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Make time to create even in the busiest season of your life is a way of doing something that is just for YOU. Join our SUMMER Sketchbook Project HERE Join us for an inspiring episode as we chat with creative Jenna Deibel about how to establish a creative routine that works for you, no matter your unique stage of life. Jenna shares her journey of maintaining creativity while navigating the demands of motherhood, especially with a newborn. Here are our top 3 tips for making time for your creativity:Be Stubborn About Getting Creative Every Day: No matter what, carve out a little time each day to create. It's essential to be persistent. Make It Part of Your Routine: Tag your creative time onto another daily habit. For example, Jenna works in her sketchbook every morning with her coffee. If she can find time in the busy season of motherhood with a third new baby, you can too! Celebrate Your Creative Moments: Be proud of the time you make for yourself. Even if it's just 10 minutes, it matters. Celebrate every creative moment because they add up over time. Before you know it, you'll have filled a sketchbook or completed a full artwork in just a couple of months.Tune in to learn how to weave creativity into your daily life, and get inspired to celebrate your creative journey every step of the way! Join the fun and dive into our Summer Sketchbook Project! Unleash your creativity, build a daily habit, and watch your artistic skills soar. Every few days, we'll guide you on a new creative adventure—no planning needed, just grab your sketchbook and go! Let's make this summer the most creative one yet!⁠ 

Irish magic from Jennifer Deibel – the best- selling and award-winning author of a series of charming Emerald Isle novels combining history, family, faith and romance. Her newest book, The Irish Matchmaker…introduces matchmaker Catriona Daly. Hi I'm your host Jenny Wheeler and today on Binge Reading Jennifer talks about how a US born gal fell in love with Ireland. and her latest book The Irish Matchmaker. As daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love – and she sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking festival. Our Giveaway this week Our Giveaway this week is Summer Sleuthing – June Mystery Thrillers. Sadie's Vow – Book #1 in my Home At Last San Francisco historical mystery series is included. Stock up on some great summer reading here! download free summer mysteries ​https://books.bookfunnel.com/summersleuthing/9mwtzhs5pv Before we get to Jennifer – a reminder You can help defray the costs of production by buying me a cup of coffee on buymeacoffee.com/jennywheelx And if you enjoy the show. Leave us a review so others will find us too. Word of mouth is the best way for others to discover the show and great books they will love to read. Links to things mentioned in the episode A Dance In Donegal, Jennifer Deibel:  https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Donegal-Jennifer-Deibel/dp/0800738411 The Princess Bride (movie) Irish location:  https://giggster.com/guide/movie-location/where-was-the-princess-bride-filmed#: Lisdoonvarna:  https://matchmakerireland.com/ https://www.ireland.com/en-us/destinations/county/clare/lisdoonvarna The Maid of Ballymacool, Jennifer Deilbel: https://jenniferdeibel.com/books/the-maid-of-ballymacool/ Willie Daly, Irish matchmaker: https://www.williedaly.com/ Books Jennifer is reading: Jaime Jo Wright, The Lost Boys of Barlow Theater: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90203406-the-lost-boys-of-barlowe-theater Natalie Walters Snap agency series:  https://www.amazon.com/The-SNAP-Agency-3-book-series/dp/B08XW1LGC3 Where to find Jennifer Online Website: www.jenniferdeibel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferdeibel_author Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferDeibelAuthor Introducing author Jennifer Deibel But now, here's Jennifer Hello there, Jennifer,  and welcome to the show, it's great to have you with us. Jennifer Deibel - Historical Irish mysteries with magic Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Jennifer. Hello there, Jennifer, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Jennifer Deibel: Hi Jenny. Thanks so much for having me. I'm looking forward to chatting. Jenny Wheeler: These Irish stories are both best sellers and award winners.  How did you come to start on the Irish story thread? Jennifer Deibel: It all feels like it happened by accident, but I believe everything happens by design. My husband and I had lived in County Donegal for two years as students. We were studying the language and the culture. My husband had fallen in love with all things Celtic after spending a summer abroad in Wales during university. We spent two years there and when we came back I was expecting our first baby. He went into graduate school in Texas and I was struggling to process all we had experienced in those two years. An Irish American girl moves to Donegal The idea for what would eventually become my debut novel, A Dance in Donegal, came to me, a story about an Irish American girl who moves to rural Donegal to teach. I started writing it then and of course once my baby was born, it sat for a very long time. It took about 15 years for me to actually finish the whole manuscript. During which time we moved back to Ireland and lived in County Galway. While we were there, we had our son and I heard about a parenting website that was starting up called The Better Mom and they were lo...

We're chatting with Jennifer Deibel, author of THE IRISH MATCHMAKER. Join us for a lively conversation about romance and mystery! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Deibel is the bestselling and award-winning author of A Dance in Donegal, The Lady of Galway Manor and The Maid of Ballymacool. Her work has appeared on (in)courage, on The Better Mom, in Missions Mosaic magazine, and others. With firsthand immersive experience abroad, Jennifer writes stories that help redefine home through the lens of culture, history, and family. After nearly a decade of living in Ireland and Austria, she now lives in Arizona with her husband and their three children.

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/_ZUXTvjbJxQAbout the Guest(s): Walker Deibel is an influential figure in the field of mergers and acquisitions, renowned for his bestselling book "Buy Then Build." His expertise encompasses buying and growing businesses successfully over the decades. As a seasoned acquisition entrepreneur, Walker has acquired over nine companies himself and consulted on over 300 acquisitions. He's not just an accomplished author, but also an educator and mentor within the space, having founded an accelerator, Acquisition Lab, to guide prospective business owners on the path of acquisition entrepreneurship. His thought leadership is recognized on prominent platforms, including keynotes at esteemed institutions like MIT. Summary: Host Ronald Skelton is thrilled to welcome Walker Deibel, a towering figure in the acquisitions sector. Walker, known for 'Buy Then Build', provides a captivating glimpse into his journey from a perceived 'unemployed' individual to an acclaimed author and entrepreneur. His unique perspective on buying businesses as a means of entrepreneurship offers valuable insights to listeners.Walker discusses the evolution of the acquisitions industry, highlighting the shift from seller financing to structured loans like those backed by the SBA – a significant enabler for transactions in the current market. Deibel dissects the common myths surrounding the acquisition space, emphasizing the importance of calculated risk-taking and avoiding the alluring, yet misleading, 'get-rich-quick' acquisition strategies. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in mergers and acquisitions, offering a mix of practical advice, industry trends, and transparent reflections on the challenges and rewards of business ownership. Key Takeaways:Acquisition entrepreneurship is about taking calculated risks, rather than searching for low-investment, high-return scenarios.Building rapport with the seller and understanding a business's culture are crucial in the acquisition process.The SBA has been pivotal in enabling more business transactions by offering loans for business acquisitions without traditional collateral requirements.The value of a business is not solely determined by its selling price; growth potential and current operations play significant roles.Acquisition Lab offers targeted, lifetime support to individuals looking to acquire businesses, with a strong emphasis on community and shared learning.--------------------------------------------------Contact Walker onLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkerdeibel/Website: http://www.acquisitionlab.com/--------------------------------------------------How2Exit Joins IT ExchangeNet's Channel Partner Network!Have an IT Company doing between $5M and $30M You may Sell? The IT ExchangeNet M&A Marketplace @Ronald Skelton - How2Exit Host has a proprietary database of 50,000+ global buyers seeking IT Services firms, MSPs, MSSPs, Software-as-a-Service platforms and channel partners in the Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Salesforce space.If you are interested in learning more about the process and current market valuations, complete the contact form and we'll respond within one business day. Everything is kept confidential.https://www.itexchangenet.com/marketplace-how2exitOur partnership with IT ExchangeNet focuses on deals above $5M in value. If you are looking to buy or sell a tech business below the $5M mark, we recommend Flippa.--------------------------------------------------

John Charles in conversation with Jennifer Deibel

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content.Jennifer Deibel returns to the podcast to talk about her latest release, The Irish Matchmaker. We chat about the true-to-life matchmaking festival that is the center of the novel, how she keeps the romance from becoming too predictable, and more. If you can find the Lord of the Rings reference in this story, contact Jennifer, and she'll send you a signed bookplate! Patrons of the show hear about her singing and dancing aspirations.The Irish Matchmaker by Jennifer DeibelAs daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--and sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking festival. Enter Lord Osborne's son, Andrew, who has returned to the festival after being disappointed by a rival matchmaker's failed setup. Catríona seizes the opportunity to make a better match for the handsome man--and for herself!Cattle farmer Donal Bunratty is in desperate need of a wife after loss left him to handle the farm and raise his daughter on his own. Shy and lacking the finer social graces, he agrees to attend the matchmaking festival to appease his daughter. But when he arrives, it's not any of the other merrymakers that catch his eye but rather his matchmaker--who clearly has eyes for someone else.Catríona will have to put all her expertise to work to make a match that could change her life forever. Will her plan succeed? Or will love have its own way?Get your copy of The Irish Matchmaker by Jennifer Deibel.More about Jennifer."I'm Jennifer, but most people call me Jen. Just please don't call me Jenny. As a wife, mom, full-time public-school teacher, and author, I'm right in the trenches alongside you as I work, serve the Lord, and love my family. I've just been blessed to get to do some of it in the west of Ireland and Vienna, Austria. However, after a decade of life overseas, we have settled back in America–in sunny Arizona!I currently teach middle school English, and when I'm not working on school things, I'm spending time with my incredible family–my husband Seth and our 3 awesome kids–and writing.There's just something so intimate and uplifting about a good story, isn't there? I write stories that explore home through the lens of faith, family, and culture–with the beauty and depth of Ireland coloring much of it. And all of my books aim to bring you all the charm of an Irish village, the beauty of the Emerald Isle, and the hope and encouragement of faith.Not only do I write books, but I'm also honored to have been a monthly contributor at The Better Mom and have posts shared at (in)courage, Djibouti Jones, Tricia Goyer, Unveiled Wife, Intentional by Grace, and more."Visit Jennifer Deibel's website.Use my special link LIZ to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.

Whenever I get to talk to Jennifer Deibel, I enjoy not only a great conversation, but I always learn something, and chatting about The Irish Matchmaker was no exception. Listen in to hear about the fascinating festival that prompted the story and the one we concocted as we chatted.  Not only that, but we got a peek at her next novel and another book you won't want to miss next year. EEP! Note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. If You're Looking for a Great Valentine Romance, Here You Go! When I learned about The Irish Matchmaker last year, I knew it was the book for me. Yes, I've loved all of the books by Jennifer that I've read, but come on!  A matchmaking festival that still goes on today?  EEEP! Not only that, but a farmer with a motherless little girl?  Sign me up and take my money!  :D But in addition to learning about the matchmaker who inspired the story (Willie Daly) and the BOOK of matches he carries around, we also learned that next up we're going back to Donegal and... tweeds! I'm so excited. However, even more exciting than The Last Matchmaker and "the next tweed weaver" (Sorry, couldn't resist), is her upcoming devotional based on Irish Blessings. EEEP!  I am SOOOOOOOO excited! The Irish Matchmaker by Jennifer Deibel As daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--and sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking festival. Enter Lord Osborne's son, Andrew, who has returned to the festival after being disappointed by a rival matchmaker's failed setup. Catríona seizes the opportunity to make a better match for the handsome man--and for herself! Cattle farmer Donal Bunratty is in desperate need of a wife after loss left him to handle the farm and raise his daughter on his own. Shy and lacking the finer social graces, he agrees to attend the matchmaking festival to appease his daughter. But when he arrives, it's not any of the other merrymakers that catch his eye but rather his matchmaker--who clearly has eyes for someone else. Catríona will have to put all her expertise to work to make a match that could change her life forever. Will her plan succeed? Or will love have its own way? Don't forget that you can get The Irish Matchmaker from BakerBookHouse.com at 40% off through February 12, 2024.  Learn more about Jennifer on her WEBSITE and follow her on BookBub and GoodReads. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Amazon and more!

In this episode, I talk with Diana Deibel, Chief Design Officer at Grand Studio, about the fascinating intersection of AI and design. Diana shares her insights on using artificial intelligence to create human-centered services and products, addressing ambiguous challenges, and fostering inclusivity in the design industry. Join us as we explore how AI is transforming the world of design and user experience. Investor Email: jaeden@aibox.ai Get on the AI Box Waitlist: ⁠⁠https://AIBox.ai/⁠⁠ Facebook Community: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/739308654562189 Follow me on X: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/jaeden_ai⁠⁠

Join us for an inspiring episode as we sit down with Diana Deibel, the Chief Design Officer at Grand Studio, and an AI visionary in the world of design. Explore Diana's groundbreaking insights and innovative approaches that are revolutionizing the design landscape through the integration of artificial intelligence. Gain invaluable perspectives on the dynamic intersection of technology and design in this must-listen podcast conversation. Get on the AI Box Waitlist: https://AIBox.ai/Join our ChatGPT Community: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/739308654562189/⁠Follow me on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/jaeden_ai⁠

Jennifer Deibel joins us for a chat about Irish foods, the uniqueness of historical fiction, and her latest release The Maid of Ballymacool. Don't forget to enter to win a copy of this great book!

Happy Book Release Birthday to Jennifer Deibel and her newest historical romance, The Maid of Ballymacool. I chatted with her about this book a while back and have been biting my nails for release day. My book arrived a couple of days ago, and I've been anxious to start reading.  Listen in to learn about why I'm going to love the bits of her in the forest (that's what Jennifer said!).   Note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. Hidden Treasures, a Mystery, and a Lonely Girl: What Isn't to Love? So, I'm about to utter a bit of literary blasphemy here, but when Jennifer described the background of The Maid of Ballymacool, it struck a familiar cord.  I mean... a small child dropped off at a school and just left there for life. Yeah. Am I the only one who thinks, "Okay... so like Jane Austen's Emma?"   Here's the thing, though. Even if that's the only similarity the two stories have, I'm already predisposed to love this book more. Why? How about the fact that Brianna of Ballymacool had to put herself into God's hand and trust His creation for her instruction in Him since she wasn't given any other? I can't wait to see what that looks like!  How about No Frank Churchill?  That's gotta be an improvement! And while I'll miss the silly Miss Bates... well, I think I can manage. I'll have Brianna after all. ;) Jennifer gave us a lovely rundown of her first two books, but... shhh... **looks around to make sure no one is listening too closely** I think I'm even more excited about her next one!  Then again, Jennifer might be mad at me for giving her an idea too late. Oh, well. I have every confidence her marketplace matchmaker book will be perfect the day it releases.  Next year. Sigh. The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel Brianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked there since she was a wee girl and will likely die there. Despite a sense that she was made for something more, Brianna feels powerless to change her situation, so she consoles herself by exploring the Ballymacool grounds, looking for hidden treasures to add to the secret trove beneath the floorboards of her room. When Michael Wray, the son of local gentry, is sent to Ballymacool to deal with his unruly cousin, he finds himself drawn to Brianna, immediately and inescapably. There is something about her that feels so . . . familiar. When Brianna finds a piece of silver in the woods, she commits to learning its origins, with the help of Michael. What they discover may change everything. Fan favorite Jennifer Deibel invites you back to the Emerald Isle in the 1930s for this fresh take on the Cinderella story, complete with a tantalizing mystery, a budding romance, and a chance at redemption. Learn more about Jennifer (and get the first bits of news... you know, like the COVER REVEAL) on her WEBSITE. Note: The book IS 30% off and DOES have free shipping as of today over at Baker Book House. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Stitcher Amazon and more!

Author Jaime Jo Wright sits down with Author Jennifer Deibel on the latest episode of MadLit Musings podcast to chat Ireland, finding your purpose, and more! Don't miss this coffee chat where they don't just talk story, but life and the deep questions.

In this episode, my good writing friends Jennifer Deibel, Laura Frantz, and Sarah Sundin join me as we talk about their upcoming books. We also dive into what it's like to write historical fiction. How do you know what to research? When to stop researching? The craziest things we've researched and so much more. We also talk about where we would recommend people travel related to our books. It was so much fun and I hope you enjoy this deep dive into what makes these authors' books so good. Feeling like you are in the time period and location are two of the keys. Connect with Laura Frantz Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter Connect with Sarah Sundin Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest | BookBub Connect with Jennifer Deibel Facebook | Instagram | GoodReads | BookBub For more episodes, and to learn more about the authors I interview, visit https://caraputman.com/podcast If you enjoyed this conversation, I would be thrilled if you left a rating and review on your favorite podcast app! Get the free novella, Dying for Love, when you sign up for my newsletter! Thank you to this episode's sponsor, Revell Publishing!

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content.The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer DeibelBrianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked there since she was a wee girl and will likely die there. Despite a sense that she was made for something more, Brianna feels powerless to change her situation, so she consoles herself by exploring the Ballymacool grounds, looking for hidden treasures to add to the secret trove beneath the floorboards of her room.When Michael Wray, the son of local gentry, is sent to Ballymacool to deal with his unruly cousin, he finds himself drawn to Brianna, immediately and inescapably. There is something about her that feels so . . . familiar. When Brianna finds a piece of silver in the woods, she commits to learning its origins, with the help of Michael. What they discover may change everything.Fan favorite Jennifer Deibel invites you back to the Emerald Isle in the 1930s for this fresh take on the Cinderella story, complete with a tantalizing mystery, a budding romance, and a chance at redemption.Get your copy of The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel.Hi, friend! I am so glad that you're here!I'm Jennifer. My friends call me Jen. Just please don't call my Jenny. I'm a  wife and mom just walking this road of life like everyone else. I'm your typical American mom, working, raising kids, and loving my hubby…I've just been blessed to do some of it in Vienna, Austria and the west of Ireland. However, after a decade of life overseas, we have settled back in America–in sunny Arizona!I currently teach middle school English, and when I'm not working on school things, I'm spending time with my incredible family–my husband Seth and our 3 awesome kids–and writing.I write stories that explore home through the lens of faith, family, and culture–with the beauty and depth of Ireland coloring much of it.I am honored to be a monthly contributor at The Better Mom and have posts shared at (in)courage, Djibouti Jones, Tricia Goyer, Unveiled Wife, Intentional by Grace, and more.I love chatting with you, so please connect with me on Instagram,  Facebook,and Goodreads. And be sure to follow me on BookBub to see what I'm reading & recommending!Visit Jennifer Deibel's website. 

Discovering Your Creativity This week on the podcast and community we featured artist Jenna Deibel. Little did I know that she has known me for quite some time! You're going to love this candid and raw episode on the struggles and joys of motherhood and creativity! This may be hidden beneath many layers of yourself and experiences that made you who you are. But let me ask you this: Do you feel like the person you were meant to be is who you are today? Unfortunately, creativity and the arts are discounted. They are not considered careers. They are not considered relevant. The most beautiful parts of ourselves were discounted, how messed up is that? I want to see the day when a child shares with me that they want to be an artist just like me and not see their parents face cringe. Is there something terribly wrong with how I am living my life? Do I make this look hard or something? Because it's easy, not easy in the way of everything just comes my way. But easy in the way that this is how I view the world, this is how my brain works, this is how I thrive. Don't you want to thrive? Don't you want to see your children thrive? Not only thrive but BE HAPPY! We all deserve to be happy. I am deserving of that and so are you. It is easier because it is worth it, every moment I am doing this I know it's where I am meant to be, and I am totally obsessed with making it work! I was told by everyone that I could not write. My whole life, and up until about 5 years ago I believed them. After a long while of finding confidence in myself, and a lot of practice here I am writing to you and publishing my very first book, if I can do it SO CAN YOU! What is it that you are totally obsessed with? What is it that makes you pull yourself out of your bed in the morning, what is it that makes you drag your tired ass across the finish line? Because that is your answer! And guess what, you can do more of it! List 3 ways you can incorporate more of the “thing” you love into your being. The more you integrate it into your life the more it will expand. Before you know it, it will be just something you DO! Learn more about Jenna Deibel here: https://jennadeibel.art/ and @jennadeibelart_ on Insta Join our Free Colour Me Happy Community Here Order our new book here Learn more about our Portrait Class!

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.08.515580v1?rss=1 Authors: Lehr, A. B., Hitti, F. L., Deibel, S. H., Stoeber, T. M. Abstract: The hippocampus is a key structure involved in learning and remembering spatial information. However the extent to which hippocampal region CA2 is involved in these processes remains unclear. Here we show that chronically silencing dorsal CA2 impairs reversal learning in the Morris water maze. After platform relocation, CA2-silenced mice spent more time in the vicinity of the old platform location and less time in the new target quadrant. Accordingly, behavioral strategy analysis revealed increased perseverance in navigating to the old location during the first day and an increased use of non-spatial strategies during the second day of reversal learning. Confirming previous indirect indications, these results demonstrate that CA2 is recruited when mice must flexibly adapt their behavior as task contingencies change. We discuss how these findings can be explained by recent theories of CA2 function and outline testable predictions to understand the underlying neural mechanisms. Demonstrating a direct involvement of CA2 in spatial learning, this work lends further support to the notion that CA2 plays a fundamental role in hippocampal information processing. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Did you know that there are over 100 types of hearing loss? Are you also aware that there exist exceptionally few therapeutic options for those affected by one of those conditions?This month, Drew & Liv had the privilege of bringing on one of the people leading the charge to develop new therapeutics for hearing and balance loss: Dr. Laurence Reid, CEO of Decibel Therapeutics. Dr. Reid provides a behind-the-scenes look at hearing restoration development and how single-cell genomics in a laboratory can translate to giving a previously deaf person their ability to hear. In this episode, you will learn about Dr. Reid's journey from scientist to CEO, how Deibel leverages single-cell genomics, and the importance of science communication.You can follow Drew & Liv on Instagram @scienceinsociety to stay in the know on upcoming episodes, new content, and their ~nearly~ famous science shenanigans. To learn more about Dr. Reid's work, you can visit the Decibel Therapeutics website, follow the company's Twitter, or check out their Linkedin.

In chapter 19 of the FamilyFiction Christian Fiction Bookshelf Podcast Jennifer Deibel talks to us about her new Revell release, The Lady of Galway Manor. The post Jennifer Deibel | Christian Fiction Bookshelf Podcast – Chapter 19 appeared first on Family Fiction.

On this St. Patrick's Day, I bring you a conversation with Jennifer Deibel about her newest book, The Lady of Galway Manor, which released in February From the publisher (Revell): New to the historical romance genre, novelist Jennifer Deibel made her mark on readers in 2021 with A Dance in Donegal, a stunning debut full of romance and mystery in the lush Irish countryside. Influenced by her experience on the Emerald Isle, Deibel now delivers more of the lively sights, sounds, smells, and language of this colorful country in her sophomore novel, The Lady of Galway Manor. Annabeth De Lacy's father is appointed as the new landlord of Galway County, Ireland, in 1920, amid the Irish War of Independence. Adjusting to a slower pace in Ireland leaves Annabeth itching to use her design prowess, and with the help of her father, she finagles an apprenticeship at a local jeweler—the home of the famed Claddagh ring. Stephen Jennings is sick of romance. Unfortunately, he's surrounded by it. The Jenningses' jewelry shop is built on the Claddagh legend and the optimistic promises of love that it holds. Disillusioned by a heartbreak at an early age, how can Stephen peddle a “lie” that he no longer believes in? When Annabeth becomes his new apprentice, worlds collide. She's English, he's Irish—somehow, they must manage their working relationship and their differences. But as tensions in the city rise, the Irish locals take matters into their own hands, which spells trouble for the De Lacys. Will Stephen and Annabeth see that perhaps the “other side” isn't quite as barbaric and uncultured as they'd been led to believe? Working together, they just might find that the bonds of friendship, love, and loyalty are only made stronger when put through the refiner's fire. Uncovering the true meaning of loyalty and friendship, Deibel's lyrical prose will redefine home through the lens of culture, history, and family in The Lady of Galway Manor. Purchase The Lady of Galway Manor on Amazon (affiliate). Purchase The Lady of Galway Manor on Bookshop (affiliate). Find out more about the Claddagh Ring. Check out Jennifer's website, Facebook, and Instagram. Join my community and help support the show on Patreon! Join the Historical Fiction: Unpacked Podcast Group on Facebook! Be sure to visit my Instagram, Facebook, and website. Follow the show on Instagram! Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, you help support my work without paying any more for the product. Thank you for your support!  

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.This week, Jennifer Deibel stops by to chat with us about her newest release. There is a fabulous story behind the story you don't want to miss out on, and Jennifer shares with us a little bit about the Gaelic language.The Lady of Galway Manor by Jennifer DeibelIn 1920, Annabeth De Lacy's father is appointed landlord of Galway Parish in Ireland. Bored without all the trappings of the British Court, Annabeth convinces her father to arrange an apprenticeship for her with the Jennings family--descendants of the creator of the famed Claddagh Ring. Stephen Jennings longs to do anything other than run his family's jewelry shop. Having had his heart broken, he no longer believes in love and is weary of peddling the "lies" the Claddagh Ring promises. Meanwhile, as the war for Irish independence gains strength, many locals resent the De Lacys and decide to take things into their own hands to display their displeasure. As events take a dangerous turn for Annabeth and her family, she and Stephen begin to see that perhaps the "other side" isn't quite as barbaric and uncultured as they'd been led to believe--and that the bonds of friendship, love, and loyalty are only made stronger when put through the refiner's fire.Travel to the Emerald Isle for another poignant and romantic story from the enchanted pen of Jennifer Deibel.Get your copy of The Lady of Galway Manor.Jennifer Deibel is a  wife and mom just walking this road of life like everyone else. She's your typical American mom, working, raising kids, and loving her hubby…she's just been blessed to do some of it in Vienna, Austria, and the west of Ireland. However, after a decade of life overseas, they have settled back in America–in sunny Arizona!She currently teaches middle school English, and when she's not working on school things, she's spending time with her  incredible family–her husband Seth and their 3 awesome kids–and writing.Her debut novel, A Dance in Donegal, released from Revell in 2021. You can read more about that here. And you can also get a copy of it here.She writes stories that explore home through the lens of faith, family, and culture–with the beauty and depth of Ireland coloring much of it.She is honored to be a monthly contributor at The Better Mom and have posts shared at (in)courage, Djibouti Jones, Tricia Goyer, Unveiled Wife, Intentional by Grace, and more.She loves chatting with you, so please connect with her on Instagram,  Facebook,and Goodreads. And be sure to follow her on BookBubto see what she's reading & recommending!

Our conversation with Sweetleaf Joe and CT Deibel President and CEO of Deibel Bioscience.Sweetleaf helps low income veterans, terminally ill patients, and people of color access free medical cannabis. Sweetleaf is california's oldest Cannabis brand and is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year.Deibel Bioscience has laboratories in Santa Cruz, CA, Lincolnwood, IL, and Hood River, OR Applying over 50 years of regulatory experience in food safety testing to the medicinal plants industry, Deibel can deliver customized solutions, accurate compliance and R&D testing, environmental monitoring and consulting services.

Join Jaime Jo Wright and Author Jennifer Deibel as they probe into the dangerous world of preconceptions and stereotypes, as well as discuss how the same topic impacts the characters in her newest release "The Lady of Galway Manor".

John Charles in conversation with Jennifer Deibel

Authors of Conversations with Things, Rebecca Evanhoe and Diana Deibel, join us to share conversation design best practice and lessons learned from over a decade of designing conversations with things.LinksBuy Conversations with ThingsConnect with Rebecca Evanhoe on LinkedInConnect with Diana Deibel on LinkedInPresented by DeepgramDeepgram is a Speech Company whose goal is to have every voice heard and understood. We have revolutionized speech-to-text (STT) with an End-to-End Deep Learning platform. This AI architectural advantage means you don't have to compromise on speed, accuracy, scalability, or cost to build the next big idea in voice. Our easy-to-use SDKs and APIs allow developers to quickly test and embed our STT solution into their voice products. For more information, visit:Deepgram websiteDeepgram on LinkedInDeepgram on Twitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author Jennifer Deibel shares  from personal experience while in Ireland with her family. Gain insight into the thoughts which shaped the origination and motivation for her two, soon to be three, books. "The Lady of Galway Manor", a stand alone story is scheduled to be released on February 1, 2022. Jennifer can be reached at Jenniferdeibel.com or on Instagram @jenniferdeibel_author

Join Millani, Marco, Diana, and Rebecca as they explore the book Conversations with Things co-authored by Diana and Rebecca. Voice This! podcast wanted to celebrate the book, not only for it's recent launch but just how much of a fantastic resource it is for all of us here. And so what better way than to invite the co-authors of the book onto the podcast. Topics including why they created the book, what inspired them as well as some of the points that Millani and Marco found very interesting while they read the book. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voicethispod/message

Jennifer Deibel spent nearly a decade living in Ireland and Austria, building a family and a deep love for all things Irish. That passion for the Emerald Isle and the Gaelic tongue is still with the Arizona schoolteacher, and fueled her passion for writing her debut novel, “A Dance in Donegal” from Revell Books. Jennifer talks to Olivia about making a “perfect cuppa”, life in the desert as compared to a land of green, and how she identifies with her protagonist, Moira. “A Dance in Donegal” follows Moira from Boston to Ireland in 1920, following through on her mother's dying wish for her daughter to teach in the village where she once lived. There, Moira finds a missing piece of herself, and discovers mysteries surrounding her family's past. In a Moment With Margaret, they talk about books where the setting is as important as the characters. Margaret recommends “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens, Olivia recommends Elena Ferrante's “My Brilliant Friend.”

Conversation designers Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe discuss the practical knowledge required to design effective conversations with things such as chatbots and voice assistants. We also discuss the evolution of conversation design over time and across modes of interaction. Diana Deibel is a director at Grand Studio where she helps clients create user-focused experiences, including many that involve voice user interfaces. Before Grand Studio, Deibel was a VUX design lead at Allstate, voice user interface designer at Emmi Solutions, and a media producer. Rebecca Evanhoe is a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute where she teaches a graduate course in conversational user experience design. She is also a founding contributor to Women in Voice and earlier was a conversation design consultant at AWS and Mobiquity and a writing instructor at the University of Florida.

In this episode Sarah Loudin Thomas shares about The Right Kind of Fool, we look at 1950s trends, and review A Dance in Donegal by Jennifer Deibel

Richard Deibel v. Larry Hoeg

In this episode we are chatting with author Jennifer Diebel about her experience being a debut author! All the fun firsts, the challenges and everything in between!

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Jennifer Deibel is a middle school teacher and freelance writer. Her work has appeared on (in)courage, on The Better Mom, in Missions Mosaic Magazine, and others. With firsthand immersive experience abroad, Jennifer writes stories that help redefine home through the lens of culture, history, and family. After nearly a decade of living in Ireland and Austria, she now lives in Arizona.Dance in DonegalAll of her life, Irish-American Moira Doherty has relished her mother's descriptions of Ireland. When her mother dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1920, Moira decides to fulfill her mother's wish that she become the teacher in Ballymann, her home village in Donegal, Ireland.After an arduous voyage, Moira arrives to a new home and a new job in an ancient country. Though a few locals offer a warm welcome, others are distanced by superstition and suspicion. Rumors about Moira's mother are unspoken in her presence but threaten to derail everything she's journeyed to Ballymann to do. Moira must rely on the kindness of a handful of friends--and the strength of Sean, an unsettlingly handsome thatcher who keeps popping up unannounced--as she seeks to navigate a life she'd never dreamed of . . . but perhaps was meant to live.Jennifer Deibel's debut novel delights the senses, bringing to life the sights, sounds, smells, and language of a lush country and a colorful people. Historical romance fans will embrace her with open arms.You can buy the book here.Also be sure to preorder Liz's new book, The Silver Shadow.Denver of 1900 is still a dangerous place to be following the silver crash of 1893. And of out of the dark comes a shadow intent on harming women. Ambitious young Denver newspaper reporter Polly Blythe is searching for the big story that’s going to launch her career. On Friday evening, August 24, 1900, she gets her break when two women are cracked over the head within a two-minute walk of each other. But policeman Edwin Timmer thwarts Polly’s ideas of a serial criminal. . .until the shadowy figure strikes again. Will the reporter and the policeman team up to find the culprit before he strikes too close for comfort?

Today on the podcast, I’m excited to introduce you guys to debut author Jennifer Deibel. My conversation with Jennifer is a fun merging of a lot of things I love: history, learning about other cultures, the beauty of redemption, and the power of how we tell a story. Jennifer also shares her story of becoming an author, living in Ireland with her family and she shows off her amazing Irish Gaelic skills. Her beautiful book A Dance in Donegal, is a story that walks a character through incredible trials of faith, suffering, and reveals the layers of how one can receive love and experience redemption.  I hope that you love getting to know Jennifer in this episode, hearing the really cool facts about Ireland, the British Isles, their language, and some of the layers of what makes up the identity of a people. Most of all, I hope that you walk away feeling encouraged in some way. Whether that’s the push towards perseverance to walk out your God dream, or if it's the reminder that there is no one and no situation that is beyond the redemption of the Lord, He cares about you, what’s happening to you, and has plans for hope and a future for you. Take heart, dear ones. Be sure and follow Jennifer, check out her beautiful book A Dance in Donegal and keep your eyes peeled for her 2022 release! Connecting with Jennifer: Her book : A Dance in Donegal Facebook  Instagram Twitter Website // Subscribe to her “Newsies” Sponsor for this Episode: Crabtree Homes by Exit Realty Website Instagram Facebook Youtube Channel References: The Better Mom Blog  Ruth Schwenk Donegal The thank you’s in Irish gaelic: “go raibh mile maith agat” and the big one is “go raibh maith agaibh” Wales/Welsh language Republic of Ireland Galway Lit Fuse “Brigadoon” Gene Kelly Battle of Culloden Northern Ireland Cromwell, banished them to hell or Connacht Highlanders vs Lowlanders 6 Cornish languages Hermione Jaime Jo Wright Courtney Walsh Julie Klassen Jocelyn Green Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers The “Redeeming Love” film  The Light at Wyndcliff - Sarah Ladd  “Mulan” Anna & Elsa in “Frozen” “Moana” “Brave”  The Irish Potato Famine, “the soupers” (Christians who would only feed the hungry if they converted” Cliffs of Insanity/Cliffs of Moher “Knock on wood” - fairy trees St. Brigid’s Day St. Patrick’s Day Richard Joyce: family who created the claddagh ring  The Irish War for Independence Scripture References: Ezekiel 36:26 / Luke 23:39-43 / Ephesians 1:7 / Psalm 103 - No one and nothing are unredeemable by the Lord John 15:13- There is no greater love than the one who lays down His life  Psalm 40 /Psalm 63:3-4 / -Jesus is the lover of my soul  Revelation 19:7- I am His Bride 1 John 1:9 / Psalm 37:23-24 / We make mistakes, and we receive forgiveness Romans 8:14 / Romans 8:26 / John 15:26- We are led by the Holy Spirit Psalm 121: 7-8 / Psalm 34:22 / John 10:10 / John 14:3 - He’s come to redeem me, now and forevermore Connecting with Emily and Simply Stories Podcast:Instagram (Em life // Podcast Life)FacebookTwitterBlog  *Intro and Outro music is from audionautix.com

Jennifer Deibel is a Middle school teacher, author, and former Expat to Ireland and Austria. Her debut novel, A Dance in Donegal, released last Tuesday, February 2. I talked to Jennifer about her inspiration for this lyrical historical romance novel, the time Jennifer spent living in Ireland, the ten years it took to write the book, as well as how she eventually attracted an agent and landed a book contract. Order A Dance in Donegal from Bookshop.org (affiliate). Order A Dance in Donegal from Amazon (affiliate). Check out Jennifer's website, and follow her on Facebook and Instagram. Also mentioned: Author Jamie Jo Wright Author Tricia Goyer Author and Literary Agent Cynthia Ruchti Be sure to visit Alison’s Instagram, Facebook, and website. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, you help support my work without paying any more for the product. Thank you for your support!    

EPISODE 234I Today's guest is https://www.jenniferdeibel.com/ (Jennifer Deibel), whose debut novel, https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Donegal-Jennifer-Deibel/dp/0800738411/ (A Dance in Donegal), just came out! Jennifer tells us about life as a debut author, and how she started writing. She lived in Ireland at the time, and felt she'd finally found her heart there. That made her want to write about Ireland in a real way, not how it's portrayed in some movies and TV shows. We talk about using all the senses when you write, and trying to capture what a place feels like when you write it. Jennifer also talks about starting a book, setting it aside when she had a child, picking it up and working on it again, having to set it aside again -- and how some stories just won't let you go. You can buy Jennifer's novel wherever you buy books, and find out more about her and her upcoming projects at her website https://www.jenniferdeibel.com/ (https://www.jenniferdeibel.com/). You can follow her on major social media sites, especially Instagram and Facebook, and join her Facebook reader's group. TRANSCRIPTION [00:00:07.770] - Kitty Welcome to Write Now Workshop Podcast, where you can write a book and change the world, I'm your host, Kitty Bucholtz. And this is Episode 234, The Magic of the Emerald Isle. An interview with Jennifer Deibel coming to you on Thursday, February 11th, 2021. So how is your writing going? You know, I have a little pop up message on my calendar and on the first of every month, it pops up and just says, how's the writing going? [00:00:36.630] - Kitty And it gives me an opportunity every month to ask myself, have I taken a step back and looked at the big picture and asked myself, am I making progress in the direction that I was intending to go? This is always a good question to ask yourself whenever you're doing anything that takes more than a day. Am I going in the direction that I'm trying to go? Am I not only am I going off in a wrong direction, but am I taking too much time to do something that maybe isn't quite as necessary as it seems fun, i.e. research. [00:01:09.510] - Kitty It's a good time for us to just ask ourselves, is this the right book? And do I need to do more on this particular kind of research or less on this? Am I making enough progress that I will have a book in a while? Could I be doing any more writing? Am I being too hard on myself? And I should just relax a little bit and when I relax, then I'll do better writing sometimes. That's one of the issues that I have to tell myself, you need to relax more because you're freaking yourself out. And I think you'll get more done if you just chill out. So what do you need to ask yourself about your writing also? Do you just need some more energy? Do you need some more people to be around even though you might not be able to physically be with people? You could join My Finish Your Book membership group. We get together twice a week and we do a 30 minute writing sprint. Everybody says this is what I'm working on. And then at the end, this is how many words I wrote. This is how much editing I got done. And we are getting a ton done. And it's also super fun. We've got more people joining and everybody adds their own kind of energy to it. And it's amazing how much faster you write and how much more excited you can be about your project, because in a few minutes you're going to tell a whole bunch of people, yeah, I got this much done. [00:02:28.920] - Kitty And sometimes you're saying, well, I only got two hundred words written, but I figured something out in the plot that I wasn't sure about, or I had to go back over my table of contents for my nonfiction book and realized that something was in the wrong place. But I still got, you know, two hundred and fifty words written. [00:02:43.920] - Kitty So then there are other people that, I'm just like, how fast can you type, woman? Yeah, one of them, she gets like nine hundred words...

This week's episode is a celebration of a 17 year old dream come true! Author Jennifer Diebel and I discuss how perfect God's timing is as we celebrate the release of her first book A Dance in Donegal. God's timing does not always match our own. However, can we believe that God has a better plan in mind than we can ever imagine? Come and listen and celebrate with us!Episode NotesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/journeyofruth)

Hast du als Whisky-Fan die ein oder andere Technik parat, mit der du Aromen in einem Glas Whisky entdeckst, hast du unweigerlich mehr Freude in einem Glas. Du hast mehr Wow-Erlebnisse und die Reise durch ein Glas dauert länger. Einer der hierbei seit Jahrzehnten Whisky-Fans unter die Arme greift, ist Jürgen Deibel. Er ist Whisky-Buch-Autor, Referent und Berater von Unternehmen bei der Herstellung hochwertiger Destillate - und dies seit 1995 unter seiner eigenen Agentur: der Deibel Consultants GmbH. Im Interview verrät er dir u.a. welche Vorteile Tumbler gegenüber Nosing Gläsern haben, welchen Nutzen Aromenräder bringen und was man wissen muss, wenn auf dem Label steht: Whisky aus dem Sherry-Fass. Mehr über Eye for Spirits: - Whisky High Volume: https://spoti.fi/3eZs16v - www.eyeforspirits.com/whisky - www.eyeforspirits.com/whiskyclub

I had a blast talking Geoffrey Deibel this week! He is definitely a musician that has taken on the role of life-long learner. Listen in and hear about his formative mentors, his highly successful quartet's experiences competing and recording, and how he is shaping FSU's studio culture.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.24.264978v1?rss=1 Authors: Mehla, J., Deibel, S. H., Karem, H., Hossain, S., Lacoursiere, S. G., Sutherland, R. J., McDonald, R. J., MOHAJERANI, M. H. Abstract: Education, occupation, and an active lifestyle, comprising enhanced social, physical, and mental components are associated with improved cognitive functions in aged people and may prevent/ or delay the progression of various neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease (AD). To investigate this protective effect, APPNL-G-F/NL-G-F mice at 3 months of age were exposed to repeated, single- or multi-domain cognitive training. Cognitive training was given at the age of 3, 6, 9 & 12 months of age. Single-domain cognitive training was limited to a spatial navigation task. Multi-domain cognitive training consisted of a spatial navigation task, object recognition, and fear conditioning. At the age of 12 months, behavioral tests were completed for cognitive training groups and control group. After completion of behavioral testing, mice were sacrificed, and their brains were assessed for pathology. APPNL-G-F mice given multi-domain cognitive training compared to APPNL-G-F control group showed an improvement in cognitive functions, reductions in amyloid load and microgliosis, and a preservation of cholinergic function. There were mild reductions in microglosis in the brain of APPNL-G-F mice with single-domain cognitive training. These findings provide causal evidence for the potential of certain forms of cognitive training to mitigate the cognitive deficits in Alzheimer disease. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Transcript"...the pandemic has simply highlighted for some people that hypocrisy, where politicians use so-called medical reasons, protecting women's health, as an excuse for what are really political goals, which is to end access to safe and legal abortion writ large." -Cecile RichardsThe COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on women's’ access to abortion services and reproductive health. In some states, abortion was categorized as elective surgery, and procedures were suspended. In today’s episode, we hear from Cecile Richards, the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Kersha Deibel, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio, and an abortion provider. They discuss the barriers to reproductive health access raised by COVID-19, the disparities this causes, and the impacts on women and healthcare providers.Nominations for the 2020 People's Choice Podcast Awards opened on July 1st. To show your support, please go to podcastawards.com and nominate us in the People’s Choice and Health categories.This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you.#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

Designing voice conversations requires new skills and new ways of thinking about how people interact with your digital product. Rebecca Evanhoe and Diana Deibel are experts in this new approach to interaction design. Like many content strategists, they are learning on the fly. And they are constantly studying the steady stream of research in their field. They'll share their discoveries in a book, Conversations With Things, in the spring of 2021. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/conv-design/

Designing voice conversations requires new skills and new ways of thinking about how people interact with your digital product. Rebecca Evanhoe and Diana Deibel are experts in this new approach to interaction design. Like many content strategists, they are learning on the fly. And they are constantly studying the steady stream of research in their field. They'll share their discoveries in a book, Conversations With Things, in the spring of 2021. Diana Deibel Rebecca Evanhoe We talked about: Rebbeca and Diana's backgrounds the differences between designing for voice interfaces and for graphical interfaces the higher expectations that people have for conversational voice interactions some of the challenges of designing for voice interactions: navigation, lack of standardization, lower impatience thresholds in voice interactions, etc. how conversation design fits in the UX field the principles and concepts that underlie conversation design: personas (of the voice agent), prompts, training data, etc. the implications for user trust in systems that use AI (artificial intelligence) conventions around the transition from AI-driven bots to human agents in a conversation system the ethics of conversation design practices to instill trust in voice interfaces and allay user privacy concerns racial and gender and geographical biases that can creep into conversation design the rapid evolution of the research that underlies conversation design the challenges of managing the content associated with conversation design the value of the contributions of humanities disciplines to conversation design the need for more diverse perspectives in conversational design, and the need to try harder in accomplishing this Diana and Rebecca's Bios Diana Deibel, Design Director at Grand Studio in Chicago, is a Brazilian-American award-winning writer and VUI designer with a background in fictional dialogue. She has designed multi-channel voice-first products, chatbots for healthcare, insurance and HR operations, smart speaker skills, and large IVR systems. She is a national speaker and VUI consultant who has set up voice practices for Fortune 100 companies, among others. In addition to conversational design, she has written and produced for a variety of networks and creatives including “Animal Planet” and “Blue Man Group”. She co-created two TV pilots, now in pre-development with One Bowl Productions, and has had several plays produced with the Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company in Brooklyn (under the name Diana de Souza). She loves learning, puns, and leading workshops on dialogue to help others find their voices. Rebecca Evanhoe, author and conversation designer, has been developing technology that you talk to since 2011 at companies like Amazon Web Services, Mobiquity, and Shadow Health. She has created virtual patient characters for chat-based learning games, bots for fun and service, and interactive experiences for Alexa and Google Home platforms. Along with her experience in voice and conversation, she earned an MFA in creative writing. She teaches conversation design as a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute, and she leads workshops in a variety of writing genres, from creative to technical to UX. Her fiction can be found in the O. Henry Prize Collection, Harper’s Magazine, Vice, NOON, and Gulf Coast, among others. Books Mentioned in the Podcast Conversations With Things (their new book, coming in 2021) Weapons of Math Destruction Algorithms of Oppression Video Here’s the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/MTd8LMejX8k Podcast Intro Transcript Most of the content and interaction designers that you encounter in the content strategy field come from design, copywriting, journalism, and similar careers. In those fields, content presentation design happens in a GUI - a graphical user interface.

Designing voice conversations requires new skills and new ways of thinking about how people interact with your digital product. Rebecca Evanhoe and Diana Deibel are experts in this new approach to interaction design. Like many content strategists, they are learning on the fly. And they are constantly studying the steady stream of research in their field. They'll share their discoveries in a book, Conversations With Things, in the spring of 2021. Diana Deibel Rebecca Evanhoe We talked about: Rebbeca and Diana's backgrounds the differences between designing for voice interfaces and for graphical interfaces the higher expectations that people have for conversational voice interactions some of the challenges of designing for voice interactions: navigation, lack of standardization, lower impatience thresholds in voice interactions, etc. how conversation design fits in the UX field the principles and concepts that underlie conversation design: personas (of the voice agent), prompts, training data, etc. the implications for user trust in systems that use AI (artificial intelligence) conventions around the transition from AI-driven bots to human agents in a conversation system the ethics of conversation design practices to instill trust in voice interfaces and allay user privacy concerns racial and gender and geographical biases that can creep into conversation design the rapid evolution of the research that underlies conversation design the challenges of managing the content associated with conversation design the value of the contributions of humanities disciplines to conversation design the need for more diverse perspectives in conversational design, and the need to try harder in accomplishing this Diana and Rebecca's Bios Diana Deibel, Design Director at Grand Studio in Chicago, is a Brazilian-American award-winning writer and VUI designer with a background in fictional dialogue. She has designed multi-channel voice-first products, chatbots for healthcare, insurance and HR operations, smart speaker skills, and large IVR systems. She is a national speaker and VUI consultant who has set up voice practices for Fortune 100 companies, among others. In addition to conversational design, she has written and produced for a variety of networks and creatives including “Animal Planet” and “Blue Man Group”. She co-created two TV pilots, now in pre-development with One Bowl Productions, and has had several plays produced with the Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company in Brooklyn (under the name Diana de Souza). She loves learning, puns, and leading workshops on dialogue to help others find their voices. Rebecca Evanhoe, author and conversation designer, has been developing technology that you talk to since 2011 at companies like Amazon Web Services, Mobiquity, and Shadow Health. She has created virtual patient characters for chat-based learning games, bots for fun and service, and interactive experiences for Alexa and Google Home platforms. Along with her experience in voice and conversation, she earned an MFA in creative writing. She teaches conversation design as a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute, and she leads workshops in a variety of writing genres, from creative to technical to UX. Her fiction can be found in the O. Henry Prize Collection, Harper's Magazine, Vice, NOON, and Gulf Coast, among others. Books Mentioned in the Podcast Conversations With Things (their new book, coming in 2021) Weapons of Math Destruction Algorithms of Oppression Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/MTd8LMejX8k Podcast Intro Transcript Most of the content and interaction designers that you encounter in the content strategy field come from design, copywriting, journalism, and similar careers. In those fields, content presentation design happens in a GUI - a graphical user interface.

This is the first episode of my new podcast Sax Reel! Here is a brief introduction on what you can expect when you tune in! My first official guest and I will be recording in the coming week, so be expecting more content soon! I would like to thank the ever so generous Helen Holman for helping me design the cover art. A huge shout out to Claire Salli, Beth King-Bennett, Abraham Nunez, Hillary Kierspe, and Dr. Deibel for work shopping this idea with me! Lastly, I would like to thank my brother Caleb Kierspe for providing the sound equipment used for recording. I can't wait to share this experience with you!

Who are these intrepid commuters? Rain, Snow, Heat, Dark & Traffic? They aren't deterred. We'll talk with several committed Ohioan bike commuters and find out some of the secrets, tricks, inspiration & gear needed for this hard core commitment. Carolyn Harding (host) with four Central Ohio Bike Commuters, Karyn Deibel, Steve Palm-Hauser, Jerry Ulibarri and Catherine Girves. Not only on sunny, mild winter days, like we've been having this week, but on icy, wet, miserable, or hot, humid, bad air days and even nights, these folks face the elements, the traffic, the aches and pains to bike instead of drive. They inspire me….. Karyn Deibel is a certified Senior Trager Practitioner, an active member of Simply Living and Compassionate Communication of Central Ohio, An INELDA trained End of Life Death Doula, and an activist with Columbus Community Bill of Rights. Karyn is a lover of the earth who actively pursues ways to lighten her carbon foot print and to raise awareness that we and the earth are one. Steve Palm-Hauser is a technical writer and a free-lance journalist with the Columbus Free Press. “Besides protecting the environment and getting physical exercise, biking also boosts serotonin levels, which is good for my mental and emotional well-being”. He is a member of Socialist Alternative. Jerry Ulibarri is a Mural Artist & Design business owner. His company, Kobolt Studios, located in Franklinton, started as a small art shop providing hand-painted murals and custom faux finishes. Now it's grown and expanded into all aspects of the design world. He's the father of four boys/young men and he bikes to and from work every day. As a kid, Catherine Girves rode a bike for fun with friends, and to get places. Once she turned 15 ½, and got a drivers permit, she didn't ride til she was nearly 40. And then, she needed a bike for transportation, for economic reasons. She's been a year round bike commuter for 15 years now. She's the Executive Director of Yay Bikes!, a non-profit organization helping people lawfully and joyfully get from one place to another by bicycle. The staff and volunteers of Yay Bikes! engage thousands of people annually, teaching folks to ride roads, and advocate for people who ride their bikes for transportation. LISTEN HERE to ALL #GrassRootOhio radio podcasts archived on SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 New shows air Friday evenings at 5:00pm, EST, at 94.1 FM, Columbus and simultaneously online @ wgrn.org. Join Us! Conversations with every-day people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Like our Face Book Page: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Welcome to the very first episode of Mentor Memos, the new podcast from the Girlboss Radio Network, produced in partnership with TRESemmé. In each episode, Girlboss COO Neha Gandhi chats with a different pair of mentors and mentees about their relationship and the biggest lessons they've taught each other. For our first conversation, we hear from the one and only, Cecile Richards, founder of Supermajority and former CEO of Planned Parenthood. While Cecile was at Planned Parenthood, she worked with Kersha Deibel, who soon expressed interest in rising as a leader within the organization. Over time, Cecile began mentoring Kersha and connecting her with other people who could help her advance. Fast forward to today, and Kersha acts as the CEO to Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Cecile continues to watch and stay a part of her mentee's career by uplifting and providing opportunity whenever possible. Tune in to hear how Kersha first approached Cecile about a mentorship, how the two contribute equally to the relationship, and why it's so important to have female women in leadership roles.

Welcome to the very first episode of Mentor Memos, the new podcast from the Girlboss Radio Network, produced in partnership with TRESemmé. In each episode, Girlboss COO Neha Gandhi chats with a different pair of mentors and mentees about their relationship and the biggest lessons they’ve taught each other. For our first conversation, we hear from the one and only, Cecile Richards, founder of Supermajority and former CEO of Planned Parenthood. While Cecile was at Planned Parenthood, she worked with Kersha Deibel, who soon expressed interest in rising as a leader within the organization. Over time, Cecile began mentoring Kersha and connecting her with other people who could help her advance. Fast forward to today, and Kersha acts as the CEO to Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Cecile continues to watch and stay a part of her mentee’s career by uplifting and providing opportunity whenever possible. Tune in to hear how Kersha first approached Cecile about a mentorship, how the two contribute equally to the relationship, and why it’s so important to have female women in leadership roles.

Welcome to the very first episode of Mentor Memos, the new podcast from the Girlboss Radio Network, produced in partnership with TRESemmé. In each episode, Girlboss COO Neha Gandhi chats with a different pair of mentors and mentees about their relationship and the biggest lessons they’ve taught each other. For our first conversation, we hear from the one and only, Cecile Richards, founder of Supermajority and former CEO of Planned Parenthood. While Cecile was at Planned Parenthood, she worked with Kersha Deibel, who soon expressed interest in rising as a leader within the organization. Over time, Cecile began mentoring Kersha and connecting her with other people who could help her advance. Fast forward to today, and Kersha acts as the CEO to Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Cecile continues to watch and stay a part of her mentee’s career by uplifting and providing opportunity whenever possible. Tune in to hear how Kersha first approached Cecile about a mentorship, how the two contribute equally to the relationship, and why it’s so important to have female women in leadership roles.

Jennifer Deibel is a mom, teacher, blogger, and author. She lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona and writes on her blog over at www.thisgalsjourney.com along with guest writing for other blogs and online publications. We talk about her draw to the written word and her new book to be released in 2021! A large part of what Jen and I discuss is the huge changes that she and her husband, Seth, along with their 3 kids have experience in the last 6 years. Change can be hard for anyone, but as a couple they were able to help their kids thrive in the redefinition of their family's purpose. Listen for her wisdom on how she helped her kids, in the midst of chaos, to have an outward focus and a Jesus heart for the world.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/journeyofruth)

Elevations visited with Dr Yanhai Du in his fuel cell lab in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University . Marketing and engineering double major Angela Deibel gave us a tour, and the two explained fuel cells, how they are constructed and some of their applications. We also got a ride in Kent State's new Zero Emissions Vehicle, a project Ms Deibel has been team leader on for the past three years. One might see it driving around Kent's main campus. The vehicle is charged by sunlight, and also by a fuel cell in the lab.

This episode is unique and is a joint episode with Karen Spencer from Searchfunder, Walker Deibel, and myself, and is something I'm calling "Author's Chat." I recently sent out a survey to see what content listeners and readers might enjoy hearing most and many of them said that conversations with authors of books relevant to micro PE would be interesting to them. This is one conversation along those lines. Karen and I's guest, Walker Deibel, is an acquirer of 7 businesses, author of the book and site "Buy Then Build", and is an active investor and advocate for entrepreneurship through acquisition. This conversation focuses on his book and lessons and stories from his investing and operating experience. I hope you enjoy our conversation and if you want more episodes with authors, please let me know!

Walker Deibel is an acquisition entrepreneur and investor who has cofounded three startups and acquired seven companies. His book Buy Then Build shows readers how to generate profitable revenue by acquiring companies. If you want to learn how to buy an existing company, and using ownership as a path to financial independence, his book and this episode are for you.   Quotes To Remember: "Only 4% of U.S. companies exceed $1M in revenue." "There are these 10 things I can do to make this business awesome." "I'm an entrepreneur and that's my condition." "Think about what infrastructure it is that you're trying to build."   What You'll Learn: Acquiring companies Filling in the money gap Financing a purchase--what you need to know How to identify and buy the right companies What holds entrepreneurs back from success    Key Links From The Show: Buy Then Build Content Marketing Plaza   Recommended Books:   The End of Jobs by Taylor Pearson The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod Good To Great by Jim Collins The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

When you look in the mirror, do you see a star? Of course you do! Your body is composed of the elements of stars. We met with Dr. Catherine Deibel, Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, to learn about her research in experimental nuclear astrophysics and explain how we are all made from the ashes of stars.

When you look in the mirror, do you see a star? Of course you do! Your body is composed of the elements of stars. We met with Dr. Catherine Deibel, Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, to learn about her research in experimental nuclear astrophysics and explain how we are all made from the ashes of stars.

Mary Stuart Deibel is the woman you want to know! She’s a strong, motivated, ambitious woman who’s also incredibly kind and genuine. She’s making enormous strides in her career by building authentic relationships both internally and externally and has found the key to her success lies in cultivating those relationships.   Additionally, Mary Stuart has created a powerhouse team in an extremely competitive industry - and they're making major strides. During this episode we discuss her transition from working in the corporate, media & entertainment industry to life at a startup. We talk about how taking the leap into the startup world has become part of her success story.   There’s so much to learn from this Ambitious Woman. We cover everything from, the importance of building true, authentic relationships to understanding your worth.   Her rise into leadership is one you’ll want to hear. We touch on so many important topics, such as: The importance of passion in the workplace. Setting boundaries in order to maintain a work/life balance. Radical candor and the importance of being open and honest with your team (even when it's uncomfortable). How to value people's time, including your own. How to effectively network. Why staying positive is essential to success.   This is a great episode! You’ll want to listen all the way to the end, as she shares some essential takeaways you need to know!   Heartbeat is social marketing technology that helps brands build communities of eager brand loyalists, activating everyday consumers to create trackable influencer-style marketing campaigns, answer survey questions, and engage with brand content.          

Suda51s schräger GameCube-Klassiker killer7 ist gerade frisch in einer PC-Version erschienen. Wie der Port geworden ist, ob die neu-hinzugefügte Maussteuerung was bringt und was zum Deibel überhaupt auf dem Bildschirm so passiert erfahrt ihr im ausführlichen Review.

In this episode, we took a break from studying our nuclear attack plans binder to watch an episode from the TV show Madam Secretary called Night Watch (Season 4, Episode 22). What happens when the President gets the call that nuclear missiles are incoming to the United States? What systems are in place to prevent mistakes and accidents from signaling false reports? Why don’t they rename the Presidential Emergency Satchel to the Nuclear Skeeball? Tim Westmyer and special guest Jamie Withorne (@JamieWithorne) answer these questions and more. Before we receive our text message notifying us about our all expenses paid trip to Mount Weather, we recommend checking out: -Women of Mass Destruction at https://www.womenofmassdestruction.org/ -Fail-Safe (1964), Ladybug Ladybug (1963), WarGames (1983) -Matt Stevens and Christopher Mele, “Causes of False Missile Alerts: The Sun, the Moon, and a 46-cent Chip,” New York Times, January 13, 2018 -Terry L. Deibel, “The Death of a Treaty,” Foreign Affairs 81 no. 5, September/October 2002 -The Man Who Saved the World (2018) Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

We welcome Walker Deibel as the latest member of the Quiet Light Brokerage team. He's joining us today to talk about startup failures and how what he calls “acquisition entrepreneurship” can help buyers learn to grow value in their business after they buy it. Walker has acquired 7 companies in the past 10 years, both on and offline. By his third acquisition, he found that he was looking for businesses that had the right infrastructure and management already in place. Walker is here giving his insights into buying versus building your next business. From a stint in digital printing at the dawn of the digital age, a film production “hobby” that has him listed on IMDb, to a failed startup that seemed to have every ingredient for success, right up to his current successes buying established businesses, Walker truly has experience in every aspect of the business building and acquisition spectrum. Perhaps there is no right or wrong way to come into business, but there are advantages and disadvantages to each approach. Episode Highlights: Not every business should be bought. If you have an idea that you think can fly go out and by all means get that VC to get it started. You can have the best idea, the best team, and all the hallmarks for success yet still fail if you miss the mark on one key aspect. Take an existing infrastructure, finance the purchase, and from there go to work. If you succeed you have a great chance for high ROI. Buyers need to find the right business for them based on their strength and weaknesses. Acquiring an established business means you are free to focus on the particular parts of the business that most need attention, aiding the growth of the enterprise as a whole. Walker discusses what he calls the 4 Models of Building Value once you buy. Owners can get themselves out of the operation side and really work as an investor. A lot more can be accomplished by working on your business rather than in your business. Everything in business up until now has been about hitting the home run. Sometimes growing businesses should just aim to hit some doubles and triples. The buyer and seller relationship is a key element in the acquisition process. There are good buyers and there are bad buyers. The relationship is beyond just the transaction. Try to communicate with to seller why you are the perfect fit for that business. Transcription: Mark: All right Hey Joe How are you? Oh you're not Joe; Walker. Walker, how are you? Walker: I'm great Mark how are you? Mark: Good, good. For anyone watching or anyone listening obviously we do not have Joe this week. Joe is off exploring the eternal city of Rome and I am sitting here just a pile of jealousy wishing that I could be there. So … but good for Joe he definitely deserves the break. He works really hard. I will never say this publicly with him on the podcast but I will say it here and trust that he's not going to listen to it so his head doesn't get too big. But I do have somebody here, Walker Deibel right? Walker: Deibel. Mark: Deibel, I've been pronouncing it Deibel for a while. Walker and I know each other from a past transaction he bought a listing from me, a business from me a few years ago but Walker is also going to be joining the Quiet Light Brokerage team here in about a month. Maybe less by the time that this episode airs and so he is somebody to get to know as well. From that regard we're going to have a good conversation today mainly because your background Walker is super extensive. Like a lot of the people that work with Quiet Light Brokerage, you have that direct experience in buying, building your own online businesses. So let's do this, let's go back and have you introduce yourself a little bit a little bit of your background. Walker: Sure. Gosh where to start, I guess I think I've started a few companies and all of them tend not to do very well. And that's not something that I'm prideful about but I think that it's a common theme that you hear from entrepreneurs which is you know fail. Fail often; I've done that plenty and statistically that's what startups do. Conversely I've had tremendous success in actually buying existing companies and growing them and over the past 10 years I've been able to acquire seven companies in all. Some of them offline some of them online as you've discussed and I just want to take one moment and say that having looked at hundreds of offering memorandums I became a very early fan of Quiet Light Brokerage. I just think that what you've been able to build at Quiet Light is very special. You work with sellers, you list them at the right time, and you think about it in the same way that buyers would. So whenever I look at a listing from Quiet Light I'm just absolutely thrilled with the package and excited to be on with you now because of that. Mark: And if anyone's wondering I do pay by the compliment so [inaudible 00:03:37.5]. So your background is in buying and you bought a number of companies you said … how many was it, 10? Walker: Seven, I bought seven over 10 years yeah. Mark: Okay over 10 years, I thought it was seven. And not everything has been online you own a couple of different offline businesses as well. Walker: Sure. Mark: And you're back and before that was publishing right? Walker: It was printing so yeah we … I, my first company I bought pretty much because when I was in graduate school, when I took in my MBA our startup failed [inaudible 00:04:07.2] something we called Avatar, it came out with the real 3D and we had that real 3D technology in point of purchase advertising and had a great team and had some real interest and it all just kind of got hung up in legal. I guess the people in the technology decided that they would rather build Avatar after that startup kind of washed up and I actually went and bought a book printing company. And it was a time when print is dead was a common headline. You know Amazon was sort of moving in, the Kindle was coming out, the iPad was coming out, and bookstores are going out of business left and right. And what I saw Mark was opportunity, it was one of these things where the industry was fragmented there was a lot of players, a lot of let's just say legacy teams doing the wrong things in the industry at that time. And so I bought a book printing company, all of our customers were publishers and you know they too were fighting the same things that we were seeing. And so although the offset book printing industry was declining, the digital book printing industry was climbing at a rate of about 28 [inaudible 00:05:17.8] was pretty clear when it happened. But yeah trying to get that business online and produce those short run digital products for authors and companies trying to manage their inventory levels was the challenge ahead. Mark: Awesome, lots of experience there. And then you also have a little bit of experience in movie making and documentary and production right? Walker: That's right. Yeah I consider that more of a hobby than a profession. But yeah I've probably been involved with about 10 films over the last five years and most of them were lucky enough to premiere at Sundance, South Buy, Toronto's from the biggest festivals out there. Print the Legend was … we thought was going be the first Netflix Original it turned out to be the 2nd and now we just released Bill Nye: Science Guy as a documentary. Mark: That's you? Walker: Yeah I was involved. Mark: That's right you told me about that I forgot about that I've seen that pop up on Netflix right? Walker: Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Mark: That's fantastic. And you know that I can't let this go but you are IMDB listed and I always joke about how you are just three handshakes away from Kevin Bacon. You know as you come on board with the Quiet Light team and head up to conferences[inaudible 00:06:32.6] you could be 4th in line to kind of- Walker: [Laughter] Mark: There is that and there's also a couple movies that you're in which if anybody wants to have a good time go ahead and read the reviews. Walker: That right there is a great example of why you should buy instead of build from scratch okay. In other words when I get involved with movie production, I look for teams that are already assembled that really have all the variables that are critical to success. And what we did early on was basically pull together a bunch of people who wanted to be filmmakers. Very analogous to people who want to be running a successful company and what came out was let's just say that we got it, we got an exit, we got a … we sold the film but it was pennies on the dollar in terms of the budget. And all you need to do is read the reviews to figure out the outcome of that recipe. So a lot of what I do is look for teams with directors who have the … they've got the right resume to elevate to the next level. Someone on the team usually has an Academy Award and I come in and pull some money together either from myself or from other people and help finance the whole thing. So it's very similar to business acquisition. Mark: So a lot of times we link to resources in the show notes. I will spare you linking to the IMDB movie reviews and have listeners look that up and if they really want to read it they can read it and do the work. All right let's actually get into the topic though. Walker: Let's go. Mark: Buying versus building because this is an ongoing discussion, obviously everybody who has bought from us in the past understands the value of buying a business. But I think there is often a question in a buyer's head especially when they're looking at an opportunity. So they come across a business that we have for sale and they see it and like this wouldn't be that hard to build versus buying it. So I want to explore that a little bit and go into your experience on both because you've had startups. You've had startups that have failed and you're also successful with buying some businesses as well. What are some of the key benefits of both in your opinion, and what is from the drawbacks of both, and why at the end of the day and this is a big question so I'm going to just logoff from much of the talk in the next half hour; why in the end of the day does buying in your opinion win out over building? Walker: Okay great. So okay let's start just by saying that in my opinion not every business should be bought. And I don't mean that to say like the businesses aren't sellable, what I mean is just the opposite. If you've got an idea that you want to start up I think that most times it makes sense to buy an existing infrastructure and go from there as opposed to starting from scratch. But there are some ideas out there that absolutely that's not the path okay. And so if you have an idea that's right at the beginning of an adolescent market you shouldn't be buying. You need to go get VC capital and go. And have a very clear understanding that 75% VC back startups actually fail okay. So it's still not … you know you might be getting 40 million dollars but Jason Yelowitz I think was a perfect example of that; it then happened with him. Mark: It did, yeah. So anyone that wants to read his book Bathrobe Millionaire he talks about how … he bad, he was worth lots of money on paper and it disappeared. Walker: Right and so that's actually more common than the opposite which is the Uber and Facebook story that we all love. That buying businesses in most cases is a better avenue to start. Now let me just give you a quick example; we had a company that we fully funded okay. We had a majority investor was a former CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, and we had a proven dev team that was already building mobile software for the military and special forces. Proven we had it was a … it was a Share Point, A Mobile Share Point application. We had recruited and secured the head of Microsoft Share Point Services as our CEO. We had the CTO of another Fortune 500 Company working with us. We went through on the top 10 accelerator programs in the country. We had beta programs that big corporations right, like all the hallmarks and less than 12 months later we were out of cash. We had no paying customers and it basically we were able to sell it for again pennies on the dollar to a company that I think is going to do really well with it. But it's a perfect example of when everything's right you still got to get that product market fit before the time runs out. After that I had worked with a broker who was about 3 ½ hours away from me and he called and said hey how's that startup going? And I said actually it's a little rocky and he said good because I've got such a great business out here that I really want you to come take a look at. And I went out there and I looked at it and long story short I end up working with a partner on this project and we looked at it and what we saw was a true opportunity to take the customer base and basically upgrade the entire experience to an online ordering system. And so I bought the company, we used the cash flow of the business to create a proprietary e-commerce storefront and we then rolled it out to almost 20,000 users. So the company is doing from the minute we walk in the door it's doing seven figures in revenue which by the wae coin at Verne Harnish it's scale up is 4% of companies United States are selling seven figures in revenue. So you already are walking in the door and one of the most successful companies in United States all right. Funding does not take 24 months and running around and selling stock; you go to the bank. They finance the majority of the purchase and you come in with your own investment and go to work. Everything that we achieved by buying this company in sort of a second tier market in Missouri was everything that we were trying to do at this well-funded start up with an all-star cast. So it's just a perfect example of sometimes you seem to think differently about what it is you're trying to achieve and take the short cuts to get there. Isn't that what entrepreneurship is all about? Mark: Absolutely. Well, I loved what you said about the offline businesses, Ryan Tanzim and I did a podcast episode several weeks ago and he talked about that. He talked about somebody that he knows locally, I think they were doing air conditioning and they are really bringing online but what they are doing is they're using online … they are using the SEO tactics and SEM tactics that you would usually apply to an online business and he's applying it locally. So he actually bought this air conditioning repair company with the idea that they were just going to actually crush it online. They're doing super super well; I think there's a ton of opportunities for buyers in that space. Walker: Can I jump in right here like so- Mark: Yeah, please. Walker: So one of one of the things that I do, I've got kind of a model that I have put together to help people find the right business for them. And what you just said is a perfect example of that because the first question I get is do I have the right what it takes, do I have the right attitude to actually be an entrepreneur? I don't think that the listeners of this podcast need that, I mean that's not where they are. The next one is what are your strengths and weaknesses? What are the actions that you want to be doing every single day? And it sounds like this is an individual who says look I know online marketing, I know how to apply it and you look at the vast number of companies that are coming online to sell and actually not online businesses at all. You've got all the baby boomers retiring at 9,000 a day and they own more companies in any generation ever in history. And they haven't done much since the internet came out. So Internet marketing has clearly passed the point of adaption. I mean it's the way now but not everyone has caught up and you've got a huge amount of opportunity to do exactly this. Move and buy an offline business and basically apply online skills to grow it in a whole new way. Mark: Let's talk a little bit about this because I know that you are in the process of writing a book on buying businesses. What was the book about specifically? Walker: Yeah basically everything I've been talking about. It's called Buy Then Build, why entrepreneurs should buy existing companies rather than starting from scratch. And it's really everything that we've just been talking about. So the argument is that not only is buying businesses a better way to start, despite the popularity of entrepreneurship we haven't engineered a better way to make startups succeed. And I think that the answer to that question is to buy existing companies with existing cash flow. And if you look at buying a small business compared to just as an investment pretend you're not an entrepreneur that's going to move in and use your skill set to grow it [inaudible 00:15:31.2] buy it like a real estate investment or anything else. The returns that you can generate on something like that, the ROI is not really comparable to anything that I've seen. Especially if you want to maximize the ROI and use a lot of leverage that opportunity is there. I mean the SBA is lending … I don't want to over speak so I'm not sure an online business as without you know but you can quote as little as 10% out in these kind of instances. So I mean you can be up and running and off to the races very very quick. Are you seeing that in online businesses as well Mark? Mark: I've seen what specifically? Walker: Like 90% leverage on some of these deals. Mark: It would … currently yes. I mean historically that's higher than what we've seen in the past and that's the rule change as of 2018 so- Walker: Okay. Mark: So in the past it was 80% though which is still … yeah 80 to 75% which is still crazy amounts of leverage. Walker: Right we're right and you know 90% leverage. What I am saying is that if they choose to do that and if it succeeds they're going to have a great ROI. Mark: Right. Walker: Pretty much incomparable to anywhere else. But there's obviously inherent risk in doing something like that. So just understanding the model and being careful. However the odds of success are ridiculous compared to a startup of the same caliber. Mark: So your book is called Buy Then Build which you know often when we think about build then sell obviously. But obviously a big part of what you're talking about here is also that act of building on top and I think in an area where a lot of buyers, especially first time buyers struggle is identifying how do I build on this; what do I look for? And so when I talk to buyers, especially first time buyers that are looking to get into this for the first time they start thinking about well I want something that already has a history of growth. Or maybe they're looking at the opposite side I want something that has a history of not [inaudible 00:17:21.7] you know because I don't want to lose on the business. How should in your opinion and maybe you specifically how have you attacked that build portion of the equation? You've obviously bought and I know it did the one business you're talking about you saw a way to be able to look the entire customer experience up. What are different ways that you think buyers can look at building after they buy? Walker: Yeah. I've been calling this acquisition entrepreneurship. I mean it seems to make sense and so basically I think that there's four models of building value in a company after you buy it. Some people will say … I mean the market will very quickly jump to exactly the opposite and say like oh no I want a company that's a complete disaster. Like I want something that I can go in and put in lean operations and fix it up because then I can buy a cheap, create immediate value by improving all of the internal systems and then exit or run it or whatever. So that's the sort of turnaround kind of mentality and those are great in my opinion if you know what you're doing. I mean if you already are an operation … great at operational excellence that's going to be something that's good. Others will look at you know you get these sort of like there are these two models the guys over at Harvard wrote a book on how to buy a business and they buy what I believe they call internally profitable businesses. This is a bad example here but it's one that I always think of which is I always think of like snowplows or something like that. Like something where there's no obvious technological innovation that's going to get rid of the need for snow plows. And so it's going to be a slow growth but you know something you can hang your hat on. And I think that the way that they grow … they build value is really for the owner in that instance and just through equity build up. And so you're putting you know say 10% down and then over 10 years building up the rest of that value that way. The other model which I'm getting to the point sorry but the other model that scares me a little bit as you look at these high growth companies like the ones you're talking about and what maximizes a sale price are things like growth, revenue, earnings. I mean these are the things that people want. I mean it's a very marketable company but by doing that it's almost the opposite of the turnaround. The risk is a little separate like it needs to continue growing as fast in order to make sure you're getting the right deal. So that's something that in my opinion you have to know what you're doing to navigate that properly. Then you've got this sort of Platform Company and a platform is something where you take your skill set and apply it to the existing business in order to take it to the next level. Now it might be accelerating what's already happening or it could be simply diversifying. So in other words the first online business … so I bought a company from Quiet Light Brokerage and when I looked at it I really liked it because it was taking this sort of like old economy product and it had a kind of innovative twist to it. And so it was still on known in the US market and so as that awareness grows the company continues to grow. However what I acquired in this business was not only the cash flow, it was the infrastructure. It was all the people. I had an entire customer service team. I had a reliable PPC guy. I had SEO you know I've got … now I've got all the tools and all the things that I need to do this. And so what I've done is I've started building other sites as well. And so I'm not quite to the point where I've built a seven figure site from scratch that you can list for me. But I'm hoping to do that and I'm doing it the actual infrastructure that I acquired through Quiet Light. Mark: That's fantastic. Of course you'd be able to sell that business on your own when that day comes. Because you'd be working with us and you'll just put it up for sale and it all will be like oh this is great, Walker owns this, I trust him completely. Walker: Absolutely. Mark: Well you know what you've done though recently in anticipation of coming on board I know that you have been working your way out of your companies as an operator and really working as an investor. And I know this you know talking to buyers one of our most popular episodes was with Shakil Prasla who has bought eight companies in two years and he does this all the time. He does not work in his businesses. What was that process like for you or what has it been like to get yourself out of the operations of the business, and how did you go about doing that? Walker: Yeah it was kind of a slow evolution. Like in other words the first company that I bought I had a key man, woman actually that I worked alongside with very closely and she did … all of my time was spent on marketing sales and really strategy like taking the company to the next level. And you can do a lot more what do they say work on your business and serve in your business. And so I fell in love very quickly with the freedom that comes with having other people you can rely on in your company. As a result as I continue to move forward I always look for business opportunities and people that I know whose skill set matches up with the growth opportunity for that business. And so the 2nd company I bought it was more of a partnership and I learned the hard way that … how do I say this without being, I was messing the company up. It's one of these where he had his hands on everything that was going on, I would show up, you know I would drop in I was there about a day a week. I had relationships with major customers and walk in and just kind of I'd see something that I thought was wrong and I would fix it or give instruction or whatever else. No matter how minor it was it was still the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. The employees didn't know who was in charge. And so it was one of these I've got to remove him or remove me kind of situations. And so I've tried to put the emphasis where the skill is. And the other thing that comes out of that is by not operating in the business you can actually scale the number of businesses that you own. And that's what your other guest was doing if I recall correctly. He was actually interviewing and hiring managers. I typically do it with people that I know already so it's not … you know I network and find the people and then I wait for the opportunity as opposed to kind of trying to scale up that rapidly. It got to the point where the 3rdbusiness I acquired I was buying specifically because I had a manager to grow it. And it's working now because that's at a point where I think last year we grew 38% year over year so that's working. And I think the hard decision comes from entrepreneurs at every step of growth where they say okay I'm the one doing this and if I actually pay someone to do that then I make less money so I'm not sure I want to do it. But then the second they hire it out they have all this other money that you know whatever the difference is that's coming to them for essentially doing nothing or essentially moving to that four hour work week model. But if you have a four hour work week kind of company you can go buy 10 companies. Mark: I do. How do you get over the ego part though? You know for example I am in my opinion the best content marketer in the world. Walker: You are. Mark: I'm not. I mean this is the reality but when I'm dealing one on one with people, when I'm dealing one on one with somebody who I've hired to do that I micromanage. I get too involved in what they're doing. How do you get the ego portion out of this so that when you go and visits … do you visit that company anymore? Do you do- Walker: Absolutely. Oh, absolutely. No I'm very involved in everything. I think that … well I should speak carefully there, what I'm trying to say is just I'm not involved in the day to day. The truth is I'm probably more of like a chairman but I don't have enough gray hair so I don't call myself that. I have a baby face so … but it's you know I work more on a strategic level and looking at metrics and talking to the managers every week if not more often if something comes up. So the ego, I think Mark what I would say to that is there's certain things that okay it's twofold. There's certain things that you're not going to be able to let go of. And you feel like they have to be a very very precise thing. Those are not the things that you want to let go of. Especially to use your example like content marketing; content marketing is something that makes Quiet Light exceptional. It's something … you know Quiet Light both stands in with the best of the best but then they stand out by doing exceptional work. And that content marketing piece is so critical to what makes Quiet Light Quiet Light that that might be a driver that can't be outsourced. It's something that has to be precise. It's something that has to come from your mind or your advisors' minds and that piece might not be there. That said here's the answer your question, you're not going to like it, and I have a good answer for this. But here's the thing I have three children, they're seven, five, and three and they make mistakes. They made the same mistakes that I made when I was seven five and three and you have to stand there and watch them do it. And often with my managers I wanted to go over their mistake and then I realize it worked it just wasn't the way that I was going to do it. It's not a mistake at all. Or it's the other way and you've just got to end up paying for that mistake and so it's just that you've got to get that balance right. Partnerships are a good answer for it. Partnerships are like marriages and you just have to figure out how you work and how you communicate. And if there's something that you fear isn't going to work because it's not being rolled out the way you want to do it, I think that what I do is I just make that clear at the beginning and then we put metrics in place to make sure to watch it and measure it and then kill it if you know feel quick. If there's anything I have learned it's if you're going to fail do it really quickly because you save money. Mark: Right. Walker: So I think that's the way to do it. Mark: Right fire quickly, hire slowly. Walker: That's right. Mark: Yeah Chuck recently was talking to me about that so and the need to be able to do that. Awesome well you've covered a lot of ground in this and I really like this discussion of should you buy, should you build, what's better and I think you're right. Absolutely a lot depends on the type of company that you do have and what are you trying to build. Some companies did not lend themselves to being bought or to going that route but if you're looking for that cash flow, if you're looking to get into entrepreneurship a faster way to return investment is going to be that buy-in route. It's a lot faster and a lot more sure than the VC route. I think I was talking to a VC, this was four or five years ago now and he was really coming around to this idea of buying online businesses. And one thing that he told me he said you know with my angel investing with the VC investing that I'm doing everything is about hitting the homerun, it's like … and with that we're hit … we're striking out a lot. We're taking big swings, we're not hitting the home run but when we do hit the home run it's really really good. He said but I'm starting to wonder now maybe if we should just aim to hit some singles and some doubles and some triples instead and just play station to station. And I think that's a huge difference here like if you have the money to be able to go in there and swing for the fences and go for it, sure okay you know what go ahead. If you have the time, the resources, the desire, or an idea that you think really can take off absolutely. If you're looking to hit a single or a double you know that … it's a risk profile; what is a risk profile look like in buying for as risky as buying an online business can be and people should be aware of that. It's certainly a lot more safer than trying to build something from scratch. Walker: So in an early version of my book and I think I just cut it out actually it's … we're trying to get it done this summer but I actually call that entremetrics. Which is stop swinging for the fences and just get on base, based on that savermetrics, you know money ball right? Mark: Yeah. Walker: And that resonates with me completely. That's exactly the point. I think that you know VC again if it was a Harvard Business Review really sort of 75% of these companies are like going to zero. So being able to fast forward, you ask earlier hey I've got … I'm a potential buyer, I'm looking at this company I can build this. Like this isn't that hard, fine go build it. But like looking at it as an investor you've got that cash flow tomorrow. I mean it's you know and what's your time worth and what's the … what's it going to cost to build and you've got to put all those pieces together and yeah go build it and then bring it back to Quiet Light and we'll sell it because these are good investments. So yeah I think it's a simple way to get to the goal faster and to your point you're getting on base. You're engineering success right from the beginning so that you can move to second base on your own. Mark: Yeah, awesome. So your book is coming out sometime this summer maybe in the early- Walker: Hoping for late August. Mark: Late August all right. And at that point you will hopefully be a part of our team fully and we will be able [crosstalk 00:30:13.1]- Walker: I hope so. Mark: The book so when we do pay attention that. I'm sure it's going to be just one step above that Harvard Business Review which I actually have that up my shelf. They sent me a copy and a good stuff; it's seriously good stuff though. And right now eventually people be able to reach out to Walker at a Quiet Light Brokerage email address. In the meantime if you want to reach out to Walker contact me mark@quietlightbrokerage.com and open to have contact with him. He's got a ton of real world experience both in as you said some failures but a lot of successes as well and always a good person to talk to. Any final parting thoughts? Walker: You know there … one thing forgive me but there is one thing that I thought we would talk about and it just didn't come up and that's normal but I spent two and a half years trying to buy an acquisition target when I was at Corley. And we looked at 27 companies in depth talking with them. And what I learned along that path is that there are good buyers in there are bad buyers. And I just mean that from the perspective of the seller, and when you're trying to sell a business, how do I say this, the buyers it's almost like the first thing you want to do when you're just starting out is you want the seller to like come in with a slide deck like a startup and pitch you. Like here's what you're going to get and here's why you should buy my company and that's just not the mentality at all okay. I guess that somebody's built something and it's usually like yeah the timing is right I'm considering it but it's not like I'm trying to sell you something you don't need and so trying to go … I try to go out of my way to understand the business, understand the drivers, and really communicate to the seller why I would be the right buyer for that business. Because trying to get that emotional connection established at the beginning is so critically important. It's very emotional and everyone starts second guessing everything they're doing at one point or another and trying to build that bond at the beginning and getting on the same side of the table to acquire a common goal is just critical in the whole process. So it's something that I did learn that we can talk about I want to share. Mark: Well I'm glad you brought that up because I've used you as an example in countless presentations, I think at this podcast as well. Walker: That's right. Mark: Many of you have heard me use this example before about a buyer who after we submitted an LOI, you submitted the LOI and we had our very first call in due diligence and you stopped. And at the very end you said I want to take a moment and thank you for agreeing to sell me your business. And I tell this story because it was … it had a seismic shift on the way that entire transaction went and it established this common working goal and understanding that I think a broker definitely needs to have. I think a buyer should have as well. The sellers work for years to build something valuable, something that you want to acquire and take in. Showing some basic appreciation for that and yes they're getting well compensated through money, there's appreciation in that as well. But showing that verbal communication of hey I really appreciate and respect what you've done up till now, even if it's a distressed sale but that makes a big difference at the end of the day. And it really helps get through some of the tough spots that will come up doing due diligence. Walker: And they have a choice. As a seller they have a choice especially at Quiet Light. Quiet Light moves a lot of inventory really fast and I think we ended up closing on the 3rd deal I looked at and so there was a couple of deals that went to other sellers and I just didn't went out for whatever reason and they've got a choice. I agree, it's important. Mark: Yeah Walker thanks so much for coming on, I really really appreciate it. Walker: No, thank you Mark. I'm really looking forward to the next chapter. Mark: Well, we're looking forward to have you on. So again if anyone wants to reach out to Walker feel free to contact me mark@quietlightbrokerage.com if you guys have ideas for guests please let me know. I'm always looking for new guests. So we'll talk to you next week. Links and Resources: Contact Walker Buy Then Build – Why Entrepreneurs Should Buy Existing Companies Rather Than Starting from Scratch. Walker's book is coming out this summer!

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