO, Inc. For more information, visit www.bhsales.myctfo.com CONTACT ME HERE AT THE MESSAGE BOARD of this show WANT TO LEARN MORE? May 05, 2021, 10:00 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE RENO, Nev., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CTFO, Inc, ("CTFO") founded in 2015, is a US-based health & wellness company doing business in the U.S.A., Canada and fifteen European countries. CTFO announced today that effective immediately, Kevin Fournier has been appointed as President. Stuart Finger, former President, CEO, and Director resigned the President position to make way for Kevin Fournier, but will remain serving as director and CEO. Dan Gregory, Chairman of the Board of Directors stated, "We are delighted to add Kevin to our Executive Team. He brings a wealth of experience from his 22 years building a similar business, generating $1 billion in sales across 22 countries. We believe Kevin is the right person at the right time to help CTFO move to the next level, bringing the tools to help us execute faster and more efficiently." Tweet thisKevin brings a track record of operational excellence but it's his astute leadership skills we value equally Kevin brings a track record of operational excellence but it's his astute leadership skills we value equally in his new role as President," said Stuart Finger, CEO. "I look forward to working closely with Kevin."Kevin brings a track record of operational excellence but it's his astute leadership skills we value equallyAbout Kevin Fournier: Helped lead a direct selling corporate and field sales team to well over $1B in sales from 1995-2017 Responsible for operations in over 20 countries including the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia and the Philippines Frequent speaker and trainer at company conventions and events Co-founder of a global charitable giving enterprise helping improve the lives of children in need around the world Served on the Board of Directors of the Direct Selling Association for 2 years "My passion is empowering people with the skills and belief to live an extraordinary life"Changing lives for the better is what CTFO is all about and I felt that commitment the very first day I spoke with Stuart and the team," said Kevin Fournier. "We are perfectly positioned for significant growth in 2021 and I believe the future for everyone in CTFO is incredibly bright. I am thrilled to be part of this exceptional team!"Kevin is a world class leader proficient in personal and team leadership as well as deep global operational knowledge. This unique combination of proven talents will allow CTFO to attract motivated independent associates to our network sales & marketing distribution model, scale globally and make our 10xPURE™ stabilized cannabinoid acid delivery technology a dominant global leader.About CTFO CTFO, founded in 2015, is a US-based health & wellness company doing business in the U.S.A., Canada and fifteen European countries. CTFO acquires, discovers, formulates and distributes product solutions direct to consumers through its independent associates network sales & marketing teams. CTFO's vision –provide tools to empower people in business, health and serving others; demonstrating the Good News with quality, integrity and generosity. Just provide a little info and you can get the inside scoop. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bhsales/message

This weeks guest is Welsh Barber James Williams. James is an incredibly talented barber who was a viral sensation a few years back with a video of him laying on the floor cutting a little boys hair who has autism. This video was trending globally with James appearing on news channels on the other side of the world. I wanted to know how James got to this point in his career and how his work has changed since that video. Follow James in Instagram @jameswilliams_jtt ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, where they are going and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast @dangregoryhair

This weeks guest is the ridiculously talented Nick Barford. He is a barber, men's hairdresser, photographer and the Founder of Nudo Education. His work is incredible and i wanted to find out how he got into the hairdressing industry, how he got to the level he is at today and what is Nudo Education. His journey is inspiring and it was a pleasure to have good chat with Nick. Follow Nick on Instagram @nickbarford and @nudoeducation ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, where they are going and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast @dangregoryhair

This weeks guest is Johnny Baba, a pioneer in the UK barbering scene and Founder of the hugely successful Barber Barber group.  We take at a look at the start of Johnny's journey in Limerick and his love of the barbershop from the young age, to his battle with addiction that almost cost him everything, to the making of Barber Barber and his transition from barber to a successful nationwide shopkeeper. He shares his thoughts on training within the barbering industry and how his own academy works to how he was Made in Limerick but how he Made It in Manchester. Follow Johnny on Instagram @mrjohnny_baba and @barberbarberuk ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, where they are going and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast @dangregoryhair

Episode 4 - Tom Chapman  Tom Chapman may in fact be the busiest Barber in the World. After a decade working at Toni & Guy he founded his own hair studio in 2011 – Tom Chapman Hair Design, in his hometown of Torquay. He quickly realised that from inside the safe environment of his barbershop there was an opportunity to not only look after what's on his customers heads, but also what's inside their heads too. So in 2015 he founded The Lions Barber Collective, which is a group of international Barbers, that educate and raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention. This life saving collective have grown into a huge global network, that trains Barbers in BarberTalk training, giving other Barbers the skills to listen and help customers with their mental health and suicide prevention. Leading this groundbreaking collective has led Tom to giving TEDx Talks and gaining coverage on National and International Television and Radio. All spreading the incredible story of The Lions Collective, saving lives along the way. And if that wasn't enough, he has even found time to film an Amazon Prime Documentary. Buy Barbertalk on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912478218/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Y5RX1HWRNPWMMWAQHX27. For more on the Lions Barber Collective head to https://www.thelionsbarbercollective.com. Follow Tom on Instagram @tomchapman_hair  Follow the Lions Barber Collective on Instagram @thelionsbarbers ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, where they are going and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast @dangregoryhair

Episode 3 - Baldy This week Dan speaks to Baldy, owner of Baldy's Barbers and the Rum Room. We follow his journey from sweeping the floors in his local hairdressers at 14, how he set up his own shop, became the Lead Educator and European Educator for Andis, his role with MVRCK by Mitch and much, much more. Its a fantastic listen and a very inspiring career spanning 38 years in the hair industry. Follow Baldy on Instagram @baldysbarbers, with Andis @andisclippers @andiscouk and MVRCK by Mitch @mvrckbarbering. About Hair We Go with Dan Gregory: Hair We Go with Dan Gregory. A podcast for Hair Enthusiasts. Each week we follow the journey of individuals from the barbering and hairdressing industry. We will discuss where, why and how they started, how they got to where they are right now and where they feel they will be in 10 years. Hair We Go hope's to inspire you and help you find a common ground to keep you going on your own journey. New episodes every Friday at 8pm! Follow us on Instagram @hairwegopodcast

In this weeks episode, Dan speaks to Chris O'Riordan, an Irish barber and mens hairdresser who is currently the Manager and Head Barber at ST4men, a mens division of the Sean Taafe Group, in Killarney, Co. Kerry in the south west of Ireland. He has been in the industry for 9 years and within that time he has had multiple magazine publications and won national and international awards. He is a Gamma+ UK Ambassador and part of the American Crew UK and Ireland team. His journey is very inspiring, from leaving school and starting at a local hardware store to now being a very prominent figure in the barbering world, his journey shows you that putting in the graft and determination, you will certainly succeed. Follow Chris on Instagram - @chrisoriordanhair Thank you for listening! Dan Gregory @dangregoryhair @hairwegopodcast

Want to know about finding happiness? Then look no further as I look back on one of my favourite moments from my time at the 'happiest place on earth', Disneyland Paris...plus I talk to someone who chases happiness more than most people I know, Dan Gregory, who let's us in on his job(s) as crew at Virgin Atlantic, with Disney Special Events and tells me what makes him happy...I tell you what makes me happy, a 45min episode rather than your usual 30min. ENJOY. (happy much?)

What will jobs look like in the future? Will Artificial Intelligence and robots take over? What chance have I got to survive and thrive at work with so much technological change?What the future of work looks like is worrying many people according to research. Forever Skills provides a raft of calm in the boiling ocean of concern and uncertainty about the future of work.Uncover the 12 skills that will future proof yourself, your team and your children.In a world where so much is changing – Forever Skills focuses on what is unchanging but crucial for the future. Authors Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory want people and teams to be ‘lit up' about what the future holds, not just ‘putting up' with what's coming.

Does the federal government's new Covid-19 ad campaign make you more likely to get the vaccine shot when it becomes available later this year?   The grim reaper AIDS campaign in the 80s scared Australians into a generation of safe sex. Will the Covid-19 campaign convince the nation to roll up our sleeves to get the coronavirus vaccine.   We're joined by Dan Gregory, the advertising guru; and Professor Julie Leask, a public health expert from the University of Sydney.   In today's headlines: QLD Premier seeks JobSeeker extension for ailing local tourism industry   Australian of the Year gambling scandal   ALP reshuffle prompts Albanese to defend his leadership   Follow The Briefing Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast  Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAU Twitter: @TheBriefingAU  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WHAT IS CLUBHOUSE? FIND OUT HERE In today's episode, Rob is joined by entrepreneur, strategist and host of ‘The Pandemic Podcast' Dan Gregory. Together they discuss the most recent government announcement ‘Lockdown 3.0' and the way that Covid is changing the way business works. Join them today and learn how you can help your business survive by pivoting, not allowing fear to overcome you and identifying problems and looking for solutions.    KEY TAKEAWAYS There is so much fear amongst people during the pandemic. We need to think about the knock-on unemployment rates which could be huge. We also need to think about all of the companies that will go bust when they cannot afford to pay back the business loans they took. Whilst it was nice for the government to give tax holidays for companies, they still have to be paid back at some point.   If you have ever thought about starting an online business, now is the time. How many more people are going to be online now? An e-commerce or information business will thrive in the current climate.   There is a pandemic of fear which is something new to everyone. Only put information in your head that is factual. The mainstream media sells fear and it is hard to tell what is true and what is false nowadays. Manage the global fear by getting your information from factual sources and unfollow anything that is conjecture.   Address the main problems that you currently have which could be anything from stock to cash flow. Once you have identified your problems, look for solutions. If you haven't got the solutions in your existing model, create a new model or a new business. Covid won't be here forever, so don't make short term decisions.   It is very easy to become disempowered right now but you need to snap out of it. Use these feelings to drive you forward. You have to be the change you want to see and despite everything that is going on right now you have a unique opportunity to create change in the world for the better. There are a lot of things that we may not be individually able to control but we can contribute to change when we come together.   Entrepreneurship is not as scary as it first may seem. Right now there is more opportunity and more money in the world than ever before. If your mind is tuned into fear and panic you will no longer see the opportunity that is right in front of your face.     BEST MOMENTS “Is the way that we are dealing with it proportional to the risk at hand?” “That will bring a new opportunity for property investors.” “We are all experiencing fear on a global level” “I think this is a grand opportunity.” “You could be standing on a mountain of value but you're just not seeing it because you're so deeply in fear.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Dan Astin-Gregory is the founder of Elevate MEDIA and host of the Pandemic podcast. Dan is an entrepreneur, strategist and inspirational thought leader who has impacted the lives of more than 500,000 people from over 90 different countries with his work in human potential, leadership and entrepreneurship.   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/   CONTACT METHOD Rob's official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller "Life Leverage" Host of UK's No.1 business podcast "The Disruptive Entrepreneur." "If you don't risk anything, you risk everything." CONTACT METHOD Rob's official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we're joined by the legendary Daniel of Gregory aka "Acoustic Dan". Dan has a new Xmas tune out, check it out below! We also discuss his new found fame from the hit show "Cooking for B*st*rds". Some wild stories are told, we laughed a lot! As always, you can support the Ninjas on patreon.com/stringninjas, where you'll get extra podcasts, new music, all the treats before anyone else does! Dan's Xmas Single: https://blue52.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR3nCSiVL4vgdEwMzTwcc3Aqlh30vOo7awtJZVowk6Nynr-NKSACYGch_6s Follow us everywhere, except home from the shops of course: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/StringNinjas Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZeeGaCwYqxjbreySzwF85 Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/string-ninjas/id1535187281 Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/string-ninjas Instagram https://instagram.com/stringninjas  Facebook https://Facebook.com/StringNinjas Google https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xOTE0NTdkMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

Eric Miller, director of ministry operations for CE National, talks with Dan Gregory and Greg Foote, pastors on staff at Grace Church of Greater Akron, Ohio. The goal for this discussion was to help pastors and youth pastors develop healthy, working relationships. Statistics show that the average tenure of a youth pastor is anywhere between 18 months and 3 years. That means that most students will have more than one youth pastor during their time within their church’s student ministry.

Learn about Dan's journey in creation of the Unstoppable podcast and how he helps entrepreneurs from all walks of life to create a business with his 7 step road map.  Dan J. Gregory is an entrepreneur, strategist and sought after entrepreneurial thought leader. Over the past decade Dan has directly impacted the lives of more than 100,000 entrepreneurs and business leaders from over 90 different countries with his work in human potential, leadership and business strategy. He is the founder and CEO of Unstoppable Media, a company focused on developing entrepreneurial thought leadership content.

Mess and Connors invite actor Dan Gregory on the show to discuss indie films, have some fun survey questions and more! Promoted Beer: Hoboken Brewery Bodie Blonde53:40 mark - Survey Questions

Dan Gregory is an Australian bartender currently leading the charge at Evolve Spirits Bar in Hobart. Dan himself is a former winner of both the Australian Bartender of the Year and the Australian leg of the Angostura Global Cocktail Challenge competitions, both of which he took home in 2017. Despite all the accolades - and much like the city of Hobart - Dan's humility has led to him somewhat flying under the radar. We find out about Tasmania's burgeoning hospitality scene, just how much preparation went into those competition wins and why he's made more martinis at Evolve than anywhere else he's worked thus far.

 "I like to tap straight into that conscious awareness, from which I can be creative, compassionate and kind" - Paul Clark In today's episode of the podcast, we continue on our theme of mental health and wellbeing with a powerful workshop from Dan Gregory and HSE Network Director Paul Clark. Dan and Paul explore the ideas around consciousness and how we can all be more present in our daily lives. Paul and Dan look at the esoteric side of spirituality and some of the practicalities many of us will be able to identify within our daily work lives. Linkedin here >>Twitter: https://twitter.com/Network_HSEFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/HSENetwork/Website: https://www.hse-network.com/Support the show

Every now and then a Special talent comes along and shares their  gifts with you. I was fortunate enough to have her in town and on my show. She is a Award Winning Independent short film director Jayleen Perez. Enjoy our conversation it is real talkabout life in the business of making movies.  Grab your favorite beverage sit back and enjoy here is just alittle backround to get to know Jayleen Perez.  A former Jersey City, Miss Puerto Rico 2011.  As an athlete I have won many softball awards from the age of 9-17.  After receiving a degree in Health Service Administration, I was hired by the BBOED to work as a Spanish Translator.  Shortly after that I became the research manager and office administrator for a dermatologist in Hackensack, NJ.  At the age of 25 In 2019 I wrote my first short film “Karmen” which I then directed and co-produced in the fall of the same year.  My film “Karmen” is a romantic thriller with a strong Latina and LGBTQ presence.  It has been well received in film festivals both domestic and internationally.  As a first time female Latina director I am proud to say my film “Karmen” has racked up many nominations and awards in reputable film festivals some examples include: Best Drama at the Couch Film Festival in Canada, Best First Time Director award in the Brightside film festival in Jersey City, Best Director nomination at the IndieX film festival in Los Angeles, as well as a nomination at the Oniros Film Awards in Italy.   Recent victories include: Audience award at Shortcine fest, Best First Time Director award at the Golden Earth Film Awards, and Best Director Win at The Tagore international film festival in India.  Karmen has also been accepted to many upcoming festivals including: Point Lookout Film Festival in Long Island, Hang On To Your Shorts in Asbury Park, NJ, and the colt favorite NJ Horror Con which takes places at the Showboat in Alantic City in September 2020.  I directed the opening segment of a upcoming feature Horror Anthology.  Co-wrote two films with Dan Gregory, “Briellis” which is in pre-production and “What Happened To Randi” which is set to film Summer 2020.  Thank you  Jayleen S Perez   

In this episode of Earth News Interviews, we learn about some of the ways gold can get collected in nature via chloride or bi-sulfide complexes. We also talk about the challenges of understanding these processes through modelling, and the extraction of gold in an environmentally and socially conscious way.   Primary readings discussed: Resolving the ‘Invisible Gold' Puzzle

On the Podcast today we talked with Capitol Hill protester Dan Gregory who got shot while stopping the car from hitting other protesters on 11th and Pine. Also, Lizette struggles to fix the health care system.Remember 18+ ONLY!! EP 371

"Finding Ease In The Chaos" Interview with Dan Gregory from Elevate and Jason Reynolds- The Quantum MovementTo find wealth in all areas of our life, we must go somewhere unfamiliar, somewhere unknown, and this calls for the expansion of a deep inner awareness, finding ease in the chaos....Elevate Live is an online festival on a mission to ELEVATE humanity-Learn from inspirational speakers and take part in live classes, all from the comfort of your homehttps://www.facebook.com/elevateliveonline/The Quantum Movement - We teach you how to Become Your Authority. Beyond the philosophical chatter, we establish an environment which prioritises the cultivation of independence and authenticity over conformity and community.We challenge heart centered leaders bold enough to explore their unknowns and liberate the previously avoided and misunderstood recesses within to un-apologetically express their truth.The Quantum Movement delivers simple yet profound teachings, provides deep journeys into mentoring for elevation and support that causes you to willingly confront and embrace all aspects of life.We know you will fall, we simply teach how to get back up. To live a life integrated.Limited Theories, Unlimited Actions...Find out more about us here and please share with your friends https://www.facebook.com/thequantummovement/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all need to become experts in behavioural strategyWith Zoom meetings being conducted around the world, we’re all putting on a face of professionalism, whilst beneath the screen many of us are in our underpants and Ugg boots, pushing a glass of wine just out of shot. Those of us who’ve had projects at home on the to do list for ages now realise that a lack of time wasn’t the problem. We’ve all disconnected from a coherent sense of time, slept in, failed to exercise or not lived up to our own expectations of how we should be behaving. In a time like this, when all of our usual systems, processes and environments have been cast into chaos, it’s worth embracing a little ‘behavioural strategy’ to create a bias towards success, rather than failure. In a world on lockdown with our usual support structures on hold, we’re all going to need to become experts in behavioural strategy.

This week on the PIKE PLACE PODCAST, Jerry and Bob welcome craft line artist DAN GREGORY of 1976 ITS JUST ART! DAN tells an amazing story of how an ARTIST gets to the place of living off his ART. SKATEBOARDS, CANDLE MAKING, 15,555 DESIGNS, SANTA CRUZ ART and BELOVED MARKET ARTIST DARYL ARY are all part of the STORY! LETS LISTEN! . . . . . . . Listen to the show on Spotify!https://open.spotify.com/show/4nFeamWZL6UVloCgxuSCxi… If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/pikeplacepodcast Eat Seattle Tours https://eatseattletours.com/ Pike Place Podcast would like to thank our Sponsors! Pike Place Chowder www.pikeplacechowder.com Honest Biscuits www.honestbiscuits.com The “Truffle Queen”, La Buona Tavola www.trufflequeen.com Sosio's FRUIT and PRODUCE, Inc. www.sosiosproduce.com Friends of The Market www.friendsofthemarket.net And a big shout out to The Market Foundation and The Market Commons for continuing support and inspiration http://pikeplacemarketfoundation.org/  

This podcast is about the artist and the creators of independent films.  The men and woman who put their time, heart and soul into making somthing special for us. I had a great time with all the talented and creative people at the festival. Huge Thanks to Dan Gregory for the invite. Also I will share some of my own thoughts on personal motivaton and getting it done, and to just get up and do it. Sit back and enjoy listen, then take action. Then... Subscribe to : http://twitter/lbjtheheartfelttruth                       http://facebook/lbjtheheartfelttruth                       http://instagram/lbjthehearfelttruth                       http://patreon/theheartfelttruth                       There very few things in this life that remain the same. "The Heartfelt Truth Ten Lessons to live by" is one of those things. Getting back to basics is just what we need to live a healthy and productive life. Mentally Physically and Spiritually. A must read for all. Amazon ebooks        

The conclusion of my wonderful conversation with Mr. Dan Gregory. Award winning actor, writer, and producer. Enjoy.

On todays podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with a truly talented guy who I consider a friend. He is an actor, a writer, and a award winning producer and so much more,  Dan Gregory is going to share some of his insight and wisdom on the challenges of going after your true passions and dreams. His resume is something to be seen. Please enjoy. 

Do you feel like a creative dunce? Do you think that creative people are born with talent, and you're just not one of them? Author, speaker, and creative powerhouse Kieran Flanagan breaks a few myths and lets us know we can all be commercially creative if we're prepared to do the work. Why you should listen: Learn the number one strategy to generating awesome ideas How to develop creative judgment How to know you've got an idea that really hits the mark: Listen for the ‘ahhhs' Don't go into brainstorming cold - you need mental fodder We explore: Why creativity is not artistry, but really about problem-solving Creativity is a skill, not a talent, and is about a lot of really hard work The difference between re-hashing and being ‘different enough' Commercial creativity is about being in service to helping others solve problems The biggest creative exercise is identifying the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and then creating beliefs, systems, and structures to help bridge that gap

Vince & Max talk to Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan, Founders of The Impossible Institute a strategic think-tank that helps leaders, teams and organisations be people smart and make change positive. In the pitch segment, Dan & Kieran tell us how they would revive the beloved ice cream truck company, Mr Whippy. Brief Author: Vince Usher

He helps smart people be people smart. As the co-author of Forever Skills along with Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory is a leading thinker on what leaders can do to move people to sensible action. We explore how the real test of leadership is what we do when things go wrong, how the gaps in skills we need as leaders vary from industry to industry and culture to culture, how corporate Aussies are strong in risk-taking, why making values-based decisions is important for long-term vision, why we need to use a value lens to avoid short-term reactive decisions, how to consume 200-300 books per year, how to challenge your own perspective with Socratic questioning, why thinking in questions is the best strategy to avoid the traps of default thinking, what Dan's shadow flaw is.

He helps smart people be people smart. As the co-author of Forever Skills along with Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory is a leading thinker on what leaders can do to move people to sensible action. We explore how the real test of leadership is what we do when things go wrong, how the gaps in skills we need as leaders vary from industry to industry and culture to culture, how corporate Aussies are strong in risk-taking, why making values-based decisions is important for long-term vision, why we need to use a value lens to avoid short-term reactive decisions, how to consume 200-300 books pe year, how to challenge your own perspective with Socratic questioning, why thinking in questions is the best strategy to avoid the traps of default thinking, what Dan’s shadow flaw is. *** Shownotes: http://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/dangregory The Intelligence Trap https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Trap-Smart-People-Mistakes/dp/0393651428 Bill Bernbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bernbach Jonathan Haidt https://www.amazon.com.au/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion-ebook/dp/B0076O2VMI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+righteous+mind&qid=1568767466&s=books&sr=1-1 About Dan Gregory Dan Gregory is a speaker, author and social commentator. A thought leader in the field of human behaviour and influence, leadership and engagement and insights that incite, he helps leaders, teams and individuals explore what makes their customers buy and their team members buy in. Dan has created leadership strategies for global technology firms, designed performance strategies for sales teams and C-Suite executives and driven engagement strategies for organisations as diverse as Coca-Cola, Newscorp., the Royal Australian Navy and the UN in Asia. In short, he helps smart people be people smart. Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory are the co-founders of The Impossible Institute — a strategic think tank founded to re-imagine the way we think, lead, navigate change and create success. Kieran works with leaders, teams and organisations to make positive change and make change positive while Dan helps smart people to become "people smart". They are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history, have helped entrepreneurs build internationally successful businesses and worked with some of the world’s most influential organisations: developing communication and marketing strategies for Coca-Cola; driving innovation and product design for Unilever; delivering leadership development for the Australian Navy and banks based in Asia; building teamwork in global tech giants and C-suite executives in the United States, as well as facilitating social-change strategies for the United Nations in Singapore and NGOs in Australia. Voted in the ‘top 25 C-Suite Speakers to watch’ by Meetings & Conventions USA, they combine business acumen with a rapier wit and rare human insight gained while working on the US and UK stand-up comedy circuits — skills put to great use in front of millions of viewers on ABC TV’s Gruen franchise and Channel 7’s Masters of Spin and as regular contributors to Success and The CEO Magazine in the United States. https://www.dangregory.co/ *** Related episodes: E111 - How to be a next level leader: 3 blocks to overcome https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/nextlevelleader E32 - Stephen Scott Johnson Interview - Conscious Transformation of an Organisational Culture https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/emergent E4 - 3 Influence Points For Long-term Strategic Change https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/4 ***

In this episode, CBI's Dave Glenn, Dan Gregory and Bjorn Olsen discuss Advanced EDR with our partners Adam Hogan and Rick Lane from CrowdStrike and Erik Wille from our customer Penske.

Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory are the joint founders of the Impossible Institute and the authors of Forever Skills – The 12 Skills to Futureproof Yourself, Your Team and Your Kids. The Impossible Institute is a strategic think-tank that is designed to help leaders, teams and organisations be people smart and make change positive. Together, Kieran and Dan are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history and have applied their considerable experience to social change programs for the United Nations in Singapore, to category re-inventions and innovation initiatives for the likes of Coca-Cola, Unilever, Bayer and News Corp. They also run leadership development programs across Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA for organisations in categories as diverse as Banking & Finance, Education, Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate & Retail. On top of that They also write for Success Magazine & CEO Magazine in the USA and are regulars on ABC TV’s Gruen Series, Sunrise on Channel 7 and Sky Business News. During the conversation Julian explores their newest book in detail. Episode highlights include: Why Kieran and Dan decided to write this book The three spheres of change and how to embrace opportunities Thinking in questions rather than statements, and how to imagine an alternate framework or universe Why it’s important to hold yourself accountable and be values focused     Links: The Impossible Institute website Kieran's LinkedIn Profile Dan's LinkedIn Profile Purchase Forever Skills  

Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory are the co-founders of The Impossible Institute — a strategic think tank founded to re-imagine the way we think, lead, navigate change and create success. Kieran works with leaders, teams and organisations to make positive change and make change positive while Dan helps smart people to become "people smart". They are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history, have helped entrepreneurs build internationally successful businesses and worked with some of the world’s most influential organisations: developing communication and marketing strategies for Coca-Cola; driving innovation and product design for Unilever; delivering leadership development for the Australian Navy and banks based in Asia; building teamwork in global tech giants and C-suite executives in the United States, as well as facilitating social-change strategies for the United Nations in Singapore and NGOs in Australia. Voted in the ‘top 25 C-Suite Speakers to watch’ by Meetings & Conventions USA, they combine business acumen with a rapier wit and rare human insight gained while working on the US and UK stand-up comedy circuits — skills put to great use in front of millions of viewers on ABC TV’s Gruen franchise and Channel 7’s Masters of Spin and as regular contributors to Success and The CEO Magazine in the United States.

Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan are the two brilliant minds behind the ground breaking book Forever Skills. In this smart and savvy episode, we discuss the twelve essential skills that will help you become fit for the future of work, as well as secure success in your work and life, today. Dan and Kieran interviewed hundreds of successful business people, educators, futurists, economists and historians to uncover the key skills that will always be critical to life and business. In this episode, you'll discover what skills will matter most for work, life and business, where you should focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at such an extraordinary rate, and how you can future proof yourself, your organisation and your kids. In this episode, Kieran and Dan use their expertise in commercial creativity and behavioural strategy to provide a brilliant blend of knowledge and insight that educates, as well as entertains.

Dan J. Gregory is an entrepreneur, business advisor and sought-after entrepreneurial thought leader. Over the past decade, Dan has directly impacted the lives of more than 100,000 entrepreneurs and business leaders from over 90 different countries with his work in human potential, leadership and business strategy. Following a successful career as a senior leader within one of the  worlds largest Financial Services organisations, Dan has since dedicated his entrepreneurial path to helping startup founders and business leaders to develop the mindset, habits, skills and strategies necessary to produce exceptional results. Dan is the popular host of the top business podcast, 'The Unstoppable Podcast' where he shares actionable lessons and his own personal philosophies as founder and CEO of Unstoppable Media, a company focused on developing entrepreneurial leadership. Dan recently founded Fable, a revolutionary audio content platform set to unlock the $62bn audio entertainment market. Dan's ultimate mission is to make a difference to humanity by creating companies, experiences and tools that enhance peoples lives and enrich the world that we live in. In this episode you will learn: 1: How to overcome the blocks holding you back 2: That growth is 80% psychology 3: Why the only way, is your way 4: How to find focus for your passion Website: www.danjgregory.com Facebook: Dan J. Gregory Instagram: @danjgregoryofficial

This weeks guest Dan Gregory is one of the most sought after barbers and grooming experts in the industry today. Named as ”One of London's Best Gentlemen's Hairdressers" by ES Magazine, winner of London's Best Wet Shaver and has an impressive list of loyal clients ranging from City Executives to Hollywood stars, Dan brings his wealth of knowledge to share with you today on how you can bring high-end services and prices to your men's hair & grooming menu, no matter where you're based. Dan's lifelong experiences in the male and grooming industry are a valuable lesson to us all today. It starts with him sharing his early time working at a barbershop in his hometown of Liverpool, and leads us through to owning and selling his Man Made barber business in Marleybone, London, to focus on being a freelance men's hair & grooming expert based at the Hunter Collective, London. Sprinkled in between this episode we also hear about his Global Grooming Ambassador role for Braun, the barber explosion, barbering versus men's hairdressing – and for good measures too, men's facial hair trends! Whether you're looking to niching down to become a freelance expert within the industry, or you're in the game of men's hair & grooming, but struggling to charge the prices your expertise deserves, then I know you're going to be influenced and inspired on all that Dan shares with you. There’s so much in this episode, so take a listen and hear more about becoming a high-end barber & grooming expert.     Thanks for Listening To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Ask a question by emailing me HERE Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. To help out the show: Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow on Spotify. Subscribe by Email. Special thanks to Dan Gregory for joining me today. Until next Monday, Peace, Love and Smiles all the way... Goodbye . Show Sponsor

Discouragement Today's episode centers around discouragement. My guest Dan Gregory shares today the moment he hit rock bottom and how discouragement hit him face to face. Listen to how in that moment where he turned, and why he saw he needed to turn. Dan talks about where he found the hope to keep going, and where he is now. Dan and I also talk about  "12 Things To Do When We Get Discouraged". Dan also shares how the quicker he came to the end of himself the better his life became. Dan also explores the idea what if our story isn't about us.   Link shared: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/12-things-when-get-discouraged.html     Dan's Info: https://www.facebook.com/TheLivingRoomCP/ http://thelivingroom.today office@thelivingroom.today The Living Room Church address: 325 Oak Street Central Point, OR 97502  •Remember when you walk in Other People's Shoes you get a different perspective!•Other People's Shoes is a non-profit tax-deductible organization. If you feel lead to give click here•Have questions or want to give feedback call or text: 203-548-SHOE•If you enjoy the show you can subscribe to us on your favorite podcast platforms, so you don't miss an episode. We would also love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!•To hear other episodes go to:www.opspodcast.comYouTube.com•Social Media:**Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: **•If you have questions or comments email us at: opspodcastshow@gmail.com

We hope you’ve enjoyed the show! Everyone Has A Podcast is an independent comedy podcast based out of Alberta, Canada. The show is hosted by Adam and Bryon. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or Laughable so you never miss a show!If you want to stay connected with Adam and Bryon you can like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ehappodcast. If you want to engage with us on Facebook, feel free to join our Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/ehappodcast. You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram @ehappodcast. Feel free to checkout our website www.ehappodcast.com seeing as how you’re becoming mildly obsessed with us.You can contact Adam and Bryon via email at ehappodcast@gmail.com.If you want to leave us a voicemail to play on the show, call 1-508-ZEN-EHAP (1-508-936-3427).If you feel like supporting the show, you can buy a t-shirt from our Teepublic store at www.ehappodcast.com/store.If you don’t like wearing clothes and want exclusive content, you can support us on Patreon for the price of a $1 cup of coffee at: www.patreon.com/ehapMusic:Intro Song: “Kingdom in the Clouds”Written by Adam BoutilierPerformed by Chris Layes and Adam BoutilierGuitarist: Chris LayesClapping: Chris LayesOutro music: “EHAP Outro 2018”Created by: Adam Boutilier using Logic Pro.Assistant to Mr. Depp: Daniel RepholzThis weeks Chris Pick:One Foot Outta the Grave by Michael MonroeIf you enjoy the music on the show and happen to be an Apple Music subscriber, be sure to subscribe to our ever-growing Apple Music playlist. You can check that bad daddy out right here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/playlist/everyone-has-a-podcast/pl.u-eaqfK2PEEqAny music used in the ‘Chris Pick’ segment is for entertainment and educational purposes only. All works belong to their original owners and are used solely for the promotion of the artists. If you enjoy the music used in this segment we strongly encourage you to purchase it and support the artists. All music used in this show has been purchased digitally from iTunes prior to use.2018 © Everyone Has A Podcast

We're talking to Dan, co-Author of a fantastic book on how are influenced by basic instincts and how to use these instincts for better marketing and sales persuasion From Wily: Appealing to humans' basic instincts to increase influence, buy-in and results Survival of the species comes down to three basic instincts, say behavioral research strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan—fear, self-interest and simplicity. These basic human behaviors come into play in all types of relationships, including those between businesses and customers. Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop fighting human nature and increase your performance, engagement and influence, demystifies these behaviors and examines the psychology behind why even the best ideas sometimes fail. This book helps businesses design their organizations for reality rather than perfection, and also offers strategies to head off unprecedented levels of disengagement within, and outside, the business. It answers baffling questions around why the public sometimes fails to engage despite overwhelming data suggesting otherwise, why so many new products end up on clearance shelves and why so many great salespeople often fall short of their monthly targets. *Learn how the survival of the species plays into business, including delusionary realities and the reasons ideas can fail *Discover how to offer customers strategic rewards, thereby making the buying process more attractive to selfish natures *Examine the link between fear and the unknown, including strategies for quelling fears and turning them into action *Learn to use a simple mindset to create low-involvement products, helping appeal to instinct and making products hard to resist This provocative book is built on the idea that businesses must return to a more human engagement methodology in order to succeed. It is an informative read for anyone interested in improving influence, growing business reach, improving sales figures or understanding the complexities of human behavior.

Mount Olivet member Marlene Stimpson, and PRISM's Community Engagement Manager, Dan Gregory, share the impact of our partnership in the community.

Dan Gregory, co-founder of the Impossible Institute, joins Smart Companies host Kelly Scanlon to discuss how he helps businesses achieve the seemingly impossible by teaching them a process for approaching challenges differently and reframing traditional questions. Dan is a behavioral researcher and strategist, as well as an author, educator, international speaker and social commentator. He is a regular on ABC's Gruen Planet and has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world: Coca-Cola, Unilever, Vodafone, MTV and News Ltd. To listen to the complete lineup of Smart Companies Thinking Bigger podcasts, visit the archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello my friend and Welcome. I am Daryl Urbanski and today I have something special for you. What you're about to hear today isn't part of what we usually do... I'd like to spend some personal time with you & for us to get to know each other better. To start I'll be sharing some of my life stories with you plus introducing you to some of the grand fathers of my business acumen. The next few weeks I'll be introducing you to the grandfathers of my education plus you're going to get select never released recordings of people interviewing me where I give some of my best business & life advice ever… We all learn from various people… various people we know for various time periods. Some people we share just a single, impactful moment together.. Others a full weekend. And some of us have people in our lives who have always been there, always guiding us along our paths… Your life really can change based on the things you learn and the people you meet. So please, enjoy this special series of classic and never released recordings in this 10 part interview series: Building 7 Figure Funnels with Daryl Urbanski - Unstoppable Podcast by Dan Gregory Enjoy! --- Mission Statement: My mission is to create 200 new multi-millionaire business owners who solve world problems with entrepreneurship. How? You'll do better when you know better. Would it help you to have a mentor who can cut your learning curve by sharing their mistakes with you so you could avoid them? Would it help you to talk to that mentor and learn how they shifted their mindset to allow success to happen in the first place? Would it help you to hear them talk to other high-level entrepreneurs about their journeys, their mistakes and how they overcame their challenges to create the lives and financial success they desire? The Best Business Podcast was created for you to have all this in one place. If you like it, please subscribe, give an honest review and share with a friend you think will benefit so I may serve you both together. "Your success is my success." -- Daryl Urbanski

Dan is the founder and host of the Unstoppable Podcast and creator of The Unstoppable Entrepreneur Implementation program. During 8 years as a leader within the corporate world Dan had the privilege of working alongside hundreds of entrepreneurs, small business owners and senior business leaders where he began to identify patterns of behaviour that either produced success or failure in business. This resulted in an obsessive pursuit for answers to the question “What enables entrepreneurs to win BIG?”. His search for answers led him to a ‘defining moment' at the back end of the recession in 2012 and he decided to leave his corporate career behind with a HUGE DESIRE to spread these answers to help more entrepreneurs be successful. Today Dan works with visionary entrepreneurs who want to disrupt their marketplace, get paid for their ideas and change the world. Dan's experience, coupled with his unquenchable thirst for constant and never ending improvement keep him up to date in what's working for business growth, leadership and peak human performance. All this combined is quickly making him a highly sought-after advisor to a new generation of entrepreneurs and thought leaders. I've asked him to join us here today and share what he's learned that we can use to help more people and make more money with less time & effort. Enjoy!!!    --- Mission Statement: My mission is to create 200 new multi-millionaire business owners who solve world problems with entrepreneurship. How? You'll do better when you know better.   Would it help you to have a mentor who can cut your learning curve by sharing their mistakes with you so you could avoid them?   Would it help you to talk to that mentor and learn how they shifted their mindset to allow success to happen in the first place?   Would it help you to hear them talk to other high-level entrepreneurs about their journeys, their mistakes and how they overcame their challenges to create the lives and financial success they desire?   The Best Business Podcast was created for you to have all this in one place. If you like it, please subscribe, give an honest review and share with a friend you think will benefit so I may serve you both together.   "Your success is my success." -- Daryl Urbanski  

Anthony Michalski founder and owner of Kallisti Publishing  “The Books You Need to Succeed.” He introduced the world to Charles F.Haanel and The Master Key System and is the world's foremost expert on Haanel's incredible philosophy of success as well as on the man himself. He is also the author of The Master Key Workbook, a best selling book that expands on Mr. Haanel's perennial tome Ken Coleman acclaimed interviewer and broadcaster, host of The Dave Ramsey Show video channel, Dave Ramsey live events, and the top-rated EntreLeadership Podcast. He released his first book, One Question: Life-Changing Answers from Today's Leading Voices Dan Gregory Co-Founder, President and CEO of The Impossible Institute™, a strategic think-tank founded to make what's not… possible! A Behavioral Researcher & Strategist, author, educator, and social commentator Kieran Flanagan has been an influential leaders in the creative industries. A Social Researcher & Innovation Strategist, Kieran is a speaker, author, educator and mentor who helps individuals, teams, leaders and organizations navigate the business world of the future For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!

Since his adult life Dan has refused to accept the concept of limitation and strives to help others to discover the limitless possibilities that life has to offer whilst assisting individuals and businesses to take charge of their destinies. Dan is recognised for his selfless contribution and ability to motivate and create positive change within individuals and business. His high-energy, passionate delivery inspires and engages audiences to step beyond any perceived limits, empowering them with the motivation to become an UNSTOPPABLE ENTREPRENEUR. After 7 years of working with one the world’s largest financial services organisations and working alongside thousands of businesses, Dan identified patterns of behaviour that either leads to business success or failure. Dan has also had the privilege of modelling the strategies of some of the global authorities in the fields of network marketing, internet marketing business growth and the psychology of peak performance. Dan’s experience, coupled with his undeniable thirst for constant and never ending improvement and the most up to date practical knowledge in the areas of business growth, leadership and peak performance, is rapidly making him a trusted and highly sought-after advisor and consultant to a new generation of entrepreneurs, leaders & inspired thinkers. Mission: Dan is on a mission to push his boundaries and create something innovative. Inspired by trailblazers like Steve Jobs, he’s constantly studying entrepreneurial pioneers to gain inspiration and ideas. Mindset: It all boils down to how much you believe in yourself. You will achieve as much as your mind believes. Dan shares the story of the moment he realized that he was sabotaging his own success and the root cause was his own lack of belief. Luckily, he also shares he turned it around and how you can too. Marketing: Dan shares that “Clarity is Power”. Getting clear on your talents, who you serve, and then engage the market to confirm. It’s the part of engaging that will give you the feedback you need to move forward. The answers won’t come from thinking over the plan, they come from taking action. Momentum: Serving his first clients gave Dan the confirmation and momentum he needed to move forward with full force. Seeing firsthand the impact and shifts he helped his clients achieve, it became obvious that he was on the right path. Masterminds: Listen as Dan shares his the story behind his first mastermind experience which consisted of a group of men who all thought the same way and within the group felt understood. Mastermind Challenge: I love Dan’s story about putting pen to paper and being truthful with himself about what he desired and his belief in himself to get there. This is a great exercise for all of us at any point in our lives and business. http://Unstoppablepodcast.com http://Unstoppablepodcast.com/webinar Register to learn how to create your own signature program  http://www.danjgregory.com/ http://www.howtofascinate.com/ - A resource mentioned during the show

Dan Gregory has made a stand.  As one of Australia's most prominent men on the speaking circuit, he will no longer participate in all male panels.  Why?  Well, you can be sure he understand why because he is a behavioural researcher and strategist, which gives me confidence that there's good reason behind his cause.  There's so much to this man.  He's the President and CEO of The Impossible Institute, a social commentator, an author, an educator and, as we discover, a former comedian.  We explore the predictability of human behaviour, the lessons he learnt from his own failures and get the “why” behind his current move to only participate in panels with an adequate representation of both men and women.   Episode Timeline: 01:41     Introducing CEO of The Impossible Institute, Dan Gregory 02:34     What is The Impossible Institute? 04:11     How predictable are people? 08:49     When has Dan had a significant failure and what did he learn from it? 13:53     No more all male panels for Dan Show Links: To find out more about Dan Gregory, go to:  Dan Gregory Support the Red Shield Appeal   Keep in Touch: SMS us on 0417 4555 37 (within Australia) or at +61 417 4555 37 (Outside Australia) Facebook Twitter:  @lukeandsusie

We talk to Dan Gregory about his role at the Impossible Institute and how brands such as Red Bull, Sonos, and Tom Shoes are using 'storydoing' to engage their audiences. 

Dan Gregory is author of the book Selfish, Scared and Stupid.  What if fighting the fact that we are Selfish Scared and Stupid is actually waging a war against ourselves?  You see selfish, scared and stupid has helped shape our evolution and allowed us to rise to the top of the food chain. The post Dan Gregory on The Profit Express appeared first on Healy Success Solutions.

Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan are behavioral researchers and strategists, specializing in behaviors and belief systems–what drives, motivates and influences us. They have won business awards around the world for Innovation, Creativity and ROI working with such organizations as Coca-Cola, Unilever, News Corp and the United Nations in Singapore. They are passionate advocates for the read more

Dan Gregory, a behavioural researcher & strategist, is the author of ‘Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop Fighting Human Nature And Increase Your Performance, Engagement And Influence’. He studies behaviour and belief systems, in other words, the things that make us buy and the things that make us buy in. In this fast paced discussion on human behaviour, we spoke about the power of identity, why design is more powerful than motivation or discipline, preventing ‘failure’ in brand or product interaction, and the importance of cultivating cognitive agility.

Dan Gregory, a behavioural researcher & strategist, is the author of ‘Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop Fighting Human Nature And Increase Your Performance, Engagement And Influence’. He studies behaviour and belief systems, in other words, the things that make us buy and the things that make us buy in. In this fast paced discussion on human behaviour, we spoke about the power of identity, why design is more powerful than motivation or discipline, preventing ‘failure’ in brand or product interaction, and the importance of cultivating cognitive agility.

In this episode of Pushing Beyond the Obvious, we host author and innovation consultant Dan Gregory to talk about the Impossible Institute and changing human behavior. We are living today in a world that is rapidly changing and evolving. In order to navigate this ever changing, constantly evolving world and succeed, we need to be able to keep pace with the change. Some of it involves organisational change and personal change. I can tell by my personal experience and from what i read that neither organisational change nor personal change is not easy. So, in order for us to succeed […]

Being a small business owner is double the work. We have to develop as an individual and business while gaining a clear understanding of what our customers value. Joined by a behavioral researcher and strategist Dan Gregory, we dig into how to get out of our way to gain an understanding of how to inspire people to go from a prospect to customer. Dan is an author, educator and social commentator. He is the President and CEO of The Impossible Institute™, a think-tank founded to make what's not… possible! His specialization is the why and how of human behavior and thinking – our drives, our motives, the things that motivate us to buy in. Leading one of Australia most prolific strategic and creative teams, Dan has helped develop new product lines for Coca-Cola and Unilever, invented new media formats for News Corp and launched campaigns for companies as varied as the United Nations, Vodafone, and MTV. His mission is to turn Impossible Thinking™ into an epidemic.

Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory assist small and mid-size businesses, and large corporations to know what business they’re really in. They're from The Impossible Institute, who specialize in unlocking human behavior to create organizational, personal and cultural change to build environments. Melissa Gonzalez is the founder of The Lion’esque Group, a firm of pop up shop experts who have produced more than 100 retail experiences in New York City, Los Angeles, and the Hamptons. Chris Dyer, founder and CEO of PeopleG2, offers 3 points to ease the hiring process for SMBs. Learn more about Don Mazzella's new book, An American Family Sampler. The new fall edition of Small Busines Digest is now available here.

Instead of trying to appeal to people as you wish them to be, why not deal with homo sapiens as they are?  So says Host Bart Jackson's guests Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan, founders of the iconoclastic and very sought-after Impossible Institute. This pair of successful advertisers-turned-human-behaviorist have stood the body of sales and motivational knowledge on its very traditional head and pushed for a more human approach.  Like all profound wisdom, their method is simple and astoundingly effective.  Tune in and learn how large firms are building greater understanding with their employees, and how individual sales folks are finally connecting with their customers' humanity.

Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan discuss "Selfish, Scared & Stupid." Stop fighting human nature and increase your performance, engagement and influence. These behaviorial researchers and strategists are the founders of The Impossible Institute, an innovation and engagement think-tank. Host, Kevin Craine. @Everyday_MBA Everyday-MBA.com  

On Bizcast, hosted by Kevin Craine, he interview the authors of Selfish, Scared & Stupid Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan. In their book they outline the three most common human traits and how to overcome them: selfishness, fear and a need for simplicity. Visit http://www.c-suitebookclub.com to learn more about Ted Rubin and our other best-selling authors.   Bizcast is part of C-Suite Radio, a division of C-Suite Network.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On episode 313, we first talk to Adam Cheyer, the creator of Siri. He shares the story of Siri's success with Apple and what he's working on now. Next, the former CEO of Charles Schwab shows us how to lead breakthrough change against any odds. The following guest describes small business owners as scared, selfish & stupid and he doesn't mean it as an insult. Finally, learn how you can save money by preventing the spread of germs in your office.Adam Cheyer is the former co-founder and VP Engineering of Siri Inc., and, after Apple acquired the company, he was Director of Engineering in Apple's iOS group.  Adam is now co-founder and VP Engineering at Viv Labs.David S. Pottruck is the former president and CEO of Charles Schwab. He is now the chairman of HighTower Advisors and CorpU and is the author of the NYTimes bestseller  “Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds”.Dan Gregory is a researcher and strategist, that specializes in behaviors and belief systems. He is the co-author of the recently released book Selfish, Scared & Stupid.Alex Wemple is the Regional Director of Illinois for Open works - a leading national commercial cleaning company. Alex brings over six years of experience in market growth, team development, and customer oriented services. Sponsored by Sage and Nextiva.

Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE  Free Newsletter HERE  Free E Book- 1,500 to Choose From HERE  Scott Cluthe talks with co-author Kieran Flanagan about her new book on human behavior and why so often the best intentions we have for business and the people we work with fall flat....and what we can do about it. Kieran says we need: More Women on Top ! or is it just a good ole boys club in pantyhose ? Survival of the species comes down to three basic instincts, say behavioural research strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan—fear, self-interest and simplicity. These basic human behaviours come into play in all types of relationships, including those between businesses and customers. Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop fighting human nature and increase your performance, engagement and influence, demystifies these behaviours and examines the psychology behind why even the best ideas sometimes fail. This book helps businesses design their organisations for reality rather than perfection, and also offers strategies to head off unprecedented levels of disengagement within, and outside, the business. It answers baffling questions around why the public sometimes fails to engage despite overwhelming data suggesting otherwise, why so many new products end up on clearance shelves and why so many great salespeople often fall short of their monthly targets. From Falling Short of Sales Goals to not Engaging with the People over in THAT Department, your topics are welcome: 347-308-8478. 

Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan are behavioral researchers and strategists, specializing in behaviors and belief systems – what drives, motivates and influences us. Thier book Selfish, Scared & Stupid! Nina Irani President and CEO of UniqueSpeak Consulting, serves as the speech and leadership coach to C-level and high level executives in Fortune 500 firms, politicians and public figures in the entertainment industry Nina has traveled around the world researching how people form impressions, make decisions, and create change in their lives. Her methodology includes research findings from institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford Universities. Nina co-authored an anthology called The Winning Way. It has become an Amazon bestseller and her portion of the book is called: Words Can Change the World: The Archetypes of Influential Speaking Monica Stanciu Founder and Principal Decorator at Staged 2 Sell Solutions Inc., a company that specializes in Home Staging and Redesign. After a successful career in chemical engineering and marketing, Monica left the corporate world and enrolled in the CSPI Staging training program. She started her own staging business, Staged 2 Sell Solutions Inc. Peter Friedman social media visionary and veteran with 30 years experience in the space. He's provided multiple global brands with strategic social media guidance and delivered hundreds of social media programs for them in multiple countries and languages. Peter is the Chairman & CEO of LiveWorld, a social content marketing company he founded, author of The CMO's Social Media Handbook, and a celebrated speaker

Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan are business partners in The Impossible Institute. The Impossible Institute was founded to make what's not... possible! They exist to create organisational and cultural change, helping build environments that lift performance and engagement. They specialise in talent development, systems design and creating opportunities.In this episode, we cover:How phones are changing the way we eat in restaurantsHow an SME can punch above their weight and compete with larger competitorsDo you really understand what you are selling?Steps to establish exactly what your business does and how to extract a powerful value exchangeWhere the real value is in innovationWhat is purposeful identity and how you can use it to grow your brand through innovationSteps a leader can take to lead innovation in their companyThe STAND for your company-What do you stand for?Who do you stand with?What do you stand against?How do you stand up?The attributes of an outstanding creative leaderThe concept of innovating the boringHow to immediately improve your strategyGetting to the truth of human natureWhy design beats discipline   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this Podcast, Dale Beaumont, founder and CEO of Business Blueprint®, talks with Dan Gregory who is one of Australia's most accomplished branding experts. He's also a regular guest on the popular TV show "The Gruen Transfer" and has more recently become a published author. The topic for this Podcast is "The Secrets of Successful Branding" and by listening you'll discover; what is branding and how it works; at what point a business owner should start thinking about building their brand and how much should they spend; what are common mistakes business owners make when it comes to their brand; three things business owners can do right now to improve their brand; and finally, what kind of branding makes people buy. After listening to this Podcast, head to http;//www.BusinessBlueprint.com/podcast where you can access more great interviews and find more information to help your business grow.