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RFD Today
RFD Today April 28, 2025

RFD Today

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 41:33


Jennifer Smith discusses IAA Foundation scholarship awards.Jimmy Ayers provides a CropWatcher report from Sangamon County. State Fair Manager Rebecca Clark details a "100 Days Out" event.  Joe Camp with Commstock Investments previews a new market week.  

The Country Mile
The Country Mile 366

The Country Mile

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 60:01


FACEBOOK PAGE - facebook.com/CountryMile24 - please do 'like' and share. PLAYLIST: Cole Phillips - Back Full of Feathers Nash Stanley - Let 'Em Talk Paige King Johnson - Country See Country Do Cody Johnson - The Fall Matt Daniel - In Between Madison Hughes - Gypsy Wings Alison Brown & Steve Martin - 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back Section House - Long Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane Turnpike Troubadours - Nothing You Can Do Colby Lee Swift - Piano Boy Max McNown - St. Helens Alpenglow Charlie McNeal - Bar Friend Benjamin Cole - Beers On Me The Wolfe Brothers - Australian Made [ UK shows start from Monday: 4pm madwaspradio.com | 7pm cmrnashville.com | 7pm soundscountry.co.uk | Thursday 6pm lcruk.uk | Sunday 2pm dynamicradio.co.uk ] Sent to over 100 stations every week!

Country Bunker Medicine Show
Giovedì 3 Aprile 2025

Country Bunker Medicine Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 42:17


Winner – Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems Solid Ground – Addison Lea Thompson Reno Willow – Fin Pearson Cold Wind – Backline Whiskey Hippie – Race Ricketts 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back (feat. Tim O’Brien) – Alison Brown & Steve Martin Waxahachie – Pug Johnson Anywhere The Wind Blows – Missy Raines & Allegheny Show Me the Way to Go Home – The Seldom Scene Richmond On The James – Alison Krauss & Union Station

Trackside Podcast
Curt and Kevin Talk FOX Promos, Preview the Daytona 500, and Who Could Three-Peat in IndyCar!

Trackside Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 92:20


Tonight, on a Monday edition of Trackside with Kevin Lee and Curt Cavin, they talk about IndyCar’s new commercials that aired during Super Bowl LIX, including the new Pato O’Ward spot, with Josef Newgarden and Joey Logano making appearences on Bourbon Street. They also talk about how well FOX has promoted the series. Later in the first hour of the show, Kevin and Curt talk about the IndyCar and Indy NXT practice and qualifying television schedule for St. Petersburg. They also talk about with the Kansas City Chiefs not being able to three-peat, they talk about if Alex Palou or Josef Newgarden will be the first to three-peat. To wrap up the first hour of the show, they talk about the 100 Days Out party at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Valentine’s Day and the possibility of Netflix becoming F1’s next TV provider. To start the second hour of the show, Kevin and Curt talk about this weekend’s upcoming Daytona 500 and how there is a NASCAR race every weekend until early November. They later break down the Daytona 500 schedule and the BC39 running on July 1-2. Later, they talk about the Cadillac F1 team buying property from Hendrick Motorsports. They also talk about who could win the rookie of the year battle. Later in the second hour of the program, they answer more fan questions from X. Then to wrap up another addition of the show, Kevin talks more about Netflix looking into the F1 TV rights deal, the newest season of Drive to Survive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Supersetyourlife.com Podcast
E293 - MEETS & More MEATS, with Natural Keto Powerlifter Michael Meola!

Supersetyourlife.com Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 66:36


Michael Meola is 17 DAYS OUT from his NEXT POWERLIFTING MEET! He's a NASM-Certified Corrective Exercise Specialist helping people achieve the best versions of themselves and we recap his last meet and what to do differently on the last two weeks of his current prep! IG: m_meola WEBSITE:  https://www.trainwithkickoff.com/coaches/MichaelMeola?ref=cr_ig&fbclid=PAAaYBcgdDmHBdSQwYrRFXYnenMxiuYkRFpgiG_5ctNLKFfF1AAwsSaGLZFyo_aem_AR6kilDtJZkksx2fbw8NFhim3lm21KlGSBQunXf1sHqls-kc4ZiBI0AhQ7r99DYNtPs#coach If you're new to the show, you should follow this up with E224 if you scroll down on your SPOTIFY APP or wherever you're listening on you'll see where he shared his story going from OBESE to a LEAN, MEAN, RIBEYE-EATING MACHINE!!! Also on E252 we covered his IRON ASYLUM POWERLIFTING PREP, CONTRALATERAL TRAINING, & IDENTIFYING YOUR “WHY.”

Daily Grace
A Biblical Antidote for Stress

Daily Grace

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 31:06


How do you handle stress? Do you wonder what the Bible has to say about how to approach stressful circumstances? In this episode, you'll learn to view your circumstances in light of who God is and trust Him with the stressors in front of you.    Favorite Things: 7 Days Out docuseries on Netflix Kids in the Bible by Caroline Saunders   Resources: More Than a Manger Family Advent Devotional (Need to add the link once the listing is live!) Ep 232: A Theology of Home w/Caroline Saunders Oxford's definition of stress CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet by Michael Emlet Emotions and the Heart It is Well   Scripture references: Mark 6:30-38 John   Questions to ask in times of stress: What is true about Jesus? What is true about the situation? How should I respond in light of God's truth?   Subscribe to our Podcast Newsletter!   Connect with us: The Daily Grace Co. | Facebook | Instagram | Daily Grace Blog    

Resiliency in Running
Running from My Final London Marathon Training Recap: Pre-Raceday Prep, Goals, Carb Loading (Q&A)

Resiliency in Running

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 40:28


2 DAYS OUT! Oh man, I can't believe time has flown as quickly as it has! I'm so excited about the big day! To anyone else running - good luck! ___________________________________________________ Episode with my Coach: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mWpx096HyPEGC1vUjPNAy?si=hJzKX4CjRc6aUIK4zjV4ow ___________________________________________________  Get in touch:      Podcast IG: @resiliencyinrunning     TikTok: @resiliencyinrunning     Personal IG: @liznewcomer     linktr.ee/resiliencyinrunning     Veloforte Discount Code: RiR-20 ⁠ https://veloforte.com/discount/RiR-20?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Four-products⁠   Coaching Programme I use: ⁠https://purdueperformance.com/⁠   Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/lizmarathonrunnerpod    £10 off runthroughuk race sign-up: https://www.letsdothis.com/r/LIZ517-AHIHBF     Canva Free Trial: https://www.canva.com/join/lkc-rsl-fgc    £10 off Huel: https://huel.mention-me.com/m/ol/du7ci-9e112bab35 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/resiliencyinrunning/message

Skip the Queue
What the heck is a brand proposition and why should you care? With Catherine Warrilow

Skip the Queue

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 49:06


Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends on 29th March 2024. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:  https://www.theplotthickens.co.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinewarrilow/Arival link - https://arival.travel/speakers/catherine-warrilow/TikTok link - https://www.tiktok.com/@the5minutementorCatherine Warrilow has 16 years industry experience and runs The Plot.  She creates brand proposition roadmaps for attraction and experience businesses who want to take a slightly rebellious approach to their marketing strategy. Transcription:   Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson.On today's episode I speak with Catherine Warrilow, founder of The Plot, a brand marketing agency.Today we're immersing ourselves in brand. I'm asking Catherine what the heck is a brand proposition, why is it important and who in the tourism and attraction industry is absolutely nailing it?Kelly Molson: You can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Catherine, welcome to Skip the Queue.Catherine Warrilow: Thank you very much, Kelly.Kelly Molson: I'm really excited that you have come on to chat today. Catherine and I met in a toilet at a conference, which is where you meet all of the best people at conferences, I have to say. But I'm really chuffed that you've been able to come on and join us today. So thank you for your time. Right, we are going to start with our icebreakers, as usual. And I want to know, what would people remember you for that you went to school with?Catherine Warrilow: Oh, my gosh. Probably the thing I remember the most, I don't know if anyone else would, is when body shop was at its height of popularity and all of their perfumes and stuff and their perfume oils. And I bought the vanilla one, which I was obsessed with, but I covered myself in the kind of the neat essence. So I spent a whole day at school smelling of ice creams with every teacher walking past going, "Why can I smell ice cream?". And everyone, "It's her.". So that is one of my standout memories. I think I was always quite creative and quirky, and I would braid my own hair like I'd been on holiday and put beads in it and come to school like that. Or smelling of ice creams.Kelly Molson: I love that. I feel like we're of the same era. And my lasting memory of the body shop is the Dewberry. The dewberry smell. You never smelt this any other time like that school time. And I had a friend who used to buy the oil and the shampoo and all, and she just smelt of that continuously. But that was my grandparents name as well, so it was really weird. Their name was Dewberry. Anyway, very od. Good memories. And I quite like that you smell like ice cream. I would love that about you.Catherine Warrilow: Yeah, it's worse things to smell of.Kelly Molson: Okay, second one, if you had to pick a fictional character to best describe yourself, who would you choose?Catherine Warrilow: Oh, my gosh. My instant one that I would like to say, but I'm not smart enough, would be Matilda. I would love to be Matilda, but I'm not. So who would it be? A fictional character? Gosh, that's so difficult. Maybe like Thelma from Scooby Doo. Problem solver.Kelly Molson: Yep. Quick on her. Yeah, I can see that about you. Good one. You've got Matilda vibes as well. Don't dumb that down. You've definitely got Matilda vibes going on.Catherine Warrilow: Well, I'll keep trying to move things with my mind and I'll let you know if I have any success.Kelly Molson: Good. Come back on the podcast, let us know. Okay. What is your unpopular opinion? What have you prepared for us?Catherine Warrilow: So I think this is one that's going to resonate with a lot of people and it's unpopular but common that travel tech is shit. So I don't get it. I don't get why we are so far behind other sectors, especially with ticketing tech. We sell billions of tickets to some of the most interesting and amazing attractions in the world. Not just in the country, in the world. Yet we still have major attractions who are having to reconcile paper tickets either because they're stuck with their tech, because they've had it so long they can't get away from it, or they're just not sure how to, or it's so difficult or slow or expensive. There must be someone or an organisation who can fix this, right?Catherine Warrilow: And I know people are trying, like Okto are trying, which is great, but surely there must be an easier way to get the right people around the table and say, "Right. In every instance when you sell a ticket to a customer, it should kind of look like this.". But at the moment, everyone's got different systems. None of them talk to each other. Everyone's slightly different when they break. It could take months to fix. And ultimately it's the customer who loses out because we can't deliver a really effective service. Whether in OTA or an attraction yourself, it's the customer that's left with a bad experience, by and large, because the ticket you booked has vanished from your basket, or it was available 1 minute and now it's not. Or the price has changed, or something weird, you don't even get your email. Or it's confusing.Catherine Warrilow: Which is why there's so little brand loyalty in our sector, I think. Because people will hop about and just book with whoever's quickest, easiest, cheapest at the time. And I think we've got a real challenge on our hands to up our game when it comes to tech. I don't know what you think.Kelly Molson: Well, I'm nodding along for people that aren't watching and are listening to this, I'm nodding along probably from a different perspective because we deal directly with the ticketing that the attraction would use. So their ticketing platform for something. I think you're probably a bit more focused on the OTAs and that kind of ticketing kind of stuff. I am in total agreement with you. I am completely nodding along going that there's nothing amazing and there should be something amazing.Catherine Warrilow: Yeah, I think it's unifying it. I think there's some good tech out there, and I'm not going to names, but there's some good tech. There's some average tech and there's some awful tech. But for the OTA and for the connectivity partner at that level, and ultimately for the customer. How do you bring together what's good and make it accessible across the board? I think that's the challenge, isn't it? How do we unify things so it's straightforward and you know what that process for B2B process should look like. And I think we're making progress, but I think it's slow.Catherine Warrilow: And I think there has been so much change in the sector from a kind of customer perspective, from a trend perspective, from the impacts of COVID from the impacts of the cost of living crisis, that it always seems to get pushed back in the queue a little bit. Whereas it needs to be at the top of the list all of the time. But that takes a lot of time and resource and dev and investment. But I've heard whisperings of a few people who are doing quite interesting things. So I'll be interested to see what happens over the next kind of 6,9,12 months.Kelly Molson: I think that's a challenge, isn't it? There's quite a lot of choice and it seems like every day there's a new ticketing platform or another OTA that's kind of that started and for good reasons, because obviously there's things out there that aren't working for people. But a bit more collaboration might stop giving people so much choice and actually start working together to refine the ones that are already out there and just make them better.Catherine Warrilow: Potentially, yeah. Or give them one aggregated channel that they can all slot into in the same way. Because even when you aggregate systems, the way you integrate them is still different. I'm still trying to figure out where that ownership needs to start. Is it the attractions and experiences saying, "Okay, we have to be able to deliver this for the customer," because ultimately, starting with the customer need is the right place to start? But how do you layer that back through the process to figure out where to start fixing the right problems?Kelly Molson: And you're right in what you said about that brand perception, then it's on the attraction, it's not on the OTA really, it's on the brand. And they need to kind of own that relationship with their client, which is what we're going to talk about today. So tell us a little bit about your background and where you've got today.Catherine Warrilow: Yes. Which makes me feel old. Some days I feel like a spring chicken and other days I'm like, "How have I been doing this for like 15 years?".Kelly Molson: I feel that.Catherine Warrilow: So I got married in 2007 and shortly after we had our first son, which is all very exciting and challenging at the same time. And alongside that, I decided that it would be a great idea to start my own business with a newborn baby and that if I could do that, then everything from there on in would be a breeze, which was kind of ridiculous looking back. But I set up as a kind of freelance PR and marketing support and fell into travel totally by accident. I knew someone who was running the team at owners direct at the time, the holiday rentals company, and they wanted someone to come in and basically secure them pr coverage as being a great choice for booking holiday rental, mainly UK and Europe, but some further afield. And it just kind of spiralled from there.Catherine Warrilow: I realised that there was a massive opportunity to up people's game when it came to pr and content, and that was before everything was about content creation and social. It was on the cusp of, "Okay, we can use Facebook to reach people organically and people just weren't really doing that.". It was pre having to pay to play. And I started making a bit of a name for myself within travel and started working for home away, which is now Vrbo. People like hard rock hotels, great little breaks. And it just grew from there. And I grew the business to a very small agency in rural Oxfordshire of about six people. And that's how I kind of accidentally fell into travel.Kelly Molson: I love that. I had no idea that it was an accidental as well. For some reason I thought that was it. That was always going to be your focus. It's amazing how these kind of things happen that guide our career, isn't it?Catherine Warrilow: Yeah, it just happened. And then we pitched actually for the pr for Days Out With The Kids many years ago. And were up against some really big agencies and I was like, "This is it. This is our kind of big moment.". And we really held our own against kind of top Manchester, Birmingham, London agencies. And in the end, the CEO at the time asked if I would go in house to set up their marketing strategy, their brand strategy, hire a team. They'd not long bought the business and it was covered in display ads and it was a mess, but it was driving millions of organic visits every year.Catherine Warrilow: And it was a cliche sliding doors moment where I was like, look, I've spent nine years building up this incredible business and it's my baby and I love it and I feel proud to have built it up, but this is an incredible opportunity to do something amazing. So I ended up kind of selling the business and going into Days Out With The Kids, which was just such a great decision because it gave me probably what I was craving in terms of building effective teams and working for household name brands. And that was the start of me going into employed roles for about, gosh, another eight or so years.Kelly Molson: Great. And now you've set off on another new adventure.Catherine Warrilow: Yes, because we reinvent ourselves, don't we? And go where the opportunities feel most exciting. Yeah. So I lost my job with Days Out last September, which was gutting, because again, that passion for building the most incredible teams was real. I hired some of the best people that I have ever hired and we're still great friends now, but when I left there, I was like, "Okay, I will apply for roles and I will ask my network if they would like to work with me.". It was as simple as that. I will figure this out as I go along. You know me, I'm quite an honest, heart on sleeve type person. I'm a bit of an oversharer. So I went onto LinkedIn and said I was gutted to say that I wasn't with days out anymore, but that the world was my oyster.Catherine Warrilow: And then people just started popping up from connections I've had for years. Connections through things like Arival, through other podcasts that I've done in the past, through content I've created, through past clients, all sorts, right back to my very early career. And I was like, "Actually, I think there is a big opportunity here for me to go back out on my own.". And I knew from the start I didn't want to build an agency. I didn't want to hire people. I just wanted to use all of that experience I've built up over travel over the last 15, 16 years and help people solve brand proposition problems that they can't see themselves with a slight rebellious streak in the middle of working with people who don't want to just follow the crowd. They want to do things a bit differently.Catherine Warrilow: They want to stand up and be heard and it's just gone from there. So I took on my first paying client at the beginning of November and it's incredible and I bloody love it. And I'm so glad that I fell back into this way of working and I just feel very lucky that I've been able to stay in the sector that I absolutely love.Kelly Molson: I'm so touched for you. I've got a big smile on my face as you're saying. I've watched your journey and I've watched how it's kind of played out. It's really interesting. Someone said to me a little while ago, you never know who's watching you never know who's taking interest. And I kind of like that. And I think you are someone that I've always, we have genuinely only met once in real life, in a toilet at a conference. But I've followed you for a long time on LinkedIn, and I've seen how helpful and supportive you are to the sector, and I've seen a lot of your posts that go out and talking about other issues and things like that as well, very openly and publicly.Kelly Molson: I've always really admired that about you and I think you are someone who's super helpful and stuff like that comes back tenfold. So when you put that post out, I know how tough that was. Like, I felt the emotion in that post for you, but was just like, I'd read that post, I was like, "She's got nothing to worry about here at all.". And I could see people comment in and I'm going to connect you to the, "Oh, we should talk, we should do this.". And I was like, "There you go. Good people. Good things come back to in tenfold.". So it's lovely to see you in this position.Catherine Warrilow: And it was amazing. And that gave me, I think, the foundation I needed to get back out there and carry on attending events and carry on creating content and sharing my thoughts and ideas and all of that kind of thing. And it was funny because a while before that, I'd asked a handful of people from my network kind of, what am I known for? And would you recommend me? And what would you recommend me for? And someone came back and said, "You care more about the result than you do about people's opinions.". And I think that sums me up quite well because I want the best outcome, whether that's for me and my business or for a partner that I'm working for. And I'm happy to say things people might not want to hear because I know it will get them a better outcome.Catherine Warrilow: And I think that's so important. And I think hopefully that comes across when I either talk to people or I post online that I am authentically who I say I am and you will genuinely get the best of me regardless of how big the challenge is. And that's really important to me. I'd say that's kind of a big part of my values is to share authentic truth rather than either kind of saying what everyone else is saying or saying what someone wants to hear, which will put people off as well. And that's kind of a good screening process in a way.Kelly Molson: Yes. It's a good way to cherry pick who's the right client, definitely wants to work for me and they're going to get me as well. I love this. Right, okay, we're going to talk about brand today. We're going to talk about brand proposition. What the heck is a brand proposition for our lovely listeners?Catherine Warrilow: Yeah, and it's a big question. It's basically everything a brand stands for. Absolutely everything a brand stands for. And that sounds quite overwhelming, but really it's not. It's a combination of kind of vision, mission, values. So where are you trying to get to and what are you doing to get there and how are you being when you do that? So what are the kind of the morals and values that underpin the business and that foundation takes you through everything to the point which you sell a product or service to a customer. And that will be everything from your tone of voice and your brand personality, how your brand looks and feels aesthetically, the channels you use to communicate with people and sell through.Catherine Warrilow: So it really is everything that kind of makes up what matters about a brand and what makes it different and why ultimately a customer would buy from you versus someone else. Which is why I touched on the kind of the challenges with ticketing in our sector because that is a huge obstacle for lots of OTAs in managing their brand proposition effectively because it will have a real knock on effect on the perception their customer has of that brand.Kelly Molson: And that element of it is slightly out of their control as well, isn't it? Which is unfortunate. What I like about this is that we are, I think as a whole, we're kind of coming away from that thing where people used to go, "Oh, I've got my brand sorted, because I've got my logo.". No, that's a brand element. This is not what we're talking about here. Why is brand proposition so important to get right.Catherine Warrilow: I think brand proposition comes down to what you sell, who to and for what gain. And the gain is the customer problem. So what problem do you solve for that customer? So days out, as an example, were going after the younger end of the audience who just want to find something with bragging rights and book it quick with the trust and ease of use of real person customer service on Whatsapp and pay with Klana. So book it Whatsapp to make sure you've got your tickets right backs and forwards with a real human being in real time and then pay for it later. So we knew exactly who were, who for and for what gain for that customer. That's why you have to get it right.Catherine Warrilow: And I speak to a lot of people who, a lot of clients who say they fall at the first hurdle with the first question, which is, "Who are you targeting?" And they're like, "Well, everyone who wants to travel.". And you're like, "No, you're not." 100% not. You might want to be on the radar of lots and lots of people, and lots of people might buy from you, but most people won't because there is so much choice. You've got to know exactly who you are talking to and why you fit the needs and the values of that person. And those values need to be reciprocal because you will never create brand ambassadors otherwise. You will create transient customers who will buy from you once and then move on. And that's an expensive customer to have.Catherine Warrilow: Whereas if your brand proposition is spot on and everything in the way you do business and the way you communicate, the way your customer service team communicate is consistent, people will buy into that feeling as well as what they're paying money for. And the booking process is part of what they're paying for. And that is part of the reason they will pay more, because they know it's quick and easy and if anything goes wrong, you'll sort it and they will pay 5% more for the privilege of that. Which means your pricing strategy is healthier as well. So all of these different things make up the brand proposition, not just the way your website looks or your logo. If it's lairy and orange and pink and green, that is not going to stand you apart from everyone else. It might get you noticed once.Catherine Warrilow: But all of that substance of your brand proposition below, that is what will engage, retain a customer, create an ambassador out of them, i.e.  They will leave a positive review, they will engage with your content, they will share your content, all of those things.Kelly Molson: That word substance is really important in this conversation, isn't it? Because a lot of people still, I think, view brand as very much the kind of aesthetic layer that sits on top of that. But it is about substance. This brand proposition has to run through the core of everything that you do. And it's not just about the visuals, it's about how you speak to people, your tone of voice, all of that kind of stuff as well. How do you start to shape that proposition? Where does an organisation start with that?Catherine Warrilow: Like I said before, it starts with that vision mission values piece. Because if you are not clear on where you are trying to get to, then how do you even start building things like content pillars, for example? And quite often there's a vision stuck up on the wall, in the office, in the meeting room, which no one could recite back to you and it actually doesn't mean anything. So having substance within the vision is the first point of call. The mission is how you get there and what you're doing to get there. And if you don't know that, you can't create goals, if you haven't got measurable goals, how do you define what success looks like?Catherine Warrilow: And that takes you into things like understanding your products and your revenue streams, because you might have really popular products and you're like, "Oh yeah, we're selling loads of these tools. They're so popular, everyone loves them. But why is that?". Is it because you're the cheapest on the market? And actually, if you look at your numbers, are you making any profit on that product? Because there's a massive difference between popular and profitable. So it matters because at the heart of the business is a need to be profitable. You want a product and service that people love and is profitable and that people rave about. And it drives you loads of repeat business and loads of new business through word of mouth.Catherine Warrilow: But to get to the point where you can set those goals that are measurable, you have to know where you're trying to get to. And what often happens, and what I find with a lot of partners is their vision is either ten years old and they're still kind of running around in circles trying to figure out how they get there. And it's not that anymore, because the market's changed, the customers changed, pricing has changed, they've got goals, but they're not measurable, or they've got customers and they never talk to them, they never ask them what they can do better or where else they buy from. So they've got no data, they've got a website that performs pretty well, but they never look at the analytics, so they don't know how they're acquiring customers or how much is costing them to acquire a customer.Catherine Warrilow: And that all of a sudden feels very messy and complicated, doesn't it? It feels overwhelming to start picking things off to make sure those things are happening in a sensible, logical order that takes you from A to B to make a profit. So I kind of break all those different things down into sections, create a roadmap specifically for the business, and bring to the table all of my expertise to start aligning those things. And what will happen is we'll find some massive gaps. The vision is totally wrong, or they're going after the whole market and they don't really know who their customer is, or so they're trying to talk to everybody, so their tone of voice is just beige, or their goals aren't the right goals, or they're not measurable, or they're measuring the wrong things.Catherine Warrilow: And you start to see where those opportunities are and you start to see the holes that need to be plugged. And suddenly brand proposition feels like a much simpler, tangible route forward, rather than this kind of crazy maze of stuff that you just don't know where to navigate first.Kelly Molson: Something you said at the start of that was really interesting, actually, as an aside question is somebody's mission or their vision, and the mission might be completely misaligned now it's been in place for ten years or so, and they're visiting it and the market has changed. How frequently should you look at those things? Like, I get my organisation together tomorrow, we set our new vision and mission. You would hope that we would be kind of checking in on that. Are we all aligned? Are we scenario? How often do you think that changes for people? And how frequently should you kind of refer back to it and go, "Is this still relevant?".Catherine Warrilow: That's such a good question and I think it should be in mind daily. And if a business is asked what their vision is and they can't recite it off like that, then it's not right or it's too complicated. And I did a big exercise with a client a couple of weeks ago, which was actually around their why and their purpose, because it was really important to them that they were running an ethical, sustainable business, that they gave something back to the community. But their why was about an, a four page long. And I challenged them on it and they said, "Oh yeah, well, actually the community part is really important to us and it wasn't in there anyway anywhere.". So what I did is an exercise where we distilled it down bit by bit.Catherine Warrilow: So we took out all of the filler words and had a look what was left and that came out as kind of care, community, making a difference and a handful of other things. So we stripped it right back and ended up with one sentence, which was about ten or twelve words long. I was like, that actually means something. And that is something you can look at every day and say, "Does launching this new product or service may give something back to the community?". Well, actually, no, it doesn't, because it's going to take us 20 years to fulfil that element. So do we scale it back? Do we make it simpler? Do we make it shorter? What do we do? Do we make it more accessible?Catherine Warrilow: I think if you can't look at least your vision on a daily basis and say the things on my to do list absolutely fit with that, then you need to challenge yourself on the tactics that you're implementing to reach that vision and the goals you've set for the business. So I think most people would hope, I would say quarterly in the team meeting.Kelly Molson: Yeah, that's exactly what people hope. Once a year we revisit that.Catherine Warrilow: I don't think you want to change it more than annually. You might tweak it if you have to keep throwing it out every year and redoing it. There's something wrong with your business model. But if you can look at it, mine's up on my wall. Mine's really simple. It's rebel plans for travel brands, which basically means a bit kind of rogue compared to your typical marketing strategy. And my why is because you don't want to be the same as everyone else and I don't want to do boring work. That's it. Simple as that. So if I look at my to do list today and say, "Is that boring or is that going to make a difference, and it's not, then I need to challenge myself on what I am delivering for that client or for my own business.".Catherine Warrilow: Am I saying I haven't written a blog for ages, I should write one? If it's crap to fill a space, then I shouldn't be doing it. I need to challenge myself to put the effort in, to think about what I want to say on that topic, how my opinion is different, how I back that opinion up, what other people are saying, bring in other voices and your vision and mission should make you do things properly, they should make you do them to a much higher standard and they should raise the game of your business, your team and the industry, because that's ultimately where you need to be to succeed, isn't it? You need to be pushing for better.Kelly Molson: I think we're all getting a very clear picture of what it would be like to work with you, Catherine, from this interview. Love it.Catherine Warrilow: It's a great screening process, isn't it? Some people will go, oh, my God, that sounds horrendous. That sounds like an awful lot of work. No, thank you. Other people will say, "I think she could see where we're going wrong, where we can't see it because we're so entrenched in what we're doing.".Kelly Molson:  Yeah. I'm sitting here going, "She needs to come in and work on our brand. This is what we need.". Okay. How does the brand proposition translate into what the consumer or the visitor engages with? I guess. How do you get your brand proposition across to them in the right way?Catherine Warrilow: Yeah, I think it gets really overcomplicated in a lot of businesses, and that's usually because bits have been tacked on at different times to try different things and see how they work. It should translate to everything. It should translate to the hero strap line across the homepage of your website. It should translate to the bios on your social channels. If you still have business cards, it should translate there. It should translate to how you conduct yourself in front of people, at events, in meetings, in pitches with customers. And one of the things that often gets forgotten and is why it gets all confused from a consumer facing perspective, is it should translate internally as well. Behind the scenes, how your team meetings run, how your one to ones run, the culture and the atmosphere in the office. It should translate through everything.Catherine Warrilow: Because if it doesn't, how do you expect your marketing team, your sales team, your customer service team to get that across to the customer if your staff don't feel it themselves? And that's probably the only thing that I miss about working in house, is creating that momentum and energy within a team. And it is absolutely astronomical. What a difference it makes to productivity, to engagement, to buy in, to smoothing out bumps when you go through difficult periods of change or reorganisation or someone leaves the business, or whatever it is. You can weather those kind of things so much more easily if you start with the people within your business and making that vision and mission exciting to them.Catherine Warrilow: And that might be down to the fact that the quarterly team meeting is just so incredibly painful and dull that people just switch off so they don't absorb any of the information about where the business is going next, because it's delivered in such a static, boring way that you need totally transform that and it needs to be led by the teams or it needs to be designed as a quiz or something like just make it different, make it more fun. And I guarantee then it becomes very easy to translate that through to everything from the customer's perspective because it will come through in tone of voice and how you handle a difficult customer service query. It will come through in creating content on TikTok or whatever channels you use. It will just be ingrained in everything.Kelly Molson: Because your team are owning that and they've got such an input into the kind of division and the mission and the brand proposition, they then can sell that on to the consumers. So they're your internal ambassadors. We talked about ambassadors earlier.Catherine Warrilow: Yeah.Kelly Molson:  And obviously that's going to help with recruitment as well. If you've got a really strong kind of brand proposition, more people want to come and be involved in that too.Catherine Warrilow: Yeah. And it brings confidence to everything. I mean, our job descriptions at Days Out attracted people who weren't even looking for a job because they saw the ad. They were like, "Oh, my gosh, I didn't even think I wanted to move and now I do.". And I had to apply because they were written by real people, designed for real people who just want to be in jobs which they love and they feel invested in and appreciated and rewarded and recognised.Catherine Warrilow: So it was less about, you must have five years of this, you must be able to do that and more about, do you want to come to work and actually feel like you want to be there and that you want to work really hard because you care about making a difference to that business because they are as invested as you are in the brand. And, yeah, recruitment is a difficult business and retention is a difficult business. So if you can bring together all of those things in such an incredible way across everything you do, then recruiting all of a sudden becomes a joy. And seeing people who want to work for you is incredible.Catherine Warrilow: So, yeah, it affects everything and you can see I get really excited about that because I think we so often forget that it's our people that will drive the success and we just go over that shiny thing over there. But actually, if you don't tell anyone else in the business what that shiny thing is and why it matters, then how on earth are you going to move mountains to get to that point?Kelly Molson: Totally agree with every single word that you're saying, Catherine. Totally agree with it. Right. We've talked about what it is, who's doing it well, tourism and attraction industry and why.Catherine Warrilow: Gosh. So I mentioned my time at doubt with the kids, and it was a very different beast when I was there, because were really trying to make fundamental changes in how we monetise the site, whereas now they've come so far, and I think I have to call out their content strategy and their content team, because in an incredibly crowded market, where you are competing for the attention of parents, the most time poor people on the planet, they have totally understood what type of content resonates with people, and they've understood how to keep people engaged in a community. And that might be anything from behind the scenes, an attraction, quite literal content. But that whole kind of.Catherine Warrilow: Oh, my gosh, you won't believe what's round this corner at this tiny farm park and bringing to life the lesser known attractions that have huge amounts to offer customers through to stuff that's trending, whether that's pop culture or music, tv, film, just tapping into the mood of the nation. My definition of that is situational relevance. So how do you bring together a situation or trend that's important to people now with the relevance of your brand? And it goes back to what we're saying about tone of voice before. What's your perspective on that topic? Why would a customer engage with your brand about that topic if it's not literally trying to sell them a ticket to an attraction?Catherine Warrilow: And I think what they've done with channels like TikTok, for example, is they've absolutely understood, A, what problem they solve for the customer, but B, what's important to them now and what they're talking about right this minute, because that will be different today to it is tomorrow. And they are quick and they are agile and they are reactive to trends and topics, and they've understood how to have that conversation with someone within their audience demographic. And that's not easy. That is a huge undertaking of time and effort and research, and it doesn't take two minutes to create a decent TikTok that's going to engage people. People think it's like an instantaneous throwaway channel, but it's not. And you've got to hook people in about a second and a. So I think they're doing great things.Catherine Warrilow: When it comes to attractions, Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley in Yorkshire, I think are epic. I think, again, they captured situational relevance by streaming things like lambing season on Facebook. Years and years ago, they started doing that and they were like, "Oh, we're on something.". People want to watch the lambs being born and how we care for them and how we bring new life into the world and how good that feels. And that led to them doing a whole series with Channel five. And I just think they had their vision and mission and products spot on. They had the foundations. They knew what they were delivering, who to for what gain. They were bringing people up close and personal with farming life in a way that just captured families. And I think they've sustained that, and I think that's quite difficult to do.Catherine Warrilow: I think they've evolved with the times, and they've carried on improving their products, and they've carried on communicating that to people who want that type of experience. So I think that they're brilliant. And then the other one would be Marsh Farm in Essex. Their understanding of events and how to capture people through events is out of this world. And what they do is they look, I don't think they intentionally do it, but what they've managed to do is create a triangle between celebrity. So someone like Daisy Solomon and how she celebrates Halloween, for example, and an experience that they can deliver that captures that to people in a way they can afford.Catherine Warrilow: So their pumpkin patches and photo moments around Halloween are mind blowing, because what they've done, they've looked at what people want to achieve at the celebrity level, but potentially can't cover their front doorstep in a million pumpkins and have ghosts coming out of every part of the.Kelly Molson: Catherine, honestly.Catherine Warrilow: But they can go and have that experience at Marsh Farm with their kids, take photos of their kids in a wheelbarrow surrounded by pumpkins, and feel like they've had a slice of that lifestyle. And they up their game with every single event they do. And it's remarkable. And the effort that goes into delivering that wrapped up with incredible customer service is second to none. And I think a lot of attractions can learn from how they deliver that experience.Kelly Molson: I totally agree. Marsh Farm is James Sinclair, isn't it? That's him, yes.Catherine Warrilow: And Aaron Oathman. Yeah.Kelly Molson: James actually came on the podcast.He was a really early guest on the first season of the podcast when me and my old co founder used to do it together. Actually, I think my co founder interviewed James on his own, actually. I don't think I was on that one. But we had seen James, he'd been on our radar for a long time. And he is a smart cookie. He really is a smart. I think he's probably a bit marmite for people, in all honesty. But that's a good thing, right? That's filthy. But I absolutely love his content. I love it. I can sit and watch it all day long and he's got so much to talk about and there's so much value that he delivers as well. So from a personal brand perspective, I think he's kind of nailing that as well.Catherine Warrilow: Oh, 100%. And that's something we haven't even touched on, is personal brand. That's a conversation for another day. But it fits in neatly with getting your people invested in the business vision, because they are your brand ambassadors. They are the people going out to events and selling the dream. And some people don't see the value of that, but the way they conduct themselves, especially if you're in B2B and you're in trade events and you're negotiating relationships with suppliers or trying to get people to come to your stand and talk to you about a product or service, they're not going to do that unless your personal brand has that magnetism. And you're absolutely right, James has that magnetism.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Which, again, is going to help with his recruitment and then building those brands and then vision. So it's all part and parcel of the same thing. Exactly. I love it. Great examples as well. Thank you for sharing those. What are your top tips that you'd like to share with our listeners today?Catherine Warrilow: So, the first one I won't labour over, because it's getting your people aligned with your vision, and we've talked about that a lot. It all starts there. If you can't get people to adore the plans of the business, then it's going to be hard work to get to that point. I think the second one is something we touched on early on. It's about authenticity. Whether you're customer facing and you're an attraction or an experience, whether you're an OTA, whether you're a res tech company. Authenticity, I think, is everything. If you can't do something, don't say you can. If you can't fix something, don't say you can. Be honest. Just be honest about everything, with your customers, with your teams, with your partners, and do your absolute best to find the right solution.Catherine Warrilow: So if you let a customer down, don't gloss over and say, "Oh, well, we couldn't have controlled that.". Say, "We're gutted that this has happened, we can't fix it, but this is what we're going to do to avoid it happening again. This is the problem we've uncovered.". Just bring it all to the surface. I don't understand why brands don't let people see in. Because we know as customers that the brands we resonate with and have an affinity with are the ones we trust. It's as simple as that. So why not let people into that world a bit more? And the way we use social these days allows us to do that, allows us to have a window into our world. So use that to your advantage. Show you're listening.Catherine Warrilow: Show that you take on board feedback, whether that's internally, externally or otherwise, and just be the best, genuine version of yourself and your business that you can be. And then the third thing I would say is, try new stuff now. So if you're not on TikTok and you're like, "We need to be on TikTok, but we don't understand it, we don't get it, we don't have the resource.". Don't put it off. You will never have enough resource for everything you want to do. You will never be a master at all things. But try them now. Don't have them on that forever to do list. Whether that's approaching a new partner or researching a new sector within tours, experiences and attractions, do it now.Catherine Warrilow: And if you're listening to this or watching this and you've had one of those things on your list, please do something about it this week and come back and tell us both what you've done, because I think you just need that push in the right direction. People wait for the perfect moment to try something new or do something new or launch something new. There is never a perfect moment. You will miss the boat. And then you have that constant frustration of, "Oh, those guys are doing it brilliantly. Why didn't we just dot.". Because if you had have done, you probably would be creating great content on that channel now. You probably would be in a partnership with that new wine tour. Just don't wait. Trends come and go. Just get on with it. Stop waiting.Kelly Molson: I feel like you've also just made us about 400 people's accountability partners there as well. So thanks for that.Catherine Warrilow: Okay, I'm going to rescind that last bit. Tell me what you've done this week.Kelly Molson: Take it, send and email us. All Catherine's details will be in the show notes. It's fine. You can email us both. Let us know what you've taken off your list and what you've gone ahead with. We want to know. I'm joking. All 400 of you and more. It's great tips. Thank you for sharing today. I've really thoroughly enjoyed this. Where can we get more from you? You're actually going to be talking soon. At quite a large event, aren't you?Catherine Warrilow: Yeah. So you can see me in person at Arival first weekend of March. So I'll be talking about everything we've talked about today, actually taking your mission and vision and values right through to monetisation and figuring out where those gaps are in the middle. So that'd be a really practical, hands on workshop. I'm a real kind of sharpie marker and paper type person, so you will actually get a physical roadmap to take away and fill in yourself, which I think is going to be really fun. I'm a massive oversharer, like I said, so you can find me on LinkedIn a lot, on TikTok a lot. I can't profess to be a TikTok expert by any stretch, but I am persevering because I think it's a brilliant channel to share quick pieces of advice and tips and hacks.Catherine Warrilow: So little things that you can do right now that will improve the brand strategy within your business. So, yeah, you can find me quite easily, I'm afraid.Kelly Molson: We will put all of Catherine's details in the show notes as well, so you just can refer back to there and you'll be able to find her. One thing I would say about Catherine's website, you have to go and cheque it out, because there's a little line on Catherine's website that I absolutely love. It says, "You need help, we're ready to fix your shit.". And I was like, "Yeah, she absolutely is. This woman is going to fix your shit.". Okay. I always end the episodes with a book that our guests love. So, what have you brought to recommend to our listeners today?Catherine Warrilow: So, it's ironic, actually, because my two book recommendations, the first one's called The Power of Doing Less, by an author called Fergus O'Connell. And this is about getting rid of all the distractions and noise. And it's a really simple, short book that you'll want to keep on your desk with post it notes in pages, because it's just a good reminder of things like, "Am I the best person to do this? Is there someone else in the business that is better at this and should be doing this? Do I need to do it now? Is it important right now? Or am I just doing it because it's the top of the list? Should I be doing it in the way I think I should be doing it? Should I be doing part of it and not all of it?".Catherine Warrilow: And it's just a great sanity cheque deck for not being a busy fool. And I love that. And it just keeps you sharp in terms of prioritising because nothing's ever urgent. It's either important or it's not. And then the second one, again, a bit ironic, based on my kind of love of bringing lots and lots of different things together, is called The One Thing by Gary Keller. Actually, it's not ironic really, because really, that's about the vision. Like, what is the one thing we are trying to do here and does everything else we're doing align to that one purpose? That is just such a brilliant book and it really helps you get focused and clarity on what you're doing and why. So, yeah, those are my two recommendations.Kelly Molson: Brilliant books, and they haven't come up previously as well. I love this. I always like it when a guest brings a book. I'm like, "Oh, that's gone on to my list as well.". Listeners, if you want to win a copy of Catherine's books, so as ever, go over to our twitter account and retweet this episode announcement with the words, I want Catherine's books and you'll be in with the chance of winning them. We also have a I'll put it in the show notes, but we have a brilliant blog on our website, on the Rubber Cheese website that lists all of these books that our guests come on and share. So it's become kind of a virtual library for people to go and refer to back to over the years. So thank you for adding to our library today.Kelly Molson: Thank you for coming on and sharing. It's been a great chat. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I love talking about brand. It is a little bit of my background as well, so I completely understand and embrace everything that you've talked about today. Good luck at Arival. I hope that goes brilliantly and I look forward to all of those emails that we're about to receive about people taking things off their list, doing them.Catherine Warrilow: And I'll see you in a toilet somewhere soon, hopefully.Kelly Molson: Probably. Like I said, all the best people meet in toilets.Catherine Warrilow: Thanks, Kelly.Kelly Molson:  Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. The 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report is now LIVE! Dive into groundbreaking benchmarks for the industryGain a better understanding of how to achieve the highest conversion ratesExplore the "why" behind visitor attraction site performanceLearn the impact of website optimisation and visitor engagement on conversion ratesUncover key steps to enhance user experience for greater conversionsDownload the report now for invaluable insights and actionable recommendations!

Stories from the River
Will Guidara Brings Awesome to Business with Unreasonable Hospitality at WBF NYC 2023

Stories from the River

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2023 30:27


Welcome back to another World Business Forum NYC 2023 Series episode from Stories from the River. Host Charlie Malouf leads the conversation with returning guests Heather Greenwood and Brian Deckelnick, Sr. Director of Supply Chain at Broad River Retail, as they unpack the insights from Will Guidara's presentation. Will was the former co-owner and GM of the #1 rated restaurant in the world, Eleven Madison Park in NYC, and he chronicled his restaurant's journey to becoming the best in the world in his book "Unreasonable Hospitality." Will received a paperweight from his Dad (who was also a restauranteur) when he was a kid that said, "What would you attempt if you knew you couldn't fail?"  Will still has that paperweight today and reflects on that question to pursue big goals in his life without the worry of potentially failing preventing him from pursuing them.  Another statement from Will's presentation is that adversity is a terrible thing to waste and that adversity can drive our competitiveness and can be channeled for good.   Will stated that he doesn't have the superpower of being a professional athlete or a world-class chef, but that his superpower is hospitality.  He said that he wanted to be unreasonable in his pursuit of people.  Will spent a lot of time talking about the pre-meal Daily Huddle and the power of the twice daily repetition from these meetings involving everyone in the restaurant.  In their pursuit of being the best restaurant in the world, Will described their approach to brainstorming with everybody empowered to share.  That's how they came up with 120 customer touchpoints and opportunities to make the ordinary extraordinary.  Will says that people today are collecting touchpoints like memories.  He says that raindrops make oceans.  Will says that generosity begets generosity, assymetrically, and that small gestures can yield significant results. In overcoming obstacles when a customer experience turns negative, Will says that moments of tension are the moments to lean in.  He says that bad experiences are the best ones if you can come back from it and that customers will be forgiving based on how you recover.  These turnaround experiences can leave the lasting imprint for the customer. Will says that you can put in systems to be prepared for both fall downs or memorable moments.  They hired someone in the position of Dreamweaver to systematize and curate ideas to be able to bring them to life.  They used pattern recognition and listening to customers in the restaurant to create one size fits one gestures, because every customer is one of one.  This led to the creation of the Hospitality Toolkit, which helped them to be ready for these moments.  In their attempt to systematize improv, so to speak, they wanted to make experiences worth collecting.  Like Maya Angelou said, "People won't remember what you say, but they'll remember how you made them feel." Not only did Will want to make his customers feel special, but he also explained how he wanted to inspire his people at Eleven Madison Park and make sure that each of them knew that they mattered and that their ideas had value.  Will said that the secret to recruiting and retention was restoring purpose in the work with generosity, graciousness, and hospitality, and helping people understand the nobility in service. Will said that you need to help people understand how their work inspires others.  Will said that business needs more "Awesome" in it, and he's trying to bring back "Awesome."  He's trying to create magical worlds in a world that needs more magic. In the Q & A portion, here were the key takeaways.  On trusting people, Will said that the more responsibility you give someone, the more responsible they become.  On spreading positivity, Will said to have your positive energy impact others and not the other way around, through consistency and repetition.  On customer service, Will says, "No guest left behind." On mistakes, Will said that with the Peak-end Rule, mistakes present the best opportunity to recover and gain a fan for life, because they will remember how you leave it.  On connecting with guests, Will says the informality must be earned.  Earning informality comes from presence, humor, and vulnerability.  On decision making and execution to get things done, Will said that design by committee doesn't work. He said that you can brainstorm by committee, but someone has to be responsible for making the decision and executing.  On interviewing people, Will suggests less structure and more connection where he's trying to answer the question, 'Is this someone I'd want to spend time with?' and 'Is this someone my team would want to spend time with?' References from this episode:  "Unreasonable Hospitality" by Will Guidara - https://www.unreasonablehospitality.com  Netflix documentary series "7 Days Out" episode featuring Eleven Madison Park restaurant - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/80207124  Eleven Madison Park - https://www.elevenmadisonpark.com/  "The Power of Moments" by Chip and Dan Heath - https://heathbrothers.com/the-power-of-moments/  "The Motive" by Pat Lencioni - https://www.amazon.com/Motive-Leaders-Abdicate-Important-Responsibilities/dp/1119600456  "The Invisible Leader" by Zach Mercurio - https://www.zachmercurio.com/books/  FX's original series "The Bear" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/  This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mv_g0FImztc  We hope you enjoy this episode and subscribe to our podcast for a new story each week. Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. 

Stories from the River
Will Guidara Brings Awesome to Business with Unreasonable Hospitality at WBF NYC 2023

Stories from the River

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2023 30:27


Welcome back to another World Business Forum NYC 2023 Series episode from Stories from the River. Host Charlie Malouf leads the conversation with returning guests Heather Greenwood and Brian Deckelnick, Sr. Director of Supply Chain at Broad River Retail, as they unpack the insights from Will Guidara's presentation. Will was the former co-owner and GM of the #1 rated restaurant in the world, Eleven Madison Park in NYC, and he chronicled his restaurant's journey to becoming the best in the world in his book "Unreasonable Hospitality." Will received a paperweight from his Dad (who was also a restauranteur) when he was a kid that said, "What would you attempt if you knew you couldn't fail?"  Will still has that paperweight today and reflects on that question to pursue big goals in his life without the worry of potentially failing preventing him from pursuing them.  Another statement from Will's presentation is that adversity is a terrible thing to waste and that adversity can drive our competitiveness and can be channeled for good.   Will stated that he doesn't have the superpower of being a professional athlete or a world-class chef, but that his superpower is hospitality.  He said that he wanted to be unreasonable in his pursuit of people.  Will spent a lot of time talking about the pre-meal Daily Huddle and the power of the twice daily repetition from these meetings involving everyone in the restaurant.  In their pursuit of being the best restaurant in the world, Will described their approach to brainstorming with everybody empowered to share.  That's how they came up with 120 customer touchpoints and opportunities to make the ordinary extraordinary.  Will says that people today are collecting touchpoints like memories.  He says that raindrops make oceans.  Will says that generosity begets generosity, assymetrically, and that small gestures can yield significant results. In overcoming obstacles when a customer experience turns negative, Will says that moments of tension are the moments to lean in.  He says that bad experiences are the best ones if you can come back from it and that customers will be forgiving based on how you recover.  These turnaround experiences can leave the lasting imprint for the customer. Will says that you can put in systems to be prepared for both fall downs or memorable moments.  They hired someone in the position of Dreamweaver to systematize and curate ideas to be able to bring them to life.  They used pattern recognition and listening to customers in the restaurant to create one size fits one gestures, because every customer is one of one.  This led to the creation of the Hospitality Toolkit, which helped them to be ready for these moments.  In their attempt to systematize improv, so to speak, they wanted to make experiences worth collecting.  Like Maya Angelou said, "People won't remember what you say, but they'll remember how you made them feel." Not only did Will want to make his customers feel special, but he also explained how he wanted to inspire his people at Eleven Madison Park and make sure that each of them knew that they mattered and that their ideas had value.  Will said that the secret to recruiting and retention was restoring purpose in the work with generosity, graciousness, and hospitality, and helping people understand the nobility in service. Will said that you need to help people understand how their work inspires others.  Will said that business needs more "Awesome" in it, and he's trying to bring back "Awesome."  He's trying to create magical worlds in a world that needs more magic. In the Q & A portion, here were the key takeaways.  On trusting people, Will said that the more responsibility you give someone, the more responsible they become.  On spreading positivity, Will said to have your positive energy impact others and not the other way around, through consistency and repetition.  On customer service, Will says, "No guest left behind." On mistakes, Will said that with the Peak-end Rule, mistakes present the best opportunity to recover and gain a fan for life, because they will remember how you leave it.  On connecting with guests, Will says the informality must be earned.  Earning informality comes from presence, humor, and vulnerability.  On decision making and execution to get things done, Will said that design by committee doesn't work. He said that you can brainstorm by committee, but someone has to be responsible for making the decision and executing.  On interviewing people, Will suggests less structure and more connection where he's trying to answer the question, 'Is this someone I'd want to spend time with?' and 'Is this someone my team would want to spend time with?' References from this episode:  "Unreasonable Hospitality" by Will Guidara - https://www.unreasonablehospitality.com  Netflix documentary series "7 Days Out" episode featuring Eleven Madison Park restaurant - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/80207124  Eleven Madison Park - https://www.elevenmadisonpark.com/  "The Power of Moments" by Chip and Dan Heath - https://heathbrothers.com/the-power-of-moments/  "The Motive" by Pat Lencioni - https://www.amazon.com/Motive-Leaders-Abdicate-Important-Responsibilities/dp/1119600456  "The Invisible Leader" by Zach Mercurio - https://www.zachmercurio.com/books/  FX's original series "The Bear" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/  This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mv_g0FImztc  We hope you enjoy this episode and subscribe to our podcast for a new story each week. Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. 

AlmostSideways Podcast
SideShow: Breaking Bad S2.E9 - 4 Days Out

AlmostSideways Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2023 36:42


Can you survive when you facing true adversity? Have you ever been disappointed by good news? Is it possible more things went wrong with our technology in this episode than went wrong with the RV? All these questions and more are asked and discussed in this episode of the Almost SideShow as we break down Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 9: "4 Days Out." Check back every Thursday morning for the latest episode of the Almost SideShow! Find the past seasons of the Almost SideShow here: ⁠⁠http://almostsideways.com/Main%20Menu/Artice%20Archives%20Sub-Menus/AlmostSideways/Almost%20SideShow.html⁠⁠ The SideShow is meant to be a companion to listen to after you watch each episode, so join us on the journey!  Watch the episode, then listen to our reaction and analysis.  New episodes drop every week! The Almost SideShow is hosted by Terry Plucknett and Adam Daly and is a part of the AlmostSideways family. Find AlmostSideways everywhere! ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠almostsideways.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/AlmostSidewayscom-130953353614569/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠AlmostSideways Twitter⁠⁠: @almostsideways ⁠⁠Terry's Twitter⁠⁠: @almostsideterry ⁠⁠Zach's Twitter⁠⁠: @pro_zach36 Todd: ⁠⁠Too Cool for Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Adam's Twitter⁠⁠: @adamsideways ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almostsideways-podcast/id1270959022⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7oVcx7Y9U2Bj2dhTECzZ4m⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Stitcher⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/almost-sideways-movie-podcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfEoLqGyjn9M5Mr8umWiktA/featured?view_as=subscriber

Making Money Personal
Countdown to a Successful and Stress-free Thanksgiving - Money Tip Tuesday

Making Money Personal

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 7:28


Thanksgiving is one of the most popular holidays because it's not about costumes or presents, it's about taking time to give thanks and be with family and friends you love. While that is what we would like to think, Thanksgiving has become somewhat of another stressful holiday that can fill you with financial, mental, and emotional anxiety. Stay tuned as we countdown ways you can alter your Thanksgiving feast and family time to make this holiday the best one ever! Links: Check out TCU University for more financial education tips and resources! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! Learn more about Triangle Credit Union Transcript: Welcome to Money Tip Tuesday from the Making Money Personal podcast. I love Thanksgiving primarily because my mom is a fantastic cook and even though I've been adulting for 40 years, she still hosts our family with all the delicious fixins! I won't say getting to her house for Thanksgiving is the easiest because she and my dad live six hours north of our home in NH. As you can imagine, the most stressful issue for us is getting there! My husband and I have two adult daughters: one with a job and one in college in NC. What was an easy arrangement for us to all get in the car years ago, has now become quite an ordeal. Now we have three people who have to get time off and getting the also have to get our girl home from university without breaking the bank. We know we aren't alone when it comes to holiday stress so here are ideas you can incorporate into the final countdown to Thanksgiving: 7 Days Out – if you haven't extended your invites yet, you need to do that today! You don't need formal invitations or a special email—a phone call or a text will do. When you think about those invitations, really stop to consider who's going to be at your table. In addition to the who, you also want to consider how many simply because a crowd can cause chaos. Too many people can lead to a hectic and stressful situation so don't put yourself in that position. Invite those who can comfortably fit at your table. And don't forget the single aunt or neighbor who may not have anyone to share this special day with—extending the invitation will make their day a special one. 6 Days Out – Clean out your fridge and make room for all the groceries you're about to buy because it's time to think about your meal: what will you serve for an appetizer, main entrée, sides, and dessert? Once you have the menu, then you'll want to prepare your grocery shopping list. We all tend to over prepare or buy when it comes to food so be considerate of your budget and don't go overboard. There are meal planning tools online (and we'll share those in our show notes). If you are on a budget, don't be afraid to ask your family and friends to bring a side dish to share. Whenever I get an invitation to a party, I always ask, “what can I bring?” with the expectation that I do need to bring something! Try to stick to your list when you go shopping—if you do buy extra groceries just make sure you can afford them and you have room to store them! You will find grocery stores offer big sales during Thanksgiving week so if your budget allows, plan to pick up a little extra, but don't go over budget! Check the sales flyers before you leave your house and don't forget the condiments! 5 Days Out – Plan your table. There is something about a festive table to set the mood. Add some holiday decorations as a centerpiece. If you're looking for ideas, a simple Pinterest search will present you with some amazing suggestions. Table décor is beautiful and will be appreciated by your guests, but it is not necessary so if your budget doesn't allow for it, you can pass on this one. I have a co-worker who just told me she will have thirteen people for Thanksgiving which is about the cutoff for real or paper plates. She's opting for paper and that is a great option as well—super easy clean up and there are gorgeous prints and patterns to choose from in all sizes. 4 Days Out – More planning is on the menu today: what will your day look like and what will your guests be doing? How long do you plan to have them stay? It's quite common to have guests arrive an hour before mealtime, which is perfect for appetizers and to catch up. After the meal and clean up, what comes next? So glad you asked! Depending upon your vibe, your guests can retreat to the family room and sofa for football, or you can bring out the board games once the dining room table is cleaned. After dinner coffee is always a good idea—a little mid-afternoon caffeine pick-me-up will keep your guests awake! Whatever you plan for entertainment, let it be simple and easy. There is no need to force complicated activities and cause frustration. There is one item that is a must: make sure you take a photo together. Be sure to think ahead about when people will be leaving so you have the time to capture your special day together. 3 Days Out – Start cleaning. Anytime I have guests, I always start my cleaning early. I do try to keep our house tidy but inevitably, there are rooms to clean! Depending on how many rooms you have, tackle one or two a day so you don't play yourself out before the big day! 2 Days Out – Keep on cleaning! Double check the groceries to make sure you have everything you need. If you have any last-minute items, now's the time to get them! 1 Day Out – It's Thanksgiving Eve and your guests arrive tomorrow—no need to panic because the house is looking great (if not, keep cleaning), your groceries are in the pantry and refrigerator! Today is the day to pre-prepare any food that doesn't have to be made on Thanksgiving Day, which can be most dessert items and apps. You can even set and decorate your table in advance. Once your food items are prepped, put them in the refrigerator for tomorrow. One last item: write a to-do list for tomorrow with approximate timelines—this will help you keep a schedule and limit your anxiety…then get to bed early; you've got a big day tomorrow! Thanksgiving is here and it came up fast, but you're ready to face it with gusto! Enjoy your special time with those you love and give thanks for it all.    If you have any comments, tips or ideas, please email us at tcupodcast@trianglecu.org. For more great content, be sure to subscribe to the Making Money Personal podcast wherever you listen to podcasts and be sure to follow us on social media. Many thanks to our sponsor, Triangle Credit Union, voted the best credit union in NH, and many thanks for tuning in. Have a great day everyone!  

Tourpreneur
Taking Brands from the Ordinary to the Extraordinary, with Catherine Warrilow

Tourpreneur

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 33:29


Prepare to get enlightened as we have an engaging chat with Catherine Warrilow, the former marketing powerhouse behind Days Out. Catherine brings her unique insights to the table, shedding light on the importance of authenticity in branding. We dive deep into the significance of aligning a brand with customer's needs, leveraging the power of storytelling, and the irreplaceable role of a well-knit team.(0:00:00) - Authenticity and Personal Branding in BrandsBrand strategy, customer need, culture, stories, and customer knowledge are key to a successful brand.(0:11:37) - Tourism Success Through Personal BrandingWe discussed finding the right team, creating a personal brand, and the success story of Days Out No.(0:24:51) - Investing in Brand Development and ContentCreate unique content quickly and easily, use AI to enhance audio, make content feel candid and authentic to humanise brand.(0:31:05) - LinkedIn Content Ideas and Networking OpportunitiesCatherine Warrilow emphasises authentic content, team building, unique messaging, and social media strategies for successful branding.

Kankelfritz & Friends Podcast
347. Adorable Toddler Sings "Waymaker" to Baby Brother

Kankelfritz & Friends Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2023 17:54


House is Only Clean 11 Days Out of the Year - Mary's Messy House | House is Only Clean 11 Days Out of the Year - Albert Says Make an Appointment | Kay on Increasing Her Giving to Family Life Radio | Adorable Toddler Sings Waymaker to Baby Brother | Good News - Toby's Brain Cancer Isn't Growing | Sally - Lost and Found | Ruth Chou Simons - Being Content | Thank You for Giving to Family Life Radio during Our Fall Fundraiser! | Joy Report - Patty's Granddaughter Rang the Cancer-Free Bell | Barbara - Lessons Learned from Parenting Kids with Special Needs

HBO's Oz: Return to Oswald
BMT: 4 Days Out

HBO's Oz: Return to Oswald

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 72:56


Welcome to Blood, Meth, and Tears, the podcast about Breaking Bad. In this episode, we discuss episode nine of season two: 4 Days Out. Twitter: @RTOPodcasts, @ThatCoolBlkNerd, @Scarfinger, @Rashanii Become a Patron at http://www.Patreon.com/singlesimulcast Donate to the show at http://www.buymeacoffee.com/sscast

Single Simulcast
BMT: 4 Days Out

Single Simulcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 72:56


Welcome to Blood, Meth, and Tears, the podcast about Breaking Bad. In this episode, we discuss episode nine of season two: 4 Days Out. Twitter: @RTOPodcasts, @ThatCoolBlkNerd, @Scarfinger, @Rashanii Become a Patron at http://www.Patreon.com/singlesimulcast Donate to the show at http://www.buymeacoffee.com/sscast

Blood, Meth, and Tears: A Breaking Bad Podcast

Welcome to Blood, Meth, and Tears, the podcast about Breaking Bad. In this episode, we discuss episode nine of season two: 4 Days Out. Twitter: @RTOPodcasts, @ThatCoolBlkNerd, @Scarfinger, @Rashanii Become a Patron at http://www.Patreon.com/singlesimulcast Donate to the show at http://www.buymeacoffee.com/sscast

MAX MPS RADIO
#202: Beyond The Prep II Ep. 32 - Prep Recap 2023

MAX MPS RADIO

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 59:11


Die 32. Episode der Serie Beyond The Prep II ist online! Zusammen mit Marvin besprechen wir regelmäßig Jans und Marvins Prep und gehen dabei auf unterschiedliche Themen ein. In dieser Folge besprechen wir Jans Ausrutscher nach einem Restaurantbesuch 5 Wochen Post Prep und wie er damit umgegangen ist. Außerdem reden wir über die bisher größten Learnings aus beiden Contest Preps und wie es für Marvin 2 Days Out zur Evo Sichtung weitergeht. Danke für eure Aufmerksamkeit! Wenn euch der Podcast gefällt, würde ich mich sehr über ein Abo, Like & Kommentar auf YouTube sowie ein Review in eurer Podcast-App freuen! Danke für euren Support! ________________________________________ Webseite: http://janfrisse.de Online Coaching: https://janfrisse.de/coaching Beratungsgespräch: http://janfrisse.de/kontakt E-Mail: coaching@janfrisse.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janfrisse Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_O44SkXYEw3-DilXpScKA EVO Sports Fuel: www.evosportsfuel.de/ - Code “Jan” ________________________________________ Marvins Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marvinhaupt_/ Marvins Coaching: marvinhaupt.com E-Mail: marvin@advancedphysique.de ________________________________________ MAX MPS Radio ist auch auf allen Podcast-Plattformen verfügbar: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/max-mps-radio/id1349774992?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/janfrisse Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1OmzAJuchpHk8NQVUWiWGS #NaturalBodybuilding #ImprovementSeason #ContestPrep

Growth Decay Transformation - A Breaking Bad Rewatch Podcast

Where do you store your keys when you're way out in the boonies in an RV cooking meth? Does methylamine go bad? Why does Walt punch the paper towel dispenser after receiving such good news? And what's the deal with Walt's mother? Join your hosts, Courtney and Pete, as they explore these questions and more in their discussion of Aaron Paul's favorite episode of Breaking Bad, “4 Days Out.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock Chalk Sports Talk
Best Of RCST Podcast 5-23-23

Rock Chalk Sports Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 86:03


(0:00-20:15) Opening RCST discussing the potential for Hunter Dickinson to go up in the rafters (20:16-37:13) Shreyas Laddha of the Kansas City Star (37:14-55:34) RCST Trivia Great 8: Kyle Martin vs Chris Jurcyk (55:35-1:11:26) Top 10 Memorable Moments of the 2022-23 KU Basketball Season (1:11:27-End) KU Football 100 Days Out

SCRS Talks
The New Frontier of Clinical Technology Innovation

SCRS Talks

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 27:06


In this episode, we're excited to chat about the inaugural SCRS West: Clinical Tech & Innovation Summit coming up in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ramy Nassar, Founder + Managing Partner, 1000 Days Out, and Karri Venn, COO, Centricity Research explore why an event like this is crucial for the clinical trial industry and what attendees can expect.  Ramy and Karri also share how the industry can collaborate to have more site-focused technology solutions and the importance of sites sharing their experiences with clinical technology in an open, collaborative way.

Tha Boxing Voice
☎️Josh Taylor Vs. Teofimo Lopez For WBO Belt

Tha Boxing Voice

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2023 87:15


#TeofimoLopez #Taylorlopez #joshtaylor ️☎️Josh Taylor Vs. Teofimo Lopez For WBO Belt

Keep the Flame Alive
Book Club Claire on Inaugural Ballers (Episode 277)

Keep the Flame Alive

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2023 63:47


It's Women's History Month, so it's only appropriate that our first book club selection of 2023 celebrates female athletes. Book Club Claire is back to discuss Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team by Andrew Maraniss. We're having a free virtual Q&A with Andrew on Monday, March 27 at 9pm US Eastern Time. If you'd like to join us, please email flamealivepod@gmail.com to RSVP. In our history moment, Jill looks at a women's first at Seoul 1988: Track Cycling. This story also contains an Olympic first--and only--statistic. We've got news from our TKFLASTAN. Hear what's up with: Shooter Kim Rhode Curler John Shuster Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski Hockey player Brianna Decker Former biathlete Clare Egan, who's speaking at the Your Future Olympian virtual summit. Paddler Luuka Jones Listener David In Paris 2024 news, we're talking about ticket lotteries, Notre Dame reconstruction, and the 500 Days Out celebration (if you're in Ireland, here's where you can register for it) In Milan-Cortina 2026 news, Alison's got an announcement, and we potentially have a winner in the mascot selection! The International Olympic Committee has announced its esport series - learn more about the games and qualifiers here. The International Paralympic Committee has released a new strategic plan to take the organization through 2026. We break down some of the exciting goals they have. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://wp.me/pbRtIx-29z Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive! ***  Keep the Flame Alive: The Podcast for Fans of the Olympics and Paralympics with hosts Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown   Support the show: http://flamealivepod.com/support Bookshop.org store: https://bookshop.org/shop/flamealivepod   Hang out with us online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flamealivepod Insta: http://www.instagram.com/flamealivepod Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/flamealivepod Facebook Group: hhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/flamealivepod Newsletter: Sign up at http://flamealivepod.com VM/Text: (208) FLAME-IT / (208) 352-6348    

Pit Lane Parley
Pato O'Ward Joins the Show

Pit Lane Parley

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2023 20:51


In this episode of Pit Lane Parley, We sit down with Arrow McLaren driver Pato O'Ward to discuss the upcoming season. Pato shares his thoughts on his offseason preparations, including what he's been doing to stay sharp and what cars he'd love to drive for fun one day. John also asks Pato about his new teammate Alexander Rossi, and how he's getting along with the team. They also discuss the upcoming test at Thermal Club, and Pato shares his excitement for the new Indycar "100 Days Out" show coming to the CW Network soon. Tune in for an inside look at the world of motorsports from one of the top drivers in the game. Thank you to our friends at Java House, for letting Host record this interview from one of their Indy locations. Java House Cold Brew Coffee is the perfect pick-me-up for coffee lovers looking for a smooth and refreshing alternative to traditional hot coffee. Use promo code PITLANE10 for 10% off all online orders

Scott Peck
36 Days Out till race day.

Scott Peck

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2022 51:51


36 Days Out till race day.  We discuss details all about the event.  Also be ready for call ins from @sorokoryan @robbiepeterson @chicken_fried_choppers @clayton_ cotton

Skip the Queue
Attraction partnerships and rivalries, with Dominic Jones

Skip the Queue

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 47:55


Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends October 1st 2022. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://maryrose.org/https://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/https://twitter.com/DominicJonesUKhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicejones/ https://www.nmrn.org.uk/https://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/news/item/1152-buoyant-bounce-back-bodes-well-for-portsmouth-historic-dockyard Dominic Jones was recruited to the Mary Rose in 2019 ago as Chief Operating Officer, and became CEO in 2021.  He brings an excellent background in commercial visitor attractions (Disney, Merlin) and creative visitor experience development.During his time at the Mary Rose, he has already driven an excellent commercial and operational performance and worked closely with previous Chief Executive to create the new Portsmouth Historic Dockyard joint venture with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, which launched successfully in August 2020.  Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. In today's episode, I speak with Dominic Jones, CEO of the Mary Rose Museum and Director of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Dominic shares the amazing impact of the joint venture between the Mary Rose Museum and the National Museum of the Royal Navy and his advice for any attractions looking to start and improve their partnership arrangements. If you like what you hear, subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Dominic. Welcome to Skip the Queue. Thanks for coming on.Dominic Jones: Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to it, I think.Kelly Molson: You are looking forward to it. You don't need to think about it. Can we just point out, I know, listeners, you can't see this, but if you're watching this on YouTube, can we just see, you've got a lovely little, "I love Skip the Queue" graphic in the background there. Look at that.Dominic Jones: Yeah, I think it's important to get across that I do love Skip the Queue and it's important to get that across before the icebreaker questions, I think, just in case you had a couple and you were thinking, "Oh, I'm going to be a bit tough." And then, so I did that and I tweeted this morning how excited I am about your forthcoming website attraction questionnaire, so that's a double. That's a double positive, right?Kelly Molson: Thank you. Thank you. Don't worry, listeners. I've got a special little recording so you understand what we're talking about that will be coming out in the next week or so, so you'll find out more about that soon.Dominic Jones: And I bought you a rubber for your rubber collection. Can you see that? Mary Rose rubber?Kelly Molson: Wow. Look at that.Dominic Jones: You may or may not get that depending on how the icebreakers go, so that's my third attempt.Kelly Molson: Gosh, I've never been bribed for a good icebreaker question.Dominic Jones: It's not bribery. It's a nice gift. It's a nice gift.Kelly Molson: Right, well, let's get cracking on the icebreaker questions, shall we? I think I've been quite kind to you. Tell us something that you are really great at cooking.Dominic Jones: I really like cooking. I actually find cooking really relaxing, so on a Friday or Saturday, I often cook at home, so it depends, really. I quite like making my own recipes, so just using what we've got in the house. So for example, scallops with chorizo, or if you're doing a steak, might do it with some sort of watercress and various cheese, or just sort of experimenting. I really like sort of seeing what we've got, putting it together and making it work. I think it's important, when you're cooking, to drink some wine as well.Kelly Molson: Oh, I agree.Dominic Jones: So cooking with wine is something I enjoy doing.Kelly Molson: We can be friends, Dominic.Dominic Jones: There we go.Kelly Molson: Absolutely, we can be friends. Also, really great choices of food there. I would definitely eat both of those. You'd be really good on Ready Steady Cook, then. That would've been your show.Dominic Jones: Yeah. Do you know what? I used to... So I once applied for a game show, which I didn't get on, I was very disappointed, but Ready Steady Cook was one I think I could have done. Because it's not hard, is it? Most things go with things, and it's also about having the confidence to carry it off and knowing... The only time it went wrong was I wanted to cook for my girlfriend, who's now my wife, a lemon pasta dish and it tasted awful and it had lemon rind in it and stuff, so... But apart from that, it's always worked out.Kelly Molson: Well, I mean, you must have done all right. She married you.Dominic Jones: Yeah.Kelly Molson: She married you in the end.Dominic Jones: True.Kelly Molson: All right. Well, our next one, I've gone topical for this. If you were the captain of a pirate ship...Dominic Jones: Yeah?Kelly Molson: What would be the name of your ship?Dominic Jones: That's a good one. Oh. I do like pirates. I think, because I'm Welsh and because I'd want to be a pirate who... A bit like sort of the Warrior in the Dockyard, which isn't a pirate ship, by the way, but when it came in, people normally surrendered, I want to be a scary pirate that people would think, "Oh, don't..." Maybe, like, Smoking Dragon or something like that. And then we'd light smoke as we came in so people are like, "Oh, here's the Smoking Dragon."Kelly Molson: Yeah, I like that. And there'd be a big dragon's head on the front with flame and smoke coming out of it.Dominic Jones: And people... Because a lot of pirates were Welsh. I don't know whether you know this, but a lot of pirates were Welsh.Kelly Molson: I didn't know that.Dominic Jones: Yeah, it's massive.Kelly Molson: Wow.Dominic Jones: Massive.Kelly Molson: Okay. All right. This is great. That's an excellent answer.Dominic Jones: I have to say, these are slightly biased questions because I was listening to a few of your podcasts recently and, like, you had someone from the zoo, "Oh, what's your favourite animal?" Or you had someone from IAAPA, "What's your favourite ride?" And I'm getting a "name a pirate ship"? Know what I mean?Kelly Molson: All right, what's your favourite boat?Dominic Jones: No, only joking. I'm not going to answer that. I'm not going to answer that.Kelly Molson: All right, but what is your favourite smell? That's my last question.Dominic Jones: Genuinely, we're looking at smell now for the museum, because smell is so important, it's something that can make a difference. When I was at Madame Tussauds Amsterdam, we used smell, as well, as part of the experience, because it just creates that emotive moment. I do like cookie dough and cookies and the smell of that sort of baking which you get pumped in in Disney parks. I quite like the smell of red wine.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Yep.Dominic Jones: Yeah, so I think it's food or drink smells I like, but yeah. Good question.Kelly Molson: Good answer. We are at Unpopular Opinion Point. What have you got to share with us?Dominic Jones: This is a hard one because I've decided to go work on this and I did have some really cool ones about lager and N-Dubz and stuff, but I decided to go with work because one of the things that through my whole career, anyone who knows me will know is I get really frustrated when people blame the weather, so I think you shouldn't blame the weather for anything because what happens is when someone blames the weather, when the weather's... So I've worked in theme parks and in museums and aquariums, indoor and outdoor attractions, and you probably know that when it's bad weather, it's great for indoor attractions, when it's good weather, it's good for the theme parks, right?Dominic Jones: So you get people that, when it's good weather in theme parks or bad weather in museums, they say, "Oh, our marketing and our everything we're doing is brilliant because the visitors are coming." And as soon as it's the bad weather or the good weather, depending on what you are, then it's all about the weather. So, "Our visitors are down because the weather was good." If you're in an indoor attraction and it really, really irritates me, and it's one of those things, they're mutually exclusive, you can only blame the weather if you give the weather credit when it's good, and it's one of those things, if things are good, I always think you should look outside the window and think, "Right, what's the reason for that?" And then if things are bad, you should look inside your organisation. It's one of my pet hates, but probably doesn't work for the podcast, so I should probably go with the lager or N-Dubz one, but anyway, there we go. But it is important, right? I think it's a good one.Kelly Molson: It is important. No, I think, yeah, that is important. It's really interesting. I've never really thought about that before. We need to give the weather more credit.Dominic Jones: Well, you need to give the weather credit if you're going to use it to blame. For me, it's a constant. It's something... And these days, weather forecasts are 10, 14 days out, so you should be able to plan.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Okay. Good. All right.Dominic Jones: I'll get off my high horse now. Yeah.Kelly Molson: Listeners, let us know how you feel, so let us know if you want to know about that N-Dubz one as well. I'm intrigued. Right, Dominic, I want you to tell us about your background because we met up recently, didn't we, at the M+H exhibition? And you were very humble about coming on the podcast and you said, "Oh, I'm not going to have anything... You've had really interesting people on and I'm not that interesting." You are really interesting and you've had such an incredible background. Tell us a little bit about it and how you got to where you are now.Dominic Jones: Well, I'm not sure about that. I do like listening to your podcast and you have some amazing guests and 9 times out of 10, I normally think, after listening to them, "Right, I'm going to either do something that they've suggested." Or I follow them on LinkedIn or Twitter and think, "Right, let's learn from them." Because I think you should always learn from other people, but so my career is a lot of luck, a lot of opportunity and a lot of chats.Dominic Jones: When I was growing up, I wanted to be a leisure centre manager. You know? Like you probably won't remember The Brittas Empire, but that was my dream. That was my dream, much to my mum's disappointment. And so that was all I ever wanted, so I went to college and did a leisure studies course, a HND, and there was a placement in PGL Adventure, which is like an adventure park, and I was a Multi Activity Instructor. Absolutely loved it.Dominic Jones: But then I sort of realised, actually, there's a whole world out there and decided I wanted to work in theme parks, so I applied to work at Disney and didn't get it the first time. I was very cocky, I was the wrong sort of person for Disney, but I went back three times and eventually got it and I did a placement in Disney and it was the best thing I ever did and it changed my life. It's one of the few jobs that I've left and thought, "My life will never be the same again." So good. So I did that and I got my master's degree. I didn't get the doctorate because I went on spring break, but hey, I was young...Kelly Molson: Well, spring break, though.Dominic Jones: Exactly. I was young. And then sort of went to Thorpe Park and was a Ride Operator. I remember my friends and some of their family were saying, "That's a real waste of..." Because I went to, in between Disney, went to university in Swansea, and they said, "It's a real waste of university, operating a teacup for £3.50 an hour." Or whatever it was at the time. But I loved it and for me, it was... I thought, "If you want to become a manager or you want to become, eventually, a General Manager or a Director of a theme park, it's really important to know how these things work."Dominic Jones: So I loved it, and just in case you ever get to operate the teacups, it's not too complicated, there's a red and green button, the red is to stop and the green is to start. I mean, it was five hours of training, but I finally mastered it and you can't actually make it go faster, so when you're there on the microphone and say, "Do you want to go faster?" You can't, it goes faster anyway, but I loved it and then very quickly rose through the ranks, so I became a Ride Supervisor, Team Leader, Area Team Leader, Coordinator, went to Chessington, worked there just at the time when Tussauds had bought Thorpe Park, so it was a real great time for career opportunities.Dominic Jones: Then I went to Madame Tussauds, was the Customer Service Manager there and helped create the first contact centre, if you like, call centre, where we sold tickets for things like Rock Circus, which is no longer in existence, but Rock Circus, the London Eye, Madam Tussauds, the Planetarium and that became the Merlin Contact Centre in the future, and then I started applying for loads of jobs, more General Manager jobs, and didn't get them and realised that I needed to get some marketing and sales experience.Dominic Jones: So I left and went to work for Virgin and then I was there for nearly 10 years and absolutely loved it and instead of getting the sales and marketing, well, I got the sales experience, I ended up becoming Vice President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the logistics side of the business, and then also, so we opened up Kenya, had some amazing life experiences, we saw the whole world and then was Regional Vice President Sales in Hong Kong for Asia Pacific, so great time.Dominic Jones: And then my wife became pregnant, obviously, I was involved in that, and it made me realise that I probably couldn't do a job where I was traveling 24/7. I mean, for a while, I did literally consider, which makes me sound like a bad person, "I could call in from Skype and things like that." And my wife was like, "Come on." So we went back to Wales and it was really hard to find a job that would allow me to be at home and be around so I actually thought, "Well, originally, when I went to Virgin, I wanted to have marketing experience."Dominic Jones: So I actually went to Thorpe Park and the marketing team and looked after the partnerships and promotions, did some really cool things, the Ministry of Sound nightclub deal was there, did some stuff with Lionsgate. A really good time doing the "buy one, get one free" things, the partnerships and events, got some good bands together on the stage that hadn't been on stage with the Wideboys and the [inaudible 00:11:55] boys if you know your dance music, it was massive.Dominic Jones: Anyway, so I did that for a bit and then got an opportunity to go back to Wales, which is where my wife's family is from. I'm from North Wales, she's from South Wales, so I got a chance to run Oakwood Theme Park, which I absolutely loved and probably would've been there forever if an opportunity hadn't come up with Merlin and Merlin, it was to look after the rest of Europe and the rest of Europe was basically anything in their midway, so Madam Tussauds, Dungeons, Lego Discovery Centre, Sea Life, that wasn't in the UK or Germany, so it was like Istanbul, Helsinki, Paris Blankenberge in Belgium, Spain. I mean, it was brilliant and I did that for a few years.Dominic Jones: Then I went and ran Thorpe Park for a few years, which absolutely loved because that was where I started as a teacup operator and I remember, there was a guy there, good friend of mine, he said, "I remember, when you were on the teacups, you said, 'One day, I'm going to come back and run the place.'" And I did, so amazing. And then, in that time, I had three kids and really was commuting from Christchurch, so decided to change careers again and come into the heritage world and came as the COO of the Mary Rose, which I did for two years, and then, during the pandemic, became the CEO, so quick sort of... Yeah. But lots of luck and right place, right time, all those sort of things, but that's good, right? That's most people's career.Kelly Molson: Whoa. That is amazing. I mean, you've been to so many different places. I love that you went full-circle at Thorpe Park as well. What an incredible story, to have gone in there as an operator and then end up running the place. That is amazing.Dominic Jones: Yeah, I loved that. And actually, all the jobs I've had have really become part of our story. I was talking to someone yesterday about the Mary Rose and they were talking about what they were going to do next but how the Mary Rose had been a massive part of their story and I said, "That's the beautiful thing about work and careers and life. Whatever you do, it becomes part of your story and you're part of their story." So whether it's Thorpe Park, whether it's when I opened up, for Virgin Atlantic, the Nairobi route for logistics and the Hamlin, it was amazing and I've been to Kenya probably more times than I've been to Birmingham, you know? So that's part of my story, and when I leave the Mary Rose, I hope isn't any time soon, this will always be... It'll be my favourite Tudor warship. I mean, it's probably the only Tudor warship, but also my favourite one, so yeah.Kelly Molson: That was the answer to my question, as well. "What's your favourite ship?"Dominic Jones: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Wow. I'm blown away by your career. I just think you've had such a phenomenal journey to get to where you are now. There's something that I want to talk to you about today and that's about your joint venture that you have with the Mary Rose and the National Museum of the Royal Navy. I just want to read out a tweet that I saw because this is what sparked this conversation, so this is a tweet that went out on the Mary Rose Twitter account.Kelly Molson: It says, "We are very pleased to share that Portsmouth Historic Dockyard saw a 150% rise in visitor numbers in 2021, reported by ALVA today. The significant rise in visitors demonstrates the effectiveness of the joint venture between Mary Rose and the National Museum of the Royal Navy in our first year."Kelly Molson: I am very intrigued by this because this has been kind of a constant throughout most of the podcast conversations that we have is about how collaborative the sector is, but this is really specific about two attractions collaborating together to bring more visitors in. I would love you to tell us about this.Dominic Jones: Well, yeah, the end result's fantastic. 150% increase in visitors. It really feels joined up. My son's school is coming in today so I was in the visitor centre and I was waiting to see what time he was coming in because he obviously wouldn't tell me the time he's actually in, so I was looking around the visitor centre and I couldn't be prouder, when you see the mixture of Victory and Warrior and Mary Rose, and how far we've come since we started, but if you go back in history, the Mary Rose used to be part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and there was one ticket and there was a separate company called Portsmouth Historic Dockyard that ran it, and lots of trusts, at that time, there were lots of trusts that fed into it, and then, for whatever reason, some of these trusts went independent.Dominic Jones: And so when I joined the Mary Rose, we were separate. We had a separate ticket, visitor centre, if you like, so imagine, I guess, like a... You know when you're on holiday and there's people trying to get you to go on boat rides or they're trying to get you to come into their restaurant? And literally, we were competing, so when a visitor was outside, there'd be the Mary Rose saying, "Hey, come and see Henry VIII's warship, the biggest Tudor collection in the world." I mean, it's amazing. And then the people next door, "Hey, come and see the Victory and the Warrior." And it just was really difficult for the customers, and for whatever reason, we weren't together and we had these two separate companies, so for quite a while, when I started, along with Helen, who was the CEO and Dominic and a gentleman called John in NMRN, we had meetings to see if we could get closer and to get a deal, and then I think Matthew joined, as well, from NMRN, and eventually we kind of got to an agreement.Dominic Jones: It was about, "What can we do together? What, collaboratively, can we do?" We came up with three things. We can sell tickets together, we could run a visitor centre together, so that's #1, the visitor side. We could market the destination together, and we could do strategic operations like events. So we then looked away and came across a deal, and for us, it was important that the two parties, so Mary Rose and the National Museum of the Royal Navy had a 50/50 parity of decision so it wasn't a one-sided joint venture and it was really... There's lots of talent in both organisations, so I've always admired what the National Museum of the Royal Navy have done over the years and how they've told history and how they bring it to life, and obviously, I love the Mary Rose.Dominic Jones: And so when we put us together, it was just a real opportunity, that synergy. You know when people say "one and one and you get three", but it was exactly like that and it worked really well, so we share marketing, so marketing costs, we share, we share marketing resource, so Mary Rose marketing people work along with NMRN marketing people. We do some things independently so our trusts are independent, our conservation, our research and all that sort of stuff, that's just Mary Rose and NMRN is just that, although we are working on some projects together, but in terms of the visitor, we have one visitor centre, we have one ticket you can buy, lots of options, we could talk about that, some amazing pricing we did which allowed us to do that.Dominic Jones: Because when you're competing against each other, you almost are encouraged to discount more, so we had, at times, the National Museum of the Royal Navy who were saying Portsmouth Historic Dockyard then might have a deal on Groupon, we might have a deal on Wowcher and you'd just be discounting, discounting, discounting, and you wouldn't be really getting across the real value for the customer, so yeah, it was really hard, and I remember, we would really fight for every single visitor because, for us, 84% of our money comes from tickets, so I remember, we'd get Henry VIII down the front, out the front, we'd have him talking to the visitors, saying, "Oh", you know, and with people talking in French and he'd go up in French and say, "Well, I was the king of France. Why are you going to Victory? Come to Mary Rose." But he wouldn't be taking them away from Victory, because that would be bad, but he would be saying, "Go to both." And we'd always be positive about NMRN, but we'd also want people to come to Mary Rose because that was how we were going to survive.Kelly Molson: Just going back to those times, then, was it more like a rivalry than anything?Dominic Jones: Yeah, it was really hard.Kelly Molson: So it was really difficult?Dominic Jones: It was really hard. I mean, we all respected each other, but it was really hard. It was like one of those ferry terminals or restaurants on holiday. I mean, I remember, we would flyer, like circus marketing, bumping into the brand, resort domination, we called it. We would be literally, when it was sunny because you can't blame the weather, when it was sunny, we'd be on the beach with Mary Rose leaflets saying, "Hey, get out the cool, we're air-conditioned, come to the Mary Rose." We were literally in all the restaurants, we had colour-in sheets, "Come to...", it was all about getting everyone to come and actually, we quickly realized that the NMRN was spending so much money on getting people to Portsmouth that we needed to make sure when they're in Portsmouth, they came to the Mary Rose and we did.Dominic Jones: I mean, I look back on it now, we had adverts that had, because we'd been very lucky with Tripadvisor, five stars, I mean I would've dreamed of that at Thorpe Park, but five stars constantly so we'd have posters that say, "You've just missed the best thing to do in Portsmouth." And then another one. "Turn around." You know, like when you go to Camden Town and there's a McDonald's, a Burger King and then outside the Burger King, there's a sign. "Why are you going to Burger King? Go to McDonald's." It was like that, so it wasn't great.Kelly Molson: It's quite intense, as well, isn't it, for the visitor?Dominic Jones: Yeah.Kelly Molson: That's a lot of pressure.Dominic Jones: Well, it is and I would do it and I would literally go down and leave, because you've got to leave from the front, and I would put my Mary Rose coat, which I've still got here, and I'd be down the scenic and we'd be... And I remember coaches would turn up and one of the ladies who was fantastic with us, Sandra, she's now one of our Visitor Experience Managers, but she'd jump on the couch and say, "Have you booked your tickets? Where are you going? Can I tell you about the Mary Rose?" And she'd bring whole coaches in. It was hard and it was really... I went to sleep every night easy, because it was so tiring and it wasn't sustainable and we did need to get a deal, and actually, the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the Mary Rose always treated each other with respect, but it was like the Battle of Victory Gate and that's not the way to behave and that's not the long-term way to run a business.Dominic Jones: So what was really great was we've got a deal, we got the ability to sell tickets together and we got the ability to work together and there's some really super talented people in the National Museum of the Royal Navy and in Mary Rose and we did some great things, so when we reopened after COVID, we did this really cool video where we had Henry VIII and we had some of their characters from Warrior and some of their actors all visiting each other's attractions in the lift, wearing face masks, getting hand sanitiser, and it just feels joined up.Dominic Jones: I mean, I've done lots of partnerships in my career. At Merlin, we had a Sea Life in Helsinki, which was a joint venture with a theme park called Linnanmaki. If you ever get to interview this lady who ran Linnanmaki, or she might the CEO there, she was amazing, but we had this joint venture. See, it's really hard in a joint venture because, especially if it's a 50/50 parity decision one, you've got to get agreement and that means that you work really hard on doing the right thing, so what's quite nice is if we were on our own, we probably would've done marketing campaigns and other things which were okay, but because we end up working together and we've got to make sure we get that joint agreement, the results is always way better. It's brilliant. And the customers benefit, because it's one entrance, it's one ticket, there's a lot more value in it, so yeah, it's been really successful.Kelly Molson: I hadn't realised quite how intertwined the organisations were in terms of decision-making and marketing, like you say, and sharing all of those resources. You talked a little bit about the visitor centre. Did you have to change the infrastructure and stuff? Did you have to build new buildings and all of that and agree on that?Dominic Jones: Well, no, they had a big visitor centre because, I mean, they've got a lot more footprint, more attractions, they've got the Warrior, they've got M.33, they've got a Submarine Museum over in Victory and we've got the Mary Rose, which is amazing. And so we had a building called Porter's Lodge, which was here and then there's the gate, and then they had their visitor center and their visitor center was perfect, so we moved in there, but we agreed to make it look and feel like it was Mary Rose and National Museum of the Royal Navy, so we spent a bit of money on the look and feel of it, so that was good and same with the brand and the marketing and making it feel like it was something new, but yeah, so there was a bit of that.Dominic Jones: I mean, in terms of infrastructure, we went with their ticketing system because it made more sense because it would be a bigger cost for them to change. We went with some of the Mary Rose's media buying because, at the time, we were buying media cheaper and better. And actually, now, we're in the process of going to tenders together, so the digital agency, we've done together, the PR agency, we've done together and it's great because it's a bigger portfolio and you get different views, and I always think the best way to run any business, so, for example, the Mary Rose or Thorpe Park or wherever it is, to talk to your customers, to talk to your staff and then, obviously, to talk to the manage experts. And we get that in spades, because we've also got our staff and our customers and our volunteers, but we've got NMRN staff and customers and volunteers and together, we are getting some really cool ideas and things we can do, so it's working well. As you can see, 150% increase in the first year.Kelly Molson: I mean, I've read it with my own eyes.Dominic Jones: And I hope you saw, NMRN, they did a little nice fist bump reply, and it just is in the spirit of it. We are working together and I think that's so important.Kelly Molson: It is massively important. You mentioned something about pricing earlier, and we've spoken about this before, but you said that you did something interesting that you'd implemented that allowed you to grow the yield and the revenue as well. Was this something that you did jointly too?Dominic Jones: Yeah, it was. So we had to come up with a new pricing structure because we were doing something new, so they had, what was it called? Full Navy Ticket, which was for all of their attractions and we had an annual ticket, so when we merged, we had to come up with a new pricing structure and it's a good opportunity to change, and 84% of our business, our revenue comes from tickets, theirs is about, I think, 80% or so, I can't remember, so it's still important to them as well. So we had to get the pricing right and it allowed us to really think about what's the best value for the customer and what's the best thing to do that stops us having to discount heavily?Dominic Jones: So we created a... It's like a decoy pricing model, like supermarkets have been doing it for years, so if you buy one attraction, it's a really bad ticket. I mean, still, a few people buy them, it's a really bad ticket, so it was... I mean, it used to be £18. We put the price up to £24. It used to be, if you bought one ticket, you could visit that attraction all year. You can only visit it once. So we made it a really unattractive ticket, so that's your lower decoy, so the idea of that is you only buy that if all you really want to do is go to the Mary Rose or all you want to go is go to the Victory and if you've just come to see one of those things, that's the sort of money you would pay, it's very competitively priced with other things on the South Coast, so that's what we did.Dominic Jones: And then we created a Three-Attraction Ticket or Three-Ship Ticket, which was slightly more money, so that went up to £39, which was the biggest sort of sting, about a £15 increase, big, big jump. And that was an annual ticket. That was, you could pick your three attractions and visit them all year. And then we did, "But for £5 more, you could have an Ultimate Explorer and have everything including the..." And that sort of, so you've got the lower decoy, which is the single attraction, then you've got the medium decoy, which is three ships, but then you go, "Well, for £5 more, you could do everything."Dominic Jones: And 80% of people do the Ultimate Explorer and they do everything, and it's so good value. I mean, it's less than the price of a football game and football game, 50% of the time, you're disappointed, and you don't get long, do you? It is incredible value and you get to go to all the attractions, you get out on the water, it's brilliant. So we've got that. And then we were going to put in an upper decoy, now, an upper decoy is a premium, really expensive ticket, so for example, we might, "We have, at Mary Rose, you can go into the ship for £300 and have a private experience." And we were going to put that in, but actually, because the decoy system worked so well, we didn't need that so we've just kept it as Single Attraction Ticket, Three-Attraction Ticket and Ultimate Explorer and it's working really, really well.Dominic Jones: So yeah, that's our pricing. And because of that, we don't have to discount because we put all the value and loaded the value in, actually, we don't have to discount. And then, when we do discount, we want to reach the right people, so, for example, we do, between the months of November and February, we do a Loyal and Local campaign where we go out to Portsmouth and Southampton regions and we say, "Bring a bill in and you can get a considerable discount." All year round, we do a discount for people who've got a Portsmouth leisure card, so anyone who's on Universal Credit, so they get 50% off.Dominic Jones: And we do some other really cool community engagement stuff between us with schools and stuff like that, and then if we do do a discount, so discounts are still important, so there's some amazing partners out there, GetYourGuide, Picnic, lots of the providers that really support businesses, Virgin, Ticketdays, all that sort of stuff. But we do it at the right level, so we've got like a playground, so whereas before, we might have been competing against each other, thinking, "Oh, we need to discount by 40% or 50% and then give them extra commission so they push it." We now do it at a really fair level, so there is a bit of a discount, but it's not much.Dominic Jones: And then for the consumer, we want the cheapest, best-value ticket to always be on our website. And we used a couple companies, so we used a company called, they were called Brand Incrementum, they're now called Magic Little Giants, we use them, we use some insight into what previous businesses have done before, but we copied the American Six Flags website model. If you ever want a quick lesson in pricing, just go to Six Flags. Their website is that... I mean, you're into websites, right?Kelly Molson: I am.Dominic Jones: It's the best website for pricing. I love it and I check it nearly every month. It makes me laugh, how focused they are on decoy pricing and how in-your-face they are, but how you don't know it as a consumer unless you know. It's amazing. It drives my family mad. I love it. Anyway. Yeah.Kelly Molson: This decoy pricing, I've never heard that phrase, I've never heard that used in pricing before. This is all new to me.Dominic Jones: It's like supermarkets when you get... And I remember, we've got a local supermarket near us and the guy did, "buy one bottle of wine, get one wine free". And then he had, "or buy one wine for £7 or buy two for £7". We were always going to buy two for £7 or two for £8. It's all that sort of trying to encourage behaviour, but he didn't quite get it because recently, I went in, it was like, "buy one, pay for one" and I was like, "Isn't that... That's the same as normal, yeah?" "Yeah." But he's a nice guy so I bought one. Well, that's my problem.Dominic Jones: But no, it's the same way supermarkets have been doing, where they try with the club card to get you to purchase things, or they're trying to do that, and all we're trying to do is encourage everyone to go for that Ultimate Explorer, which is the best value. It's almost like you can imagine it on the website, it's got a sign saying, "Pick me." So even to the extent we still don't, this day, discount our Single Attraction Ticket on our website. We don't give any discount for it and then we give a £5 discount on the three attractions and £5 on Ultimate Explorer. But yeah, loving the pricing.Kelly Molson: Love this. This is such great insight. Thank you for sharing. This partnership is really intriguing to me because I think it seems like the perfect setup, right? Because you're literally neighbors in the same area, you could make this work really well. What advice would you give to other attractions that are thinking about partnering with other attractions? Like what would be your top tips for people to make this work well?Dominic Jones: I mean, it's really hard. You've got to think about, because often people see it as competitors, but you've got to think in terms of getting the customers or the guests or the consumers, whatever you call them, giving them the best value, and during lockdown, when we were being interviewed and stuff, we'd always say, "Come visit the Mary Rose or come visit..." Once we did the joint venture, "Come visit the Historic Dockyard. But also, if you can't come visit, go visit your local museum, go visit anyone." It's important to share that, and I think there are always benefits of working together, you're always stronger together.Dominic Jones: When I was at Oakwood Theme Park in Wales, amazing theme park, you're in West Wales and we were thinking, "Well, how do we reach further and advertise more?" And actually, we ended up working with a farm, which was a stunning farm that had rides and animals called Folly Farm down the road and we worked, then, with Manor House Wildlife Park and Heatherton, and you actually work together and you can work together and I'd always say, "Try it on something." So try it whether it's an event or try it whether it's a destination marketing campaign. I mean, we're working with the people of Portsmouth, so with... "The people of Portsmouth", that sounds a bit grand. We're working with attractions in Portsmouth on trying to get people into Portsmouth, so we do something with Portsmouth Council where the Spinnaker Tower and D-Day Museum and Mary Rose and National Museum of the Royal Navy and now Portsmouth Historical Dockyard, together, we advertise in London because actually, advertising in London individually is really expensive, but if you do it collaboratively.Dominic Jones: There's lots of ways to do stuff collaboratively and find another angle. So we've got other people on our site that we're not partners with at the moment, so the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, amazing people who run some of the small boats that we did the Gunboat Race with the D-Day veterans on the weekend. Fantastic. So yesterday, we had a really great Volunteers' Tea Party to celebrate the end of volunteer and we had the volunteers from the Property Trust, we had the volunteers from the NMRN, the volunteers from the Mary Rose, there's always some synergy and I would say, in any way, find it.Dominic Jones: Everywhere I've worked, I've tried to get partnerships with local businesses, with other theme parks, with other attractions, because, actually, it's your stronger together, and if you're going, especially, after a local market, because you've always got to love your locals, that's the most important thing. If they see that you actually are the sort of people that work with each other, it makes them almost more proud of you. You remember the Game Makers in the London Olympics in 2012 and how amazing they were and how they did that sort of course where everyone was recommending all this stuff to you, that's kind of what you want, but I would find some common ground, whatever it is.Dominic Jones: Whether it's lobbying, we found common ground at Thorpe Park with other attractions to lobby the government for things, for VAT to level... Or whether it's in Oakwood, trying to get some advertising to get people from Bristol to cross the bridge to come into Wales or whether it's, I'm trying to think, in Amsterdam, we worked, so Madame Tussauds Amsterdam and Dungeons, which I was responsible for, we worked with Heineken because they had this amazing experience and with Tours & Tickets, so we'd make sure that if anyone came to Amsterdam, they came to our attractions. It's those sort of partnerships, finding the common ground and making it work.Dominic Jones: And don't be scared of it, because you are always bigger and better together and customers have so much choice, so working together delivers amazing results. I would never want to go back to not being part of a partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy and I would love it if we could do more. We are keen to do more with other attractions in the South to get people to come to the South Coast, to come to Hampshire. But yeah, I would definitely do...Dominic Jones: And also, you get bigger buying power, so say, for example, Merlin are really strong, so they don't necessarily need those with other partners because they can do a campaign in the press, Sun, Days Go Out and you've got all the Merlin attractions, but if you're individual attractions, you can't, so if you do a partnership with your competitors, you can then suddenly say, "Right, well, we want to do a Days Out campaign in the press between all these independent attractions."Dominic Jones: I mean, it's brilliant. I love it and I love, also, this industry, how collaborative especially the heritage side is. You can say, "Oh, I was thinking about doing this. What do you think?" Or, "What do you think about that?" And everyone will share and everyone is almost willing you to be successful. It's crazy, right? It's one of the best industries in the world. If you were in, I don't know, the restaurant business, you wouldn't be doing that, would you? Or another... It's so good. Anyway, hopefully, that answers your question.Kelly Molson: Oh, absolutely.Dominic Jones: I get very passionate about it. I'm so sorry. I love it.Kelly Molson: I'm so glad that you do because it answered my question perfectly and I think you've given so much value to listeners today in terms of all of the things that you've done, I couldn't have asked for a better response. Thank you. It's a big year for the Mary Rose, isn't it? And I think it would be very right that we talk about that. So it's your 40th year celebration this year, isn't it?Dominic Jones: Yeah, 40 years since the raising, so 1982, October. I am obviously older than you so I remember watching it on Blue Peter as a child and it was the world's first underwater live broadcast. It was watched by over 60 million people worldwide. I mean, it was amazing of its time and so yeah, 40 years, and because of that, we've now got the world's biggest Tudor collection of everyday life, there's nowhere else in the world you can get closer to Tudor and we've got the biggest maritime salvation, so we've got a lot of plans to celebrate. Unfortunately, the pandemic got in the way. During the pandemic, I'm not going to lie, it was horrific. There were times when we were drawing a list of who we were going to give the keys to, got really, really bad and it got dark for everyone and every museum, every attraction, every business, I'm not trying to say, "Oh, poor us." Everyone had that tough time.Dominic Jones: But it meant that actually investing, we were going to do another building, we were going to do a whole museum dedicated to the raising and actually, probably one of the best things that came out of it is we didn't because we got the joint venture, which is brilliant, our trading improved, we had a fantastic summer and then we were like, "Right, we should really do something for the 40th anniversary, but we can't afford taking another lease of another building or building another building, so what can we do?" And we managed to come up with a few plans, so the first thing we're doing is we're doing a TV documentary, which is going to be brilliant, coming out in October. Honestly, I've seen, they started some of the filming and the pre [inaudible 00:37:39], it's going to be brilliant.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's so exciting.Dominic Jones: I can't give too much away because we've had to sign something, but it's going to be great. And actually, we even had, because we're responsible for the wreck site, so we had Chris and Alex who helped raise the Mary Rose, our Head of Interpretation, Head of Research, amazing people, they were out diving the other day because we're still responsible for the wreck site and it just gives you goosebumps. I saw the footage and oh, it's amazing. So we got that. We're also building a 4D experience.Dominic Jones: So when we reopened last summer, we opened with this thing called 1545, which was an immersive experience and we wanted to get across the Mary Rose didn't sink on its maiden voyage, it was Henry VIII's ship that he, when he came to the throne, he commissioned two ships, the Mary Rose was one of them, it fought in lots of battles, it had a long life and then sank defending Britain in a battle, by the way, the French who were invading was twice the size of the Spanish Armada, but because history's written by the winners, we don't hear that.Dominic Jones: But amazing, so we did this amazing, immersive experience. We got Dame Judi Dench to do the voice and you feel like you're going to get sunk. Well, the ship does sink and you go under and then you go into the museum and it's so good and we were like, "We want to do something for the end. We want to have a finale that says..." Because the thing about our museum, it's authentic. There's 19,700 artifacts. You can't get that anywhere else. I mean, it's just brilliant. Anyway, so we thought, "How are we going to end this?" And the thing we don't do justice to is the finding, the raising, the excavation, all the divers, there was 500 volunteer divers. From the 1960s, people were looking for it.Dominic Jones: I mean, Alexander McKee, who found it, was on the news and people would say... It was like an Indiana Jones movie, they were saying, "Oh, he's never going to find it." And other people were looking, the Navy were looking and there was a bit in Indiana Jones where they got the map the wrong way around and all of that. Brilliant. So they found the Mary Rose and then they got Margaret Rule who was this amazing lady who had, when she went to university, I think she didn't get a place at university at first because she was a woman and this is amazing, today's day story, and she didn't dive, she was an archeologist. And then she said, "I'm going to dive." Taught herself to dive and without her, this museum, the Mary Rose wouldn't be here, so Alexander McKee, Margaret Rule, two amazing people, both of them...Kelly Molson: What a woman.Dominic Jones: Yeah, what a woman, but both of them, both of them, without them, we wouldn't be here. So we want to tell their story, but also, we want to put the guests and the visitors to what it's like to dive, so with a mixture of real-life filming, footage from these 500 volunteer divers, outtakes from the Chronicle programs that are on the BBC, including, if we can get it to look right, even His Royal Highness, Prince Charles diving. It is stunning.Dominic Jones: So we're going to take the guests on a bit of a pre-show with the history, then they're going to get into the 4D theater and it'd be like you were boarding a red, going out to the wreck site, there'll be a dive briefing, you'll have the wind in your hair, the seats will be buzzing, but I'm hoping it's this good. I better ring the people after this [inaudible 00:40:38].Kelly Molson: You're really building it up, Dominic.Dominic Jones: Yeah. Well, it better deliver. No, they're brilliant. Figment are amazing. They're so good. So you get in there and then you dive and then you go down and you see what it's like to be under the water. The Royal Engineers were involved, the divers were involved and then you'll be there when the Mary Rose is raised, we're even going to recreate the moment where it... Oh, it'll be brilliant.Dominic Jones: So in answer to your question, we're doing a documentary and a 4D experience, and we've got anniversary lectures so if you're around in October, come and get involved. We've got a lot of people, from historians to divers to... Just talking about the relevance of the Mary Rose and the history of it, and also the diving, and we've got a new coffee table book coming out, so we've got lots and lots and lots going on.Kelly Molson: Oh, my goodness. It's all going on.Dominic Jones: And if we'd have done it the old way, if we'd have done it with a new museum and a new building, I don't think it would've been as good. I mean, I joined the Divers' Legacy group, so about 150 of the divers, on a Zoom call a few weeks ago and it's just, it takes you... These people, who, some of them are retired now or bear in mind this was 40, 50 years ago and hearing their stories and it's living history and it's so important that we tell these stories and capture them now, because in 50 years, they won't be here, and part of our responsibility, our charity objectives, if you like, is to tell the story and forever, and I think that bit of the story's missing, so if that's one thing that we do while I'm at the Mary Rose, I'll be really proud.Kelly Molson: Ah, that is wonderful. And it is [inaudible 00:42:12].Dominic Jones: You have to come, right? You're going to have to come.Kelly Molson: Well, this is the question. When do I need to come to experience everything that you've just sold to me? Because I am sold.Dominic Jones: Yeah. You probably want to come after our anniversary, because we're hoping to launch all this around that time, which is in October, which is, now, this is an interesting one because this was a good conversation with our trustees and our board. "Do you want to launch something in the off-peak period? Don't you want to launch it at Easter or the summer or..." And my view is we should launch it because it's the right thing to do and we're launching this in October because it's a legacy, we want the divers there, we want as many of them there as possible and it's going to be at the Mary Rose forever. This is the ending to the Mary Rose Museum. So it's not like we're launching something for Easter or summer, so we are going to launch it in October, so I'll let you know the details, come and get involved.Kelly Molson: All right, absolutely. I am there. If it's as good as what you've just described, then it's going to be one amazing day out.Dominic Jones: It'd be better. And then, and final thing, sorry, which we're not doing, but I wanted to do is we've still got some of the Mary Rose down in the ocean, so one day, I'd like to bring that back up. I don't think I'll be here to do that because it's probably be in 15 years' time or something because we need to raise a lot of money and do that, but we want to bring the rest of her back up or whatever's left down there back up, and that's quite exciting because our story continues. We still do research.Dominic Jones: We did this fantastic piece of research on skeletons, on human remains. It's a really cool diversity story. Out of the eight skeletons, one was Spanish, one was Venetian, two were North African, second generation, not slaves, a real diversity story in Tudor England. Amazing. Maybe the Victorians whitewashed history. Who knows? But what a great story. And we keep learning and we've got this amazing team of curatorial staff and all of our staff, from the maintenance to the visitor staff to the volunteers and every day, we learn something new, so [inaudible 00:44:03] we want to do. And then, at some point... Have you seen The Dig on Netflix?Kelly Molson: Yes. Yes.Dominic Jones: Great film.Kelly Molson: So good.Dominic Jones: Great film, but I want to write to Netflix to do The Dive. Can you imagine? This story about human endeavor with the Mary Rose? It'd be amazing, so we'd like to do that as well at some point, but we just don't have enough hours in the day, right?Kelly Molson: No. Just add it onto that long list of stuff.Dominic Jones: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Wow. Thank you.Dominic Jones: So if you know anyone in Netflix, let us know, or if anyone from Netflix is listening, get in touch, we want to do that. It'd be cool.Kelly Molson: I would love it.Dominic Jones: I've already casted.Kelly Molson: If someone from Netflix was listening, that would be incredible. Who have you casted?Dominic Jones: Well, so local, because you've got to get local, so for Margaret Rule, I reckon Kate Winslet, she'd do a good job. Great actress. I mean, we've already got Dame Judi Dench, so the same sort of caliber in our 1545 experience, and then also another local who could bring the Alexander McKee, Kenneth Branagh, but to be honest with you, Netflix can do all of that, because let's be honest, I'm not going to make movies, am I? I'm running a museum. But I just think it'd be really cool. It'd be really cool.Kelly Molson: I don't think there's anything that you couldn't do, Dominic, to be honest, after this podcast, so who knows?Dominic Jones: It'd be really cool. Yeah, who knows?Kelly Molson: All right, last question for you, a book that you love that you'd recommend to our listeners?Dominic Jones: I love this question and I really struggled, so I went back and thought about a work example, because I think that's probably more useful, so in all of my career, I've come across lots of people who talk about strategy and I have my own view on what strategy is, but there are lots of books you can read about strategy and there's only one book, in my opinion, that is worth reading and it's this, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. Hopefully, it's still in print. It is the only book to read on strategy. It's the best book I've... And without this book, I don't think I would've been able to do half the stuff that I've done, because it's all about how you formulate your decisions, how you make your decisions, what the outcome is, it's about execution, it's about everything that, for me, you need to be successful, so I recommend this book. Really good book.Kelly Molson: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. I have not read that book, but I feel like that's going to go...Dominic Jones: You should read it.Kelly Molson: Yeah, that's going to go top of my pile. All right, listeners, if you want to win a copy of this book, as ever, if you just go over to our Twitter account and you retweet this podcast announcement with the words, "I want Dominic's book." And then you will be in with a chance of winning it. Oh, my goodness. I have had such a good time listening to you today. Thank you so much for coming on and sharing. It's been so valuable. Yeah, that's blown me away today. I'm very excited about coming to visit and thank you for sharing the insight into your partnerships.Dominic Jones: Yeah. Absolute pleasure. And thanks for being kind with the icebreakers, you're going to get the rubber, that's going to your collection.Kelly Molson: Oh, yay. A rubber rubber.Dominic Jones: Because I was really upset that you've got a rubber collection without the Mary Rose. That actually hurt my feelings. It hurt my feelings.Kelly Molson: Well, I'm sorry, I've never actually visited the Mary Rose.Dominic Jones: Well, we're going to put that right.Kelly Molson: We are going to change this, aren't we? So yeah, I'm sorry. I will come and get my rubber in-person, then. Don't post it to me. I'll come and get it in-person when I come and visit.Dominic Jones: Yeah, let's do that. Thank you. Keep it up.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

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The Alfred Daily
The Alfred Daily – 10th June 2022

The Alfred Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 59:42


On The Alfred Daily Today: Shaftesbury Abbey breaks visitor record and announces book project Compton e-bike business makes cycling Chase and downs easier Farm education tour for Shaftesbury and Wardour schoolchildren Shaftesbury ‘Wellness Shark' Laura Langley – Why 10,000 steps each day? Local singer Dani Sharp performs ‘with clothes on' at Fringe Planners reverse refusal and support Bedchester barn conversion Shaftesbury road closures Shaftesbury what's ons Derek Beer's Days Out by public transport – Beer in Devon Soundscapes – Swifts at Breach Common

20s Are Hard
124: The Guilt Of Doing Nothing

20s Are Hard

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 32:56


It's easy to get caught up in the pressure to constantly be busy and productive. Whether it's "girl boss" culture, competition at work or your own perfectionism, often it's hard to escape that guilty feeling in the pit of your stomach when you try to do nothing and rest. But the reality is, resting and making the time to just be rather than do is crucial to our wellbeing and long term success. We hope this episode inspires you to make more time to just do nothing and that the tips we share help you to do this guilt-free. We'd love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below: growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury Recommendations  7 Days Out on Netflix Moon Knight on Disney+

DAT Poker Podcast
The Queen Four Call, More HSP Hand Review - DAT Poker Podcast Episode #121

DAT Poker Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 77:04 Very Popular


0:05 Intros - F1 In Vegas - The Slap 8:20 High Stakes Poker Review - Fun Bizarre Hands, Has Doyle's Age Become An Issue? 39:25 Hellmuth's Insane Q4 Call And His Justification 54:21 WSOP Chatter, 60 Days Out 57:00 Triton Poker, Phil Ivey's Performance 1:08:30 Daniel Gets To Keep His Hair   Follow @DatPokerPod on Instagram Voicemail: 1.775.434.2932 Interact with us @ https://twitter.com/@ASchwartzPoker  https://twitter.com/@tchanpoker  https://twitter.com/@RealKidPoker  https://twitter.com/@ProducerRoss  Intro/Outro Music By: https://twitter.com/murphchops

OnFarm - Scottish rural stories
Dundee days out with Go Rural Scotland

OnFarm - Scottish rural stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 33:27


A whistle-stop tour of farm visitor experiences within easy reach of Dundee, with https://www.goruralscotland.com/ (Go Rural Scotland). Go Rural's 'Days Out on Your Doorstep' campaign encourages people in Scotland's towns and cities to get out into nearby countryside for farm experiences, short breaks, and food and drink days out. For this episode, Monty visits Anna Lamotte at https://www.guardswell.co.uk/ (Guardswell Farm), Louise Nicoll of https://newtonfarmholidays.co.uk/ (Newton Farm), Stephen Melville of Cuplahills Farm, and Caroline Bruce-Jarron of https://ogilvyspirits.com/ (Ogilvy Distillery).

The Oz Network - TV & Film Recaps
Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 9 ‘4 Days Out' Recap - The Oz Network TV

The Oz Network - TV & Film Recaps

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 74:53


Get yourself locked in your RV for four days and get excited for our latest Breaking Bad recap episode as we move into the 9th episode of the 2nd season and look closer at 4 Days Out! Is this episode as good as people make it out to be? Is the visual element of this episode the true star? How important is this episode in terms of the character development of Walt? How great is it to see the return of an epic cooking scene? How amazing is the acting in this scene? What is the deal with Funyuns returning once more? Why is this episode important to remember when it comes to El Camino? Do we actually know where Walt's mum lives? And what scene in this episode is a potential top 5 moment? Start some cooking and listen away!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Two Decorators and a Microphone
Days Out with Customers Podcast

Two Decorators and a Microphone

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 35:28


Days Out with Customers Podcast   The Blue Room Buxton Crescent Click Here https://bit.ly/2Zjqd5x   For more of the same Click Here https://pod.fan/two-decocators-and-a-microphone-extras

Entertainment Talk
Becoming Heisenberg: Breaking Bad 209 ‘4 Days Out’

Entertainment Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 72:53


By Matthew Nemeth Welcome to Becoming Heisenberg for Breaking Bad on AMC and Netflix, this is for Breaking Bad 209 ‘4 Days Out’ Click here for a list of our iTunes feeds. Information matthew@entertainmenttalk.org Please rate and review us on Read More

Entertainment Talk
Becoming Heisenberg: Breaking Bad 209 ‘4 Days Out’

Entertainment Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 72:53


By Matthew Nemeth Welcome to Becoming Heisenberg for Breaking Bad on AMC and Netflix, this is for Breaking Bad 209 ‘4 Days Out’ Click here for a list of our iTunes feeds. Information matthew@entertainmenttalk.org Please rate and review us on Read More

The USA Volleyball Show
Episode 3: Beach Race to Tokyo featuring Sean Scott and Kelly Claes

The USA Volleyball Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 76:54 Very Popular


In this episode, hosts Clarence Hughes and Stephen Munson hit the beach while continuing the 100 Days Out celebration. Hear from Sean Scott (3:16 - 23:22) Director, National Beach Programs and Kelly Claes (30:45 - 1:02:50) of the U.S. Beach National Team about how teams qualify for the Olympic beach tournament, how it feels being in the middle of a tight battle for an Olympic berth, and the many ways Kelly Claes spends her free time.

With Whit
Staying Home With Whit | Joe Zee, Timmy and I Dish About ‘The City’

With Whit

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 29:29


Timmy and I are currently making reaction videos to ‘The Hills’ on my YouTube! Did you know that?! Prior to watching 'The Hills' we binged the whole series of 'The City,' the show where I moved to NYC to follow my dreams! It was crazy and amazing, and I met some of the most inspiring people. One of those people is Joe Zee - someone I look up to immensely. Timmy and I chat with him all about his experience filming a reality show while serving as Creative Director at ELLE Magazine! Joe is an internationally acclaimed TV producer, host and style expert, and fashion industry veteran. Joe’s impressive resume features leadership roles at mega fashion publications including Creative Director at ELLE Magazine and Editor-in-Chief and Executive Creative Officer at Yahoo! Style. His trusted fashion expertise has earned him roles on top broadcast programs, including the role of resident judge on Canada’s Stitched and Oscar’s pre-show coverage for ABC’s Good Morning America, as well as on-air contributions to NBC’s TODAY, CNN, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. Most recently, he produced the Netflix documentary series, ‘7 Days Out’.   Produced by Dear Media

PBFCKS
Episode #066 R1O Solo :: News & Commentary

PBFCKS

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 46:43


12 DAYS & NO NYPOST ON TWITTER MEDIA EXCUSES FOR NOT COVERING LAPTOP GROW MORE PATHETIC ANISTON SCOLDS NOT VOTE FOR KANYE MSM AVOIDING BERNIE BRO BONA FIDES OF WOULD-BE BIDEN ASSASSIN ELECTION THOUGHTS 8 DAYS OUT

Two-Man Booth
#TBT: 'BREAKING BAD' S2 E7-9

Two-Man Booth

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 75:13


Hop in the Two-Man Booth with Nick & Neil as they continue their throwback review of season two of AMC's critically acclaimed show 'BREAKING BAD' covering episodes 7 ("Negro Y Azul") 8 ("Better Call Saul") and 9 ("4 Days Out").   SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or FOLLOW on Spotify! Rate, review, and share the pod! Help us reach as many ears as possible!   Visit tmbmedia.ca for more sports and pop culture content!   Follow us on social media Instagram: 2manbooth Twitter: @2manbooth Facebook: Two-Man Booth

Pop Culture on the Rocks
What to Watch on Netflix: Documentaries

Pop Culture on the Rocks

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2020 37:54


This week, Anna and Kallen discuss three great Netflix documentaries: Athlete A, Team Foxcatcher and 7 Days Out.Trigger warning: This podcast contains disturbing content, including abuse and violence. Skip to Athlete A: 14:57Skip to Team Foxcatcher: 24:26Skip to 7 Days Out: 29:42Instagram: @popcultureontherockspodcastTwitter: @popcultureotrEmail: popcultureotrpodcast@gmail.com

Encouragement Cafe
300 Days

Encouragement Cafe

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 22:35


August 28, 2020 - Speaker: Luann Prater & Debbie Lamm A lot of good can happen in 300 days. Luann sits down with author Debbie Lamm to discuss the power of recognizing all the good we so often overlook. Debbie’s book “300 Days: Out of the Dark Night Into Life” is available on Amazon.

Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 278 - PRODUCER OF CHEER, HOME GAME, CHEF’S TABLE, LAST CHANCE U

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 43:31


Andrew Fried is a documentary filmmaker, producer and director, and the president of Boardwalk Pictures. Boardwalk Pictures produces outstanding documentary films and television series, such as Chef's Table, The Black Godfather, Last Chance U, 7 Days Out, Street Food, Cheer, and The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow, Cheer, and Home Game. Reality Life with Kate CaseyPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecaseyCameo: https://www.cameo.com/katecaseyTwitter: @katecaseyInstagram: @katecaseycaFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245/Facebook.com/loveandknucklesAmazon List: http://www.amazon.com/shop/katecaseyca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Dominate Test Prep Podcast
27. "7 Days Out" from Test Day

The Dominate Test Prep Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2020 44:41


Test day is right around the corner. What should you be doing in the final week leading up to the big day to maximize your preparation and ensure that you have the best possible result on your exam? In this episode we break it down for you day-by-day, laying out for you exactly what you should be prioritizing each day starting "7 days out" to finish strong. Specifically, we discuss:How many practice tests you should take in the final week of preparation -- and when you should take themHow to review your practice test results to determine where to focus your efforts during your last few study sessionsThe importance of sleep and nutrition for test-day clarity and focus, with tips for maximizing eachWhen and how to introduce a timer into your practice sessionsA simple way to limit distractions and increase positivity in your life leading up to test dayWhy trying to cram the day before your exam is not a good strategy (and what you should do instead)Six things to do the morning of your examWhat to do the day after your test to de-stress your mind and bodyAnd more!If you have a week or less before test day, these last-minute tips will help you know where to focus and ensure that you've covered all your bases heading in to the exam. Even if you still have a while, much of what we discuss will help you with your preparation in general -- and then you can revisit it as your final week gets closer.The end is in sight... finish strong!RESOURCESDownload our free "7 Days Out" checklist HERE"Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime" referenced from Scientific American"How Much Sleep is Required for Peak Cognition" referenced from MDedgePurchase full-length GMAT practice testsPurchase full-length GRE practice testsContact Brett at Dominate Test PrepA DOSE OF MOTIVATION"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail." -- Benjamin Franklin

Back to Basics
RAWF After Hours 2/1/20

Back to Basics

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2020 118:00


February is here and we are just 8 Days Out from Love Hurts in Paris!! PPV Updates, Superstars Updates, Rankings Updates, Tournament Updates, Updates on the Updates!! Interviews! The Whole Kitten Kaboodle!!! (Easy Cougs, Not Referring To You!!) Join Us Tonight!!!

Redelandschaft
Folge #RL002 - Infos zur Fotografie

Redelandschaft

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2020 18:11


Der Plan war ja in der Folge 2 über die Netflix-Serie "7 Days Out" zu quatschen. Aber da bin ich noch nicht durch und somit spreche ich in dieser kurzen Folge über das Thema Fotografie.  Und zwar nur ganz kurz über Tipps zum Gerätekauf, was Du Deinen Freunden antworten kannst, wenn Du wieder tolle Fotos machst und daran ja nur Deine Kamera dran schuld ist und Du bekommst zwei Übungsmöglichkeiten erklärt, wie Du in erster Linie dein Auge und auch Deine Fitness trainieren kannst. ;)  Und ich erkläre meine Meinung zum Thema Bildbearbeitung.

Chasing Excellence
#069: Embrace the Chase

Chasing Excellence

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2019 37:11


Show Notes: 01:31 - Where I start when I start thinking about chasing excellence 03:46 - Trailer to 7 Days Out here 06:20 - More about Stephen Covey here 06:48 - Putting first things first at CFNE 08:16 - More about finite & infinite games here 09:19 - Putting first things first in my personal life 11:56 - Whether I’m focused on the “chasing” or the “excellence” 13:20 - More on the Excellence Continuum here 17:25 - How to start making the chase more important 22:20 - Why “success” is such an attractive illusion 24:33 - Parenting with an eye toward the chase 30:49 - More on Peter Drucker here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Google Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Grab the book on Amazon Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to dissecting what it means to live a life of excellence, both inside the gym & out. On each episode, we'll deep dive on various aspects of running a CrossFit affiliate, becoming a better coach or athlete, & maximizing your potential. Web | Instagram | Facebook

The Streamer's Guide to the Galaxy!
Episode 119: Clearing the Queue #2!

The Streamer's Guide to the Galaxy!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2019 42:52


Welcome back, Fellow Streamers! We've realized that we have WAY too much stuff on our Netflix queue so we're cleaning it out! We watched The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (season 2), 7 Days Out, Tidying Up, and Instant Hotel! We also discuss Streamer's Guide: After Dark, Devon got confused by today's episode concept, Devon's Interest Graph, and we're pretty sure the lady from the Travel Channel Lauren was talking about was Samantha Brown.  As always, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, iHeart Radio, and any other podcatcher you can think of!  @streamersguide on Twitter streamersguidepod@gmail.com   @moundhousedude on Instagram/Twitter @thestreamersguide on Instagram @rocksfallcast on Twitter @fabledpod on Twitter @YTLaurenPlans on Twitter All original music by DC Brandenburg Intro by TCrull on Fiverr. Outro remix by Jon Biegen of Stranger Still Podcast! Check his work out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StrangerStillShow/ The Streamer's Guide is a review podcast for those people who like Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Terrace House, Aloha State, The 100, Marvel, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, DC, White Christmas, A Christmas Prince, Great British Baking Show, Bad Santa, Bill Murray, Twin Peaks, The Keepers, the BBC, Shot in the Dark, the CW, Chelsea, Supergirl, Little Evil, DC, Comics, streaming video, Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, documentaries, Star Wars, The Crown, Stranger Things, Lore, Gerald's Game, House of Cards, Altered Carbon, Cloverfield, Halloween, The Craft, The Shining, Sharknado, True Crime, Train to Busan, Small Soldiers, Zombies, witches, witch, Sleepy Hollow, New Nightmare, Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, Tremors, Mean Girls, Tina Fey, Dark, Parks and Rec, Parks and Recreation, SNL, Saturday Night Live, Amy Pohler, Orphan Black, Nightmare Before Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girl Meet's World, Supermarket Sweep, The Flash, The Defenders, Defenders, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dungeons and Dragons, DnD, tabletop games, Glow, Santa Clarita Diet, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Disney Plus, Avengers, Endgame, Infinity War, Friends, Jim and Andy, and anything to do with fun, family, and doing things as a couple!

Career Stories
Andrew Fried | Executive Producer of Netflix's "Chef's Table" & President of Boardwalk Pictures

Career Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2019 106:33


Andrew Fried is an award-winning documentary filmmaker & TV producer. His long list of credits includes executive producing hit Netflix docuseries like Chef’s Table (now in its 6th season), Last Chance U, 7 Days Out and the upcoming Street Food (which premieres April 26). Even though Andrew says Chef's Table catapulted his career to another level, our Career Stories episode doesn't get to how the show was created until an hour into the interview, and that's because Andrew has had a fascinating and unpredictable career path. He started as an actor and comedian in New York City before 9/11 shifted his path temporarily to working for his family's real estate business. But the suit-and-tie life didn't last long and Andrew was ultimately pulled back into his love for storytelling through documentaries. Starting as a production assistant and working his way up to producer, Andrew has worked on everything from Jay-Z’s Fade to Black to Britney: For the Record to Iconoclasts (plus many, many more), and eventually started his own production company, Boardwalk Pictures. The word "boardwalk" has a special meaning for him, which he will explain.  You'll hear Andrew get candid about his life and career as he reflects on his amazing accomplishments, and he'll share the advice he has for aspiring filmmakers and creative talent.  You can follow him at @Andrew_Fried on Twitter. 

LadyGang
Joe Zee

LadyGang

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 65:00


The stylist extordinaire, fashion magazine icon and fellow Canadian pops by to not only give out fashion advice, but also hot inspiration through his rise to the top of the fashion world and the stories of passion he covers through his new TV series 7 Days Out. Follow the podcast on Instagram @theladygang and email Jac, Becca and Keltie at Hello@theLadyGang.com! And check out the TV show page's official page @ladygangtv! Check out new episodes of the LadyGang TV show every Sunday at 11:00 only on E! And thank you to today's sponsors: Amazon = Go to amazon.com/shop/ladygang to find their favorite products while keeping the podcast FREE! Billie = Get a special, limited-time offer at MyBillie.com/LADYGANG Bio-Oil = Pick up a bottle of Bio-Oil today or find a retailer near you at FindBio-Oil.com FrameBridge = Get 15% off your first order when you go to Framebridge.com with promo code LADYGANG Kopari Beauty = Get $5 when you switch to Kopari today at KopariBeauty.com/LADYGANG ThirdLove = Get 15% off your first purchase at ThirdLove.com/LADYGANG

Chat 10 Looks 3
Ep103: Where Are The Carrots?

Chat 10 Looks 3

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2019 37:43


Crabb claims to have made the best carrot cake on the internet but Sales can't taste the carrots in it. Things get more interesting after that opening, we promise.Found! Australia's best carrot cake recipe (SMH Good Food October 25 2016)(Angelique Lazarus submitted this Recipe to Monday Morning Cooking Club see page 170 )7 Days Out (2018) documentary series looking at the seven days leading up to significant historical and cultural events:Ep 1 Westminster Dog Show first-time competitors and veterans vie for the coveted Best in Show title.Ep 5 Chanel Haute Couture Fashion Show runway show designed by Karl Lagerfeld for Paris Fashion WeekDior and I (2015) documentary by Frédéric Tcheng (See Trailer)McQueen (2018) A documentary about the life and career of Alexander McQueen.Vulgar Favors: The Hunt for Andrew Cunanan, the Man Who Killed Gianni Versace by Maureen OrthWhat is Crufts!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CruftsFyre (2019) A behind the scenes documentary looking at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festivalThis is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam KayYoung surgeons speak out about the pressures pushing them to burn out (7.30, 13 Feb 2019)Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science by Atul GawandeDo No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry MarshThe Kinder Egg story from ‘This is Going to Hurt’ retweeted by Annabel CrabbDavid Tennant does a podcast with … David Tennant gets talking with the biggest names from TV, movies, comedy and elsewhere.Is there a Doctor nut in the house? By Annabel Crabb (Sunday Age 10 July 2005 p24)Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs and tell the story of how they were made.Ep 66. KT Tunstall “Suddenly I See”Ep 150. Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way”Special Ep. Yo-Yo Ma “Prelude, Cellos Suite No. 1 in G Major, by J.S. BachWho the hell is Hamish? Podcast by Greg BearupFinding Drago Podcast with Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James

Show Your Work
The Unstoppable Mr. JOE ZEE Shows Us His Work!

Show Your Work

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2019 55:36


He's prolific, hilarious, indomitable -- and Canadian. Our delicious (and fast-paced!) conversation with Joe Zee, one of the original disruptors in Fashion, Magazines, & Television, dives into his favourite topic -- work! In the first of two incredible episodes, we get granular about his smash Netflix series, 7 Days Out (and why 'Cassini' was the key to everything else), why 'workaholic' is one of the biggest compliments he can think of, and what he's learned about turning a failure into a launchpad - plus, the secret place he always looks to find the story nobody else is telling.Catch us weekly on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora, or wherever you get your podcasts, hit us up on twitter at @laineygossip and @duanaelise, and as always visit LaineyGossip.com for more pop culture insight and analysis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mostly Security
062: Too Dang Easy To Use

Mostly Security

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2019 46:20


Follow-up galore: Ubiquiti, Android transcription, the FaceTime bug, and USB-C encryption. MacOS needs a bounty program, Eero gets bought by Amazon, patch Tuesday fun, and using Mono to bypass Mac security. We remember Opportunity and recommend watching the Cassini episode of 7 Days Out. Intro Ubiquiti Homework Android Live Transcribe FaceTime Bounty Default Root Keys Mac Bounty Program Amazon Acquires Eero Eero + Alexa Patch Tuesday Mono on Mac Farewell Opportunity 7 Days Out  

Bit Different Video Game Podcast
Hardcore Lady-Types

Bit Different Video Game Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2019 82:58


It's the year of the Pig! Happy Lunar New Year! Let's discuss: RESIDENT EVIL 2 (REMASTERED), APEX LEGENDS, DR. MARIO, THRONEBREAKER, LUMBERJANES, THE IRON LADIES, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, GROUNDHOG DAY 2, SUPERBOWL, THE RITUAL, 7 DAYS OUT, LEGEND OF ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME, HALLOWEEN (2019), and our very own Nick Sheptak written a novel, "Board Kids" Go check it out! And find out what's really going on at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Tyles! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitdifferentpodcast/support

Slice & Torte Uncut Podcast
I Kinda Forgot We Were Doing This

Slice & Torte Uncut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2019 86:25


Instacrushes:@snukfoods: https://www.instagram.com/snukfoods@cheesebynumbers: https://www.instagram.com/cheesebynumbersTopics:7 Days Out: https://www.netflix.com/title/80207124Four Eleven York: http://fourelevenyork.com@lipstickandgelato: https://www.instagram.com/lipstickandgelato/Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant: https://chwinery.comNomarama: https://www.nomarama.orgBarrel 17: http://barrel17.com/#homeProsperity Kitchen & Pantry: https://prosperitykitchenva.com@hashichow: https://www.instagram.com/hashichow/@enjoynfk: https://www.instagram.com/enjoynfk/Enjoy: https://enjoywith.usMea Culpa Café: https://www.yelp.com/biz/mea-culpa-cafe-norfolkCodex: https://www.codexva.comWalmart secured a patent to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18151738/walmart-eavesdrop-patent-customer-employee-privacyThis smart shopping cart is a self-service checkout on wheels: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18177020/caper-labs-smart-shopping-cart-image-recognition-weight-sensorNoatmeal: https://twitter.com/buffblackbabe/status/1080595775422431238?s=21How Impossible Foods cooked up Impossible Burger 2.0: https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/09/impossible-foods-impossible-burger-2/Say What Now? KFC Debuts a Gravy-Scented Candle: https://www.lovebscott.com/say-now-kfc-debuts-gravy-scented-candle-videoAre there foods you should avoid during the government shutdown? It depends who you ask: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/health/shutdown-fda-food-inspections-risk/index.html@kahiauvegancafe: https://www.instagram.com/p/BsrJT0QBvdK/@butterloveandhardwork: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtHJaZ3gXiY/@munchies: https://www.instagram.com/munchies/p/BtE4ixFFmJ2/@impactivism: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtA-HTSg4-q/@beyonce: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSNVwqAmXv/@foooodieee: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMQN2Ig-b9/@healthyish: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtObxT-gQLM/No Sweethearts candy this Valentine's Day after company goes out of business: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/01/23/sweethearts-candy-missing-from-shelves-this-year-for-valentines-day/2655352002/You Can Now Buy 'Gender Reveal Lasagna' Which Contains Either Blue or Pink Dyed Cheese: https://people.com/food/gender-reveal-lasagna-villa-italian-kitchen/

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Tara Ward: What to watch on TV this week

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2019 5:26


Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure!Russian Doll: Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black) stars in Netflix’s new drama about a woman caught in a mysterious loop which forces her to relive the same day over and over7 Days Out: this docuseries gives viewers an intimate look at the drama in the seven days leading up to popular events, like the Westminster Dog Show and Chanel’s Haute Couture show (Netflix)Underarm - the Ball that Changed Cricket: the full story of Trevor Chappell’s legendary 1981 underarm delivery is revealed by players on both teams who were on the field that afternoon (Prime, Monday, 7.30pm)LISTEN TO THE FULL AUDIO ABOVE

Reality Check
Essex Runway Days

Reality Check

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2019 19:56


Here at Reality Check we pride ourselves on being a podcast that can combine sewing, endless partying and time travel (sort of) all in the space of 20 something minutes. This week we are covering ' Project Runway Australia' (but really we are just talking about the legend that is Alex Perry), 'The Only Way is Essex' and '7 Days Out'.Your hosts are Georgia Higgins and Katherine PowellMusic by Kevin MacLeodFind us on Instagram @realitycheckpod

BJ Shea's Geek Nation
BJGN 01-16-18 - Umbrella Academy - Star Wars

BJ Shea's Geek Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2019 38:09


BJ reviews the comic books Umbrella Academy, Star Wars, and Oblivion Song; Vicky reviews the comic book app CLZ Comics; Rev reviews the Netflix show 7 Days Out; BJ discusses the latest season of Travelers; and we get the Geek Sheet with Vicky B! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
243: 12 Ways to Make Mornings Magical, Mindful and the Foundation of a Great Day and Great Success

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2019 34:51


"When you take control of your mornings, you take control of your days. You get to engage with the world under your terms. You can act, instead of react." —Hal Elrod, Miracle Morning Millionaires Reflect on those mornings in which you eagerly step out of bed regardless of the early hour. What was to happen in that day? Most likely, it was something you were excited to enjoy or partake in. Most likely it was something you loved doing or felt fortunate to have the opportunity to be a part of. However, what if I told you that having such a day actually begins with cultivating mornings, mornings that will heighten the overall quality of your life because a good morning is where you invest, a good morning is where you captures your ideas that are bouncing about asking to be caught, a good morning is where your good mood begins and what you carry with you throughout the day? 1.Invest in yourself Hal Elrod, author of Miracle Morning Millionaires reminds that the most popular personal financial advice is to 'pay ourselves first'. Referencing compound interest, this premise correlates to tapping into our true potential and bringing it forth. He states, "Time is similar. Developing yourself is the most powerful tool in the world." Making the argument that our mornings, each day are a boon of abundance of opportunity to leverage wisdom, productivity and clarity in order to invest in ourselves. And based on my own experience and after reading his book, I would wholeheartedly agree. Let's break down how the morning can indeed be a magical time of day to make the entire day awesome as well as contribute to the success we seek. 2. Give yourself time to ease into the morning " . . . Wake up slowly. Make awakening a delightful ritual." — Mary Beth Janssen Elrod shares in his book an acronym for specifically how to structure your mornings - S.A.V.E.R.S. (Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing). While he breaks down each in great detail, after reading the book, as each of us will do should we read it, I began to intrepret it for myself - examine what I am curently doing that works and how it may fall into this structure, what I am doing differently and what I am not doing and ask myself why not and do I want to consider tweaking my routine. One detail that I feel is quite powerful to begin the day well is to ease into the day. For some, that may be silence (prayer, meditation, deep breathing, gratitude, etc.), for others it may be talking or snuggling with your partner (or pets). For me, easing into the morning is turning on my morning classical music station as a Breakfast with Bach is always being played at 5:05 for about 10-20 minutes (8:05 Philadelphia time as it is WRTI.org). Over the past year, I have found this practice to be gentle and not jarring, but something to ensure my mind begins dancing in the right direction to start the day well. For each of us, our "delightful ritual" as Mary Beth Janssen suggests, will be unique, but I encourage you to find a gentle way to wake up in the morning during those first few minutes before you set the intention for your day. 3. Drink 2 cups of water upon waking up Before you go to bed each night, have a pitcher or carafe of water (similar to the one shared on last week's This & That) next to your bed. While drinking water before bed is a good ideas as well, you will want to drink two cups of water upon waking up. Not only will this begin the process of cleansing your body of the toxins it has worked to rid from your system while you slept, but it will hydrate you and ultimately, help wake you up. 4. Shift your mindset about mornings "People do transform their lives, every day . . . The key, it turns out, is to simply start behaving like the person you want to become." —Jeff Wise, author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger It may seem overly simplified to state, "be the change you seek", but studies have proven this guidance to be true. In an article written for Psychology Today by the author above Jeff Wise, he writes, "Act out the change you want, and day by day, the weight of evidence will become undeniable. Before long, the person you pretend to be becomes the person that you are." And while we should not take on too much change all at once. In fact, sound advice is to take one one thing at a time, but if the change you are seeking is to be able to wake up in the morning well and rested, be proactive and start going to be earlier, start understanding how the mind works regarding neural patterns and put helpful "bumpers" in place to make it easier to be successful at being the morning person you want to become. Your mindset when it shifts to seeing the potential and magic that, when done well, of morning routines will enliven your eagerness to wake up because this is the part of the day that you have the most control over and, as well, have the most potential to improve your entire day. 5. Write down your thoughts Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in Big Magic: "When an idea thinks it has found somebody – say, you – who might be able to bring it into the world, the idea will pay you a visit. It will try to get your attention . . . The idea will try to wave you down (perhaps for a few moments; perhaps for a few months; perhaps even for a few years), but when it finally realises that you’re oblivious to its message, it will move on to someone else." Beside my bed is a notepad, and each morning, as I am lying in bed listening to my classical music or simply in silence, when ideas pop up that I do not want to forget (because I have in the past, so I know I will even if I swear I won't), I write them down. It is not a journal entry, it is not long, it is just the idea. When I read Elizabeth Gilbert's book Big Magic a few years ago (listen to my podcast episode #70 inspired by my reading and listening to her speak at a local book reading), it resonated with me for a variety of reasons, but one was that we have within us so many treasures waiting to be discovered if only we would pay attention. And it is when we are quiet, the day is quiet, the world is quiet that we can best hear ideas that may not make sense fully to us now, but it is important that we capture them. "Creativity arises from silence and stillness." —Andy Puddicombe 6. Become clear in your mind about your journey and desired destination In other words, practice visualization. "Many people don't feel comfortable visualizing success and are subsconsciously scared to succeed . . . consider that the greatest gift you can give to those you love — and those you lead — is to live to your full potential." —Hal Elrod The goal is to change your subconscious. When you shift your mindset (this can be done through affirmations - spoken or written), and pair it with gaining clarity about what you are striving to create or become or do, you strengthen your motivation, overcome "self-limiting beliefs, as well as self-limiting habits such as procrastination" and make yourself available to attaining the success you seek. 7. Exercise regularly At this point you may feel this directive has been stated ad nauseum, but when it comes to our brain health and thus are overall health and finally our quality of life, did you know that "the best preditor of brain speed is aerobic capacity"? Yep. Dr. Steven Masley, a Florida physician and nutritionalist shares, "The average person going into [a corporate wellness program] will increase brain speed by 25-30 percent". But why is it preferable to exercise regularly in the morning? First of all, the exercise need not be extremely strenuous. it simply needs to be regular - a short 7 minute walk if that is all you have time for, but when we work out in the morning we give ourselves an energy boost that we can carry into our day. Personally, I love working out in the morning before I sit down to work fully, but currently, my teaching schedule makes this very difficult as I like to exercise with my dogs and prefer not to walk in the dark. With that said, I walk, ski, take a yoga class or paddle board 5-7 days a week after school when school is in session, otherwise, I do work out in the morning. The key is understanding the power and necessity of exercising regularly. 8. Read, Learn, Forever be a Student With many recommendations for how much we should read a day, the most important part is what you are reading. Read something that teaches you something, that deepens your understanding, stretches and challenges your mind and asks you to broaden your perspective, improves your communication skills which will improve your relationships. Active reading has been proven to deepen comprehension of the content being absorbed which involves annotating as you read - underlining, circling, margin notes, summarizing in writing at the end of each chapter, etc. - and do not feel as though you have to finish each book you start or read it in order if it is a non-fiction book. Reading feeds your mind, and as you may have noticed, in many of our points discussed today, it is the mind that will lead us to success if we become its master and care for it properly. I prefer to read newspapers, articles I have saved from the weekend deliveries, or online Life & Science articles from my newspaper subscriptions. I also read a daily briefing each morning from my national newspaper. Depending upon your schedule you might read a few pages from a book in the morning. Each of us again will be different as to what we want to read when, but I usually keep my books for lunchtime reading or evening reading unless it is a research topic I am doing for TSLL. 9. Enjoy a delicious, satiating, energy-boosting breakfast I have shared multiple times that I enjoy nearly the same breakfast each morning (I even produced a cooking show episode around it), and at a recent book signing here in Bend I shared that I actually wake up looking forward to my morning routine, especially my breakfast. Along with what you choose to eat to begin your nutritional day, design a morning breakfast ritual that is inviting, fun (yes, fun!) and contributes to the overall morning routine that helps you ease into your day with eagerness and clarity. Here is a glimpse of what is part of my morning breakfast (aside from the food itself - click here to learn more and see the recipes). While the steel oats are soaking for 15-20 minutes, the boys and I go for a mini walk to say hello to the neighborhood. I empty the dishwasher if it needs to be tended to Pack my lunch for school if during the school year While enjoying my breakfast, I play the daily mini crossword from The New York Times (it's free!). Read the Daily Briefing online of the news from one of my subscribed national newspapers The boys look forward to a breakfast dog treat as well. Classical music fills the kitchen 10. Meditate Perhaps your moment of meditation takes place as you ease into the day, first thing in the morning. I prefer to go through most of my morning routine and following breakfast, once my mind and body are fed, sit down for morning meditation of 5-10 minutes. The calm moments I have leading up to this moment, and then the actual moments engaged in meditation further solidify a positive tone that I wish to carry with me throughout my day. ~Discover the benefits and how to meditate here 11. Check in to make sure all is well with your business  and view the plan for the day This will depend upon what your work is. But checking in can also include the other people in your household. This is a time to check in with each others' schedules, for example, as well as your own. For me, this is when I check my email and make sure all is going well before I return to my office (after my walk or after school) and get started with my work day. I take a look at my daily schedule, remind myself of appointments, errands, etc. that need to be completed through the day. Another idea is to set your three goals you want to accomplish for the day. Yes, three. And put them in order of importance. In other words, at the end of the day, having completed what three tasks will make you feel productive and satisfied. If only one item is complete, make sure it is the one at the top of your list and move the two that have yet to be completed to the top of the list tomorrow. 12. Waking up early is a skill Believe it or not, once you are an adult (adolescent brains require more sleep and actually do fall asleep later than young children and adults as their melatonin kicks in two hours later than which is what evokes one to feel sleepy), you create the habit that will make you either a morning person or not. Why? Because you will create neural patterns in your brain that make it habituated to going to sleep or waking up at certains times of day. If you have experienced jetlag, traveled or lived in a distant land, only to return weeks, months or years later, you know that with time, you can adjust your circadian rhythms, but it does take time and conscious effort. The magic of our mornings will likely surpass what you believe will be possible. Our mornings become the springboard, the starting off point, and the more bounce we have, the higher we are capable of soaring. "When you wake up with excitement and create a purposeful, powerful, productive morning, you set yourself up to win the day." —Hal Elrod When it comes to cultivating a day and thus a life you love living, if you love the way your life is at this very moment and it is working for you, then keep doing what you are doing. But if you recognize that the way the day begins can be improved, or you feel you have more to give if only you could restructure how you go about your day, or you just don't know what to do to improve the quality of your days and thus life, look no further than your mornings. It truly is that simple. ~A note to YouTube listeners, the podcast will no longer be available on YouTube beginning February 1st. You Can Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate: iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Spotify ~SIMILAR POSTS/EPISODES YOU MIGHT ENJOY: ~Why Not . . . Jump Start Your Day? ~How to Ensure a Bountiful Harvest (in Life), episode #177 ~The Importance of a Daily Routine and How to Create One You Love, episode #164 ~The Importance of Balance in Our Everyday: Yes, It Is Possible ~Why Not . . . Have an Amazing Day in the Middle of the Work Week? ~Why Not . . . Recharge the Mid-Week Slump? ~My Daily Breakfast & More Morning Meal Ideas: Steel Oats, Soft Boiled Eggs & Soldiers, episode #3 of The Simply Luxurious Kitchen (cooking show) ~Listen to my conversation with Kimberly Wilson on her podcast, Tranquility du Jour, where we talk about my new book Living The Simply Luxurious Life in a recent episode on her show, #438 ~Learn more about TSLL's Weekly Newsletter Petit Plaisir: ~7 Days Out, Netflix https://youtu.be/cTuuD-PV-yQ ~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #243 ~Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate: iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | YouTube | Spotify

What Do You Wanna Watch?
Episode 23 - Do You Wanna Watch Mandy?

What Do You Wanna Watch?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2019 124:49


Join Ashley, Dylan and Nick as they discuss everything they've been watching, including Aquaman, Vice, Bird Box and 7 Days Out. The crew reveal their Top 10 (or in Nick’s case, Top 5) TV Shows and movies of 2018 before discussing the movie they ended up watching this episode: Mandy.WHAT’D WE END UP WATCHING?MANDY, 2018. DIRECTED BY PANOS CASMATOS.REACTSMANDYHosts:Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobleyDylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladilNicholas Prior: https://twitter.com/LordNPriorFollow our Trakt:Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobleyDylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladilNicholas - https://trakt.tv/users/lordnpriorMusic:Dylan BlightAll Episodes:https://explosionnetwork.com/what-do-you-wanna-watchTwitteriTunesSpotifyPodchaserRSS

Late to the Show
19 4 Days Out (Breaking Bad S2E9)

Late to the Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2018


Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to record this one on the cute lil portable microphone. So there’s some nice ambience in the background that will really enhance your listening experience! Probably. Anyway, Olivia is back for this one and we had a lot of fun talking about the episode. Season 2 is almost over, and things are starting to heat up! Give it a listen!If you like this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon to get access to our bonus episodes, where we watch and discuss movies!

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
#156 - Building Durability and A Positive Attitude

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 61:16


Many of us grew up in the "Just Do It" era, but when does "Just Do It" throw you into a triathlon training funk? Today we explore the concept of staying within your limits when that next set or interval is tantalizing you to prove you can. We also talk about your race of the perspective of 30 Days Out.  Finding Your Comfort Zone In the Water Short or Long in The Pool? Smart Approaches To Durability You Don’t Want To Do Less, Do Enough How To Know When To Stop A Workout The Point of Cool Downs Why You Don’t Want To Slow Down In a Race Don’t Overthink The Weather  The Best Way To Ruin Tomorrow’s Workout  Setting Yourself Up To Run Off The Bike How To Reign It In When You’re Feeling Great What’s Enough? What’s Too Much? When Less Is More Error on the Side of Caution With The Run How You Can Overdue The Bike But Not Realize It The Secret Workout? Looking for a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video If you enjoy the Crushing Iron podcast, you can support us with a direct pledge here. Thanks for listening! Please subscribe to Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes. For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com Facebook: CrushingIron YouTube: Crushing Iron Twitter: CrushingIron Instagram: C26_Triathlon www.crushingiron.com Crushing Iron Podcasts Hosts: Mike Tarrolly and Coach Robbie Bruce  

BarprepsucksBUTGodsGotIt
3 Days Out....1/3 Last Messages

BarprepsucksBUTGodsGotIt

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2018 3:00


3 Days Out....1/3 Last Messages

BarprepsucksBUTGodsGotIt
5 Tips 4 Days Out

BarprepsucksBUTGodsGotIt

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2018 6:20


5 Tips 4 Days Out

BarprepsucksBUTGodsGotIt

7 Days Out!

The Buresh Daily Discussion
November 29, 2017

The Buresh Daily Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2017 2:52


MILD! O'NIGHT/EARLY MORNING FOG ISOLATED SHOWERS MOVING WEST OFF ATLANTIC SIGNS OF “COLD” 10 DAYS OUT(!) TROPICS: QUIET W/ 2 DAYS LEFT IN THE SEASON “BURESH BLOG”: AVG. DATE OF 1ST FREEZE

Breaking Bad Rehab
Breaking Bad Rehab podcast, episode 16: S02E09 – 4 Days Out

Breaking Bad Rehab

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2017 54:53


Including: one of Walt's most triumphant chemistry pull-it-out-the-bag scenes; how Walt's cancer doctor has become a conduit for the writers to talk to the viewers; and our slightly divergent opinions on whether you should tell your mother that you are dying. The post Breaking Bad Rehab podcast, episode 16: S02E09 – 4 Days Out appeared first on Ethan Crane.

Extra Hot Great
109: Pledging Allegiance To The Americans

Extra Hot Great

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2016 90:35


Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans. We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off, and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains, Not Safe With Nikki Glaser, the pre-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch, and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick makes the case for the induction of the "4 Days Out" episode of Breaking Bad to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a starchy Game Time. Go dark (to the rest of the world) and enjoy! TOPICS Game Time:

Extra Hot Great
109: Pledging Allegiance To The Americans

Extra Hot Great

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2016 90:35


Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans. We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off, and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains, Not Safe With Nikki Glaser, the pre-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch, and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick makes the case for the induction of the "4 Days Out" episode of Breaking Bad to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a starchy Game Time. Go dark (to the rest of the world) and enjoy!Special Guest: Nick Rheinwald-Jones. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Breaking Good - Breaking Bad Podcast

In this episode 209 of Breaking Bad, "4 Days Out", we find Jesse and Walt stranded in the boonies, undergoing a long dark tea time of the soul. We discuss homemade batteries, this episode as the fulcrum of the entire series, Saul's lack of bedside manner, Walt's shattered reflection, and Jr's epic flipped bird. All this, your feedback, a healthy spoiler section, and much more.

Breaking Good - Breaking Bad Podcast

In this episode 209 of Breaking Bad, “4 Days Out”, we find Jesse and Walt stranded in the boonies, undergoing a long dark tea time of the soul.  We discuss homemade batteries, this episode as the fulcrum of the entire series, Saul’s lack of bedside manner, Walt’s shattered reflection, and Jr’s epic flipped bird.  All this, your feedback, a healthy spoiler section, and much more. * Seriable’s “Breaking Bad Observations” for episode 209 Intro: Breaking Mad by Dienst&Schulter Support Bald Move:  Amazon  |  Club Bald Move Leave Us A Review Join the discussion:  Email  |  Forums  |  Facebook  |  Twitter

The Obsessive Viewer - Weekly Movie/TV Review & Discussion Podcast
OV067 - TV Bottle Episodes, Obvious Child, Roku 3 and Scream on TV

The Obsessive Viewer - Weekly Movie/TV Review & Discussion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2014 92:44


This week the guys take a look at the time honored television tradition that is the “Bottle Episode.” They share some of their favorites (and not so favorite) cost-cutting, self-contained television episodes. In the potpourri section, Matt shares his thoughts on the movie Obvious Child, Tiny talks about his new Roku 3 and Mike tries to make sense of the latest Scream TV series news. Also included in the episode is a promo for Papa's Basement Podcast. Check the show out at http://inpapasbasement.com. Runtime: 1:32:43 Direct Download Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/obsessiveviewer/OV67-BottleEps.mp3   Timestamps Introducing and Defining Bottle Episodes – 02:14 Breaking Bad S03E10: “Fly” – 07:17 Breaking Bad S02E09: “4 Days Out” – 11:21 Seinfeld S02E11: “The Chinese Restaurant” – 15:18 Seinfeld S03E06: “The Parking Garage” – 20:19 Community S02E08: “Cooperative Calligraphy” – 23:55 Tiny joins the “Pen 15” Club - 24:50 Community S03E04: “Remedial Chaos Theory” – 30:19 Friends S03E02: “The One Where No One's Ready” – 35:41 Dawson's Creek S01E07: “Detention” – 42:30 Firefly S01E05: “Out of Gas” – 49:00 Doctor Who S04E10: “Midnight” – 59:40 The Sopranos S03E11: “Pine Barrens” – 1:04:28 24 S05E13: “Day 5: 7:00pm-8:00pm” – 1:06:39 OV Potpourri/”Papa's Basement” Podcast Promo - 1:13:32 Tiny on his new Roku 3 and Atheist TV – 1:14:30 Matt on Obvious Child – 1:17:23 Mike on Scream on TV – 1:22:00 News About the Band Behind Our Theme Song – 1:27:17 Show Notes OV Breaking Bad Bonus Episodes:http://obsessiveviewer.com/2013/08/28/the-obsessive-viewer-podcast-ep-12-bonus-ep-breaking-bad-the-final-episodes-part-1/ OV57 – Live at Indy PopCon 2014 with Chick McGee, Kristian Nairn (Hodor), Rupert Boneham, Pat McAfee and More:http://obsessiveviewer.com/2014/06/04/the-obsessive-viewer-podcast-ep-57-live-at-indy-popcon-2014-with-chick-mcgee-kristian-nairn-hodor-rupert-boneham-pat-mcafee-and-more/ Jerry Seinfeld's Reddit AMA:http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2blrd9/jerry_seinfeld_loves_answering_questions_the/ Tiny's Pen 15 Initiation Photo:https://www.facebook.com/TheObsessiveViewer/photos/a.123930981120584.20841.122993384547677/292267260953621/?type=1 Obsessive Book Nerd: http://www.obsessivebooknerd.com The Secular Perspective: http://www.thesecularperspective.com Loudlike Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Loudlikemusic Loudlike iTunes Artist Page:https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/loudlike/id900064807?uo=4&at=10lo4r Loudlike “Mistakes We Must Make” EP:https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mistakes-we-must-make-ep/id900064782?uo=4&at=10lo4r Loudlike Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/loudlike Let us know what you think! Like us on Facebook: The Obsessive Viewer Tweet us: @ObsessiveViewer, @ObsessiveTiny, @IAmMikeWhite Email us: OVPodcast at gmail dot com Check out the blog: ObsessiveViewer.com Find past episodes of the podcast: OVPodcast.com RSS Feed: http://obsessiveviewer.libsyn.com/rss Subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us a review.

The TV Critic's Breaking Bad podcast
The TV Critic.org - Breaking Bad, Season 2, Episode 9: 4 Days Out

The TV Critic's Breaking Bad podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2013 23:08


Breaking Bad, Season 2, Episode 09, 4 Days Out