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In this episode of the Tough Girl Podcast, we delve into the inspiring journey of Maite Rojo, a passionate ultra runner who has taken on some of the toughest challenges in the world of endurance racing.  Born in a small fishing village in Northern Spain, Maite's love for sports and running ignited at a young age. Encouraged by her family, she discovered the simplicity and joy of running, eventually becoming an integral part of a supportive running community. Over the years, she embarked on marathons, ultra marathons, and eventually 24-hour races, pushing her body to its limits. Maite's perseverance and dedication paid off when she won two 24-hour challenges, with her second victory securing her a direct entrance to the prestigious Spartathlon Race in Athens. In the gruelling Spartathlon, Maite ran an astonishing 247 km and placed 9th female, proving her indomitable spirit. Not one to rest on her laurels, Maite recently tackled the Ultr'Ardèche ultra race in France, covering a distance of 222 km and finishing in an impressive 4th place. Her relentless pursuit of new challenges and her ability to adapt to the demands of each race showcase her extraordinary strength and tenacity. Beyond her own personal achievements, Maite also dedicates her races to her father, who battles a degenerative illness that affects his mobility. Her running journey serves as a testament to the power of resilience and the ability to find strength even in the face of adversity. Join us as Maite Rojo shares her insights on training for 24-hour races, the importance of rest and recovery, nutrition for endurance athletes, and the mental preparation required to conquer monumental challenges. Her story is one of passion, perseverance, and the unwavering belief in following one's heart. *** Don't miss out on the latest episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast, released every Tuesday at 7am UK time! Be sure to hit the subscribe button to stay updated on the incredible journeys and stories of strong women.  By supporting the Tough Girl Podcast on Patreon, you can make a difference in increasing the representation of female role models in the media, particularly in the world of adventure and physical challenges. Your contribution helps empower and inspire others. Visit www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast to be a part of this important movement. Thank you for your invaluable support!   Show notes Who is Maite Born in Northern Spain in a small fishing village Currently living in her brothers house, close to Santiago, Spain 50 years old  Spending time around boats from a young age Learning dingy sailing with her brother at 18 years old Having a love for sports from a young age Starting running at 13 years old  Her running journey and how it progresses  Being very shy as a child and being encouraged by her family to do sports  Loving the simplicity of running Finding fellow runners and being part of a community  Competing for 6 years in running before stopping due to other commitments  Sailing full time and trying to train for her first half marathon Running 1 or 2 marathons a year Training for 24hr races  Supported her brother running the Spartathlon 2018 (he was the only Spanish finisher) Being inspired and wanting to race the Spartathlon  Entering the Spartathlon lottery for 3 years before going for a direct entrance Doing her first 24hr race In New Zealand (23rd Self-Transcendence 24 Hour Track Race) and running 206km and placing 1st female.  Running a 24hr track race in Barcelona (24 hores d'ultrafons en pista de Barcelona (ESP)) and qualifying for the Spartathlon by running 216.9km Quitting her sailing job to focus on running and training for 4 months before the Spartathlon Race Wanting to be super prepared Working as a running coach Wanting to challenge herself with training and to see how much her body could adapt to the challenges of the race What training looked like  Looking at her strengths and weaknesses  Being able to do hard sessions and being able to recovery quickly Focusing on strength training while working on a boat when not able to run How sailing helped prepare her for sleep deprivation while running through the night Starting to increase her millage on a gradual basis and doing back to back training sessions at the weekend  Tips for rest and recovery and why its good to have a regular massage The benefits of stretching  Working on her weaknesses and focusing on building strength in her legs through weights Ensuring enough food is consumed to support her body and training needs  Nutrition for fuelling her body as a vegetarian, wanting to eat as natural as possible (avoiding gels) The mental preparation for the Spartathlon Race Race strategy for running including dealing with cut off points and the challenge of the mountain in the middle How meditation helped during the race - focusing on the beauty of the running environment from the stars to the moon. Reducing her caffeine consumption before the race and then having caffeine again before the mountain  Being supported by her crew and seeing her brother at aid stations along the way Running Ultr'Ardèche, in France (222km) and getting 4th place   How to connect with Maite  Why it's important to have passion for what you do and why you should follow your heart.    Social Media Instagram: @mairedrunner  Facebook: @mairedrunner   

Dive into today's episode where Zack Boothe and guest Jason Wood unleashed the unconventional details behind a first deal that nearly hit the six-figure mark.  Get ready for a rollercoaster of unique strategies and untold tales that paved the way for this remarkable success story that nearly made $90,000 in just the FIRST deal!  Key Takeaways A glimpse into Jason's life before real estate Breaking down the numbers of an $80,000 deal Offloading project management burdens through strategic partnerships Ensuring your partnerships contribute to your bottom line The creative side of real estate for increased financial gains and time freedom Understanding that driving for dollars is a business centered on finding sellers   Resources The 40 Day Challenge with Zack Boothe Driving for Dollars Mastery  

“Take on only as much as you can do of good deeds, for the best of deeds is that which is done consistently, even if it is little.” – Sunan Ibn Majah 4240

This episode features an interview with Jessica Jensen, Chief Marketing Officer at Indeed. She is responsible for brand, communication, product, and acquisition marketing globally. Prior to Indeed, Jessica served as CMO at OpenTable and led B2B marketing for Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. She also held leadership roles at Apple and Yahoo!In this episode, Kailey sits down with Jessica to discuss the innovation of matching technology, pay transparency, and elevating employer and candidate experience strategies with AI.-------------------Key Takeaways:When trying to find the right candidates for the right jobs, matching technology is imperative. It is able to employ deep specificity and find job seekers with stand-out qualifications and certifications. This technology also improves close rates on the employer side and personalized experiences on the candidate side.Having data that is structured, accessible, governed, and used with human insight enables the right access for the right teams and that it's used appropriately. You can avoid broken data pipelines and governance issues by being intentional about where the data lives and who has access to it.When implementing AI, it's critical to have humans in the loop to snuff out biases. Relying solely on what AI produces can lead to imagery and descriptions that are not inclusive of humanity, and will further replicate problems in our society.-------------------“We have to be the ones who control the machines. Ensuring that we are creating the imagery and the descriptions that are inclusive of humanity and not just relying on what AI pulls and chews up and spits out, is something that we're really investing a lot of energy in. I really hope that companies are thinking very critically about that because if we let AI run rampant, it will reproduce the problems in society.” – Jessica Jensen-------------------Episode Timestamps:‍*(03:11) - Jessica's career journey‍*(06:51) - Trends in the customer experience journey at Indeed*(10:53) - How Indeed is using AI to elevate employer and candidate experience strategies*(17:28) - How Indeed uses matching technology to find candidates for employers*(27:44) - How Jessica defines “good data”‍*(35:42) - An example of another company doing it right with customer engagement (hint: it's TurboTax and Virgin America)*(42:00) - Jessica's recommendations for upleveling customer experience strategies-------------------Links:Connect with Jessica on LinkedInConnect with Kailey on LinkedInLearn more about Caspian Studios-------------------SponsorGood Data, Better Marketing is brought to you by Twilio Segment. In today's digital-first economy, being data-driven is no longer aspirational. It's necessary. Find out why over 20,000 businesses trust Segment to enable personalized, consistent, real-time customer experiences by visiting Segment.com

Michael and Hannah guide us through a crucial aspect of home health or hospice agency management: the billing and collections process. As the year wraps up, they emphasize the importance of a detailed breakdown, focusing specifically on handling denials and appeals. Effective management of denials and appeals is essential for financial stability and maintaining quality care standards. Understanding the reasons behind each denial is the first step, achieved through meticulous review of payer feedback to identify patterns and systemic issues hindering reimbursement. Hannah highlights the significance of comprehensive documentation for successful appeals. Ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with payer requirements is crucial. Regular training sessions to keep staff updated on regulation changes foster a culture of compliance, reducing the likelihood of errors. The establishment of clear internal processes as a daily compass, defining roles, setting timelines, and establishing communication channels. Monitoring denial trends enables identification of root causes and implementation of corrective actions, fortifying the agency against financial risks. Often overlooked is the aspect of communication with payers, a crucial element in denial management. They stress the strategic use of technology not only to react to denials but proactively shape a resilient reimbursement process. Hannah concludes by underlining the significance of proactive denial and appeal management, urging listeners not to put it off. Don't miss the next episode: a discussion on KPIs, reporting, and analytic tools within RCM (Revenue Cycle Management). Join them for insights into shaping a sustainable future for home health agencies.

This episode features a conversation with Merry Campbell, Chair of Employment and Labor at Shulman Rogers law firm, as she discusses current and upcoming legal considerations in recruiting and hiring. Touching on issues around AI, demographic data, diversity, equity and inclusion goals, and more, Merry provides perspective on ensuring hiring practices align with emerging regulations while still moving towards creating an ethical and effective recruitment process. Tune in for practical insights about successfully navigating today's shifting landscape of hiring technologies and requirements.

Gloria Umanah, the visionary behind Hope Booth, uses her own lived experiences to passionately fight for those who feel invisible. In this episode, Gloria generously shares her story with the Be the Bridge community and the story behind Hope Booth. She and Latasha connect over their Yoruba names and over being Black women who lead non profits. They discuss mental health, the power of making someone feel seen and that they belong, and making hope and help accessible to all.Gloria's story, words, and work will empower listeners to choose to keep living, to see hope all around, and to see themselves as worthy of being cared for. This conversation is full of reminders that God is at work and that no one is alone. The episode ends with Gloria sharing a powerful spoken word piece you do not want to miss. *(We do want to offer a listener warning that suicide is mentioned in this episode.) Join in the conversation on our social media pages on Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn to let us know your thoughts on this episode! Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison Senior Producer - Lauren C. Brown Producer, Editor, & Music - Travon Potts with Integrated Entertainment Studios Assistant Producer & Transcriber - Sarah Connatser Quotes: “My scars are roadmaps to redemption for other people.” -Gloria Umanah “There's a way of showing people their dignity and their worth when you acknowledge their existence.” -Latasha Morrison Links: If you'd like to partner with the Be the Bridge Podcast, please fill out our Advertise with Us form.  Ads: Spotify for Podcasters [Record, edit, distribute your podcast. Download the Spotify for Podcasters app or go to www.spotify.com/podcasters to get started] Sign up for the Be the Bridge Newsletter Become a Donor of Be the Bridge Shop the Be the Bridge Online Shop Resources Mentioned:Until All Are Seen documentary by Hope BoothEqual Justice Initiative Legacy Sites“See Me” spoken word video by Gloria Umanah Connect with Gloria Umanah: Her Website Instagram Facebook Connect with Hope Booth: Website Facebook  Instagram Connect with Be the Bridge: Our Website Facebook Instagram Threads Twitter Connect with Latasha Morrison: Facebook Instagram Threads Twitter Not all views expressed in this interview reflect the values and beliefs of Latasha Morrison or the Be the Bridge organization.

Join us in this captivating episode as we journey through the realm of marketing with Emanuel Rose, a distinguished expert with over three decades of experience. Emanuel, the driving force behind Strategic eMarketing, delves into the intricacies of cutting-edge marketing, branding, and advertising. Discover his passion for helping businesses thrive from the ground up, and how his unique approach has steered countless clients towards success. We explore the significance of authenticity in marketing campaigns, his insights on connecting with Gen Z, and his creative endeavor as an author of children's books. Find Emanuel's books and learn more about him at https://emanuelrose.com

Ensuring the Participation in God's Agenda and the Blessings That Accompany It - Genesis 26-1-11

Ensuring the Participation in God's Agenda and the Blessings That Accompany It - Genesis 26:1-11

"What Dreams May Come" is a thought-provoking film released in 1998, starring Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra. It delves into themes of love, loss, the afterlife, and the power of imagination. The story follows a man who navigates the afterlife to save his wife's soul.   In this episode, we delve into the mesmerizing world of "What Dreams May Come," a film that intricately weaves elements from Richard Matheson's novel, Dante's Inferno, and the captivating imagination of Robin Williams.  

Dog Training Today with Will Bangura: #130 Are you ready to open your home and heart to a new furry friend? We're here to help make it a joyful and successful experience. Join us, your favorite pet behavior experts, as we discuss everything you need to know about bringing home a new puppy or dog. We'll start from the basics, setting boundaries, establishing a strong training foundation, and why consistency is key. We share our thoughts on the Sealy Ham Terrier, the new star at the recent National Dog Show, and give our tips on how to manage multiple pets in one household.Ensuring your dog is well trained is not only beneficial for you but also for them. We discuss effective and practical methods of training, highlighting the importance of high reward foods and the value of positive reinforcement. From leash manners and potty training to basic commands, we've got it all covered. Learn how to create a training routine that incorporates distractions, and the significance of a 'let's go' command. We'll also discuss the need for a 'drag line' for control when training your pup.Introducing a new pet into a home with existing pets can be a challenge. We're here to ease that process. We guide you through the best approaches to introduce a new dog into a multi-pet household, including tips for managing potential resource guarding behaviors. If you're struggling with potty training, fret not! We'll share our tips, tricks, and the idea of keeping a journal to track your pet's habits. We'll also delve into crate training and the important aspects to consider. Tune in to our lively discussion and prepare to take notes, this episode is packed with valuable insights for every dog owner. Let's make the transition of bringing a new pet into your home as smooth as possible.Support the showIf you need professional help please visit my Dog Behaviorist website.Go here for Free Dog Training Articles

This is the audio-only version of our weekly cyber security talk show, teissTalk.  Join us  for free by visiting www.teiss.co.uk/teisstalkThe panel discussion is titled:teissTalk: Embracing AI tools across your organisation - ensuring you remain secureThe opportunities and risks widespread adoption of AI poses to your organisationHow infosec thinking can keep all departments safe as they adopt AI toolsBest practices for integrating AI tools across the organisationThis episode is hosted by Thom Langfordhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/Eldar Lillevik, Partner - Cyber Security & Privacy, PwChttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eldarlillevik/Laiz Batista Tellefsen, Board Member, Den norske dataforening (DND)https://www.linkedin.com/in/laizbatista/Andres Andreu, SVP, CISO, 2Uhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andresandreu/

In this riveting installment of The Adrenaline Zone podcast, Sandra and Sandy explore the modern landscape of ranching and farming alongside special guest Andrea Nicholas Perdue, the visionary CEO of Wagonhound Ranch in Wyoming. This episode masterfully examines the delicate balance between upholding traditional ranching values and embracing cutting-edge agricultural technology. You'll hear about Wagonhound Ranch's rich legacy in cattle ranching, dating back to the late 1800s, and Andrea's remarkable journey from the world of finance to helming a colossal 300,000-acre ranch.  Today's interview peels back the layers on the risks and rewards that define ranching, encompassing weather woes, disease dilemmas, and the intricate dance between tradition and innovation. The diversification of Wagonhound Ranch's business operations, including cattle ranching, hospitality, farming, and outfitting, takes center stage, exploring its motivations and sustainable implications. Moreover, the episode delves into the historical significance of Wagonhound Ranch's location along the Oregon Trail, preserving the legacy of the American West, and outlines strategies for managing risks in the unpredictable world of ranching. Today's conversation also illuminates the dynamic interplay between private and public interests, where effective communication is the linchpin. Tune in today for an unmissable adventure through the heartland of ranching, entrepreneurship, and the indomitable spirit of the American West in this extraordinary episode of The Adrenaline Zone. Quotes "Ranching has a long tradition in my family. My family has been cattle ranchers since we immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s." "There's a push and a pull between private and public, and there always will be. That's something that I think you delicately manage." "You're operating a business in an environment that you don't control, and so you put things in place to help you control that." "There's been a big, renewed focus because it's finally been accepted that our food system is really one of the big levers that we have to affect global planet health." "Farming has gotten really sophisticated, and a lot of that happens automatically with the new technology of the farm equipment that you're using." "Regenerative agriculture is more of a rebranding of practices that have been implemented for a long time, like rotational grazing." "I think that there's this next generation of leaders that are women, and they are really accepting and excited about it." Keep the adrenaline rush going at: The Adrenaline Zone Homepage The Adrenaline Zone on Instagram The Adrenaline Zone on Twitter The Adrenaline Zone on TikTok Wagonhound

In this episode we unpack the fifth commitment from the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Ensuring value in the relationship. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethics and its application in coaching. About the Featured Guests Vinnie Gill puts people and culture first. She enjoys connecting with people and companies to find their purpose, walking alongside them in their organisational growth journey. Her passion is influencing change at the Enterprise level. She is deeply involved in the Agile community, speaks at international conferences and has a special interest in educating and education being the tool that empowers people. Follow Vinnie Gill on LinkedIn  Tom Cagley is a consultant, speaker, podcaster, author, coach, and agile guide who leads organizations and teams to unlock their inherent greatness. He has developed estimation models and has supported organizations developing classic and agile estimates. Tom helps teams and organizations improve cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction, and then prove it. Follow Tom Cagley on LinkedIn  Follow @tcagley on Twitter    Reference(s) Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/   The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared. Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org  Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg    Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile. About our Hosts Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).   About our Sponsor Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

Escape the Daily Grind Strategies to Maximize Profits and Minimize Work In this episode, Rocky Lalvani is joined by business coach Pete Taylor to uncover the secrets to structuring a business for maximum profitability and time freedom. Pete shares his expertise in building both brick and mortar and online businesses, emphasizing the importance of implementing the Profit First system. From picked on to pro athlete to serial entrepreneur. Pete built a 7 figure business, dozens of employees, model wife, rolex watches, cars and homes in the country but left all of this to follow his own hero's journey and second mountain; building a community of guys to help him and them stop playing at level 4 when they know they have level 10 in the bag. Pete is a father, mentors founders from 7-8 figures and coaches to build resilience, discipline and character forging. In this episode, you will learn the following: How balancing reinvestment in the business with personal financial stability is essential for long-term success. Learn to develop financial systems that facilitate the expansion of businesses and the accumulation of personal wealth. Acquiring a structured approach to personal finance management can stop profits from being continuously reinvested in the company. Ensuring that funds are set aside for personal use can be facilitated by keeping a profit account distinct from the business finances. Links: Awakened Man - https://www.awakenedman.org/ Personal site - https://www.petetaylor.co.uk/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pete_taylor/   Hi, I'm the Profit Answer Man Rocky Lalvani! I help small business owners simplify their financial reports to make more informed business decisions with fewer hassles. We utilize the Profit First system created by Mike Michalowicz Our Q&A call on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 1 pm Eastern: https://bit.ly/PFcall Sign up to be notified when the next cohort of the Profit First Experience Course is available! Schedule your free, no-obligation intro call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes Check out our website: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Questions: questions@profitanswerman.com Email: rocky@profitcomesfirst.com Relay Bank (affiliate link) - https://relayfi.com/?referralcode=profitcomesfirst  Profit Answer Man Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitanswerman/ My podcast about living a richer more meaningful life: http://richersoul.com/ Profit First Toolkit: click here to sign up This episode is part of the SMB Podcast Network. Find other great interviews from around the internet just like this one at https://www.SMBPodcastNetwork.com Music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs. #profitfirst  

On this episode of The Association Podcast, Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., a disability rights advocate and ADA compliance consultant, shares her insights on creating accessible environments. She discusses her work in disability inclusion, her experiences consulting on ADA compliance for large tradeshows, and the importance of attention to detail in planning accessible events. We also talk about the balance between security and usability in design, the significance of seemingly simple things like ramps, and the need for respectful language when interacting with individuals with disabilities. Rosemarie's Website with Free Resourceswww.rosemariespeaks.comUniversal Design Laboratorywww.udll.com

HR leaders are considering how new and emerging capabilities, like AI, will transform benefits, personalization, and access to care and treatment. Host and Aon's Senior Vice President, Healthcare Industry Vertical, Sheena Singh, is joined by Aon's Global Analytics and Actuarial Leader, Health Solutions, Doug Melton, for a discussion on the impact of technology on the future of health and benefits.[1:44] Three facets of Doug's passion for optimizing employee health[3:28] Defining new technologies and their impact on healthcare[6:48] Key differences between new technology and traditional analytic approaches[8:53] The value of healthcare technology advancements for employers[11:50] Aon's collaborative strategies for utilizing these technologies to support clients[13:51] Ensuring data security while maximizing technology benefitsAdditional Resources:Aon's websiteHow Technology Will Transform Employee Benefits in the Next Five Years How Data and Analytics Can Optimize HR ProgramsFour Ways to Increase the ROI of Your Benefits Strategy With TechnologyTweetables:“The new technologies matter for the employer because they should make the employee experience better.” — Doug Melton“Aon is helping our clients' employees with innovative solutions depending on what their needs are.” — Doug Melton“We're tackling this new learning together and applying it to other clients who have the same situation.” — Doug Melton“[Data security] is a top priority and area of focus for us at all times.” — Doug Melton

Watch the YouTube version of this episode HEREAre you an attorney who needs help with delivering presentations? In this podcast episode, Jim and Tyson host Val Madama, a legal presentation coach. Val shares her journey from practicing food and drug law to coaching lawyers on improving their presentation skills.Mastering presentations is a skill that takes practice. Val goes over a few common mistakes lawyers make when giving presentations. One mistake is assuming everyone needs the same things from the presentation when really everyone needs something different and will walk away with something different. This means the way you communicate to an audience should reflect this idea. Tailoring a presentation to each audience is key to keeping them engaged. If the presentation is about writing legal briefs, tailor your content to that. Another mistake is not presenting using plain language. Legal jargon only makes sense to lawyers. If you are giving a presentation to an audience who is not, ensure your slides and your language is clear and makes sense. Think about starting presentations off with a thesis or why you are there and what you are trying to “prove”.Val, Jim and Tyson talk about the importance of storytelling when presenting. A lot of people are more focused on making their slides look better or using eye-catching software to create their presentation. Others are more concerned with not stumbling and making sure their entire presentation is perfect. The reality is there will be stumbling or saying “um” or “like” and that is fine. As long as the presentation flows like you are telling a story, the presentation is a success.Ensuring there is enough time to practice for a presentation is really important to delivering it well. Val talks about developing muscle memory when practicing. The more you practice, the easier it is to remember and create that flow. One trick is to treat the presentation as if it were a conversation with colleagues or a normal Monday morning meeting discussing the week ahead. This also takes the “nervousness” out of presenting because it is being treated like any other conversation. Start rehearsing for presentations when you are 75% done creating it. This will allow you to flesh out any issues and go back and forth in how you will say things. This will shape your speech and also develop muscle memory. Though rehearsing is important, make sure to step away from the presentation to allow for the muscle memory to develop better. This will also not create a robotic speech to your presentation.Take a listen!Jim's Hack: There is no substitute for meeting people face to face ( like your team!) Val's Tip: For everyone's next presentation figure out what the action you want people to take, and then identify 1 to 2 benefits of that action, and let that be your whole thesis statement. Tyson Tip: Change the mindset with a quote by Guy Ritchie: Love the game because you're in it. Own the game, accept the rules and move into the rules. 3:00 Common mistakes lawyers make in presentations4:28 The importance of using plain language and avoiding legal jargon10:29 Prioritizing content, storytelling, and tailoring the presentation16:56 Regular practice and muscle memory in improving presentation skills19:39 The importance of taking a break from rehearsing to allow for passion to consolidate

HANDLING ALCOHOL ABUSE IN DIVORCE AND COPARENTING EP 113HOST: Beverly Price, Divorce & Empowerment CoachGUEST: Chris Beck, VP of Family Law Business Development for Soberlink Healthcare SUMMARY:Handling alcohol abuse in divorce and co-parenting is a complex and emotionally charged issue, as approximately 50% of divorces cite heavy drinking as a contributing factor. This not only shatters marriages but also casts a shadow of fear over co-parenting relationships. Concerns about a child's safety can be particularly agonizing, leading to questions like, "Will my child be safe?" In such situations, trust and transparency between the co-parents become paramount. Ensuring the well-being of the children should be the primary focus, with both parents working together to create a safe and nurturing environment and seeking professional guidance if alcohol abuse remains a concern. In this episode of Her Empowered Divorce, your Host, Chris Beck, the VP of Family Law Business Development for Soberlink Healthcare. Together, they discuss alcohol abuse and what can be done if alcohol abuse is an issue in your divorce and co-parenting. KEY TAKEAWAYS: ● Does Sober Link give definitive proof about alcohol use? Soberlink is self-administered, and there is no middle person giving you the results. It's a breathalyzer that is combined with facial recognition technology, and internally, it has a way to submit the result in real time through Bluetooth and cyber technology.● How can I prove I can be trusted if I have a history of distrust? The pain point of losing trust to a point where monitoring is necessary is great, but Soberlink gives the other parent or the concerned party peace of mind that what is happening is real, as sobriety is documented in real-time, hence building trust back-to-back.● Can the alcohol test be done before the other parent talks to the child on a call to make sure they are sober? Yes definitely. Where there is severe alcohol use, treatment is ongoing, or visitation is done via Zoom, part of the program is testing and documenting their sobriety before the call, and you get and validate the compliant test results.● Why should I choose Soberlink over other alcohol monitoring technologies? Soberlink has robust technology that ensures the quality of their product is there. It's handheld, used remotely in real-time, and has family law-specific programs, technologies, and customer service.● No matter the situation, it's possible to keep a parent who is struggling with alcohol use disorder with the right treatment and the right technology to support the treatment. Technology is here to help you, help your child, and keep them safe. It's in the best interest of the child when both parents are part of their life. NOTABLE QUOTES:● Being able to prove that you are sober when parenting your children is empowering. (Chris) ● Having a technology that shows proof of sobriety, especially during co-parenting time, helps to mend the relationship, build trust back-to-back sooner, and bring the family immunity back. (Chris)● Family law can now do alcohol monitoring discreetly because of technology like facial recognition, and it doesn't have to be done in the presence of children. It can be self-administered and still give transparency to others that are part of the monitoring agreement. (Chris)● When someone has alcohol use disorder, they will do whatever they can to make sure they get the next drink, and Soberlink

Ensuring frontline workers are equipped with the essential tools to elevate and enrich the overall patient experience is paramount. In this episode, Ed Finn, Business Development Manager of Fiber at Crown Castle, dives into the vital role infrastructure plays in advancing healthcare technologies. Crown Castle, a health facilities-based carrier, offers services such as dark fiber, and Wi-Fi managed fiber and owns 40% of the nation's towers, enabling customized Wi-Fi solutions. Ed explains why he collaborates with regional partners to promote healthcare solutions that align with their key performance indicators. He also highlights the use of ambient intelligence, emphasizing the importance of supporting those workers with the right tools and technologies to enhance the overall patient experience. Stay tuned to discover how Crown Castle is reshaping the future of healthcare infrastructure. Resources: Connect with and follow Ed Finn on LinkedIn and email him here. Email Karen Fetters and Jon Rosen. Follow Crown Castle on LinkedIn. Explore Crown Castle's Website.

Do you want to maximize your reach and attract more clients on social media? Are you looking for a solution to effectively repurpose your blog content and achieve the desired outcome? Brittnie shares her expertise on repurposing blog content for social media, so that photographers balancing motherhood and a business can improve their social media consistency and successfully attract clients. Discover the key strategies and techniques to transform your blog content into engaging social media posts, and unlock the potential to connect with your target audience on a whole new level. Highlights In This Episode: Improve your social media consistency to attract more clients and grow your photography business. Find balance between being a mother and running a successful photography business. Learn how to repurpose your blog content to create engaging social media posts and save time. Gain credibility and attract new clients by sharing client testimonials on your social media platforms. Leverage your blog content to increase your visibility and reach on social media. The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:06 - Introduction 00:00:35 - Challenges of Running a Photography Business with Children 00:01:45 - Consistency in Social Media Posting 00:03:56 - Different Goals for Posts and Stories 00:08:46 - Making Instagram Posts a Selling Point 00:14:04 - Importance of the Client Experience 00:15:20 - Making Blogging Easy 00:15:53 - Repurposing Blog Content 00:19:06 - Using Older Photos for Social Media 00:21:18 - Client Testimonials and Building Purpose Balancing motherhood with a successful photography business is a significant challenge that many women face. This juggling act requires a careful allocation of time and resources between personal responsibilities and professional aspirations. With the demanding nature of both roles, it becomes necessary to strike a balance, and maintain it, in order to ensure both personal happiness and career success. Ensuring consistency on social media platforms is crucial for any business, especially in the visually engaging field of photography. Regular posting helps increase visibility and grow the follower base, while also setting the stage for higher engagement. This increased interaction not only helps in customer acquisition, but also in customer retention, providing significant growth opportunities for the business. Repurposing blog content for social media is an effective, time-saving strategy that enhances online visibility. By converting long-format blog posts into bite-sized, digestible social media content, photographers can engage with their audience in a whole new way. This allows for the optimal usage of resources, leading to better reach and recognition, ultimately driving more clients to the business. Connect with Brittnie: Website: https://brittnierenee.com/photographers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittnierenee_co/ Etsy T-Shirt Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/FinnAndMaeShirtCo Capture The Chaos Planner: https://brittnierenee.com/planner-collection Use code: PODCAST15 for 15% off your planner order Leave a Voice Message:https://www.speakpipe.com/capturethechaospodcast You deserve to have a passionate advocate and a creative thinker by your side to help you build your dream business. If you're ready to take the guesswork out of building a profitable business that fits your life - without hustling every ounce of your free time - it's time to invest in a coach. Learn more about 1:1 coaching.

Who are the most important people in your life and how do you grow your community? Our guest this week is Florence Ann Romano, an accomplished author, childcare advocate, and champion of family support. In this episode, we explore the profound influence of Florence Ann's grandparents, who instilled a deep understanding of the importance of fostering connections. They imparted the invaluable lesson that building strong connections and inviting others into our hearts is a source of strength rather than weakness. With over 15 years of experience as a nanny, Florence Ann has not only authored books and advocated for childcare but has also been actively involved in organizations supporting pediatric research and childhood education. As a founding member of Sesame Street's Leadership Council, Florence Ann is affectionately known as "Auntie Lo" to the honorary kids in her life.  She is also the author of the new book, Build Your Village, which she wrote after the COVID pandemic, when it became evident that nearly everyone globally was having trouble rebuilding quality connections.  Everyone needs a community of supportive people around them. Join us in this episode to discover the six archetypes of a healthy community, how to find the right people for your village, and what to do when your village is lost. What We Discuss in this Episode Defining the concept of a "Village" and understanding how to create one. Identifying the life stages where having a Village is most crucial. Strategies for recognizing potential villagers. The significance of the six archetypes and whether all six are necessary. Ensuring that you have the right people in the right seats within your Village. Practical tips for effectively requesting the support and help you need. How to become a better villager to those in your community. Common obstacles that hinder people from building their own Village. Navigating the challenges when your Village is disrupted or lost. Hearing about personal experiences in identifying needs and constructing one's own Village. Complete Show Notes: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/relationships/471-the-power-of-community-finding-joy-and-connection-in-every-stage-of-life-with-florence-ann-romano   

In this episode of the New York City Bar Association podcast, members of the United Nations Committee – Shubha Chandra, Yveline Dalmacy, Karl Fisher and Sophia Murashkovsky Romma – discuss the Association's recent membership in the UN Global Compact. The conversation touches upon the Global Compact's mission, its fundamental principles, and the broader implications of the partnership for the Bar Association and its members. Ensuring respect for justice, human rights, corporate sustainability, and adhering to the rule of law are important aspects underlined in the discussion. The episode also elaborates on the potential benefits for members such as access to diverse training on corporate sustainability. Access a transcript of this episode here: https://bityl.co/MSo7

If there's one thing I talk about a LOT, it's being very intentional about having a strategy for your  podcast. And while that sounds nice, it might leave you wondering, “But Caroline, what exactly does that look like? What are the different pieces that make up a podcast strategy?” Well, I'm going to paint you a picture that answers precisely those questions. In today's episode, I'm sharing the different components that I've had to consider in developing my own podcast strategy and in helping my clients to do the same. We'll cover everything from including a clear call to action in your episodes, to generating leads in your sleep, to preserving the longevity of your podcast as your business continues to grow.  Start converting your listeners into leads and clients for your business! Grab my FREE Guide to structuring your episodes for sales with our best tips and a guide for solo episodes. Download today to get started! What's in this episode: [02:08] A problem we solved about how to stay excited and get your podcast growing again [05:05] Creating episodes based on the action that you want your listeners to take [07:48] Mapping out a schedule so you can outline and record episodes in advance [09:13] Ensuring that your podcast is helping you generate leads in your sleep [10:32] Repurposing podcast content for other platforms like social media [15:31] Clarifying your message and allowing your podcast to evolve with your business For full show notes and a transcript of today's episode, head to wildhomepodcasting.com/podcast/150

歐洲最暢銷床墊，德國Emma100天免費試睡，全台免運費、免費到府安裝全球榮獲75+獎項，銷售超600萬張Emma官網黑五活動全年最低價5折優惠！折扣碼「english10」額外再9折！https://links.emma-sleep.com.tw/pcenglish. —— 以上為播客煮與 Firstory Podcast 自選廣告 —— ------------------------------- 通勤學英語VIP加值內容與線上課程 ------------------------------- 通勤學英語VIP訂閱方案：https://open.firstory.me/join/15minstoday 社會人核心英語有聲書課程連結：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/554esm ------------------------------- 15Mins.Today 相關連結 ------------------------------- 歡迎針對這一集留言你的想法： 留言連結 主題投稿/意見回覆 : ask15mins@gmail.com 官方網站：www.15mins.today 加入Clubhouse直播室：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/46hm8k 訂閱YouTube頻道：https://15minsengcafe.pse.is/3rhuuy 商業合作/贊助來信：15minstoday@gmail.com ------------------------------- 以下是此單集逐字稿 (播放器有不同字數限制，完整文稿可到官網) ------------------------------- 國際時事跟讀 Ep.K679: Costco的制勝策略：將購物者變成狂粉 Costco's Winning Strategy: Turning Shoppers into Avid Fans Highlights 摘要：Costco's Success Recipe: Costco's success hinges on its unique blend of exclusivity, unwavering dedication to value, and strategic shopping experience design.Customer Obsession: The company's ability to create customer obsession through its tactics, such as exclusive memberships and nostalgic appeal, results in a legion of devoted fans.Profitability and Loyalty: Costco's commitment to low prices, high-quality products, and strong supplier relationships, coupled with its thriving membership program, contributes to impressive profitability and customer loyalty. Costco, the membership-only retail giant, has succeeded in cultivating a fanatical following among its 94 million members worldwide. From its irresistible $5 rotisserie chickens to the allure of free samples, Costco has mastered the art of inspiring customer obsession. This article delves into how the company employs a variety of strategies to transform casual shoppers into ardent Costco fans. Costco，這家只對會員開放的零售巨頭，在全球9400萬會員中培養了一批狂熱的追隨者。從令人難以抗拒的5美元烤雞到免費樣品的誘惑，Costco已經掌握了激發顧客痴迷的功夫。本文深入探討了該公司採用多種策略，將普通消費者轉變為Costco的狂熱粉絲。 One of Costco's primary tactics is the exclusivity offered through its membership program. To shop at Costco's warehouse-like stores, consumers are required to purchase an annual membership, costing $60 for households or businesses and $120 for executive members. This membership requirement not only adds an air of exclusivity to the store but also triggers a psychological phenomenon where customers feel the need to justify their investment by shopping frequently and buying more. This exclusivity is reinforced by the fact that you must be a member to even enter the store. Costco的主要策略之一是通過其會員計劃提供的獨家性。要在Costco的倉庫式商店購物，消費者需要購買年度會員資格，家庭或企業會員需支付60美元，而高級會員則需支付120美元。這種會員資格要求不僅為商店增添了排他性，還引發了一種心理現象，即顧客感到有必要通過頻繁購物和購買更多商品來證明他們的投資。而必須持有會員資格才能進入商店這點更強化了這種排他性。 Costco's dedication to value is another cornerstone of its strategy. The company's emphasis on offering high-quality products at the lowest prices is central to its appeal. Costco prides itself on being an "item business," curating a selection of around 3,700 to 3,800 top-tier products, as opposed to the overwhelming array of items in a Walmart supercenter. The commitment to offering value is exemplified in popular products like the $4.99 rotisserie chicken and the $29.99 sheet cake that serves 48 people. Costco's approach is not to maximize profits but to find the lowest price that still ensures a fair return, making customers loyal to the brand. Costco對價值的追求是其策略的另一基石。公司強調以最低價格提供高品質的產品，這是其吸引人的核心。Costco以“商品業務”為榮，精選大約3700至3800個頂級產品，而不是像沃爾瑪超市裡琳琅滿目的商品。對價值的承諾也在暢銷商品中得以體現，比如售價4.99美元的烤雞和29.99美元能夠供應48人食用的蛋糕。Costco的方法並不追求將利潤最大化，而是在確保公平回報的前提下找到最低價格，使顧客忠於品牌。 Furthermore, Costco enhances the shopping experience by strategically designing store layouts that guide customers through the entire store, ensuring they encounter a variety of appealing items, both necessary and impulse buys. Shoppers are tempted by free samples and occasional freebies, such as massages, all of which contribute to making customers more relaxed and less disciplined, leading to increased sales. Costco's ever-changing lineup of surprise deals, alongside its staples like Kirkland Signature brand products, ensures that shoppers always find something interesting and exciting during their visit. 此外，Costco通過精心設計的商店布局增強了購物體驗，引導顧客瀏覽整個商店，確保他們遇到各種吸引人的商品，既有必需品也有衝動購物型商品。顧客會受到免費樣品和偶爾福利的誘惑（例如按摩），這些都有助於使顧客更加放鬆，減少自律感，從而增加銷售額。Costco不斷變化的驚喜優惠產品系列，以及其固定的Kirkland Signature品牌產品，確保顧客在訪店期間總是能夠找到有趣和令人興奮的東西。 Costco's nostalgic appeal is another driver of customer loyalty. The company originally catered to an older, affluent demographic, the baby boomer generation, but now its appeal has passed down to their children and grandchildren. Many consumers remember visiting Costco with their families, and this shared nostalgia is a key element of the brand's identity. These factors, along with the company's commitment to low prices and high-quality products, have resulted in a legion of devoted Costco fans. Costco's approach may be a template for other retailers aiming to turn shoppers into enthusiastic supporters of their brand. Costco的懷舊吸引力是客戶忠誠度的另一個驅動力。該公司最初面向的是年長的富裕消費者，即嬰兒潮一代，但現在其吸引力已傳給了他們的子孫輩。許多消費者記得與家人一起去Costco購物，這種共同的懷舊感成為品牌形象的關鍵元素。這些因素加上公司對低價和高品質產品的承諾，使Costco擁有一批忠實的粉絲。Costco的作法有望成為其他零售同業將購物者變成品牌簇擁者的模板。 Keyword Drills 關鍵字：Exclusivity (ex-clu-siv-i-ty): "One of Costco's primary tactics is the exclusivity offered through its membership program."Obsession (ob-ses-sion): From its irresistible $5 rotisserie chickens to the allure of free samples, Costco has mastered the art of inspiring customer obsession.Irresistible ( ir-re-sist-i-ble): From its irresistible $5 rotisserie chickens to the allure of free samples, Costco has mastered the art of inspiring customer obsession.Phenomenon (phe-nom-e-non): "This membership requirement not only adds an air of exclusivity to the store but also triggers a psychological phenomenon where customers feel the need to justify their investment by shopping frequently and buying more."Necessary (nec-es-sar-y): Ensuring customers encounter a variety of appealing items, both necessary and impulse buys. Reference article: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/hooked-how-costco-turns-customers-into-fanatics.html

Are children domestic violence victims in their own right? Are they co-victims with the adult survivor? What is the relationship between the child and the adult survivors' experiencesHow do we hold domestic violence perpetrators accountable in their role as parents? How do we consider the child's relationship to the perpetrator in decisions related to them? How do we make sure both adult and child survivors receive the support they need and deserve? How do we consider the best interests of child survivors as we craft our policy and practice response to domestic violence? How do we ensure that child survivors' voices are heard in matters that are relevant to them? These are some of the critical questions being asked around the globe as governments, through their courts, legislatures and agencies, work to ensure the safety and well-being of children impacted by domestic violence perpetrators' behaviors. They are not just academic questions as they are central to decisions made every day by governmental bodies like child protection and family court.  For governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a primary touchstone for these questions is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the most widely accepted human rights document in history.  From its inception the Safe & Together Model has employed a robust child-centered framework to keep the focus on children's experience, needs and wishes in the context of domestic violence cases. Compared to other domestic violence assessment and practice frameworks which often treat children as an afterthought to the safety and well-being of the adult survivor, the Safe & Together Model has always focused on addressing the children's distinct lived experiences. It differs dramatically from other approaches which assume that you don't need to focus separately on the experience of the child but only need to keep the children safe by keeping the adult survivor safe — in essence making invisible the unique and individual experience of the child. In this episode, David and Ruth discuss how the Safe & Together Model supports the rights of children through the lens of its alignment with the UNCRC. With a special focus on the "voice of the child" (Article 12) and children's best interest decision-making (Article 3),  David Ruth talk aboutHow domestic violence perpetrators' actions attack children's human rightsHow a literal interpretation of the "voice of the child" is not enough especially when it comes to the most vulnerable childrenHow many of perpetrator's behaviors of coercive control happen outside a child's view but still impacts themHow the Model helps listen deeply and understand children's experience  and assists in best interest decision making in domestic violence cases involving children Now available! Mapping the Perpetrator's Pattern: A Practitioner's Tool for Improving Assessment, Intervention, and Outcomes The web-based Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool is a virtual practice tool for improving assessment, intervention, and outcomes through a perpetrator pattern-based approach. The tool allows practitioners to apply the Model's critical concepts and principles to their current case load in real

Don't kid your selves, there is no cleaner source for low-cost, low carbon, electricity than Nuclear. In our interview not only was it a fun talk about hope, it was about abundant energy and jobs for the next generation!We covered everything from nuclear fusion, fission, renewable, and a positive look for a balanced energy grid going forward. Grace's journey is an excellent role model for everyone, and I even recommended her for Secretary of Energy! I would like to have a discussion with Grace and Meredith Angwin, author of "Shorting The Grid" to cover more grid-related topics. Grace and Meredith have the same passion for low-cost, clean energy and it shows.Grace is a current student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, She is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering. And is the current Miss America 2023, traveling the nation to promote her social impact initiative "Clean Energy, Cleaner Future" and discuss the misconceptions surrounding nuclear energy. As a former co-op in Constellations's Nuclear Fuels department, she gained work experience within core design and fuel enrichment. Thank you Grace for stopping by the podcast, it was a blast! Stu 00:03 - Intro01:05 - How do we get the next generation of engineers? How do we get the next generation in there?03:01 - So what's it like being the representative for Miss America?04:45 - Now encouraging the next generation of engineers. What are you hearing from students out there?06:54 - It was Colorado where a nuclear reactor is starting up, where you just saw that one. How was that experience?08:32 - Grace Stanke appreciates the energy secretary position consideration but stresses the need for practical engineering experience before pursuing politics. She emphasizes the importance of politicians having relevant qualifications and field experience.12:32 - Baseload power, comprising 70% of the grid, is vital for daily functions. Ensuring reliable power is crucial, as seen in the Texas freeze, where power outages had life-threatening consequences.16:02 - Where do you see yourself going after the Miss America job that you have?21:33 - Can you imagine having your own nuclear reactor? Having a basement.23:08 - Her potential attendance at COP 28 in Dubai, expressing her interest in conversing with attendees, and highlighting the changing dynamics where big oil companies are shifting towards green initiatives,27:09 - Are you interested in all forms of nuclear, whether it's uranium, normal fission, thorium, do you care? What is your passion there?29:08 - What was the toughest question you had in the Miss America competition when they were the judges were asking you questions?32:34 - What are your last thoughts as we're coming around the close here? Give us the world according to Grace.34:35 - OutroConnect and Follow Grace on her LinkedIn HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-stanke-48700519b/

On episode 92 of PSQH: The Podcast, Korey Johnson, managing partner at Bold Insight, talks about ensuring that medical device research is safe for patients.

David was the chief software architect and director of engineering at Stitch Fix. He's also the author of a number of books including Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails and most recently Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq. He talks about how he made decisions while working with a medium sized team (~200 developers) at Stitch Fix. The audio quality for the first 19 minutes is not great but the correct microphones turn on right after that. Recorded at RubyConf 2023 in San Diego. A few topics covered: Ruby's origins at Stitch Fix Thoughts on Go Choosing technology and cloud services Moving off heroku Building a platform team Where Ruby and Rails fit in today The role of books and how different people learn Large Language Model's effects on technical content Related Links David's Blog Mastodon Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub. Intro [00:00:00] Jeremy: Today. I want to share another conversation from RubyConf San Diego. This time it's with David Copeland. He was a chief software architect and director of engineering at stitch fix. And at the start of the conversation, you're going to hear about why he decided to write the book, sustainable web development with Ruby on rails. Unfortunately, you're also going to notice the sound quality isn't too good. We had some technical difficulties. But once you hit the 20 minute mark of the recording, the mics are going to kick in. It's going to sound way better. So I hope you stick with it. Enjoy. Ruby at Stitch Fix [00:00:35] David: Stitch Fix was a Rails shop. I had done a lot of Rails and learned a lot of things that worked and didn't work, at least in that situation. And so I started writing them down and I was like, I should probably make this more than just a document that I keep, you know, privately on my computer. Uh, so that's, you know, kind of, kind of where the genesis of that came from and just tried to, write everything down that I thought what worked, what didn't work. Uh, if you're in a situation like me. Working on a product, with a medium sized, uh, team, then I think the lessons in there will be useful, at least some of them. Um, and I've been trying to keep it up over, over the years. I think the first version came out a couple years ago, so I've been trying to make sure it's always up to date with the latest stuff and, and Rails and based on my experience and all that. [00:01:20] Jeremy: So it's interesting that you mention, medium sized team because, during the, the keynote, just a few moments ago, Matz the creator of Ruby was talking about how like, Oh, Rails is really suitable for this, this one person team, right? Small, small team. And, uh, he was like, you're not Google. So like, don't worry about, right. Can you scale to that level? Yeah. Um, and, and I wonder like when you talk about medium size or medium scale, like what are, what are we talking? [00:01:49] David: I think probably under 200 developers, I would say. because when I left Stitch Fix, it was closing in on that number of developers. And so it becomes, you know, hard to... You can kind of know who everybody is, or at least the names sound familiar of everybody. But beyond that, it's just, it's just really hard. But a lot of it was like, I don't have experience at like a thousand developer company. I have no idea what that's like, but I definitely know that Rails can work for like... 200 ish people how you can make it work basically. yeah. [00:02:21] Jeremy: The decision to use Rails, I'm assuming that was made before you joined? [00:02:26] David: Yeah, the, um, the CTO of Stitch Fix, he had come in to clean up a mess made by contractors, as often happens. They had used Django, which is like the Python version of Rails. And he, the CTO, he was more familiar with Rails. So the first two developers he hired, also familiar with Rails. There wasn't a lot to maintain with the Django app, so they were like, let's just start fresh, fresh with Rails. yeah, but it's funny because a lot of the code in that Rails app was, like, transliterated from Python. So you could, it would, it looked like the strangest Ruby code in the world because it was basically, there was no test. So they were like, let's just write the Ruby version of this Python just so we know it works. but obviously that didn't, didn't last forever, so. [00:03:07] Jeremy: So, so what's an example of a, of a tell? Where you're looking at the code and you're like, oh, this is clearly, it came from Python. [00:03:15] David: You'd see like, very, very explicit, right? Like Python, there's a lot of like single line things. very like, this sounds like a dig, but it's very simple looking code. Like, like I don't know Python, but I was able to change this Django app. And I had to, I could look at it and you can figure out immediately how it works. Cause there's. Not much to it. There's nothing fancy. So, like, this, this Ruby code, there was nothing fancy. You'd be like, well, maybe they should have memoized that, or maybe they should have taken that into another class, or you could have done this with a hash or something like that. So there was, like, none of that. It was just, like, really basic, plain code like you would see in any beginning programming language kind of thing. Which is at least nice. You can understand it. but you probably wouldn't have written it that way at first in Ruby. Thoughts on Go [00:04:05] Jeremy: Yeah, that's, that's interesting because, uh, people sometimes talk about the Go programming language and how it looks, I don't know if simple is the right word, but it's something where you look at the code and even if you don't necessarily understand Go, it's relatively straightforward. Yeah. I wonder what your thoughts are on that being a strength versus that being, like, [00:04:25] David: Yeah, so at Stitch Fix at one point we had a pro, we were moving off of Heroku and we were going to, basically build a deployment platform using ECS on AWS. And so the deployment platform was a Rails app and we built a command line tool using Ruby. And it was fine, but it was a very complicated command line tool and it was very slow. And so one of the developers was like, I'm going to rewrite it in Go. I was like, ugh, you know, because I just was not a big fan. So he rewrote it in Go. It was a bazillion times faster. And then I was like, okay, I'm going to add, I'll add a feature to it. It was extremely easy. Like, it's just like what you said. I looked at it, like, I don't know anything about Go. I know what is happening here. I can copy and paste this and change things and make it work for what I want to do. And it did work. And it was, it was pretty easy. so there's that, I mean, aesthetically it's pretty ugly and it's, I, I. I can't really defend that as a real reason to not use it, but it is kind of gross. I did do Go, I did a small project in Go after Stitch Fix, and there's this vibe in Go about like, don't create abstractions. I don't know where I got that from, but every Go I look at, I'm like we should make an abstraction for this, but it's just not the vibe. They just don't like doing that. They like it all written out. And I see the value because you can look at the code and know what it does and you don't have to chase abstractions anywhere. But. I felt like I was copying and pasting a lot of, a lot of things. Um, so I don't know. I mean, the, the team at Stitch Fix that did this like command line app in go, they're the platform team. And so their job isn't to write like web apps all day, every day. There's kind of in and out of all kinds of things. They have to try to figure out something that they don't understand quickly to debug a problem. And so I can see the value of something like go if that's your job, right? You want to go in and see what the issue is. Figure it out and be done and you're not going to necessarily develop deep expertise and whatever that thing is that you're kind of jumping into. Day to day though, I don't know. I think it would make me kind of sad. (laughs) [00:06:18] Jeremy: So, so when you say it would make you kind of sad, I mean, what, what about it? Is it, I mean, you mentioned that there's a lot of copy and pasting, so maybe there's code duplication, but are there specific things where you're like, oh, I just don't? [00:06:31] David: Yeah, so I had done a lot of Java in my past life and it felt very much like that. Where like, like the Go library for making an HTTP call for like, I want to call some web service. It's got every feature you could ever want. Everything is tweakable. You can really, you can see why it's designed that way. To dial in some performance issue or solve some really esoteric thing. It's there. But the problem is if you just want to get an JSON, it's just like huge production. And I felt like that's all I really want to do and it's just not making it very easy. And it just felt very, very cumbersome. I think that having to declare types also is a little bit of a weird mindset because, I mean, I like to make types in Ruby, I like to make classes, but I also like to just use hashes and stuff to figure it out. And then maybe I'll make a class if I figure it out, but Go, you can't. You have to have a class, you have to have a type, you have to think all that ahead of time, and it just, I'm not used to working that way, so it felt, I mean, I guess I could get used to it, but I just didn't warm up to that sort of style of working, so it just felt like I was just kind of fighting with the vibe of the language, kind of. Yeah, [00:07:40] Jeremy: so it's more of the vibe or the feel where you're writing it and you're like this seems a little too... Explicit. I feel like I have to be too verbose. It just doesn't feel natural for me to write this. [00:07:53] David: Right, it's not optimized for what in my mind is the obvious case. And maybe that's not the obvious case for the people that write Go programs. But for me, like, I just want to like get this endpoint and get the JSON back as a map. Not any easier than any other case, right? Whereas like in Ruby, right? And you can, I think if you include net HTTP, you can just type get. And it will just return whatever that is. Like, that's amazing. It's optimized for what I think is a very common use case. So it makes me feel really productive. It makes me feel pretty good. And if that doesn't work out long term, I can always use something more complicated. But I'm not required to dig into the NetHttp library just to do what in my mind is something very simple. [00:08:37] Jeremy: Yeah, I think that's something I've noticed myself in working with Ruby. I mean, you have the standard library that's very... Comprehensive and the API surface is such that, like you said there, when you're trying to do common tasks, a lot of times they have a call you make and it kind of does the thing you expected or hoped for. [00:08:56] David: Yeah, yeah. It's kind of, I mean, it's that whole optimized for programmer happiness thing. Like it does. That is the vibe of Ruby and it seems like that is still the way things are. And, you know, I, I suppose if I had a different mindset, I mean, because I work with developers who did not like using Ruby or Rails. They loved using Go or Java. And I, I guess there's probably some psychological analysis we could do about their background and history and mindset that makes that make sense. But, to me, I don't know. It's, it's nice when it's pleasant. And Ruby seems pleasant. (laughs) Choosing Technology [00:09:27] Jeremy: as a... Software Architect, or as a CTO, when, when you're choosing technology, what are some of the things you look at in terms of, you know? [00:09:38] David: Yeah, I mean, I think, like, it's a weird criteria, but I think what is something that the team is capable of executing with? Because, like, most, right, most programming languages all kind of do the same thing. Like, you can kind of get most stuff done in most common popular programming languages. So, it's probably not... It's not true that if you pick the wrong language, you can't build the app. Like, that's probably not really the case. At least for like a web app or something. so it's more like, what is the team that's here to do it? What are they comfortable and capable of doing? I worked on a project with... It was a mix of like junior engineers who knew JavaScript, and then some senior engineers from Google. And for whatever reason someone had chosen a Rails app and none of them were comfortable or really yet competent with doing Ruby on Rails and they just all hated it and like it didn't work very well. Um, and so even though, yes, Rails is a good choice for doing stuff for that team at that moment. Not a good choice. Right. So I think you have to go in and like, what, what are we going to be able to execute on so that when the business wants us to do something, we just do it. And we don't complain and we don't say, Oh, well we can't because this technology that we chose, blah, blah, blah. Like you don't ever want to say that if possible. So I think that's. That's kind of the, the top thing. I think second would be how widely supported is it? Like you don't want to be the cutting edge user that's finding all the bugs in something really. Like you want to use something that's stable. Postgres, MySQL, like those work, those are fine. The bugs have been sorted out for most common use cases. Some super fancy edge database, I don't know if I'd want to be doing, doing that you know? Choosing cloud services [00:11:15] Jeremy: How do you feel about the cloud specific services and databases? Like are you comfortable saying like, oh, I'm going to use... Google Cloud, BigQuery. Yeah. [00:11:27] David: That sort of thing. I think it would kind of fall under the same criteria that I was just, just saying like, so with AWS it's interesting 'cause when we moved from Heroku to AWS by EC2 RDS, their database thing, uh, S3, those have been around for years, probably those are gonna work, but they always introduce new things. Like we, we use RabbitMQ and AWS came out with. Some, I forget what it was, it was a queuing service similar to Rabbit. We were like, Oh, maybe we should switch to that. But it was clear that they weren't really ready to support it. So. Yeah, so we didn't, we didn't switch to that. So I, you gotta try to read the tea leaves of the provider to see are they committed to, to supporting this thing or is this there to get some enterprise client to move into the cloud. And then the idea is to move off of that transitional thing into what they do support. And it's hard to get a clear answer from them too. So it takes a little bit of research to figure out, Are they going to support this or not? Because that's what you don't want. To move everything into some very proprietary cloud system and have them sunset it and say, Oh yeah, now you've got to switch again. Uh, that kind of sucks. So, it's a little trickier. [00:12:41] Jeremy: And what kind of questions or research do you do? Is it purely a function of this thing has existed for X number of years so I feel okay? [00:12:52] David: I mean, it's kind of similar to looking at like some gem you're going to add to your project, right? So you'll, you'll look at how often does it change? Is it being updated? Uh, what is the documentation? Does it look like someone really cared about the documentation? Does the documentation look updated? Are there issues with it that are being addressed or, or not? Um, so those are good signals. I think, talking to other practitioners too can be good. Like if you've got someone who's experienced. You can say, hey, do you know anybody back channeling through, like, everybody knows somebody that works at AWS, you can probably try to get something there. at Stitch Fix, we had an enterprise support contract, and so your account manager will sometimes give you good information if you ask. Again, it's a, they're not going to come out and say, don't use this product that we have, but they might communicate that in a subtle way. So you have to triangulate from all these sources to try to. to try to figure out what, what you want to do. [00:13:50] Jeremy: Yeah, it kind of makes me wish that there was a, a site like, maybe not quite like, can I use, right? Can I use, you can see like, oh, can I use this in my browser? Is there, uh, like an AWS or a Google Cloud? Can I trust this? Can I trust this? Yeah. Is this, is this solid or not? [00:14:04] David: Right, totally. It's like, there's that, that site where you, it has all the Apple products and it says whether or not you should buy it because one may or may not be coming out or they may be getting rid of it. Like, yeah, that would... For cloud services, that would be, that would be nice. [00:14:16] Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. That's like the Mac Buyer's Guide. And then we, we need the, uh, the technology. Yeah. Maybe not buyers. Cloud Provider Buyer's Guide, yeah. I guess we are buyers. [00:14:25] David: Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. [00:14:27] Jeremy: it's interesting that you, you mentioned how you want to see that, okay, this thing is mature. I think it's going to stick around because, I, interviewed, someone who worked on, I believe it was the CloudWatch team. Okay. Daniel Vassalo, yeah. so he left AWS, uh, after I think about 10 years, and then he wrote a book called, uh, The Good Parts of AWS. Oh! And, if you read his book, most of the services he says to use are the ones that are, like, old. Yeah. He's, he's basically saying, like, S3, you know you're good. Yeah. Right? but then all these, if you look at the AWS webpage, they have who knows, I don't know how many hundreds of services. Yeah. He's, he's kind of like I worked there and I would not use, you know, all these new services. 'cause I myself, I don't trust [00:15:14] David: it yet. Right. And so, and they're working there? Yeah, they're working there. Yeah. No. One of the VPs at Stitch Fix had worked on Google Cloud and so when we were doing this transition from Heroku, he was like, we are not using Google Cloud. I was like, really? He's like AWS is far ahead of the game. Do not use Google Cloud. I was like, all right, I don't need any more info. You work there. You said don't. I'm gonna believe you. So [00:15:36] Jeremy: what, what was his did he have like a core point? [00:15:39] David: Um, so he never really had anything bad to say about Google per se. Like I think he enjoyed his time there and I think he thought highly of who he worked with and what he worked on and that sort of thing. But his, where he was coming from was like AWS was so far ahead. of Google on anything that we would use, he was like, there's, there's really no advantage to, to doing it. AWS is a known quantity, right? it's probably still the case. It's like, you know, you've heard the nobody ever got fired for using IBM or using Microsoft or whatever the thing is. Like, I think that's, that was kind of the vibe. And he was like, moving all of our infrastructure right before we're going to go public. This is a serious business. We should just use something that we know will work. And he was like, I know this will work. I'm not confident about. Google, uh, for our use case. So we shouldn't, we shouldn't risk it. So I was like, okay, I trust you because I didn't know anything about any of that stuff at the time. I knew Heroku and that was it. So, yeah. [00:16:34] Jeremy: I don't know if it's good or bad, but like you said, AWS seems to be the default choice. Yeah. And I mean, there's people who use Azure. I assume it's mostly primarily Microsoft. Yeah. And then there's Google Cloud. It's not really clear why you would pick it, unless there was a specific service or something that only they had. [00:16:55] David: Yeah, yeah. Or you're invested in Google, you know, you want to keep everything there. I mean, I don't know. I haven't really been at that level to make that kind of decision, and I would probably choose AWS for the reasons discussed, but, yeah. Moving off Heroku [00:17:10] Jeremy: And then, so at Stitch Fix, you said you moved off of Heroku [00:17:16] David: yeah. Yeah, so we were heavy into Heroku. I think that we were told that at one point we had the biggest Heroku Postgres database on their platform. Not a good place to be, right? You never want to be the biggest customer person, usually. but the problem we were facing was essentially we were going to go public. And to do that, you're under all the scrutiny. about many things, including the IT systems and the security around there. So, like, by default, a Postgres, a Heroku Postgres database is, like, on the internet. It's only secured by the password. all their services are on the internet. So, not, not ideal. they were developing their private cloud service at that time. And so that would have given us, in theory, on paper, it would have solved all of our problems. And we liked Heroku and we liked the developer experience. It was great. but... Heroku private spaces, it was still early. There's a lot of limitations that when they explained why those limitations, they were reasonable. And if we had. started from scratch on Heroku Private Spaces. It probably would have worked great, but we hadn't. So we just couldn't make it work. So we were like, okay, we're going to have to move to AWS so that everything can be basically off the internet. Like our public website needs to be on the internet and that's kind of it. So we need to, so that's basically was the, was the impetus for that. but it's too bad because I love Heroku. It was great. I mean, they were, they were a great partner. They were great. I think if Stitch Fix had started life a year later, Private Spaces. Now it's, it's, it's way different than it was then. Cause it's been, it's a mature product now, so we could have easily done that, but you know, the timing didn't work out, unfortunately. [00:18:50] Jeremy: And that was a compliance thing to, [00:18:53] David: Yeah. And compliance is weird cause they don't tell you what to do, but they give you some parameters that you need to meet. And so one of them is like how you control access. So, so going public, the compliance is around the financial data and. Ensuring that the financial data is accurate. So a lot of the systems at Stichfix were storing the financial data. We, you know, the warehouse management system was custom made. Uh, all the credit card processing was all done, like it was all in some databases that we had running in Heroku. And so those needed to be subject to stricter security than we could achieve with just a single password that we just had to remember to rotate when someone like left the team. So that was, you know, the kind of, the kind of impetus for, for all of that. [00:19:35] Jeremy: when you were using Heroku, Salesforce would have already owned it then. Did you, did you get any sense that you weren't really sure about the future of the platform while you're on it or, [00:19:45] David: At that time, no, it seemed like they were still innovating. So like, Heroku has a Redis product now. They didn't at the time we wish that they did. They told us they're working on it, but it wasn't ready. We didn't like using the third parties. Kafka was not a thing. We very much were interested in that. We would have totally used it if it was there. So they were still. Like doing bigger innovations then, then it seems like they are now. I don't know. It's weird. Like they're still there. They still make money, I assume for Salesforce. So it doesn't feel like they're going away, but they're not innovating at the pace that they were kind of back in the day. [00:20:20] Jeremy: it used to feel like when somebody's asking, I want to host a Rails app. Then you would say like, well, use Heroku because it's basically the easiest to get started. It's a known quantity and it's, it's expensive, but, it seemed for, for most people, it was worth it. and then now if I talk to people, it's like. Not what people suggest anymore. [00:20:40] David: Yeah, because there's, there's actual competitors. It's crazy to me that there was no competitors for years, and now there's like, Render and Fly. io seem to be the two popular alternatives. Um, I doubt they're any cheaper, honestly, but... You get a sense, right, that they're still innovating, still building those platforms, and they can build with, you know, all of the knowledge of what has come before them, and do things differently that might, that might help. So, I still use Heroku for personal things just because I know it, and I, you know, sometimes you don't feel like learning a new thing when you just want to get something done, but, yeah, I, I don't know if we were starting again, I don't know, maybe I'd look into those things. They, they seem like they're getting pretty mature and. Heroku's resting on its laurels, still. [00:21:26] Jeremy: I guess I never quite the mindset, right? Where you You have a platform that's doing really well and people really like it and you acquire it and then it just It seems like you would want to keep it rolling, right? (laughs) [00:21:38] David: Yeah, it's, it is wild, I mean, I guess... Why did you, what was Salesforce thinking they were going to get? Uh, who knows maybe the person at Salesforce that really wanted to purchase it isn't there. And so no one at Salesforce cares about it. I mean, there's all these weird company politics that like, who knows what's going on and you could speculate. all day. What's interesting is like, there's definitely some people in the Ruby community who work there and still are working there. And that's like a little bit of a canary for me. I'm like, all right, well, if that person's still working there, that person seems like they're on the level and, and, and, and seems pretty good. They're still working there. It, it's gotta be still a cool place to be or still doing something, something good. But, yeah, I don't know. I would, I would love to know what was going on in all the Salesforce meetings about acquiring that, how to manage it. What are their plans for it? I would love to know that stuff. [00:22:29] Jeremy: maybe you had some experience with this at Stitch Fix But I've heard with Heroku some of their support staff at least in the past they would, to some extent, actually help you troubleshoot, like, what's going on with your app. Like, if your app is, like, using a whole bunch of memory, and you're out of memory, um, they would actually kind of look into that, for you, which is interesting, because it's like, that's almost like a services thing than it is just a platform. [00:22:50] David: Yeah. I mean, they, their support, you would get, you would get escalated to like an engineer sometimes, like who worked on that stuff and they would help figure out what the problem was. Like you got the sense that everybody there really wanted the platform to be good and that they were all sort of motivated to make sure that everybody. You know, did well and used the platform. And they also were good at, like a thing that trips everybody up about Heroku is that your app restarts every day. And if you don't know anything about anything, you might think that is stupid. Why, why would I want that? That's annoying. And I definitely went through that and I complained to them a lot. And I'm like, if you only could not restart. And they very patiently and politely explained to me why that it needed to do that, they weren't going to remove that, and how to think about my app given that reality, right? Which is great because like, what company does that, right? From the engineers that are working on it, like No, nobody does that. So, yeah, no, I haven't escalated anything to support at Heroku in quite some time, so I don't know if it's still like that. I hope it is, but I'm not really, not really sure. Building a platform team [00:23:55] Jeremy: Yeah, that, uh, that reminds me a little bit of, I think it's Rackspace? There's, there's, like, another hosting provider that was pretty popular before, and they... Used to be famous for that type of support, where like your, your app's having issues and somebody's actually, uh, SSHing into your box and trying to figure out like, okay, what's going on? which if, if that's happening, then I, I can totally see where the, the price is justified. But if the support is kind of like dropping off to where it's just, they don't do that kind of thing, then yeah, I can see why it's not so much of a, yeah, [00:24:27] David: We used to think of Heroku as like they were the platform team before we had our own platform team and they, they acted like it, which was great. [00:24:35] Jeremy: Yeah, I don't have, um, experience with, render, but I, I, I did, talk to someone from there, and it does seem like they're, they're trying to fill that role, um, so, yeah, hopefully, they and, and other companies, I guess like Vercel and things like that, um, they're, they're all trying to fill that space, [00:24:55] David: Yeah, cause, cause building our own internal platform, I mean it was the right thing to do, but it's, it's a, you can't just, you have to have a team on it, it's complicated, getting all the stuff in AWS to work the way you want it to work, to have it be kind of like Heroku, like it's not trivial. if I'm a one person company, I don't want to be messing around with that particularly. I want to just have it, you know, push it up and have it go and I'm willing to pay for that. So it seems logical that there would be competitors in that space. I'm glad there are. Hopefully that'll light a fire under, under everybody. [00:25:26] Jeremy: so in your case, it sounds like you moved to having your own platform team and stuff like that, uh, partly because of the compliance thing where you're like, we need our, we need to be isolated from the internet. We're going to go to AWS. If you didn't have that requirement, do you still think like that would have been the time to, to have your own platform team and manage that all yourself? [00:25:46] David: I don't know. We, we were thinking an issue that we were running into when we got bigger, um, was that, I mean, Heroku, it, It's obviously not as flexible as AWS, but it is still very flexible. And so we had a lot of internal documentation about this is how you use Heroku to do X, Y, and Z. This is how you set up a Stitch Fix app for Heroku. Like there was just the way that we wanted it to be used to sort of. Just make it all manageable. And so we were considering having a team spun up to sort of add some tooling around that to sort of make that a little bit easier for everybody. So I think there may have been something around there. I don't know if it would have been called a platform team. Maybe we call, we thought about calling it like developer happiness or because you got developer experience or something. We, we probably would have had something there, but. I do wonder how easy it would have been to fund that team with developers if we hadn't had these sort of business constraints around there. yeah, um, I don't know. You get to a certain size, you need some kind of manageability and consistency no matter what you're using underneath. So you've got to have, somebody has to own it to make sure that it's, that it's happening. [00:26:50] Jeremy: So even at your, your architect level, you still think it would have been a challenge to, to. Come to the executive team and go like, I need funding to build this team. [00:27:00] David: You know, certainly it's a challenge because everybody, you know, right? Nobody wants to put developers in anything, right? There are, there are a commodity and I mean, that is kind of the job of like, you know, the staff engineer or the architect at a company is you don't have, you don't have the power to put anybody on anything you, you have the power to Schedule a meeting with a VP or the CTO and they will listen to you. And that's basically, you've got to use that power to convince them of what you want done. And they're all reasonable people, but they're balancing 20 other priorities. So it would, I would have had to, it would have been a harder case to make that, Hey, I want to take three engineers. And have them write tooling to make Heroku easier to use. What? Heroku is not easy to use. Why aren't, you know, so you really, I would, it would be a little bit more of a stretch to walk them through it. I think a case could be made, but, definitely would take some more, more convincing than, than what was needed in our case. [00:27:53] Jeremy: Yeah. And I guess if you're able to contrast that with, you were saying, Oh, I need three people to help me make Heroku easier. Your actual platform team on AWS, I imagine was much larger, right? [00:28:03] David: Initially it was, there was, it was three people did the initial move over. And so by the time we went public, we'd been on this new system for, I don't know, six to nine months. I can't remember exactly. And so at that time the platform team was four or five people, and I, I mean, so percentage wise, right, the engineering team was maybe almost 200, 150, 200. So percentage wise, maybe a little small, I don't know. but it kind of gets back to the power of like the rails and the one person framework. Like everything we did was very much the same And so the Rails app that managed the deployment was very simple. The, the command line app, even the Go one with all of its verbosity was very, very simple. so it was pretty easy for that small team to manage. but, Yeah, so it was sort of like for redundancy, we probably needed more than three or four people because you know, somebody goes out sick or takes a vacation. That's a significant part of the team. But in terms of like just managing the complexity and building it and maintaining it, like it worked pretty well with, you know, four or five people. Where Rails fits in vs other technology [00:29:09] Jeremy: So during the Keynote today, they were talking about how companies like GitHub and Shopify and so on, they're, they're using Rails and they're, they're successful and they're fairly large. but I think the thing that was sort of unsaid was the fact that. These companies, while they use Rails, they use a lot of other, technology as well. And, and, and kind of increasing amounts as well. So, I wonder from your perspective, either from your experience at StitchFix or maybe going forward, what is the role that, that Ruby and Rails plays? Like, where does it make sense for that to be used versus like, Okay, we need to go and build something in Java or, you know, or Go, that sort of thing? [00:29:51] David: right. I mean, I think for like your standard database backed web app, it's obviously great. especially if your sort of mindset bought into server side rendering, it's going to be great at that. so like internal tools, like the customer service dashboard or... You know, something for like somebody who works at a company to use. Like, it's really great because you can go super fast. You're not going to be under a lot of performance constraints. So you kind of don't even have to think about it. Don't even have to solve it. You can, but you don't have to, where it wouldn't work, I guess, you know, if you have really strict performance. Requirements, you know, like a, a Go version of some API server is going to use like percentages of what, of what Rails would use. If that's meaningful, if what you're spending on memory or compute is, is meaningful, then, then yeah. That, that becomes worthy of consideration. I guess if you're, you know, if you're making a mobile app, you probably need to make a mobile app and use those platforms. I mean, I guess you can wrap a Rails app sort of, but you're still making, you still need to make a mobile app, that does something. yeah. And then, you know, interestingly, the data science part of Stitch Fix was not part of the engineering team. They were kind of a separate org. I think Ruby and Rails was probably the only thing they didn't use over there. Like all the ML stuff, everything is either Java or Scala or Python. They use all that stuff. And so, yeah, if you want to do AI and ML with Ruby, you, it's, it's hard cause there's just not a lot there. You really probably should use Python. It'll make your life easier. so yeah, those would be some of the considerations, I guess. [00:31:31] Jeremy: Yeah, so I guess in the case of, ML, Python, certainly, just because of the, the ecosystem, for maybe making a command line application, maybe Go, um, Go or Rust, perhaps, [00:31:44] David: Right. Cause you just get a single binary. Like the problem, I mean, I wrote this book on Ruby command line apps and the biggest problem is like, how do I get the Ruby VM to be anywhere so that it can then run my like awesome scripts? Like that's kind of a huge pain. (laughs) So [00:31:59] Jeremy: and then you said, like, if it's Very performance sensitive, which I am kind of curious in, in your experience with the companies you've worked at, when you're taking on a project like that, do you know up front where you're like, Oh, the CPU and memory usage is going to be a problem, or is it's like you build it and you're like, Oh, this isn't working. So now I know. [00:32:18] David: yeah, I mean, I, I don't have a ton of great experience there at Stitch Fix. The biggest expense the company had was the inventory. So like the, the cost of AWS was just de minimis compared to all that. So nobody ever came and said, Hey, you've got to like really save costs on, on that stuff. Cause it just didn't really matter. at the, the mental health startup I was at, it was too early. But again, the labor costs were just far, far exceeded the amount of money I was spending on, on, um, you know, compute and infrastructure and stuff like that. So, Not knowing anything, I would probably just sort of wait and see if it's a problem. But I suppose you always take into account, like, what am I actually building? And like, what does this business have to scale to, to make it worthwhile? And therefore you can kind of do a little bit of planning ahead there. But, I dunno, I think it would kind of have to depend. [00:33:07] Jeremy: There's a sort of, I guess you could call it a meme, where people say like, Oh, it's, it's not, it's not Rails that's slow, it's the, the database that's slow. And, uh, I wonder, is that, is that accurate in your experience, or, [00:33:20] David: I mean, most of the stuff that we had that was slow was the database, because like, it's really easy to write a crappy query in Rails if you're not, if you're not careful, and then it's really easy to design a database that doesn't have any indexes if you're not careful. Like, you, you kind of need to know that, But of course, those are easy to fix too, because you just add the index, especially if it's before the database gets too big where we're adding indexes is problematic. But, I think those are just easy performance mistakes to make. Uh, especially with Rails because you're not, I mean, a lot of the Rails developers at Citrix did not know SQL at all. I mean, they had to learn it eventually, but they didn't know it at all. So they're not even knowing that what they're writing could possibly be problematic. It's just, you're writing it the Rails way and it just kind of works. And at a small scale, it does. And it doesn't matter until, until one day it does. [00:34:06] Jeremy: And then in, in the context of, let's say, using ActiveRecord and instantiating the objects, or, uh, the time it takes to render templates, that kinds of things, to, at least in your experience, that wasn't such of an issue. [00:34:20] David: No, and it was always, I mean, whenever we looked at why something was slow, it was always the database and like, you know, you're iterating over some active records and then, and then, you know, you're going into there and you're just following this object graph. I've got a lot of the, a lot of the software at Stitch Fix was like internal stuff and it was visualizing complicated data out of the database. And so if you didn't think about it, you would just start dereferencing and following those relationships and you have this just massive view and like the HTML is fine. It's just that to render this div, you're. Digging into some active record super deep. and so, you know, that was usually the, the, the problems that we would see and they're usually easy enough to fix by making an index or. Sometimes you do some caching or something like that. and that solved most of the, most of the issues [00:35:09] Jeremy: The different ways people learn [00:35:09] Jeremy: so you're also the author of the book, Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails. And when you talk to people about like how they learn things, a lot of them are going on YouTube, they're going on, uh, you know, looking for blogs and things like that. And so as an author, what do you think the role is of, of books now? Yeah, [00:35:29] David: I have thought about this a lot, because I, when I first got started, I'm pretty old, so books were all you had, really. Um, so they seem very normal and natural to me, but... does someone want to sit down and read a 400 page technical book? I don't know. so Dave Thomas who runs Pragmatic Bookshelf, he was on a podcast and was asked the same question and basically his answer, which is my answer, is like a long form book is where you can really lay out your thinking, really clarify what you mean, really take the time to develop sometimes nuanced, examples or nuanced takes on something that are Pretty hard to do in a short form video or in a blog post. Because the expectation is, you know, someone sends you an hour long YouTube video, you're probably not going to watch that. Two minute YouTube video is sure, but you can't, you can't get into so much, kind of nuanced detail. And so I thought that was, was right. And that was kind of my motivation for writing. I've got some thoughts. They're too detailed. It's, it's too much set up for a blog post. There's too much of a nuanced element to like, really get across. So I need to like, write more. And that means that someone's going to have to read more to kind of get to it. But hopefully it'll be, it'll be valuable. one of the sessions that we're doing later today is Ruby content creators, where it's going to be me and Noel Rappin and Dave Thomas representing the old school dudes that write books and probably a bunch of other people that do, you know, podcasts videos. It'd be interesting to see, I really want to know how do people learn stuff? Because if no one reads books to learn things, then there's not a lot of point in doing it. But if there is value, then, you know. It should be good and should be accessible to people. So, that's why I do it. But I definitely recognize maybe I'm too old and, uh, I'm not hip with the kids or, or whatever, whatever the case is. I don't know. [00:37:20] Jeremy: it's tricky because, I think it depends on where you are in the process of learning that thing. Because, let's say, you know a fair amount about the technology already. And you look at a book, in a lot of cases it's, it's sort of like taking you from nothing to something. And so you're like, well, maybe half of this isn't relevant to me, but then if I don't read it, then I'm probably missing a lot still. And so you're in this weird in be in between zone. Another thing is that a lot of times when people are trying to learn something, they have a specific problem. And, um, I guess with, with books, it's, you kind of don't know for sure if the thing you're looking for is going to be in the book. [00:38:13] David: I mean, so my, so my book, I would not say as a beginner, it's not a book to learn how to do Rails. It's like you already kind of know Rails and you want to like learn some comprehensive practices. That's what my book is for. And so sometimes people will ask me, I don't know Rails, should I get your book? And I'm like, no, you should not. but then you have the opposite thing where like the agile web development with Rails is like the beginner version. And some people are like, Oh, it's being updated for Rails 7. Should I get it? I'm like, probably not because How to go from zero to rails hasn't changed a lot in years. There's not that much that's going to be new. but, how do you know that, right? Hopefully the Table of Contents tells you. I mean, the first book I wrote with Pragmatic, they basically were like, The Table of Contents is the only thing the reader, potential reader is going to have to have any idea what's in the book. So, You need to write the table of contents with that in mind, which may not be how you'd write the subsections of a book, but since you know that it's going to serve these dual purposes of organizing the book, but also being promotional material that people can read, you've got to keep that in mind, because otherwise, how does anybody, like you said, how does anybody know what's, what's going to be in there? And they're not cheap, I mean, these books are 50 bucks sometimes, and That's a lot of money for people in the U. S. People outside the U. S. That's a ton of money. So you want to make sure that they know what they're getting and don't feel ripped off. [00:39:33] Jeremy: Yeah, I think the other challenge is, at least what I've heard, is that... When people see a video course, for whatever reason, they, they set, like, a higher value to it. They go, like, oh, this video course is, 200 dollars and it's, like, seems like a lot of money, but for some people it's, like, okay, I can do that. But then if you say, like, oh, this, this book I've been researching for five years, uh, I want to sell it for a hundred bucks, people are going to be, like no. No way., [00:40:00] David: Yeah. Right. A hundred bucks for a book. There's no way. That's a, that's a lot. Yeah. I mean, producing video, I've thought about doing video content, but it seems so labor intensive. Um, and it's kind of like, It's sort of like a performance. Like I was mentioning before we started that I used to play in bands and like, there's a lot to go into making an even mediocre performance. And so I feel like, you know, video content is the same way. So I get that it like, it does cost more to produce, but, are you getting more information out of it? I, that, I don't know, like maybe not, but who knows? I mean, people learn things in different ways. So, [00:40:35] Jeremy: It's just like this perception thing, I think. And, uh, I'm not sure why that is. Um, [00:40:40] David: Yeah, maybe it's newer, right? Maybe books feel older so they're easier to make and video seems newer. I mean, I don't know. I would love to talk to engineers who are like... young out of college, a few years into their career to see what their perception of this stuff is. Cause I mean, there was no, I mean, like I said, I read books cause that's all there was. There was no, no videos. You, you go to a conference and you read a book and that was, that was all you had. so I get it. It seems a whole video. It's fancier. It's newer. yeah, I don't know. I would love to hear a wide variety of takes on it to see what's actually the, the future, you know? [00:41:15] Jeremy: sure, yeah. I mean, I think it probably can't just be one or the other, right? Like, I think there are... Benefits of each way. Like, if you have the book, you can read it at your own pace without having to, like, scroll through the video, and you can easily copy and paste the, the code segments, [00:41:35] David: Search it. Go back and forth. [00:41:36] Jeremy: yeah, search it. So, I think there's a place for it, but yeah, I think it would be very interesting, like you said, to, to see, like, how are people learning, [00:41:45] David: Right. Right. Yeah. Well, it's the same with blogs and podcasts. Like I, a lot of podcasters I think used to be bloggers and they realized that like they can get out what they need by doing a podcast. And it's way easier because it's more conversational. You don't have to do a bunch of research. You don't have to do a bunch of editing. As long as you're semi coherent, you can just have a conversation with somebody and sort of get at some sort of thing that you want to talk about or have an opinion about. And. So you, you, you see a lot more podcasts and a lot less blogs out there because of that. So it's, that's kind of like the creators I think are kind of driving that a little bit. yeah. So I don't know. [00:42:22] Jeremy: Yeah, I mean, I can, I can say for myself, the thing about podcasts is that it's something that I can listen to while I'm doing something else. And so you sort of passively can hopefully pick something up out of that conversation, but... Like, I think it's maybe not so good at the details, right? Like, if you're talking code, you can talk about it over voice, but can you really visualize it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think if you sit down and you try to implement something somebody talked about, you're gonna be like, I don't know what's happening. [00:42:51] David: Yeah. [00:42:52] Jeremy: So, uh, so, so I think there's like these, these different roles I think almost for so like maybe you know the podcast is for you to Maybe get some ideas or get some familiarity with a thing and then when you're ready to go deeper You can go look at a blog post or read a book I think video kind of straddles those two where sometimes video is good if you want to just see, the general concept of a thing, and have somebody explain it to you, maybe do some visuals. that's really good. but then it can also be kind of detailed, where, especially like the people who stream their process, right, you can see them, Oh, let's, let's build this thing together. You can ask me questions, you can see how I think. I think that can be really powerful. at the same time, like you said, it can be hard to say, like, you know, I look at some of the streams and it's like, oh, this is a three hour stream and like, well, I mean, I'm interested. I'm interested, but yeah, it's hard enough for me to sit through a, uh, a three hour movie, [00:43:52] David: Well, then that, and that gets into like, I mean, we're, you know, we're at a conference and they, they're doing something a little, like, there are conference talks at this conference, but there's also like. sort of less defined activities that aren't a conference talk. And I think that could be a reaction to some of this too. It's like I could watch a conference talk on, on video. How different is that going to be than being there in person? maybe it's not that different. Maybe, maybe I don't need to like travel across the country to go. Do something that I could see on video. So there's gotta be something here that, that, that meets that need that I can't meet any other way. So it's all these different, like, I would like to think that's how it is, right? All this media all is a part to play and it's all going to kind of continue and thrive and it's not going to be like, Oh, remember books? Like maybe, but hopefully not. Hopefully it's like, like what you're saying. Like it's all kind of serving different purposes that all kind of work together. Yeah. [00:44:43] Jeremy: I hope that's the case, because, um, I don't want to have to scroll through too many videos. [00:44:48] David: Yeah. The video's not for me. Large Language Models [00:44:50] Jeremy: I, I like, I actually do find it helpful, like, like I said, for the high level thing, or just to see someone's thought process, but it's like, if you want to know a thing, and you have a short amount of time, maybe not the best, um, of course, now you have all the large language model stuff where you like, you feed the video in like, Hey, tell, tell, tell me, uh, what this video is about and give me the code snippets and all that stuff. I don't know how well it works, but it seems [00:45:14] David: It's gotta get better. Cause you go to a support site and they're like, here's how to fix your problem, and it's a video. And I'm like, can you just tell me? But I'd never thought about asking the AI to just look at the video and tell me. So yeah, it's not bad. [00:45:25] Jeremy: I think, that's probably where we're going. So it's, uh, it's a little weird to think about, but, [00:45:29] David: yeah, yeah. I was just updating, uh, you know, like I said, I try to keep the book updated when new versions of Rails come out, so I'm getting ready to update it for Rails 7. 1 and in Amazon's, Kindle Direct Publishing as their sort of backend for where you, you know, publish like a Kindle book and stuff, and so they added a new question, was AI used in the production of this thing or not? And if you answer yes, they want you to say how much, And I don't know what they're gonna do with that exactly, but I thought it was pretty interesting, cause I would be very disappointed to pay 50 for a book that the AI wrote, right? So it's good that they're asking that? Yeah. [00:46:02] Jeremy: I think the problem Amazon is facing is where people wholesale have the AI write the book, and the person either doesn't review it at all, or maybe looks at a little, a little bit. And, I mean, the, the large language model stuff is very impressive, but If you have it generate a technical book for you, it's not going to be good. [00:46:22] David: yeah. And I guess, cause cause like Amazon, I mean, think about like Amazon scale, like they're not looking at the book at all. Like I, I can go click a button and have my book available and no person's going to look at it. they might scan it or something maybe with looking for bad words. I don't know, but there's no curation process there. So I could, yeah. I could see where they could have that, that kind of problem. And like you as the, as the buyer, you don't necessarily, if you want to book on something really esoteric, there are a lot of topics I wish there was a book on that there isn't. And as someone generally want to put it on Amazon, I could see a lot of people buying it, not realizing what they're getting and feeling ripped off when it was not good. [00:47:00] Jeremy: Yeah, I mean, I, I don't know, if it's an issue with the, the technical stuff. It probably is. But I, I know they've definitely had problems where, fiction, they have people just generating hundreds, thousands of books, submitting them all, just flooding it. [00:47:13] David: Seeing what happens. [00:47:14] Jeremy: And, um, I think that's probably... That's probably the main reason why they ask you, cause they want you to say like, uh, yeah, you said it wasn't. And so now we can remove your book. [00:47:24] David: right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. [00:47:26] Jeremy: I mean, it's, it's not quite the same, but it's similar to, I don't know what Stack Overflow's policy is now, but, when the large language model stuff started getting big, they had a lot of people answering the questions that were just. Pasting the question into the model [00:47:41] David: Which because they got it from [00:47:42] Jeremy: and then [00:47:43] David: The Got model got it from Stack Overflow. [00:47:45] Jeremy: and then pasting the answer into Stack Overflow and the person is not checking it. Right. So it's like, could be right, could not be right. Um, cause, cause to me, it's like, if, if you generate it, if you generate the answer and the answer is right, and you checked it, I'm okay with that. [00:48:00] David: Yeah. Yeah. [00:48:01] Jeremy: but if you're just like, I, I need some karma, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna answer these questions with, with this bot, I mean, then maybe [00:48:08] David: I could have done that. You're not adding anything. Yeah, yeah. [00:48:11] Jeremy: it's gonna be a weird, weird world, I think. [00:48:12] David: Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. [00:48:15] Jeremy: that's a, a good place to end it on, but is there anything else you want to mention, [00:48:19] David: No, I think we covered it all just yeah, you could find me online. I'm Davetron5000 on Ruby. social Mastodon, I occasionally post on Twitter, but not that much anymore. So Mastodon's a place to go. [00:48:31] Jeremy: David, thank you so much [00:48:32] David: All right. Well, thanks for having me.

Are you a small business owner looking to scale and grow? In this episode, I dive into the challenges that small businesses face when they're in the process of scaling and accelerating their growth. From managing cash flow to scaling your team, maintaining quality, facing tough competition, and balancing work and life, we discuss valuable strategies and biblical perspectives to help entrepreneurs navigate these challenges successfully. Key Topics: - Importance of careful planning and financial management - Understanding cyclical nature of business and forecasting cash flow - Ensuring clarity on expectations and consequences - Building relationships with employees - Creating systems and procedures (SOPs) - Avoiding shortcuts and remaining committed to excellence - Standardizing operations through SOPs - Identifying unique strengths and differentiating factors - Using innovative strategies and biblical principles - Communicating value and advantages effectively - Competing against larger, established businesses - Importance of rest and rejuvenation for long-term success Timestamps: 02:11 Helping struggling businesses grow through coaching programs. 05:03 Balance spending and investments wisely for success. 07:13 No program to close leads, wasted opportunities. 10:22 Build relationships with employees for successful growth. 15:37 Document expectations, create written procedures, communicate clearly. 17:56 Using faith and technology, I stood out. 22:39 God's strategies can bring lasting success. 25:04 Articulate your unique advantage for better understanding. 27:43 5 things for small business growth; biblical strategies. Don't miss out on these powerful insights! Subscribe to "The Estherpreneur" podcast and let us help you reach new heights in your entrepreneurial journey. Keep shining, keep growing, and keep thriving. Contact us at ⁠⁠⁠www.estherpreneur.com⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠www.favorandwealth.com⁠⁠⁠ Say hi on social: Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/EdnaSHarding⁠⁠⁠ IG: ⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/theestherpreneur⁠⁠⁠ IG:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/favorandwealth⁠⁠⁠ YT:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/c/EdnaHarding⁠⁠⁠ LI:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edna-harding3/support

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“42% of people under the age of 29 own digital assets in Texas and the US is probably similar…10 years from now every presidential candidate will have a platform and in all likelihood it's got to be pro.”— Lee BratcherLee Bratcher is the President of the Texas Blockchain Council. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin mining in Texas, the North American Blockchain Summit 2023 and the regulatory challenges miners face. We also talk about the potential impact of politicians embracing Bitcoin, the importance of mainstream media presence at the upcoming conference, and efforts to attract professionals to Bitcoin events. - - - - This podcast was made before the start of the Texas Bitcoin Summit in Fort Worth, which started yesterday and runs through until Friday. The summit is expected to be the biggest one yet, with over a thousand attendees and a focus on mining. And this year the Texas Blockchain Council has excelled at attracting some major political figures, including RFK, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ted Cruz, Cynthia Lummis, Andrew Yang and Warren Davidson. Texas seems to understand Bitcoin better than other states, which is attributable in part to the independent thinking and educational efforts in the state. The Texas Bitcoin mining industry is a catalyst for Bitcoin mining across the world, leading the way in developing use cases such as demand response grid balancing services and the incentivisation for the build-out of renewable energy.However, the path to wider acceptance of mining in Texas has not been foregone, and the future is still uncertain. The challenges the industry has faced have been significant. For example, Senate Bill 1751 in Texas sought to ban miners from the very same ancillary services that have benefitted ERCOT's grid balancing objectives. These efforts have been pushed by traditional legacy industries in Texas aided by their strategy of regulatory capture. Traditional industries such as steel mills and petrochemical refineries have been frustrated by Bitcoin miners bidding down the price for demand response services (which in turn has benefits consumers). The bill passed unanimously in the Senate. The fact the bill was ultimately killed in the House was thanks in large part to the efforts of the Texas Blockchain Council under Lee Bratcher's presidency. The issue highlights the problem of getting a political consensus on Bitcoin. Elizabeth Warren, for one, makes it difficult for Democrats to openly support Bitcoin. However, a few Democrats are showing a more practical and nuanced understanding. And, being anti-Bitcoin will become a risky position to take in the future due to generational-led shifts in opinions. Until then, it's up to bodies like the Texas Blockchain Council to continue to fight for Bitcoin.- - - - This episode's sponsors:Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultUnchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidenceOrange Pill App - Stack friends who stack sats-----WBD736 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

In this episode, Jimmy Purdy and his wife Leigh-Ann, are joined by Kristin Danner and Paul Danner. They delve into a comprehensive discussion about the pressing issues in the automotive industry, from employee compensation to charge rates for services and more. Hear how missteps, such as a relocated car fuse, can lead to substantial repair hours, showcasing car diagnostics' intricate and often underrated complexity. Also, don't miss out on hearing how the Danners have chosen to embrace a new chapter in their lives, focusing on giving back through their Scanner Danner Charities Inc. and the trials and triumphs that come with it.01:30 The Pressure of constant demands is overwhelming for Dan.05:02 Circuit main feeds had 29 volts from the relocated fuse.09:12 Teaching focused on learning and thought processes.10:38 Critics miss the point of behind-the-scenes work.13:18 Unfair comments; learned to handle negative reviews.16:26 Confusion about the negative impact on the automotive industry.19:43 Focus on your ideal clientele, not others.24:32 Balancing customer care and employee compensation struggle.27:27 Be on time or face consequences.29:29 Ensuring quality vehicle repairs and customer care.34:42 Building the right team takes time and effort.35:26 Stay in your lane and don't change.40:09 Supporting creators benefits everyone in the end.42:22 Consider choices based on true satisfaction and giving.45:30 Shop owners discounting affects technicians' income.48:50 Relieved when your wife walked into the room.

“People often say to me, sport is different from business, it's not. Business is about delivering results through people.”  In our first episode of our 40 Minute Mentor Replay series, we're re-visiting our episode with the brilliant Sir Clive Woodward, World Cup winning England Rugby coach and former Director of Sport for the London 2012 Olympics. After spending his childhood with big dreams of becoming a professional footballer, it was playing rugby at his local club as a kid that started Sir Clive down the path to becoming the first England Coach to lift the Rugby World Cup in 2003.In today's episode, you'll discover: ➡️ Sir Clive's first ever job at Xerox [02:20]➡️ The power of failures and setbacks [04:13]➡️ The realities of being the first full time professional Rugby coach [05:34]➡️ Delivering results through people, in business and in sport [07:03]➡️ The moment that trumped England's World Cup win, at a pub in New Zealand [11:23]➡️ Great teams are made of great individuals - the magic formula [14:29]➡️ Managing a range of personalities when building team culture [16:51]➡️ Ensuring people in your team feel safe to speak their mind [20:23]➡️ CTUP - the framework needed for winning and handling pressure [22:29]➡️ How Clive uses 3D learning to build high performing teams [26:29]➡️ The simple but powerful habits to build a healthy lifestyle [29:32]➡️ Staying hungry for learning and following what you love [33:15]➡️ A leadership lesson: The best ideas come from the team [36:34]➡️ The importance of creative abrasion [38:13]➡️ Bringing successful people into a team, shining a light on mentorship [40:03]➡️ Sir Clive's legacy: Making it to the top, and being inclusive [43:16]⛳ Helpful links:➡️ Connect with Sir Clive: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sirclivewoodward/➡️ Find out more about his Apex2100 Ski Academy: https://www.apex2100.org/ ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm

Finding time to began to prepare for what your life after sports looks like can be exhausting and even at times confusing. However, when it comes to truly building relationships, you must understand that nobody wants to be the individual who is used and only viewed as a number. Let's breakdown how to make sure this won't be you.(00:00) Introduction and reflections on last week's episode.(00:25) The value and importance of connecting and building relationships, particularly for athletes.(03:08) Strategies for going deeper in relationships by taking time to understand people.(04:03)The power of reaching out and maintaining consistent communication.(07:50)Focusing on how to offer help to others and creating value in relationships.(09:19) The negative impact of viewing people as mere numbers and the importance of being selfless.(11:00) Ensuring that help is offered with no strings attached and understanding the law of reciprocity.(12:22) A call to student athletes for topics of interest and potential future discussions.(12:42) Recap of the key points from the episode and the idea of cheerfully giving to others.(13:48) Final segment and a shout out to Bailey Jackson for her work in sports commentary and reporting.Watch our episodes on YouTube by SUBSCRIBING To Our Channel ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt4_jEC4--5s9gwxNsqEjrg?sub_confirmation=1 FREE Download 7 Ways To Best Prepare Your Student-Athletes For The Transition: https://getpaidwithpodcasting.podia.com/checkout/cartApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-ball-with-jonathan-jones/id1507204404Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iHeNCVhaU0e3qeWiksySK?si=52baa2b34840487cFollow Beyond the Ball with Jonathan Jones:Twitter: ➡️ https://twitter.com/JonathanJSpeaksInstagram: ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/beyondtheballmedia/TikTok: ➡️ http://www.tiktok.com/@jonathanjonesspeaksLinkedIn: ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-beyond-the-ball/

In this episode, Amy Irvine continues the conversation on the challenges faced by the sandwich generation, those who are simultaneously caring for their aging parents and their own children. She provides practical advice on various aspects of caregiving, including healthcare plans, transportation options, community involvement, hiring a fiduciary, and backing up important documents. Amy also discusses the benefits of considering a continuing care retirement community and emphasizes the importance of having ongoing conversations about aging parents' care.Key Takeaways:Find the right healthcare plan for your aging parents based on their specific needs and circumstances.Explore transportation options for your parents, such as public transportation or organizations that provide free transportation for seniors.Ensure that your parents have a sense of community and social interaction to prevent feelings of isolation and depression.Consider hiring a fiduciary to manage your parents' finances and protect against fraudulent activity.Back up important documents and photos on your parents' phones to ensure easy access and documentation of their belongings.Explore continuing care retirement communities as a potential option for comprehensive care and a sense of community for aging parents.Quotes:"Finding somebody to help you find the right insurance plan for your parents will be very helpful in the financial toll that it takes on them.""Being aware of the circle of friends, being aware of their community involvement, and making sure that your parents don't stay locked up in their home, unintentionally, of course, but that's certainly something to be aware of.""A fiduciary can pay the bills, can be a protectant against any kind of fraudulent activity.""Making sure that your parents don't get ripped off as part of that process is really important.""Doing some tours just like you do tours of college campuses, considering doing some tours of some of the wonderful communities that are actually out there."Remember, just like a good bottle of wine, the Wine and Dime Podcast gets better with time. So don't forget to rate and subscribe to our show, where we blend the flavors of wine and personal finance to help you achieve financial freedom! If you have any questions that you would like answered on the show, feel free to email us at info@rootedpg.comOr visit us at www.rootedpg.com/podcasts for full show notes and links!The Importance of Healthcare PlanningOne of the first considerations when it comes to caring for aging parents is their healthcare plan. It's crucial to find the right insurance coverage that suits their specific needs. This can be a daunting task, but there are resources available to help. The Office for the Aging and Medicare brokers can assist in determining the most suitable plan based on factors such as medications, doctors, and chronic conditions. Finding the right insurance plan can alleviate the financial burden on your parents and ensure they receive the necessary care.Transportation Solutions for Aging ParentsAs driving becomes more challenging for aging parents, finding reliable transportation options becomes essential. Public transportation services for the elderly may be available in certain counties or states. Additionally, some organizations offer free transportation services for individuals over the age of 65. Consulting with your parents' physicians or local community organizations can provide valuable information on transportation options. Ensuring that your parents have access to transportation not only helps them maintain their independence but also fosters a sense of community and prevents...

What are some of the key nutrient deficiencies that could be causing your headaches? What does Dr. Jockers think of Ozempic, the weekly injection that helps lower blood sugar by helping the pancreas make more insulin - and causes weight loss?    You guessed it, it's another insightful Q&A where Dr. Jockers is personally answering questions from the extended Functional Nutrition community. The awesome naturopath Dr. Yvonne Boujaoude joins Dr. Jockers in studio today to help you best navigate your health journey and guide you to success.   Learn why magnesium is so important for getting a good night's sleep and preventing headaches. Find out about why high homocysteine levels may mean you have a vitamin deficiency.    Should you try Ozempic for weight loss, or is there a healthier alternative? Is sourdough bread gluten-free? Is it healthy for you?  Will butter or MCT oil in the morning in your coffee break your fast? What causes varicose veins? What are the best strategies for dealing with it?    The answers to these questions - and more - in another jam-packed episode of Functional Nutrition!   If you have a specific question of your own that you would like answered, please email info@drjockers.com. You can also DM him on his Instagram or YouTube page. Let's dive into the show!   In This Episode:   Are there any nutrients for dealing with headaches when stressed? Drinking enough water (with salt) What is homocysteine? Understanding Vitamin D deficiency The importance of good community for lowering inflammation What is Ozempic? Dr. Jocker's thoughts on this as a weight loss plan Increasing protein content in your diet to stabilize your blood sugar   What does 'not eating naked carbohydrates' mean? Using MTC oil to support your weight loss Is sourdough bread gluten-free? Is it healthy? Making your own gluten-free sourdough bread Will butter or MCT oil in the morning in your coffee break your fast? What causes varicose veins? What are the best strategies for dealing with it?  Using compression socks to prevent your veins from swelling up Ensuring you have healthy blood pressure! Be sure to check out drjockers.com for further in-depth articles This podcast is sponsored by ShopC60.com. C60 is a powerful, Nobel Prize-winning antioxidant, that helps to optimize mitochondrial function, fights inflammation, and neutralizes toxic free radicals!   I'm a big fan of using C60 in conjunction with your keto and intermittent fasting lifestyle to support your immune system, help your body detox, and increase energy and mental clarity.    My favorite C60 products for Keto & IF lifestyles include C60 Purple Power in Organic MCT Coconut Oil (can add this to your coffee) and their delicious Sugar-Free C60 Gummies (made with allulose and monk fruit)!   If you are over the age of 40, and you'd like to kick fatigue and brain fog to the curb this year, visit shopc60.com and use the coupon code “JOCKERS” for 15% OFF  and start taking back control over your health today!   When it comes to gut health, bone broth is one of my ‘go to' items I add to my diet. But, not all collagen is created equal. Many brands use poor-quality bones and heating methods that remove all of the potent benefits of collagen.    That is why I choose to use Paleovalley Bone Broth Protein Powder, you can get all the gut healing benefits without the mess from a company that uses only 100% grass-fed and finished cows and is not processed with high heat or extracted with harmful chemicals.  There are no fillers, flow agents, or added flavors. There is only ONE ingredient in this product and it's bovine bone broth protein. Hurry and grab yours from Paleovalley.com     “Magnesium is to the body what oil is to a car. Meaning that the more we are using our body, and the more stressed we are, the more we are using up magnesium." - Dr. Jockers   Subscribe to the podcast on: Apple Podcast Stitcher Spotify PodBean  TuneIn Radio   Resources: Shop Carbon 60 - Use the coupon code "JOCKERS" for 15% OFF your first order in all their products! Paleovalley.com/jockers   Connect with Dr. Ivonne: Email - drivonne@drjockers.com Website - https://drjockers.leadpages.co/nutrition-coaching-dr-ivonne/   Connect with Dr. Jockers: Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/drjockers/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DrDavidJockers YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/djockers Website – https://drjockers.com/ If you are interested in being a guest on the show, we would love to hear from you! Please contact us here! - https://drjockers.com/join-us-dr-jockers-functional-nutrition-podcast/

Matt Biren is the founder of Biren Law Group. Matt has always had an interest in the law. This interest started early on as a boyhood addition to television shows like Perry Mason, The Bold Ones, and Arrest & Trial. The witty and intelligent portrayal of these lawyers appealed to the same competitive spirit that had always driven him in sports, school, and other endeavors.After receiving his undergraduate degree from UCLA, Matt went on to pursue his law degree at Loyola University. At the end of his first year, he started clerking for a labor law firm, Levy & Van Bourg. It was there that he first saw the tremendous advantage that large corporations and insurance companies have within the legal system.While clerking and later working as a labor lawyer himself, Matt realized that seriously injured individuals and small businesses could compete with these large corporations and insurance companies if only they had the right lawyer by their side. It is for this reason that he has devoted his professional career to developing a skill set that would allow him to protect the rights of “the little guy.”The Biren Law Group provides quality representation to individuals and small businesses that have been harmed by the negligence or wrongdoing of others. Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbiren/Visit Biren Law Group's Website: www.biren.comOn This Episode, We Discuss…Adapting to Change in the Legal IndustryMarketing Tips for Your FirmHow to Best Manage Your Firm's Cash FlowNetwork, Network, Network

Are you striving to create an unstoppable team within your business? Sometimes the difference between success and stagnation lies in the power of the team you assemble and how they work together.Today on The ONE Thing Podcast, we delve deep into the realms of teamwork and business growth with the remarkable Mike Michalowicz. Mike, an esteemed author with at least eight transformative books under his belt, explores his latest work, "All In." Our conversation uncovers the essence of his innovative FASO acronym — a game-changing methodology for building teams that are not just effective, but unstoppable.Throughout our chat, Mike shares his invaluable insights on how to scout and secure the right talent, transform your employees into superstars, align individual abilities with the organization's goals, and foster a company culture where every employee is as invested as the owner.If you're ready to elevate your business by harnessing the potential of your team, then this is an episode you cannot afford to miss. Join us as we explore how you can transform your team's dynamic and drive your company to new heights of achievement.For anyone eager to tap into the strategies that make a business thrive through exceptional teamwork, visit the1thing.com to listen to the full conversation with Mike Michalowicz and to find more resources on building your unstoppable team.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods.We talk about:The importance of finding the right fit for roles in your businessNurturing the abilities of your teamEnsuring a sense of safety within your team membersCreating ownership within each individualLinks & Tools from This Episode:Learn more at mikemichalowicz.comRead “All In”Listen to the Entrepreneurship Elevated PodcastFree ResourcesWant to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com***Ensuring your team uses the same consistent brand language is an important part of marketing your business.

Is your company's compliance program truly effective, or is it just ticking boxes? In this episode of Corruption, Crime, and Compliance, Michael Volkov dives deep into LRN's PEI survey with Susan Divers. Susan sheds light on the global nature of ethics and compliance programs, challenging the misconception that they are solely US-centric. They discuss the power of values, the shift from a cop to a coach approach, and the revolutionary trends in employee-centric training, especially in the age of remote work. Susan Divers is the Director of Thought, Leadership, and Best Practices at LRN. She has a wealth of experience as a former Chief Compliance Officer, and her emphasis on values over rules in compliance programs has made her a trailblazer in the industry. You'll hear Michael and Susan discuss:The LRN PEI survey challenges the perception that ethics and compliance are US-centric; many programs worldwide share common features such as codes of conduct, training policies, and audits.Examining a decade of data, the report delves into how ethics and compliance programs responded to the disruptions caused by the pandemic.LRN's data reinforces the idea that ethics and compliance programs relying on values and ethical cultures are more effective than those solely based on rules. Shifting from a cop approach to a coach approach enhances program effectiveness.Ethical companies experience lower employee misconduct rates, higher employee satisfaction and productivity, and achieve greater sustainable financial performance.The pandemic prompted a shift in focus from content-driven training to employee-centric, relevant, and mobile-friendly modules. Shorter modules, just-in-time training, and tailored approaches are emerging as best practices.Ensuring accessibility through web-based policies and procedures, coupled with interactive capabilities and data analytics, becomes crucial in bridging the gap between remote workers and compliance initiatives.Gathering data on employee interactions provides insights into the effectiveness of compliance programs. Metrics such as completion times, pass rates, and group performance allow for targeted efforts to enhance the program's impact.Michael emphasizes the challenge for compliance officers in handling the plethora of available data. Choosing the right metrics, setting standards, and ensuring the usability of metrics over time are crucial considerations.The report highlights that high-performing ethics and compliance programs are integral to the decision-making processes of companies. 70% of respondents reported modifying or abandoning a business initiative due to an ethics and compliance risk assessment.Susan introduces the concept of embedding a short Ethical Culture survey at the end of training courses. This real-time survey, known as the Ethical Pulse Culture survey, serves as a powerful tool to gauge and improve the ethical culture within organizations.The Ethical Pulse Culture survey becomes a game-changer, operationalizing compliance by offering a moving average of data insights. This survey, incorporated into scorecards, provides business managers with valuable insights into their business unit's ethical culture over time.ResourcesSusan Divers on LinkedIn | EmailLRN

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In this weeks episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we are brining a BIG ISSUE to the table happening in Texas. Did you know that produce crossings take up to 10 days to complete reporting? There was a lot of changes to the rule in 2021 about data/analytics into the country from Mexico into Texas. There are a team of produce professionals fighting to get this rule changes to be able to have transparency all across the board. Here from: Brent Erenwert - Brothers Produce of Houston Martha Montoya - Ag Tools, Inc. Amanda Horney - London Fruit Company (Grub Market) Allison Moore - Fresh Produce Association of the Americas Dante Galazzi - Texas International Produce Association Learn from these subject matter experts on how to better our produce community and build a better tomorrow!! Market Transparency: The crossings report used to provide near-real-time data on goods crossing the border, giving businesses a clear view of supply and demand dynamics. This information is vital for informed decision-making, price adjustments, and effective inventory management. However, the current 10-day delay in crossing information leaves us in the dark about the current domestic market conditions. Informed Purchasing: Importers, such as those in the lime industry, depend on this data to make well-informed purchasing decisions. Knowledge of when and what goods are crossing the border helps them plan their buying strategies, ensuring they can meet consumer demands without overstocking or understocking. Predicting Market Trends: The report empowers importers to anticipate market trends by examining the volume and types of goods entering the market. It's a valuable tool for adjusting pricing and production strategies in response to shifting market conditions. Consumer Impact: Changes in the crossings report directly affect consumers, influencing the availability and pricing of fresh produce items. Ensuring the accuracy of this information is critical to guarantee affordable access to high-quality goods for the public. Economic and National Security: The crossings report isn't just economically significant; it also has national security implications. Maintaining a stable and reliable supply chain for fresh produce is essential to safeguard the nation's food security, given that over 60% of our fruit and 40% of our vegetables are imported into the US. Tune in and Tune On!!!!  FANCY SPONSORS: Ag Tools, Inc.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.agtechtools.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Flavor Wave, LLC.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://flavorwavefresh.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Noble Citrus: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://noblecitrus.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Buck Naked Onions/Owyhee Produce, Inc.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.owyheeproduce.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and John Greene Logistics Company: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.jglc.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Summer Citrus From South Africa; ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.summercitrus.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ CHOICE SPONSORS: Indianapolis Fruit Company: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://indyfruit.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Equifruit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://equifruit.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Arctic® Apples: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://arcticapples.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sev-Rend Corporation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.sev-rend.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Jac Vandenberg Inc.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.jacvandenberg.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dole Fresh Vegetables: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.dole.com/en/produce/vegetables⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WholesaleWare: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.grubmarket.com/hello/software/index.html⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Continental Fresh, LLC: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.continentalfresh.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Golden Star Citrus, Inc.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.goldenstarcitrus.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ STANDARD SPONSORS:  Freshway Produce: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.freshwayusa.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , Yo, Quiero/Fresh Innovations, LLC.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://yoquierobrands.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  RPE/Tasteful Selections: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tastefulselections.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ben B. Schwartz & Co.:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://benbdetroit.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ and Citrus America: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://citrusamerica.com⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theproduceindustrypodcast/support

Cherry picking jobs that are easier, more profitable and suits well with your team's skill and experience sets everyone up for success and keeps your team happy and productive. Today Tim and Derek discuss the importance of being selective about the jobs you take on and how it benefits you and your team.   In this episode, they discuss: Lessons from Derek's past experience where he took on a difficult job that ended up costing him money Why you should be selective and cherry-pick easier, more profitable jobs The importance of protecting not just yourself but also your team Ensuring that your team members are focused on work instead of worrying about money Pricing jobs well to ensure everyone's happiness – client, team, and you   Resources: == Missed the Mile High Profit Summit in Denver? Don't miss out on the Mile High Profit Summit recordings! Grab the opportunity to access the full summit content.