Podcasts about Emerald

The subject of this episode is trauma on mind and body. My guest is Emerald Wilkins from Florida, US. She is a Life Coach and has a Youtube channel - Diamond Net where she shares her perspective on the topics of wisdom, spirituality, enlightenment, depth psychology, the psyche, creativity, altered states of consciousness, and many other forms of exploration of Self and reality. We divide deep on: Effects of trauma on the body (immune system, central nervous system, etc.) and our minds. Gaining control over the residues of past trauma and returning to being masters of our own ship. Establishing a tough skin or defense mechanism against trauma. Why traumatized people fail to avoid repeating the same problems and have a tough time learning from experience. Dangers of trying to act as if nothing happened and move on without resolving traumatic effects. Mental trauma is at the top of the list of most-common psychological health conditions. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 61% of men and 51% of women report at least one traumatic event in their lifetimes. Find Emerald's brilliant work in the links below: Youtube - youtube.com/thediamondnet Masterclass - shadowintegration.org/masterclass --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

Like the phases of the moon, Moon Meditations is changing. Our host, Emerald, has been growing off-air and is returning like a breath of fresh air with this episode, sharing a heartfelt message as she watched the longest partial lunar eclipse in hundreds of years. What a time to be alive! Grow with us as we change frequencies. “It's only up from here.”

Join Emerald Wilkins of  @The Diamond Net and I as we talk about the Jungian model of the ever elusive shadow.  Emerald does an amazing job of simplifying these ideas and processes with some excellent tools and resources to practically put the ideas into action.  She put so cleverly exactly how opposites attract AND like attracts like.  Great interview.  Find her website here:https://thediamondnet.orgFind her Youtube channel here:https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiamondNetIG: https://www.instagram.com/the_diamond_net/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDiamondNet1Get FREE Audiobooks:https://bootsygreenwood.com/storeJoin our free facebook group here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/760024584443824Get on a Discovery call to #getcoached here: https://calendly.com/bootsygreenwood/discovery-callFind Your Life's Purpose with the Path to Purpose Course: https://bootsy-greenwood.mykajabi.com/your-true-you-1Apparel: https://bootsy-greenshop.creator-spring.com/?Add the Public #getcoached event calendar here:https://bit.ly/3mzq7xBCheck out the Contact at the Cabin event here:https://contactatthecabin.com/magic/Amazing introduction music by my friend Oscar Sanchez - give him a follow: https://www.twitter.com/ourworldchangeCheck out all the contributors to Alt Media United HERE:https://altmediaunited.com/all-podcasts/Get my free ebook to learn about the unseen mechanisms of reality and become your most authentic self:https://bootsygreenwood.comFollow me on the Wisdom App:https://app.wisdom.audio/profiles/ee0fe9c3-bbdf-4c87-ac4a-0a5aef45fa7bClubhouse:https://www.clubhouse.com/@bootsygreenwoodInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/bootsygreenwoodTiktok:https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdGMbgmJ/Find me on all the platforms thanks to my partners at https://contentsafe.coLBRYhttps://lbry.tv/@bootsygreenwood:bGab:https://tv.gab.com/channel/bootsygreenwoodBitchute:https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ncbw05e5xA5b/Flote:https://flote.app/bootsygreenwoodRumble:https://rumble.com/c/c-398895Minds:https://www.minds.com/bootsygreenwood/Odysseehttps://odysee.com/@bootsygreenwood:bMeWe:https://mewe.com/i/bootsygreenwoodYouTube:Https://www.youtube.com/c/bootsygreenwoodWant to learn to make your own path in life?  Get access to Autonomy:https://www.universityofreason.com/a/29578/Sj8gMdYHSupport me on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/bootsygreenwoodGumroad:https://www.gumroad.com/bootsygreenwoodSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/bootsygreewood)

Tori and Aneesa are joined by 6-time Challenge competitor, Devin Walker (also known as Max, also known as Dave). The Challenge vets discuss one cell's failed attempt to sabotage another during this week's mission, Amanda's plot to get Tori out of the Emerald cell, and Tori and Devin's explosive argument. He also somehow finds a way to sneak in a Sir Isaac Newton quote. Join Tori and Aneesa every Thursday as they go behind the scenes of The Challenge: Spies Lies and Allies, and Fridays, as they pull back the curtain on The Challenge: All Stars 2, on MTV's Official Challenge Podcast. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

What IS the Mummer's Fair, and why are Melya's friends so reluctant to go there?

No matter how many extraordinary ADHD women I meet, I'm still constantly blown away by the incredible things they're capable of, especially once they start to understand their own brains. I first met my guest this episode, therapist Emerald May Rubio, when she took my program Your ADHD Brain is A-OK; within only a few days of classes Emerald had determined that she was interested in activism and started taking steps toward making it happen. Embracing her ADHD unlocked a new level of understanding in herself and ignited a passion for working with those in the BIPOC community with complex trauma and ADHD.    Emerald has a deeply personal connection to her work and uses her experiences to help others heal from their trauma and re-write their own stories. She brings so much creativity, light, and awareness into her practice and hearing Emerald speak gives me hope that therapy is shifting to encompass a wider range of needs and communities.  Resources: Instagram: @healwithemerald Email: erubio@trihealing.com Website: Emerald May Rubio (trihealing.com)

Katie and Jim continue their month of gratitude by sharing some their favorite guest moments so far! From spinning with animal fur, to crafting with bones, we covered a lot in the past year and our guests have shared brilliant insight for both the magical and making worlds. Joins us as we revisit moments with Amanda Mannas of Mandobug Crafts, Emerald and Rebecca from Stardust Fiber Studio, Marie Greene from Olive Knits, Ana Campos from Circle of Stitches and Auntie Sindy Todo from todomojo! We'd love to hear your reflections on your favorite guest moments! Email them to us at knitaspellpodcast@gmail.comSHOW NOTES• Mandobug Crafts Websitehttps://mandobugcrafts.com/ • Stardust Fiber Studio Website & Blocking Brew Bagshttps://stardustfiberstudio.com https://stardustfiberstudio.com/collections/notions/products/blocking-brew-bags • Olive Knits Websitehttps://www.oliveknits.com/ • Circle Of Stitches Websitehttps://www.circleofstitches.com/ • todomojo Websitehttps://todomojo.com/ -----ABOUT KNIT A SPELLMagical Maker Katie Rempe (@lightfromlantern) & Maker of Magic James Divine (@divinehandjim) team up to bring you Knit A Spell - a weekly podcast for magical makers, makers of magic, and curious minds! -----PREFER VIDEO PODCASTS? Find & follow Knit A Spell on the Light From Lantern YouTube Channel.-----New episodes will be uploaded every Wednesday. Subscribe and never miss an episode update! Follow Along on Instagram• Knit A Spell @KnitASpell• Follow Katie @LightFromLantern• Follow Jim @DivineHandJim    About Katie Rempe / Light From Lantern• Website: Light From LanternAbout James Divine / Divine Hand Palmistry• Website: The Divine HandKnit A Spell is produced by Light From Lantern LLCSupport the show (https://lightfromlantern.com/support-knit-a-spell)

Welp That sure sucked, didn't it? Social Media: See everything TroytlePower related by visiting this page! Follow the show on Twitter at @TPPTPPTPwTP or follow Troytle directly at @TroytlePower! Support the show, hear episodes early, get bonus content, and even request specific episodes by checking out the Patreon Page! Check out The Power Play-Throughs Podcast on Youtube for video versions of some episodes! We Can Make This Work Probably Network: Follow the We Can Make This Work Probably Network to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts! The place for those with questionable taste! Join the Probably Work Discord! ProbablyWork.com Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @ProbablyWork Email: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com Geek to Geek Media Follow Geek to Geek Media to join our community in geeking out about the things we love. Join our Slack or Discord! GeekToGeekMedia.com Twitter, Instagram: @GeekToGeekMedia Patreon Digital Magazine

Such Tension This is just a little bit of grinding, along with some Blue's Clues recapping. Social Media: See everything TroytlePower related by visiting this page! Follow the show on Twitter at @TPPTPPTPwTP or follow Troytle directly at @TroytlePower! Support the show, hear episodes early, get bonus content, and even request specific episodes by checking out the Patreon Page! Check out The Power Play-Throughs Podcast on Youtube for video versions of some episodes! We Can Make This Work Probably Network: Follow the We Can Make This Work Probably Network to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts! The place for those with questionable taste! Join the Probably Work Discord! ProbablyWork.com Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @ProbablyWork Email: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com Geek to Geek Media Follow Geek to Geek Media to join our community in geeking out about the things we love. Join our Slack or Discord! GeekToGeekMedia.com Twitter, Instagram: @GeekToGeekMedia Patreon Digital Magazine

So, about this Nuzlocke... I screwed up, okay? I lost my save, but now I'm right back where I was before! Except for that everything is different. Social Media: See everything TroytlePower related by visiting this page! Follow the show on Twitter at @TPPTPPTPwTP or follow Troytle directly at @TroytlePower! Support the show, hear episodes early, get bonus content, and even request specific episodes by checking out the Patreon Page! Check out The Power Play-Throughs Podcast on Youtube for video versions of some episodes! We Can Make This Work Probably Network: Follow the We Can Make This Work Probably Network to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts! The place for those with questionable taste! Join the Probably Work Discord! ProbablyWork.com Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @ProbablyWork Email: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com Geek to Geek Media Follow Geek to Geek Media to join our community in geeking out about the things we love. Join our Slack or Discord! GeekToGeekMedia.com Twitter, Instagram: @GeekToGeekMedia Patreon Digital Magazine

On a special themed episode, Sapphire finally secures a win. The high of winning doesn't last long when Ashley breaks a rule and is sent home. If you were completely lost and shocked as to why Ally has the details at the end of the show. Every week we get more confirmation they are setting us up for season 38 to be a season of Rivals. Amanda continues to have a personal feud with Tori. Josh not only ruins the daily for Emerald but also gets manipulated by Amanda to tear Emerald apart. In a full-on elimination between Amanda and BigT,  where Amanda is victorious. TJ gets soft on us and allows Big T to stay around to see another week.Join us every week to listen to our Welcome to Plathville, and MTV's The Challenge recaps. To hear past episodes of Love After Lockup and 90 Day Fiancé visit us on Patreon.Want to stay up to date on all of the latest reality tv gossips? Head over to  https://tasteofreality.com/spill-it-sister/ and follow us on Instagram @SpillitsisterpodcastSupport for Spill It, Sister!  is brought to you by ​MANSCAPED™, who is the best in below-the-waist grooming and hygiene. Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code SPILLIT at Manscaped.com.  Experience premium grooming with MANSCAPED.Support the show (https://tasteofreality.com/spill-it-sister/)

Hot Topics: Selling Sunset trailer, season 4 11/24. RHOC trailer. Paul Rudd is the sexiest man alive. Lisa Rinna's mom, Lois, had a stroke. Ad - 25% off at www.Freyatreasures.com - Promo code: Escape We Cover: Bachelorette pajama party group date and cocktail party blow up. RHOP Reunion part 1, Darby's Barbie, Candiace and Mis face off. RHOSLC Italian cooking party and law enforcement is looking for Jen Shah. Below Deck whiskey in a travel mug and a drunken dinner. MTV Challenge Spies, Lies, & Allies Ashley broke a rule and the Emerald cell gets infiltrated.

Down goes Emerald! Down goes Emerald! A different team finally is in charge after a weird Top Gun promoted challenge. We break it down, along with some of the worst foreshadowing we've ever seen, the odd disappearance of a champion, and much more! We give our MVP LVPs of the episode, look ahead to All Stars 2, and do some Challenge trivia. Be sure to tune into our LIVE recaps after each episode! Love you guys!

Challengers show who is Top Gun during an underwater elimination. Josh opens his mouth too much and causes issues while another plots how they are going to break up the Emerald team.

On this episode I am joined by author of the fantastic new book Emerald Exiles: How the Irish Made Their Mark on World Football, Barry Landy.  We chat about the inspiration behind the book and how it came to be. We look at how Irish people were a big part in the history of two of the world's biggest clubs, Ajax and Barcelona.  We talk about how Irish people have turned up in some unlikely places like Terry Conroy in Hong Kong and Conor Nestor winning a championship in Cambodia. We also look at the great advantages of playing abroad and also some of the pitfalls.  This is a fantastic book and definitely worth checking out with incredible stories about Jack Kirwan, Anne O'Brien, Patrick O'Connell, Liam Brady, Robbie Keane and others. There's also first hand interviews with players including Stephanie Roche, Cillian Sheridan, Claire O'Riordan, Darren O'Dea and a host more. The book is available on Kindle and most other e-reader platforms. It's also available in all good bookshops in Ireland. You can also check it out here: https://www.newisland.ie/nonfiction/emerald-exiles          

111021 Podcast, Fauci and his Pentagon Bioweapons, Emerald Robinson, RINO institutions, Revoke Woke

From many walks of life, from many beginnings, a band of heroes makes a choice that will lead them on a journey none would believe. 

Howie talks this hour about Obama's speech at the Big Climate Summit in Glasgow where he called it the 'Emerald Isles' and to top it off he got Scotland's bard wrong.

The Emerald cell wins once again but Josh is doin' too much on the latest episode of The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies. John and Sheldon talk about what they would have done instead. Follow us on Twitter: @ShelAlexander @jchidleyhill

Emerald Robinson WH Correspondent of Newsmax has been 'sidelined' by the company. Simultaneously, her Twitter account restricted her ability to Tweet . One could easily surmise one has to do with the other- given the nature of her reporting regarding vaccines and relationships between entities long known for their penchant to use human behavior like lab rats. How bad is it? ( A fav Tweet of hers) well, IMHO, however bad you think it is, it's worse., With Biden overreaching on mandates, many are asking how much longer we will hold. DHS once held the authority to keep unvetted migrants out of America. Their recent narrative campaign wants you to celebrate their new resettlement plan, of largely unvetted Afghans. America has lived in a virtual reality for years. Some of you won't want to wake up, See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Emerald cell wins once again but Josh is doin' too much on the latest episode of The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies. John and Sheldon talk about what they would have done instead. Follow us on Twitter: @ShelAlexander @jchidleyhill

Logan and Ali are back to discuss the latest episode of Spies, Lies, & Allies, we cover the constant misogyny thrown Amanda's way, Josh and Logan bonding and eventually 'betraying' Cory, ANOTHER rigged daily Challenge, the politics of the game remaining the same as long as Emerald keeps winning, and despite a little hint of going after CT, the elimination ends up with Cory vs Logan.Follow us on Twitter: @HedrichFiles + @helloalievansJoin us on Patreon:http://www.Patreon.com/HedrichFilesWe're excited to share that we have a new partner this season! Loud Lemon Spiked Sparkling Lemonade is bringing you the Rotten Banana Podcast. Go to their website, http://www.loudlemon.com, to find a store locator and check out all of the refreshing fruity flavors available. Who's ready to get loud?

HUGE Party!Kay Rocked it!Fedex SucksSeltzerBoys will be boys with their competitions!School is lame AFDr. Seuss first Book DebutPaul & John form the BeetlesFirst Sky Scraper193 Million Year old Dinosaur eggs still in tactLost hiker wouldn't answer his phone from an "unknown" callerElectric Airplane

All these years later, The Challenge has hit the 500 episode mark. We share our favorite moments from the previous seasons before discussing the latest on The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies. The teams have shuffled, but Emerald stays in tact... for now. And will Amanda sabotage Ruby after she was forced there following Emy's decision to infiltrate Sapphire? Just when you think things are going well on Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition, here comes the Jealousy episode. Did the "practice" sessions go too far? What are the worst things you could call a woman? And who do you hate the most on the show... and why is it Mally Mall? Plus, another Real World: Homecoming season has been announced for Paramount Plus. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and feel free to leave us a review! You can also follow us on Twitter @IsleOfReality and "Like" us on Facebook Facebook.com/IslandofReality Theme song: "Tropical Summer" by ArtIss Episode Recorded on Saturday, October 30, 2021

Earthdawn was a fantastic game, and Rob was an awesome GM. It's time to talk about our favorite moments and features of the game. Theme Music: Land of Magic by Rafael Krux. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Art by: ArtsyBee and Susannah Lewis Join us on the CastJunkie Discord Server: https://discord.gg/4ztYRmA. Become a member on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thornvale. Find out how to support us: https://www.thornvalepodcast.com/support-us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thornvale/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thornvale/support

This episode turned into a WHOLE SERMON! Check out Melvin and ShaRon's take on The Wiz's Emerald  City scene and people's need to follow the trend.

Uncle CT continues to rebuild the Sapphire cell in his image and the Emeralds keep dominating on the latest episode of The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies. John and Sheldon also talk about the ups and downs of this season. Follow us on Twitter: @ShelAlexander @jchidleyhill

It's the spookiest possible Sunday! This week, the death of Cokey "Sug Knight" Sugiyama; Alex returns to regular hours; an impromptu trip to a cartoon doctor; vax facts; an Atsugiri update; Ray battles hoarseness and loses Judgment; a livestream to celebrate the emerald anniversary; chair upgrades all around; a substantial brush upgrade; unfocused Asia roundup; Alex scales back the streams; Phone Phun; when to quit recommending, and WOWboy Bebop! This podcast is eligible for free shipping!

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Uncle CT continues to rebuild the Sapphire cell in his image and the Emeralds keep dominating on the latest episode of The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies. John and Sheldon also talk about the ups and downs of this season. Follow us on Twitter: @ShelAlexander @jchidleyhill

Ben Owen played a key role in helping those hit by the storms in the Dandenong Ranges earlier this year. This morning his own home was crushed, and his family were stranded inside. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Logan and Ali are back to chat about the state of the Challenge world and recap the latest episode of Spies, Lies, & Allies! We begin the pod with a discussion celebrating The Challenge for 500 episodes, where that stands in the world of long running tv shows, and the future of the show. We then jump into recapping episode 12 and cover all the latest fairness from Kyle, the problem with team Emerald, Bettina being at the bottom the entire episode, a completely rigged daily challenge, and a potential new powerhouse team!Follow us on Twitter: @HedrichFiles + @helloalievansJoin us on Patreon:http://www.Patreon.com/HedrichFilesWe're excited to share that we have a new partner this season! Loud Lemon Spiked Sparkling Lemonade is bringing you the Rotten Banana Podcast. Go to their website, http://www.loudlemon.com, to find a store locator and check out all of the refreshing fruity flavors available. Who's ready to get loud?

First Draft Episode #329: Garth Nix Garth Nix, New York Times bestselling author of Sabriel, returns to the Old Kingdom series with his latest YA fantasy, Terciel & Elinor. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: The Ragwitch by Garth Nix, his first book Jill Grinberg, President and founder of Jill Grinberg Literary Management, Garth's agent Newt's Emerald, Garth's regency romance with a fantasy twist Shade's Children, Garth's dystopian series The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley The Tombs of Atuan, the second in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, which began with A Wizard of Earthsea

Episode watched: #14 "The Emerald's Secret" In this episode, we get a very Lupin, Fujiko, and Zenigata-heavy heist on a yacht! This week we talk about cookie clicking again, hog hagglin', life partner, ring pop jewel, new pen who this, Lupin's technicolor dreamcake, Raymond gets pegged, Count Nipple, Zeni Dancing, musical cigar, WHAT a guest list, just fucking with them, kinda fucked up tbh, gaslight gatekeep girlboss, cat weirdness.

For the fourth episode of her second season, Carol speaks to jewellery designer Theo Fennell about his career, and the choices that led him to become Britain's leading celebrity jeweller. We also hear from Theo's daughters - fashion designer Coco Fennell and actor/writer/director Emerald Fennell - regarding their opinion of their father's career path, and how he has influenced theirs.For more information, please see: www.carolwoolton.comFollow Carol Woolton: @carolwooltonProduced by Natasha Cowan @tashonfashMusic and editing by Tim Thornton @timwthorntonCreative direction by Scott Bentley @bentleycreativeIllustrations Jordi Labanda @jordilabandaRead Carol Woolton in Vogue magazine – vogue.co.uk/fashion/jewellery See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Disappointment Abounds! After the incredible disappointment of last episode not ending in a Gym Battle, we make our way to a new town. There's two new routes on the way, which means two chances to catch some more 'mons! Social Media: See everything TroytlePower related by visiting this page! Follow the show on Twitter at @TPPTPPTPwTP or follow Troytle directly at @TroytlePower! Support the show, hear episodes early, get bonus content, and even request specific episodes by checking out the Patreon Page! Check out The Power Play-Throughs Podcast on Youtube for video versions of some episodes! We Can Make This Work Probably Network: Follow the We Can Make This Work Probably Network to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts! The place for those with questionable taste! Join the Probably Work Discord! ProbablyWork.com Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @ProbablyWork Email: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com Geek to Geek Media Follow Geek to Geek Media to join our community in geeking out about the things we love. Join our Slack or Discord! GeekToGeekMedia.com Twitter, Instagram: @GeekToGeekMedia Patreon Digital Magazine

There were some questionable decisions on The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and... Mucus Plugs? We try to figure out why Ed felt Kyle was the best option for pole wrestle. But did Kyle miss a golden opportunity by not joining the Emerald team? We break it all down. The four couples of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition get right into some of their major issues on Days 2 and 3 in the boot camp house. Most of them come to light early on, but how will a side homophobic comment by Mally Mall affect the remaining days of camp? Plus, we discuss watching sports with Spanish commentary, the difficulties of being LGBTQ+ in the hip hop community, and a second season of 12 Dates of Christmas may be closer than you think.   Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and feel free to leave us a review! You can also follow us on Twitter @IsleOfReality and "Like" us on Facebook Facebook.com/IslandofReality Theme song: "Tropical Summer" by ArtIss Episode Recorded on Friday, October 22, 2021

What's says Halloween more than one creature busting out from the chest cavity of another? Join us as we watch a terrible video AND discover why LEGO pain is the worst pain. --- Love the show and wanna show some love? Venmo Tip Jar: @WellThatsInteresting Instagram: @wellthatsinterestingpod Twitter: @wti_pod Oh, BTW. You're interesting. Email us YOUR facts, stories, experiences... Nothing is too big or too small. We'll read it on the show: wellthatsinterestingpod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wellthatsinteresting/support

I had the Pleasure of talking with Huck of Emerald Creek Kennels despite me being very sick ( negitive covid test but sure i had it) we had a great time talking about bird hunting in Florida and working dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our friend Emerald Robinson from NewsMax wasn't the only reporter who got the best of a very petulant Jenn Psaki yesterday at the White House.  Hear the audio and Stigall talks with Emerald about the exchange and dynamic in the room and what Emerald asked that made Jenn so mad.  Former Kansas Attorney General and now Amistad Project director Phil Kline joins Stigall for a review of COVID mandates as applied to the Constitution.  Liz Cheney pops off on the Hill yesterday and Stigall responds.  Plus mail bag!

We jump back into a deadly fight as the adventurers fight for their lives against the Horror that has been plaguing them. Theme Music: Land of Magic by Rafael Krux. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Art by: ArtsyBee and Susannah Lewis Join us on the CastJunkie Discord Server: https://discord.gg/4ztYRmA. Become a member on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thornvale. Find out how to support us: https://www.thornvalepodcast.com/support-us. Other sounds and music: Daudir by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7893-daudir Ivory by Luca Fraula Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8312-ivory Night Adventure (trailer music - long version) by Agnese Valmaggia Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6570-night-adventure-trailer-music-long-version- Breaking News by Brian Holtz Music Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7721-breaking-news African Drums by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7698-african-drums World Of Pandora by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6642-world-of-pandora Ignotus by Agnese Valmaggia Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6273-ignotus The Northern Path by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6841-the-northern-path Unsafe Roads by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4923-unsafe-roads The Flying Dutchman by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6715-the-flying-dutchman Fólkvangr by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4762-f-lkvangr Dogfight by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4965-dogfight Some Amount of Evil by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4388-some-amount-of-evil Dark Hollows by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7120-dark-hollows Electric Cellos by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5636-electric-cellos- Silent Glory by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5597-silent-glory- Desert Winds by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5492-desert-winds- Atmospheres #10 - Hotseat by Brian Holtz Music Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7704-atmospheres-10-hotseat Seven Seas by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7540-seven-seas Kings Trailer by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5367-kings-trailer- Ready For Battle by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7627-ready-for-battle The Earth by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7331-the-earth Wide Landscapes Of Middle East by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7467-wide-landscapes-of-middle-east Starship Andromeda by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7621-starship-andromeda Dark Epic Ambient by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8052-dark-epic-ambient Freedom by Frank Schröter Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7969-freedom Tam Lin by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7817-tam-lin Fantasy Ambience by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4953-fantasy-ambience --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thornvale/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thornvale/support

Dar has released 11 albums on labels since 1993 of highly literate, introspective folk-pop songs. We discuss "Berkeley" (and listen to "Today and Everyday") from I'll Meet You Here (2021), "Empty Plane" from Emerald (2015), and " Are You Out There" from End of the Summer (1997). Intro: "As Cool As I Am" from Mortal City (1996). For info see darwilliams.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon. Sponsor: Get 15% off an annual membership at MasterClass.com/examined. 

Dar has released 11 albums on labels since 1993 of highly literate, introspective folk-pop songs. We discuss "Berkeley" (and listen to "Today and Everyday") from I'll Meet You Here (2021), "Empty Plane" from Emerald (2015), and " Are You Out There" from End of the Summer (1997). Intro: "As Cool As I Am" from Mortal City (1996). For info see darwilliams.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon. Sponsor: Get 15% off an annual membership at MasterClass.com/examined. 

Gil and Scott are delighted to welcome Martin Wallace back to the show. Martin was first on the show on Ludology 46 - Getting Down to Brass Tacks back in 2012 with Geoff Engelstein and a very enthusiastic Ryan Sturm. In this episode, we catch up with Martin to see what he's been up to in the last 9 years. Martin is the designer of many well-loved strategy games, like Brass, Age of Steam (and all its related games, like Railways of the World), London, A Study in Emerald, AuZtralia, and A Study in Emerald. Technical note: Martin's recording has some dropouts in it; unfortunately, those seemed to come straight from his microphone, so there wasn't much we could do about them. We hope you enjoy the episode anyway! SHOW NOTES 1m25s: Lords of Creation 4m31s: Gloomhaven, the North Sea Trilogy from Garphill Games, Jamey Stegmaier. 8m06s: The Exit games, and the Unlock! games 11m53s: Games Workshop, Ian Livingstone, the British Steve Jackson, the American Steve Jackson, and the Fighting Fantasy books. 16m18s: Anno 1800 20m08s: Catan, Dune Imperium 23m55s: Age of Industry 25m18s: "Canal holidays" 27m28s: The World Transplant Games 32m46s: A Study in Emerald 34m18s: Gil regrets not pushing back on this point a bit harder; he doesn't think turning indigenous people into monsters is as effective a technique as Martin does. For a good perspective, check out Dan Thurot's post about this on his excellent blog Space-Biff. 35m53s: Terry Pratchett and Discworld 38m41s: Martin is referring to the events of May 68 in France.  43m53s: Imperium Legends, De Vulgari Eloquentia 45m28s: Ankh: Gods of Egypt, Medina, and “zugzwang”  48m40s: Our favorite Star Wars clones: Starcrash, Battle Beyond the Stars, and a special shout-out to Fugitive Alien. 49m10s: Carcassonne 53m03s: Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, Doctor Who: The Card Game 55m13s: Disclaimer: Many of us on Ludology are pretty down on the HP series these days, due to the bigoted views of its author.  56m59s: The video game Stellaris, the fantasy series His Dark Materials, and the fantasy collection The Silmarillion. 1h00m05s: Rocketmen 1h00m57s: The humble pasty 1h03m32s: Hobo code

Logan and Ali are back to recap episode 10 of The Challenge: Spies, Lies, & Allies, including all our thoughts on the handful of big twists TJ dropped on us, Priscilla getting thrown into the elimination and the truth behind why Amanda was never really a target of hers, the confusing and long as hell daily challenge, and we are joined by Bree Alexis from the Off the Hook Podcast during our 'Let's Get Loud' segment brought to us by Loud Lemon to chat about the elimination and her experience at Challenge Mania Live in Tampa Bay last weekend!Follow us on Twitter: @HedrichFiles + @helloalievansJoin us on Patreon:http://www.Patreon.com/HedrichFilesWe're excited to share that we have a new partner this season! Loud Lemon Spiked Sparkling Lemonade is bringing you the Rotten Banana Podcast. Go to their website, http://www.loudlemon.com, to find a store locator and check out all of the refreshing fruity flavors available. Who's ready to get loud?

Matthew Berman is President/ co-founder of Emerald Digital, a full-service data- and creative-driven digital marketing/ public relations agency that specializes in generating quantifiable leads and sales by: Mapping and generating consumer-journey-stage-specific touchpoints across multiple digital channels,  Developing and delivering personalized, consumer-journey-stage-specific content.  Typical clients are B2C premium consumer goods providers, B2B clients, and professional services (legal, healthcare, and some financial companies). Matthew talks about journey stages as being three funnels: awareness, consideration, and purchase. Awareness involves highlighting a consumer's major” pain points, introducing the client, and clearly presenting the client's unique benefits. At the purchase stage, where the user is already familiar with the client and trust and authority have been established, the message can be “a little more aggressive.”  The client, its product, and its target market determine the mix of content, platform, audience, and messaging needed to best address the target audience at each particular stage. Although the agency's focus is digital, Matthew says it will get into whatever space their target market is in. Matthew cites the example of a pet brand client with “two audiences.” When communicating with “the general public (traditional consumer channels), the focus is on digital with some print media, and media buying. For the industry-specific retail buyers (industry trades), the media mix is more traditional.  It has been difficult in the past to track billboard impact (except perhaps by sending viewers through distinct contact options). Today, companies can purchase digital space for times when prospective customers will be passing by that billboard, change up the message more frequently to keep it “fresh” or to meet the client's changing needs and goals (to increase business, build brand, hire new employees), or try to ping passing cell phones to track “views.” Matthew started his career in music production, selling songs through NYC ad agencies to support large brands' digital content. He partnered with a creative director contact to create Chunnel TV, a video curation and production platform. Funding for that evaporated with the Great Recession and Matthew moved to a traditional marketing agency in New Orleans to work on social and ambassador programs.  A few years later, he started Ember Networks, which provided other agencies with white-label social, web, and SEO support, and often consulted and collaborated with a close friend who owned Herald PR in New York City. On a joint project in the Turks and Caicos, they realized their teams were already integrated and that they would be able to tackle larger projects and work smarter if they combined the two companies. Ember Networks and Herald PR became Emerald Digital. When COVID hit, both locations shut down. Growth was exploding – the company probably tripled last year. Finding, hiring, and integrating new employees into the team was a challenge when everyone was remote. Processes needed to be thoroughly documented, mapped, and assessed; SOPs written, organized, posted, and automated; and communications tools updated and unified. In this interview, Matthew explains how a key tool of the agency's operationalization, a program called ClickUp, has allowed them to aggregate all their documents, automate processes, streamline reporting, and handle client communication.  Matthew is excited about how, today, his clients can tell never-ending stories and have ongoing narratives broken into digestible pieces across multiple platforms and multiple touchpoints and, even more so, how technological advances, AR, VR, AI will impact storytelling in the not-so-distant future. He can be reached on his agency's website at: https://emerald.digital Transcript Follows: ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I'm joined today by Matthew Berman, who is President and Partner at Emerald Digital with offices in New York, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana. Welcome to the podcast, Matthew. MATTHEW: Thank you so much for having me, Rob. ROB: Fantastic to have you here. Why don't you start by introducing Emerald Digital and what it is that you all are excellent in doing for your clients? MATTHEW: Absolutely. I am the president and a co-founder of Emerald Digital. We are a full-service digital marketing and public relations agency. Our superpower is we are exceptional at generating quantifiable leads and sales. We do this by mapping out and generating consumer touchpoints across multiple digital channels, and we strive to engineer these consumer touchpoints by the stage which the consumer journey and the user is actually in. If they're at the awareness stage, we have different content pieces generated just for them and personalized just for them. If they're at the consideration stage, we do the same thing. ROB: You've kind of teased it; give us all the stages as you all think about it. MATTHEW: Sure. At a very general level, let's think about awareness, let's think about consideration, and let's think about purchase. We can break them down into those three major funnels. We try to identify, based on the client that we have, what mix of content, what mix of platform, what mix of audience, and what mix of message we need to best speak to our audience at that particular stage. If we're just trying to generate awareness, we want to highlight what their major pain points are. We want to introduce who our client is, and we want to distill our message such that it can focus on the unique benefits that our client offers in an easy-to-understand way for our target market. If it's at the purchase stage, we would generally have communicated with that particular user several times by now, so we've built up trust, we've built up authority. Our messaging is going to be a little more aggressive. ROB: Give us a picture here. Dive down a little bit. Are there typical clients for you? Particular industry, particular size? What's the wheelhouse? MATTHEW: I think in general, we see two different kinds, although it certainly extends beyond that. But the two different kinds that we have are a B2C company, generally consumer goods, with a product or service that might be a little more premium, a little more expensive, whether that be a luxury hotel or a private jet or a luxury villa or a more expensive food item. So we see that. On the other side, we handle a lot of B2B clients and professional services. We deal very frequently in the legal and healthcare and sometimes the financial space. ROB: I can't let it just sit there – I need to know more about expensive food items. MATTHEW: One of the examples is we're working with one of the most premium hotdog manufacturers and sellers in the United States. You would normally think about a hotdog as just a few bucks, and the ingredients that would go into that are maybe not the ingredients you would want to eat. We're working with this great brand where all of their ingredients are ultra-premium. It tastes amazing. It might cost a few dollars more than your typical hotdog, but we have to break down, where would this product be sold? Who would it be sold to? What type of benefits would a prospective buyer be looking for? That might be health, that might be ease of making it, things like that. But they do taste great. [laughs] I always love working with our consumer brands, especially in the food and drink business, because one of the benefits that we get is we get to try the product. I've probably worked with 50 alcohol brands or something by now, and that's always fun because you have to try it out. You have to make recipes, you have to shoot the product. You get to meet fascinating people all over the country. ROB: That might help with recruiting too. MATTHEW: [laughs] It's always a fun gig. ROB: You're like, “Hey, come here. Here's who we work with.” That makes sense, especially on the premium food side. There's a trend here that is fascinating. You're talking about educating people around considered purchases, but it is interesting how it spans across consumer versus the business side. The awareness, the consideration, the purchase, that's all there. You're not very much into the transactional world. You have digital in your name, but I would imagine you also – how do you think about traditional media as part of the media mix when you're talking about these long-term considered purchases? MATTHEW: Oh, without a doubt. Our expertise is certainly in the digital world, and that's where my background comes from. But I think as our business grows and as we take on more mature clients, we very much had to get into the space where it's also billboard, it's also print. It really matters where our target market is. I'm not going to only focus on a digital solution if my client's market isn't active there. We're working with a pet brand now, and we have two audiences that we need to communicate with. We need to communicate with the general public; those would be our more traditional consumer channels, and for us, we definitely highlight on the digital side there. But we can also focus on print media. We can focus on traditional news, media buying, things like that. But then there's this other audience, which is very industry-specific. Those are your retail buyers, your industry trades. Things like that, we might go with a more traditional mix than a more digital mix. But I've been a big proponent of this digital revolution for many years. It's sort of mirroring what my own personal habits were. I'm 34 now, so I've seen – I'm at that age where when I was younger, it was only traditional, and I've seen more and more brands moving to the digital space. If the last few years have taught us anything, we went from where you had to sell clients on the concept of digital 10-15 years ago, but now they all understand that that's where they need to be. They just need to know exactly what they have to do and what exactly they should be doing. ROB: It probably gives you a pretty good advantage. A lot of traditional media is digitizing in the buying, whether you're talking about billboards, out of home, whether you're talking about TV and you have the OTT stuff. That becomes an increasingly digital buy, I think. You might know better. MATTHEW: You're absolutely right. We were hesitant to recommend things like traditional billboards to our clients in the past. We're this interesting marriage of being data-driven but also creative-driven. If we couldn't get the right data for why we were buying something or why a client should be there, it was hard for me to make that recommendation. I might say, let's conduct some hopefully siloed experiment where if we buy this particular billboard without digital capabilities, let's see if we can see any noticeable lift in sales or phone calls. We can have a tracking number. We can send them to a unique URL that's on the billboard. But if it was hard for us to measure, it was hard for us to manage. With billboards now, especially in the digital space, there are Bluetooth – I'm not sure what the phrase is, but there's this Bluetooth tracking on it so it can try to ping all the phones driving by to give us some information on that. We can also purchase particular space if we only want it between 12:00 and 2:00 and 4:00 and 6:00 when people are driving back and forth. It just gives us more options than a general “This billboard is on the corner of X & X.” ROB: I'm just curious, because I've seen things on billboards that I would never have expected would have the correct ROI for the cost. What is the cost and entry point to get into a digital billboard placement? I see restaurants hiring for chefs and I'm like, man, how does that ever ROI? Or maybe they're thinking more about awareness. It seems like it doesn't add up to me, but how does that work? MATTHEW: There is such a variation in what these prices are. It's tough to give you an exact number. I would think there might be a branding component there. We bought a billboard for a client a few weeks back, and we were looking at rural markets versus urban markets, how many people. The urban billboard, I think we were looking at something like $15-$20K a month versus the rural one was maybe $800 or $1,000 or something. ROB: Wow. MATTHEW: So there's a wide variation of what those costs should be. With a message like “We need to hire someone,” that's not the message you would expect. [laughs] I'm not tracking that; I don't know what their ROI is. It's possible they just really needed workers. But it's also possible they're thinking about it from a brand place. ROB: Right, I get that. It's like, “Hey, we're a restaurant, we're here.” Even maybe an opportunity afforded by digital is you get to shift up the creative more often, sometimes saying you're hiring and sometimes talking about your fish and chips. MATTHEW: That's exactly it. ROB: Rotating the message. MATTHEW: Yes. Frequency – we have to heavily consider that, because you don't want to give the same individual the same message 10 times in a row. It will fall flat. It may also be that that particular restaurant purchased a set amount of billboard space, and they were committed to that for X amount of months, and it came to be that they were already busy, or perhaps COVID changed things for them, and they decided, with the digital billboard, “Let's allocate 15% of that space to hiring. We've already accomplished some of the goals we intended to here, and the money has already been spent, so let's use it for something that can affect us right now.” ROB: Matthew, let's rewind the clock here a little bit. Talk us through the origin story of Emerald Digital. Where did this business come from? What led you to start it? What were you leaving behind? All of that. MATTHEW: Let me give you a little run-through here. I got into this marketing world – I've been a musician for over 25 years, and in my late teens I was heavily into music production. I started selling songs to Heineken, Hennessey, and some other large brands for the digital content they were at that time producing. I was able to do this through some ad agency contacts in New York City, which ultimately led me to partnering with one of the creative directors there, and we created a video curation and production platform called Chunnel TV. After the Great Recession hit, we were unable to raise any more money for that, and I moved to a traditional market agency in New Orleans, where I was heavily involved in social and ambassador programs. A few years later, I decided to start my own firm. This is I think where the story of Emerald begins. At that point, I started a firm called Ember Networks. We focused heavily on social, web, and SEO. A lot of the time, there were other agencies that were hiring us. They would say they were able to do XYZ, but they either didn't have the bandwidth or the ability to, so they white-labeled out. More and more over time, I began working with a firm called Herald PR, which is owned by one of my dear friends. He was in New York City. He was my college roommate, so we were always bouncing ideas off of each other. As an agency owner, it's always helpful to have that bouncing-off point. “How are you doing this? How are you doing that?” So we started working together more and more on escalating projects. After a few years, we had a client who was a villa in the Turks and Caicos. Villa Bella Vita. It's absolutely gorgeous. We went down there, we were shooting drones and doing pictures, and we had brought some of our other clients down. We said, “Why are we doing this separately? Our teams are already integrated. They're already working together. We're able to take on larger projects together and work smarter than we are alone, so let's create a joint venture.” So Emerald is a joint venture between Ember and Herald PR. And you get to work with your friends. ROB: And hopefully you get to go back down to that villa every now and again. MATTHEW: Yes, we do, actually. [laughs] ROB: [laughs] That's good, to revisit the origin a little bit in that way, for sure. MATTHEW: Yeah. That's one of the benefits of working a little bit in the luxury space. You get to look at some of these beautiful places. ROB: As we follow the narrative of Emerald Digital, that's a good starting point. What have been some key inflection points, some times in the business where the difficulty level ramped up a little bit? MATTHEW: Well, an obvious one I think would be last year. I think everyone was under similar stress. We had to shut down both of our offices, but at the same time, we were growing at a tremendous pace. We were hiring, hiring, hiring. I think our team tripled or something last year. We were trying to identify people, work with them, merge them into our team, and inculcate them on the business without being in the same physical space. So I would say that was particularly challenging. That very much led us to hyper-focusing on the documentation of our processes and making sure that we had the right communication tools in place to try to break down these physical barriers that we have now, because we have people all over the country now. While our team was mainly focused in New Orleans and New York, during the last year we've had people want to move out of Manhattan; we've had people trying to move a little closer to the middle of the country, whether that's the Midwest, Michigan, and we've had a certain amount of team members moving to Florida. So how do we collaborate? How do we communicate? How are we working efficiently in this environment where we're all separated? That was a pretty major challenge. But it really led us to hyper-focusing on what these processes were and then implementing a toolset that was able to mold our workflow so that we weren't looking at “This thing is on Dropbox and this thing is on Drive and this guy communicates on Zoom and this person communicates on Slack.” It was looking at all of the different things we were doing across two offices, and now we're trying to operationalize this entire business. ROB: That's a really interesting thread to pull on. What are some of those key tools, practices? What makes distributed work for Emerald? MATTHEW: The first thing was we had to write all of these SOPs. First it was, what are the different stages in the work that we have to do, whether it's account service, biz dev, sales, the content creation process – everything from the brainstorm to the client revision to the scheduling to the ad buying? It was mapping out each of these different things we do. I think one of the first things was we wrote this book. I think we had 91 individual SOPs. And it didn't at that point cover everything. So it was like, all right, we have all of these SOPs. No one's going to read 91 separate things, so we need to put them in a single place that everyone can see at all times, and we have to add video. We added GIFs. We unified all of the documents. We had that all in a drive. But then in the last few months, we moved over to a program called ClickUp. It's been fantastic. We're very happy to have moved over because we can aggregate all of our docs. We implemented all of our different processes into the actual software, so we were able to automate a lot of different things. We were able to streamline a lot of our reporting as well and a lot of our client communication. If there was a particular deliverable we had, we were able to have that automatically pull up. So if we have a social client that needs XYZ, when that job is created, it will pull in the SOPs that we have made and automatically pull in some of our primary documentation so that the employee doesn't need to go looking for it or even realize they have to pull that up. It'll just have it right there.  ROB: Sure, and then nobody has to ask where something is, right? They can go look for it, actually, which is helpful. MATTHEW: Yes. Not only be able to look for it, but to remind them that it's there. I think that first month when everyone was working from home, it was, “Where is this thing? Where is that thing? Which folder?” It was a big organizational task. Not only to have it where it's all in a place that the person can find, but it's to create automated reminders and touchpoints on our end so that we don't even have to find it. It's right there. “Hey, by the way, since you're making a social media post, here's a few things that might help you out. Here's previous creative. Here's file assets. Here's a step-by-step on how to do this. Here's a video. And if you need help, here's a simple form that you can fill out right there, and that form will automatically be sent to your superior, our management team, or even our leadership.” ROB: Has it been difficult for everyone to make that transition? It seems like that's a cultural shift, and with that comes the privilege of being able to be distributed, of being able to move to Florida whenever you want. But has that been a tough transition across the team in some cases? MATTHEW: I want to point out that I'm so happy with the way our team has adapted. Everyone has done a tremendous job, to the point where I think in many cases we're more efficient now than we even were before. But I think on a personal level, for many people, with that shift in not going to the office and being in the same house with all of your kids who can't go to school for months at a time, or for even the new hires, there's certainly difficulty there. Or we have employees who have older parents. So there's certainly difficulties. But I think on a professional level, our team has adapted to it tremendously. ROB: That's good news. It's a tricky transition. Now, as you're spread apart, how are you thinking about in person? Is there a cadence of getting together, or is it off the table for now? MATTHEW: That's a great question. With your previous question, you asked what some of the challenges are, and I think one of the biggest ones, especially for me and our creative team, is there are these great ideas that happen off the cuff around the water cooler, and you can sit around a whiteboard in the same physical space and be like, “Wouldn't it be cool if we did XYZ?” There is absolutely something to being in the same physical space. I don't want to discount that. Where I believe we will be moving to as things open up is a more flex time model, where you can come into the office two or three times a week and then you can work from home the rest of the time. If you're not in a location where one of the offices is, then obviously you cannot come in. But wherever possible, I think we're going to identify physical opportunities for everyone to get together, whether that's once a quarter or – we're not sure exactly what that frequency is. But we have several different cadences now for our team to brainstorm, to basically connect. We have an all hands meeting every Monday, every Friday, and then each of our separate teams meets every single morning. “What are we doing today? What are our goals? How did yesterday go?” Those are our primary touchpoints. Most of us are in communication with each other throughout the day anyway, but it's still good to get everyone on those face-to-faces. On a digital face-to-face, I should say. ROB: [laughs] Absolutely. Matthew, as you think back on the journey so far, what are maybe some lessons you have learned that you would tell yourself to do a little bit differently if you were starting from scratch? MATTHEW: I think to document these processes is something I would've done much, much sooner. It would've helped us scale a lot faster, and I think a lot more efficiently. So certainly that. And it would have allowed us to train and hire people in a much easier manner, and I think for us to even identify what some of our own roadblocks were and to have a better understanding of what repeatable processes we have and where we can identify pain points and how we can grow those. And certainly another one for myself – for many years, I wanted to see every creative and had to approve it. It was almost like all roads went through me. That's a tough thing to let go of, but as a business owner, you have to. You have to trust the people that you're hiring to make the decisions that you hired them to do, and only to come to you when they need you, or for you to bring them that strategic vision or directive. But give them enough room to do their job properly. So I would say, “Chill out, Matt. Let go.” [laughs] Bring on the smartest people that you possibly can. That's a really major part. You as the business owner want to be the dumbest person in the entire room. Your job is to hire the smartest people for the best job that you can find, and hire them no matter what it takes so that you can trust them to do what they do well. ROB: How do you time that transition? Because clearly, you start the thing from zero and you're going to be working in the business, necessarily. Very few people – I know one guy that bought five agencies and he just starts being in charge. But for most of us, you're starting with a special talent. You're starting with that skill that you have being the reason that people come to you, and then you start having people fill in some of your weaknesses, and then people who also have your strengths. How do you think about when to start turning the corner on getting yourself out of every piece of creative? How do you time that? MATTHEW: That's a great question. Certainly bringing in smart people and then making sure they know exactly the job they're supposed to do, and then giving them – maybe working with them for the first month or two, where you are a little more hands-on, and just ensure that your processes work. Just oversee. Say, “I built all these processes out. I have trained you. Here's enough room for you to do it yourself.” And you set, “Every Thursday I'm going to dedicate three hours to ensuring that this foundation that we've made is actually working.” You start with different topics. Maybe I'm going to let go of all of the creative when it comes to social posts and video production, but I'm still going to hold on to this web dev side. For now, I want to be able to test everything and I want to be able to overlook the code. I just want to make sure everything's working properly. I think one by one, start making sure that each of those teams has that process down. I would start thinking about what unique assets you have. Are you the best at social? Are you the best web guy? Are you the best for overall strategy? Did you create a web firm because you're a killer coder? Start thinking about the things that you can offload that maybe don't fall into your expertise as much as the others. ROB: That makes perfect sense. As we look at the future of Emerald and of the work that you do for clients, what's coming up? What's the future look like? What's exciting there? What should we be looking out for? MATTHEW: Awesome. If we talk general industry – and I kind of mentioned this before, but it felt like for many years we had to pitch about why you should be in the digital space at all. That conversation, especially in the last two years, has really shifted to “You know that you have to be here. Now we can do some really interesting things.” Our clients are much more on board with this concept of telling a never-ending story, having an ongoing narrative that can be broken up into digestible pieces across multiple platforms, multiple touchpoints. I think that's very exciting as a storyteller. We can create video, we can create audio, we can do all these interesting things. I think that's really fun. That brings us to what's on the horizon. We're not going to be using the same platforms forever, and they change all of the time. More and more, we're seeing movement in the AR, VR, and AI space. I think it's really exciting. There's this fantastic firm up in New York that we are friends with, and some of the stuff they create is this marriage of a digital space with a real-world space. I think as a storyteller, that opens up so many different avenues for us, because now all of your content and all of your communication doesn't have to be flat. It can be 3D. It can be all-encompassing. You can build things that can sit on someone's table and look like they actually exist. So I'm very excited for that AR/VR space, and then on the AI side, it's certainly helping us to more intelligently gather and parse out what our data means, but also to create content faster. ROB: Lots going on there. It would probably be a whole interesting other conversation to get into the level and approach and who's appropriate to get into AR/VR. But I think with the right creative people, a lot is certainly possible. MATTHEW: Yeah. I definitely think we're still a few years out, and it's probably a matter of one of these big tech firms releasing the Apple Glasses or a contact lens. I think the general user hasn't adopted these yet. We're very much still in the first mover advantage. It's not quite there. But part of our role as a business owner here is to set the business up for success 10 years from now. We don't want to be the best Facebook ads guys in 10 years. We want to be the guys that are doing the next thing great as well. ROB: Excellent. Matthew, when people want to track you down, and Emerald Digital, how should they connect with you? MATTHEW: Check us out at https://emerald.digital. ROB: Awesome. We get these hot new domains. I kind of want to get a .digital myself, but maybe just to track my billboard ads. I don't know. We'll get there. [laughs] MATTHEW: Yes, done. [laughs] ROB: Thank you so much, Matthew. Thank you for coming on, for sharing. Best wishes to you and the whole Emerald team. MATTHEW: Thank you so much. ROB: And all the good stuff going on in New York and New Orleans and beyond, right? MATTHEW: And beyond. ROB: Excellent. Have a wonderful day, a wonderful week, and thank you so much, Matthew. MATTHEW: Thank you, Rob, for absolutely everything. Cheers. ROB: Cheers. Bye. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. 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