Podcast appearances and mentions of Eric Friedman

As we near election day and early voting continues, we discuss the six ballot proposals for New York City voters with Eric Friedman, of NYC Votes, an initiative of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, the independent city agency that ensures local elections are fair, inclusive, and open. For more, including detailed info about each proposal, visit nycvotes.org.

In this sermon, our elder Eric shares his personal story of growing up Jewish, coming to know Yeshua, and learning to listen to God.

This week we learned how to give 10% to our community and what the Lord has given us in this weeks sermon from elder Eric Friedmen.

The Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) releases its first podcast, hosted by OCP Investigator Michelle Escobar! In this episode, Michelle is joined by Eric Friedman, the Director of Montgomery County's Office of Consumer Protection. Together, they discuss a variety of topics including OCP's history, changes in the consumer landscape, emerging issues, and much more. For additional information and resources, visit OCP's website at www.montgomerycountymd.gov/ocp.  Have a question or suggestion for a future episode? Send an email to consumerconnection@montgomerycountymd.gov. 

When Creed is in your hometown rehearsing for their tour kickoff you don't just have a conversation with their lead singer Scott Stapp, you also talk to their incredible guitar player Mark Tremonti. In part two of this episode of Cutter's Rockcast, we get the Creed reunion from Mark's perspective and Creed's touring rhythm guitarist Eric Friedman. Eric also plays in Mark's solo band Tremonti. This time we get to find out more about the production of this Creed show, and the intense schedule. We also get some nuggets about new Tremonti music coming later this year and his Frank Sinatra tribute which will return for the holidays in 2024. 

In this episode, EALA talks with Eric Friedman, the Director of Digital Learning within the Kennedy Center's Education division. Listen in to hear how the nation's leading performing arts and cultural center is working to enrich education for all learners through the arts, with a special emphasis on accessibility and inclusion for all.   To learn more, visit their website at https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/ and to access their asynchronous online course "The Theory and Practice of Anti-Abelist Arts Education" go to https://www.accessvsa.org/onlinecourses    To access the full transcript go to bit.ly/5MinsWithKennedyCenter 

Welcome to episode 113 of Inside The Line: The Catskill Mountains Podcast! On this episode, I go live with Eric Friedman from the Catskills Lean-to Crew! Eric chats about lean-to restorations, and how you get involved! If you need a sticker, email me or go to Camp Catskill! Subscribe on any platform! Share! Donate! Do whatever you want! I'm just glad you're listening! And remember... VOLUNTEER!!!!!! Links for the Podcast: https://linktr.ee/ISLCatskillsPodcast, Donate a coffee to support the show! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ITLCatskills, Like to be a sponsor or monthly supporter of the show? Go here! - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ITLCatskills/membership Thanks to the sponsors of the show! Outdoor chronicles photography - https://www.outdoorchroniclesphotography.com/, Trailbound Project - https://www.trailboundproject.com/, Camp Catskill - https://campcatskill.co/, Scenic Route Guiding - https://adventurewiththescenicroute.com/, Another Summit - https://www.guardianrevival.org/programs/another-summit Links: Catskill Lean-to Crew - https://www.newyork-newjerseytrailconference.org/trailcrew/catskills-leanto-crew-0, Clearwater Festival - https://www.clearwaterfestival.org/, Yosemite Stolen Car -  https://www.businessinsider.com/yosemite-high-speed-chase-drive-off-cliff-indicted-2024-2?amp, Woman Completes ADT Solo - https://gearjunkie.com/endurance/briana-desanctis-first-woman-solo-thru-hike-adt, Hiker rescued on Mt Washington - https://www.wmur.com/article/rescue-hypothermia-rescue-dying-mount-washington/46841244?fbclid=IwAR1UedAktTiAqJa5tBvElJbJwcxuJJ2d8QRG5A5KU9CYYzFBdLi4R4wh7vQ  Volunteer Opportunities: Trailhead stewards for 3500 Club - https://www.catskill3500club.com/adopt-a-trailhead?fbclid=IwAR31Mb5VkefBQglzgrfm-hGfooL49yYz3twuSAkr8rrKEnzg8ZSl97XbwUw, Catskills Trail Crew - https://www.nynjtc.org/trailcrew/catskills-trail-crew, NYNJTC Volunteering - https://www.nynjtc.org/catskills, Catskill Center - https://catskillcenter.org/, Catskill Mountain Club - https://catskillmountainclub.org/about-us/, Catskill Mountainkeeper - https://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/, Post Hike Brews and Bites - Brio's - https://brios.net/  #leanto #leantorestoration #backpacking #visitcatskills #catskillstrails #catskillmountains #catskillspodcast #catskills #catskillpark #podcast #catskillshiker #volunteers #catskillmountainsnewyork #catskillmountainsnewyork #catskillspodcast #catskillshiker #catskillshiking #hiking #insidethelinecatskillmountainspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/insidethelinesthecatskill/support

Sermon delivered on 08/12/23 by elder Eric Friedman on prayer and this season of prayer we are entering in as the month of Elul begins. 

This week we have two guests on the show,  who have written movie related books, and spend some time talking with us about those books. Eric Friedman was a guest two years ago when his second book was published, and now the third book in his trilogy is available. Kristen Lopez, a long time Lamb, and now an editor on "The Wrap", has partnered with TCM, and her book is a compendium of book and movie adaptions. Come listen to some friendly conversation about books, movies and life. 

In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Eric Friedman about Leveraging Data Science for Actionable Insights

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EP 543 With John Connolly

EP 543 With John Connolly

EP 543 With John Connolly

Ali and JoDee talk with Eric Friedman, Director of Digital Learning at the Kennedy Center. They explore the qualifications of teachers and why leaders, hiring committees, and managers should advocate for an educators resume. And stay tuned to the end when they even share their favorite Kool-Aid flavor, because - hey, why not?LinkedIn

The Mad River Valley includes Duxbury, Fayston, Moretown, Waitsfield, and Warren, Vermont, as well as the Sugarbush Resort & Mad River Glen resort and today's guest has played a major role in their development. My guest has received numerous awards for his work including the Vermont Ski Areas Association Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership and contribution to the Vermont Ski Industry, the National Ski Areas Association Sales & Marketing Award recognizing Mad River Glen's use of social media to promote skiing, the North American Snowsports Journalist Associations Bob Gillen Award for Achievement In Snowsports Public Relations and Communications, the National Ski Areas Association Sales & Marketing Award which recognized the Mad River Glen's Kids Free Pass Program and he was recognized as the Mad River Valley Rotary Club's Person of the Year. Currently the Executive Director of the Mad River Valley Chamber of Commerce in Waitsfield, Vermont, it is my pleasure to introduce Eric Friedman. With selections from "Almost There", a Mt Mansfield Media Productions film https://youtu.be/M5Ef_YqBWRo and the music of Suzie Brown https://www.suziebrownsongs.com/ To download a pdf transcript of this show click on this link: https://www.fantasypuppettheater.com/Mad_River_Valley_Transcript.pdf

Welcome back to the show. This week the boys are joined by the hosts of Two Dumb Babies, Willie Simon and Eric Friedman. This one moves fast and there are a lot of jokes. We talk pyramids, Osama (duh), and a whole litany of other stupid things. This one is very funny, maybe the best podcast ever recorded if I'm being honest. Please share and like and subscribe. 

Dr. Eric Friedman of the Charleston Sports Medicine Group joins today's show as we discuss the NFL's most injured team in 2021 (per Man Games Lost). We look at the effects of the playing surface, training, rehab, and much more on players' bodies, and we peel back some alarming trends injury-wise for the Giants over the last five years.For more about Dr. Friedman and the Charleston Sports Medicine Group, visit https://www.charlestonsportsmed.com/For the CBS Sports article referenced in this show, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/injuries/New York Giants "Injury" Episodehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmzf-nD8oaTBShrW_zTeXAWANT MORE DAILY NEW YORK GIANTS CONTENT?Follow & Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms…

Dr. Eric Friedman of the Charleston Sports Medicine Group joins today's show as we discuss the NFL's most injured team in 2021 (per Man Games Lost). We look at the effects of the playing surface, training, rehab, and much more on players' bodies, and we peel back some alarming trends injury-wise for the Giants over the last five years. For more about Dr. Friedman and the Charleston Sports Medicine Group, visit https://www.charlestonsportsmed.com/ For the CBS Sports article referenced in this show, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/injuries/ New York Giants "Injury" Episode https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmzf-nD8oaTBShrW_zTeXA WANT MORE DAILY NEW YORK GIANTS CONTENT? Follow & Subscribe to the Podcast on these platforms…

Economist Dr. Lanny Ebenstein explains all of the maps behind the new district maps for Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, California State Assembly and the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Ebenstein eloquently breaks down the pros and cons of each scenario and how it will impact voters. Essentially, 2nd District Santa Barbara County District Supervisor Gregg Hart may be in the rare situation where he is calling his own shots and will find success whether he seeks re-election in the county or the state Assembly. Ebenstein drops names such as Hart, Meagan Harmon, Das Williams, Jonathan Abboud, Eric Friedman, Steve Lavagnino, Joan Hartman and many others in this informative political discussion with real impacts on the community. Ebenstein, a former member of the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education, also talks about his ideas on how to close the Achievement Gap between white students and students of color. His answer? More summer school.

Fitbit was founded in 2007, originally as Healthy Metrics Research, Inc, by James Park and Eric Friedman. They had a goal to bring fitness trackers to market. They didn't invent the pedometer and in fact wanted to go far further. That prize goes to Abraham-Louis Perrelet of Switzerland in 1780 or possibly back to da Vinci. And there are stories of calculating the distance armies moved using various mechanisms that used automations based on steps or the spinning of wagon wheels. The era of wearables arguably began in 1953 when the transistor radio showed up and Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started Sony. People started to get accustomed to carrying around technology. 1961 and Claude Shannon and Edward Thorp build a small computer to time when balls would land in roulette. Which they put in a shoe. Meanwhile sensors that could detect motion and the other chips to essentially create a small computer in a watch-sized package were coming down in price. Apple had already released the Nike+iPod Sports Kit the year before, with a little sensor that went in my running shoes. And Fitbit capitalized on an exploding market for tracking fitness. Apple effectively proved the concept was ready for higher end customers. But remember that while the iPod was incredibly popular at the time, what about everyone else? Park and Friedman raised $400,000 on the idea in a pre-seed round and built a prototype. No, it wasn't actually a wearable, it was a bunch of sensors in a wooden box. That enabled them to shop around for more investors to actually finish a marketable device. By 2008 they were ready to take the idea to TechCrunch 50 and Tim O'Reilly and other panelists from TechCrunch loved it. And they picked up a whopping 2,000 pre-release orders. Only problem is they weren't exactly ready to take that kind of volume. So they toured suppliers around Asia for months and worked overtime in hotel rooms fixing design and architecture issues. And in 2009 they were finally ready and took 25,000 orders, shipping about one fifth of them. That device was called the Fitbit Tracker and took on a goal of 10,000 steps that became a popular goal in Japan in the 1960s. It's a little money-clip sized device with just one button that shows the status towards that 10,000 step goal. And once synchronized we could not only see tons of information about how many calories we burned and other statistics but we could also see Those first orders were sold directly through the web site. The next batch would be much different, going through Best Buy. The margins selling directly were much better and so they needed to tune those production lines. They went to four stores, then ten times that, then 15 times that. They announced the Fitbit Ultra in 2011. Here we got a screen that showed a clock but also came with a stopwatch. That would evolve into the Fitbit One in 2012. Bluetooth now allowed us to sync with our phones. That original device would over time evolve to the Zip and then the Inspire Clip. They grew fast in those first few years and enjoyed a large swathe of the market initially, but any time one vendor proves a market others are quick to fast-follow. The Nike Fuelband came along in 2012. There were also dozens of cheap $15 knock-offs in stores like Fry's. But those didn't have nearly as awesome an experience. A simple experience was the Fitbit Flex, released in 2013. The Fitbit could now be worn on the wrist. It looked more like the original tracker but a little smaller so it could slide in and out of a wristband. It could vibrate so could wake us up and remind us to get up and move. And the Fitbit Force came out that year, which could scroll through information on the screen, like our current step count. But that got some bad press for the nickel used on the device so the Charge came out the next year, doing much of the same stuff. And here we see the price slowly going up from below a hundred dollars to $130 as new models with better accelerometers came along. In 2014 they released a mobile app for all the major mobile platforms that allowed us to track devices through Bluetooth and opened up a ton of options to show other people our information. Chuck Schumer was concerned about privacy but the options for fitness tracking were about to explode in the other direction, becoming even less private. That's the same year the LG G Watch came out, sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The ocean was getting redder and devices were becoming more like miniature computers that happened to do tracking as well. After Android Wear was released in 2014, now called Wear OS, the ocean was bound to get much, much redder. And yet, they continued to grow and thrive. They did an IPO, or Initial Public Offering, in 2015 on the back of selling over 21 million devices. They were ready to reach a larger market. Devices were now in stores like Walmart and Target, and they had badges. It was an era of gamification and they were one of the best in the market at that. Walk enough steps to have circumnavigated the sun? There's a badge for that. Walk the distance of the Nile? There's a badge for that. Do a round trip to the moon and back? Yup, there's a badge for that as well. And we could add friends in the app. Now we could compete to see who got more steps on the day. And of course some people cheated. Once I was wearing a Fitbit on my wrist I got 60,000 steps one day as I painted the kitchen. So we sometimes didn't even mean to cheat. And an ecosystem had sprung up around Fitbit. Like Fitstar, a personal training coach, which got acquired by Fitbit and rebranded as Fitbit Coach. 2015 was also when the Apple Watch was released. The Apple Watch added many of the same features like badges and similar statistics. By then there were models of the Fitbit that could show who was calling our phone or display a text message we got. And that was certainly part of the Wear OS for of Android. But those other devices were more expensive and Fitbit was still able to own the less expensive part of the market and spend on R&D to still compete at the higher end. They were flush with cash by 2016 so while selling 22 million more devices, they bought Coin and Pebble that year, taking in technology developed through crowdfunding sources and helping mass market it. That's the same year we got the Fitbit Alta, effectively merging the Charge and Alta and we got HR models of some devices, which stands for Heart Rate. Yup, they could now track that too. They bought Vector Watch SRL in 2017, the same year they released the Ionic smartwatch, based somewhat on the technology acquired from Pebble. But the stock took a nosedive, and the market capitalization was cut in half. They added weather to the Ionic and merged that tech with that from the Blaze, released the year before. Here, we see technology changing quickly - Pebble was merged with Blaze but Wear OS from Google and Watch OS from Apple were forcing changes all the faster. The apps on other platforms were a clear gap as were the sensors baked into so many different integrated circuit packages. But Fitbit could still compete. In 2018 they released a cheaper version of the smartwatch called the Versa. They also released an API that allowed for a considerable amount of third party development, as well as Fitbit OS 3. They also bought Twine Health in 2018 Partnered with Adidas in 2018 for the ionic. Partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield to reduce insurance rates 2018 released the Charge 3 with oxygen saturation sensors and a 40% larger screen than the Charge 2. From there the products got even more difficult to keep track of, as they poked at every different corner of the market. The Inspire, Inspire HR, Versa 2, Versa Lite, Charge 4, Versa 3, Sense, Inspire 2, Luxe. I wasn't sure if they were going to figure out the killer device or not when Fitbit was acquired by Google in 2021. And that's where their story ends and the story of the ubiquitous ecosystem of Google begins. Maybe they continue with their own kernels or maybe they're moving all of their devices to WearOS. Maybe Google figures out how to pull together all of their home automation and personal tracking devices into one compelling offer. Now they get to compete with Amazon who now has the Halo to help attack the bottom of the market. Or maybe Google leaves the Fitbit team alone to do what they do. Fitbit has sold over 100 million devices and sports well over 25 million active users. The Apple Watch surpassed that number and blew right past it. WearOS lives in a much more distributed environment where companies like Asus, Samsung, and LG sell products but it appears to have a similar installation base. And it's a market still growing and likely looking for a leader, as it's easy to imagine a day when most people have a smart watch. But the world has certainly changed since Mark Weiser was the Chief Technologist at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox Parc in 1988 when he coined the term "ubiquitous computing.” Technology hadn't entered every aspect of our lives at the time like it has now. The team at Fitbit didn't invent wearables. George Atwood invented them in 1783. That was mostly pulleys and mechanics. Per V. Brüel first commercialized the piezoelectric accelerometer in 1943. It certainly took a long time to get packaged into an integrated circuit and from there it took plenty of time to end up on my belt loop. But from there it took less than a few years to go on my wrist and then once there were apps for all the things true innovation came way faster. Because it turns out that once we open up a bunch of APIs, we have no idea the amazing things people use with what then go from devices to platforms. But none of that would have happened had Fitbit not helped prove the market was ready for Weiser's ubiquitous computing. And now we get to wrestle with the fallout while innovation is moving even faster. Because telemetry is the opposite of privacy. And if we forget to protect just one of those API endpoints, like not implementing rate throttling or messing up the permissions, or leaving a micro-service open to all the things, we can certainly end up telling the world all about things. Because the world is watching, whether we think we're important enough to watch or not.

In this episode, we discuss the Commonwealth's new Act Creating a Next Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy and Executive Order 594 with Eric Friedman, the Director of the Leading by Example Program, which is a division of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. From a higher level perspective, we explore what this new legislation means for our municipal libraries and how to reduce carbon emissions and plan for a clean energy future. 

This episode of Radio GDR, the East Germany podcast, lives up to Paul Harvey's famous expression, "and now you know the rest of the story." In episode 24, Shane Whaley interviewed Eric Friedman who, as a 10-year old boy in 1988, accompanied his mother Celeste Barber, a teacher in the English Department at Santa Barbara City College in California, and stepfather Frank McConnell on a Fulbright grant-sponsored tour as an English teacher at Humboldt University in East Berlin. Eric and Celeste co-authored the book Ghosts of East Berlin, a must-read personal account of their time behind the Berlin Wall. In this episode, you'll learn how Celeste and her family ended up in East Berlin, how she met her dear friend Adelheid, who lived with a view of the wall from her apartment, and how the family coped with living in what Celeste calls "No Mans Land." While she experienced challenges and even some scary moments with the Stasi, the GDR's secret police, Celeste nonetheless had some very human moments via her friend Adelheid, Frank's students and even a Russian woman on the street car. Not everything behind the Berlin Wall was as gray as expected.

Gregory Harrington: Glass Hour; with Mark Shapiro and the Janáček Philharmonic (Estile Records) Jump to CD giveaway form One thing we can all agree on is that the pandemic has impacted how we perceive the passage of time. The days seem to go slow, while the year goes by quickly. Maybe you feel as if you’ve been stuck in a Ground Hog Day scenario. Violinist Gregory Harrington decided to explore the concept of time through two works by Philip Glass on his new recording, Glass Hour. Harrington, with conductor Mark Shapiro, traveled to the Czech Republic to make the recording with the Janáček Philharmonic. Can you talk about the conception of this project? Harrington: “I had heard The American Four Seasons a number of years ago, and there are two beautiful recordings. That work really spoke to me and I said, ‘I can actually bring something completely unique to this. Something that hasn't been recorded or that hasn't been said. It doesn't really matter if people like it or not. This recording is purely me.’ That was the first thing. The second part was that this was a 40- to 45-minute concerto. How do we round out the disc? “I've loved making transcriptions. I've been making them for the last 10 years, whether it's solo Bach, Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails. Having heard The Hours, you always feel a tremendous emotional connection with the work. I decided that the best thing was to create a new work based on The Hours, a concert suite for violin and orchestra, very much in the vein with violinists Nathan Milstein and Jascha Heifetz’s transcriptions from decades ago. I was fortunate enough to have worked with Eric Friedman. I studied with him for a number of years, and he was a pupil of Heifetz and Milstein.” Can you talk about how Glass’ exploration of time offers you freedom as the performer of his piece The American Four Seasons? Harrington: “When Glass recorded and premiered this with violinist Robert McDuffie, they had different ideas of what movements represented which seasons. Glass left this up for the audience to decide for themselves what movement correlates to which season. “I know Mark and I have spoken about this a little bit — I had very strong feelings about the second movement being ‘my’ winter. I just thought that feeling of starkness represented winter. “The fourth movement is definitely summer, and it has a hustle-and-bustle-virtuoso-nonstop flow to it. It is different for everyone, but I think it's lovely that it's put up to the audience to make their own opinions and conclusions.” How is it that the Janáček Philharmonic is so well suited to perform the music of Philip Glass? Shapiro: “They had so many intuitions about how they wanted to play and sound. There was one moment where we were trying to elicit a certain mood of tenderness. I looked at the cellist, who was a bit grumpy-looking, and I asked the interpreter what the Czech word was for lullaby. The cellist recognized the word and he just melted. The next time he played it it had such humanity.”  To hear the rest of my conversation, click on the extended interview above, or download the extended podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch now You must be 13 or older to submit any information to American Public Media. The personally identifying information you provide will not be sold, shared, or used for purposes other than to communicate with you about things like our programs, products and services. See Terms of Use and Privacy. This giveaway is subject to the Official Giveaway Rules. Note: Due to the coronavirus quarantines, we cannot send physical product at this time. Winners will be notified at the conclusion of the giveaway and will receive their prize as soon as possible after the crisis abates. Resources Gregory Harrington: Glass Hour; with Mark Shapiro and the Janáček Philharmonic (Amazon) Gregory Harrington (Official site) Mark Shapiro (Official site) Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava (Official site)

This week - Michael Murphy is a motivational speaker, paralyzed athlete, and writer. His journey began in April 2007 when he fell off a roof in college, shattered his spine, and was paralyzed.  Michael is now a 12-time marathoner with Top 5 finishes in New York and Boston. He was also featured on NBC after completing two Tough Mudder competitions in 2012 and 2013 with the help of his teammates and an off-road handcycle..    Show Sponsor: VENGA Hey Guys, We’ve got some great news this week!   We have talked about how important sleep is on this show.  We've even had sleep specialists as guests. Sleep is so key for athletes!   Our friends at Venga CBD have an all-new product to help athletes with their sleep because they know how important it is for athletes. And like all things Venga, they went over the top for athletes - they went into the lab and created a triple threat to help you get better sleep tonight.  They call it Venga Super Sleep because man, this packs a punch.  Get this - It’s got Melatonin, CBD AND….an all-new cannabinoid CBN that’s been shown to promote sleep.  You get all three in Venga Super Sleep and it’s available now. I think they sold out in the first couple of days but are sure to have more soon.   Oh, and get this - no sleep aid hangover. You’ll wake up well-rested and refreshed because Venga Super Sleep is all-natural and works with your body’s systems to promote a great night’s sleep.  As with all of Venga CBD’s products, Super Sleep is 100% THC-free and non-habit forming.   You can check it out at Vengacbd.com/sleep and they have a great bundle offer running: If you buy a bottle of the Venga CBD daily CBD Ultra Gels, you can get a bottle of Super Sleep for just $34.00. It’s typically $85, so it’s a smokin’ deal!   Go to vengacbd.com/sleep to get all the details and don’t forget that our listeners get a X discount with coupon code X (only valid on full-priced items, not bundles).    Just go to https://vengaendurance.com/303podcast to order yours today. First-time order is 30% off with code (303PODCAST).  We've also added 50% off your first month's subscription with code (303SUBSCRIPTION).     In Today's Show Feature interview - Michael Murphy Endurance News - Future of Fitness Tech What New in the 303 - A couple of Van Life stories - Megan Hottman and Andy Schmidt Bill and Rich's Excellent Adventure - We Ride 4 Video of the Week - Michael Murphy in Snow to Sand   Interview Sponsor: UCAN Take your performance to the next level with UCAN Energy and Bars made with SuperStarch®  UCAN uses SuperStarch instead of simple sugars to fuel serious athletes.  UCAN keeps blood sugar steady compared to the energy spikes and crashes of sugar-based products.  Steady energy equals sustained performance!   I got a chance to try the UCAN EDGE product this week on my 50 mile ride.  I had two 1.87 oz packets with me.  Each has 15g of SuperStarch Energy and 0g sugar.  They are not a gel consistency, which is awesome!  Is much more like a liquid.  I gave it a shake, tore off the top and just rolled it up.  It wasn't sticky like gels.  The flavor is like the tropical orange flavor of the Energy SuperStarch powder.  I may not have to take my extra test tubes of UCAN SuperStarch.   1.) UCAN launched a Vanilla flavor of the really popular plant-based Energy + Protein. Fans have been raving about how good the existing Chocolate flavor and the Vanilla flavor promises to be just as good!   2.) The Training Bundle now has a box of UCAN Edge included in it.   You put in the training, so don't let nutrition limit your performance.  Use UCAN in your training and racing to fuel the healthy way, finish stronger and recover more quickly!  Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co   Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co,      Interview with Michael Murphy 1.6 seconds. That's how long it takes to fall two stories. That's how long it takes for life to change. When Michael Murphy was 21, he fell off of a roof at college and landed flat on his back, severing his spine. They say that nobody understands their own traumatic injury just after it happens―but Michael did. Every person falls. They fall short in school, in love, in work, and in life. Their lives sometimes feel punctuated by those downfalls―the rejection letters, the unrequited love, the missed promotions, the life altering traumas. Everyone falls. But then what?   When I Fell is a true coming-of-age tale of going from abled, to disabled, to empowered. It combines the story surrounding Michael's recovery with the science of resiliency and thriving―what psychologists are now calling Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)―to teach readers how to hit home runs when life throws them curves. Befitting new mainstream acceptance for disabilities, When I Fell is as much a memoir as it is a message. It features the five principles established by Drs. Tedeschi and Calhoun―the pioneers who coined the phrase in the 1990's―for scientific validation to bring PTG further into the public eye.   A Northern Virginia native, Michael resides in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Casey, and dog Gunner.  He now trains with the Competition Team at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, CO, with every intention to make the US Ski Team…and go to the Paralympics.   Our News is sponsored by Buddy Insurance. Buddy Insurance is the kind of peace of mind you need as an active outdoor enthusiast.  Buddy’s mission is simple, to help people fearlessly enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle.  You can now get on-demand accident insurance to make sure you get cash for bills fast and fill any gaps between your current coverage.  Go to buddyinsurance.com and create an account.  There's no commitment or charge to create one.  Once you have an account created, it's a snap to open your phone and in a couple clicks have coverage for the day.  Check it out!   Endurance News:   Fitbit co-founder: Future for fitness is well beyond the wrist CNET Health and Wellness A Fitbit used to be a little gadget to count your steps. Those days are long gone: Fitbits are now continuous heart and sleep monitors, with aspirations that go even deeper. Now owned by Google, Fitbit is still creating new fitness trackers, like the new Luxe. The company's subscription-based Fitbit Premium service continues to add new wellness routines, including celebrity guides such as Deepak Chopra.   Where do things go next? Will Fitbit ever venture off-wrist? How can these trackers possibly assist with diseases like COVID-19?  Fitbit co-founder and CTO Eric Friedman offers some insights on where Fitbit is at now, and where things are headed next.   Fitbit plans to continue exploring more advanced sensors on its bigger watches, while letting sensor tech trickle down over time into more optimized, smaller, lower-cost bands. "Because they have a larger battery, and kind of more mass, it's easier to try out brand new sensors in them and learn," Friedman says of last year's sensor-studded Fitbit Sense -- which added temperature, a stress-sensing electrodermal sensor and an electrocardiogram, or ECG -- compared to the much more pared-down new Fitbit Luxe, which leans mostly on its optical heart-rate sensor for things like sleep and stress measurements.   Friedman makes the comparison to where heart rate on wearables was years ago, living mainly on big watches while smaller bands just measured steps. The optical heart-rate sensor is also where the most evolution has happened, adding a lot of extra algorithm-based insights that didn't exist before. "When we first launched heart rate in our smartwatch, it was really about a kind of workout experience," Friedman says of where things were seven years ago. "But as things progressed, we started to be able to tease out more and more from heart rate."   He sees heart-rate variability as an important new metric, and related to that, atrial fibrillation. Fitbit recently finished a 500,000-person AFib study, but unlike the Apple Watch, most Fitbits don't measure estimated atrial fibrillation through the optical heart-rate sensor. For that, you'd need a Fitbit Sense with its ECG feature.   What's New in the 303: Megan Hottman: Prescott, AZ Racing and Forest Bathing By Megan Hottman, courtesy of MeganHottman.com   This van trip kicks off with a lovely dose of #americana – some ball sports, some lively hockey, some bike racing, kids running around, the requisite amount of dirt and dust, loads of campers and RVs, ample flag flying and one helleva sunset . I took the @canonusa out to capture all the feels.   Life these days offers glimpses of normalcy and it feels really *really* good.  Also can I get an amen for @dippindots ?! I haven’t had these in probably 20 years. What a treat.   Ok so where are we? We’re in a large sports complex park in Prescott, AZ. Here for a mountain bike race, I’m experiencing for the first time this parking lot-event style camping vibe. This wouldn’t be my top vanlife venue choice on a regular basis …but for this event and experience it’s totally fine. This location boasts temps a full 20-25 degrees than in Phoenix so we’re enjoying the nice cool evening temps and the escape from the big-city-heat.   Pros: restrooms close by, lots of friendly humans around, safe. Cons: all the humans. And pavement. Saturday’s race went GREAT! I actually warmed up for this race and implemented lessons I learned in March’s bike race … and took the win! I raced women intermediate 40-49, won my age group.  More importantly I felt great – I executed food, warmup and race strategies. I hit the opening stretch and hole shot into the first climb, at the front, and it paid off. I got more and more comfortable with the fast & flowy portions of the course as the race went along. We raced at noon so I did some yoga and a walk beforehand. Not normally things I’d do pre race but I wanted to keep my face out of my phone as I sat there nervously waiting for my start.   Van-Life and Endurance Sports By Andy Shmidt   Renting a van offers the endurance athlete an opportunity to experience the outdoors in a new way, with the potential to do a self-contained local or regional race. And if you’re thinking about purchasing a van, renting a few different configurations may help you BETA test available options.   Even with night-time temperatures dipping into the low 30’s, high 20’s it was still comfortable in the van. Granted I did “warm the place up” with the included LP gas powered Mr. Heater, before going to bed. Even with the provided battery-operated carbon monoxide detector, I wasn’t comfortable going to sleep with it running. Friends who were tent camping nearby at the James M. Robb campground reported being cold and the high winds interrupting their sleep. Neither were an issue for “Johnny.” Cooking was as easy as being at home, though it did require a bit more planning / prep work. I’m pretty sure I could have made hot apple pie, had I taken my Alpine Oven along on the trip. Titus Adventure Company is a family-owned business located in Denver, offering outdoor adventure focused trucks, SUV’s and camper van rentals. Visit them at: www.tacrentals.com. For 303 Endurance readers, Titus Adventure Company is offering 10% off any rental. Just use promo code: 303ENDURANCE when you make your reservation.   Bill & Rich's Excellent [Endurance] Adventure Bill   Rich Let me tell you about my rides in Tucson.  50 mile ride around Tucson on what is called "The Loop".  It's a series of well paved and lane lined bike paths that goes around Tucson.  Cool windy paths through the desert and cactus.  A similar ride would be Confluence Park, Cherry Creek Trail, 470 Trail, S. Platte back to Confluence.  Only Tucson faster and wider.  More open for sure.  1st - a huge shoutout to Tucson Endurance Performance Center.  I rented a 2021 Cervelo R Series and it rode beautifully.  I showed up at Sharon's house in Tucson and met one of the other We Ride 4 Denver Club Members named John.  And then met Sharon's boyfriend John Genell.  John and I had a common background in Big 5 consulting firms, so we hit it off right away.  It was John who explained his background on the Board of Wish For Wheels. We Ride 4 is a community of cyclists that create unique experiences for our members through weekly rides, participation in cycling events and social gatherings throughout the year. All rides are led by experienced ride leaders. Weekly rides range from social-pace no-drop formats to advanced-pace training rides. WR4's Denver Charitable Partner is Cottonwood Institute.  Cottonwood Institute believes that students can't be expected to care about the environment if they never have a chance to explore the outdoors. Your donations empower students to be environmentally aware and civically engaged. WR4's Tucson Chapter Partner is the Road Warriors Club.  Sponsor Ernesto Somoza adamantly encourages Pueblo High School students to join the Road Warriors Club if they are looking for something to do after school that’s a little bit different than just joining a sports team. Pueblo High is a Title 1 school and funding for the club is reliant 100% on donations and fundraising. One of their goals this year is to be able to have matching jerseys for all the members. We Ride 4 wants to help by designing a jersey and raising the money to buy the jerseys for all club members. Please consider helping by donating! Story of Angelina who Sharon just stop and met along the side of this bike path.  Sharon befriends Angelina and learns about this Pueblo High School.  Angelina needs a bike.  Sharon gives her the money to get a bike.  She ends up buying a bike from Tucson Endurance Center because Angelina's mom works with Brian Grasky in the Air Force.  Brian Grasky our guest from two weeks ago. So while we're on this ride, I see these two guys running on the trail and they are flying.  Clearly look like pro triathletes.  Coming from Boulder, I know what that looks like.  From the back, the first pro that came to mind was Ben Hoffman.  When I passed him and looked back, it really looked like Ben Hoffman.  When I DM'd Ben on Instagram, he confirmed it was not him. More on Ben later. Thanks Sharon, John and We Ride 4 for a really enjoyable ride around Tucson and a nice steak burrito at Seis afterward. Thanks UCAN EDGE for fueling my ride and VENGA for fueling my recovery!   Video of the Week: "Snow to Sand" Full Documentary   Upcoming Interviews: Coming Soon:  Author of "The Athlete Inside" Sue Reynolds and Coach Bobby McGee who has played an integral role in the development of top athletes with USA Triathlon, as well as several olympians and top-ranked ITU stars. He is the author of “Run Transformation,” The World’s Best Run Training Course. Plus Ironman St George is coming up next week.  One of the guys going there to win is Ben Hoffman.  We're going to hopefully catch up with him after the race. Closing: Thanks again for listening in this week.  Please be sure to follow us @303endurance and of course go to iTunes and give us a rating and a comment.  We'd really appreciate it! Stay tuned, train informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!

This week - Michael Murphy is a motivational speaker, paralyzed athlete, and writer. His journey began in April 2007 when he fell off a roof in college, shattered his spine, and was paralyzed.  Michael is now a 12-time marathoner with Top 5 finishes in New York and Boston. He was also featured on NBC after completing two Tough Mudder competitions in 2012 and 2013 with the help of his teammates and an off-road handcycle..    Show Sponsor: VENGA Hey Guys, We’ve got some great news this week!   We have talked about how important sleep is on this show.  We've even had sleep specialists as guests. Sleep is so key for athletes!   Our friends at Venga CBD have an all-new product to help athletes with their sleep because they know how important it is for athletes. And like all things Venga, they went over the top for athletes - they went into the lab and created a triple threat to help you get better sleep tonight.  They call it Venga Super Sleep because man, this packs a punch.  Get this - It’s got Melatonin, CBD AND….an all-new cannabinoid CBN that’s been shown to promote sleep.  You get all three in Venga Super Sleep and it’s available now. I think they sold out in the first couple of days but are sure to have more soon.   Oh, and get this - no sleep aid hangover. You’ll wake up well-rested and refreshed because Venga Super Sleep is all-natural and works with your body’s systems to promote a great night’s sleep.  As with all of Venga CBD’s products, Super Sleep is 100% THC-free and non-habit forming.   You can check it out at Vengacbd.com/sleep and they have a great bundle offer running: If you buy a bottle of the Venga CBD daily CBD Ultra Gels, you can get a bottle of Super Sleep for just $34.00. It’s typically $85, so it’s a smokin’ deal!   Go to vengacbd.com/sleep to get all the details and don’t forget that our listeners get a X discount with coupon code X (only valid on full-priced items, not bundles).    Just go to https://vengaendurance.com/303podcast to order yours today. First-time order is 30% off with code (303PODCAST).  We've also added 50% off your first month's subscription with code (303SUBSCRIPTION).   In Today's Show Feature interview - Michael Murphy Endurance News - Future of Fitness Tech What New in the 303 - A couple of Van Life stories - Megan Hottman and Andy Schmidt Bill and Rich's Excellent Adventure - We Ride 4 Video of the Week - Michael Murphy in Snow to Sand   Interview Sponsor: UCAN Take your performance to the next level with UCAN Energy and Bars made with SuperStarch®  UCAN uses SuperStarch instead of simple sugars to fuel serious athletes.  UCAN keeps blood sugar steady compared to the energy spikes and crashes of sugar-based products.  Steady energy equals sustained performance!   I got a chance to try the UCAN EDGE product this week on my 50 mile ride.  I had two 1.87 oz packets with me.  Each has 15g of SuperStarch Energy and 0g sugar.  They are not a gel consistency, which is awesome!  Is much more like a liquid.  I gave it a shake, tore off the top and just rolled it up.  It wasn't sticky like gels.  The flavor is like the tropical orange flavor of the Energy SuperStarch powder.  I may not have to take my extra test tubes of UCAN SuperStarch.   1.) UCAN launched a Vanilla flavor of the really popular plant-based Energy + Protein. Fans have been raving about how good the existing Chocolate flavor and the Vanilla flavor promises to be just as good!   2.) The Training Bundle now has a box of UCAN Edge included in it.   You put in the training, so don't let nutrition limit your performance.  Use UCAN in your training and racing to fuel the healthy way, finish stronger and recover more quickly!  Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co,    Interview with Michael Murphy 1.6 seconds. That's how long it takes to fall two stories. That's how long it takes for life to change. When Michael Murphy was 21, he fell off of a roof at college and landed flat on his back, severing his spine. They say that nobody understands their own traumatic injury just after it happens―but Michael did. Every person falls. They fall short in school, in love, in work, and in life. Their lives sometimes feel punctuated by those downfalls―the rejection letters, the unrequited love, the missed promotions, the life altering traumas. Everyone falls. But then what?   When I Fell is a true coming-of-age tale of going from abled, to disabled, to empowered. It combines the story surrounding Michael's recovery with the science of resiliency and thriving―what psychologists are now calling Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)―to teach readers how to hit home runs when life throws them curves. Befitting new mainstream acceptance for disabilities, When I Fell is as much a memoir as it is a message. It features the five principles established by Drs. Tedeschi and Calhoun―the pioneers who coined the phrase in the 1990's―for scientific validation to bring PTG further into the public eye.   A Northern Virginia native, Michael resides in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Casey, and dog Gunner.  He now trains with the Competition Team at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, CO, with every intention to make the US Ski Team…and go to the Paralympics.   Our News is sponsored by Buddy Insurance. Buddy Insurance is the kind of peace of mind you need as an active outdoor enthusiast.  Buddy’s mission is simple, to help people fearlessly enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle.  You can now get on-demand accident insurance to make sure you get cash for bills fast and fill any gaps between your current coverage.  Go to buddyinsurance.com and create an account.  There's no commitment or charge to create one.  Once you have an account created, it's a snap to open your phone and in a couple clicks have coverage for the day.  Check it out!   Endurance News:   Fitbit co-founder: Future for fitness is well beyond the wrist CNET Health and Wellness A Fitbit used to be a little gadget to count your steps. Those days are long gone: Fitbits are now continuous heart and sleep monitors, with aspirations that go even deeper. Now owned by Google, Fitbit is still creating new fitness trackers, like the new Luxe. The company's subscription-based Fitbit Premium service continues to add new wellness routines, including celebrity guides such as Deepak Chopra.   Where do things go next? Will Fitbit ever venture off-wrist? How can these trackers possibly assist with diseases like COVID-19?  Fitbit co-founder and CTO Eric Friedman offers some insights on where Fitbit is at now, and where things are headed next.   Fitbit plans to continue exploring more advanced sensors on its bigger watches, while letting sensor tech trickle down over time into more optimized, smaller, lower-cost bands. "Because they have a larger battery, and kind of more mass, it's easier to try out brand new sensors in them and learn," Friedman says of last year's sensor-studded Fitbit Sense -- which added temperature, a stress-sensing electrodermal sensor and an electrocardiogram, or ECG -- compared to the much more pared-down new Fitbit Luxe, which leans mostly on its optical heart-rate sensor for things like sleep and stress measurements.   Friedman makes the comparison to where heart rate on wearables was years ago, living mainly on big watches while smaller bands just measured steps. The optical heart-rate sensor is also where the most evolution has happened, adding a lot of extra algorithm-based insights that didn't exist before. "When we first launched heart rate in our smartwatch, it was really about a kind of workout experience," Friedman says of where things were seven years ago. "But as things progressed, we started to be able to tease out more and more from heart rate."   He sees heart-rate variability as an important new metric, and related to that, atrial fibrillation. Fitbit recently finished a 500,000-person AFib study, but unlike the Apple Watch, most Fitbits don't measure estimated atrial fibrillation through the optical heart-rate sensor. For that, you'd need a Fitbit Sense with its ECG feature.     What's New in the 303:   Megan Hottman: Prescott, AZ Racing and Forest Bathing By Megan Hottman, courtesy of MeganHottman.com   This van trip kicks off with a lovely dose of #americana – some ball sports, some lively hockey, some bike racing, kids running around, the requisite amount of dirt and dust, loads of campers and RVs, ample flag flying and one helleva sunset . I took the @canonusa out to capture all the feels.   Life these days offers glimpses of normalcy and it feels really *really* good.  Also can I get an amen for @dippindots ?! I haven’t had these in probably 20 years. What a treat.   Ok so where are we? We’re in a large sports complex park in Prescott, AZ. Here for a mountain bike race, I’m experiencing for the first time this parking lot-event style camping vibe. This wouldn’t be my top vanlife venue choice on a regular basis …but for this event and experience it’s totally fine. This location boasts temps a full 20-25 degrees than in Phoenix so we’re enjoying the nice cool evening temps and the escape from the big-city-heat.   Pros: restrooms close by, lots of friendly humans around, safe. Cons: all the humans. And pavement.   Saturday’s race went GREAT! I actually warmed up for this race and implemented lessons I learned in March’s bike race … and took the win! I raced women intermediate 40-49, won my age group.  More importantly I felt great – I executed food, warmup and race strategies. I hit the opening stretch and hole shot into the first climb, at the front, and it paid off. I got more and more comfortable with the fast & flowy portions of the course as the race went along. We raced at noon so I did some yoga and a walk beforehand. Not normally things I’d do pre race but I wanted to keep my face out of my phone as I sat there nervously waiting for my start.   Van-Life and Endurance Sports By Andy Shmidt   Renting a van offers the endurance athlete an opportunity to experience the outdoors in a new way, with the potential to do a self-contained local or regional race. And if you’re thinking about purchasing a van, renting a few different configurations may help you BETA test available options.   Even with night-time temperatures dipping into the low 30’s, high 20’s it was still comfortable in the van. Granted I did “warm the place up” with the included LP gas powered Mr. Heater, before going to bed. Even with the provided battery-operated carbon monoxide detector, I wasn’t comfortable going to sleep with it running. Friends who were tent camping nearby at the James M. Robb campground reported being cold and the high winds interrupting their sleep. Neither were an issue for “Johnny.”   Cooking was as easy as being at home, though it did require a bit more planning / prep work. I’m pretty sure I could have made hot apple pie, had I taken my Alpine Oven along on the trip.   Titus Adventure Company is a family-owned business located in Denver, offering outdoor adventure focused trucks, SUV’s and camper van rentals. Visit them at: www.tacrentals.com.   For 303 Endurance readers, Titus Adventure Company is offering 10% off any rental. Just use promo code: 303ENDURANCE when you make your reservation.     Bill & Rich's Excellent [Endurance] Adventure Bill   Rich Let me tell you about my rides in Tucson.  50 mile ride around Tucson on what is called "The Loop".  It's a series of well paved and lane lined bike paths that goes around Tucson.  Cool windy paths through the desert and cactus.  A similar ride would be Confluence Park, Cherry Creek Trail, 470 Trail, S. Platte back to Confluence.  Only Tucson faster and wider.  More open for sure.  1st - a huge shoutout to Tucson Endurance Performance Center.  I rented a 2021 Cervelo R Series and it rode beautifully.  I showed up at Sharon's house in Tucson and met one of the other We Ride 4 Denver Club Members named John.  And then met Sharon's boyfriend John Genell.  John and I had a common background in Big 5 consulting firms, so we hit it off right away.  It was John who explained his background on the Board of Wish For Wheels. We Ride 4 is a community of cyclists that create unique experiences for our members through weekly rides, participation in cycling events and social gatherings throughout the year. All rides are led by experienced ride leaders. Weekly rides range from social-pace no-drop formats to advanced-pace training rides. WR4's Denver Charitable Partner is Cottonwood Institute.  Cottonwood Institute believes that students can't be expected to care about the environment if they never have a chance to explore the outdoors. Your donations empower students to be environmentally aware and civically engaged. WR4's Tucson Chapter Partner is the Road Warriors Club.  Sponsor Ernesto Somoza adamantly encourages Pueblo High School students to join the Road Warriors Club if they are looking for something to do after school that’s a little bit different than just joining a sports team. Pueblo High is a Title 1 school and funding for the club is reliant 100% on donations and fundraising. One of their goals this year is to be able to have matching jerseys for all the members. We Ride 4 wants to help by designing a jersey and raising the money to buy the jerseys for all club members. Please consider helping by donating! Story of Angelina who Sharon just stop and met along the side of this bike path.  Sharon befriends Angelina and learns about this Pueblo High School.  Angelina needs a bike.  Sharon gives her the money to get a bike.  She ends up buying a bike from Tucson Endurance Center because Angelina's mom works with Brian Grasky in the Air Force.  Brian Grasky our guest from two weeks ago. So while we're on this ride, I see these two guys running on the trail and they are flying.  Clearly look like pro triathletes.  Coming from Boulder, I know what that looks like.  From the back, the first pro that came to mind was Ben Hoffman.  When I passed him and looked back, it really looked like Ben Hoffman.  When I DM'd Ben on Instagram, he confirmed it was not him. More on Ben later. Thanks Sharon, John and We Ride 4 for a really enjoyable ride around Tucson and a nice steak burrito at Seis afterward. Thanks UCAN EDGE for fueling my ride and VENGA for fueling my recovery!   Video of the Week: "Snow to Sand" Full Documentary   Upcoming Interviews: Coming Soon:  Author of "The Athlete Inside" Sue Reynolds and Coach Bobby McGee who has played an integral role in the development of top athletes with USA Triathlon, as well as several olympians and top-ranked ITU stars. He is the author of “Run Transformation,” The World’s Best Run Training Course. Plus Ironman St George is coming up next week.  One of the guys going there to win is Ben Hoffman.  We're going to hopefully catch up with him after the race. Closing: Thanks again for listening in this week.  Please be sure to follow us @303endurance and of course go to iTunes and give us a rating and a comment.  We'd really appreciate it! Stay tuned, train informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!

Less than a week after seeking the endorsement of the Santa Barbara County Democratic Party, Eric Friedman opens up about one of the questions involving his political support of his mother. Friedman also explains why he doesn't always endorse the same people as the Party. "I know the person she is," Friedman says. "I know her whole life, her whole history," Friedman also talks about what equity means to him as an elected official. He also talks about his job at Trader Joes, while also working as an elected official, plush much, much more.

In this week's episode of Bergen Bulldog Bytes, listeners hear from College President Dr. Eric Friedman, who began his tenure as the college's eighth president on January 1, 2021. President Friedman shares his journey to Bergen and his vision for bold, stable executive leadership at the college in the years ahead. Listeners will hear President Friedman's approach to "stretching students intellectually" and the importance he places on inclusive and intentional language. We thank President Friedman for the time that he took out of his very busy schedule to record this episode. We hope listeners enjoy! Bergen community members can learn more about President Friedman here. Dr. Friedman can be reached at efriedman@bergen.edu. To contact us with questions, recommendations, and/or feedback, please email studentlife@bergen.edu -The SLC Team

If you've committed to an ambitious fitness regimen to start off the New Year, there's a good chance your devices are involved somehow. Whether you're counting your steps daily or throwing punches in a no-impact boxing match courtesy of virtual reality, digital technology is becoming integral to how we exercise. In this episode of Brainstorm, Brian O'Keefe talks to Eric Friedman, a co-founder of Fitbit, about trends the company has seen from users over the course of the pandemic. While it's no surprise people are exercising less, Dr. Abi Fisher, a professor of physical activity and health at University College London, tells Brian about the enormous potential technology has to help people stay motivated and live healthier lives. And finally, Michal Lev-Ram chats with Aly Orady, CEO of Tonal, about the intelligent home gym and personal trainer he developed for at-home strength training.

It is a pleasure to welcome singer-songwriter Eric Dash to The Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. Cherry Hill, New Jersey native Eric Dash (born Eric Friedman), grew up writing and recording extended plays in Philadelphia and New Jersey while performing at various gigs across the Tri-State area. In 2012, producer Jack Joseph Puig (Black Crowes, John Mayer, and Weezer) discovered him, and the duo worked together for five years. One of the team's songs, "One More Love Song," reached the Nielsen Top 40 Radio Chart.Eric has also produced and wrote for up-and-coming artists and orchestrated stream charity events for MusiCares COVID Relief. He also performed across various venues in North America, including Los Angeles's The Wiltern, a Spring Break stage in South Padre Island, Texas, and the Fillmore Theatres in Philadelphia and San Francisco.In this edition of The Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast, Eric Dash spoke about the challenges that he faced as a Do-It-Yourself recording artist and his latest single; "I Just Need to Get Away." He also revealed his dream collaborators and favorite social media platforms.

In 1988, a reluctant 10 year old American boy, Eric Friedman moved to East Berlin. His father Frank was granted a Fulbright grant to lecture at Humboldt University. Eric shares his experiences living in East Germany in his memoir The Ghosts of East Berlin, he shares some of those memories with us here on the East Germany Podcast Radio GDR

Fitbit co-founder Eric Friedman and co-host Andrea Holing talk with experts, industry leaders and real Fitbit users about everything from fitness, nutrition and sleep, to the science and business of health, to what motivates people on their own health journey.

Eric Friedman's interest in aviation began at an early age. When he discovered life as an air traffic controller wasn't everything he'd dreamed, he transitioned into an operations role at MSY, where he's currently part of the concessions team. In the wake of the opening of the airport's newest terminal and instituting a post-security pass system for non-ticketed guests to dine and shop in the airport, Friedman finds joy in providing a memorable and warm experience for all MSY guests, travelers and otherwise. This is the latest in our series Ones To Watch. This episode was recorded in the AXN Podcast booth sponsored by Tastes on the Fly at the 2020 Airport Experience Conference in Denver.

Mark Weiser was the Chief Technologiest at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox Parc in 1988 when he coined the term "ubiquitous computing.” Technology hadn't entered every aspect of our lives at the time like it has now. The concept of wearable technology probably kicks off way earlier than you might think.  Humans have long sought to augment ourselves with technology. This includes eyeglasses, which came along in 1286  and wearable clocks, an era kicked off with the Nuremberg eggs in 1510. The technology got smaller and more precise as our capacity at precision grew. Not all wearable technology is meant to be worn by humans. We strapped cameras to pigeons in 1907. in the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci would draw up plans for a pedometer and that concept would go on the shelf until Thomas Jefferson picked it back up during his tinkering days. And we would get an abacus ring in 1600. But computers began by needing a lot of electricity to light up those vacuum tubes to replace operations from an abacus, and so when the transistor came along in the 40s, we'd soon start looking for ways to augment our capabilities with those.  Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka began the wearable technology craze in 1953 when they started developing what would become the TR-55 when it was released in 1955. It was the first transistor radio and when they changed their name to Sony, they would introduce the first of their disruptive technologies. We don't think of radios as technology as much as we once did, but they were certainly an integral part of getting the world ready to accept other technological advances to come! Manfred Clynes came up with cyborgs in his story story called Cyborgs in Space in 1960. The next year, Edward Thorp and mathematician and binary algebra guru Claude Shannon wanted to try their hands at cheating at roulette so built a small computer to that timed when balls would land. It went in a shoe. created their own version of wearable technology – a computer small enough to fit into a shoe. This would stay a secret until Thorp released his book “Beat the Dealer” telling readers they got a 44 percent improvement in making bets. By 1969 though Seiko gave us the first automatic quartz watch.  Other technologies were coming along at about the same time that would later revolutionize portable computing once they had time to percolate for awhile. Like in the 1960s, liquid crystal displayers were being researched at RCA. The technology goes back further but George H. Heilmeier from RCA laboratories gets credit for In 1964 for operationalizing LCD.  And Hatano developed a mechanical pedometer to track progress to 10,000 steps a day, which by 1985 had him defining that as the number of steps a person should reach in a day. But back to electronics.  Moore's law. The digital camera traces its roots to 1975, but Kodak didn't really pursue it. 1975 and devices were getting smaller and smaller. Another device we don't think of as a computer all that much any more is a calculator. But kits were being sold by then and suddenly components had gotten small enough that you could get a calculator in your watch, initially introduced by Pulsar. And those radios were cool but what if you wanted to listen to what you wanted rather than the radio? Sony would again come along with another hit: The Walkman in 1979, selling over 200 million over the ensuing decade. Akio Morita was a genius, also bringing us digital hearing aids and putting wearables into healthcare. Can you imagine the healthcare industry without wearable technology today?  You could do more and more and by 1981, Seiko would release the UC 2000 Wrist PC. By then portable computers were a thing. But not wearables. You could put 2 whopping kilobytes of data on your wrist and use a keyboard that got strapped to an arm. Computer watches continued to improve any by 1984 you could play. Games on them, like on the Nelsonic Space Attacker Watch.  Flash memory arguably came along in 1984 and would iterate and get better, providing many, many more uses for tiny devices and flash media cards by 1997. But those calculator watches, Marty McFly would sport one in 1985s Back To The Future and by the time I was in high school they were so cheap you could get them for $10 at the local drug store. And a few years later, Nintendo would release the Power Glove in 1989, sparking the imagination of many a nerdy kid who would later build actually functional technology. Which regrettably the Power Glove was not.  The first portable MP3 player came along in 1998. It was the MPMan. Prototypes had come along in 1979 with the IXI digital audio player. The audible player, Diamond Rio, and Personal Jukebox came along in 1998 and on the heels of their success the NOMAX Jukebox came in y2k. But the Apple iPod exploded onto the scene in 2001 and suddenly the Walkman and Diskman were dead and the era of having a library of music on mainstream humans was upon us, sparking Microsoft to release the Zen in 2004, and the Zune in 2006.  And those watches. Garmin brought us their first portable GPS in 1990, which continues to be one of the best such devices on the market. The webcam would come along in 1994 when Canadian researcher Steve Mann built the first the wearable wireless webcam. That was the spark that led to the era of the Internet of Things. Suddenly we weren't just wearing computers. We were wearing computers connected to the inter webs.  All of these technologies brought to us over the years… They were converging. Bluetooth was invented in 2000.  By. 2006, it was time for the iPod and fitness tracking to converge. Nike+iPod was announced and Nike would release a small transmitter that. Fit into a notch in certain shoes. I've always been a runner and jumped on that immediately! You needed a receiver at the time for an iPod Nano. Sign me up, said my 2006 self! I hadn't been into the cost of the Garmin but soon I was tracking everything. Later I'd get an iPhone and just have it connect. But it was always a little wonky. Then came The Nike+ Fuelband in 2012. I immediately jumped on that bandwagon as well. You. Had to plug it in at first but eventually a model came out that sync'd over bluetooth and life got better. I would sport that thing until it got killed off in 2014 and a little beyond… Turns out Nike knew about Apple coming into their market and between Apple, Fitbit, and Android Wear, they just didn't want to compete in a blue ocean, no matter how big the ocean would be.   Speaking of Fitbit, they were founded in 2007 James Park and Eric Friedman with a goal of bringing fitness trackers to market. And they capitalized on an exploding market for tracking fitness. But it wasn't until the era of the app that they achieved massive success and in 2014 they released apps for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile, which was still a thing. And the watch and mobile device came together in 2017 when they released their smartwatch. They are now the 5th largest wearables company.  Android Wear had been announced at Google I/O in 2014. Now called Wear OS, it's a fork of Android Lollipop, that pairs with Android devices and integrates with the Google Assistant. It can connect over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and LTE and powers the Moto 360, the LG G and Samsung Gear. And there are a dozen other manufacturers that leverage the OS in some way, now with over 50 million installations of the apps. It can use Hangouts, and leverages voice to do everything from checking into Foursquare to dictating notes.  But the crown jewel in the smart watches is definitely the Apple Watch. That came out of hiring former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to bring a Siri-powered watch to market, which happened in 2015. With over 33 million being sold and as of this recording on the 5th series of the watch, it can now connect over LTE, Wifi, or through a phone using Bluetooth. There are apps, complications, and a lot of sensors on these things, giving them almost limitless uses. Those glasses from 1286. Well, they got a boost in 2013 when Google put images on them. Long a desire from science fiction, Google Glass brought us into the era of a heads up display. But Sega had introduced their virtual reality headset in 1991 and the technology actually dates back to the 70s from JPL and MIT. Nintendo experimented with Virtual boy in 1994. Apple released QuickTime VR shortly thereafter, but it wasn't that great. I even remember some VGA “VR” headsets in the early 2000s, but they weren't that great. It wasn't until the Oculus Rift came along in 2012 that VR seemed all that ready. These days, that's become the gold standard in VR headsets. The sign to the market was when Facebook bought Oculus for $2.3 billion dollars in 2014 and the market has steadily grown ever since.  Given all of these things that came along in 2014, I guess it did deserve the moniker “The Year of Wearable Technology.” And with a few years to mature, now you can get wearable sensors that are built into yoga pants, like the Nadi X Yoga Pants, smartwatches ranging from just a few dollars to hundreds or thousands from a variety of vendors, sleep trackers, posture trackers, sensors in everything bringing a convergence between the automated home and wearables in the internet of things. Wearable cameras like the Go Pro, smart glasses from dozens of vendors, VR headsets from dozens of vendors, smart gloves, wearable onesies, sports clothing to help measure and improve performance, smart shoes, smart gloves, and even an Alexa enabled ring.  Apple waited pretty late to come out with bluetooth headphones, releasing AirPods in 2016. These bring sensors into the ear, the main reason I think of them as wearables where I didn't think of a lot of devices that came before them in that way. Now on their second generation, they are some of the best headphones you can buy. And the market seems poised to just keep growing. Especially as we get more and more sensors and more and more transistors packed into the tiniest of spaces. It truly is ubiquitous computing. 

In 2006, James Park had what he describes as a "lightning bolt" moment when he first used a Nintendo Wii. Fascinated by its motion-tracking controller, James wondered if you could take the technology out of the living room and into the streets. Three years later, he and co-founder Eric Friedman launched the Fitbit Tracker, which allowed users to track their steps and compare progress with others. Sales took off, and Fitbit dominated the wearables market until the Apple Watch came along, forcing James and Eric to re-imagine the brand. Today, against a cloudy economic backdrop, James hopes Fitbit can grow into its role as a health and wellness service.

In this 1st episode of the #DemandGen Series, Sheila Kloefkorn speaks with Eric Friedman, Founder and CEO, eSkill Corporation. Want to get a no-fluff email that boils down our 3 biggest takeaways from an entire week of B2B Growth episodes? Sign up today: http://sweetfishmedia.com/big3 We'll never send you more than what you can read in < 1 minute.

Eric Friedman, Mad River Glen,  Marketing Director When you look for an activity to do as a family – with your kids, your grandkids – does skiing enter the picture or is it immediately rejected because of the cost? Kathleen and Eric discuss the myth that skiing is too expensive and offer you tips for saving money when you do hit the slopes. Eric Friedman comes from a long line of great, Jewish skiers from New Jersey and didn’t realize until he was an adult that it wasn’t normal for kids to ski 4 days a week. After attending New England College, training as a high school social studies teacher, he fell into the ski business at Mad River Glen in Vermont. For the past 24 years, he has been the Marketing Director of the iconic ski area and is proud of his contribution to resuscitating the legendary ski area as America’s only cooperative owned, not-for-profit ski area. He raised two children in Vermont’s Mad River Valley and still resides in town with his cat. He is excited to soon be moving in with his new wife in the next few months. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Check out Mad River Glen’s kids programs at www.madriverglen.com and sign up for the newsletter to receive special deals on lift tickets. If you visit the mountain, ping Kathleen and Eric as they would love to ski a run with you and your family! Breaking Money Silence® Podcast was recorded at Sugarhouse Soundworks, LLC  

"Use data to create change" Eric Friedman CoFounder of Fitbit is interviewed by David Cogan founder of Eliances and host of the Eliances Heroes show broadcast on am and fm network channels, internet radio, and online syndication. Working to make the world a healthier place. www.fitbit.com www.eliances.com 

"Use data to create change" Eric Friedman CoFounder of Fitbit is interviewed by David Cogan founder of Eliances and host of the Eliances Heroes show broadcast on am and fm network channels, internet radio, and online syndication. Working to make the world a healthier place. www.fitbit.com www.eliances.com 

Eric Friedman is Head of Expa Labs, an early stage accelerator program for companies to get the right start, help they need, and time to build. Prior to Expa, Eric was Global Senior Director of Sales and Revenue Operations at Foursquare. He joined as Foursquare first got started, focussed on growing the merchant community, and was responsible for the first scalable revenue, first sales teams, and the ad tech product Pinpoint. Eric has combined his entrepreneurial interests and experience in product management, finance, marketing, and account management in his work. Eric has a BBA from George Washington University. www.expa.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Episode 74

Pipeman Interviews John Connelly (also from Sevendust) from Super Group Projected. Projected is an American rock supergroup consisting of Sevendust members John Connolly and Vinnie Hornsby, Alter Bridge and Creed drummer Scott Phillips, and former Submersed and current Tremonti guitarist Eric Friedman. They have new music and it rocks. Find out how to WIN a Golden Ticket.Pipeman in the Pit is a segment of The Adventures of Pipeman (#pipemanradio) broadcast live on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

Pipeman Interviews John Connelly (also from Sevendust) from Super Group Projected. Projected is an American rock supergroup consisting of Sevendust members John Connolly and Vinnie Hornsby, Alter Bridge and Creed drummer Scott Phillips, and former Submersed and current Tremonti guitarist Eric Friedman. They have new music and it rocks. Find out how to WIN a Golden Ticket.Pipeman's Power of Music is a segment of The Adventures of Pipeman (#pipemanradio) broadcast live on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

W4CY Radio's The Adventures of Pipeman, features the band Tremonti, with Mark Tremonti, Tanner Keegen, Eric Friedman, and Garrett Whitlock at the 2015 Welcome to Rockville festival in Jacksonville FL. Mark Tremonti, being the former lead guitarist of Creed, talks about his transition into a heavier speed metal band and the creativity that fueled his change. Tremonti tells Pipeman Radio how they're excited about their 2015 tour and that it's been a long time coming. Pipeman in the Pit is a segment of The Adventures of Pipeman (#pipemanradio) broadcast live on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

Think about how we get around town, if stuff we want and need to get to is close enough to where we live, work, learn and play that we don't have to use a car to get there (or at least not all the time). If our neighborhoods feel lively, safe, healthy and productive. This is all part of the national movement called Smart Growth, practiced by community builders like Earthworms guests Dana Gray and Eric Friedman, who are both local champions of equity, sustainability, creativity and prosperity - for everyone in the St. Louis community where they live and work.               Smart Growth is a trend prompting economic, social and environmental benefits in many U.S. cities. In St. Louis, the concept has grown some good roots and sprouted in places like South Grand Boulevard, Washington Avenue downtown, the Delmar Loop and Old North St. Louis. Efforts of community-builders in many places are moving out town in smarter directions, at a pace we will define in positive terms as gathering steam. Evidence of this movement here is that the Local Government Commission is bringing their annual New Partners for Smart Growth national conference to The Lou from February 1-4. A special FREE day of Smart Growth skill-building and networking events has just been announced, DIY Great Cities on Wednesday February 1 - a scoop on this Earthworms podcast! YOU could become a Smart Growth advocate in your neighborhood, with benefits cycling directly, sustainably back to your family, friends, and neighbors. Check it out! Dana Gray is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Tower Grove Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation. Eric Friedman is real estate and development professional, principal of The Friedman Group commercial real estate company, and founder of Housing and Community Solutions. Both have been instrumental in bringing National Partners for Smart Growth 2017 Conference to St. Louis.  Music: Cookie Mouth, performed live at KDHX by The Provels, January 2015. THANKS to Josh Nothum, Earthworms engineer - and to Jon Valley.  Related Earthworms Conversations:  Trailnet's New Vision for Getting Around Green - November 2016 Mississippi River Town Mayors - Global Leadership - June 2016 St. Louis Food Policy  Coalition - December 2015

On this episode we welcome Eric Friedman, marketing director at Mad River Glen in Waitsfield, Vermont. We talk to him about the Mad River Valley and a quintessential Vermont get away.    Links mentioned in the episode: http://www.madriverglen.com http://www.madriverbarn.com https://www.hydeawayinn.com http://www.sugarbush.com http://www.madrivervalley.com/4th http://www.benjerry.com/about-us/factory-tours http://alchemistbeer.com https://www.lawsonsfinest.com http://americanflatbread.com http://www.pitcherinn.com http://www.peasantvt.com http://www.mixcupcakerie.com http://www.warrenstore.com Follow Mark: https://www.instagram.com/markmapstheworld/ Follow Discovery Map: https://www.instagram.com/discovery_map/ Upload Your Travel Photos to Instagram using #DiscoveryMap for a chance to win!  

W4CY Radio's The Adventures of Pipeman, features the band Tremonti, with Mark Tremonti, Tanner Keegen, Eric Friedman, and Garrett Whitlock at the 2015 Welcome to Rockville festival in Jacksonville FL. Mark Tremonti, being the former lead guitarist of Creed, talks about his transition into a heavier speed metal band and the creativity that fueled his change. Tremonti tells Pipeman Radio how they're excited about their 2015 tour and that it's been a long time coming. Pipeman's Power of Music is a segment of The Adventures of Pipeman (#pipemanradio) broadcast live on W4CY Radio - (www.w4cy.com), W4VET Radio, and K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan chats with Eric Friedman, author of the forthcoming book, "Reinventing Philanthropy." In the book, Friedman challenges traditional donor-driven philanthropy and contends that decisions made emotionally may not be the most effective use of personal or corporate contributions to charities. Tune in to today's episode to hear Friedman's contention that the way we give is broken and his suggestions for fixing charitable efforts.

I’ll be honest, I’ve gone back and forth with Foursquare. When I first started checking in a little over a year ago, when my foot crossed the threshold I had a phone in hand ready to ping my friends with my most up-to-date location. Although some of that initial thrill has waned for me personally, Foursquare continues to be an innovator in social media, leading the drive for location-based services and an ongoing recommendation to our clients.On Wednesday, February 9th at 11am CST, Comet Branding Radio returns to explore the world of Foursquare with our guest, Eric Friedman, the company’s Director of Business Development.

I’ll be honest, I’ve gone back and forth with Foursquare. When I first started checking in a little over a year ago, when my foot crossed the threshold I had a phone in hand ready to ping my friends with my most up-to-date location. Although some of that initial thrill has waned for me personally, Foursquare continues to be an innovator in social media, leading the drive for location-based services and an ongoing recommendation to our clients.On Wednesday, February 9th at 11am CST, Comet Branding Radio returns to explore the world of Foursquare with our guest, Eric Friedman, the company’s Director of Business Development.