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Nerd of Godcast Daily Devotion
02-27-26 // Listening to the 'Lingo Bird // Ryan

Nerd of Godcast Daily Devotion

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2026 3:23


Duolingo x James 1:22-25Your daily crossover of faith and fandom! Experience daily Biblical encouragement from nerdy Christian podcasters, bloggers, and content creators. Join the Nerd of Godcast community at www.NOGSquad.com

Ask a Matchmaker
How to Have Hard Conversations Early in Dating ft. Colette Fehr

Ask a Matchmaker

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 32:39


Hard conversations in relationships, attachment styles, anxious vs avoidant dynamics, and emotional disconnection are at the center of this week's Ask A Matchmaker. Matchmaker Maria sits down with therapist and author Colette Fehr to explain why couples fight about small things like Duolingo, texting back, or Valentine's Day flowers when the real issue is feeling unheard or unimportant. They break down how to stop people pleasing, how to say "that hurt me" clearly, and why serious conversations should never happen over text. Colette shares tools from her book The Cost of Quiet, including her emotional Mad Libs method for speaking up without pushing your partner away. They also tackle anxious and avoidant attachment patterns and whether separate bedrooms, like Keke Palmer suggested, can actually work in a healthy relationship.   ♥️JOIN MARIA'S COMMUNITY + SUBMIT A QUESTION ❓ Ready to date with intention?

New Dad Gaming
Pokemon Red for $30 & Smurfing in Marvel Snap | Ep. 385

New Dad Gaming

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 33:57


Welcome back to New Dad Gaming! This week, Trevor and Jeff are surviving the wild energy of their kids—who are currently acting like Red Bull-fueled boars at a banquet. With the family adjusting to life down in Medellín, the guys discuss bribing the kids with $100 to learn Spanish on Duolingo and how this educational "loophole" is racking up screen time. We also dive into the beautiful peace of a post-Roblox household, which has led the kids right back to the classics like Pokémon Sword and EA FC. On the adult gaming front, Nintendo is testing our patience (and wallets) by charging a premium for retro Pokémon Fire Red ports, Trevor confesses to a slightly guilty relapse into Marvel Snap, Jeff returns to the Final Fantasy 14 grind, and we confront the terrifying reality of a 15-year-old pirating Balatro on school computers. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-dad-gaming/id1107330772 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/434cj9ksKBnX6aY2aBZ6Uw Others on Our Website: https://newdadgaming.com/ #podcast #podcaster #podcasting #fatherhood #gaming #dadgaming   Chapter Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro & The "Boars at a Banquet" Analogy 4:39 - The Duolingo Screen Time Loophole & Spanish Bets 10:51 - Life After Roblox: Kids Return to Pokémon & Soccer 15:06 - Nintendo's Wild $30 Price Tag for Retro Pokémon 22:16 - Relapsing into Marvel Snap & Smurfing Low Levels 26:23 - The Endless Cycle of Final Fantasy 14 30:05 - Kids Pirating Balatro on School Computers 31:49 - Outro & How to Support the Show

Online Forex Trading Course
#624: The Smarter Way To Pick Winning Stocks

Online Forex Trading Course

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2026 33:56


The Smarter Way To Pick Winning Stocks  Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass Checkout the Tykr Platform here. #624: The Smarter Way To Pick Winning Stocks In this video: 00:14 – Sean Tepper – found of TYKR 04:55 – How does this software help? 08:50 – TFTC also helps create successful traders 12:25 – Is social media helpful? 16:20 – Multiple brokers or one? 22:18 – TFTC creating a trading bot program 28:16 – 60,000 stocks analyzed 32:45 – Contact Sean Andrew Mitchem Hello, everybody. It’s Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach. And today I’m really pleased to be joined by Sean Tepper, who’s the founder and the CEO of Tykr. Welcome along. Sean. Sean Tepper Andrew. Good to be here. Andrew Mitchem Awesome to have you. Sean, could you introduce yourselves to everybody and let us know who you are and what you do and what we’re going to talk about? Sean Tepper – found of TYKR Sean Tepper Sure. Yeah. My name is Sean Tepper. I’m the founder of TYKR, as Andrew said. And long story short, TYKRs a platform that helps people buy and sell stocks with confidence prior to that. My background is about 20 years in tech, 15 years investing, and I kind of created TYKR as a solution to a frustration in the markets. Sean Tepper And we could dive into what that frustration is, if you’d like. Yeah. But yeah, I had to create a solution because it was very hard to make decisions when I first got started. And that’s where really TYKR came from. And, but yeah, fast forward to today. We’ve got a little over, 13,000 customers in about 50 countries, including where you’re based. Sean Tepper New Zealand. Andrew Mitchem Oh that’s good. Yeah. So you had 50 countries. That’s a that’s an awesome effort. And, and Sean, I was reading about, you know, you started, on your website says, in, you know, 2011 to 2015, you were trying to figure out what wasn’t there to help you. What did you find back then? Was the biggest frustration that led to TYKR happening? Sean Tepper Yeah. So when I first got started, you know, I think I joined E-Trade. And, you know, there’s so many brokers these days, it’s hard to keep track of. But as soon as I joined, I had no idea what to do next. So I started going on YouTube researching where do you go to invest? Like looking up different investing platforms? Sean Tepper I found a few of our competitors, like Seeking Alpha and Motley Fool, and they do a fine job, but it’s still very difficult to truly know the difference between a strong stock and a weak stock is is very frustrating. And for context, my background is in tech, but to go, layer deeper, it’s actually in process engineering. Sean Tepper Like I’ve worked a lot for GE and Koehler. And the rule is in process engineering, if you have 100 data points, you cannot present that to a customer or an executive. You have to roll it up to ideally a binary decision like yes or no or a traffic light. And I was complaining at that time, like, am I the only one complaining about the fact that there’s no process engineering lens layered over investing like, this is insane. Sean Tepper Like nobody’s making it easy. And that was kind of the green light I was thinking of, like, hey, if I could figure something out here, I think the big solution is a create a process engineering solution in the world of finance and apparently I’m the only one really doing that today, other than the few platforms that say buy or sell. Sean Tepper But I don’t really recommend that. But yeah, that was that was the beginning. And it took about a year to build this Excel sheets. And I give you context here, I found a lot of inspiration from Phil Towne. He wrote a few books on value investing. Do you know Phil Towne? Andrew Mitchem No, I don’t know. No. Okay. Sean Tepper Your your audience may be interested. He wrote a book. One of them is rule one. The other one is payback time. I really provided some. Yeah, yeah. You know, rule one investing, Warren Buffett. We can talk about that. But, yeah, I, I found some of the calculus in his books, put it into Excel, and I ended up coming up with about 50 data points to analyze the stock. Sean Tepper And then on top of that, I created a traffic like rating system where stocks are either on sale, watch or overpriced. That’s green, gray or red. And I used it the next 4 or 5 years on my own, making returns between 15 and 50%, and my returns still fall in that range today. Our customers actually fall in that range as well. Sean Tepper But yeah, I, I wanted to make sure I’m using my own money testing it to make sure it works, not just like four weeks or four months. I went like that over four years. And then it was 2019 was the inflection point when I’m like, I think I’ve got a solution here, but let’s just confirm. Sent the sheet to a few of the retail investors and everybody’s like, I’m not going to use this Excel sheet. Sean Tepper This is insane. You got to create a software. So that right. That was the green light. Let’s go create a SaaS platform. And took a year to build the first version. And the first version was not pretty. But yeah, fast forward to today. That’s where we’re at. But yeah. Andrew Mitchem They Nimrod when you look back on them. Sean Tepper Yeah, right. It was like the, the metaphor I use is it felt like I was building a physical prototype made of like, and duct tape and cardboard. It was not pretty videos. It’s pretty ugly. But you get feedback from your customers and you just keep making it better, and it actually turns into something. How does this software help? Andrew Mitchem So, yeah, awesome. That’s brilliant. So fast forward then to today. Why would someone come and use what you have and I suppose in a practical basis, how does it help them? What are they. What do they input? What do they use to make decisions for them? Sean Tepper Sure. Yeah. So I’ll give you some of the the subjective reasons and then we’ll get into the objective and why that’s actually important to our, our broker partners. But our rating system again process engineering, it doesn’t sound very glamorous, but the concept of making decisions very easy for people, it is very true in most industries. So we we use the process engineering lens. Sean Tepper Plus we take a lot of inspiration from Duolingo for language learning in our opinion. Like what? They’ve got over 600 million users. They’re doing something right. We’re teaching people how to learn a language with these micro learning modules. And I’m like, we need to do the same thing in our platform, but it’s got to be investing focused. So we’ve got these modules peppered around that quickly teaches people how to invest in you put the two together, the rating system, plus the simplified education that helps people. Sean Tepper And it’s not our guarantee, but it’s it’s something we let people know upfront that 90% of customers is actually over 90. But we say 90% of customers that use TYKR are able to go from a beginner to confident an investor in 14 days or less. It’s very quick. Wow. And what does that mean from an objective standpoint? And this is what matters most to brokers, which is most brokers we’re talking to have two big problems. Sean Tepper And number one, very little transaction volumes, like somebody will join on day one and they’ll wait three months or six months or nine months, and then make another trade. And the other issue is the average account size is less than 5000. While with TYKR after five years. Now we’re we track like a lot of data points to see our, investors behavior. Sean Tepper And typically people make 30% more transactions after joining TYKR. And their average account size is about $180,000. So what that tells us is and it tells. Right. So these people are their confidence is skyrocketing and they’re adding more money from their checking account or their savings. So it’s not sitting in a low interest vehicle. So so there you go. Sean Tepper That’s how we’re different. I’ll give you one more way where different in your audience may appreciate this is TYKRs. Calculations are actually open source for personal use. And the SEC really likes that. Like we had an audit done to make sure we fall in that publisher exclusion category. We could talk about that in a minute, but making sure we’re not we’re not giving financial advice, but this firm we’re talking to and we had another we’re actually had two firms. Sean Tepper Take a look. They were both very impressed that we we put those calculations out and I’m like, I’m, I’m actually not concerned anybody’s going to take it because it’s even though it’s relatively simple math, it’s a lot of it. And try to put together in a software what would take you a really long time. So fortunately nobody’s tried to duplicate it. Sean Tepper But the calculations are out there. Andrew Mitchem Yeah, well, for the sake, I was looking on your your purchase, page. Your pricing page. For the sake of $50 a month, you just use it. Wouldn’t you? Rather than trying to reinvent it or. Sean Tepper It exact right at the base price is like, you’re saying 15, 15 bucks a month or 99 a year? You’re right. It’s like, oh, okay. So here’s the here’s the calculations. Yeah. I’m not going to reiterate. That’s where it. Andrew Mitchem Is. I mean in in lifetime working it out will spend $100 a year same. Sean Tepper Same prices Netflix their. Andrew Mitchem Data. Exactly. Yeah a lot more educational. Yes. Sean Tepper Yes. TFTC also helps create successful traders Andrew Mitchem Thank you. So it it sounds like although we’re in, slightly different markets within the overall similar markets now, we have something very similar going on, which is amazing is we’ve never met obviously, before, you know, 20 minutes ago, and that we find that our clients would be very similar to yours. The average forex person’s out there, small account, scared to trade, or they do the opposite and they do silly things and they make us even money and then lose it all, which inevitably happens. Andrew Mitchem And then they blame the break on the market. And that’s where we find our clients are different as well. You know, they have confidence that low risk approach. They they know what they’re doing, what to look for, when to do it. And therefore when they go to a broker brokers out there because, you know, the client’s got a hugely, bigger account and trading more often. Andrew Mitchem So it’s incredible how education and lack of it can affect so many people in this. Seriously. Yeah. It’s crazy. Yeah. Now, Sean, you mentioned, about the no financial advice, you know, situation. And again, coming back, that’s where we’re similar, you know, what’s your take on the no financial advice? Sean Tepper Yeah. So with the SEC, there’s I don’t have the exact, it’s like rule 102-5 or whatever. I’m making that up. But yeah, they’re essentially three rules you have to follow with staying in the publisher exclusion category. And there are companies and there are guys out there, some women as well, that they they get into some some shaky ground or gray areas where they push the envelope and they can get into some some big legal trouble. Sean Tepper So the three rules really go as follows. Number one is all information has to be factual. Like we can’t say like, hey, because I like x, y, z CEO, I think the share price is going to $2,000 a share. That’s crazy. We have to present the data like everything we do is really based off the fundamentals. We don’t cook any books. Sean Tepper We don’t skew the financials. It’s like, hey, here’s the EPS, here’s the revenue, here’s the net income, here’s the debt. Bam, roll it up to our calculations. And there’s your score. Keep it very simple right. Number two is and this is actually pretty easy to follow is we can’t ask our customers their age their risk level when they want to retire and then give them recommendations based on that criteria. Sean Tepper That is described as personalized financial advice. So very easy. Like okay, so don’t ask those personal questions. And number three everything has to be regular. And what does regular mean. It means all information we we put out has to be like every day or every week, which it’s we update our data every day. We can’t do and this is a common problem with a lot of discord and WhatsApp groups. Sean Tepper And so I’ve been told from the SEC, which is pump and dumps, is like, hey, go buy as much of GameStop by Tuesday. And then the very next day, without telling anyone, they’ll go sell a bunch of GameStop or whatever stock they they can come up with. And that is actually a common issue because you can make a lot of money in short order. Sean Tepper So, yeah, no, no irregular posting. It has to be regular posting. So yeah, those are the three rules with the publisher exclusion. And to be honest with you, but actually pretty easy to follow. Is social media helpful? Andrew Mitchem Yeah, yeah. That’s good. Do you find you mentioned on social media type of apps? Do you find that those, causing problems generally for people because they just think they’re going to find something that’s going to solve all their life’s financial problems? Sean Tepper You mean like our customer is going on social media and reading comments. Andrew Mitchem To make sure customers, but just general people out there and in general isn’t there going to find some app and follow something and it’s suddenly going to give them all the magical answers? Sean Tepper No. In general, I think most people are skeptical, which I think is good. They’re not going to like, you know, like, for example, they’re not going to come to tinker right away and be like, oh, this is this is my savior. That’s that’s not the case. We want people to be skeptical. And we always tell people like, don’t like, I’ll talk about Tinker all day, but don’t even take my word for it. Sean Tepper I always say, go to Trustpilot, see what our customers have to say first before you even think about it. And then our model is, it’s a trial 14 day trial. And then we also have a 30 day money back guarantee. So even when your credit card is charged, if you want to refund, we’re not going to fight you on it. Sean Tepper It’s like it’s 15 bucks. That’s right, that’s right. It’s like we’re not going to split hairs on this, but it’s like you want to create a platform that it’s very easy to join is very easy to learn about. You can see what your customers are saying. It’s easy to test drive. Those are kind of the boxes I like to check when I join a platform because I’m using other software to build TYKR, whether it’s a marketing software or analytics or email marketing or whatever, right. Sean Tepper I want those things. So I’m like, I’m going to do the same thing with my own platform. But coming back to the skepticism, I think it’s good. It’s good to have a healthy amount, and it’s good for people to not only, like join TYKR, but go have like join our competitors, see what they have to say. And sometimes you’ll get things to line up like let’s say it’s a stock you really like and you’ve got, you know, TYKR, Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha are all like, hey, this is this is a strong stock, not a buy stock, but its financials are strong. Sean Tepper That creates layers of confidence is how we phrase it. Yeah. Creating those layers of confidence gives people more confidence to move forward. Andrew Mitchem Yeah yeah that’s good. And I noticed also on your on your offer there that you talk about cryptos as well Matt. Obviously it’s the, the big thing that people want to talk about and we’ll see more recently we’ve seen some big drops as well. Yeah. How, how do people finding using your software or on cryptos. Andrew Mitchem Because it’s, it’s like one of the markets that we kind of cross over on. Sean Tepper Yeah. So with crypto we weren’t originally going to add it to the platform, but a few people were like, hey, can you add crypto from a tracking perspective? Now for context, we have three assets in TYKR. We have stocks, ETFs and crypto ETFs. It’s easy to analyze because it’s really just a bundle of stocks. So we analyze each individual stock. Sean Tepper We roll them all up. If it’s let’s say 500 stocks within an ETF. You can create you can calculate what is the average score within come to that on sale watch over priced. But when it comes to crypto as you know there’s no income statement cash flow statement A balance sheet is not a business, it’s just a digital asset. Sean Tepper But again, we had customers that were like, hey, you got a lot of good tracking tools, like you can set alerts on my dates and prices and really anything you want within TYKR. And so they’re saying like, can you add crypto within so we can keep track of all of our favorite assets in one clean location. And my response to that was, oh yeah, no problem. Sean Tepper We’ll add crypto to this tool. But there’s not a lot of analysis you can do there because again, it’s not a business. Multiple brokers or one? Andrew Mitchem Yeah, yeah. Fair enough. And also I noticed that you said about the broker connection. So one of your pricing models, that’s one broker three and five. Correct. What would be the reasons around someone needing, say, three brokers or five brokers as opposed to one. Sean Tepper Yeah. So the reason is typically your employer is going to issue you A41 like here in the states, of course, we get A41KI don’t know, in New Zealand you call it a pension like they do in, Europe. Andrew Mitchem Yeah. Kiwisavers called but yeah it’s that has is our name. Yeah. Sean Tepper Okay. Exactly. So you’re going to have that is going to be one retirement vehicle. And that’s typically set up with like here in the States. The two big ones are typically fidelity and Empower. There’s also Schwab. But then you’re probably going to want to do some trading on your own. So then here in the States some of the popular choices are Robinhood. Sean Tepper You’ve got E-Trade, you know. So there’s your second one. And then sometimes you’re going to have like an inherited account from a family member, you know, that could be on a different account. And if you don’t roll it over to your current broker, well, guess what? You’ve got a third broker sitting in place. But I get this. I’ve talked to people that have they’ve had more than five different brokers on my response. Sean Tepper So that is why. Yeah. So. Right. It’s it’s it seems unorganized. But we created the three tiers the premium premium plus an advanced premium. You get one broker premium Plus you get three in advance. You get five. We usually like 99.9% of the time. We don’t see people with more than five brokers. But like for example, between my wife and I, we have like we have three. Sean Tepper So yeah. Andrew Mitchem Okay. So with this allows someone to make their analysis and then connect directly through to that broker via your software. Is that how it works. Sean Tepper Yeah. Yeah. So yeah when when you join your broker and we’re really good complement to a broker will never replace it. We don’t want to be a broker dealer. That’s a legal name for their business model because we don’t hold any assets. We don’t hold people’s money. We’re just analytics. So yeah, when people join, you can sync up with your broker. Sean Tepper And what that does is it automatically updates your portfolio in TYKR every day. And it’s a much cleaner interface than most brokers out there. I, I’m never going to talk down about brokers, but it’s like their job is to protect people’s money. But when it comes to analytics dashboards or giving, like education or analytics, it’s that’s not their specialty, nor will it really ever be. Sean Tepper So we fill that gap, we complement and we make it easy to see because some people are like, I don’t I don’t actually know how much money I have because the dashboards in my broker’s so hard to use them, like just sync up your account TYKR and it’s going to kind of summarize it for you. Yeah, yeah. Andrew Mitchem That’s interesting. That makes a lot of sense. Makes life easy for people. And also I see that you have a mobile app. So can someone get the exact same information on the app. But they can all the desktop. Sean Tepper It’s pretty much the same experience. We try to release our features, if not the same day within the next week or two. Like if we need to deploy something to web or web app, we try to do the same thing to the mobile, that allows people to write. They can kind of analyze stocks and the gold or standing in line somewhere at Starbucks, whatever. Sean Tepper The mobile app, I will say this has an additional feature, which is the Duolingo inspired learning modules that kind of like swipe right, swipe left type feel. We don’t have that in the web app today, but we’ve had a few people say, hey, can you also add that to web? Well, that’ll come soon. But yeah, it’s pretty much the same experience. Andrew Mitchem And what’s the AI investing helper that’s not like yeah, humming live. Sean Tepper Oh, that could be going live. Well, recording this video is, February 9th. That could go live on the 11th. Okay. So that’s a feature where you can, like, interact with where you’re going to be the first to hear about it here. So it’s it’s an AI tool where you can ask questions like how do I get started? Sean Tepper Or what should I do with my first thousand dollars? Or, what when is the best time to buy or best to sell? You can interact with AI and it’s actually connected with TYKRs, data set, but also the the globe and it’s put a lot of rigor, rigor into place to make sure it’s not giving you financial advice, but it’s really leaning into giving you the data and TYKR. Sean Tepper So it’s for example, if you were to ask it, hey, can you tell me how to value a stock? It’s going to first go to TYKRs data set. And with the education and give you that information. And then some general information. You know that makes it sound nicer. And then kind of spit it out. So yeah, eventually we’ll release in multiple phases. Sean Tepper So the first phase we call the helper, the second phase is the portfolio builder in a will build hypothetical like for example, build me a portfolio of ten strong tech stocks or buy food stocks or car stocks, something like that. Yeah. And of course it’ll say this is not financial advice. This is a hypothetical portfolio. But yes. And then the third phase will be an analyzer. Sean Tepper So analyze my current portfolio. Like what changes would you recommend. And that that’s going to be really, really cool. So with I will say this and then I’ll stop talking. It’s a powerful tool because it can analyze large data sets in a short amount of time. But as we say at TYKR. And this is why when I become self-aware like Skynet, I’m going to be the first one to be targeted. Sean Tepper Right? It’s, it’s smart, but it’s not that smart. So you have to put a lot of rigor in a place, a lot of guardrails, because it can, as you know, hallucinate. Yeah. So we are bouncing AI up against logic and mathematics to make sure it does not say something stupid to our customers. TFTC creating a trading bot program Andrew Mitchem That’s interesting. We’re in the middle of all we’re saying in the middle. We’ve been testing this live for over a year of getting AI to create trading bots for us, and what it’s doing is it’s spitting at a heap of bots and going through, sort of live trading on, on, you know, that are not real money. We’re trading on the money. Andrew Mitchem And then each week, we’re using the human aspect, the common sense and the knowledge that we look at as technical traders to pick which bots we’re going to be running live for subscribers for the upcoming week. And, and we’re finding that that combination of using the AI for that speed and, you know, doing the, the hard work. Andrew Mitchem Yeah. And giving us some information. But like you said, the guardrail becomes the human input in the common sense of what we’re seeing as technically on a chart. There’s no point in, let’s say, say Bitcoin over the last few weeks has been, you know, crashing. So nicely. There’s no point in us selecting bullish, crypto bots for the upcoming week when there’s technical traders. Andrew Mitchem We’re looking at it dropping. So I find that adding a bit of human common sense and knowledge, along with the AI at this stage is a really nice combination. Sean Tepper You got to do it right, and you probably seen the, the bad choices some people have made. If you let I make all the decisions, you can pull yourself into a, really bad situation. Especially. I like what you’re describing with your bots or those bots actually executing trades. Andrew Mitchem They they can, but we are more trying to set it up so the individual gets the alert and still needs to manually go yes or no as well. Good call. Because I don’t want to get into that situation where it’s completely, you know, automated, although a lot of people are want it all automated. My job as someone who teaches people is you still have to have that knowledge first to understand how to run the bots and to make a commonsense decision. Andrew Mitchem Is it making a good call or not? Sean Tepper Yeah, I’m good answer there, because the other hour I was talking to one company that was have was looking to have AI execute trades automatically. I’m like, whoa, what if they just run with the line and it’s like, go right? Like if rapid fire trades for an hour or two, it’s like, yeah, put some people in a bad situation. Sean Tepper So yeah. Andrew Mitchem Anyway, yeah, we’ll avoid that. We’re both avoid that. Yep. Yeah, exactly. I use it for the hard work and still use the brain. And that’s the thing, isn’t it? You know, what you created and what we’ve created. We’re about educating people, empowering people to use their common sense. Because I still think, after all, it comes down to it, there’s nothing better as a human, as an individual to have that, that how and that it’s almost like that feelgood factor that I know I can analyze these markets and make sound decisions and do well, you know, that’s you, you. Sean Tepper You, yeah. You just hit on the, the number one thing our customers care about like in and this will give you and your audience a little moment for me when I first created TYKR, especially the Excel sheet, I was all about getting better returns. I’m like, well, if Warren and Charlie can do it, I can do it. Sean Tepper Well, when I went live, that was my focus. But then after talking to a few customers, I’m like, they don’t agree with that. There’s actually something more important. And fast forward, I probably talked to a few thousand customers by this point over five years, and the number one thing they care about is confidence. Now, having confidence to literally do it on your own. Sean Tepper That is the home run. Feeling that supersedes, you know, getting good returns any day. Like people sleep better at night. Just knowing that, Shawn, I, I can do this on my own. That is what I’m looking for. I’m like home. So we even though the returns in tech are good, like, we actually lean into confidence. Like how do we give people more confidence is actually the bigger priority now. Andrew Mitchem Yeah, yeah, I, I fully get it. You know, we’ve been operating since 2009. Come on, Ryan, the Ryan run around the world in 111 countries and the same thing we we asked people, we, of course, you know, want to know why people join. And then we follow up after three months, six months, year, two years and keep asking people it’s the community and that knowledge of knowing what you’re doing for yourself, to have that control with low risk and, you know, really good outcomes. Andrew Mitchem But up here and then I say to people, trade any trading into, investments is emotion, isn’t it? Your head in your heart. You have to control those two. And what we’re doing is providing platforms or education platforms to allow people to fulfill that, that dream successfully and safely. Sean Tepper Yep, yep. Andrew Mitchem So it’s huge. Yeah. We can have all the AI and all the risks, all the all these flash gadgets, but ultimately it still comes back to that human wanting to have confidence in what they’re doing with their own money. Sean Tepper That’s it. Yeah. Andrew Mitchem And no. And also not just handing it over to someone as well. I think it’s important. Sean Tepper They add it and it’s actually you’re kind of alluding to this. It’s in people’s best interest to let’s say AI does 90% of the work. You want to be the person you want the human being finishing that process? Yeah. Because they, they ultimately it’s it’s better for them from an educational standpoint and from an, confidence standpoint, like they should know what was done. Sean Tepper But now, I control things. I get to execute the trade. Yes. You know, that’s right, that you want people to have that power at the end of the day. 60,000 stocks analyzed Andrew Mitchem Absolutely. And the, your software obviously does a lot of analysis just to give myself and viewers and listeners a ballpark figure. What kind of number of stocks is it kind of looking at and analyzing? Sean Tepper Sure. Okay. Yeah. So we’ve got about 60,000 stocks in TYKR around the world’s. We are up. Yeah. We’re upgrading. They’ll get this in the next month or two. We’re switching our data provider. So we’re going to have in the states real time pricing. You will have 15 minute delay. But then we’re going to have actually I can’t guarantee all stocks around the world, but most that’ll bring us closer to about 75,000 stocks around the world. Sean Tepper And then we’ll also have most ETFs around the world, which I think is closer to about 10,000. I could following in that Bow Wow. Yeah. No wonder. Andrew Mitchem They need analysis software that. Sean Tepper Yeah, right, right. It’s what we do. We run into circumstances when people, you know, they’ll join from a smaller country and they’ll be like, hey, you don’t have any stocks from our country. Winner may arriving. So it’s a lot of those requests and it’s like we knew we had to get to this point eventually. Yeah. But yeah. But then you just give transparency. Sean Tepper We’re looking at Finn Hub is, the data provider that will help us get, the more stocks and ETFs around the world. Andrew Mitchem Wow. So when you see your clients in 50 countries, if, for example, someone was here in New Zealand and they don’t want to be, and 2:00 in the morning to trade the US markets, they could be trading like the Australasian markets. Yeah. So your software. Sean Tepper Absolutely. Yep. Andrew Mitchem Oh, fantastic. That’s really good. Yeah. That, that’s blowing my way. That number. One thing as a currency trader, there’s like about eight main currencies. And so that makes, hence why there’s nothing like this for the forex market. I’m guessing because we can look at charts and read a bit of news and kind of make your analysis voice your, the information. Andrew Mitchem Someone out there with that. Your software is almost got an impossible task. Sean Tepper Yeah. We I was just checking here in tick or how many stocks from New Zealand. We’ve got a little over 187. So, do you know I like the I assume it’s the new New Zealand Stock Exchange. Andrew Mitchem Yes. In Wellington. Nice. Sean Tepper Got it. Do you know how many stocks they have? Andrew Mitchem No. I’m not, I’m purely forex. I honestly don’t know. Sean Tepper Okay. No no worries. But we’ll hopefully fin Hub will be able to get us most from from your exchange. Yeah. But that’s just a good example of like absolutely. You know we again we get a lot of people from random countries like, hey, can you add more stocks from our country? It’s like, yeah, absolutely. We’re we’re on it. Andrew Mitchem Yeah. Well, and also it’s purely that time of day thing, isn’t it. Because the you know, I suppose I get used to forex which is 24 hours a day. It doesn’t matter where you live in your world, you can trade it in cryptos obviously seven days a week now as well. But when you’re talking US stocks, they are, you know, for someone on my side of the world, some quite awkward trading hours. Andrew Mitchem So what you’re providing now would allow me to trade some of the the Japanese stocks, I’m guessing. Oh, and then the Australian ones using the ones now that you mentioned. So you really do open up your product to being truly a global, tool for people. Sean Tepper Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew Mitchem That’s awesome. Sean, anything else you want to add about what we’ve not covered, about what you can help people with? Sean Tepper Yeah. Knowing that you’re more in the trading world and we’re more investing, I have to say this one detail, which is we do have about 10% of our customers are traders, give or take, and they’ll use TYKR as their starting points. You’re like, hey, let’s see. You’ve got like 100 ideas out there. Well, they’ll use TYKR to narrow it down from 100 down to ten. Sean Tepper Yeah. So that’s one main use case. It’s kind of like the short AI, as it’s been described to me. Is the short list creator TYKRs, the short list for like for traders. So so yeah, I want to add that tidbit as some people are like, well I’m not really into best thing. It’s like, you don’t have to be. Sean Tepper You can just use the tool to, narrow down your search. So I’ve selected one use case. Andrew Mitchem Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That’s kind of how I was thinking about potentially using it as well. It’s like, makes a lot of sense to do all that, that work and get it down to something more manageable. Right? Yeah. Contact Sean Andrew Mitchem And what’s the best way that someone can contact you to find out more, about what you offer? Andrew Mitchem Sure. Well, how would. Sean Tepper They add, two ways to get in touch with, TYKR or myself? You can just go to tykr.com. That’s TYKR, tykr.com. And then, I’m really active on LinkedIn. Sean Tepper, Sean is spelled the Sean Connery way. Andrew Mitchem Yes. This with the voice. Sean Tepper Yeah. I wish I had strong Scottish voice. Yes. Andrew Mitchem Awesome. Hey, Sean, we’ll put links, of course, up here as well. And we will be sharing this in around the website and social media as well, so people can contact you finding a link here as well. It’s been awesome talking to you. I’ve learned a lot about the market. I don’t know a huge amount, and it’s fascinating to hear what you do and how, you know, you going to make it from when you mentioned 60, it still blew me away. Andrew Mitchem That number, from a ridiculous number of, stocks to help to analyze something in a, in a more simplified way. So, awesome to speak to you. Thank you. Your product looks amazing. I will be trying it. And, Yeah, look forward to it as well. Sean Tepper Thanks, Andrew. This is great. Andrew Mitchem Awesome. Thanks, Sean. Bye for now. Episode Title: #624: The Smarter Way To Pick Winning Stocks Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass Checkout the Tykr Platform here.

SheerLuxe Podcast
84 | Zayn Malik's Shock Confession, Winter Olympics Cheating Scandal & Charli XCX's Acting Era | LuxeGen Podcast

SheerLuxe Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2026 28:42


On this week's LuxeGen Group Chat, India is joined by Saroop and Nikita for a catch-up covering everything from the Winter Olympics to Disney-core fashion and celeb hot takes. First, what's actually going on at the Winter Olympics? From a Norwegian athlete publicly confessing he cheated on his girlfriend (after winning bronze…) to rumours of 10,000 condoms running out in three days and very questionable ski-jumping ‘enhancements', it's a lot. We also unpack Zayn Malik's ‘Call Her Daddy' interview and whether saying he was “never in love” with Gigi Hadid was honest… or just harsh.Plus, Celine Dion vs Rihanna (did ‘Love On The Brain' belong to her?), Amelia Dimoldenberg's upcoming feature film, and the bigger conversation around influencers-turned-actors. On the fashion front, we're obsessed with the new Mimi Webb x Disney collection at Primark – think statement accessories and vintage Mickey energy. And things we're loving? Period pants, a history-learning app that feels like Duolingo for culture and the Instagram ads draining our bank accounts.AD | In Partnership with Disney PANELIndia | @indiaagy | https://www.instagram.com/indiaagy Brandy Melville White Ashlyn Top | https://uk.brandymelville.com/products/ashlyn-top-8 Pull & Bear Barrel Fit Darted Trousers (Alternative) | https://tinyurl.com/3ajshpcj Nikkita Chadha | @nikkitachadha | https://www.instagram.com/nikkitachadha Alohas Club Suede Raspberry Leather Sneakers | https://tinyurl.com/4xkrzxy2 Saroop Sangha | @saroop.k.s | https://www.instagram.com/saroop.k.s/ Topshop Knitted Scarf Jumper (Alternative) | https://tinyurl.com/3ncxr87n Balzac Paris Baya Belt | https://balzac-paris.com/en-gb/products/ceinture-baya-noirBalzac Paris Alix Moccasins | https://tinyurl.com/mr2juatz THINGS WE'RE LOVINGDisney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Cap | https://tinyurl.com/5n855n5r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Crew Socks | https://tinyurl.com/4rz255sv Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Ringer Baby Tee | https://tinyurl.com/mjpdp83r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Shoulder Bag | https://tinyurl.com/6nkybz4r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Sweatshirt | https://tinyurl.com/5edbss5tModibodi Period Underwear | https://www.modibodi.co.uk/collections/periods M&S Absorbency Period Thongs | https://tidd.ly/4kOfaq3 Carelli Bambi Jacket | https://tinyurl.com/32smmc4p Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

LuxeGen: The Group Chat
84 | Zayn Malik's Shock Confession, Winter Olympics Cheating Scandal & Charli XCX's Acting Era

LuxeGen: The Group Chat

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2026 28:42


On this week's LuxeGen Group Chat, India is joined by Saroop and Nikita for a catch-up covering everything from the Winter Olympics to Disney-core fashion and celeb hot takes. First, what's actually going on at the Winter Olympics? From a Norwegian athlete publicly confessing he cheated on his girlfriend (after winning bronze…) to rumours of 10,000 condoms running out in three days and very questionable ski-jumping ‘enhancements', it's a lot. We also unpack Zayn Malik's ‘Call Her Daddy' interview and whether saying he was “never in love” with Gigi Hadid was honest… or just harsh.Plus, Celine Dion vs Rihanna (did ‘Love On The Brain' belong to her?), Amelia Dimoldenberg's upcoming feature film, and the bigger conversation around influencers-turned-actors. On the fashion front, we're obsessed with the new Mimi Webb x Disney collection at Primark – think statement accessories and vintage Mickey energy. And things we're loving? Period pants, a history-learning app that feels like Duolingo for culture and the Instagram ads draining our bank accounts.AD | In Partnership with Disney PANELIndia | @indiaagy | https://www.instagram.com/indiaagy Brandy Melville White Ashlyn Top | https://uk.brandymelville.com/products/ashlyn-top-8 Pull & Bear Barrel Fit Darted Trousers (Alternative) | https://tinyurl.com/3ajshpcj Nikkita Chadha | @nikkitachadha | https://www.instagram.com/nikkitachadha Alohas Club Suede Raspberry Leather Sneakers | https://tinyurl.com/4xkrzxy2 Saroop Sangha | @saroop.k.s | https://www.instagram.com/saroop.k.s/ Topshop Knitted Scarf Jumper (Alternative) | https://tinyurl.com/3ncxr87n Balzac Paris Baya Belt | https://balzac-paris.com/en-gb/products/ceinture-baya-noirBalzac Paris Alix Moccasins | https://tinyurl.com/mr2juatz THINGS WE'RE LOVINGDisney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Cap | https://tinyurl.com/5n855n5r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Crew Socks | https://tinyurl.com/4rz255sv Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Ringer Baby Tee | https://tinyurl.com/mjpdp83r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Shoulder Bag | https://tinyurl.com/6nkybz4r Disney X Mimi Webb Mickey Mouse Sweatshirt | https://tinyurl.com/5edbss5tModibodi Period Underwear | https://www.modibodi.co.uk/collections/periods M&S Absorbency Period Thongs | https://tidd.ly/4kOfaq3 Carelli Bambi Jacket | https://tinyurl.com/32smmc4p Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deep Dives 🤿
Julien Martin - Why Amo's Design Hits Different

Deep Dives 🤿

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2026 57:58


As software becomes easier to create than ever, what does it look like to truly differentiate with design?Today's episode with Julien Martin (https://x.com/julienmartin_?lang=en) is an attempt to answer that question.He was the Head of Design at Zenly, Snapchat, and Amo which is some of the most uniquely impressive consumer design I've ever seen.Some highlights:- Behind the scenes of early Amo explorations- How the composition of design orgs is changing- The unlock that led to Amo's unique visual language- Julien's advice for how to succeed in today's job market- The untold story of how Julien joined in the early days of Behance- Why side projects are now the strongest signal when hiring designers*- Andy Allen (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/andy-allen) (referenced multiple times for his “not boring” article and Camera app)- Off Market (https://offmarketjobs.substack.com/) (Julien's talent agency for designers)- Retro app (https://retro.app/) and Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/) (mentioned as inspiration)

UBC News World
Comparing Duolingo and Babble: Which App Builds Real Language Skill?

UBC News World

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2026 7:10


Duolingo's gamified lessons hook you with streaks and points, but does it build real conversational skill? Babbel provides linguist-designed, practical lessons - yet neither guarantees fluency alone. Find out which app truly fits your language learning goals. Learn more at LangDiscover.com. LangDiscover City: Miami Address: 8345 Northwest 66th Street Website: https://langdiscover.com

The Ben Shapiro Show
Friendly Fire: Bad Bunny. Bad Culture.

The Ben Shapiro Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2026 56:38


It's almost Valentine's Day, but that's not the smell of love in the air, it's another week of the world losing its damn mind. Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan are back with Allie Beth Stuckey and Lynden Blake joining to help them understand what's happening in the world. From Bad Bunny's halftime that required a DuoLingo subscription, trying to figure out who Clavicular is, where Nancy Guthrie is, and another horrific school tragedy that mainstream media refuses to report on honestly. Ep. 08 Check out Allie Beth Stuckey's podcast, Relatable:  Youtube: https://youtube.com/@alliebethstuckey?si=CEzSeO4G3xSSKz85 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6HUhXbF0dPutdhbnLnxRQZ?si=cde6b29e2f0d4127 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/id1359249098 Buy your tickets for ‘Share the Arrows' Christian Women's Conference here: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ Allie will be monitoring the Texas Republican Attorney General Debate next Tuesday, 2/17. - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix Sleep - Visit https://helixsleep.com/friendlyfire for 27% off sitewide. Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/friendlyfire to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. PreBorn! - Make a difference for generations to come. Donate securely online at https://preborn.com/fire or dial #250 keyword 'BABY' - - - Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe

The Mindset and Self-Mastery Show
Curiosity As A Tool For Better Relationships With Patrick Boylan

The Mindset and Self-Mastery Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2026 25:48


“Be curious, not judgmental.” In this episode, Nick speaks with Patrick Boylan about the importance of curiosity in understanding others and navigating judgment. They discuss how asking questions can lead to empathy and a broader perspective, allowing for a more nuanced view of people’s beliefs and actions, all while highlighting the balance between judgment and understanding, advocating for a thoughtful approach to interpersonal relationships. What to listen for: Curiosity leads to empathy and understanding How we learn and understand is different from each other People's beliefs aren't inherently wrong; they're different. Asking questions helps us bridge the gap between our understanding and their beliefs. Life can be painful and confusing; let's not add to the chaos “At the end of the day, it’s curiosity. Why do you think that? That’s the biggest question that anybody can ask.” Being open to external information only allows us to consider it When we're curious, we're seeking to understand Intention is a major part of curiosity to better understand others and our surroundings “We need to come together as a species and tackle our world’s issues together.” We aren't meant to do life alone. Community is a huge part of this journey we're on There's hope in this that we, as a race, can come together for a common goal, our overall health and survival Community is more important than we realize About Patrick Boylan Patrick Boylan is a skilled multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of MuseFlow, a groundbreaking music EdTech platform often called “The Duolingo of Music Education.” Frustrated by the limitations of traditional music education, Patrick began exploring self-directed practice, which reignited his passion for music and led him to focus on sight reading as an engaging learning tool. MuseFlow teaches bite-sized skills through sight reading, allowing students to master new concepts efficiently and enjoyably by focusing on reading and playing music at first sight, then applying those skills to songs that get unlocked. Patrick loves to share his insights on learning and EdTech, inspiring parents, teachers, and self-learners to help students and themselves achieve flow state through MuseFlow's unique approach. https://museflow.ai – Use promo code **”MINDSET50″** to get 50% off any subscription you’d like, FOR LIFE! https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-boylan-6b133248/ https://www.instagram.com/museflow.ai/ Resources: Check out other episodes about curiosity The Magical Journey of Discipline and Curiosity With Wayne Faulkner Trauma, Curiosity, Core Beliefs And Conscious Recovery With TJ Woodward Interested in starting your own podcast or need help with one you already have? Send Nick an email or schedule a time to discuss your podcast today! nick@themindsetandselfmasteryshow.com Thank you for listening! Please subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-Star review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-and-self-mastery-show/id1604262089 Watch Clips and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1tCM7KTe3hrq_-UAa6GHA Guest Inquiries right here: podcasts@themindsetandselfmasteryshow.com Your Friends at “The Mindset & Self-Mastery Show” Click Here To View The Episode Transcript 00:00The one thing in my opinion that would turn the tides of humanity and make people more empathetic and connected to every person on this earth, that we need to come together as a species and tackle our world’s issues together. 00:23Hello and welcome to the Mindset and Self-Mastery Show. I’m your host, Nick McGowan. Today on the show we have Patrick Boylan. Patrick, how you doing, man? Doing great. How you doing, man? I’m good. I’m excited you’re here. I think I say that a lot in the intros of shows because I’m having conversation with somebody and there are certain times where like lead time to get onto the show can be maybe a month, maybe two months. Then there are people like you, my friend, who… 00:48I joked earlier and was like, well, when you first sent your stuff in in 2009. Yeah, but it’s kind of what it felt like though, honestly. But some of those are the best. And truthfully, I’ve had two of you this week. I had one guy a couple of days ago who does drum circles and so much music. And he just disappeared at one point like two years ago and then came back. And I was like, yes, I was hoping you’d come back. So I’m glad that you’re here too. I want us to be able to touch on music, obviously, because of the business that you have and the thing that you’re doing. 01:18but I want us to be able to get into really how all of it has worked for you over the course of life and how it’s all shaped you to lead you to where you’re at today. Before we get there though, why don’t you get us started? Tell us what you do for a living and what’s one thing most people don’t know about you that’s maybe a little odd or bizarre? I’m the co-founder of a music education app called Museflow. We teach piano in a very different way. We’re expanding to all common instruments in the next couple of years. So it’s growing, people are loving it. 01:47and I’m super stoked about it. Something that’s weird or that most people don’t know about me, I have two tattoos. I’ve got one on my butt, on my left butt cheek, it’s called, it’s just a family emblem that my dad drew on all of our napkins for lunches and uh Christmas cards and stuff like that. It’s four bunnies on two hills overlooking a sunset, and it’s our family. It’s me and my dad and my mom and my sister. 02:14and our cats and our dogs and all that stuff. It’s a really cute little tableau thing, right? The other one is on my upper hip and I got it in college. I got it when I just decided that truth and honesty are going to be the most important things in my life, okay? And so I got a whistleblower. I got a guy blowing a whistle. Didn’t realize how phallic that was when I got it on my upper thigh, you know? 02:43So it’s a little weird, but like I didn’t recognize that at the moment. What I was going for was like truth and honesty, right? And then I just, got it. And then I started doing, just being blunt, being like kind of mean about it. And like, wasn’t thinking about tact and I wasn’t thinking about like what my friends would be hurt by or if they, I didn’t care. I was just like, truth and honesty. This is just so important to my life. And like, I was being brutal about it. 03:12And so one of my friends pulls me aside one day and he says, Pat, you got to stop this. You’re just being a jerk. You’re being an asshole about this. Like, yes, truth and honesty is important. Okay. But you got to blend it with everything else. All right. Sometimes tact and holding your tongue is the right call. Cause I got to tell you, you’re ruining friendships right now. I know a couple of people that have talked about this already and they’re saying you’re just being an asshole and they don’t want to be friends with you anymore. So you got to fix yourself or 03:42you’re going to start losing friends. And I really trusted his opinion. He was one of my best friends. And so I listened to him and I pulled it back a bit. I pulled it back. I find it really interesting how your friend will lovingly say a thing to you, but also that you trust your friend. You know, like they’re the people that, um, they feel like they trust somebody out of, uh, I guess, systemic approach. Well, my family system tells me I should trust my parents. 04:09or I should trust my brother and sister, or I should take whatever they say, kind of as gospel in a sense. People obviously like shit upon people with their dreams or whatever else, but it’s sometimes in those small things where it’s like, that person is upset that you’re being an asshole about a thing, but for you to be aware of you were being an asshole about it. Like if you didn’t feel you were, you probably wouldn’t have accepted it. You’d have been like, what do you mean? No, I’m just being a little bit of a boast or a little bit of this, but there was a hint of you back there was probably like, 04:38The power feels good. You know, you’re like, yes, this is wonderful. Two things there, right? Number one, this is a historical relationship. This guy has been one of my good friends for, you know, years. And I’ve been working with him in very close contact throughout many different creative projects. He was a, he’s a director and I’m an actor. And so we worked on like seven or eight shows up until that point. And so I’ve worked with him. 05:07deeply and very closely and I really appreciate his judgment and his kind of pulse on people. Yeah, you know and so both of those things like I trust the guy with my life and I’ll I’ll I’ll do whatever he wants when it comes to a show I know he has my best interest at heart and and that’s the biggest thing, you know number two I’ve always tried my best to take criticism with as much humility as possible and 05:37regardless of if it’s accurate or wrong or true to myself or untrue, it doesn’t matter. That’s still your opinion. And your opinion weighed against mine. It just depends on our relationship, but it also depends on how much I trust you and all of that stuff. But like, I will take any and all criticism and I will implement it or not implement it based on the weight that I give it. And if I believe, and I do weigh it against myself, but that being said, it’s one of those things that I… 06:06pride myself on. I pride myself on my ability to say, well, what do you think to everybody and anybody? And I don’t, doesn’t mean that I have to take it. That’s critical though. You’re two different entities, you know, and even within yourself to be able to say, well, I’m going to take that and you will accept that level of information because of the context. Like context is so important in everything. Everything. But also you can still get things from people like, uh, even if somebody 06:36walking down the street, they was like, Hey, stop being an asshole. You’re like, well, maybe I can take something from that. Am I being an asshole right now or am I not being an asshole right now? And you get to do something with it. There are, think a lot of times where we as people, and this is where the mindset and self mastery stuff comes into play, where we will take things like, Oh, who’s this random fucking person across the street yelling at me? Why are they yelling at me? And this reminds me of when I was a little kid getting yelled at and these things and that. 07:05If you take the approach of I wanna take on information and have it my little bucket and go, I don’t want this, I don’t want that, this is kinda cool. And like, okay, you get to do something with it. That’s a level of self-awareness that comes from being healthier, maybe just in that sect of your being. Because you’re like, this is what I’ve dedicated myself to. We also have gotten a little farther away from you have principles in place of trust and truth and. 07:33honesty and these things that are critical to your being where honestly man kind of makes sense where you’re like I’m putting my foot so far in the fucking ground it’s anchored in there and I think sometimes people will go through that almost like the people how they become evangelical about things like it can be easy to think about uh people getting a multi-level marketing company say drink the kool-aid and go ham somebody who just got into religion god forbid you talk to somebody who was vegan and or in CrossFit 08:02And all of that, you know what I mean? And it’s like, whoa, it’s like a stage that you can go through where you’re testing it out. You’re trying it out. There is still a little bit of that. I’m sure the power felt great because you’re like, man, I’ve been wanting to say these things for a few years and one more motherfucking thing. Yeah, it was free. It was a sense of freedom for sure. Like I don’t have to I don’t have to abide by any cultural norms of tact. You know, like it felt really great. But. 08:29Yeah, but then I just realized like, no, sorry, I was just being an asshole about it. was taking it to the nth degree and everything needs to be in balance with other things. You can say truth and honesty are your biggest tenants of life and you can strive for the absolute excellence of that, 100%. But you also have to keep all of these other things aligned as well while you’re doing that. Anything farther on the far ends of any sort of spectrum, whether that’s… 08:57on the left side or the far, know, whatever it may be, everything is a spectrum. And if you take it way too far and out of context in isolation, it can become toxic. It really can. One of the things I try to do on the show is have these conversations where we break up these big, big pieces, turn them much larger. Like we just explode them, but then also pull them back to smaller pieces without being like, here’s two or three things for you to take away for the week and just chill out these. 09:24But in all reality, there are certain pieces of that that even in the balance can be really difficult if there are other things that are off balance. If you are triggered by certain things that happened, you can then sometimes get stuck in those triggers. I joke with people on the show pretty fucking often at this point. The more self-aware you become, the more fucking self-aware you become. And the more crazy making it can be while you go through the healing of that stuff because you can’t not see those things. 09:53And think about what you deal with as an entrepreneur, as a business owner, somebody managing other people, managing yourself. You said you’re married. I don’t know if you have any children, but there’s like all these things. And sometimes people can say, but you don’t understand because boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. They make this major list. Other people will use that and say, yes, it’s because of these things that I have to do these other things. And therefore others will still go, 10:23but I then get to and it’s all our perspective with doing it. So your perspective came from something that happened years and years and years ago. That’s why you put your foot so far into the ground and almost into people’s asses about just truth and honesty. But when we sit back and think about that a little bit, let’s break that down. Like what, what is it about what you’ve gone through and what you’ve seen? Like, why do you actually care what other people think to be able to then put it your own context? It’s curiosity. 10:53For me, at the end of the day, it’s curiosity. Why do you think that? That’s the biggest question that anybody can ask. Cool, you believe that about me? Great, what about me makes you believe that? And it’s just curiosity over, and you say that you’re judgmental, like don’t get me wrong, I’m judgmental too. But a lot of my judgment comes from this place of like, well, okay, why would they believe something like that? 11:23And then it allows me to still empathize with them while still being judgmental and being like, well, you can still be wrong regardless of your history, you know, or you could be cruel or not thinking about something else when you probably should be thinking about something else. And you’re like in the weeds of something here. And you’re really thinking about the reason why the thing should be this is because of all of these other things. But then see, you forgot perspective, see the forest through the trees. And so if I can understand from where you’re where you’re coming from. 11:53If I get it, if I can get into that, be curious, not judgmental, right? That is something I always try to remind myself. And it is a motto that I like to live by, be curious, not judgmental. I try my best, granted judgment still comes, you know? Well, it’s also a fine line and judgment can have a negative connotation to it, where even judging something, you’re just judging it based on what you know, the information you have, et cetera. It’s what you then do with it. 12:21you know, if we can get real shitty with it. I know there are times where I get shitty, like it’s easy for me to talk about people driving on the road, because there are certain times you’re like, I don’t even know if you have a license. I don’t know. Are you driving from the passenger seat? Like what the fuck are you doing? But part of me is judging of like, is it safe for me to get past your dumb ass? Is it safe for me to do whatever? And I think there are things that happen within us that are almost mechanical that we’re unaware of. 12:50Even breathing. Like everybody knows that you’re breathing and then when you actually concentrate on your breathing, you’re like, oh, I’m concentrating on it. We don’t have to think about that. There are other things that happen that we don’t think about because subconscious is there just to keep us fucking safe. And something happened back in the day or back when we were a little kid or something like that. So for you growing up, were there experiences that you had where you were like, man, this is one of those experiences that like rocked my world and changed me. Like that was one of them where your friend was like, 13:19You’re being an asshole, other people are gonna leave you and stop. Somebody could have taken that, been like, yeah, my buddy Jimmy told me not to be a dick anymore and then everything was cool. And you took that as a critical moment where you’re like, oh, I should do something with it. Were there any others that really stand out? I think my dad was really, really great at teaching us these kind of like critical thinking skills kind of thing, or just understanding context or being creative. 13:47But there’s two in particular that I’d love to share. And I’m curious what you think about them. Because I think you’d love them. Number one, um when we were like maybe, God, I was like maybe eight or something like that, eight or nine, I was bored. It was like summer break or something, and I was bored. And I was like, Dad, I’m bored. What can I do? uh And he’s like, oh, OK, great. One second. Hold on. Give me a second. And he leaves. And then he comes back with a mop and a bucket. 14:16And he says, do you know what would be really, really fun? If you mopped the kitchen floor. You know it’s something to do, it’s effective. is, you know, what do you think? Like, do you want to mop the floor? That’s what I got for you. If you want to do that, go for it, please. Otherwise, find something to do. And I was like, that’s actually, that’s great. know, like, touche. You want me to mop the floor? I’m not gonna mop the floor. 14:41But I will find a way to entertain myself. And ever since then, I don’t think I’ve ever been bored. I’ve always been able to entertain myself. And the other kind of critical, that was such a great thing that he did when we were younger, we did this kind of series of dinners where we did caveman dinners, which were, just made a 15:11big, big thing of pasta, okay? Pasta and some meat sauce or something like that. And he had a big old butcher block table that we always ate dinner around. So he put a big old tarp, plastic tarp down on the table and onto the floor, kind of drooping down onto the floor. And he got us into our underwear, me and my sister, and we were very young, and he just slopped this big old pot of pasta on the butcher block table in the tarp and he said, 15:41Go to town. You’re gonna eat with your hands. You’re gonna get dirty and it’s gonna be a lot of fun. We’re calling this caveman dinner, okay? Go wild. And we had a great time. Now the next night, he put us in our fanciest clothes and we sat down for a nine course meal. And he gave us all of the directions on all the silverware, right? And all the different plates and how we do it. And we had to sit there and be proper. 16:09and have our napkins in our lap and our combed hair and use the silverware properly, right? And so I think it’s one of those things of like balance and context, balance and context, right? You can have the caveman dinner, great, but understand the context of when you need to actually sit straight and have a towel on your lap and eat with the proper silverware. Like you gotta know both those contexts and everything in between to live a happy and healthy life in our society, in my opinion. And so, 16:38That was one of those things that he was really good at, giving us context and freedom and play, through play and freedom. While still also controlling the situation. Yes, In a beautiful way. Yeah. And educating. Think about what you do now. You have a music education company where you’re teaching people how to play music in a fun way. I wonder who in your life would have led you to do any of that. 17:07It’s true. 100 % my father. Yeah. And well, think about like, even as you talk about, you know, I’m bored. I remember saying to my dad, dad, I’m bored. He was like, get the fuck outside, go do something. Go do this, go do that. And he would make up all these things that were really exciting to him. And I am not the mechanical engineer type or the one who wants to go out and lift heavy things and like remove shit from people’s backyards or whatever. 17:35I wanted to go play music or create art or something like that. And there was a disconnect there. There were times where my mom or my stepmom or even my dad at times would go, well, why don’t you go draw or something? I’d be like, yeah, cool, why not? I could have thought of that, but whatever. Like, they gave me a good idea. I’d go do it as a little kid. Or like finger pain or something. But being able to understand context, understanding how people best learn, understanding about those people does come from curiosity, I appreciate that you look at it and go, well, why do you think that way? 18:05Or why do you look at it that way? I think there’s also much deeper levels that we can get to with that. Like you’re not just curious. I’m assuming this, but I’m also, think we’re of the same elk. Where it’s not just basic curiosity to be curious. There’s a reason. Like we want to understand, like, why do you think like that? How did you get there? Who led this thing to you? How does that make sense in my head? Why does that not make sense in my head? Like what is, the fuck did we do with this information? 18:33It’s not just the curiosity of it. I mean, it’s really just like, it’s curiosity. I think it’s just, one of those people that is just a student of humanity. I’ve always been curious about human behavior and the motivations behind it. And it’s because I grew up as an actor. was what the thing that I did after college for seven years and… 18:56and now I’ve pivoted into a career that I really, really love, the co-founder of this music education app that’s basically built on the way that I’ve taught myself how to play piano. And now I’m a professional pianist and I’m doing the app during the day. And you’re like, oh, what a weird life. But I still think that my curiosity comes from being a student of humanity because I was an actor. And you have to get really deep into people’s motivations. 19:24when you are trying to replicate them in a realistic way. And it’s for outside in and inside out. It’s what are the institutions around them that make them feel and think that way? And do those themes tie into whatever piece that you’re performing in? But it’s also inside out. It is what about their childhood? What about their life? What about their perspective that has really made them behave this way? And so it’s always just been a fascination of mine. Why do people act the way that they act? 19:53I love that your level of curiosity is at, let’s say a 10 and other people may just be slightly curious. But even if we all just take that a little bit and say, well, how can I be a little bit more curious, little less judgmental, but understand why I’m curious about this thing. Somebody says anything and I go, well, what is it? It’s not just the curiosity or even the answer back. It’s, oh, I really want to know because of whatever it is for each person. So for those people that are 20:21on their path towards self mastery and along with curiosity, just everything else you’ve been through, what’s your advice for those people? The one thing in my opinion that would turn the tides of humanity and make people more empathetic and connected to every person on this earth, because we’re going to kill ourselves otherwise, that we need to come together as a species and tackle our world’s issues together. Climate change, economic justice, like so many things are global these days. 20:51And it’s because there are almost 10 billion people on this earth. are so just, and we are a part of the earth. We need to shepherd it to the correct place and we need to be in service of the earth to really let our species just grow and evolve the way it probably should, you know? So with that comes a deep amount of empathy that we need to have for every human on this earth, regardless of culture, race, religion. It is one of those things I need to feel connected. 21:21to somebody that lives on literally the other side of the earth. And how are we going to do that? It’s through curiosity. What makes you you? Describe it to me, show me. Show me your world. I’m so curious. so, be curious, not judgmental. Granted, judgment does inevitably come. I look, I judge people all fucking day. But it’s also one of those things of like, well, if I really want to know and care, 21:51Get to the heart of who they are and their behavior and you’ll allow connection to just flourish. And for people that are naturally sort of judgmental or really hyper curious, I think the judgment comes from the bias or a situation that happened to us or just a deep, I don’t understand why you’re doing such a thing. Like I’ve joked to people before, I’ve said, I don’t understand why they’re doing it. I believe myself to be an intellectual and I thought a different way. So why the fuck are you doing it that way? 22:20And some of it just has a little bit more air of a judgment to it, where it’s like a deeper curiosity. It’s a spectrum, as you put it. Everything’s a spectrum. Understanding ourselves and what we’re looking at, what we want, what we’re trying to do, and the reasons why we do those things, it’s also part of the balance, and we have to take it bit by bit. So man, I appreciate you being on today. It’s been great talking with you. I’m sure this is not the last time we’re gonna talk. 22:48ah And before I let you go, where can people find you and where can they connect with you? Yeah, just go to my website musflow.ai. If you want to learn how to play piano in a different way, maybe traditional lessons didn’t work for you. We teach with sight reading first. It’s the act of reading music at first sight. We teach the fundamentals through that, through that skill, through that lens, let you master it without any repetition. 23:14It’s always new music that is being generated for you at a very specific level and then you beat that level and then songs get unlocked after that. So we’re incorporating technology in and flow state and sight reading and gamification. We’re really bringing it all together into this one new methodology of teaching an instrument and eh it’s fundamentally different and it engages you in a much more holistic sort of way. So if you’re interested in that go to museflow.ai 23:41Shoot me an email, info at museflow.ai and don’t put that in the show notes, just like, know, it’s for the people who are listening. Yeah, like we would love to hear what you think. I’d love to give your audience a coupon code if they want it. Let’s call it mindset, mindset 50. Anybody who uses it 50 % off for life. Look, we’re still growing. We’re still adding new features as we go. We’re not finished at all. We’re still expanding. 24:09our accessibility. We’ve got iPad, we’ve got Android tablet, but we’re building it out for phones and any desktop app. so we’re slowly but surely growing this. We’re adding new instruments, uh adding new parts of the app. And if you want to get in that kind of on the ground floor, we just hit a really great marker. are now being able, we can pair overhead with subscriptions. And so the engine is going and it’s rolling and people aren’t churning. It’s like, 24:38It’s actually doing it and we’re getting incredible feedback from our users. so that being said, we’re still very new. So I’d love to give your audience 50 % off for life if they want it. So it’s mindset 50. It’s great for anybody who is also just, if you’re really, really good, but maybe your sight reading is terrible. There’s a lot of professional pianists that are very good at just like the songs that they know. They have 700 songs and they’re really good at them. A lot of classical musicians are out there that do that, but they’re not. 25:07good at sight reading. And so they use our app to get better at sight reading. So yeah, it’s good for everybody. It’s good for young people. It’s good for old people. It’s good for new people. It’s good for people that have been doing this for years. Awesome, man. I appreciate that. And I appreciate you being on. Thank you so much for your time today. Vice versa. Thank you,

Seven Minutes In Evan
Most Watched or Most Hated? The Super Bowl Halftime Show

Seven Minutes In Evan

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 7:33


I woke up 87% Puerto Rican after that Super Bowl halftime show. Sofrito in the bloodstream. In this episode I break down why Bad Bunny's performance hit different, why you don't need English to understand symbolism, and why maybe fighting hate with more hate isn't the move. We talk Duolingo warriors, Kendrick's trash bag pants, Kid Rock in Texas, and why America being a melting pot is actually the whole point.

La ContraCrónica
Bad Bunny en la Super Bowl

La ContraCrónica

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 55:04


Este domingo se disputó la final del campeonato de fútbol americano, más conocida como Super Bowl, el evento deportivo más seguido del año en Estados Unidos. Jugaban los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra y los Seahawks de Seattle, con victoria de estos últimos por 29 a 13. Pero el verdadero protagonista de la jornada no fueron los futbolistas, ni el partido en sí, sino el espectáculo del entretiempo que este año tenía como estrella invitada al popular cantante puertorriqueño Bad Bunny. Aunque no era el primer artista hispano en actuar en una Super Bowl (ya lo hicieron Shakira y Jennifer López en 2020, y Gloria Estefan en 1992 y 1999), Bad Bunny ofreció un espectáculo cantado casi íntegramente en español, algo que no se había hecho nunca. Interpretó varios éxitos de su repertorio reggaetonero rindiendo homenaje a la cultura hispana y, más concretamente, a la puertorriqueña. La escenografía recreó elementos de la vida cotidiana en Puerto Rico como un laberinto de caña de azúcar, una casa típica, ancianos jugando al dominó, un salón de belleza y boxeadores entrenando. Para el cierre, con banderas de todo el continente, clavó un balón de fútbol con la frase “Juntos, somos América”. La actuación se convirtió en una gran celebración de la identidad hispana apenas unos días después de que Bad Bunny criticase públicamente al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas, el ICE, durante la entrega de los premios Grammy. Se llevó un total de tres, entre ellos el de mejor Álbum del Año por un disco completamente en español “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, el primero en lograrlo en esta categoría. Esto enfureció al movimiento MAGA que le acusaron de ir contra la “grandeza estadounidense”. Donald Trump calificó el show como “absolutamente terrible” y “una bofetada en la cara” al país. Insistió en que nadie entendía lo que decía. Grupos del entorno trumpista como Turning Point USA organizaron incluso un espectáculo alternativo con Kid Rock que obtuvo cinco millones de visualizaciones en YouTube. La polémica no era nueva. Meses antes, en el programa Saturday Night Live, Bad Bunny recordó a la audiencia que tenían cuatro meses para aprender español, algo que ha hecho que muchos de sus fans angloparlantes se hayan puesto a estudiar este idioma. Hasta la app Duolingo ha aprovechado para lanzar una campaña utilizando el reclamo de Bad Bunny que, por lo demás, ese el artista más escuchado en Spotify de los últimos cuatro años. En buena medida Bad Bunny encarna como pocos el sueño americano. Ha pasado en solo diez años de trabajar en un supermercado en Puerto Rico a llenar estadios de todo el mundo, siempre cantando en español y con su propio estilo. Eso nunca molestó a casi nadie en EEUU, un país en el que la lengua española esta muy extendida y su uso muy normalizado. Lo que ha ocasionado esta polémica no es el idioma, sino las críticas a Trump y a su política migratoria. Cualquier desafío al líder sus partidarios lo interpretan como una amenaza. Bad Bunny no iba a ser una excepción y así se lo han querido hacer ver. En La ContraRéplica: 0:00 Introducción 3:31 Bad Bunny en la Super Bowl 32:35 “Contra el pesimismo”… https://amzn.to/4m1RX2R 34:34 Los señuelos de Sánchez 41:58 Paralelismos históricos 44:42 Los planes marcianos de Musk · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra el pesimismo”… https://amzn.to/4m1RX2R · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #badbunny #donaldtrump Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!
08:00H | 10 FEB 2026 | ¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 60:00


Trenes operan con normalidad hoy 10 de febrero tras desconvocarse la huelga por acuerdo con el Ministerio. Miles de vecinos siguen sin regresar a sus casas por el temporal, que mejora en Extremadura pero mantiene 32 colegios cerrados en Andalucía. La Fiscalía pide absolución de Íñigo Errejón en el caso Elisa Moulía, quien continúa su denuncia. Un estudio de Harvard indica que 2-3 tazas de café diarias reducen un 18% el riesgo de demencia o Alzheimer. Duolingo ve un 35% de aumento de estudiantes de español tras la Super Bowl con Bad Bunny. En

Get Your FILL
S7E20 – Stacy Richter

Get Your FILL

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 40:45


Beyond communication perks, the conversation explores deeper cognitive benefits: learning a language as an adult promotes neuroplasticity, rewires brain pathways, boosts creativity, sharpens problem-solving, and enhances memory—effects that outlast mere fluency and apply broadly to entrepreneurial challenges. Richter positions immersion as superior to tech-only methods (like endless Duolingo streaks that falter in real conversations) by combining live tutoring with AI tools, quizzes, and community features in a "full-stack" hybrid approach. This enables conversational ability in Romance languages like Spanish in under six months for average learners, with practice in a safe space where mistakes are expected. They touch on cultural nuances, regional dialects (especially in Spanish), evolving slang, and how understanding context builds empathy and effectiveness in global interactions.

Mateo & Andrea
16:00H | 10 FEB 2026 | Mateo & Andrea

Mateo & Andrea

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 60:00


CADENA 100 con 'Mateo & Andrea' comenta el impacto global de Bad Bunny tras la Super Bowl, elevando un 35% los alumnos de español en Duolingo. Los oyentes comparten anécdotas de loros: Bartolo imita silbatos de natación, Perico grita “A la Madrid” y hace pedorretas, mientras otro loro aprende reguetón. Además, Rocco, un loro de Reino Unido, compra online con Alexa. Se celebra el regreso de Bruno Mars con su nuevo disco "The Romantic" y el éxito de su gira mundial, añadiendo un concierto extra en España. 'Mateo & Andrea' anima la tarde con grandes canciones de Ed Sheeran y Miley Cyrus.

Marketing Sucks
What Today's Best Marketing Campaigns Get Right

Marketing Sucks

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 33:28


In this episode of Marketing Sucks, Amanda Casinha and Phil Ginther flip the script.Instead of tearing apart bad marketing, they break down three major brands that are actually getting it right right now and explain why their campaigns are working in today's attention economy. From unhinged humour and cultural relevance to emotional storytelling and radical honesty, this episode explores what modern brands are doing differently and how smaller businesses can apply the same thinking without copying tactics blindly.Featuring real-world examples from Duolingo, Nike, and Ryanair, this conversation is part marketing breakdown, part cultural commentary, and part call-out of boring, safe, copy-paste content that blends into the void.What You'll Learn✔ Why speed beats polish in modern marketing✔ How cultural relevance drives engagement more than perfection✔ Why brands win when they stop acting like brands✔ How Duolingo turned chaos into a content strategy✔ Why Nike shifted away from product-first messaging✔ How emotional storytelling builds trust at scale✔ Why Ryanair's radical honesty actually works✔ The danger of copying viral formats without a voice✔ How comment sections can become content engines✔ Why consistency of tone matters more than aesthetics✔ How to audit your own marketing for alignment✔ What most businesses are doing that's killing originalityConnect With UsFor behind-the-scenes clips, hot takes, and conversations we don't always have time for on the mic, follow us on Instagram @grindsocialmedia.If you've been listening for a while, leaving a quick review helps more business owners find the show and stop wasting money on marketing that doesn't work.Thanks for listening and thanks for being part of this community.—

Fitt Insider
325. Geoff Cook, CEO of Noom

Fitt Insider

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2026 34:18


Today, I'm joined by Geoff Cook, CEO of Noom.   Evolved from behavior change app to clinical health platform, Noom combines personalized coaching with medications like GLP-1s to forge health habits and drive long-term health outcomes. In this episode, we discuss using medication as a catalyst for behavior change. We also cover:   Shifting revenue from medicated plans Microdosing GLP-1s Building the "Duolingo of Health"   Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast  Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe  Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider  Website: www.noom.com  Programs for weight loss and proactive health available   -   The Fitt Insider Podcast is brought to you by EGYM. Visit EGYM.com to learn more about its smart fitness ecosystem for fitness and health facilities. Fitt Talent: https://talent.fitt.co/  Consulting: https://consulting.fitt.co/  Investments: https://capital.fitt.co/  Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:30) What's changed at Noom (02:00) Revenue shift (03:25) GLP-1s as catalyst  (04:20) Food noise silence (05:35) Discontinuation rates (06:35) Medication to maintenance (07:00) Microdosing GLP-1s (08:35) Challenges and strategies (09:50) Self-experimentation & preventative health (12:20) Other supplements (14:05) Stacking habits (15:35) What belongs in clinical care? (16:20) Litmus test (17:20) Research investment and peer-reviewed studies (18:25) Largest microdose dataset in the world (19:30) Virtuous loop (20:30) Cue, micro-habit, reward framework (21:25) Gamification (22:32) Behavior change foundation  (24:00) Condition advantage over competitors (26:00) Women's health, blood testing, & category expansion (26:35) Behavior, diagnostics, and clinical care (28:15) Blood testing for proactive health (29:20) Care stacks and vertical integration trends (31:10) IPO timeline and public market readiness (32:35) 2026 goals (33:40) Conclusion

Die Krypto Show - Blockchain, Bitcoin und Kryptowährungen klar und einfach erklärt
#1060 Tech-Massaker: Warum Anthropic den SaaS-Markt crasht (Daily Snippet)

Die Krypto Show - Blockchain, Bitcoin und Kryptowährungen klar und einfach erklärt

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2026 6:28


Daily Snippet vom 09.02.2026 Erinnerst du dich an PayPal? Die Aktie ist 85 % vom All-Time-High gefallen. Wer bei -20 % dachte "Das ist ein Schnäppchen", hat Geld verloren. Wer bei -50 % nachkaufte, hat Geld verloren. Dasselbe passiert gerade bei Duolingo (-80 %), weil KI Sprachen besser lehrt. Lerne daraus: Ein Kurssturz ist oft kein Rabatt, sondern ein Warnsignal, dass die Zukunft des Unternehmens wackelt. Wie du solche Fallen erkennst – Analyse im Audio!

The Gentle Rebel Podcast
People Keep Asking Me to Cancel Their Subscription To This App

The Gentle Rebel Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 15:10


Around Black Friday last year, I started getting strange emails from people asking me to cancel their subscription. Only, they weren't from Haven members, and they were talking about a weekly charge of $7. After a brief panic and some investigation, I confirmed this was not possible. I assumed these messages were bots phishing for something. Then my attention was caught by one that said, “Hi, I’ve just been charged for the Haven Bible app, but I cancelled my subscription through the app prior to the charging date.” Ahh. It must be a case of mistaken identity. Mystery solved! Well, half of it at least… https://youtu.be/mP6rxVuBmRo …But Why Were People Emailing Me? A quick search for “cancel Haven Bible App subscription” showed a knowledge base page on my website as the top result. I added a message to inform people that this was not the site they were looking for. Still today, I'm getting messages from people who scroll past it and tell me to refund them. I even received a second email accusing me of stealing their money because I refused to help them cancel their subscription. I had already replied to their first email, pointing them elsewhere. Bizarre! It has been a slightly sobering experience, pointing to how unobservant people can be at times. The Auto-Responder I created a short auto-responder to reply to these messages. I asked them to drop a quick reply when they work out how to cancel it so I could pass that information along to others in the same boat. Only one of about 60 people who emailed me bothered to follow up. A special shout-out to Lauren for taking the time to do that. I've been able to point people in a more helpful direction as a result. In reality, I don't know if it's genuinely difficult to cancel this subscription. What Is This Haven Bible App? After my search, the algorithms started delivering short videos of people promoting the Haven Bible App. It's been heavily marketed by influencers. I became curious and began to notice overlaps with certain self-help industry mechanics we've been unpacking here in recent months. The app is an AI chatbot that answers user questions and prompts with responses from biblical texts. It's marketed as a way to get simplified explanations, moral guidance, help with reading the Bible, and a sense of connection with a wise guide. Tools, Guidance, and Quiet Influence It's worth considering the issues surrounding the use, trust, and reliance on this kind of technology as a source of information and guidance. Despite being presented as objective, a chatbot never is. By nature, it always contains biases. It's programmed and personalised. Over time, it can shape our beliefs, values, and worldview based on the personal information we give it. There's nothing necessarily inherently wrong with that, but it's easy to imagine how this could be abused, with the user not noticing that their critical thinking is gradually replaced by conformity to a narrow, dogmatic framework. There's also the issue of AI sycophancy. This is often described as a deliberate feature designed to hook users, creating a sense of affinity with the technology as if it were a feeling, thinking being. This entered public discussion in 2025 when researchers and mental health professionals raised concerns about what they described as “AI-related psychosis.” One widely reported case involved a man called Allan Brooks, who became misled into believing he had discovered a world-changing mathematical formula after hundreds of hours interacting with ChatGPT. These systems are designed to shift from instruments to relationships through encouragement and affirmation. They tend to praise and validate user input, reinforce existing beliefs, and create a sense of safety in the interaction. They don't require you to articulate feelings or needs clearly, and they reduce the need to negotiate meaning with others. First- and second-person language further reinforces the illusion of connection. Recognising Unhealthy Dependency on an App A useful question here is whether a tool helps us grow beyond it or cultivates dependency. When dependency forms, creators can charge whatever they like for continued access. And will likely extract other information, such as personal data. Habit formation is central to platforms like this. The perception of a companion you can ask anything of creates reliance not just for knowledge, but for reassurance and connection. Features like reminders and streak maintenance mirror the same techniques used by apps like Duolingo. Not to keep people learning, but to keep them opening the app. The important distinction is whether a tool helps us develop skills and understanding we can take with us, or whether it locks value inside its own ecosystem. With Duolingo, it became clear over time that keeping people engaged mattered more than helping them learn a language. When leaving feels costly, users become vulnerable to price increases and further extraction of their personal data and other private information, which can be used to sell additional layers of dependence in response to newly identified desires and needs. Why This Matters to Me I was in two minds about writing this experience. But something about it got under my skin, and it's not just about the emails, the confusion, or being asked to cancel something I have nothing to do with. It's seeing another example of wider cultural patterns we keep circling. Patterns that keep us doubting ourselves, disconnecting from one another, and valuing manufactured certainty over lived complexity. I understand the appeal of tools like this. I also understand the value they can bring to people. But it's important to zoom out and notice what gets lost when we trade depth for convenience and speed. Often, that trade sabotages the very thing we're seeking, trapping us in a cycle of chasing the next tool that promises meaning through hacks and shortcuts, while quietly pulling us further away from the sites of meaning we encounter in the messy beauty of real human connection, uncertainty, and mystery.

Choice Hacking
The $1B Psychology Behind Duolingo & Its Unhinged Mascot | How to make your product a habit, so buyers keep

Choice Hacking

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 16:45


⭐⭐⭐⭐Please take 12 seconds to rate and review the podcast because it helps us find new listeners⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Learn More About Sponsoring the Podcast Here: https://choicehacking.link/sponsor-the-podFREE RESOURCES✅ Get a free digital copy of my bestselling book for a limited time, Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings. Get it here: https://www.choicehacking.com/free-book/ ✅ Get FREE weekly buyer psychology insights when you join my newsletter, Choice Hacking Ideas: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology. Join here: https://www.choicehacking.com/read/✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok @ChoiceHacking and @BuildwithChoiceHackingWORK WITH ME✅ Corporate Training: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. Choice Hacking has worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and McDonalds to help their teams apply behavioral science and marketing psychology.Learn more here, and get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page: https://www.choicehacking.com/training/✅ Get your own Chief Business Copilot for your business by working with me one-on-one or in a group program. Get weekly live Skill Sessions, Implementation Sessions, and one-on-one time with me.Learn more about my group program here: https://choicehacking.academy/cbc/Learn more about one-on-one coaching here: https://www.choicehacking.com/coaching/✅ Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings": https://choicehacking.com/PodBook/ ★ Support this podcast ★

echtgeld.tv - Geldanlage, Börse, Altersvorsorge, Aktien, Fonds, ETF
egtv #447 Top? Flop? Totalverlust? Diese 4 Aktien haben's in sich! Depot-Update Januar 2026

echtgeld.tv - Geldanlage, Börse, Altersvorsorge, Aktien, Fonds, ETF

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 79:29


Jahresauftakt mit Turbulenzen: Nach einem Depot-Rückblick auf den ersten Monat im Jahr begrüßt Tobias Kramer deutlich früher als geplant den Tech-Investor Stefan Waldhauser. Mit ihm reflektiert er den Kursabsturz von PayPal nach den Zahlen und beide kommen in dieser Betrachtung zum gleichen Ergebnis. Anschließend geht‘s weiter mit drei weiteren Sorgenkindern auf dem Börsenparkett: Duolingo, Novo Nordisk und SAP. Außerdem muss bei der Verdreifacher-Aktie HochTief der Stoppkurs angepasst werden...

The Options Insider Radio Network
The Option Block 1442: Blood-Red Markets and the Death of DUOL

The Options Insider Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 58:15


Blood-Red Markets and the Death of DUOL The markets are bleeding red, and volatility is finally taking center stage. In this episode of The Option Block, the panel breaks down a brutal session for the indices and the absolute carnage following Duolingo's (DUOL) latest move. From VIX spikes to institutional "Odd Block" flows, we're dissecting the anatomy of a sell-off. On This Episode, Join: Mark Longo: Founder & CEO, The Options Insider Media Group Henry Schwartz: Vice President, Institutional Derivatives, Cboe Global Markets Mike Tosaw: Wealth Manager, St. Charles Wealth Management The Docket: The Trading Block: A post-mortem on today's blood-red market. Henry provides the Cboe perspective on the VIX spike, while the team analyzes the breakdown in tech and why the "buy the dip" mentality is being tested. The Odd Block: Examining the "Death of DUOL." We break down the massive institutional put buying in Duolingo and the unusual activity that signaled this collapse before the floor fell out. Strategy Session: Defensive positioning 101. How to manage your long delta when the market turns, and the most cost-effective ways to price tail-risk hedges in the current environment. Mail Call: Listeners ask about the impact of high-volume sell-offs on spread pricing and how to handle challenged positions in a falling market.

10AMPro
E192: Duolingo no es una app: es la IA que está redefiniendo cómo aprendemos. Antonio Linares

10AMPro

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 38:48


The Option Block
The Option Block 1442: Blood-Red Markets and the Death of DUOL

The Option Block

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 58:15


Blood-Red Markets and the Death of DUOL The markets are bleeding red, and volatility is finally taking center stage. In this episode of The Option Block, the panel breaks down a brutal session for the indices and the absolute carnage following Duolingo's (DUOL) latest move. From VIX spikes to institutional "Odd Block" flows, we're dissecting the anatomy of a sell-off. On This Episode, Join: Mark Longo: Founder & CEO, The Options Insider Media Group Henry Schwartz: Vice President, Institutional Derivatives, Cboe Global Markets Mike Tosaw: Wealth Manager, St. Charles Wealth Management The Docket: The Trading Block: A post-mortem on today's blood-red market. Henry provides the Cboe perspective on the VIX spike, while the team analyzes the breakdown in tech and why the "buy the dip" mentality is being tested. The Odd Block: Examining the "Death of DUOL." We break down the massive institutional put buying in Duolingo and the unusual activity that signaled this collapse before the floor fell out. Strategy Session: Defensive positioning 101. How to manage your long delta when the market turns, and the most cost-effective ways to price tail-risk hedges in the current environment. Mail Call: Listeners ask about the impact of high-volume sell-offs on spread pricing and how to handle challenged positions in a falling market.

Brave Parenting
Ep. 211: When ‘Good’ Apps Go Bad

Brave Parenting

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2026 36:25


Often, apps begin with noble intentions of “connection” or “education.” While they promise to be different, they inevitably resort to classic tactics for maximum engagement: streaks, coins, leaderboards, FOMO, and notifications. In this episode, Kelly uncovers this trend using Duolingo and Zigazoo as examples. This trend of app devolution is important for parents to understand. You may not be able to keep track of every app update, but you know your child, and you can recognize when something has changed. Articles referenced: Brave Parenting Guide to Duolingo Brave Parenting Guide to Zigazoo TED Talk: How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media How Machine Learning Supercharged Our Revenue by Millions (Duolingo Blog) Scripture referenced: 1 Thes 5:4-6 1 Thes 5:19-21 1 Peter 5:8 Matt 18:8-9 ⇒ DOWNLOAD: App Evaluation & Test Everything Guide Book a Speaking Event!! Buy the NEWLY UPDATED book: Managing Media Creating Character (2024 Revised & Updated) Get Kelly’s new Study Guide & Workbook, with video teachings for small groups. Check out our brand new Brave Parenting Merch Sign up for the Brave Bullet Points newsletter! This helps us communicate what’s happening without social media – a win for everyone!

Random Order Podcast
When the B-Day Suit Photoshoot is TRASH

Random Order Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 117:24


NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. Only in theaters February 13th.-----THE OFFICE MOVERS - SEASON 1: ON NETFLIX CANADATHE OFFICE MOVERS - SEASON 2: ON CRAVE NOWTHE OFFICE MOVERS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: ON CRAVE NOW

Daybreak
India's AI still doesn't speak India. Can it?

Daybreak

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 12:38


ChatGPT butchers Punjabi with spelling errors and Bollywood-style Hindi bleeding through. Hindi bots trained on newspapers miss dialects like Awadhi and Bhojpuri entirely, while Tamil AI ignores the rich variations between Kongu and Madurai speech.Sure, Gurugram collected ₹200 crore in taxes using Hindi AI calls, but that's because Hindi dominates datasets. Most other languages remain stuck in translation hell. Private companies optimize for speed over nuance, government corpora like Bhashini sit underused, and multimodal data that captures tone and emotion is too expensive to build.The result? AI is flattening India's 780 languages into sanitized, standardized versions that erase the very dialects it claims to serve.Read the newsletter here. Find the Duolingo article here.  Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India's first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

Mama Dutch - Learn Dutch with a Personal Touch
#130 | Waarom DuoLingo je niet gaat helpen met Nederlands spreken (Dutch podcast B1+)

Mama Dutch - Learn Dutch with a Personal Touch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2026 11:08


In deze aflevering geef ik je 6 'hot takes' over waarom DuoLingo (en andere taalleerapps) je NOOIT gaan leren SPREKEN. Wil je een methode die WEL werkt?We starten volgende week met Dutch Speaking Mastery: https://dutchspeakingacademy.nl/mastery/Volg je me al op Instagram?https://www.instagram.com/the.dutchspeakingacademy/

The Rizzuto Show
Rizzuto vs. The Garage Door (And Other Personal Fails)

The Rizzuto Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2026 64:38


Rizzuto fails the hard way that confidence is not the same thing as competence. In this episode of The Rizzuto Show, a slightly off-track garage door becomes a full-on life lesson when a “simple fix” turns into a catastrophic collapse involving bent pliers, fallen rollers, and one very humbling phone call to the professionals.What follows is a brutally honest (and hilarious) breakdown of everything that should not be done by normal humans without training — garage doors, electricity, plumbing, and apparently adulthood itself. From there, the show spirals beautifully into the Personal Failure Folder, where Rizzuto confesses to abandoned Duolingo dreams, a dusty notebook labeled “Chapter One,” a sourdough starter that survived since 2020, and crypto money that may as well be buried treasure.The crew dives into the real cost of homeownership, the soul-sucking realities of third-shift work, and the vampire lifestyle of never seeing daylight. They talk about snowed-in neighborhoods, leadership disasters, peanut butter raises at work, and why companies spread money like a sad layer of Skippy across too much bread.Somehow, this funny podcast also finds time to explore nostalgia-induced emotional breakdowns as Rizzuto admits to crying in his underwear while watching 1980s commercials on YouTube. Big Red gum, Zest soap, and Doublemint jingles unlock memories that hit harder than any self-help book ever could.It's a classic Rizz Show episode — equal parts self-roast, therapy session, social commentary, and warning label. If you've ever said “I got this” right before everything fell apart, this funny podcast is for you.Follow The Rizzuto Show → https://linktr.ee/rizzshowConnect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → https://1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.‘Did you forget about us?': Riverview streets still covered after weekend snowNIGHT & DAY Night shift workers see just 29 minutes of daylight on a working day, new study findsWhy you'll get a ‘peanut butter raise' this year: What it means and how much to expect?Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing so many damn Magic cards, 'destroying the long-term value of the brand'Ghost Accused Of ‘Super Satanic' Curse After NBA Loss, Because Of Course They WereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This Is Woman's Work with Nicole Kalil
Pioneers: 8 Principles for Building a Business That Lasts with Neri Karra Sillaman | 383

This Is Woman's Work with Nicole Kalil

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2026 44:32


If you've ever wondered how some people build businesses that last—this episode is your blueprint. Nicole sits down with Neri Karra-Silliman (author, advisor, entrepreneur, and Oxford entrepreneurship expert) to unpack what immigrant entrepreneurs can teach all of us about confidence, courage, resilience, and creating businesses that thrive for generations—even when you're not starting with privilege, connections, or a trust fund. In this episode, we get into: Why immigrant-founded businesses often endure longer—and why nobody's been asking the right questions The difference between an entrepreneur and a pioneer (hint: pioneers build what didn't exist before) How companies like WhatsApp and Duolingo started with impact-first problems  The 8 principles of business longevity inspired by immigrant entrepreneurs, including: Cross-cultural bridging (innovation happens when you live in more than one world) Community as currency (relationships are the wealth) “Frying in your own oil” (aka self-sufficiency before outside money makes you lazy) Shared values over growth-at-all-costsRejection as fuel (“no” is the beginning of negotiation) Luck as a skill (recognizing moments and playing your hand) Faith as the foundation for risk, reinvention, and resilience And the most overlooked glue of all: kindness Immigrants aren't the problem—they're the blueprint. This conversation will change how you think about risk, reinvention, and what it really takes to build something that lasts (with profit and purpose). Thank you to our sponsors! Sex is a skill. Beducated is where you learn it. Visit https://beducate.me/pd2550-womanswork and use code womanswork for 50% off the annual pass. Connect with Neri: Website: https://www.nerikarrasillaman.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pioneers-Principles-Longevity-Immigrant-Entrepreneurs/dp/1394304056/ref=  Related Podcast Episodes The Hard Truths Of Entrepreneurship with Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon | 313 The Power Of Instinct In Business And Life with Leslie Zane | 214 From Small Business to Big Impact: Leadership, Confidence, & Community at the Goldman Sachs 10K Small Businesses Summit | 362 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!

De Universiteit van Nederland Podcast
796. Waarom Duolingo niet werkt om écht een taal te leren

De Universiteit van Nederland Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2026 9:56


HEY U! Gebruik jij Duolingo om een taal te leren? In deze aflevering legt Charlotte Fraza, hersenwetenschapper bij Radboudumc, uit waarom dit niet voldoende is om een taal écht te leren. En ze beantwoordt nog meer kijkersvragen! Want hoe leer je snel en effectief? Werkt het markeren van een tekst tijdens het leren? Hoe werkt leren in je brein eigenlijk? Zat jouw vraag er nou niet tussen? Geen zorgen! Op de socials van Universiteit van Nederland (@universiteitnl) beantwoordt Charlotte nog meer kijkersvragen. En als je nog een extra vraag hebt kun je die stellen in de comments ⬇️Ook een geheugenatleet worden? Bekijk hier onze video over het geheugenpaleis met Boris Konrad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9EOuLkiTcA&t=139s. Meer zien van Charlotte? Volg dan haar YouTube-account vol met tips voor leren als (PhD-)student: https://www.youtube.com/@CharlotteFraza/videos. 00:00 Hey U! jouw vragen over leren 00:26 Hoe gaat leren in je brein? 01:53 Hoe kun je snel en effectief leren? 03:42 Tips over leren 04:55 Is tekst markeren nuttig? 05:46 Hoe kun je het beste een andere taal leren? 07:59 Hoe kun je het beste leren als je ouder bent?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra
Gillian Robertson talks rebooked Lemos fight, Jean Silva talks win over Arnold Allen, UFC 324 takeaways

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2026 53:58


Jim Norton and Matt Serra welcome a pair of familiar faces back to the show in women's strawweight Gillian Robertson and men's featherweight Jean Silva.First up, Robertson calls in to discuss her long-awaited return to the Octagon. After a frustrating stretch of delays, postponements, and bad luck with opponents, she previews her rescheduled matchup against Amanda Lemos — now set for March 14 at the Meta APEX — and explains why staying active moving forward is a top priority as she eyes a fifth-straight win.Then, fresh off his win over Arnold Allen, featherweight contender Jean Silva joins the show alongside his manager to assist with Portuguese-to-English translation duties. Matt sets the tone for the interview in a way that requires no Duolingo, immediately matching Silva's infectious energy. From there, the conversation turns to a breakdown of Silva's win over Allen, what the fight revealed about his evolution as a fighter, and where he sees himself fitting into the featherweight picture as Jim throws out potential next opponents.Jim and Matt wrap up the episode with their biggest takeaways from UFC 324, highlighting standout performances and early storylines from the first-ever UFC event of the Paramount era.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Shawn Ryan Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2026 226:28


Tim Ferriss is the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, has surpassed one billion downloads and is widely regarded as the “Oprah of audio.” Named as one of Fortune's “40 Under 40,” Tim is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and was ranked among the “Top 20 Angel Investors” by Forbes. A Princeton University graduate (BA 2000, East Asian Studies), Tim is a polyglot who speaks five languages to different degrees, a national Chinese kickboxing champion, the first American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango spins, and a practiced horseback archer (yabusame) in Japan. His business ventures include bootstrapping a nootropics company (BrainQUICKEN) to millions in revenue before selling it in 2010, launching the audiobook imprint Tim Ferriss Publishing with Amazon Audible (responsible for modern classics like Ego Is the Enemy and The Obstacle Is the Way), and co-creating the hit card game COYOTE (2025) with Exploding Kittens creator Elan Lee—now sold in over 8,000 stores worldwide including Target, Walmart, and Amazon. Known for normalizing vulnerability while achieving massive success, Tim pioneered the remote-work and lifestyle-design movements pre-pandemic, popularized biohacking, and has served as an advisor at Singularity University and a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Upgrade your wallet today and get 10% off at Ridge with code SRS at https://www.Ridge.com/SRS #Ridgepod Go to https://shopbeam.com/SRS and use code SRS to get up to 50% off Beam Dream Nighttime Cocoa—grab it for just $32.50 and improve your sleep today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/srs Tim Ferriss Links: The No Book free chapters - https://tim.blog/nobook Everything Tim – https://tim.blog Podcast – https://tim.blog/podcast X – https://x.com/tferriss Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/timferriss YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/timferriss COYOTE Game – https://www.explodingkittens.com/products/coyote Books - https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001ILKBW2/allbooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

KQED’s Forum
Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen on Freeing Ourselves from Metrics

KQED’s Forum

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2026 54:47


Have you ever achieved a high GPA, crushed your Duolingo streak, or seen a surge of likes on social media… only to feel weirdly empty? Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen attributes that joylessness to what he calls “value capture,” where rankings and metrics can replace our own values and start dictating goals for us. We talk to Nguyen about the difference between playful score keeping… and soul-sucking metrics. And we want to hear from you: Have you ever found yourself playing a game you didn't choose? Guests: C. Thi Nguyen, philosopher; author, “The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbell Shrugged
Performance Brain Health - Part 1 with Dr. Tommy Wood, Doug Larson Travis Mash & Dr. Mike Lane #832

Barbell Shrugged

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 56:06


In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Doug Larson is joined by longtime co-host Travis Mash and new co-host Dr. Mike Lane for a return visit from one of the show's most popular guests, Dr. Tommy Wood. Tommy breaks down the core thesis of his new book, The Stimulated Mind (releasing March 24), which uses dementia prevention as the headline but is really about boosting cognition at every stage of life. The crew sets the tone early: brain health is not "old people stuff," it's performance, learning, and resilience, built daily through how you live and how you train. Tommy makes the case that "optimization" only works when it fits real life, and that the brain adapts like the body: sleep, nutrition, and exercise support it, but you still have to "train the brain" with demanding learning and skills. He outlines a practical learning dose-response, roughly 30–90 minutes of deep challenge per session, 2–3 times per week as a sweet spot for consolidation, while acknowledging the power of daily touchpoints for habit formation (Doug's Duolingo streak and the "don't break the chain" approach). From there, they go deep on exercise modalities and cognition: aerobic work and interval training improving hippocampal function (memory), high-intensity work potentially driving brain benefits through lactate → local BDNF, and coordinative/open-skill sports (racket sports, dancing, martial arts) producing outsized brain returns for the same physical strain. The conversation closes with a fast but important run through risk, genetics, and lifestyle: Tommy explains ApoE4 as a risk multiplier that's highly environment-dependent, amplifying bad inputs (inflammation, poor metabolic health) but also amplifying the benefits of doing the basics well. They hit the big nutrition levers for cognition; omega-3s, key B vitamins (methylation), vitamin D, iron, plus polyphenol-rich foods (berries, cocoa, coffee/tea), and squash the common "red wine" rationalization by emphasizing net outcomes (sleep and brain volume matter). Finally, Tommy emphasizes the under-rated keystone: social connection and pro-social behavior, arguing that the Mediterranean "diet" is really a Mediterranean lifestyle, and that isolation can erase many of the benefits of even a perfect nutrition plan. Links: Doug Larson on InstagramCoach Travis Mash on Instagram  

Sub Club
Why Your Free Users Are Your Real Growth Engine – Cem Kansu, Duolingo CPO

Sub Club

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 65:44


La competència - Programa sencer
La Competència | Do you do Duolingo?

La competència - Programa sencer

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 60:00


En Mohamed Jordi repassa les no inversions de l'Estat a Rodalies a “LA LOTERIA QUE MAI NO TOCA”. El Barça juga amb molt fred: truquem a la Marta Ramon des de Praga. Diego Messi detecta el problema del Barça i recomana un jugador seu: el Bote Verón.

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Management Consulting | Strategy, Operations & Implementation | Critical Thinking
621: Business Longevity Principles from Immigrant Entrepreneurs (with University of Oxford's Neri Karra Sillaman)

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Management Consulting | Strategy, Operations & Implementation | Critical Thinking

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 43:07


Neri Karra Sillaman, entrepreneurship advisor at the University of Oxford and author of Pioneers: Eight Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs, discusses why immigrant-founded companies are disproportionately successful and tend to last longer than their counterparts. Drawing on her experience as a former child refugee and on research that began with her PhD, she explains how longevity is built through clear vision, perseverance, community, shared value, and disciplined decision-making. She begins with the formative role of vision. At age eleven, while living in a refugee camp, education became her "north star." That clarity helped her interpret rejection not as failure but as "not yet," a mindset she later observed repeatedly among immigrant entrepreneurs. Clear intent, she argues, allows setbacks to redirect effort rather than extinguish it. The conversation then turns to the principles she identified through interviews with immigrant founders of companies such as Chobani, Duolingo, WhatsApp, and Calendly. These include treating rejection as the beginning of negotiation, building community as a core operating system rather than a marketing tactic, and prioritizing shared value before profit. She emphasizes that many founders focus first on contributing to customers, suppliers, and local communities, with financial results following from that orientation. Sillaman also explains how history and heritage function as assets rather than liabilities. Rather than discarding their past, immigrant entrepreneurs draw on cultural memory and lived experience to shape vision and execution in the present. This integration of past, present, and future becomes central to how long-lived businesses are built. Another recurring theme is luck. She notes that founders consistently describe themselves as "lucky," but defines luck not as chance, but as a capability: being prepared enough to recognize opportunity and willing to act decisively when it appears. The discussion also addresses technology and AI. As tools become more powerful, she argues, human creativity, judgment, and connection become more important, not less. She suggests that imperfections and visible signs of human authorship may increasingly signal authenticity in an automated environment. Throughout the episode, Sillaman challenges dominant models of ego-centered leadership. She contrasts short-lived, personality-driven leadership with approaches that place attention on the work, the community served, and the legacy left behind. Longevity, she concludes, depends not only on how businesses grow, but on how they treat people and define the value they exist to create. Get Neri's book, Pioneers, here: https://tinyurl.com/3bnx7nyc Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Acton, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

School of Motion Podcast
The Founders of Rive Spill the Tea on Interactive Animation! | SOM Podcast

School of Motion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2026 77:50


Joey sat down with Guido and Luigi Rosso—the brother founders behind Rive—to dig into what makes this platform different, where it's headed, and why teams at Spotify, Duolingo, and LinkedIn are building entire interactive experiences with it! Get more deets in the blog post: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/rive-podcast

Colleen & Bradley
01/14 Wed Hr. 3: Don't throw your fruit peels out the window!

Colleen & Bradley

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2026 39:05


Don't throw your fruit peels out the window! A new tell-all book from a former Vogue editor is on the way with juicy stories; George Clooney, now a French citizen doesn't know French, but he's trying on Duo Lingo. One Star Reviews and the Five second rule game See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alles auf Aktien
Googles 4-Billionen-Triumph und die Fed-Zäsur für Sparer

Alles auf Aktien

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 22:35


In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Daniel Eckert und Lea Oetjen über einen Dämpfer für Kreditkartenanbieter, einen Kursrutsch bei Abercrombie & Fitch und die Edelmetall-Rallye. Außerdem geht es um Beiersdorf, Fresenius Medical Care, Fresenius, Symrise, TKMS, Thyssenkrupp, Renk Group, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, BMW, Alphabet, Apple, Duolingo, Ani Pharmaceuticals, Lululemon, American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Capital One, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, iShares Core MSCI World (WKN: A0RPWH), FTSE All World (WKN: A1JX52), Xtrackers MSCI World Swap EUR Hedged ETF (WKN: DBX0KQ), WisdomTree Cocoa (WKN: A1ELLY), Xetra Gold (WKN: A0S9GB), Euwax Gold 2 (WKN: EWG2LD) und WisdomTree Core Physical Silver (WKN: A4AE1X). Link zum Business-Insider-Artikel: https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/ende-von-hoss-hopf-was-wirklich-hinter-den-kulissen-passierte Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts und AAA-Newsletter. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Der Börsen-Podcast Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

OHNE AKTIEN WIRD SCHWER - Tägliche Börsen-News
“Humanoide Roboter - wer gewinnt?” - Trump vs FED & AmEx, Alphabet, Wells Fargo

OHNE AKTIEN WIRD SCHWER - Tägliche Börsen-News

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 13:29


Bis zu 2.500 € Bonus von Scalable Capital. Neu- und Bestandskunden, die Wertpapiere oder Guthaben bei Scalable Capital einzahlen, können sich bis zum 15.01.2026 einen Bonus sichern. Alle Infos gibt's hier: scalable.capital/transfer-bonus. Trump will Capital One, AmEx & Co. limitieren. Er will laut Jerome Powell die FED manipulieren. Und Exxon mag er nicht. Gold & Silber freut's. Duolingo & Heineken haben Abgänge. TKMS hat Aufträge. Alibaba & Meituan mögen Behörden. 2.000 Milliarden Bilanzsumme. IB noch möglich? Wells Fargo (WKN: 857949) sagt ja. Humanoide Roboter. Sind sie die Zukunft von Tesla (WKN: A1CX3T)? Oder ein Markt, den Asien dominiert? (Hyundai Motor (WKN: 885166)). Diesen Podcast vom 13.01.2026, 3:00 Uhr stellt dir die Podstars GmbH (Noah Leidinger) zur Verfügung.

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!
9 ENERO 2026 | ¡BUENOS DÍAS, JAVI Y MAR! | RESUMEN

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2026 52:54


En '¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!', Javi cocina arroz del senyoret. Fernando Martín, con humor, ironiza sobre la pronunciación perfecta, proponiendo hacer las cosas "bien a medias". Nuestros oyentes confiesan sus adicciones: vídeos virales, Duolingo, muñecas reborn o un reto de TikTok de pulsos de pierna. José Real destaca la historia real de un hombre paseando una cabra con pañales por un centro comercial sevillano, permitido por su política "pet-friendly".  La obsesión tecnológica en parejas es nuestro tema central: casas domotizadas con fallos, uso extremo de ChatGPT, smartwatches o maquetas elaboradas. Jugamos como siempre a refranes auditivos y se comenta el viral vídeo de Carlos Vives. Y por supuesto, no te olvides de nuestra PLAYLIST de los viernes!

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!
06:00H | 09 ENE 2026 | ¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!

¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2026 60:00


CADENA 100 celebra un viernes 9 de enero con '¡Buenos días, Javi y Mar!'. La borrasca Goretti deja nubes y lluvia en el noroeste. Cinco presos políticos españoles regresan de Venezuela tras ser liberados. La Iglesia y el Gobierno acuerdan reparar a víctimas de abusos a través del Defensor del Pueblo. Hay manga ancha para la baliza V-16 obligatoria. También se reportan robos de cable en trenes de alta velocidad en Andalucía. Feijóo declara por la DANA y Montero defiende el modelo de financiación catalán. Galicia prohíbe la venta de bebidas energéticas a menores. Se registra la segunda cifra más baja de muertes en carretera desde 1960. Los oyentes comparten sus 'enganches': desde series como Stranger Things, limpiar alfombras, vídeos de soldados sorprendiendo, Duolingo, recetas de Instagram, hasta intentar desengancharse de muñecas Reborn. También se proponen desafíos virales de TikTok. En música, suena lo nuevo de Bruno Mars, el himno de CADENA 100 'Por ellas' de Dani Fernández y ...

Associations Thrive
168. Matrix Group International, Inc. Staff on Turbocharging with AI, Storytelling, and Personalization

Associations Thrive

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2026 27:35


In this special episode of Associations Thrive, host Joanna Pineda is joined by colleagues from Matrix Group International, Inc.: Dave Hoernig, Vice President of Software Engineering, Jessica Parsley, Director of Project Management, and Alex Pineda, Creative Director. They look back on the trends they're seeing in the association space. They discuss:How AI dominated 2025, with associations investing heavily in staff training, internal policies, and custom GPTs to boost content production and streamline workflows.The AI tools that helped Matrix Group clients modernize outdated content by converting PDFs to HTML, summarizing large documents, and creating metadata and schema for better discoverability.Why associations wrestled with how much previously gated content to expose for AI indexing, balancing member-only value with public visibility and relevance in AI search results.“About the Industry” storytelling sections of a website becoming a trend, with associations crafting narratives to spotlight the importance of their fields not just to members, but to the public and policymakers.How clients faced tighter budgets in 2025, making incremental updates and data-driven decisions more important than ever.The notable rise of multimedia content, with podcasts and audio read-alouds replacing and supplementing long-form text to meet member preferences and improve accessibility.How personalization is becoming easier with AI and how associations can now deliver customized recommendations for members, modeled after platforms like Netflix or Duolingo.How AI is revolutionizing design and development, with tools that boost creativity, accelerate prototyping, and reduce tedious manual work.How mobile-first and voice-enabled experiences are expected to surge, especially as younger members rely more on phones and smart speakers for web interaction.References:Matrix Group WebsiteSee how TFI tells the story of the industry.We made a few tweaks to the ALDA website in advance of a larger redesign in the future.

TruthWorks
Behind Duolingo's Multi-Billion Product Strategy, Scaling to 100M users - Cem Kansu

TruthWorks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2026 49:12


How do you take a free language app and turn it into a multi billion juggernaut that users are literally addicted to?In this episode of TruthWorks, Jessica and Patty sit down with Cem Kansu, the Chief Product Officer at Duolingo. Cem has spent nearly a decade architecting the product strategy that grew Duolingo from a struggling startup into the world's #1 education app.This isn't just a conversation about "product-market fit." It's a raw look at the operational culture required to run thousands of A/B tests a year without losing your soul. Cem pulls back the curtain on Duolingo's famous "unhinged" marketing, the reality of managing a "freemium" model that actually makes money, and why they decided to make their AI mascot, Lily, a depressed teenager.Key topics discussed include:The "Mini-CEO" Mindset: Why Duolingo empowers product managers to run their own P&Ls and how that changes the culture of accountability.Monetization vs. Mission: The hard conversations and trade-offs involved in making money while keeping the core product free for millions.The Truth About Gamification: How to use streaks, leaderboards, and "passive-aggressive" notifications to drive retention without burning out your team (or your users).Hiring for Taste: Why data is critical, but product intuition is what actually builds a brand people love.Navigating the AI Shift: How Duolingo is integrating GenAI to teach effectively, not just efficiently.Whether you are scaling a product team or trying to build a culture that embraces experimentation, Cem offers a transparent look at the machinery behind the owl.

Motley Fool Money
It's a Small World After All

Motley Fool Money

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2026 20:32


The first full trading week of 2026 got off to a caffeinated start. Today on Motley Fool Money, Rick Munarriz, with analysts Nick Sciple and Jon Quast, dive into the investing implications behind the capturing of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. There's also a look at the bounce-back potential of Duolingo and Lululemon in 2026, as well as predictions for Disney in the coming year. They unpack: - What the shake-up in Venezuela means for investors. - Reasons why Duolingo and Lululemon can bounce back after plummeting 46% each in 2025. - How likely are Rick's four predictions for Disney in 2026 to pan out. Companies discussed: CVX, XOM, MELI, DUOL, LULU, DIS, WBD, NFLX Host: Rick Munarriz, Jon Quast, Nick Sciple Producer: Anand Chokkavelu Engineer: Dan Boyd Disclosure: Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. We're committed to transparency: All personal opinions in advertisements from Fools are their own. The product advertised in this episode was loaned to TMF and was returned after a test period or the product advertised in this episode was purchased by TMF. Advertiser has paid for the sponsorship of this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

聽天下:天下雜誌Podcast
【天下零時差01.02.26】Duolingo老闆為什麼敢讓員工同時放假2週?

聽天下:天下雜誌Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 4:00


擁有近1000名員工的公開上市科技公司Duolingo每年冬天都會讓全體員工休假2星期,公司付出代價,卻也獲得回報。 文: 樂羽嘉 製作團隊:樂祈 *閱讀零時差,點這看全文

Everyday Systems Podcast
Everyday Systems #101: State of the Systems 2025

Everyday Systems Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 30:26


My 7th annual review covers just the highlights from 33 total systems: How color-coded spreadsheets changed my behavior more than goal-setting, fine-tuning Glass Ceiling with precision drink accounting, the Spider Hunter sleep expansion pack, and gamifying my rage at Duolingo.

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | Education
406: Try this Choice Twist on Review

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | Education

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 12:22


I bet you know your favorite way to learn something. Maybe it's by listening to a podcast, skimming a couple of articles on the topic, reading a book, going to a live lecture, taking a Masterclass, talking to a knowledgable friend, playing your way through an App like Duolingo, attending a conference... The point is, we're all pretty different when it comes to our FAVORITE way to take in information. The way that really helps it sink in. For me, it's often about visuals and color, dating all the way back to my high school years when I created my own visual notes summaries of the semester for each class before finals. I enjoyed reading through all my notes and condensing them into a couple of brightly colored pages. Once I had done that, I barely had to study those highlight reels, because the process of making them had done most of the studying for me. Honestly, I looked forward to exam week because I could take my exams and look at my notes for the next day more quickly than I could get through the work of a normal week of school. I had more free time when we had tests, and I enjoyed my review process. Today on the pod, as many folks may be headed into a unit or term review, just as student focus is already taking a left out of school city toward vacation land, let's talk about an easy way to give students agency over their review, ANY review. Go Further:  Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Get my popular free hexagonal thinking digital toolkit Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram.  Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the 'gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the show. Thank you!