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In a recent video interview, Brian Yavorsky, CTO at Imagenet, discusses how the company helps payers use AI and other data technologies to achieve efficiencies. Emphasizing the difficulties in getting skilled staff, Yavorsky says that automation can reduce labor not by removing people, but by automating areas that are difficult to staff.  Plus, by automating the mundane tasks you allow staff to work on higher value tasks that they enjoy more.Many payers are burdened with legacy systems and workflows, especially after acquiring other companies. Although the systems work individually, the fragmentation in systems and data introduces inefficiencies and requires more manual work, which adds to costs and slows payer responses. Organizations that don't address this fragmentation suffer from inefficient processes and often can't benefit from new AI technologies.Learn more about Imagenet: https://www.imagenetglobal.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

In this episode, the conversation focused on the transformative power of guarding your heart and aligning every area of life—especially business—with God's truth. Drawing from Proverbs 4:23, the discussion explored how unprocessed emotions like offense, bitterness, and shame can cloud vision and hinder growth. Listeners are encouraged to recognize and release these barriers, allowing God to continually renew and fill their hearts. Emphasizing the importance of faith, prayer, self-examination, and heart-to-heart connection, this episode offers encouragement and practical wisdom for women seeking to run their race with endurance, integrity, and impact. Key Moments & Timestamps 00:13 – Guiding Scripture: How God provides a theme and scripture for every event. 01:10 – The Meaning of Guarding Your Heart: Exploring Proverbs 4:23 and why everything flows from the heart. 02:44 – Releasing What Hinders: Letting go of offense, bitterness, and other burdens that cloud vision. 04:43 – True Endurance: Focusing on faith and God's strategy over the world's hustle mentality. 08:17 – Power of Words: Recognizing that words flow from the heart and create real impact. 13:09 – Heart-Driven Transformation: How character, integrity, and habits, rooted in the heart, lead to breakthrough.     Resources: Building at a high level but craving deeper alignment? The Elite Mastermind is a 12-month, faith-fueled business mastermind for high-achieving women who refuse to choose between business excellence and their faith. Join Kingdom-minded leaders for luxury in-person retreats, monthly coaching with Brooke Thomas, and a powerful network that will expand your vision, revenue, and impact. When you lead with God as your CEO, anything is possible.  Apply at https://brookethomas.com/mastermind/    Feel Like Yourself Again, From The Inside Out If you've been navigating low energy, hormone shifts, or feeling off in your body, this is the wellness stack Brooke personally uses and recommends. Designed to support inflammation, hormones, energy, and overall vitality, this is what helped her feel strong, clear, and aligned again. Explore the stack at https://brookethomas.com/stack    Find Your People. Build With Purpose.  Activate Your Impact is where faith-driven women stop building alone and start building together. Access monthly teaching, live coaching, and a network of women who are moving in the same direction you are. This is what keeps you plugged in, growing, and activated between the big moments. Join today at https://brookethomas.com/activate    Activate Your Impact! There's a version of you God is waiting to activate. This book will show you how to step boldly into your calling with unshakable faith and build a life and business that honors Him.  Get your copy and special bonuses at https://brookethomas.com/book 

The Erics sit down with bone health expert Dr. Lora Giangregorio, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo, to unpack what's actually known about how bone adapts to resistance training. The conversation covers why bone changes so slowly, the many sources of measurement error in DEXA scans, and why so much of the exercise-and-bone literature is underpowered and hard to interpret. Dr. G makes a central practical case: for building bone, the message shouldn't be "lift heavy" but rather "work hard." Emphasizing high effort over intimidating absolute loads lowers the barrier to entry, especially for older and osteoporotic populations, while still driving progressive overload. She argues the best current bet is combining moderate-to-high-intensity resistance training with impact work, introduced gradually on a foundation of strength. Along the way she debunks popular but weakly supported interventions, including weighted vests and whole-body vibration platforms, and discusses the difference between biological aging and simple chronic inactivity in bone loss. Iron Culture is proudly presented by the MASS Research Review. Mostly because Helms and Trex are co-owners. massresearchreview.com If you're in the market for some new (ultra-high-quality) gym gear or apparel, be sure to use code "MRR10" for a 10% discount over at elitefts.com If you'd like to submit a question for a future episode, head over to: massresearchreview.com/ironculture Chapters 0:00 Intro 4:13 Meet Dr. Lora Giangregorio 7:44 Why bone adapts so slowly 11:42 DEXA error & why to be skeptical 23:07 Does load matter? 33:58 "Heavy" vs "hard" & barrier to entry 42:42 What is impact training? 47:31 The science communication problem 52:55 The weighted vest myth 58:13 Muscle pull, compression & light loads 1:06:48 Do vibration platforms work? 1:09:54 Aging vs. inactivity 1:15:46 Drugs & HRT for bone 1:20:24 How the medications work 1:24:27 Wrap-up & where to find Dr. G

Join Brian Doyle on this engaging episode of MSP Business School as he delves into the dynamic world of MSPs and the crucial role of technology business reviews. With his vast experience in the industry, Brian emphasizes the need for continuous client engagement beyond traditional QBRs. In a rapidly evolving landscape dominated by AI and technological innovation, Brian advocates for a more holistic approach to client relationships. His strategic insights explore how MSPs can build quarterly momentum by implementing continuous touchpoints, utilizing customer portals, and significantly enhancing client communication. In this episode, Brian Doyle dissects the essential strategies for MSPs to foster lasting client relationships. Emphasizing strategic communication, he guides listeners on transforming quarterly business reviews into constant checkpoints, ensuring the stability and improvement of client relationships. Keywords such as "technology business review," "strategic communications," and "managed service providers" underscore the importance of evolving client engagement strategies. Brian offers a step-by-step framework, detailing five core methods for maintaining ongoing client momentum, fostering transparency, and leveraging modern technology to drive business growth. Key Takeaways: Revolutionizing QBRs: Transform quarterly business reviews from mere meetings into continuous, strategic checkpoints for better client engagement. Modern Touchpoints: Utilize monthly touchpoints, customer portals, and strategic emails to maintain dynamic client relationships and ensure consistent progress. Risk Management: Integrate risk updates into client communication to transparently address potential threats and their impact on business operations. Strategic Insights: Ensure that every interaction with clients is rooted in their specific business goals, enhancing the perceived value of MSP services. Celebrate Milestones: Highlight and communicate project milestones to engage clients in a meaningful way and enhance business trust. Show Website: https://mspbusinessschool.com/ Host Brian Doyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandoylevciotoolbox/ Sponsor vCIOToolbox: https://vciotoolbox.com

Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart explore overcoming the "distance trap" in setting goals, drawing from insights like the 12-week year. They discuss transforming broad objectives into manageable actions, leveraging pre-commitment devices, and shifting focus from goals to identity. Emphasizing the importance of tracking progress and preparing for obstacles, they delve into the power of visualization and environment in maintaining motivation. Bob's goal of attending the Kentucky Derby becomes a case study, offering listeners practical strategies to stay committed and achieve long-term goals. ---------- Connect with the hosts: •    Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/ •    Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob •    Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/ •    Book one of our co-hosts for your next event: https://WinMakeGive.com/speakers/   More ways to connect: •    Join our Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/winmakegive •     Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://WinMakeGive.com/sign-up •     Explore the Win Make Give Podcast Network: https://WinMakeGive.com/   Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network   Chapters 00:00 Bob's 2027 Kentucky Derby Goal and Tech Talk 05:22 Overcoming The Distance Trap By Segmenting Long-Term Goals 11:47 Achieving Goals Through Micro Steps and Pre Commitment Devices 18:12 Aligning Identity With Goals for Authentic Personal Growth 23:51 Strategies to Stay Motivated When Goals Seem Distant 30:54 Visual Cues and Goal Setting for Achieving Personal Milestones

In this insightful episode, host Mark Hayward engages with Dusty Gulleson, the CEO of Tectonic, to delve into the journey of crafting a successful business rooted in reliability and enduring client relationships. Dusty recounts his upbringing in Indonesia as a "feral kid," exploring how those early experiences shaped his approach to cross-cultural communications and entrepreneurship. This backdrop set the stage for Dusty's challenge to the fast-paced, profit-driven narrative that often rules Silicon Valley, favoring instead a slow and steady growth model. His approach focuses on building trust and crafting solutions that align with the mission-driven goals of his clients.With a central theme on sustainable, service-oriented growth, Dusty shares his insights into the digital transformation field, underscoring the importance of honest communication and deep client understanding. Mark and Dusty explore how AI and technological innovation can enhance business processes while remaining anchored in pragmatic governance and documentation. The conversation reflects on the immense potential of focusing on mission-based work, proving value before scaling, and how this methodology augments Tectonic's service-oriented DNA. Dusty's leadership values, rooted in humility and community engagement, position him uniquely in the tech landscape.Key Takeaways:Trust cannot be expedited; a reliable business requires consistent effort and patience.Emphasizing a service-oriented growth model promotes long-term client relationships and sustainable success.The foundation of successful digital transformation lies in thorough governance and realistic implementation.Mission-driven organizations with clear objectives can benefit immensely from strategic, incremental innovations.Understanding clients' stories and needs is crucial in delivering impactful technology solutions.Resources:Visit Tectonic's Website: TectonicConnect with Dusty Gulleson on LinkedIn: Dusty GullesonRecommended community for digital CEOs: Bureau of DigitalFor more enlightening discussions and in-depth insights from leaders like Dusty Gulleson, make sure to listen to the full episode and keep an eye out for future releases in this podcast series. Support the showIf you want to watch the full video of this episode go to:https://www.youtube.com/@markhayward-BizGrowthTalksDo you want to be a guest on multiple podcasts as a service go to:www.podcastintroduction.comFind more details about the podcast and my coaching business on:www.businessgrowthtalks.comFind me onLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hayw...Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mjh169183YouTube Shorts - https://www.youtube.com/@markhayward-BizGrowthTalks/shorts

Fr. Chris Alar,  reflects on the Parable of the Sower by emphasizing that the focus is not only on the seed, the Word of God; but even more on the condition of the soil, which represents our hearts. Good soil is cultivated not only through reading Scripture and prayer, but also through regular Confession, frequent Holy Communion, acts of charity, and a faithful sacramental life. When our hearts are properly formed, the Word of God produces visible fruits of love, holiness, and transformation.At the same time, Jesus' parable is one of encouragement. We should not become discouraged when we do not immediately see results from sharing the faith. Seeds often remain hidden for a long time before they sprout. Our task is to continue planting the seeds of God's Word with patience, trusting that He will bring about the harvest in His time.  ★ Support this podcast ★

The sermon contrasts two opposing human desires: the will to follow Christ through self-denial and daily surrender, versus the instinct for self-preservation and control. Drawing from Luke 9:23-24, the message argues that true discipleship requires crucifying the flesh and embracing a life of humility rather than seeking comfort or worldly gain. The preacher challenges believers to examine their motivations, warning that those who try to save their lives for themselves ultimately destroy them, while those who lose their lives for Jesus' sake find true salvation. Emphasizing action over mere sentiment, the text calls for a radical commitment to sanctification and obedience in response to God's grace. The central appeal urges the congregation to cultivate a genuine desire to follow Jesus above all else, rejecting apathy and self-centeredness.

Josh Dean summarizes Kelly Johnson's 14 rules, emphasizing simplicity and speed. These principles required small teams and minimal paperwork to innovate effectively. Before passing away in 1990, Johnson witnessed a final emotional flyover of his iconic Blackbird, marking the end of a legendary aviation era. (12)1962

Six Steps to Changing Bad Mindsets and Behaviors • The Todd Coconato Show Website: www.PastorTodd.org To support this show and ministry: www.ToddCoconato.com/give In this episode of The Todd Coconato Show, titled "Six Steps to Changing Bad Mindsets and Behaviors," Pastor Todd explores how believers can achieve lasting transformation by moving beyond surface-level attempts at self-improvement and addressing the root causes of their behavior. Emphasizing that life does not consistently rise above one's thinking, Coconato outlines six biblical principles designed to help listeners renew their minds and walk in freedom: Recognize and admit there is a problem: Transformation begins by looking inward, stopping the habit of blame-shifting, and asking God to reveal areas that need change. Become vulnerable and take ownership: Growth requires honesty; replacing excuses with personal responsibility is essential for maturity and healing. Seek proven facts and solutions: Rather than relying on emotions, believers should build their lives on the truth of Jesus Christ and His Word, utilizing biblical wisdom for specific struggles. Replace old thinking with new thinking: Since behaviors start as thoughts, listeners are encouraged to take every thought captive, rejecting lies and replacing them with God's truth. Practice new behaviors consistently: Lasting change is rarely dramatic; it is achieved through small, consistent decisions and the development of godly habits. Create accountability: Because growth is not meant to happen in isolation, surrounding oneself with mentors and peers who can offer loving correction is vital for ongoing progress. The episode concludes with a reminder that the Christian life is a continuous journey of becoming more like Jesus, with God faithful to complete the good work He has begun in every believer.

In this insightful podcast episode we focus on preparing for an unmedicated birth.Emphasizing on how you can address your fears and the importance of understanding your “WHY” for choosing an unmedicated birth.Join the Calm Mama Membership: labornursemama.com/cmsLeave a review and include your Instagram username for a chance to win our monthly raffle!6 Ways to Prepare for An Unmedicated Birth:Mindset Matters: Addressing your fears and your mindset happens long before the labor room. Replace your fears with TRUTH, and having a clear “WHY” for choosing an unmedicated birth is essential for a positive mindset.Being Educated: Education gives you a sense of calm & peace to make the best decisions for your during your birth. Winging your birth is not an option.Preparing Your Body: Understanding the power of the pelvis and movement during birth is monumental to your birth experience.Creating a Supportive Birth Environment: If you create a birth environment that is supportive, you are going to feel safe while allowing the natural pain killers that we have flowing through our body to flow.Unmedicated Pain Management Tools & Techniques: Understanding the importance of various unmedicated pain management techniques, including breath work, hot/cold therapy, & the comb technique.Understanding Your Interventions & Your Birth Rights: Like I've said before, we don't just refuse willy nilly. You need to know what this intervention is for, why it is used, and when it is appropriate. Should I say yes? Should I say no? You need to know your rights to navigate this.Helpful Timestamps:00:00 Knowing your why 03:00 How fear can physically stall or stop labor progression05:00 Why birth education is non-negotiable08:30 Preparing your body for birth - why the pelvis is your most powerful tool13:30 Creating a supportive birth environment and team19:30 Understanding interventions, the cascade effect, and your rightsJoin The Calm Labor Birth Bundle - everything you need from bump to baby! Use code POD50 for $50 off!Over 15k mamas have used our classes to prepare for a birth that they love

Andrew Giuliani comes on to discuss the monumental impact of the World Cup as it coincides with the 250th anniversary of American independence. Emphasizing how the tournament serves as a form of sports diplomacy, showcasing American exceptionalism and the ideals of freedom to a record-breaking global audience. Giuliani highlights the unprecedented viewership and revenue generated by the event, noting that its scale vastly eclipses even the largest domestic sporting traditions. Finally, the conversation turns toward the local legacy of the games, suggesting that repurposing regional stadiums for soccer will foster long-term community growth and mirror the sport's rapidly increasing popularity across the nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Saranne explores the concept of cancer status and how it affects the way people perceive and discuss different types and stages of cancer. She shares anecdotes from conversations with individuals battling various forms of cancer, highlighting the disparity in societal comfort levels and the unintended hierarchy that can emerge. Emphasizing the importance of honoring each person's unique cancer journey, Saranne encourages you to embrace your own experiences, regardless of the perceived status attached to your diagnosis.2025 People's Choice Podcast Awards Best Health Series FinalistRanked the Top 5 Best Cancer Podcasts by CancerCare News in 2024 & 2025,and #1 Rated Cancer Survivor Podcast by FeedSpot in 2024 to 2025. Beating Cancer Daily is listened to in 148 countries across 7 continents and features over 420+ original daily episodes hosted by Stage IV survivor Saranne Rothberg. To learn more about Host Saranne Rothberg and The ComedyCures Foundation:https://www.comedycures.org/ To write to Saranne or a guest:https://www.comedycures.org/contact-8 To record a message to Saranne or a guest:https://www.speakpipe.com/BCD_Comments_Suggestions To sign up for the free Health Builder Series live on Zoom with Saranne and Jacqui, go to The ComedyCures Foundation's homepage:https://www.comedycures.org/ Please support the creation of more original episodes of Beating Cancer Daily and other free ComedyCures Foundation programs with a tax-deductible contribution:http://bit.ly/ComedyCuresDonate THANK YOU! Please tell a friend whom we may help, and please support us with a beautiful review. Have a blessed day! Saranne  

The Rebbe advises against engaging in palmistry and charms, emphasizing that Torah and G-dly wisdom are proven sources of blessing. He encourages involvement in outreach through Tzeirei Agudas Chabad, explaining that everyone is capable of contributing to spreading Judaism. https://www.torahrecordings.com/rebbe/igroskodesh/012/004/3995

Here’s a clear, structured summary of the interview with Dr. Margena Christian on Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushion McDonald, including its purpose, key takeaways, and notable quotes.

Here’s a clear, structured summary of the interview with Dr. Margena Christian on Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushion McDonald, including its purpose, key takeaways, and notable quotes.

Emphasizing the unity found in Heaven through the victory found in Jesus.If you are in need of prayer, let our Prayer Team know by contacting prayer@forestlakechurch.orgSermon video is available on YouTube and full service archives are available on Vimeo.Live services weekly from the sanctuary at 8:45 or 11:30 AM and 11:30 AM (Warehouse Community Contemporary Service) EST at www.ForestLake.Church

Send us Fan MailWriting a book isn't a linear journey. It's filled with ups and downs, moments of clarity, creative blocks, and the ever-present question: Am I hitting the mark? If you're feeling overwhelmed or stuck, you're not alone. What transforms a collection of words into a compelling book isn't the complexity of your knowledge or eloquence—it's your ability to distill your message, deliver a clear promise, and deeply understand whom you're writing for. In this post, inspired by the Authors Who Lead podcast, I'll unpack these pillars to help you craft a book that truly connects with readers.Timestamp:00:00 Emphasizing the book's core message03:39 Simplifying the core message06:48 Identifying your ideal reader12:02 Editing for Audience Engagement15:15 Finding Your Book's Core MessageFull show notesCOMMUNITY PROGRAMS

In this episode, I have an honest reflection on summer, confidence, and the pressure to "glow up" for the season.    Fresh off a two-week holiday and a very real podcast-recording scramble, I talk about feeling the pull of appearance-focused messaging, the way social media shapes self-perception, and why true confidence goes far beyond how we look.   I explore what I think it really means to feel good in your body, from setting realistic body goals to eating in a way that supports both health and freedom. I also share the internal practices that have helped me build lasting confidence.   If you've ever felt the pressure to transform for summer, or found yourself comparing your body or lifestyle to what you see online, this conversation is a thoughtful reminder that the most magnetic kind of glow-up starts on the inside.   Topics covered: The energizing vibe of summer and the importance of enjoying the season authentically Personal updates: vacation, kitchen renovation frustrations, and adapting to life's unpredictability The societal obsession with summer "glow ups" and body transformations Redefining confidence from the inside out and setting realistic body goals Practical tips for internal confidence: keeping promises, self-reflection, knowing yourself, and building resilience The impact of social media and unrealistic beauty standards on self-image Empowering women to focus on depth, energy, and authenticity over superficial changes Emphasizing health, self-care, and genuine self-love as key elements of summer confidence   Timestamps: (00:00) - Introduction: Embracing the start of summer and the season's vibe (02:22) - Personal struggles: recording a podcast during renovation chaos (07:52) - Reflecting on travel and the value of decompressing (10:16) - The beauty of Portugal and Spain: spontaneous travel details (15:31) - Experiencing Marbella: old town, local vibe, and staying in the old town (17:25) - The importance of summer being a time to relax and shed rigidity (20:44) - Societal messages about summer glow ups and body image (24:02) - Embracing internal confidence and rejecting societal pressures (30:48) - Practical steps to foster genuine confidence and body goals (37:04) - The ongoing journey of self-love, resilience, and seasonal changes (45:02) - Building internal confidence: promises, reflection, and self-awareness (51:14) - Style, clothes, and wardrobe confidence tips (54:02) - The role of community, relationships, and genuine connection (55:28) - Closing thoughts: focusing on depth and authenticity for a true summer glow-up   Resources & Links:   Madeline Moves Ben Bruno Forma Pilates Depop Poshmark Housing Works Institute for Integrative Nutrition   Connect with me:  Connect with me on Instagram  ShopMy - What I'm Loving Lately   Email: Hailey@hailey-miller.com

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Margena Christian.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Margena Christian.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Margena Christian.

In this episode, Josh interviews George Meressa, founder of Clear Ads, about effective Amazon DSP advertising strategies. George explains how to vet DSP agencies, select high-performing products for campaigns, and leverage remarketing, cross-selling, and competitor targeting using Amazon's data analytics. He emphasizes the importance of choosing certified partners, analyzing product conversion rates, and methodically building campaigns. The discussion includes actionable tips for maximizing ROAS and practical advice for supplement brands and other sellers aiming to scale with DSP. The episode concludes with key takeaways for listeners interested in leveraging Amazon DSP for business growth.Chapters:Introduction & Guest Background (00:00:00)George Meressa's experience in digital advertising and focus on Amazon PPC and DSP.Vetting a DSP Agency (00:00:40)Checklist for choosing a DSP agency, importance of official partners, and due diligence questions.Transition to DSP Strategies (00:03:16)Emphasizing the importance of agency selection before starting DSP strategies.Selecting Products for DSP (00:03:41)Criteria for choosing products: retail readiness, sales volume, impressions, and conversion rates.Remarketing as First Strategy (00:03:45)Remarketing setup: targeting product viewers who haven't purchased, and audience segmentation.Product Data & Conversion Rate Analysis (00:04:59)Importance of product data, minimum impressions, and conversion rate benchmarks for DSP success.Audience Segmentation for Retargeting (00:06:27)Creating and excluding specific audiences for more effective retargeting campaigns.Cross-Selling & Market Basket Analysis (00:07:14)Using brand analytics and market basket analysis to build cross-sell campaigns.Advanced Audience Targeting & Overlap Reports (00:08:18)Utilizing overlap reports, refining audience targeting, and future of display ads.Bespoke ASIN Targeting & Subscribe & Save Strategies (00:09:13)Custom ASIN targeting, strategies for subscribe & save products, and using purchase window data.Competitor Targeting for Supplements (00:11:17)Targeting competitor's customers for supplements and the strong DSP fit for supplement brands.Episode Wrap-Up & Actionable Takeaways (00:11:41)Summary of key strategies, actionable steps, and importance of methodical DSP campaign building.DSP Product Fit & Data-Driven Decisions (00:13:37)Discussion on product suitability for DSP, importance of impressions and conversion rates.Layering DSP Strategies Up the Funnel (00:14:37)Methodical approach: start with retargeting, analyze results, and progressively add advanced strategies.Closing & Contact Information (00:15:27)How to contact George Meressa and Clear Ads for DSP services and further advice.Links and Mentions:Amazon Accredited Partners Page: "00:01:48"  Brand Metrics: "00:05:47"  Overlap Reports: "00:08:18"  Prosper Show: "00:08:18"  Nozzle: "00:10:12"  ClearAds: "00:15:53"Transcript:Josh 00:00:00  I am super excited to introduce you all to George Meressa. George has been in digital advertising since 2009, working on a wide range of platforms including Amazon, Google, Bing, LinkedIn and Facebook. Paid advertising. Using these platforms, he has worked with hundreds of advertisers across the world in numerous industries and sectors to maximize their ROAS. His agency, Clear Ads, now focuses purely on Amazon PPC and DSP advertising, helping deliver the best results for his clients. So with that introduction, welcome to the show, George.George 00:00:38  Thank you so much for having me, Josh. It's a pleasure.Josh 00:00:40  What are some of the what's a checklist that you should kind of go through and walk through to vet an agency that you're looking to have, do DSP for you?George 00:00:48  The first thing is don't go with Amazon. Right. But I'm sure they won't mind me saying this. Right. But actually they will. But I'm going to say anyway, Amazon's core strategy is to get you to spend as much money as possible. That's their KPI because that's how they get promoted.George 00:01:02  Right. So the way they treat your account is they go, hey, look at all these amazing impressions that you've got. Isn't that great? And as I said, you're like, hold on one step. Precious isn't really the key thing for us. Like we're trying to get. We're trying to we're trying to grow our business. Not not just increase our reach. So that's the big thing that they go with, especially with the slight uncertainty with attribution at the moment. It could look to to their favor. Right. That's the first thing. Now second, when you do go to an agency, the first step you should take is go onto Amazon's accredited partners page. Right. And check out DSP providers. So Amazon DSP providers just put stuff on Google. Go onto Amazon's page and there's a list of DSP providers. Right. So what you tend to find if you find any company. Right. If they're if they're if they are an official partner with Amazon, they will tend to have a partner badge somewhere which links straight to that page which shows you, hey, their official partner.George 00:01:58  Now, if they're not an official partner, they might be piggybacking off someone else's suit. Right. You don't want to get into that. Because if they're piggybacking off someone else's seat. Right. Let's just say there's some internal issues and they get kicked out of that seat. They no longer have access to your account. Who do you contact? Yeah. Who do? Who do you reach? You don't know. Right. So you want to make sure you've got someone who's got their own first thing. The second thing is, I'm sure every seller that's listening to this, they're savvy. They have a pool. An audience of other savvy sellers. Speak to them, find out who are they using that's doing DSP. That's working really well. Right. Get their first, first, first glance and say, okay, what's your experience been like? and ensure that they're happy with whoever it is. So they're the steps that I would recommend taking when trying to find a DSP agent. I would even go as far as ask them questions about the business.George 00:02:49  What's the purpose of the business? What are you looking to do? How big is it? How long has it been going? Is it? Is it a brand new business that's business. Me starting up for a bit and might not be there tomorrow. Yeah. Is it one that's been there for a while? Is it, you know, you want to you just want to really find out how many DSP, agents you have. How many of them are certified? how many have taken the exams? I would just do your due diligence. Ask those questions before it's too late, and then before you're stuck with someone.Josh 00:03:16  Yeah, I think that is foundation number one for sure. So I hope our listeners follow those best practices because it's true. You make this decision, and it's not like you could just change course after six months or a year. otherwise you're just starting from ground zero all over again. All right. Now let's jump into these strategies. Let's say you have found the right agency to work with.Josh 00:03:41  What's the first strategy you should be implementing with DSP?George 00:03:45  Yeah. So the first strategy is 100% remarketing. You want to you want it. You want to okay. No, n...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Julia Minson has spent 25 years studying disagreement—not how to win arguments, but how people actually engage with views that conflict with their own. She's a Harvard professor, a behavioral scientist, and the author of How to Disagree Better. This conversation gets into the heart of her research.One of the most useful ideas in the episode: being receptive in your own head doesn't count. Your counterpart can't read your mind. If you want them to feel heard, you have to signal it out loud—with specific language, in real time. Julia's HEAR framework (Hedging, Emphasizing agreement, Acknowledging, Reframing) gives you an actual tool to do that.We also get into why asking “why do you believe that” changes a conversation more than almost anything else—and why so much of the enmity in our society isn't really about what people believe, but about what we assume their beliefs say about them.If you've ever walked away from a hard conversation feeling like the other person wasn't really listening—or wondering if you were—this episode is worth your time. Julia's book is How to Disagree Better, and you can find her at disagreeingbetter.com.Learn more about and connect with Julia Minson in the full show notes for this episode at www.DeratetheHate.com.  We've forgotten what it feels like to have a real conversation.The week of August 10th, join AllSides for a live conversation about the American Dream — how we're thinking about it and navigating the challenges.Your insights will be anonymized and included in a report to help leaders better understand how people see this issue.Sign up today at allsides.com/derate-hate The world is a better place if we are better people. Be grateful for all you've got. Make every day the day that you want it to be!Please follow the DTH podcast on:Facebook, Instagram, Twitter(X) ,  YouTube,  Substack Subscribe to us wherever you enjoy your audio or from our site. Please leave us a rating and feedback on Apple podcasts or other platforms. You can share your thoughts or request Wilk for a speaking engagement on our contact page: DerateTheHate.com/ContactThe Derate The Hate podcast is proudly produced in collaboration with Braver Angels — America's largest grassroots, cross-partisan organization working toward civic renewal and bridging partisan divides. Learn more: BraverAngels.orgWelcome to the Derate The Hate Podcast!*The views expressed by Wilk, his guest hosts &/or guests on the Derate The Hate podcast are their own and should not be attributed to any organization they may otherwise be affiliated with.

Nick Lloyd. Guest Nick Lloyd discusses his ambition to provide a comprehensive narrative of the Western Front, emphasizing it as a massive coalition war involving multiple empires. He explains his focus on the operational level of senior commanders, aiming to challenge the persistent "lions led by donkeys" myth. By examining the immense pressures and dilemmas faced by leadership, Lloyd hopes to offer a more nuanced and "cooler" perspective on the war's conduct a century later. He reveals that this book is the first in a trilogy, with subsequent volumes planned for the Eastern Frontand the global conflict in the Middle East and Africa. The discussion highlights how events on other fronts, such as Russia or the high seas, constantly influenced decision-making in the decisive Western theater. Ultimately, Lloyd views the Western Front as the place where the war was won or lost by the collision of four great powers: Germany, France, Britain, and America. 11914 CONRAD

“For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.” (1 Thessalonians 2:4 NLT) As believers, we have the sacred trust of the gospel message. Jesus has given us our command: “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:15–16 NLT). That’s another worthwhile cost of following Christ: the responsibility of sharing His Good News with others. Every believer is called to do it. Every Christian is tasked with getting the gospel message out. In his letter to Timothy, the apostle Paul mentions “the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God” (1 Timothy 1:11 NLT). Emphasizing the sacred trust of the gospel again in 1 Thessalonians 2:4, he wrote, “For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts” (NLT). Here’s what that means. As Christians, we all have the same gospel. And we each must ask ourselves the question, “How am I getting the gospel out?” It doesn’t matter how other people are getting the gospel out. That’s their responsibility. What matters is how we’re doing it. That’s our call as followers of Jesus, and it’s one we can’t ignore. Too much depends on our obedience. We need to think about our family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, and others in our sphere of influence and ask, “Am I getting the gospel out to these people in a way that’s clear, concise, and impactful?” Jesus sees exactly how diligent we are in carrying out our sacred responsibility. In the last chapter of the New Testament, He says, “Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds” (Revelation 22:12 NLT). That reward will be directly connected to how faithful we are in this life. Often, we place far too much stock in this life alone. We act as though everything that’s going to happen happens here. Of course, a lot of significant things do happen in this life. The most important decision we will ever make happens in this life: the decision about what we do with Jesus Christ. But we mustn’t let the things in this life distract us from our responsibility regarding the next life. Paul framed the urgency of our mission perfectly when he wrote, “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, ‘How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!’” (Romans 10:14–15 NLT). Our faithfulness here will result in rewards there—in Heaven, and when Heaven comes to earth, when we go home. Reflection question: What does faithfulness to the gospel message look like in your life? Harvest Crusade tickets are fully claimed—but it’s not too late to participate and witness what God does on July 11. Invite your loved ones to watch online with you and make sure you join the waitlist in case more tickets become available. — The audio production of the podcast "Greg Laurie: Daily Devotions" utilizes Generative AI technology. This allows us to deliver consistent, high-quality content while preserving Harvest's mission to "know God and make Him known." All devotional content is written and owned by Pastor Greg Laurie. Listen to the Greg Laurie Podcast Become a Harvest PartnerSupport the show: https://harvest.org/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The conversation with Eun Strawser continues with a practical and biblical exploration of shared leadership. Together, Chris, Tracy, and Eun discuss the dangers of leading alone, the temptation to control, and the misconception that leaders must be experts. Eun challenges listeners to ask whether they are willing to share power and truly lead with people rather than over them. Emphasizing that leadership is meant to be done together—as imitators of Jesus—this episode offers wisdom for pastors, church planters, and teams seeking healthier, more faithful ways to flourish with the people God has already given them.https://www.iwacollaborative.com/ekstrawserhttps://www.iwacollaborative.com/books

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The devotional centers on the powerful promise that when two or three gather in the name of Jesus, He is present among them, and their prayers are heard and answered by God. Emphasizing that divine presence and effectiveness are not dependent on numbers but on unity in Christ's name, the message affirms that prayer aligned with God's will—whether immediate or delayed—will be honored. It highlights the spiritual significance of small, intentional prayer groups, encouraging believers to form or join such gatherings for intercession on behalf of the church, missions, and the world. The tone is both pastoral and urgent, calling the audience to value and prioritize humble, faith-filled prayer meetings as a vital expression of faith. Ultimately, the devotional affirms that God's faithfulness to answer prayer is certain, even when results are not immediately visible.

Watch the show on television by downloading the e360tv channel app to your Roku, LG or AmazonFireTV. You can also see it on YouTube.Devin: What is your superpower?Mohit: Service, grounded in humility, listening, and a commitment to community building.Crowdfunding for startups and investors has often been tangled in legal and logistical complexities. Enter EquiDeFi, a platform designed to simplify regulated investment crowdfunding. In today's episode, Mohit Bhansali, CEO of EquiDeFi, explained how the platform stands apart by offering technology-driven solutions for entrepreneurs seeking to raise millions and investors aiming for easier participation.EquiDeFi empowers entrepreneurs to raise up to $75 million under Regulation A offerings, considerably more than Regulation CF's $5 million cap. “We've raised nearly $200 million for our clients with many offerings still ongoing,” Mohit shared. Emphasizing affordability, he added, “The economics of these platforms need to work.” EquiDeFi's business model eliminates the need for issuers to rely on broker dealers, reducing costs and delivering the tools needed for compliance and investor onboarding.The platform also incorporates cutting-edge features like credit card payments, cryptocurrency options, and investor accreditation workflows. Remarkably, they've helped an 86-year-old investor navigate the process in under ten minutes. By ensuring fast, streamlined participation for investors of all backgrounds, Mohit aims to make equity crowdfunding accessible and convenient.What sets EquiDeFi apart is its modularity. Mohit clarified, “Issuers can decide how they market or whether to engage a broker dealer.” This flexibility allows startups to manage costs while leveraging features like compliance tools and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes.The vision doesn't stop at functionality. EquiDeFi is working on implementing artificial intelligence tools to help entrepreneurs preview and refine their offerings through mock environments. These innovations help issuers experiment with their campaigns before fully launching, offering insights critical to success.This episode highlighted the importance of inclusivity, simplicity, and education in transforming the investment process. Mohit and EquiDeFi are paving the way for entrepreneurs to reach their communities while enabling smoother, frictionless investing opportunities.If your company needs to raise up to $75 million or you're curious about alternative investment opportunities, EquiDeFi's innovative platform is worth exploring.tl;dr:Mohit Bhansali explained how EquiDeFi simplifies Regulation A crowdfunding for businesses raising up to $75 million.EquiDeFi provides modular tools for compliance, marketing flexibility, and integrating cryptocurrency payment options.A human-first, service-oriented approach distinguishes EquiDeFi while leveraging efficient technology like AI workflows.Mohit emphasized lessons from his immigrant upbringing and professional journey that shaped his commitment to service.Entrepreneurs are encouraged to explore inexpensive, flexible tools for raising capital through equity crowdfunding platforms.How to Develop Service As a SuperpowerMohit's superpower is service, grounded in humility, listening, and a commitment to community building. Reflecting on lessons from his father, Mohit shared, “Service is going to be important.” This ethos drives EquiDeFi's customer-first approach, where employees provide direct human support to investors and entrepreneurs alike. “We use AI to assist, but when escalations happen, we put a real voice behind it,” Mohit explained, emphasizing his dedication to both using technology and creating human connections for better engagement.Mohit's focus on service stems from personal experience. Growing up as a young immigrant in Brooklyn, his father—a practicing surgeon at 81—taught him the importance of building trust and community as a foundation for success. At EquiDeFi, Mohit hires former musicians, citing their teamwork and fan engagement skills over traditional finance experience. “They bring a different perspective,” Mohit noted, highlighting his drive to create a culture that prioritizes collaboration.Tips for Developing the Superpower:Practice Humility: Approach every situation willing to learn from others, regardless of your role or credentials.Actively Listen: Take time to deeply understand customers' and colleagues' needs before offering solutions.Build Trust: Prioritize relationships that foster genuine support and service within your community or organization.Be Accessible: Use technology for efficiency but provide human interaction for escalations or personalized support.Value Diversity: Embrace nontraditional perspectives by hiring individuals with unique life experiences.By following Mohit's example and advice, you can make service a skill. With practice and effort, you could make it a superpower that enables you to do more good in the world.Remember, however, that research into success suggests that building on your own superpowers is more important than creating new ones or overcoming weaknesses. You do you!Guest ProfileMohit Bhansali (he/him):CEO, EquiDeFi Ltd.About EquiDeFi Ltd.: EquiDeFi is a cloud-based compliance and capital markets infrastructure platform powering private securities offerings under Regulation D, Reg A+, and Reg S. We unify investor onboarding, KYC/AML, subscription management, escrow, payments, tokenization, and secondary liquidity into one integrated system for issuers, broker-dealers, and placement agents. Importantly, EquiDeFi is not a broker-dealer and takes no sales-based compensation; we're pure infrastructure, aligned with our customers' success rather than competing with them for transaction economics.Website: equidefi.comBiographical Information: Mohit Bhansali is a 30 year veteran of the capital markets. From his early beginnings as an equity trader with Tradescape.com (subsequently acquired by Etrade Securties), to servicing major US law firms as a securities regulation specialist and then launching an SEC-registered transfer agent which was acquired recently this year, Mohit sits in a very unique position to have touched nearly corner of the private and public securities world. 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See how your activity compares to your peers. It's free. Win valuable prizes. Start now!Devin Thorpe will lead SuperCrowdHour on June 17, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern. In this insightful session, “How to Benchmark Your Impact Crowdfunding Portfolio v. the Stock Market,” Devin will explore how impact investors can evaluate the performance of their regulated investment crowdfunding portfolios alongside traditional stock market benchmarks. Drawing on his experience as a former investment banker, impact investor, and crowdfunding advocate, he will break down practical methods for measuring returns, assessing risk, and understanding the broader value created through impact investing. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how private impact investments compare with public market performance, what metrics matter most, and how to build a more informed long-term investment strategy. Whether you're an experienced impact investor or just beginning to build your crowdfunding portfolio, this SuperCrowdHour will provide valuable insights to help you evaluate both financial and social returns with greater confidence and clarity.SuperCrowd Impact Member Networking Session: Impact (and, of course, Max-Impact) Members of the SuperCrowd are invited to a private networking session on July 14th at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT. Mark your calendar. We'll send private emails to Impact Members with registration details. Upgrade to Impact Membership today!SuperCrowd26 featuring PurposeBuilt100™: This August 25–27, founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders will gather for a three-day, broadcast-quality global experience focused on disciplined capital formation, regulated investment crowdfunding, and purpose-driven growth. 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In this episode, Laura Cantor shares key takeaways from her experience at Vendors in Partnership, including emerging trends in retail, the growing importance of meaningful partnerships, and how brands can cut through the noise in a tech-saturated landscape.  She dives into why people—and the partnerships they build—are still the foundation of innovation and growth, even as AI continues to transform the industry.  Laura also highlights tactical approaches that are driving real results today, including insights on high-impact ecommerce solutions like AfterSell, a platform helping brands maximize revenue through post-purchase optimization.  In This Conversation We Discuss: [00:00] Intro [02:38] Learning the value of brand building [06:20] Sponsor: Migrate [08:19] Prioritizing learning over job titles [12:46] Sponsor: Intelligems [14:46] Overcoming organizational status quo [17:08] Streamlining operations for future tech [21:06] Sponsor: Electric eye [22:14] Optimizing brands for agentic AI search [23:43] Monetizing traffic through retail networks [25:34] Callouts [25:44] Leveraging partnerships for mutual wins [28:00] Emphasizing human strategy alongside AI  Resources: Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube Women's apparel specialty retailer nyandcompany.com/ Follow Laura Cantor linkedin.com/in/lauracantor/ Migrate and grow more klaviyo.com/honest Book a demo today at intelligems.io/ Schedule an intro call with one of our experts electriceye.io/connect If you're enjoying the show, we'd love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews!

Michael McFaul discusses the Mar-a-Lago meeting between Trump and Xi, supporting the concept of "peace through strength" but emphasizing that engaging autocrats should not mean abandoning democratic values. He argues that the United States must work harder to keep allies united and should explicitly advocate for human rights during high-level meetings. Raising individual cases of repression, such as that of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong, serves to inspire "small D democrats" living under tyranny. McFaul advocates for a self-help alliance system among democracies to counter cooperation between Russia, China, and Iran. (6)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ https://youtu.be/j0TuosYDQe4?si=7mzUwBe4PrQ-eB2E In this insightful session from the Ultimate Partner Live event in Bellevue, Washington, Vince Menzione sits down with Stephen Boyle, Corporate Vice President for Enterprise Partners at Microsoft, to pull back the curtain on the tectonic shifts redefining the tech ecosystem. Boyle details Microsoft's massive organizational pivot into enterprise and SME/channel divisions , explaining how artificial intelligence acts as the foundational thread unifying systems integrators, software vendors, and digital natives. Moving past market noise surrounding competing foundational models , he highlights Microsoft's strategy to become the ultimate “platform of platforms” by prioritizing user choice, security, and trust. Emphasizing a shift away from infrastructure technicalities and toward practical business outcomes , Boyle delivers an urgent mandate for partners to scale technical talent, eliminate traditional operational silos, and brace for the incoming consumption-driven, agent-based future of enterprise computing. Key Takeaways Microsoft has restructured its global sales divisions into distinct Enterprise and SME/Channel organizations to better target its massive total addressable markets. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering the partner ecosystem by dismantling traditional software and systems integrator silos to build interconnected, multi-party solutions. Rather than forcing alignment to a singular model, Microsoft aims to be the definitive platform of platforms by offering extensive choice across over 1,100 language models. The enterprise landscape is rapidly moving past experimental AI pilot phases and entering production setups completely focused on transforming core business outcomes. Tomorrow's service organizations are aggressively evolving into software-minded operations that deploy repeatable, highly specialized internal autonomous agents. Managing tokens and monitoring usage metrics represents the emerging operational baseline for balancing efficiency against the scaling expenses of large language models. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags AI frontier, platform of platforms, enterprise partners, global systems integrators, digital natives, language models, token consumption, agent sprawl, citizen developers, shadow IT, business outcomes, technical enablement, marketplace growth, hyper-scalers, processing fluency, sovereign AI, industry ecosystems, data governance. Transcript [00:00:00] Stephen Boyle: This is the biggest, most transformative, iterative change in technology we’ve ever seen, where, if you wanna call it a paradigm shift or whatever word comes after paradigm shift. [00:00:12] Vince Menzione: We just came back from Ultimate Partner live in Bellevue, Washington, where we hosted incredible leaders for two amazing days. Come join us for this next session where we explore the tectonic shifts we’ve all been seeing. Uh, I am thrilled to invite our next guest up on stage. I’ve known this gentleman for several years back in my days at Microsoft, and, um, we’ve been friends, actually Microsoft, and then we both went and did different things, came he’s come back to Microsoft in a big way. [00:00:46] Vince Menzione: Uh, Steven Boyle, for those of you don’t know, is recently a named the C. We will talk about it in a second, but I, I need to announce you properly. Is the corporate vice president, which by the way in Microsoft is a big deal for enterprise partners. He and Nicole De and I would say are the two Microsoft leaders in the organization. [00:01:06] Vince Menzione: Nicole is the channel chief. Steven has a, a big remit and we’ll talk about that up on stage. But I’m just so delightful for his support and for making the time in a very busy week at Microsoft ’cause this is CEO summit this week to make some time to come with us and be on stage with me. Please welcome my good friend Steven Boyle. [00:01:29] Vince Menzione: Good to see you, sir. To see. So I’m gonna put you on this side. [00:01:33] Stephen Boyle: Okay. [00:01:35] Vince Menzione: The hot seat. So I’m gonna, I, I didn’t do a justice and I, I wanted you to explain your role. I, I think I know, but I think for the, for the people in the room, uh, talk to us what Enterprise Partners means at Microsoft and what that role remit and remit looks like. [00:01:50] Stephen Boyle: Um, CVPs may or may not be important, but one thing they don’t do is get invites to the CEO summit. So I’m super pleased to be here with you guys. No, no, it’s totally cool. It’s totally cool if that phone rings. No, I’m kidding. Doesn’t. So what does it mean? So I’d like quickly, um. January last year, uh, we split the sales organization into enterprise and small to medium enterprise and channel. [00:02:15] Stephen Boyle: You guys probably familiar with that? Nicole is the, uh, chief partner officer lives in the SMA and C world and drives the channel, um, drives our marketplace business and, and a lot of other things. Um, for that 60 billion, um, you know, total addressable market that we have. Down there in SME and C. Um, at the same time, we established enterprise partner as part of Nick Parker’s overall organization. [00:02:40] Stephen Boyle: Um, but for most of 2025 we ran it as global systems integrators and advisories, ISVs and digital natives. So three separate footprints all focused entirely on, on, on enterprise. Um, in December, January, we talked about establishing an enterprise partner leader that would. You know, aggregate all of this stuff. [00:03:00] Stephen Boyle: Um, I was fortunate to come through, um, some frankly, pretty hairy, uh, experiences, I bet with some of our senior leaders. Um, I, I’ve loved to [00:03:08] Vince Menzione: been in the room for that [00:03:09] Stephen Boyle: questions like, why Steven Boyle and things like that, right? And really have to dig deep to, uh, to justify. Anyway, uh, I’m blessed and honored, uh, to run that entire portfolio of partners, uh, for the entirety of the enterprise partner world, which now from a chief revenue officer perspective, belongs to Deb. [00:03:25] Stephen Boyle: Deb Co. So Deb is the enterprise leader for all of our sales that we do into that space. Awesome. Um, I have three regional leaders, Nina Harding here in the United States, Ehab Ra in in Europe, and Heather Gordon in Asia that mirror and replicate and flow down the things that we decide to do from a strategy perspective for the, uh, for the core. [00:03:45] Vince Menzione: And we love Nina. She’s been, she was at our last event, [00:03:47] Stephen Boyle: super, super lady. And, uh, you know, the US is still 50% of our overall business. [00:03:53] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:03:53] Stephen Boyle: Too big to fabric. Every time I talk to Nina, I’m like, Nina, you’re too big to fail. We can’t cover you anywhere else. So you know, you’ve gotta be successful here in the Americas. [00:04:01] Vince Menzione: So I think just for breaking it up, I, ’cause I do want to like, it’ll lead to the next question, right? So you have the global systems integrators, all these systems integrators. Essentially you have all of the software companies we used to call ISVs, we now call SDCs or software development corporations. [00:04:17] Vince Menzione: And then you also have the AI stack, I’ll call it. Right? So under Jason Grafe. Yeah. Many, many might know. Jason’s been a guest on the podcast and was Satya’s chief of staff at one time, eight years. Eight years. Wow. I didn’t realize there was that many. [00:04:31] Stephen Boyle: Carry carried a lot of bags for Satya over the years. [00:04:34] Vince Menzione: Unbelievable. Well, let’s, I mean, so AI is an important component, right? And you saw Jay’s, Jay talking, just talking about AI and all these things. I would love to start here, right? Because, uh, you’re, you’re, I wanna get your perspective as Microsoft, your perspective as Microsoft on the biggest shifts you’re seeing in defining this we’ll call AI Frontier. [00:04:54] Vince Menzione: We’re seeing right now, how should partners translate that into how they position and go to market externally? How, how do we need to think about this time? [00:05:02] Stephen Boyle: Yeah, that is, uh, that is a huge question and I’m not sure we’ve got enough time to go into the, into all of the detail. Um, so let me sort of up level it a little bit for you. [00:05:10] Stephen Boyle: And I think, look, the move that we meet at made a couple of months ago and pulling together those three aspects. Nicole had already done it in SME and C. Right. One partner organization across the world with a very common set of goals. We were working closely together, Sandy Gupta, on ISV, Jason on ai, and myself on on si. [00:05:29] Stephen Boyle: But we were still working closely together across silos. So the opportunity for me, 60 days into this role is AI just allows you to wire the partner ecosystem together differently. Right? And even if you look at how we’re going to market an AI today, um. You know, with, with, with chat GPT, with Claude, with Anthropic, um, I think there’s something like 1100 different, you know, language models on Microsoft today. [00:05:55] Stephen Boyle: So the way I think about AI is we are absolutely gonna be the ultimate platform of platforms. Yeah, choice is incredibly important. Um. It’s, it’s, you know, turn the clock back 12 months, everybody was chat gpt five point x, you know, and then six months ago it was Gemini and now it seems to be clawed. And honestly I don’t know what it’s gonna be next quarter. [00:06:15] Stephen Boyle: So the only thing I can do is offer you choice. [00:06:18] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:06:18] Stephen Boyle: And from a partner perspective, I think that minimizes or reduces the risk that you have betting on the Microsoft platform because you can go in a multitude of different directions. I know we’re not in Europe, but if you were in Europe and you were worried about G-G-D-P-R and Jay mentioned sovereignty, you’d probably be like lining up really closely to Misra. [00:06:37] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. And a bunch of other Europe, European partners. So wherever you are in the globe, I wanna be that platform choice. Um, and we will lead with our own first party solutions. I hope they’re not coming for me. Um. I parked safely in the hotel. It can’t be me. Um, but you weren’t vibe coding in the room. Um, but you know, wherever you are in the world, in whichever industry you are in, um, it is our intent to, to offer that platform of platforms and to give the broadest set of partners the opportunity to engage with us. [00:07:07] Vince Menzione: I think that’s really important because I, I have found, especially in the last month or two, people are, it’s almost like a knee jerk. Don’t you feel like people don’t know what to do? There’s been so much noise in the press and the media and, and the markets around open AI and anthropic especially. Where do I go? [00:07:26] Vince Menzione: Seems to be like when I, when I sit, I watch everybody in the room here. I think they’re, they’ve all been thinking that as well. So you can, [00:07:31] Stephen Boyle: there’s a, a little bit of a deer in the headlights moment. Yes. And even I like, I get that. Yeah. Um, you know, I saw, uh, Jay slides. Jay, love the presentation. Love the slides, man. [00:07:40] Stephen Boyle: I’m gonna steal several of them. Um, we’ll talk about that later. We, we [00:07:43] Vince Menzione: have the deck, [00:07:45] Stephen Boyle: but, but in all seriousness, you know, this, this is like. It’s a new paradigm. I will date myself a little bit. Some of you might heard me say this. I sold many computers in the 1980s. Mini computers. Some of you in the room are going, what’s a mini computer? [00:07:59] Stephen Boyle: Um, I sold client server for Sun Microsystems in the nineties. I sold an awful lot of Oracle databases in the Auts, I think they’re called, and I’ve done two stints with Microsoft. This is the biggest, most transformative. Iterative change in technology we’ve ever seen. What, if you wanna call it a paradigm shift or whatever word comes after paradigm shift. [00:08:18] Stephen Boyle: Um, and we are building intelligent systems at scale faster than we’ve ever seen. Scalable, mission critical solutions being implemented today inside of Microsoft and with our most important customers. So, and we can’t do it without partners, right? There is absolutely nothing we can do in this industry. I will, I will put the, you know, the elephant in the room out there. [00:08:40] Stephen Boyle: Our ISD organization has between five and 7,000 people. Our forward deployed engineering organization is about a thousand people. [00:08:47] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:08:48] Stephen Boyle: So when you look at the scale of the total addressable market that Jay just talked about. We are gonna service directly like this much [00:08:55] Vince Menzione: used to be 5%. Was it even, is it even that high? [00:08:58] Stephen Boyle: I doubt it’s, I doubt it’s even that. And the billions of dollars that we spend every year helping our customers transform to what we’re now calling frontier firms is gonna be, have to be driven with every single person in this room in some way, shape, or form. Judson is not asking Marla to significantly increase ISD. [00:09:15] Stephen Boyle: Not asking John to significantly increase FDE, although we probably will hire in that area just because of the, the newness and the, you know, bright shiny object that everybody’s like, oh, FDE, I’ve gotta have those. We’ve got a thousand already today that have been around in John’s organization for 10 plus years doing the things that we are doing today. [00:09:32] Stephen Boyle: But we are gonna build out that muscle. But the real way we’re gonna build out that muscle is with all of you in this room. That’s like categorical. That is my like, probably number one goal for the next one to three years is make sure that, that story that Jay just told about Microsoft not being involved in AstraZeneca. [00:09:48] Stephen Boyle: I probably won’t tell Judson that Jay, but I love the story. Um, like if you could all do that for me, like win, um, that is so, you know, from our worldwide learning, through our skilling enablement through our cloud solution architects that I personally own. We are pivoting aggressively towards making sure that the partners understand our platforms better than any other job, number one for me right now, if you don’t understand what I’m selling, like I’m kind of dead in the water obviously. [00:10:15] Stephen Boyle: Well, [00:10:15] Vince Menzione: I was gonna ask you why now? Why Microsoft? Why now? Right? Because there is a lot of noise. You know, Google just announced, you all announced your results on the same day, which was astounding. That was freaky, wasn’t it? It was. It was the first time. And the, the total commitment, customer commitment is over a trillion dollars now, I think 1.2 trillion is what I counted up. [00:10:33] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. [00:10:34] Vince Menzione: But it’s saying a lot about like, what do I do now, like as these partners in the room. Um, how, I think you kind of already, and you’ve talked about this, about differentiating where Microsoft is, I think J Slide does a lot of justice there. It says how, uh, Microsoft Partners came into the room, surrounded the customer. [00:10:52] Vince Menzione: It feels like Microsoft has always leaned in big time on partners. Uh, more so I would say than any other organization out there. What would [00:10:59] Stephen Boyle: you say Joe Roses, my chief of staff, business manager and so many other things was telling me last night that, you know, we used to say 500,000 partners. [00:11:05] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:11:06] Stephen Boyle: it’s a, it’s a significantly higher number than that as well. [00:11:09] Stephen Boyle: So there’s an element of, you know, back to the deer in the headlights, which partners are, are more important. One of my other phrases that I say on a regular basis, the winners and losers are yet to be decided in this next wave. Like, I want all of us to on the right side of that argument. Right? But, but it’s gonna be a challenge and, and companies are going through shifts. [00:11:28] Stephen Boyle: You know, Accenture, maybe, possibly doesn’t need 750,000 employees in the not too distant future. Maybe TCS at 600,000 doesn’t need 600,000 human employees. So we’re going through this dramatic shift of, you know, what’s the right balance going forward. What I would say about Microsoft is notwithstanding the fact that we’ve figured this out for 51 years, which is a little bit mind blowing, um, that you know, all the way back in the seventies we’ve gone through so many iterative changes. [00:11:56] Stephen Boyle: People have questioned just like they’ve questions. A lot of other technology companies, are you gonna be around for the long haul? I think we’ve proven time and time again, and I love Jay’s story. I’ve used that myself about how many companies disappear on a, on a decade to decade, you know, business. 10 years ago I had the opportunity to listen to Craig Clayton Christensen, who’s sadly no longer with us. [00:12:15] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. But you know, the books that he wrote and the story that he told to Microsoft 2014, we were nowhere in cloud. [00:12:21] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:12:22] Stephen Boyle: AWS was so far ahead of us, it was crazy. And he came in and he’s like. You know what? You guys need to be successful. You need to figure out how to cross this chasm again, and we’ve done it time and time again. [00:12:32] Stephen Boyle: You can go back. You know, Microsoft used to be known as a fast follower in ai. I don’t think we’re a fast follower. I think we’re right up there. We’re right at the front, but that race is still being run and the winners are losers are yet to be decided. [00:12:44] Vince Menzione: I was in that room with Clayton Christensen with you, by the way. [00:12:46] Vince Menzione: I remember, I remember that. That was at a Prism conference. [00:12:49] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Yeah. [00:12:50] Vince Menzione: You men, you touched on this with the GSIs a little bit. How do you see the roles evolving? You know, we, we, we bucketed all, we’ve always been. Fantastic about bucketing ISVs or SDCs and sis and digital natives. Yeah. How does it, how does that all come together? [00:13:06] Vince Menzione: Does it come together any differently in this new AI platform era, or is it the same? [00:13:11] Stephen Boyle: I look, I, I’ve said this for a long time, like if you go into AstraZeneca, the six plus, you know, frontline partners, there’s probably a whole board of second, third tier that, that we don’t know about doing, you know, things across the AstraZeneca group. [00:13:25] Stephen Boyle: It takes several villages and sometimes a small town, especially in my world, in the enterprise world, strategic five hundreds. Yeah. Um, you know, we, we ran some reports a few years ago and it is shocking how many global systems integrators have a footprint in Shell or Exxon or, you know, bank of America or whatever else. [00:13:44] Stephen Boyle: So I’ve always believed that partner to partner is critical. Yeah. I think it became even more critical in the, in the AI world, and I’ll take my new friends at Anthropic. So I went to the first Anthropic partner Summit. Some of you might have been down there in, in San Diego, um, just a couple of months ago. [00:13:59] Stephen Boyle: Same partners, same people from the same partners. In the room, you know, talking about what they’re gonna do together with Anthropic. Um, and I’m looking out across this audience going, okay, well I know him and I know her and I know those guys, and like, I need to figure out how I’m gonna weave this together. [00:14:14] Stephen Boyle: So it’s not just an Accenture and Anthropic or an NTT data and anthropic, but it’s an NTT data plus anthropic plus Microsoft. Story going forward. And then who’s best at delivering those services capabilities? So it’s it at every juncture that I see in the, in the partner community, and this is the, the reason why I argued vehemently with Nick, that it has to be one organization I’m gonna create maybe given a little bit away. [00:14:40] Stephen Boyle: So if you’re recording, stop now. Um, I’m gonna create an enablement organization that is partner agnostic. I don’t necessarily care. I do care about the digital natives, but I don’t care about how I train them. Right. What I’m more important of is how do I train the digital natives in what the sis are doing, and how do I train the sis and what the ISVs Plus digital Natives are doing. [00:15:01] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:15:01] Stephen Boyle: That is my, that’s my game plan. If I fail there, then I think we fail to raise the bar and be differentiated in an AI world, and I’m not set up like that today. [00:15:12] Vince Menzione: I wanna, I wanna ask you, uh, uh, because I was looking at Jay’s slide and the, the managed piece is. And we have a lot of managed service providers in this room today. [00:15:20] Vince Menzione: A lot of them, by the way, come from the old school of managed services. The managed piece seems to be like, if I’m doing something today with ai, we’re gonna talk about security next, uh, up on stage here. It seems like there’s a new set of skills or a different approach to the customer, don’t you? Don’t you agree? [00:15:37] Stephen Boyle: I I [00:15:37] Vince Menzione: think you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all [00:15:39] Stephen Boyle: times. I think what it boils down to is you can’t do AI unless you do certain other things. [00:15:44] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:15:44] Stephen Boyle: Right. You could be a modern work specialist and you could make a lot of money being a modern work specialist, or you could be a, a dynamic specialist. [00:15:52] Stephen Boyle: We just held our, uh, inner A in a circle conference last last week, which I was disappointed to miss for the first time in a few years. Those, those days are, are, are fast becoming over. [00:16:03] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:16:04] Stephen Boyle: Um, why? Because everything that I’ve just said is tied together by ai. Yes. And in order to do good ai, you need good data. [00:16:12] Stephen Boyle: And in order to trust everything that you’re getting, as Judson talks about trust and intelligence, you need to wrap that in a really secure [00:16:19] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:16:19] Stephen Boyle: You know, en en environment. Now we will do our best to provide levels of security into how we deliver ai. But that’s not the end of the game, right? You have to take it all, all the way to the edge. [00:16:30] Stephen Boyle: So that’s why a siloed partner or a singular commercial solution area partner in Microsoft’s terms, has got to transform its business. ’cause if you’re gonna do ai, you’ve gotta do those other things as well. [00:16:41] Vince Menzione: Agreed. I must see the model changing, and in fact, I see like bigger organizations becoming managed service providers in many respects. [00:16:48] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, there’s still, there’s still a role for all the old terminology you mentioned is SV to sdc. Yeah. I’m like, I’m been around long enough. Look, it’s ANB still anv, it’s still an isv. Thank you. Independent software vendor. Um, and it’s, you know, where, where AI is allowing software to be, you know, frankly developed in a number of different places. [00:17:07] Stephen Boyle: We are all citizen developers. Um, you know, I was on a call with our internal leadership yesterday, um, and you guys might have heard this story ’cause I think it came out at Ignite. When we turn the agent 365, around and on ourselves. We found 130,000 agents running across Microsoft that had been developed and deployed internally with, I mean, you could call it shadow it. [00:17:28] Stephen Boyle: I guess that would be one phrase that you would use for it, but the reality is if you, if you haven’t got something to do your job today, you have the tools. To build it really, really fast. Um, and that, you know, that’s, that’s a great opportunity for people to be able to do their work, you know, in a better and in a different way. [00:17:45] Stephen Boyle: But it’s also a huge opportunity to make sure that data governance and security and all the other things that we need to deliver are there out of, out of the gate and out of the platform that we deliver. So security’s absolutely critical. Not saying that managed services won’t grow, um, at, at some level as well, but only if they transform into this multifaceted way. [00:18:04] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Thinking [00:18:05] Vince Menzione: about, well, that’s what I was, I was gonna lead to here with innovating. It’s happening across, I mean, we’re talking about chips, we’re talking about foundational models, LLMs, we’re talking about applications, we’re talking about agents. How should we think about where to play and how to differentiate as partners in this room? [00:18:22] Stephen Boyle: I think. [00:18:25] Stephen Boyle: So look, I mean, one, one of the ways that Judson talks about it is I think silicon’s gonna change over time. Yes. NVIDIA’s definitely the 800 pound gorilla, maybe the 8,000 pound gorilla. Yeah. Uh, but you know, if you read the press, there’s, there’s things happening in, in different places as first party silicon, which we clearly are, are developing, um, in a quantum direction for sure. [00:18:45] Stephen Boyle: Um, there’s lots of different language models that haven’t even been launched on, on, on the marketplace yet, so. You know, Judson’s trying to uplevel our conversations. You’ll hear us talking about conversations more and more as we go into FY 27, um, that obviate all of those layers. Just like even when I was selling Sun Microsystems, it was about the business outcome and the business solution that we were solving for not necessarily the fastest piece of hardware or the best client service solution on, on the market. [00:19:17] Stephen Boyle: So I think what’s gonna happen over the next 12 to 24 months is we’ll have so many different models to choose from. We’ll have more silicon to choose from, but those won’t be the real buying decisions. The real buying decisions of what? How am I trying to transform my finance organization, my HR organization, and my supply chain? [00:19:36] Stephen Boyle: Because the underlying technology, Judson says commodity I, I guess I can go with that. It will be commoditized and we’ll really start to focus back on what the important things are. We’re moving a lot from pilot to production. You guys have probably seen that. The numbers that Jay just showed about how many. [00:19:52] Stephen Boyle: Projects are failing, is getting less and less because we’re getting smarter and smarter about what it takes to actually drive the business outcome. And I need all of us to be talking that same language. Yeah. Having conversations with head of HR about how we’re gonna transform human capital management in the, in the age of agents, if you like, like the underlying platform. [00:20:14] Stephen Boyle: It’s not, don’t worry about it. You wanna be on a secure platform. Don’t get me wrong. But at the same time, I don’t think we, we spent too much time worrying about that. [00:20:21] Vince Menzione: Yeah. We’re not, what you’re saying is we’re not spending enough time on outcomes. On the business outcomes. Right. And that’s where we need to focus. [00:20:27] Vince Menzione: We’re, we’re focusing on, I, I feel like we’re, it’s a signal to, to noise ratio that we’re living through right now. There’s too much noise. [00:20:33] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. [00:20:34] Vince Menzione: And we’re not focusing on the signal. I think that’s what you’re saying. [00:20:36] Stephen Boyle: I, it’s got to be, I mean, to be honest with you, it’s always been, you know, even when I sold what I would perceive, you know, sun in the nineties was a rockman ship to the stars and, you know, kind of sad what happened to that company. [00:20:47] Stephen Boyle: Um, but we, we were, we were fixated on, we had the best client server. But, but nobody was buying, you know, a piece of Sun hardware as a room heater, which is all it did, you know, like for the longest. But if you had SAP, if you had Cybase, if you had Bond, remember Bond, I mean all of those applications that drove the business outcomes, we’ve gotta get back to that kind of mentality. [00:21:09] Stephen Boyle: Yes. And worrying a little bit less about the underlying architecture. Yeah. It needs to be, it needs to be part of the conversation. ’cause it needs to deliver trust and security and intelligence and everything else. Then you need to rapidly move to what are you trying to achieve and how can we ensure the, the, the success of, of your business outcome. [00:21:27] Stephen Boyle: And look, I mean, Palantir pri you know, sort of came out and said, well, the way we do that is through forward deployed engineering. Um, and they stole the show. And, and, you know, they’re, they’re doing very well as a result of doing that. Uh, but if you go and talk to, um, Tom Siebel’s organization at C3 ai. [00:21:43] Stephen Boyle: They’ve had FDS for quite a while. You know, I told you about John Chuchu 10 years ago. John Chu, Chuck’s job was to go and get all the applications that we needed on the Microsoft phone. Remember that? [00:21:54] Vince Menzione: Yes. Um, [00:21:55] Stephen Boyle: you know, so we’ve pivoted John o over the years to doing what he’s doing now, which is to go sometimes in partnership with, with partners into the customer and say, what is it you’re trying to achieve? [00:22:05] Stephen Boyle: Let me show you how I can build that for you in three weeks or three months. That might have taken you three years. We literally just did a hackathon with one partner last, last, last week with, uh, with our ISE organization, the, the, the forward deployed, uh, group that John runs. Um, and one of the big customers said, I’ve just done in three days what would’ve taken me three months. [00:22:26] Stephen Boyle: Now he hasn’t productized it and rolled it out and blah, blah, blah. But the reality is that is how fast things are changing. And this was not a small company. This was a very, very large oil company, and they were like blown away by how much we can achieve. We’ve gotta do that at scale. [00:22:41] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:22:42] Stephen Boyle: You know, we, we have a commitment to scale our FDE community through partnerships to touch all of the S 500 in a very personalized way. [00:22:51] Stephen Boyle: And then, you know, at a slightly, you know, lower ratios down through the, through the majors and into, into Nicole’s SME and C world as well. [00:22:59] Vince Menzione: Jay talks about the decade of the ecosystem. He coined that term back, back on a podcast way back in nine, in, uh, in 2020. Microsoft has been at the, for, we used to call partner to partner back, back in the day. [00:23:10] Vince Menzione: Mm-hmm. Do you remember those days? How do you think about this ecosystem evolving and what steps are you taking to help bring these organizations together? Because I, I, again, we look at the seven seats or 6.3 seats at the table. The customer has the power now that they didn’t have before. ’cause they have the commitment with like with Microsoft and they can buy off of the marketplace and pull together multiple organizations to go, go do that. [00:23:34] Vince Menzione: How do you think about helping to orchestrate that as the leader of the enterprise partner business? [00:23:39] Stephen Boyle: So I’ll start with a really big example, and I’ll try and sort of scale it down a little bit. But my friends at Accenture, with the Accenture, Microsoft Business Group, we spend an awful lot of time, you know, in, in each other’s pockets, in each other’s deals. [00:23:51] Stephen Boyle: We know everything that’s going on in the Accenture, Microsoft Business Group. And a couple of weeks, or maybe a month or so ago, I was told that the Microsoft Business Group is now larger than the SAP Business group. It probably flip flops. [00:24:03] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:24:04] Stephen Boyle: it won’t be too long before the Anthropic Business Group is bigger than both of those. [00:24:08] Stephen Boyle: So what I need my Microsoft team to do is to not spend all of their lives in the. A MBG, the Azure, the Accenture, Microsoft Business group, but to go make friends in the Anthropic Accenture Business group and frankly still to make friends in the SAP business group and maybe in the Oracle Business Group and the list goes on. [00:24:27] Stephen Boyle: So at a macro 11, in the very largest accounts where we haven multiple practices, where we haven’t spent time before, I’m gonna. Push my people into uncomfortable zones and I’m gonna push them to go into those other areas and I’m gonna load them up with technical talent and cloud solution architects and ai, you know, forward deployed engineers. [00:24:45] Stephen Boyle: And I’m gonna force different people to talk together that haven’t talked together. So I can do that in TCS. I can do that, Capgemini, I can do that. Um, you know, in Europe with Capgemini and Misra is a classic example. Um, with the, with the Indian sis, Indian based sis, they’re all big enough where I know all the practices exist. [00:25:04] Stephen Boyle: I just need to do a better job of, of talking to them. Now, when you downsize that into, you know, into a, a company that doesn’t have all of that scale, this the same truth still holds. I need to talk to people who aren’t necessarily motivated every single day to do something with Microsoft. I need to talk to people who are motivated to do something with an AI partner or even a traditional SaaS partner. [00:25:27] Stephen Boyle: I noticed yesterday, actually no, this morning I got a notification that we just passed, um, a billion dollars in revenue on the marketplace with ServiceNow. [00:25:35] Vince Menzione: Nice. [00:25:36] Stephen Boyle: Um, and I think AWS announced the same thing, by the way this month as well. Um, so thank you to the ServiceNow people. Yeah. Um, you know, that is that there’s a tremendous demonstration of how far we’ve come in marketplace. [00:25:48] Stephen Boyle: ’cause that’s another one where we trailed AWS quite significantly. But with the right partnerships. And driving the right motions, we can, you know, we can definitely catch up and we will continue to pass, uh, some of, some of the other hyperscalers in, in, in that way. So really the bottom line to your question is partner to partner is still real. [00:26:08] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:26:08] Stephen Boyle: how we do it and what we use to tie things together. And I know that compensation drives behavior and we’re not gonna get into a compensation about like how we get compensated and everything else, but the reality is I’ve gotta break down those barriers and those silos and I’ve gotta deliver real meaningful enablement and practice development so that, so that the people who sit in the Anthropic business group and the people who sit in the Microsoft Business Group are spending as much time together as they are with me. [00:26:34] Stephen Boyle: That makes sense. Simply put, that’s what I, I need to achieve at scale rapidly. [00:26:40] Vince Menzione: So to, we’re getting close to time here, but as you look forward, what would define the most successful partnerships in this ecosystem? Is it, is it what you described, the opening up the aperture or for the, for the leaders in the room here today, what should they go do better and differently? [00:26:58] Stephen Boyle: Um, so obviously we’re closing out this fiscal, we’ve got Microsoft start and Microsoft start for partners coming up in July. Um, I mentioned the fact that we’re, we’re driving. Cu customer engagement through the lens of conversations and how do we achieve business outcomes? I would encourage you to, to gravitate, if you like, above the commercial solution areas where you might have understood, this is how I interact with Microsoft today. [00:27:23] Stephen Boyle: Um, and abstract it up to that AI layer. You know, think about trust, think about intelligence, think about business outcomes, and how do I potentially weave together a story? If I’m in the dynamic space, how do I get better in data? If I’m in the data space, how do I get better in. In that modern work environment, but really use AI as the overlay to, to help tie that together. [00:27:44] Stephen Boyle: That’s one thing. The second thing is if we’re not training you in the right direction, it’s stevenBoyle@microsoft.com. Let me know. Awesome. Um, we’ve got programmatic stuff, um, you know, and we’ve got high touch stuff as well. So I think this is, this is another time where Microsoft is gonna over pivot on all of the training and enablement that we need to do to make sure that you’re, you know, you’re grounded in our platform. [00:28:07] Stephen Boyle: Um, I think there’s a huge opportunity with this agenda future to become more of a software partner. You know, even the deepest services organizations are going to need agents, and the more successful ones will be the ones that can turn on those agents in a repeatable way. So. Our agents, the new SaaS. I’m not exactly saying that, but I think that the agen future is one where even the more services oriented companies will, will have teams of agents that they’re deploying. [00:28:35] Stephen Boyle: In fact, I had a very, very large systems integrator, um, in, in the EBC just about a month ago, three weeks ago. Um, and I was sat next to their head of consulting and he showed me what he called his God dashboard. Uh, and right in the middle of his God dashboard there are like 450 accounts. All of whom I recognized, ’cause they were all in the enterprise, right in the middle of his dashboard was, how many tokens am I spending? [00:29:00] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:29:01] Stephen Boyle: Like, not like what’s my daily runway? You know, not am I making a profit on that account or anything else like that is like, how many tokens have I consumed? Yeah. Because there is an awful lot of, that is the new juice, if you like. That’s, that’s driving the success. You can have the smartest people on the planet, but you’ve got to still arm them with all the best tools that are available out there. [00:29:22] Stephen Boyle: So it’s fascinating to listen to him, how he had gone through that thing of, you know, agent sprawl, how many are really working, how many are not working? How can we prove that? You can prove it through, you know, managing your tokens. There’s a new version of. Finops for tokens, for want of a better phrase, that’s gonna be critical for us all to understand. [00:29:40] Stephen Boyle: ’cause they’re not cheap, they’re not free, that’s for sure. And, and they might not be cheap if you’re not, if you’re not managing them and using them effectively. Yeah. So that’s the other thing that I would really get on top of. And, you know, we’re gonna make some announcements in the not too distant future about the consumption driven future. [00:29:56] Stephen Boyle: Um, that, that we will, that we will deliver with our first party and third party platforms going forward. So that’s another. Another critical thing [00:30:03] Vince Menzione: sounds like some exciting announcements. Pretty soon. [00:30:06] Stephen Boyle: Yeah, could look close. Quarter four, help me close. Quarter four. Yes. That’s priority number one, two, and three right now. [00:30:12] Stephen Boyle: Uh, but get ready for some, you know, for some new announcements in July. Um, look, the future is incredibly bright with Microsoft. It’s incredibly bright in the industry as a whole, right? I mean, let, let’s be honest, the, the growth targets that we will have for ne next year are astronomical, and we will not make them without the partner community that we have, without training and enabling the partner community that we need for tomorrow. [00:30:34] Stephen Boyle: So like, stay close, you know, stay engaged. Talk to your partner development managers, talk to the talk to field reps, talk to the accounts that that, that you are in, and stay as close as you possibly can to our emerging strategy. And, um, you know, look, I, I think if I had fivefold or tenfold the people I have today, I still wouldn’t be able to touch everybody that I would like to touch in the partner community. [00:30:58] Stephen Boyle: So I’ll apologize in advance. Um, but we’re gonna have some, you know, some really cool ways of learning. Um, and we’re gonna make sure that they’re available to the widest possible audience. [00:31:07] Vince Menzione: Well, we bring the practitioners and the experts in the room to help with that as well. Right? Yeah. Because you can’t always have a partner development manager tied to everybody in the room. [00:31:14] Stephen Boyle: I, I would do hackathons on AI every week with every partner and every part of the world, but I can’t. [00:31:19] Vince Menzione: Yeah, exactly. Well, so good to have you today. Thank you. So good to see you again. I don’t know what your schedule is like. I, we didn’t, we don’t have enough time for questions. [00:31:28] Stephen Boyle: That’s cool. [00:31:28] Vince Menzione: From the audience. [00:31:29] Stephen Boyle: I’m gonna stay around for a little [00:31:30] Vince Menzione: while this [00:31:30] Stephen Boyle: morning and I’m coming back [00:31:31] Vince Menzione: for cocktails. Alright, terrific. So. Stephen Boyle will be here for cocktail hour. Thank you. Four 30 and uh, I wanna thank you, sir. So good to have you. Thank you. Good to see you. Absolutely. [00:31:42] Stephen Boyle: So much. Absolutely. Hey, thanks everybody. [00:31:43] Stephen Boyle: Thanks for what you do today, and hopefully thank you for what you do tomorrow as well. [00:31:46] Vince Menzione: Thank you. An incredible leader. 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Lt. Colonel Marvin Suber Williams, a highly decorated U.S. Air Force veteran with nearly thirty years of combined military leadership and senior federal service, is running as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 4th Congressional District, a crucial swing region encompassing parts of Nassau County and Long Island. Raised in a working-class New York family after being born at the Naval Hospital in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Williams positions his 2026 congressional campaign as a direct solution for voters seeking an outsider who values personal responsibility over partisan political games. His economic platform aggressively targets inflation and the rising cost of living on Long Island, advocating for lower taxes on middle-class families, the preservation of the crucial State and Local Tax deduction, and a halt to reckless federal spending in Washington. Emphasizing public safety and national security, his platform aligns closely with traditional conservative principles, focusing on strong support for law enforcement, strict criminal justice accountability, securing the southern border with physical barriers, and enforcing the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Drawing heavily from his experience as an operational military leader and Chief Academic Officer, Williams champions deep reforms for the Department of Veterans Affairs, enhanced cyber defense, and an ironclad foreign policy that includes standing firmly with democratic allies like Israel. As voters across the district evaluate candidates for the primary and the November 2026 general election, the Marvin Williams for Congress movement aims to build a broad coalition of New Yorkers dedicated to fiscal responsibility, safe communities, and constitutional limits on government power, inviting grassroots support through campaign donations and volunteer participation. WEB: https://marvinforcongress.com/ ABOUT: Lt. Colonel Marvin Williams is a visionary military leader, executive strategist, and premier keynote speaker with a proven track record of driving operational excellence in high-stakes environments. Throughout a distinguished career spanning more than twenty years in the United States military, Lt. Col. Williams has commanded elite units, managed multi-million-dollar logistical operations, and advised top-tier defense officials on critical global strategy. Specializing in cross-functional team building and organizational resilience, Lt. Col. Williams seamlessly bridges the gap between battlefield command and boardroom execution. His signature leadership frameworks empower corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and community leaders to navigate complex business landscapes, mitigate risk, and cultivate a culture of accountability. Beyond his operational achievements, Lt. Colonel Williams is a highly sought-after corporate trainer and motivational speaker. His engaging presentations focus on actionable leadership development, agile decision-making under pressure, and the psychology of elite performance. Whether addressing Fortune 500 executives or academic institutions, his mission remains the same: transforming potential into purposeful, high-impact leadership. - Ready to ignite the spark that levels up your entire life? Meet Ash Brown—the American powerhouse, motivational architect, and ultimate hype-woman dedicated to your personal and professional evolution. Ash is far more than a voice in the personal development space; she is a trusted ally who delivers a masterclass in real-talk wisdom and infectious energy. Whether you are navigating a crossroads or ready to scale your grandest ambitions, Ash fuels your journey with a high-octane blend of heart and hustle.

The sermon examines the narrative of Nabal in 1 Samuel 25, contrasting his arrogant and ungrateful response to David with the discerning wisdom of his wife, Abigail. By analyzing the cultural significance of names and the definition of a fool through Proverbs, the message highlights how pride blinds individuals to their own faults and the kindness of others. The preacher urges listeners to conduct a spiritual inventory to identify similar traits of self-centeredness and stubbornness within themselves. Emphasizing that true wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord, the text warns against the destructive nature of rash words and unteachable hearts. Ultimately, the sermon calls for humility and teachability, encouraging believers to reject foolish pride in favor of godly character.

This episode explores how law firm owners can build sustainable growth through value-driven leadership. Burke Brown shares his journey from a solo practitioner in rural Nebraska to managing a diverse, community-focused firm, emphasizing the importance of core values and intentional decisions.We discuss how firms can leverage community relationships to expand naturally and ethically, rather than relying solely on marketing tactics. Burke emphasizes that understanding why you do what you do influences everything from office location to client interactions, ultimately shaping firm culture and reputation.In this episode you'll learn: The importance of aligning firm activities with core values How community involvement fuels sustainable growth Strategies for remote team management across multiple states Practical approaches to building a referral-based reputation Why client experience and intake are the backbone of a successful firm This episode offers practical insights for law firm owners seeking to grow intentionally and ethically. Emphasizing leadership rooted in values helps build not just a profitable firm but a respected community asset.Today's episode is sponsored by The Managing Partners Mastermind. Click here to schedule an interview to see if we're a fit: https://thisisarray.com/the-managing-partners-mastermind/ Chapters (00:00:00) - What are the Core Values of a Law Firm?(00:00:39) - Law Firm Leadership: Growing Your Office(00:05:56) - Why We're Expanding into Rural Areas(00:11:14) - Law Firm CEO on His Core Values and His Whys(00:16:58) - The most important part of your law firm's intake(00:22:23) - How to Treat Your Clients With Respect(00:28:48) - Why Do Lawyers Do What They Do?(00:32:14) - Starting Your Firm(00:34:07) - How to Connect With Your Law Firm Lead

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Curtis Symonds..

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Curtis Symonds..

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In this episode, Stephanie Carter, wellness coach and founder of Aligned and Ageless, joins us to talk about navigating health, fitness, and vitality for women over 40. At 57, Stephanie shares her personal transition through menopause, opening up about the frustrating moment she realized that the diet and exercise routines that worked in her 30s were no longer serving her. She breaks down the common pitfalls women face—either paralyzing overwhelm from social media "wellness noise" or the trap of trying to implement too many unsustainable habits at once. Stephanie introduces her signature framework built on five pillars of wellness: quality sleep, daily movement, whole-foods nutrition, stress management, and deep relationships. Emphasizing progress over perfection, she details how small, personalized shifts compound over time to create a sustainable lifestyle, offering women a practical guide to practicing self-awareness, setting boundaries, and showing themselves grace in every season of life. LEARN MORE AND CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE CARTER Email: stephaniecarter1126@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=aligned%20and%20ageless Instagram: @stephaniecarter1126 Website: alignedandageless.com

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Public backlash to content generated by artificial intelligence has pushed brands to reconsider how AI is used in their marketing.Some companies are swerving away from AI and finding ways to prove that their advertisements were made by humans.One of those humans is Ash Xu, a commercial director and online content creator. Brands hire her to make a commercial plus a behind-the-scenes video about how the ad was made. Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes spoke with Xu to learn more.

Public backlash to content generated by artificial intelligence has pushed brands to reconsider how AI is used in their marketing.Some companies are swerving away from AI and finding ways to prove that their advertisements were made by humans.One of those humans is Ash Xu, a commercial director and online content creator. Brands hire her to make a commercial plus a behind-the-scenes video about how the ad was made. Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes spoke with Xu to learn more.

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