Podcasts about Everland

This week: As negotiations for the global plastics treaty continue, Nestlé's global public affairs lead for packaging and sustainability Jodie Roussell talks with Ian Welsh at the sustainable packaging innovation forum in Amsterdam. They discuss the political will, the regulatory stakes and why time is running short to reach a meaningful agreement. Plus: pushback against US rollback of climate-focused policy; new BNP Paribas fund for indigenous people-led forest conservation projects with Everland; Coca-Cola and Lavazza UK respond to greenwashing claims; and, circular fashion continues to grow in Europe, in the news digest by Ellen Atiyah. Host: Ian Welsh

Ce 15 avril, Marjorie Hache poursuit la semaine dans Pop-Rock Station avec une playlist aussi érudite qu'éclectique. L'émission débute avec Skunk Anansie et leur percutant "Lost And Found", troisième extrait de *The Painful Truth*, à paraître le 23 mai. Côté hommage, retour en 1892 pour célébrer la mémoire de Bessie Smith, impératrice du blues, avec "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". Parmi les nouveautés, The Divine Comedy revisite la mythologie avec "Achilles", prélude à l'album "Rainy Sunday Afternoon" attendu en septembre. L'album de la semaine "Forever Howlong" de Black Country, New Road poursuit son exploration baroque avec "For The Cold Country", porté par la voix de May Kershaw. Francis Zegut recommande Ten Fé et leur ballade country pop "Everland", tandis que Perfume Genius revient avec "No Front Teeth", en duo avec Aldous Harding. La reprise du soir offre une version musclée de "Have A Cigar" des Pink Floyd par les Foo Fighters, initialement sortie en face B de "Learn To Fly". La fin de soirée accueille Limp Bizkit, Animal Triste, Neil Young et Björk, avant de se conclure avec LA Witch et leur "777", extrait de "Doggod", leur nouvel album garage psyché. Skunk Anansie - Lost And Found Ghinzu - Do You Read Me Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Lou Reed - Perfect Day The Divine Comedy - Achilles Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day Black Country, New Road - For The Cold Country Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down Ten Fe & Ash Buggle - Everland Chris Isaak - Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (Feat. Aldous Harding) Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff Animal Triste - Ave Satan Neil Young - Harvest Björk - Human Behaviour Loudness - Shadows Of War (Ashes In The Sky)(Live 8186) The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann Mgmt - Bubblegum Dog L.A. Witch - 777 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Hot Chip - Over And Over Bob Dylan - Desolation Row Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

EPISODE 415 - Lynne Shaner - Journey to Everland Bay, Black Rose Writing, and Apple TreesAbout LynneLynne Shaner has been captivated by fantasy, myth, and fairy tales since childhood, when her mother first read Charlotte's Web and The Wind in the Willows to her. She lives in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, close enough to Lake Michigan to walk to the shoreline every day. Shelves overflowing with books line her home, and there is always a knitting project on her needles. Lynne lives with her husband, and Merlin, her small, adorable pup. When not writing, she can be found reading and knitting in her garden, where she grows herbs, flowers and story ideas. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines. She holds a master's degree in creative writing/fiction from Johns Hopkins. This is her debut novel.Journey to Everland BayJemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, longs to return to Everland Bay, her ancestral homeland, and find a way to join the renowned magical research institute there, like the women in her family before her.Daughter of a gentle part elf-fae mother and a father with fiery dragon blood, an unusual combination even in the magical world, ten years after her mother's sudden death, she is working at a major museum in DC, where magic is all but outlawed. Her father wants her to assimilate and live without magic, but Jemma is determined to fully embrace her heritage.When an ordinary day at the museum takes an extraordinary turn, Jemma is rocketed to an Everland Bay Institute under violent siege, where dark-arts mages threaten everything important to her. Once there, she joins forces with her companions and works feverishly to save Everland Bay from crumbling under enemy attack. In so doing, she finds a path to her own strength and mastery, and her heart's true home.A Heroine's Journey for our times.“A beautifully engaging fantasy teeming with dragons, fae, magic and the importance of family and friendship. A joy to read from beginning to end. I found myself rooting for our main heroine, Jemma, as she grew into a wonderful and powerful young woman. I am already looking forward to the next work in this thrilling series!” – Julie Boglisch, author of The Elifer Chronicles, The Requiem of Stones series and her standalone, Ghost of a Memory.https://lynneshaner.com/Support the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/

Starlight Thursdays Episode 226 featuring SPACE CHUNK in this live recording from his afternoon set at Everland Music Festival 2024. This was my first time playing at Falcons Roost and it was the first Everland event so I really wasn't sure what to expect coming into it. I was scheduled to play a set at 2pm and 2am and was really excited to lean into the contrast between those set times. I planned out a late night set that was pretty high energy and heavy, so I wanted to take the opportunity to play some chiller funky stuff for the afternoon. To be honest I was a little worried what I wanted to play would be TOO chill, I'm sure we've all been to those events where it's dubstep heaters from 11am onwards and while I love that energy a chill liquid dnb set right in the middle of that would be pretty clunky. Everland was an absolute vibe though and I felt like I had total freedom in what I got to play. Something about camping out in the woods and playing in a mountain meadow really opens up the music possibilities - I heard a huge range of sounds from all the DJs that weekend, so big ups Everland/Starlight crew for facilitating that. Also as a DnB artist I love being at a house/techno forward event, I think it inspires a certain style of mixing where you can really play out a song. Anyways, I tried to capture a bit of that energy in my set. Basically I came in without much of a plan and just played out my favorite liquid funk tracks. Hope you enjoy! -SPACE CHUCK-

Starlight Thursdays Episode 222 Welcome Magna fka Joh to the series. How long have you been DJing? Off and on about 12 years, producing for like 17 Why did you get into it? I started producing and wanted to play my tracks for people. What events have you played? Shine, Ascension, Abduction,  Forest Creatures, Crystal Mountain, Clam Crew Takeover at Jesters, Everland, Montopia Where do you live? Great Falls Where are you from originally? Great Falls What inspires you to DJ? Love, Life, Rhythm, and all the performers I've seen in my life. What inspires you about electronic music culture? Love and rhythm  What genres are in your mix? It starts off with bass house but quickly turns into techno        It was a ton of fun djing at Montopia and I'm super appreciative of the whole Starlight crew for letting me throw down, as well as everyone involved in the creation of such an amazing event. -Magna- For more Magna check out  https://soundcloud.com/magna192

Starlight Thursdays Episode 221 featuring a very special recording, Born aGreen Live at Everland Music Festival. This is one of the sets I've heard a buzz about from those that caught it. I unfortunately missed the event so really looking forward to this mix. Born aGreen has been a pivotal force behind the Inception of Everland and growing the “vibes keepers”. He continues to impress me with his progress as a dj and the efforts he puts forth into our community. I'm sure we're going enjoy this one! -BK Love- For more Born aGreen check out https://soundcloud.com/bornagreen1

Starlight Thursdays Episode 220 featuring a live recording of Shane Dee from The Zebra on 5/11/24. Something funny happened to him when he plugged his music into the decks.. it's happened to me too. The music wasn't there! Fortunately PRICERIGHT had his music running and was cool with Shane selecting from his collection. That's what homies are for! Shane dug in and found techno he was stoked to play and I think you'll be stoked to hear this gem. -BK Love- If you missed that night, it's not too late to catch him live this weekend at Everland. For more Shane Dee check out his link tree to find his live shows, mix cast and party's he's hosting. https://linktr.ee/shanedeemusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=ddad25c3-0b84-461c-8819-2335931d41ae

A chat with author Lynne Shaner about her debut fantasy novel, Journey to Everland Bay. Websitelynneshaner.com Facebook Threads@lynne.shaner Lynne Shaner's Amazon Page Amazon Links for Journey to Everland BayAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book A Heroine's Journey for our times. Jemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, longs to return to Everland Bay, her ancestral homeland, and find a … Continue reading "Episode 175: Lynne Shaner – Journey to Everland Bay" Source

Starlight Thursdays Episode 215 Welcome Mr Matthew to the series! Originally from northern Georgia he made the move to Montana around 10 years ago. After going to a small house party entertained by a dj he fell in love with mixing and knew what he wanted to get into. His passion for this culture and our community stood out to me. I invited him to join the Starlight Reunion admin team shortly after we got to know each other. He has so much ambition to not only throw parties but inspire safe spaces to let loose in. I'm beyond overjoyed to share this recording of his. Not only is it the first in our series, but it's also the first recording he's made public. You may have heard him play at Bassmonsters , FC5, Montambhla/CMMF and the club nights at the Zebra and Monks. If not you'll have the chance to catch him live at Montopia or his passion project Everland. He's gone above and beyond booking shows for our resident artists and community. This summer is looking absolutely stacked and we owe a bunch of that to Mr Matthew. -BK Love- DJing and dance parties are very therapeutic to me. It's how I managed getting through my divorce. It led me to my true soulmate. Knowing the connections that are being made and the happiness being spread while I play is so rewarding and fulfilling. I love being part of the SR fam and what we represent. Super excited to see where we are in 5 years as a whole. There is so much going on in the group! I couldnt be more proud of all the folks that are a part of our crew! It's been busy times for our group, proud to see it coming together. Starlight is really helping expand my music opportunities and skill set and im truly grateful. The access to knowledge, gear, and connections has been priceless and just want you to know theres a reason ive been wearing my SR shirt every time i play, I'm so proud of that logo, what it represents and who is part of it. It's like a badge of honor. Hope you enjoy this mix and looking forward to seeing y'all on the dance floor. - Mr Matthew -

Successful REDD+ projects that protect forests and preserve biodiversity must work in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to safeguard and enhance their rights. Improving livelihoods by providing basic needs and alternative income opportunities is critical to forest conservation that is equitable.   Projects require close and extensive community consultation and strong engagement in governance, built on the foundations of full free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).   This Innovation Forum webinar, supported by Everland features case studies of REDD+ projects in Kenya, Cambodia, Colombia and Peru, providing examples from each about how, when done well, REDD+ projects can generate remarkable breakthroughs for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Participants discuss how financing from the sale of certified carbon emission reduction credits has helped to empower these partnerships with local communities that safeguard and strengthen human rights.   The case studies illustrate: How REDD+ projects are built upon community-led governance structures. The ways in which projects provide opportunities for communities to secure their land titles. The comprehensive conservation agreements that enhance partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and local communities that protect livelihoods and forest ecosystems.   We heard from panellists from Everland and Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Kasigau Corridor, Alto Mayo, Chyulu Hills and Acapa-Bajo Mira y Frontera REDD+ Projects. To learn more about these projects, click here.   This webinar was moderated by Ian Welsh, publishing director at Innovation Forum.

В этом эпизоде Анна Несмеева и Дмитрий Конфункин обсуждают как тема многообразия и инклюзивности соотносится с корпоративной социальной ответственностью. Гостья выпуска - Екатерина Плужник. Руководитель отдела корпоративной и социальной ответственности Росбанка. Как строится инклюзия людей с инвалидностью? Что такое доступная среда в офисах и сервисах? Есть ли у нас гендерное равенство? Как мы учитываем принципы D&I при реализации проектов КСО (внутри и вовне компании). Об этом и многом другом подйет речь в третьем выпуске нашего спецпроекта «МНОГООБРАЗИЕ И ИНКЛЮЗИВНОСТЬ» В подкасте упоминаются проекты Региональная общественная организация людей с инвалидностью «Перспектива» , Благотворительный фонд поддержки людей с инвалидностью «ДЕЙСТВУЙ!» , Некоммерческая организация АНО «Пространство равных возможностей» (Everland) Если вы хотите работать по программам для людей с инвалидностью - рекомендуем обратить в эти организации Как всегда больше полезного материала по теме вы найдете на сайте Школы внутреннего коммуникатора Ставьте лайки

This week: On a recent trip to Cambodia, Ian Welsh spoke to Kong Bunchhean, a smallholder farmer living in Sovanna Baitong village in the country's Southern Cardamom region. Kong reflects on how his and his family's lives have benefitted from the region's Redd+ carbon project. This is part of Innovation Forum's ongoing 'From the Forest Front-line' series in partnership with Everland. And, at Innovation Forum's sustainable apparel and textiles conference in New York last month, IF's Toby Webb and Olam Agri's Jordan Lea talk about some of the sector trends that emerged from the conference. In the news: IEA report highlights sharp increase in demand for cobalt and nickel; Western US drought causes a drop in hydropower; and Planet Tracker research finds low interest in biodiversity-specific data from investors.

Since 2015, she has been living on Jeju Island working as a caricature artist. During the time when caricatures were unfamiliar in Korea, she first encountered it at SeaWorld in San Diego, USA. Falling in love with caricatures, she established the company, ‘FUN Caricature', in Korea in 2002 and began specialized training in caricature art. Afterwards, she formed a team of caricature artists and operated live caricature drawing at famous tourist attractions such as Everland and Lotte World. After settling in Jeju, she collaborated with Jeju Provincial Government to host the ‘Caricature International Convention' in Jeju and also planned the ‘World Artist Project' to provide caricature education to Jeju children. Currently, she consistently participates in caricature courses and volunteer activities for the residents of Jeju.

— The mission of inclusive impact companies is to make a positive impact and promote happiness for all humankind - regardless of race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, ability, or age. They promote an inclusive culture through the development of a therapeutic approach that is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and accommodations for everyone. Valeria interviews Andrea Piazza  — She is a mental health expert, licensed clinical mental health counselor, and healthcare entrepreneur with a background as a telehealth designer for one of the nation's largest behavioral health care providers, and artistic director of an international non-profit dance education organization. Andrea holds a BFA in dance and a BS in psychology from the University of Florida and an MA degree in clinical mental health counseling from the University of Central Florida, with advanced training in integrated healthcare. As the founder and owner of Inclusive Impact Therapy, Andrea has been recognized for her work in mental health through various accolades, including the Most Inclusive & Accessible- Mental Health Awards by Global Health & Pharma, the Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award from the UCLA Price Center for Entrepreneurship, and being named the Los Angeles County Commission for Women Woman of the Year 2023 and Orlando Magazine's Woman of the Year 2022. In addition to her work in mental health, Andrea is a published author of the best-selling children's book Peter Pan in Everland, which has received critical acclaim and was the #1 Bestseller in Children's eBook on Disability in April 2021. She is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andrea's dedication to inclusivity and accessibility in mental health has earned her recognition in the community, including being named one of the University of Florida 40 under 40 Gator Alumni Award and one of the University of Central Florida 30 Under 30 Alumni Awardees. Andrea's passion for helping those in need runs deep and she is continuing to support her community through various mental health and arts-based efforts. Andrea's most recent project is Allgood Health which will be launching at the end of this summer. Empowering health and wellness professionals to create, share and monetize virtual learning spaces, while democratizing access to specialized knowledge and community support for everyone, one subscription= one subscription donated to an underserved community. Let's democratize healthcare! To learn more about Andrea Piazza and her work, please visit: inclusiveimpacttherapy.com and andrealynn.org               — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

에버랜드에서 녹음을 하였습니다. Sorry about the quality of the sound- we were recording at the theme park. But hopefully you will enjoy listening to this and if you have an opportunity come and visit Everland in Korea

It is March 1941 during the Second World War, and a young evacuee, Tabitha, is fascinated by the stories about a famous author who lives nearby. Content warning: contains references to suicide. The story is written and read by Elinora Westfall. Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright, Elinora Westfall is a lesbian writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry and radio from the UK. Her novel, Everland, was selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre and audio shows have been selected by The British Library and performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. The story was produced by Tabitha Potts. Music used courtesy of Timbre of Freesound.org Photo of Virginia Woolf By George Charles Beresford - Filippo Venturi Photography Blog, Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50293324

This short story is about a young woman whose heart is stolen by a mysterious magician. The story is written and read by Elinora Westfall. Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright, Elinora Westfall is an Australian/British lesbian actress and writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry and radio from the UK. Her novel, Everland has been selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow 2021 Editorial Programme, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre shows have been performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. Elinora is also working on The Art of Almost, a lesbian comedy-drama radio series as well as writing a television drama series and the sequel to her novel, Everland. The story was produced by Tabitha Potts.

This week: Another chance to hear the two most popular podcast interviews of 2022. At Innovation Forum's future of climate action conference, Rob Cameron, vice-president and global head of public affairs and ESG engagement at Nestlé, spoke about why companies need to continue to focus on carbon, take immediate action at scale, and the potential benefits from regenerative agriculture. He argued that there will be no transition to a low carbon economy unless it is a “just transition”, and put the case for always following the science in corporate action on climate change.  And, Josh Tosteson, president of Everland, spoke about the new Forest Plan to tackle deforestation at scale through rapidly developing new REDD+ forest projects in threatened landscapes around the world, and accessing the unprecedented levels of climate finance via the voluntary carbon markets. He also addressed the main criticisms of REDD+ projects; how to prevent deforestation from simply leaking outside the project boundary, and how to establish baselines to measure deforestation reduction.  And, Innovation Forum's Catie Ball introduces the upcoming sustainable apparel and textiles USA conference, taking part on 21st-22nd June 2023 in New York City, including an exclusive offer for podcast listeners. Host: Ian Welsh  

Some on-the-spot reflections at the recent sustainable landscapes and commodities forum in Amsterdam from Tesco's Anna Turrell, Anita Neville from Golden Agri-Resources, Craig Tribolet from APRIL, Glenn Hurowitz from Mighty Earth, Josh Tosteson from Everland, Patrick Houdry from Airbus, Michiel Hendriksz from FarmStrong Foundation, Eloisa Menguzzo from PGGM and Innovation Forum senior associate Peter Stanbury, talking with Ian Welsh. They highlight the use of science-based targets and satellite monitoring, the need for transparency and sustainable sourcing, and opportunities for voluntary carbon markets and balancing between regulation and incentives to end commodity-driven deforestation.  

This week: Alberto Acedo, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Biome Makers, talks about how the company's BeCrop technology can test soil health to drive improvements in agricultural sustainability. He discusses the benefits of identifying the soil metrics that help farmers identify and monitor biological and chemical properties of soil to provide effective solutions for sustainable agricultural management. Plus: quick fire insights from Golden Agri-Resources' Anita Neville, Mighty Earth's Glenn Hurowitz and Everland's Joshua Tosteson, speaking at Innovation Forum's sustainable landscapes and commodities conference in Amsterdam. And: funding for loss and damage due to climate change and a proposed two-year halt in debt payments from nations impacted by climate-related disasters, discussed at COP27; a more-rapid shift to regenerative agricultural practices needed according to Sustainable Markets Initiative taskforce's report; and, a growing row between Indonesia and the EU over legal timber and deforestation due diligence, in the news digest. Host: Ian Welsh Please complete Innovation Forum's five-minute survey and get exclusive first access to useful insights on sustainability supply chain trends. Survey available here.

Korea24 – 2022.11.08 (Tuesday) News Briefing: The National Police Agency's special investigation team on the Itaewon crowd crush disaster raided 55 government offices on Tuesday, including the office of the Police Commissioner General Yoon Hee-keun. (Eunice Kim) In-Depth News Analysis: North Korea has rapidly escalated its provocations in recent weeks, launching dozens of missiles of various types. Meanwhile, speculation remains that the regime may be gearing up for its long-anticipated seventh nuclear test. We speak to Markus Schiller, a leading expert on North Korean missiles and the founder of Munich-based consulting company ST Analytics, to assess the current state of North Korea’s missile and nuclear capabilities. Korea Trending with Diane Yoo: 1. Former President Moon Jae-in is set to give up a pair of dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and their puppy, citing a lack of support from the Yoon administration. (문 전 대통령 풍산개 반납 vs 파양 논란) 2. The theme park, Everland, has won the Award of Garden Excellence by the World Federation of Rose Societies for its rose garden. (에버랜드, 국내 최초 세계장미회가 꼽은 ‘최고 장미원’에 선정) 3. The moon is set to turn a coppery shade of red Tuesday night, due to a total lunar eclipse phenomena dubbed “blood moon.” (200년 안에 없을 ‘특급 우주쇼’…오늘 밤 ‘붉은 달’을 주목하라!) Touch Base In Seoul: Veteran rugby coach Charles Louw took charge of the South Korean national men's rugby team in early 2021 and he has been dubbed the "Rugby Hiddink" for the transformative impact he has had. He joins us via video call to tell us more about how he decided to come to Korea and what he hopes to achieve for South Korean rugby. Morning Edition Preview with Walter Lee: - Tomorrow’s Korea Herald features a report by Yim Hyun-su on the issues that foreign travelers are having with the Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) system. - In tomorrow’s Korea Times, Kwak Yeon-soo writes on Korean director Park Chan-wook being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Innovation Forum and Everland present a podcast focusing on the Wildlife Alliance Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project from the recent webinar, How REDD+ is working to save Cambodia's forests.   The project is located in the Cardamom rainforest landscape, one of the last unfragmented rainforests remaining in southeast Asia and is a critical part of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. We'll hear about the unique ‘boots-on-the ground' enforcement partnership between the project, Cambodia's Environment Ministry and the Cambodian military that prevents more than 3,000,000 tons of carbon emissions annually and protects 497,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in South-West Cambodia.   Tune into over conversation with the panel moderated by Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh: Suwanna Gauntlett, CEO, Wildlife Alliance, Southern Cardamom REDD+ project Sophany Touch, livelihoods manager, Wildlife Alliance, Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Attention, voici les dessous de la fast fashion et de la mode éthique. Avec Chloé Cohen du podcast Nouveau Modèle sur la mode responsable. Si tu partages ce podcast, tu soutiens les actrices de la mode durable. SI TU AS SOIF DE SENS  ► Où écouter Soif de Sens ? Tous les liens (Spotify, Apple Podcasts...) : bit.ly/soifdesens- ► Mes 3 livres "Changer le monde en 2 heures" : http://en2heures.fr ► Voici 50€ pour toi à investir dans l'agriculture de demain avec Miimosa avec le code PIERRE50 dès 200€ investis : https://bit.ly/50euros_ DANS CET ÉPISODE ► Le podcast Nouveau Modèle de Chloé Cohen sur la mode éthique : https://www.nouveaumodelepodcast.com ► Les marques éthiques citées : Posidonie, Pourquoi Princesse, Patagonia, Everland, Reformation et LoomvC78 SOMMAIRE 00:37 3 femmes qui font la mode éthique 01:29 Audrey Millet et le livre noir de la mode 02:40 L'égalité fille-garçon dans la mode 03:41 La vraie histoire du Rana Plaza 07:58 Le quotidien d'une travailleuse du textile 09:20 40% des Français prêts à arrêter la fast fashion 10:05 Le challenge 11 jours 11:58 Comment repérer le greenwashing 13:09 Le coton bio, fausse bonne idée ? 14:10 Consommer moins 17:00 Comment agir collectivement ? 18:33 Arrêter de culpabiliser le consommateur 20:33 Relocaliser 21:34 L'impact de son podcast Nouveau Modèle 22:16 Le vrai coût de la fast fashion 24:10 La quête de sens de Chloé Cohen 24:52 La ou les modes éthiques ? 25:20 Soie et véganisme 29:59 Message d'espoir

Today we have a special guest for you! We have Nicole Warren from Chance 2 Dance  (C2D). In 2018, Nicole Warren designed the blueprints for a new dance studio vision; C2D built out the state of Florida's First sensory-friendly dance studio and black box theater to provide a safe, inclusive, and accommodating atmosphere for all individuals to receive specialized dance classes.  Chance 2 Dance is Central Florida's only inclusive and accommodating dance organization that provides complete programming for the special needs and disabled community.  These classes were also recognized as a 'Unique Abilities Partner' for staffing on-site work experience employees with jobs to nurture and support life skills. Nicole is also the owner of Odyssey Dance Company; a youth-elite training dance company, and co-owner of Inclusive Impact Initiative; where she became a #1 Best Selling children's author for co-writing 'An Inclusive Classic: Peter Pan in Everland.'  Tune in today to learn how Nicole focuses on the future as an advocate for acceptance and hopes to help our modern world embrace opportunities for all individuals through equal-arts options and dance. Don't forget we love to hear from our listeners! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to receiving your questions on our Google Phone (407) 900- 9305, Facebook (Practical Access), Twitter (@AccessPractical), or Instagram (@Practical_Access).

Josh Tosteson, president of Everland, outlines a new plan to tackle deforestation at scale through rapidly developing new REDD+ forest projects in threatened landscapes around the world, and accessing the unprecedented levels of climate finance via the voluntary carbon markets. He also addresses the main criticisms of REDD+ projects; how to prevent deforestation from simply leaking outside the project boundary, and how to establish baselines to measure deforestation reduction.

Reisen nach Korea sind mit Aufhebung der Quarantäne nun endlich wieder einfacher für Euch! Darum möchten wir Euch die vielen einzigartigen Orte und Attraktionen von Korea vorstellen. Heute geht es um bekannte Vergnügungsparks in und um Seoul!

This week: Josh Tosteson, president of Everland, outlines a new plan to tackle deforestation at scale through rapidly developing new REDD+ forest projects in threatened landscapes around the world, and accessing the unprecedented levels of climate finance via the voluntary carbon markets. Plus analysis of some of the outcomes from Innovation Forum's Future of Climate Action conference from the Scope 3 Peer Group's Oliver Hurrey. And, big brands backing new $250m fashion climate fund from the Apparel Impact Institute; Procter & Gamble's new ambitious water targets; Net Zero Tracker queries credibility of many corporate net-zero plans; and, new ocean plastic concerns, in the news digest.    Host: Ian Welsh

This webinar discussion, the latest in Innovation Forum's “From the front-line battle to stop deforestation by 2030” series, features an expert panel discussing how private-sector investments are helping to end deforestation, protect threatened wildlife and fund significant economic development activities for local communities. The webinar was held in Stockholm as part of the United Nations Environment Programme's World Environment Day celebrations, and featured representatives from groundbreaking forest conservation REDD+ projects in Kenya, the DRC, Colombia and Cambodia. The panel talked about community-based conservation and their successes stopping deforestation, and the challenges involved. Panel: Joseph Mwakima, community relations manager, Wildlife Works, Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project Cara Barund, conservation office manager, Wildlife Works, Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project  Neneth Freund, francophone Africa liaison, Wildlife Works, Mai Ndombe REDD+ project  Lider Sucre, regional director for Latin America, Wildlife Works Chaly Y, GIS and communications officer, Tumring REDD+ project  Rithiny Teng, national strategic manager, Wildlife Conservation Society, Keo Seima REDD+ project Suwanna Gauntlett, CEO, Wildlife Alliance, Southern Cardamom REDD+ project Host: Ian Welsh, Innovation Forum The webinar was sponsored by Everland – click here for Everland's Forest Plan.

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"Just think of lovely things, and your heart will fly on wings..." Drew and Cassie are joined by Leah from YA Book Chat to discuss the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan! With music and lyrics by Jule Styne, Mark Charlap, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Carolyn Leigh, the original Broadway production starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. An adaptation of this production was televised in 1955, 1956, and 1960. Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby would eventually claim the role of Peter, and famously played the role on stage for over four decades. For this episode, we compare and contrast 1960 televised Mary Martin version and the 2003 production starring Cathy Rigby that was professionally filmed for A&E. Drew also bit the bullet and watched the 2014 Peter Pan Live! starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, and sprinkles in some of the changes they made - some bad, some good. We discuss the different Nanas, the medicine scene, Cathy Rigby's massive amounts of fairy dust, the differences between Martin and Rigby's portrayals of Peter, the too-slowly-evolving portrayal of Tiger Lily and her tribe, the enigma of Liza's presence in Neverland, "Oh, My Mysterious Lady" vs. Marooner's Rock, the Hamlet joke, the casting choices for Adult Wendy and Jane, and so much more!In this episode, we reference an interview with Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate regarding the 2014 Live production's rewrite of "Ugg-A-Wugg" to "True Blood Brothers." We encourage you to read the full interview, which can be found at https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/adios-ugg-a-wugg-native-composer-updates-song-for-nbcs-peter-pan-live/ Next time, join us to discuss the YA steampunk dystopian novel Everland by Wendy Spinale. Check out Leah and YA Book Chat in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts! Check out her instagram at https://www.instagram.com/yabookchat and find more information at https://linktr.ee/YABookChatJoin the discussion! If you want to interact with other fairy tale fans, discuss this week's retelling, participate in podcast polls, catch fairy tale related news, join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/ofslippersandspindles/ Follow us on Instagram! We share behind-the-scenes info, fun facts, historical pictures of Drew and Cassie, bookstagram photos, and more! https://www.instagram.com/ofslippersandspindles/ We love to hear from you! You can reach us at ofslippersandspindles@gmail.com Music: Through The Woods by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

Dans cet épisode, on vous présente Thierry Jousse.  Thierry est le COO du groupe Everland, spécialisé dans le développement et la gestion de projets immobiliers, avec une attention particulière aux projets urbains. Leur approche? Faire de la ville un endroit plus créatif et inspirant, grâce à des concepts innovants et une gestion rigoureuse.  Dans cet épisode, notre invité revient sur la genèse du groupe Everland ainsi que sur les success stories qui ont fait sa renommée.  Thierry nous parle également de l'actualité du groupe (immo, food & hospitality) et plus particulièrement, du projet en financement actuellement sur la plateforme BeeBonds : le projet Keren qui consiste en la transformation pour la vente d'un îlot de 3 immeubles idéalement situés sur la prestigieuse Avenue Louise à Bruxelles. Découvrez :  Le groupe Everland ainsi que ses projets (hôteliers, immobiliers et de restauration)Le business model du groupe basé sur l'expérience utilisateur et un modèle agile (payroll)Le projet KerenPourquoi Everland a fait appel à BeeBonds. Campagne :  Montant à lever (max.) : 4.000.000 eurosTaux d'intérêt annuel brut : 6%Durée: 3 ans Plus d'informations sur la campagne : https://www.beebonds.com/keren Avertissement : Souscrire à une Levée de Fonds comporte pour l'investisseur une part de risque quant au remboursement des capitaux et du paiement des intérêts échus. Avant d'investir, veuillez lire la note d'information. Pour les personnes physiques résidentes fiscales belges, les intérêts perçus sont soumis à un précompte mobilier libératoire de 30%.

At the recent future for climate action conference, Marie-Pierre Bousquet Lecomte, science-based targets implementation director at Danone, Robert Horster, global sustainability lead for agricultural supply chains and food ingredients at Cargill, Conor McMahon, climate delivery manager at Nestlé, and Joshua Tosteson, president, Everland, joined Innovation Forum's Toby Webb to talk about how to implement natural climate solutions. While many of these have been around for a while, their alignment within climate change strategy, combined with better collaboration and focus is now where best practice is.

ARTIST: MUFLON DUB SOUND SYSTEM // TITLE: IN LOVE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS CAT. NR: DPH049 // GENRE: ROOTS REGGAE / DUB / STEPPAS / DUBWISE Muflon Dub Soundsystem is a musical project from Poland, delivering positive Dub and Roots Reggae inspired sounds since early 2000s, with a modern approach, lightweight harmonies, heavy drum and bass lines, simplicity with a touch of poetry, creative ideas with conscious message. The album In Love With Righteousness is a compilation of their best Dub tracks, recorded between 2005 and 2014. We can hear the evolution of their style and some of the most characteristic features of their sound (mellow vibe, steady riddim, catchy basslines, thrilling vocal lines). Most of the tracks of the compilation are included in their previous releases, which are available for free through their webpage and also on their Jamendo and Bandcamp page. The album includes also Showered Ina Jah Jah Rain Dub, a previously unreleased Dub version of the tune of the same name, appearing on the album Everland. Actually, many of the songs from this compilation have their Reggae counterparts with mellow vocals and conscious lyrics, to be found in different past releases of Muflon Dub Soundsystem. What they all have in common, is the message: got to be in love with Righteousness!

Danone's Marie-Pierre Bousquet Lecomte, Nestlé's Conor McMahon, Cargill's Robert Horster, and Everland's Joshua Tosteson join Innovation Forum's Toby Webb to discuss how to implement natural climate solutions that deliver large scale greenhouse gas reduction. The panel talks about why such solutions are featuring ever-more prominently at the forefront of corporate commitments and strategy.   Plus: investors worth $41tn demand greater government effort on climate change via the Investor Agenda; Global Witness links Chinese banks with deforestation; US egg farmers embracing regenerative agriculture; and Waitrose ups recycled plastic in packaging, in the news digest. Host: Ian Welsh  

Attention, voici les dessous de la fast fashion et de la mode éthique. Avec Chloé Cohen du podcast Nouveau Modèle sur la mode responsable. Si tu partages ce podcast, tu soutiens les actrices de la mode durable. SI TU AS SOIF DE SENS ► Abonne-toi au podcast Soif de Sens (Apple, Spotify, etc.) : https://bit.ly/pierrechevelle ► Instagram (découvre les invités en premier !) : https://www.instagram.com/pierre.chevelle ► Mes 3 livres "Changer le monde en 2 heures" : https://en2heures.fr  DANS CET ÉPISODE ► Le podcast Nouveau Modèle de Chloé Cohen sur la mode éthique : https://www.nouveaumodelepodcast.com ► Les marques éthiques citées : Posidonie, Pourquoi Princesse, Patagonia, Everland, Reformation et LoomvC78 SOMMAIRE 00:00 Intro 00:37 3 femmes qui font la mode éthique 01:29 Audrey Millet et le livre noir de la mode 02:40 L'égalité fille-garçon dans la mode 03:41 La vraie histoire du Rana Plaza 07:58 Le quotidien d'une travailleuse du textile 09:20 40% des Français prêts à arrêter la fast fashion 10:05 Le challenge 11 jours 11:58 Comment repérer le greenwashing 13:09 Le coton bio, fausse bonne idée ? 14:10 Consommer moins 17:00 Comment agir collectivement ? 18:33 Arrêter de culpabiliser le consommateur 20:33 Relocaliser 21:34 L'impact de son podcast Nouveau Modèle 22:16 Le vrai coût de la fast fashion 24:10 La quête de sens de Chloé Cohen 24:52 La ou les modes éthiques ? 25:20 Soie et véganisme 29:59 Message d'espoir

On her own at the age of 15, Mayana taught herself skills to develop and restructure educational systems and programs for the US Dept of Education, winning awards leading to national attention.After healing herself from fibromyalgia, she developed healing techniques that she shares at Peace Production.Learn more about Mama Tink and Everland here.Ali Bierman connects spirit to daily living. Get her special gift here. Grab her special offer at letsgetmetaphysicalpodcast.comDownload Rev Ali's special gift, Your First Steps On You Spiritual Path takes you out of the woo-woo sphere and gently guides you to discover your own deep spiritualityStruggle is optional. If you or someone you know hurts physically or emotionally contact Rev. Ali to eliminate the grief and hurt.Confused by all the energy workers, their claims - and their sometimes weird antics? Join Rev. Ali for a LIVE video chat every month. Need someone to talk to about your spirituality who won't think you're nutsy? Join our Facebook groupNO more boredom . NO more limited choice. Audible's exclusive content is more than audiobooks. FREE trial now.Discover how to communicate with the Universe, your guides and angels. Rev. Ali makes it easy. Watch or listen to any episode and leave a review on our show siteSome of the links may earn a small amount for Rev. Ali without adding to your costs.

In today's episode, I am talking to Jonny Jenkins. We are diving into how to lead a heart centered life and diving into the call that so many of us are feeling to build communities. Jonny Jenkins is the founder of Everland, an Eco-Retreat and Immersive Art Park being built outside of Denver Colorado. Inspired by Burningman, Meow Wolf and the collaborative creative movement, Everlands' intention is to facilitate connection, inspire creativity and activate child-like play. Listen in as we discuss, finding people who align with what we want to bring into the world, living in nature and harmony with the land, and supporting your masculine and feminine energy in business. What you'll learn from this episode: The vision behind Everland (2:00) Why we need community (17:48) Overcoming the structure of our masculine world (20:13) How to live a heart-centered existence (24:32) Exploring the shadow side of community (30:49) How to take ownership for your own experience (33:35) Featured on the show: Check out Everland at everland.co Connect with Jonny and Everland on Instagram or Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/everlandco/ https://www.facebook.com/EverlandCo Follow me on Instagram to learn more about your sacred dance and stepping into your Divine Purpose. https://www.instagram.com/its.annettemaria/ Join my Facebook group, Shakti Rising Collective, to connect with other spiritual women living a soul-led journey.https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShaktiRisingCollective/ Check out my website to learn more about my offers: http://activationsbyannette.com Email me at hello@activationsbyannette.com

I dagens episode møter vi sangerinnen Kjersti Krogedal Høie, også kjent som AVA Everland. Kjersti er en allsidig sanger med en forkjærlighet for pop, gospel, jazz, folk og soul. Siden 2013 har hun vært med i bandet «The Future - A tribute to Leonard Cohen», som hun har spilt utallige konserter med. Hun har også vært å se i forestillingen «Forfatteren og sangerinnen» sammen med Jack Rostøl. Rett før jul i fjor slapp hun sin debutsingle, en nydelig cover av Irving Berlin sin «Count your blessings instead for sheep». Nå er hun aktuell med låten «Paperdolls». Kjersti forteller blant annet om prosjektene hun jobber med, hennes erfaring med Estill Voice Training og hvorfor hun mener man bør synge med hjertet. I «Syngedama?» får du bli med bak sceneteppet og møte interessante og kreative kvinner som skaper auditiv kunst ved hjelp av sine stemmebånd. Hege Bjerk vil vite hvordan arbeidshverdagen til sine kollegaer ser ut, hva slags bakgrunn de har, hvorfor de synger, hvilke rutiner de har før en opptreden, hva de drømmer om, hvilke tanker de har rundt tituleringen «syngedame» - og mye annet gøy!!

Korea24 – 2021.03.29. (Monday) News Briefing: Amid mounting public anger over alleged real estate speculation by employees of the state-run Korea Land and Housing Corporation(LH) and other public servants, President Moon Jae-in called for the thorough investigation and eradication of corruption in the public sector. (Eunice Kim) In-Depth News Analysis: Political commentator and law Professor Cho Hee-Kyung from Hongik University and law professor Song Se-ryun from Kyunghee University give their thoughts on the fast-approaching April mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan and delve into key issues behind voter sentiment. Korea Trending with Lee Ju-young: Small business owners can now apply for the 4th round of relief funds(오늘부터 4차 재난지원금 신청…100만∼500만원 지급), South Korean amusement park Everland will swap out its safari buses for new vehicles as part of a major renovation to mark the park's 45th anniversary(에버랜드 명물 '사파리 버스' 45년 만에 사라진다), and veteran actor Park Joong-hoon is caught drunk driving(박중훈 음주운전 적발). Sports: Yoo Jee-ho from Yonhap News Agency talks about the Korea Football Association(KFA) taking the blame for South Korea’s humiliating defeat in their football friendly against Japan, golfer Park In-bee winning the Kia Classic in her 2021 season debut, and the baseball season starting this week for both MLB and the KBO. Morning Edition Preview with Mark Wilson-Choi: Mark shares a piece from the Korea Times that features the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica Rodolfo Solano Quiros and his long relationship with South Korea. He also talks about a story from the Korea Herald that covers new art installation pieces in the Incheon Airport.

Episode 8 contains the first installments of Nick and Lauren's "segments." Nick talks about philosopher Plato and how his idea of the perfect society would translate into modern day terms. Lauren shares with the audience some songs that turned 20 in 2020. Thank you Everland Clothing for sponsoring us! @everxland on Instagram. Thank you to Lloyd Teasley for the intro music, Everland ad music, and the transition sound. @lloydteasley on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

#164: There’s an emotional component to money. Volatility is not just about returns but what it does to you personally. There’s always this question of “Is your money ever enough?” One of our favorite topics is sharing our monthly passive income report and what we’ve been doing. As we always talk about in Wealth Without Wall Street, none of it is about timing. It’s all about cash flow.  Here are some lessons we’ve learned from engaging in different business ventures:  It’s a good thing to leverage someone else’s expertise to tap into a system. Just like how we’ve tapped https://www.thelandgeek.com/ (Mark Podolsky)’s team to run Everland which is one aspect of our land business.  It’s a learning process. There will be challenges. It’s not all roses. You have to learn the skill of marketing. You need to have an extroverted personality with a sales profile, resilience, and willingness to push through some challenges.  Financial freedom is not linear. It’s always moving and changing, and you’ve got to be willing to pivot. You can’t just stay in one place. You have to make constant adjustments, step out of your comfort zone, and continue to grow. We hope you learned something today. That’s what our brand is all about - empowering you to take control, so that you can pick your own path to financial freedom.  ~~~ October 2020 Passive Income Summary:  Gross Income:  $32,800 Total Expenses:  $ 27,000  Net Profit:  $ 5,344 (a little over 10% increase from the previous months) ~~~ Breakdown of Passive Income Sources: Land Business: TriStar - $723 Income | $31,000 Expenses | Down $2500 Everland - $4,250 Profit  Short term Rental Property: $18,248 Income | $13,605 Expenses; $922 Profit per bedroom Mastermind format run by our operator STR Mastermind weekly live coaching how to create cash flow  Ethereum Miners: $2.630 Income | $1,013 Profit Multi Family: Undergoing a merger, so no income to report for October  Long term Condo Rental: $124 Profit - typical profit from condo rentals is from $125 to 200 Community - Inner Circle Membership for IBC: $40/person/month membership fee | $30,000 Expenses/year | $1,000 Profit  E-commerce: $634 Income | $861 Loss Freedom Seekers Masterclass Live (Brand New Coaching Program) Starting at $847/month with 10 members; this will be turned into a course in the future so it becomes a source of passive income Affiliate Marketing: $500 Income

Jon is building an immersive art and experience landscape in collaboration with other brilliant and highly creative minds. Drawing inspiration from Burning Man, he calls it Everland.

What comes to mind when you think about the relationship with your manufacturers? Chances are you have the same picture in your head as so many other brands. You see a series of events that starts with opening a purchase order, and goes down the line of tasks including paying for your items, getting them shipped and then starting the process all over again. It’s a transactional relationship that has seen very little disruption through the years. But the times are changing, and a company called Italic is leading the charge when it comes to developing a new framework around partnering with manufacturers. Italic is a membership-based brand that gives customers access to products produced by the same manufacturers of the top brands in the world. Jeremy Cai is the CEO of Italic, and he likes to say that Italic is a marketplace-inspired supply chain. On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, he explains exactly what that means. Jeremy describes new and different kinds of partnerships with manufacturers that, for the first time, makes them true partners in business. Plus, he explains why that partnership is leading to a better end product and happier customers. He also dives into new ways you can leverage manufacturers that many aren’t aware of, and details the metrics and strategies that subscription companies need to be focused on to rise above the competition.Main Takeaways:Getting in on the Action – Traditionally, manufacturers have not had to put much at stake financially when working with brands. But, with a company like Italic, the manufacturers take on a financial risk. In doing so, they also become more involved partners which leads to a better end product.It’s Deeper Than You Think – There is now a partnership opportunity between manufacturers and brands when it comes to designs and in-house pattern design capabilities t In the past, much of the design and pattern work was done solely by brands. But today, many manufacturers have high-quality design and R&D talent inhouse and create showrooms of products that brands can tap into.Meaty Membership Metrics – For membership-based companies, there needs to be less value placed on the traditional metrics that have so often defined ecommerce companies. Tune in to hear which ones are crucial to pay attention to.For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce--- Transcript:Stephanie:Welcome to another episode of Up Next in Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles, cofounder of mission.org. Today, we have Jeremy Cai on the show, the CEO of Italic. Jeremy, welcome.Jeremy:Thanks so much for having me.Stephanie:I'm excited to have you on the show. I was mentioning earlier, but I've read quite a bit about you guys. I see you in a lot of the eCommerce newsletters that I follow, so it seems like you're growing in popularity at least when it comes to people writing about you right now.Jeremy:I don't know if that's a good success metric, but we're doing I think a good job on media coverage right now.Stephanie:There you go. I think it's a pretty good one. Tell me a bit about Italic for anyone who hasn't heard about it, doesn't know what it is. I would love you to give a brief overview of what it is.Jeremy:Sure, so Italic is an annual membership that costs $100 a year and our members get access to hundreds of products that we design and develop inhouse, ranging from cookware to bedding to towels to apparel and accessory, footwear and many more coming soon, but the difference is we sell them at prices where Italic it doesn't actually make a profit. This actually results in pricing that is dramatically lower than both direct-to-consumer companies as well as traditional incumbents, oftentimes in the 40% to 50% to sometimes 70% to 80% range. We've been around for about two and a half years, but we've only launched the membership about a month and a half ago, and so far, it's been a pretty good start.Stephanie:Very cool. You have membership and you're not making money on the actual products. Tell me more about what would be an example of something you're selling and how are you encouraging people to sign up for a membership to get access to everything that you just mentioned.Jeremy:Sure. One example of the product that we sell, and this applies to all their products, is let's just take our slumber cotton sheet set, for example. The sheet set sells anywhere from I think ... Actually, I might have to actually look at this for cross reference, but I think it's like anywhere from $80 to $120. Those are prices where we're not actually making money. Those prices do include things like freight and warehousing and fulfillment fees, but generally it still comes out substantially lower than the prices that our competitors would set. Then in terms of how we're actually attracting new members, really I'd say it's from two general ways.Jeremy:One is I think the goal is for our members to be saving money on their first purchase. This oftentimes comes through the lens of product marketing. If we would do a great job of really letting the products tell their own story of saying how great quality they are, the same manufacturers of so and so brands are, which certifications these manufacturers have, what specific details of the products really sell the product itself, I think that actually helps sell the membership for us because we don't really have to say like, "Hey, with this membership, you're saving all this money." instead it's like, "Hey, this product is obviously really great and it's really high quality."Jeremy:Then once you look at the price point, the perceived value is like, "Oh, I'm going to save pretty much the entirety of my membership fee in one or two purchases," which we see in the vast majority of cases. Typically, 93% of our new members will break even on their $100 fee in one order, but on the flipside on the membership, this is different than the standard transactional model in which you have to be a paying member in order to purchase anything. I think we do have do a fair amount of education in terms of showing to our members or showing to our audience who might become members, "Hey, this product, you can only buy it if it's a membership. This is how the platform works. This is why it's different than a brand. I think we have to put out a lot of content in terms of actually sharing like, this is how we were able to put together this offering that doesn't really exist elsewhere."Jeremy:We do a little bit of both, but I would say right now we lean a little bit heavier towards product marketing since we have a lot of new exciting launches coming up.Stephanie:That's awesome. Talk to me through a bit about what was your thinking behind creating a membership program for because I think I saw you started out with it and then maybe you stopped doing it and they started again and feel free to correct me if that's not right, but tell me about what was that journey like.Jeremy:It was not easy. I would say the way I like to view it is the first two and a half years of our business, we've really been focused on the supply side of operations, building out that product assortment, and exactly like you said, we did launch in 2018 with a membership product. Within basically a month or two, we decided very, very early on like, "Hey, we had three manufacturers in three categories at the time, handbags, scarves and eyewear. As you can imagine, those are not necessarily high frequency purchases to substantiate a membership value proposition.Jeremy:We actually never actually charged anyone for the membership. It was always a test to see how the response would be. Overwhelmingly, we saw that the product response was great, the quality was great, but I think the offering was too limited at the time. Instead for the following two years, we ran a transactional model in which we made money through marking up our products, albeit not as much as a brand would. Our products might be marked up two to two and a half times, whereas our competitors will mark them up five, 10, 15 times sometimes. That's how we made our money.Jeremy:Really the incentive was, "How do we build a product assortment that's large enough, so I guess wide enough and deep enough to attract the member to actually convert?" Around, I would say, Q4 of 2019, to be totally honest, I think we saw two things happen. One was the structural, I guess, implosion of the venture direct-to-consumer model in which a lot of brands, I think, who had been raising money and then going out with this one playbook that hadn't been set maybe back in 2013 to 2017, I think suddenly realized, like, "Hey, we are not technology companies. We are a brand and we make money through transactional volume." Basically, I'm just trying to say we saw the writing on the wall if we were to continue that model.Jeremy:Then in Q1, we also took a hard look in terms of our user behavior. We saw frequencies of purchases, our lifetime values get to a place, our product reviews, our NPS scores all get to a place where we felt confident in our product assortment to date. When we first started, we might have had maybe 30 or so skews. Now, we have over 1,000 skews. It finally got to a point where the product assortment felt mature enough to launch a membership product. We tested that, and then basically right when we started testing it, that's also when COVID hit.Jeremy:We figured there's either two options. One was we just pull that and just focus on building the transactional model again and getting it into a sustainable place which is still the goal, right? We don't want to build an unsustainable growth model or alternatively stress test the model in the peak of, I think, consumer uncertainty in which we would see like, "Hey, does this value proposition of saving money resonate in the time when it would matter the most. Thankfully, it did and I think from April to May, June and July, we monitored our cohorts and user behavior really closely and wanted to make sure that the membership was something that we had conviction in.Jeremy:Eventually, we got to a point where we realized like, "Hey, this is ..." I guess the way I like to put it is our customers always liked us, but our members absolutely loved us. We decided to go all in and then finally released the public version of the product in July.Stephanie:That's great. That's good seeing quick pivots and seeing like, "What is the market telling us? Where are things headed?" and trying out different models. How are you going about building out maybe a financial model because I'm thinking if you have only a membership subscription-type model, there's probably only a limited market? You can't scale indefinitely. There's only a certain people who will be on that versus making profits off of each product. I'm sure those are two very different models. How to do think about it financially when trying the two different ones out?Jeremy:That's a very valid point and I think we knew going into it that there is a lot of subscriptions out there and a lot of subscription fatigue and at least the states in the US in which everyone has a Prime membership or a Spotify subscription or Netflix and to add one more to that is always asking a lot. I think we knew going into it like, "Hey, this is all or nothing in which you can't launch a half-baked type of membership product." I think to the financial level, I think two things are worth noting before we decided to do this. One was the fact that we are capping our upside to $100 very literally for pretty much the extent of the year and the incentive in that case is, one, can we launch products and provide a service that our members love so much that they'll stay for years to come in which our LTV or lifetime value in that case would become quite substantial and hopefully our churn would be low and retention would be high and so on and so forth?Jeremy:I guess that's one area is we really were aware of the fact that if we cap our financial upside that the immediate short term would be that we're limited to $100 for the year, but the amount of utility and value that we could provide to a member would be so great that they hopefully stay for years to come in which our LTV would grow to a point where we would actually outperform our transactional type of behavior. Then the second point, exactly like you said, memberships aren't for everyone. We're very well aware of that, but I think something that has been exciting for us to see is if we're able to build this type of product, I think it is genuinely massively different than anything close to us.Jeremy:Whereas most of these direct-to-consumer brands, they're basically providing products and a story to a customer which is an incredibly, incredibly competitive market. We have a product where it's like, "Hey, for $100, you get access to all the products we sell at a price where we don't make money. I think that's a genuinely differentiated product in which we know it's not for everyone, but we think value-driven commerce, it's not sexy per se, but it is something that is very attractive to a very large segment of the American consumer base. I think we were willing to take that bet.Jeremy:Of course, we wanted to monitor really closely so that we weren't losing money on transactions at least and at least that we were breakeven and we were able to accomplish that within the months of the pilot, so we felt confident in rolling it out more broadly, but I think to answer that more directly, if we didn't see user traction, if we didn't see members using the platform or membership or if we saw our NPS or product reviews drop or if we saw an increase complaint rate, increase return rate, etcetera, then I think we would have actually probably returned back to the transactional model, but it was something that we felt confident enough in just off of a couple months of data that we've decided to go all in.Stephanie:That's awesome. I think that's so great, because it really shows a longer term vision and commitment to be around where I think actually a lot of B2C companies right now are missing that. I don't know if it's because of the VC stage where it was like grow really quickly, but it seems like a lot of people are more ready to just quickly make as much money as possible, maybe sell the company off, see what happens afterwards, but I really like the idea of actually telling your customers, "Hey, we're only going to make $100 profit for the year off you that essentially cover some of our costs." I could see that really helping a customer want to also support you guys along with just wanting it because maybe it's a very good service and some platform they use.Jeremy:Thanks. That was pretty much the bat. The reality of the business right now is if you're a direct-to-consumer brand and you're starting out nowadays, you might raise one round of financing, let's say anywhere from $500,000 all the way to like $3.5 million or something of the sort if you want to pursue that route. That's pretty much all you're going to be able to raise or at least assume that's the last capital you're going to raise, and then subsequently, you're going to try to sell. Nowadays, what I've seen whether it's a PE firm or a conglomerate or a larger direct-to-consumer brand that might be interested in acquiring one of these assets, it's now valued off of EBITDA, as opposed to revenues or run rates which is what we saw in between 2014, let's say in 2019.Jeremy:I think the reality is nowadays if you're trying to build a venture scale business in this model, it's really, really tough. I think the actual advantage of doing so is doing so sustainably with growing off the business off of cash flow as opposed to equity raises and going that route. Then, I think for the companies that have already raised that are in this tricky spot where we were for sure, we had to look ourselves in the mirror and just say like, "Hey, what is something that would be significantly differentiated in the market that has technology scale outcomes that would be potentially accessible if we were to do everything perfectly right.Jeremy:I think that's the only reality where we can actually like continue as a venture scale business. I think that's what we had to really just operate with the mentality of. I think in terms of like the customer empathy too, we always knew that our prices were good, that we always came maybe 15% to 20% lower than the next direct-to-consumer brand, but truth be told, if you were to compare our products which were objectively great products next to a brand's products that built all of their community messaging, advertising, copy, etcetera off of that single category, 15% to 20% off might not be enough to sway one of their customers to decide to purchase the value option, whereas nowadays to go much, much lower into the 60% to 70% range, that's a lot more powerful sway.Jeremy:I think for us we knew that it was a risky bet, but I think the customer would ultimately like it a lot more and so would the investors and I guess, business community at large. I know the brands don't like us, but that's another story.Stephanie:Well, that's actually a good segue. I wanted to hear some of the behind the scenes of partnering with these manufacturers and thinking about the psychology behind, "This is also bought," or let's see, "It's manufactured at a factory that also produces Prada." I saw that on your website mentioning like, "It also manufacturers this, this and this," and I was curious to figure out like, "What was the process to partner with these manufacturers and then also be allowed to say, 'These brands are also built or manufactured at this factory as well'?" It seems like that'd be a tricky area to play in.Jeremy:I can't deny that. I think we have a unique value proposition in that case. That's really what drove I think, a lot of our early interest in the brand over the first two years. In full transparency early on, I was personally quite nervous about it since it is a pretty radical statement, especially since like we position ourselves not so much as an individual brand, so much as, say, a platform or a marketplace or a retailer. I think in the early days we were very careful. All these things, it's not to say that we've loosened up on this. We're still very, very careful about auditing all of our partners, making sure that we're working with the best of the best in each category, regardless of where they are in the world.Jeremy:Oftentimes, that comes along with saying, "Hey, this product is made in the same manufacturer as X, Y and Z brands." That's part of the selling points of the product. I think in terms of the tricky part was obviously on the manufacturer side. We have an interesting relationship with our manufacturers in which it's not like a normal brand in which they're a vendor and we're a client, where we just place a PO and then we'll mark up their products and then that's how we profit. The best we can do in that case is like get letters of credit or Net30, Net90, etcetera.Jeremy:Instead we actually have a financial relationship with our manufacturers in which they actually are taking on inventory risk and we're taking on the marketing risk of this inventory in which their incentive is to take inventory risk for a higher yield or higher rate of return on the inventory that they're producing and owning. Then our risk, of course, is making sure that we can sell that to our members at a price point that is still radically lower than the competition, but at a place where they'd be happy with the profits. I think that was actually the tricky part because manufacturing, and this is actually my personal like family background is a really hard business and margins are already razor thin.Jeremy:On a final sale, a DTC brand might take like 80% of the margin and cost might be like 20% and the manufacturer might actually take like 5% of that cost. That's honestly how it works. It doesn't matter if you're like a legacy brand or a direct-to-consumer brand. Manufacturers treat them all the same because it is the same for them. I think on the flip side for the manufacturer, they are not oriented to take capital risk. They have predictable revenue. If you place a PO, we expect payment certain date, whereas on Italic, there is no legitimate end date for a certain PO to be paid.Jeremy:It's a little bit nuanced and that was actually the hardest part I would say of convincing these manufacturers to join. It really wasn't the brand piece. The brand piece we're always very careful of ... We always do very careful audits to make sure that they're factual claims. We always do audits with our general counsel as well to make sure that we're making claims that are factual. On the trademark side and then on the copyright side, we have a development system when we're merchandising that there's at least a number of differentiating points on the product, but we've actually never really run into major issues on this.Jeremy:Perhaps that's because we're a smaller brand right now. As we grow, the issues might pile up, but at least for now, it hasn't really been, that the legal side hasn't been a big issue. I would say it's actually more so convincing the manufacturers to take on this new type of model, but I think now that we've been around, we have over 50 manufacturers we work with. I think we've had a really good relationship with all them thus far. Yeah, I think other brands always come into question, but it's never actually been like a point of contention.Stephanie:I could see that being really beneficial for you having the background in manufacturing for those manufacturers to also feel like, "Hey, this guy gets me he understands. He knows that we don't have big margins." I want to talk a little bit more about that piece. I could see a lot of the manufacturers really liking that you have a background in manufacturing because you understand that tight margins and you're not trying to maybe push them too far. I was wondering, one, had they ever done this model before where they're taking on inventory risk? Then two, were any of them scared to work with you because they didn't want to make the brands that they work with upset?Jeremy:I can answer the second one first, which I think it's actually pretty straightforward. That has never been a reason why a manufacturer wouldn't work with us. I thought it would be, I guess in actual practice, I think it hasn't been. The reality is most of these manufacturers have a number of clients and I think they will readily offer new clients the current client list and say like, "Hey, this is who we work with. You should trust us," as part of the vetting process. What we're doing is bringing that information that all the brands already know and offering that to a customer as well, so one more layer of information that a normal brand would never offer.Jeremy:The bigger issue with the manufacturer is actually more so just capital. It's like, "Hey, you got to fund hundreds of thousands of dollars for this first run and you're not going to see a payback until we start selling it, and depending on when we decide to launch it or decide to really invest in growing that category or product offering, the return might not be immediate." I think that was actually the biggest problem. Every so often what we'll hear that'd come up is like, "Hey, we prefer that not to happen," but with regards to the brand names being mentioned, it's never been a reason as to why a manufacturer wouldn't work with us. It's always been capital related.Jeremy:Then I think to the point of the model itself, I think people have tried different approaches to this over the years. In the States, at least, there is really no one doing anything like us right now because it is an extremely ... I would say like you really have to be aware of how manufacturing works, how to communicate with them, how to work with them, also how to partner with them. That's not something that like the vast majority of American brands will ever understand and for good reason. They really have no reason to because the entire business model of commerce is built on markups, as opposed to us where you can basically just treat them as a vendor. If it's not working out, if you need better pricing, you can always counter source and so on and so forth.Jeremy:The relationship there was always rather fragile, whereas for us it's very strong from day one because we have to be in which we become basically financial partners immediately. I think they haven't necessarily ... We work with manufacturers in Asia predominantly, in Europe, in the US and for the majority of them, these are not small mom and pop merchants or artisanal shops. They are pretty professional large scale production houses for very large runs. We work with like five different public listed manufacturers. I think for them, this model is, I like to call it like a private label as a service in which they can experiment very rapidly if it works.Jeremy:We do all the design and development in house, so we take care of pretty much all the heavy lifting on the stuff that they don't have, but if it works, great. If it doesn't, the downside is basically the capital that they put into it. We haven't had that happen yet. I think it's a new ... We like to think of it as like a marketplace inspired supply chain which none of these manufacturers have encountered before, but it is something that I think has promise.Stephanie:It's so interesting thinking about everything that's going on behind the scenes and I honestly have not even gone deep into the world of manufacturing, so I have so many questions, but one that comes to mind which is probably maybe a more basic one, but how did you even go about finding out who manufactured what products? If I owned Prada, which I do not, I definitely don't, but if I did, and I was like, "Hey, who makes this? This is really nice," I want to find out what factory it's coming from or who's actually behind the scenes making it, how did you even start that process of finding that out and then finding the next one, the next one and maybe getting referrals?Jeremy:Well, you just named it. Sourcing is a weird business in which it's still and this ... Not just sourcing, but a lot of the supply chain is still heavily relationships based in which it's like, "Who do you know? Who do you know? Who do you know?" and that's who you're able to work with. In the early days, I personally met and lived between China and Italy for the first year of the business and I met with hundreds of manufacturers, many of whom are now our partners, but in the beginning, were very skeptical, "Who is this guy? Who is this company?" I think the best way to put it, it's like in terms of sourcing, the best way to do it is through referrals.Jeremy:We've tried everything from digital platforms to sourcing companies to even trading companies just to see what type of quality and price point we can achieve, but ultimately, we've always found the best option would be to do direct sourcing ourselves. We actually have an internal team coming from the likes of Patagonia, Arc'teryx, Zulily and Amazon, really focused on sourcing the world's best manufacturers in each given category. Each time we want to enter a new category, we will always ask for referrals from our existing manufacturers. There's digital products that help you find manufacturers through other sources but generally we found the best have always come through referral.Stephanie:I think I've looked online before looking into, maybe this is a 3PL that I was looking at. Either way, that whole world seems pretty behind the times when it comes to trying to find things online and get details about it. It does seem like referrals would be the best bet in that industry.Stephanie:I was going to ask when it comes to inventory risk, you were mentioning that the manufacturers take on the inventory risk, do they also have a say when it comes to the pricing of the product?Jeremy:Yup, they definitely do. We are hand in hand with their manufacturers at every single point in the development journey, from material selection, color dyes and sample reviews and so on and so forth in which if we are talking about cost structures and cost payments, or sorry, sample reviews, we're always thinking about price and we're always very transparent with our manufacturers in terms of what our research tells us. If we believe a certain price threshold is too high, we'll tell them, and vice versa, they'll tell us like, "Hey, this is getting expensive. Do you think your customers or members will still want that?"Jeremy:Ultimately, the incentive for manufacturers to earn a higher than normal profit margin on Italic sales because they're taking on the inventory risk, so there, we're able to pay them out substantially more than they would ordinarily make. I think they're very in tune with our orders, sometimes even more than we are in terms of the performance. We've also built a lot of internal dashboards that we'll share with all of our manufacturing partners for them to log into, review the performance. Sometimes, we'll need to set price points that are lower, so that will encourage a product to move faster and they're able to cut down on their margin, but still again, it's at price points that are pretty much close to cost.Jeremy:It doesn't really moving the needle too much nowadays that we're past the transactional model. It's easier to do that on the development side when we're actually developing these products, or on the flip side, if a product is actually performing way too well, they might actually ask for us to develop a more premium version or a version that uses a high quality or a more expensive material, not necessarily higher quality, just a different material. For example, we started with cotton sheets. It was sateen. Now we offer percale and we're looking into linen. Then we also offer eucalyptus lyocell sheet set as well. Those were examples of where we saw their consumer demand really expand what our manufacturers want to develop and as a result their price points were able to change quite a bit depending on the product.Stephanie:I was thinking about that these manufacturers probably have a ton of insights into what's selling with their other brands, what consumers are interested in. I'm wondering, are they even allowed to share that and help influence your guys product designs and say like, "Hey, we see this plain shirt with like a lion on it and selling really well with Anine Bing," which we just had on the show?Jeremy:I guess there's two ways to look at it. One way really is from the lens of like, "Hey, the manufacturer has what I call like extraordinarily delayed insights into performance," in which the only time the manufacturer actually knows about how well a certain skew or style is doing. We're primarily talking about fashion and apparel and other soft goods and home for example. It's a little less seasonal or trend driven, but in apparel for example, a manufacturer will only know the performance of the line after the season or after the client comes back and places the reorder in which their insight is already delayed by a whole, let's say six to nine months.Jeremy:By then, it could already be out of stock or out of favor with the client. The second point is actually much more interesting in which this is the dirty secret of a lot of these brands is the manufacturers nowadays have significantly improved and really, really sophisticated design and development inhouse capabilities. Historically, let's say 30-40 years ago, a lot of the design and development and pattern making and so on and so forth was always done on the brand side. Nowadays, I really call it more of a partnership in which the design and R&D talent inhouse at a manufacturer is so great that sometimes, and this is like extraordinarily ...Jeremy:This is not just like startups. This is like huge multinational brands, all the way to brands just starting out in which their buyers and merchandisers or product developers or designers will walk into a showroom that a manufacturer has made for a season. They'll pick like four or five styles from the manufacturer's design books or pattern books and then say like, "Okay, let's make some small tweaks, but pretty much, it's the manufacturer's design that we're iterating on."Stephanie:Oh, wow. I definitely would never have thought that.Jeremy:It saves a lot of time if you think about it because developing patterns from scratch is really time intensive. You have to ship samples back and forth all the time, whereas if a manufacturer already had a lot of these samples ready to go for you and you just had to tweak, let's say, the material or stitching or whatever it is on apparel specifically that it cuts down development time significantly. It happens pretty much everywhere and really the designers at that point in time are not really designers, but they're just iterating on the final versions of products. I think-Stephanie:That's a good secret that I never knew about.Jeremy:[crosstalk 00:33:15].Stephanie:When you're thinking about getting maybe inspiration though and you're looking around at some of the more luxury brands, how much of that can you actually take and use? Because when I'm thinking about, there's certain things that without a logo on it, you probably be like, "Is that from Walmart?" Sometimes the logo makes it where if it didn't have that, I don't know, personally, why anyone would ever buy it. I sometimes don't know why they would buy it either way have you ever had an experiment like that where you've been trying to maybe let a brand or popular brand influence products where then you're like, "Oh, actually, the logo kind of made that one."Jeremy:I think the way I would respond, one thing we really care about a lot at Italic is having a data-driven sense of merchandising in which we're using our customer insights to really drive the product decisions that we're making, both on the technology front as well as the product development front for our physical products. I think what we realized is, to your point of, "Does a logo make a product or does the product make the logo?" which is actually maybe a good way to think about it, is the fact that logos matter to some people and it doesn't matter to other people, but everyone has a specific category in their lives in which they care about having a logo and then vice versa like that same person might not care about having logos on other products that other people might.Jeremy:I guess a better way to put it is let's say you really care about having a logo on your handbag, but you actually, and I don't know if this is true or not, but let's say you don't actually care about having like the top of the line logo on your bedding or all-clad cookware or Le Creuset Dutch ovens or what have you, right? Let's say that's actually the mentality. On the flipside, I think there's a lot of people out there who would actually have the alternative approach which is like, "I don't care if I have a big fancy handbag, but I am really into cooking and I want the fanciest cookware and I need to have like X, Y, Z brands cookware in order to feel good about my purchase.Jeremy:What we found through a lot of our, I guess, our surveying is, one, the main reason why people buy from us is quality in terms of the product and the second is design and overarching, I guess, the main reason why you sign up is because you're getting quality at cost. The price point and the value you're getting out of your products is really, really high relative to pretty much any other option out there because we're not making money on the products that we sell. I think what we found is the people who sign up, if you're a fashionista for example, you're probably not going to buy our fashion products, but you might actually sign up for your home goods and then vice versa, someone who really cares about that specific type of bedding or having really great towels or candles or what have you, but doesn't really care about having a logo or the next trendy thing.Jeremy:The way we look at merchandising is really anti-seasonal in which we're trying to find products that are always evergreen. They might not be always in style or in vogue, but we know that they're consistent things that people will always want to buy. That's why we try not to fall too hard into having a specific branded look on our products. The product should be able to stand for their own.Stephanie:I like that. I'm just going to say quality always matters, I would think and I'm definitely your person because I'm a logo-less person. I don't care about the brand or where they come from. If the quality is good, it doesn't matter to me who makes it as long as the quality is good and something lasts. I like that. When we're thinking about metrics for subscription business, yours is very unique, of course, because right now, you're like, "We're not going to need more than $100 per person," but how are you guys tracking things? What metrics are you looking at right now to see if things are going well?Jeremy:We've changed our metrics a lot as we transition from a transactional model into a subscription basis as you can imagine, but what was interesting for me is because we run this type of membership in which it's not a ... I guess before I get there, in my mind, there's three types of consumer subscription products. One is you get something in a box every month and it's on a set frequency that you can customize. Secondly is you're paying a subscription for a discount. Then thirdly, as you're paying subscription for access to a certain product, whether it's digital or offline or whatever it is. I think we fall into the latter two in which you're paying for Italic because you want a discount on your products, but you're also paying for access to even shop those products in the first place.Jeremy:I think when we actually transitioned into this model, we realized like, "Hey, all this transactional revenue, metrics that we're tracking are actually great indicators of engagement. Now, those are our leading indicators of, "Are these members happy? Are they getting the most out of their membership? Are they unhappy because they're not using it? Are they logging back in? Is the conversion rate high for members? Is our average order value growing as we add new products or is that actually shrinking in which the products we're adding are actually lower price points?" so and so forth. It's a pretty sophisticated, I think, model that we've had to build in order to actually price these products at a price where we're not losing money on each sale but also not making money.Jeremy:It's on the engagement side all the things that historically eComm companies would track, your conversion rate, your LTV, your frequency of purchase, your contribution margins. These are all things that have now become like performance indicators on a membership basis as a cohort of how we track a certain cohort doing overtime, but now what matters on the company side is actually, "Are we adding new annual subscribers happily? Are they staying? What's our opt out rate? We offer like a 30-day period in which if you sign up and you decide not to place an order and you want to get a refund, we'll provide that, no questions asked. Right now, it's 5%.Jeremy:I think like those questions or metrics that we've done a pretty deep dive in terms of like what we actually want to see. Now really that the core metrics are like, "What's our new annual recurring revenue because it's an annual plan?" and then secondly what is ... We don't have retention yet since our first cohort is still seven months out from renewing. The second indicator of that is like, "What are all the engagement metrics telling us? Does that suggest that they're likely to churn or stay?" I think those are like the metrics that we've transitioned towards. There's a lot more that I could dig in there, but that's at a high level how we think about it.Stephanie:That's great. Are there any methods right now that you're experimenting with and seeing success around when it comes to keeping your users engaged or staying top of mind to them or even like different things that you're changing for the website that's connecting more with the customer when they're coming there? Any tests overall?Jeremy:I think we aren't great about testing and I'll be really forthright about that. We don't have much testing infrastructure built in. We don't have the ability to test their pricing. AB test for us are really just like, I think, very, very incremental changes. I think the biggest [inaudible] which is the transition from the transactional model and I guess the best way to really put this is like for example, during our pilot, we saw behaviors and frequency and lifetime value that we would expect on a transactional customer at month 12. We saw that on a membership level between weeks four to six. It was a literal 10x increase in utility activity for that member versus a customer who would otherwise purchase the product as a standalone.Jeremy:I think that's what I meant going back to the point of customers liked us, members really love us. That was something that we really saw. Then I think in terms of metrics that we're looking to test or at least improve with our customer that can improve the experience for them or at least hopefully it will increase our retention rates, I think that really comes in the form of, "What are the products that ..." The main four reasons why people opt out just for full transparency, one is it's international and we only serve the US, so they actually sign up through eagerly and they're like, "Hey, I didn't know that it's US only." That's actually the number one reason.Jeremy:Number two is financial. It's like, "Hey, I got furloughed or I was laid off," which happened a lot in the early days in April and May. Nowadays, it's less common, but the last two are ones that we can directly address. One is, "The product offering is currently not broad enough. You don't have a product that I want to see or a category that I wants to see." Lastly, "The products that I want are out of stock." This are directly in our control. For example, we'll show now in the coming soon page like what products are coming next for our members and that keeps them excited.Jeremy:Secondly is what products are being restocked. We're placing much, much larger orders, so that hopefully we don't have these out of stock issues. Really the reason was like our members just purchase at a substantially higher frequency than the nonmembers did. We actually underordered prior to the membership, because we didn't know what to expect. I think those are things that ... There are certain features like that that we developed for that use case, but really the only thing that we can solve for in a long-term basis is just develop more products, order more deeply, and hopefully as a result, acquire more members.Stephanie:I love that. I think that's a really good point too about how to keep people engaged and coming back to see like, "Okay, what's coming next? What's the new t-shirt that's coming out that I can get really excited about?" because I could see a lot of members maybe, at least in my head, I would think like if I am in a subscription or a membership, I would probably frontload a lot of purchases right away to get that value and then I might forget. I think that's really smart to find ways to keep someone like me engaged coming back maybe a couple months later if I forget, so that I will renew after the year.Jeremy:Exactly. I think for us really, the goal isn't necessarily to make you buy more stuff if you don't need it. The goal is to hopefully show that, "Hey, you're going to get enough value out of this membership, so that you're going to stay another year, or two or three or four or five in which there's a constant drop of new or a constant allure of new products that will be down the line such as products in travel. For example, we just launched our jewelry line last month and that sold out in a week's time. Now we know, "Hey, there's a lot of demand for that. We should order much deeper in it" I think constantly testing on the product side is something that we do a lot, but now that we're not making money on the transactions, we're not trying to force you to use it unless you want to.Stephanie:Very cool. I saw that you guys had a signup list. I think originally it was over 100,000 or something along those lines. I was wondering, how are you going about acquiring new customers? What kind of channels are working well for you right now? What are you finding success in?Jeremy:The hardest question for anyone in eCommerce nowadays. In 2018, we had a strong waitlist going into the membership, and then once we launched, we were like, "Hey, the membership is not going to work. We dropped it in, and instead all those people on the waitlist became our email subscribers and we were ... Fortunately, they eventually became customers as well. That was where a lot of that 100,000 original list went to. Then more recently, we actually had another waitlist. This time, it wasn't for marketing purposes, but it was actually like a legitimate operational waitlist in which we simply didn't have enough inventory to serve all of our members to a great experience in which if you've logged on in the third of all the products were sold out, that's not something you want to see as a first time experience.Jeremy:We have the waitlist up for a while, up until we can restock more deeply to address those issues which we've recently done. In terms of the new customer acquisition, I'll be like totally honest. It's a mix of performance marketing and brand marketing. We internally separate our marketing team into two. One is brand which is everything nonpixel-based or nonattributable to a pixel. Everything growth is pixel-based in which it's pixel through Google and the intention of growth is to grow the membership base. The intention of brand is to keep our cost per acquisition on the growth side low, so that hopefully it's not the first time that you're seeing, let's say, an ad from us, but instead it's actually a recall.Jeremy:Examples of that would be like influencer would be in brand. TV would be in brand even though I know there's pretty good models for tracking nowadays and attributing podcasts we still put in brand. All these things ... I guess I'm being hypocritical because those do have pixels nowadays, but really the intention of those is to get in front of you first, so that by the time that you see a Facebook ad or a Google ad, that you're already aware of where we are, so your interest is already piqued.Stephanie:Cool. All right. We have a lightning round coming up. Before I move on, is there anything that you were excited to cover that I forgot to ask?Jeremy:Well, our basics are dropping tomorrow-Stephanie:All right. Well, tell me more about the basics.Jeremy:We've had a line of recycled t-shirts for a while and those were really, really popular through a lot of quarantine. The number one requested kind of products for us for years has been a line of just great Ts, plain really high-quality t-shirts. It's finally coming out. I've been waiting literally a year for this. I'm super excited, but that's all. That's it.Stephanie:That's great. I love a good t-shirt. Actually, maybe it's always been a trend and I just haven't paid attention, but now it feels like it's really coming back to just wear a normal plain t-shirt or just something like simple on it. It feels like it's coming back strong, but maybe it's always been here.Jeremy:That's not surprising. I feel like a lot of people nowadays ... I'm sure there's a lot more people out there who could speak much more eloquently on why basics are great, but basics are always in vogue and our members have been requesting it very actively, so I'm excited to finally get that out.Stephanie:I will definitely have to check into that when it drops. All right, let's move on to the lightning round brought to you by our friends at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This is where I'm going to ask you a question and you have a minute or less to answer. Are you ready, Jeremy?Jeremy:Yes.Stephanie:All right. What's up next on your reading list?Jeremy:Well, I actually just got a copy ... This is going to put me in a bad light, but I don't always read business books, but I just got a copy of Reed Hastings new book. I'm excited to begin. I literally just got it right before this interview. That will be next.Stephanie:Cool. What's the title of it? I don't know if I know which one that is.Jeremy:No Rules Rules.Stephanie:I'll go check that out. You have to let me know if you like it.Jeremy:Yeah, will do.Stephanie:All right, what's up next on your Netflix queue?Jeremy:I've been actually watching The Legend of Avatar which is-Stephanie:I don't know if I've actually seen that one.Jeremy:It's an anime, cartoon that used to run on Nickelodeon as a kid and I forgot how good it was, so I just watched that again.Stephanie:That's great. Netflix probably knows not to advertise that to me. They're like, "You just probably won't like that one." All right, if you were to have a podcast, what would the podcast be about and who would your first guest be?Jeremy:I've actually been thinking about doing one.Stephanie:You should.Jeremy:It's been on the list. That's actually why I have this fancy bike here.Stephanie:You do sound great, though.Jeremy:I think I wanted to do like a podcast show where ... I live in Park City, Utah. There's a lot of great ... I took up fishing during quarantine. I haven't really caught anything, but it's really relaxing. I thought it'd be fun to go out and go fishing and then do an interview at the same time. I think guests-wise, there's so many people out there. One brand I've admired for a long time is the, and I like loosely know them, but I've really liked the Buffy team for a long time. I feel like they're pretty unique. They have a lot of success, but they've still been humble about it and low to the ground. I think it'd be really cool to have them. My background isn't just like eCommerce and retail. I think it'd be a mixture, but yeah, that'd be a cool one.Stephanie:I like it. I can only imagine you catching a fish while trying to interview and how that was found. Interesting. All right, what is the favorite piece of tech that is making you more efficient right now or that you're enjoying?Jeremy:Oh, man, that is a tough one. I use a lot and the whole Italic team makes fun of me for it because I always add something new every week. I think the one that stuck with me for years is this company called Missive. It's a collaborative email inbox that allows the entire team to work in conjunction on emails. Let's say it's an email with a vendor or an email with a YouTuber who we want to advertise with, we can collaborate in line without having to go to Slack or take it to another email thread in the same place. Missive and Front in the same vein does the same thing. I think those two products are ones that I really couldn't live without.Stephanie:That actually sounds really good. Can you send it out? If I was one of your employees, could I say, "Send this out under Jeremy's email because he gets better responses as the CEO than I will"? Personal question. This is something I actually want to know for myself.Jeremy:There's actually a setting to do that in which you can share an address and other people, like let's say an assistant can send it for you, so yes.Stephanie:I like that. I'll check that out. Awesome. The last, slightly more difficult question, what one thing will have the biggest impact on eCommerce in the next year?Jeremy:I'm not going to give you the cliche answer and say COVID changed everything, which it did, but-Stephanie:We all know that now.Jeremy:I actually think it happened last year and then I already alluded to this earlier, but I think the biggest change will be the transition from ... People have been talking about these like DTC waves. The first wave was like the Bonobos, Warby, Everland 2008 to 2012 era, and then, the second wave was like everything thereafter. A lot of the direct-to-consumer brands you see nowadays, it's the category leaders per se, but I think now people ... Let's say from, I don't know, 2014 to 2018-2019. I think there's been a big change in the operating mentality of these newer brands in which if you're a new brand starting out, you can't go out and raise these massive rounds that these companies used to off of revenue growth because people have realized now, this is not technology revenue growth. This isn't like an 80%, 90%, north of gross margin product.Jeremy:There is a saturation level to performance marketing. I know I'm sounding like quite cynical here, but I mean that actually in an interesting opportunity in which you can actually raise that money, but I think if you're creative about cashflow and you're creative about how you grow the business, you can build a huge business. I guess Gymshark would be a great example of this in which you can bootstrap to a really large volume without having to raise equity financing. I think you can do it through focusing on cash conversion cycle which is what Gymshark has with its founders or you can have in any case of owned supply chain like House or Buffy does.Jeremy:I think there's different ways that you can frame the direct-to-consumer model that allows you to still grow, but I think the era of venture-backed DTC, getting into the series, A, B, C and onwards is probably over. I think that's already happened and I think that will probably be the biggest impact on the ecosystem.Stephanie:I completely agree with that. If you sound cynical, then I think cynical too, because I completely agree with that. That's a really good point. All right, Jeremy, this has been such a fun interview. Where can people find out more about you and Italic?Jeremy:Italic is on italic.com and I am @jjeremycai, J-J-E-R-E-M-Y, C-A-I on Twitter. I think that's the easiest way, but we'd love to have anyone as a member.Stephanie:Awesome. Yeah. Thanks so much for coming on the show.Jeremy:Thank you.

Jonny Jenkins is the founder of Everland, an Eco-Retreat and Immersive Art Park being built outside of Denver Colorado. Inspired by Burningman, Meow Wolf and the collaborative creative movement, Everlands' intention is to facilitate connection, inspire creativity and activate child-like play.Jonny has a diverse background that led him to his point. -He has lived and been a leader in intentional communities. -Stewarded $100s of Millions of dollars of real estate transactions and development projects,-Worked in foreign aid and non-profits-started and ran a large events and production company in Asia -Acted and modeled in Taiwan for 5 yearsTraveling to over 60 countries, he has been obsessed with exploring foreign cultures and schools of thoughts since he was young. He is driven to merge the worlds of capitalism and intention. Jonny is committed to living a life in service to create experiences that inspire people to rethink the way we live, work, and play. Check out Everland Eco Retreat:www.Everland.co See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Beats maken, beginnen met skateboarden in Edam, skatelessen in Everland skatepark, sponsordeals, eerste events, party's met strippers, touren met een camper door Europa en nog veel meer in de zevende podcast episode van dit jaar. Onze gast deze keer is niemand minder dan Bart Buikman. GastBart BuikmanHostsDouwe MacaréTim KosterMontageTim KosterEind tuneDj QuadsSUBSCRIBE op GRIPTAPE: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_cLike GRIPTAPE op FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FlatspotMag#Follow GRIPTAPE op INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/griptapepod...Bekijk de GRIPTAPE WEBSITE: http://www.griptapepodcast.nl/

Today I’m excited to announce a new mini-series within Life is a Festival about communities and land-based projects where we can live our most expressed lives. In a time of isolation and global change, without the festivals, ceremonies, and other gatherings we have used to grow together, many of us are looking to build or join communities that cultivate that particular serendipitous convergence we have felt at places like Burning Man. Starting with today’s episode I will be interviewing some of the people who are experimenting with and stewarding such projects about their life stories and particular wisdom. Longer dives on personal growth through a festival lens will continue as well, including an upcoming interview with Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell. As the first episode of this series I am speaking to my friend Jonny Jenkins, a visionary who is leading the creation of a large-scale art park outside of Denver Colorado called Everland. I had the privilege of staying at Everland for two weeks and while this is an early stage project, the land itself, the existing infrastructure, and what they’ve already accomplished is inspiring. On the show we talk about Jonny’s commitment to community from his Christian upbringing to Burning Man and how a near death experience inspired him to make his dream a reality. We discuss Everland’s commitment to radical inclusivity and the amazing team involved. We chat about some of the art and artists already committed to the project and how you or an artist you nominate might participate. Finally, Jonny shares the unique challenges and opportunities of the project and some of his uplifting poetry. Everland is an Eco-Retreat and Immersive Art Park in Colorado. You can learn more, support the project, or submit your art at Everland.co. May we all find Everland! LINKS Everland Eco-Retreat & Immersive Art Park: https://www.everland.co/ Everland Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/everlandco/everland-eco-retreat-and-immersive-art-park Archipelago Clubs: https://www.archipelagoclubs.com/ Previous episodes mentioned on the show Fly Ranch: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/zac-cirivello Meow Wolf: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/vince-kadlubek Punta Mona: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/stephen-brooks TIMESTAMPS :09 - Jonny’s connection with community from his Christian upbringing to Burning Man :18 - How spaces create community, like the Archipelago club in Denver. :23 - How is Everland approaching real radical inclusivity? :28 - How a near death experience in Taiwan led to the founding of Everland :35 - Jonny shares some of the art planned for the property and also how artists can get involved. :42 - Financing Everland :48 - The Everland Team 1:04 - Advice and challenges of founding Everland 1:08 - Jonny’s Poetry

We are playing Towers of Everland on Apple Arcade.

Kentucky Kingdom already had the best Twitter account in the amusement industry, but with this trolling twitter thread, they may become contenders for the best twitter account period. The guys start of this weeks show discussing it. Then the topic of the show switches over to the $3 million construction lien lawsuit filed against Busch Gardens Tampa. Some fantastic news is also shared on this weeks show! Fantasy Island may be saved from what many though was an inescapable fate.  After the break, James and Bob discuss how Everland, a park in South Korea NEVER shut down during the Pandemic, aswell as what parks in the U.S. are going to have to enforce to be able to remain open during the Pandemic.  Of course, to end the episode the weekly poll results are shared and debated. 

Show notes: In this episode Adiba and I recommend some Queer books Books mentioned: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow The Black Flamingo by Dean AttaLike a Love Story by Abdi NazemianPeople Like Us by Dana Mele The Luminous Dead by Caitlin StarlingAlex in Wonderland by Simon James GreenThe Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Hope you enjoy our recs!

Chris and Steven quickly cover the newest releases and major updates on Apple Arcade before discussing this week's club games - Skate City and Towers of Everland Club games discussed this week Skate City Towers of Everland Games to play for next week Speed Demons Painty Mob You can follow the hosts on Twitter if you'd like Steven - @StevenImpson Chris - @BibbyBhoy Mobile Arcade Club

We're talking about Minecraft Dungeons, when should kids start Minecraft, Obduction, Winding Worlds, and Towers of Everland.

We’re talking about Minecraft Dungeons, when should kids start Minecraft, Obduction, Winding Worlds, and Towers of Everland.

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Почему людям с ограниченными возможностями здоровья необходима помощь в трудоустройстве и творчестве? Об этом мы говорим с Еленой Мартыновой, со-основателем Everland. А также о том, с какими проблемами сталкиваются люди с ограниченными возможностями, как заниматься творчеством в этом случае и чем мы можем помочь. Если хотите присоединиться к проекту в том или ином качестве, заходите на платформу: https://evland.ru И помните: творчество может и должно приносить деньги.
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In this episode, Sharon shares about her recent family trip to Korea with kids. She gives travel tips on how to survive the flight and jet lag; how she got around with little ones (subway vs. taxi); kid friendly places like trendy, upscale kids cafes (PIM) and museums (Children’s museum at the Children’s Grand Park); cultural must see places like the Kyungbok palace, Korean folk village, and the Namsan Tower; amusement parks( Everland, Lotteland, Seoul Land) ; shopping malls (Coex, Lotte mall, Shinsegae); outside markets (Dondaemun) and more! We also give a list of resources to give you some tools to plan for your next family trip with kids to Seoul, South Korea!

Laura, Jim and Lisa finish forensically deconstructing Mindhunter: Season 2 Episode #1. Ted Gunn, the new unit chief overseeing the Behavioural Science Unit at Quantico, sets the unit on a new course, promising more resources and to get Holden Charles Manson. We break down the reality vs what’s depicted in the show, Dr Wendy Carr and real life #Shero Ann Burgess who she is based on, that panic attack, whether Holden is an asset or a liability and so much more. #Mindhunter Thank you to our sponsors.TOMMY JOHNGet 20% off by visiting TommyJohn.com/REALCRIMEEVERLANEGet free shipping with your first order at Everland.com/REALCRIMEFAB FIT FUNUse coupon code REALCRIME at FabFitFun.com to get $10 off of your first box.

Bestselling author William Bernhardt discusses the latest news from the world of books, then interviews several writers at Litfest, a library literary festival in Oklahoma City.Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: NewsBernhardt provides more details on the multi-book contract signed by Dean Koontz with Amazon Publishing, the success of Amazon's ads program, and the breakout hit When the Crawdads Sing, a first novel published when the author (Delia Owens) was 69 years of age.Chapter 3: Writing TipsBernhardt interviews Staci Mauney about how she turned her blog into four successful inspirational books--and how what worked for her might work for you. He also chats with Sarah Brown, organizer of Litfest.Chapter 4: InterviewBernhardt interviews four highly successful middle-grade and young-adult writers: Kim Ventrella, author of Skeleton Tree, Wendy Spinale, author of the Everland series, Brad McLelland, author of Legends of the Lost Causes, and Sonia Gensler, author of The Revenant. They discuss what works in today's YA market, what kids are reading, how to pry them away from phones and televisions, and how to break into the market.Chapter 5: Parting WordsIt's not too late to attend WriterCon 2019! For more information, visit: writercon.org.

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Fleishman Is in Trouble, One Night in Georgia, The Poison Thread, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson, Ritual, and ThirdLove. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Hotel Dare by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre with letters by Mike Fiorentino All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil Haunting Paris: A Novel by Mamta Chaudhry The Poison Thread: A Novel by Laura Purcell One Night in Georgia: A Novel by Celeste O. Norfleet Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh Recursion by Blake Crouch What we're reading: Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea--the Milky Way’s Home by Helene Courtois and translated by Nikki Kopelman The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai More books out this week: Conviction by Denise Mina Her Daughter's Mother by Daniela Petrova Roughhouse Friday: A Memoir by Jaed Coffin Girl in the Rearview Mirror: A Novel by Kelsey Rae Dimberg Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books) by Nnedi Okorafor The Last Resort by Marissa Stapley The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford The Perfect Fraud: A Novel by Ellen LaCorte FKA USA: A Novel by Reed King One Night at the Lake: A Novel by Bethany Chase The Perfect Plan: A Novel by Bryan Reardon Big Giant Floating Head by Christopher Boucher The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull The Travelers: A Novel by Regina Porter Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey Steinke The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse The Cutting Room: A Novel (Carver and Lake) by Ashley Dyer A Tale Magnolious by Suzanne Nelson A Sand Book by Ariana Reines Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland The Tenth Muse: A Novel by Catherine Chung A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick The Bobcat: A Novel by Katherine Forbes Riley A Philosophy of Ruin: A Novel by Nicholas Mancusi The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith The Capital: A Novel by Robert Menasse, Jamie Bulloch (Translator) Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone The Rumor: A Novel by Lesley Kara All City: A Novel by Alex DiFrancesco

This is Episode #11: Our First Week of Summer School in South Korea Living at the Global Campus as Temporary Expats! In this podcast we cover traveling to South Korea and our first impressions of the Land of the Morning Calm, visiting Korea's largest themepark Everland with Lenny and Friends, eating super spicy glazed chicken at Sinpo International Market, and more! Follow along with our South Korea Family Travel Journal at: http://diapersonaplane.com/ Also follow us here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diapersonaplane/Twitter: https://twitter.com/diapersonaplaneFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiapersOnAPlane/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbNzTM1rxGwEA4zmYiH2fgANew podcast episodes every Tuesday morning! For the next 10 weeks we'll be coming to you from the Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea!

Kiel Chenier joins Lacey, Carrie, Kalen, and James to run his new Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure Peril of the Fat Prince. Our adventurers are hired to find the missing prince of Everland. The investigation takes them to a carriage crash in the Poppersfield District, leading them to a dwarven cartel, an elven night club, some impromptu jerky rubbing, and the recovery of a mystical cake. Peril of the Fat Prince will be available June 1 at Birch & Bat You can find Kiel's blog at Dungeons & Donuts and on Twitter @kielchenier Twitter @justonemorefix Facebook  Just One More Fix Podcast Support us on Patreon Gonna Geek Network

Middle age men discussing today's culture.

My guest today is Collin Cornwell who is actually my good friend and producer of this podcast. We talk about how he moved to NYC on a whim, made a career for himself in audio, and how he went from a dog walker to being the full time lead audio developer for the video game Everland. I hope you all enjoy Go to our YouTube channel to watch the entire podcast. www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2aC5SPC78HtPtDiJA9erQ Follow Collin Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/collinecornwell/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/collincornwell Website - https://www.cornwelldigital.com Follow my instagram stories to see when we go live with the podcasts on Twitch. Instagram - instagram.com/miguelmeola Twitch - twitch.tv/miguelmeola --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/miguel-meola/support

Garbear is camping so it's only Goliath and Slater on this week's Ride This One podcast Tony Clark introduces us to the new Digital Diners VR restaraunt at Cedar Point Goliath's experience on Acriphobia Drop of Doom VR at Six Flags Over Georgia El Boro at Six Flags Great Adventure, T-Express at Everland and Colossos at Heide Park which are all Intamin pre-fab are having technichal issues requireing a special type of maintenance, Colosus at Heide Park is closed all season. Everland the home of the first ever VR ferris wheel has announced their latest technichal breakthrough, VR T-Express. Since Intamin's are experiencing this recall maybe Everland isn't going to be re-opening T-Express, but make you able to ride it in VR at the world's first first fully VR only Theme Park Nothing says Merry Christmas like freezing your balls off on Mind Eraser at Six Flags New England as they announce Holiday In the Park. Disney is returning to their sponsorship roots selling adds to Honda for Disneyland's Autotopia, while slater bitches about Ripping it out. Slater shares a personal epxerience with the new huuuge station at Silver Dollar City, his theory is that the ride will not have a normal lift hill but will drop directly out of the station 150 feet down into the ravine. Cedar Fair's Worlds of Fun announces something new...a brand new sign! Slater's friend from Knoebels crashed into the gate at Lakeside in Colorado causing Slater to talk about La Casa Bonita Atlantis resorts has announces a new $1.5 billion resort for Hawaii right next to Disney's Aulani Resort on Oahu Cedar Point, America's Rocking Butter Toast finally teases the new mean streak with a video saying They're Coming  

How to be a Disney Imagineer We are with Bob Baranick, past Disney Imagineer and experience designer. If you have ever wanted to be an imagineer we talk with Bob Baranick about how he started his career in the parks and how he set himself up with the skills needed starting at the age of 10. Disney Imagineer As a Disney Imagineer, Bob worked on some of the world’s most iconic rides and experiential spaces. Epcot Tarzan’s Treehouse Pirates of The Caribbean Splash Mountain Frontierland New Orleans Square Phantom Manor Disneyland Paris Liberty Street The Haunted Mansion Other Work Bob’s design expertise has been called upon by some of the biggest names in American and global entertainment. Paramount Parks Warner Studios Six Flags Everland Busch Entertainment Chimelong Hershey’s Universal Studios Bob is also doing what every Disney fan dreams about. He is building his own theme park. With story telling at the center of Bob's park, Whirligig Woods, is set on 21 acres in North Carolina. The park is not for the masses, but a smaller themed environment for families to come and enjoy a day in the natural setting with themed simple attractions. Bob has envisioned family tree houses to be the centerpiece for the park with a rain that takes guests to their depot to spend the night in the park. There might be just one tree house to start but Bob has plans reaching out ten years to grow Whirligig Woods for generations to come.     Free at Walt Disney World Get our list of things you can get for free. We have a long list of Disney World freebees. These are tips and free extras that we have gathered from our years of Disney World experience. And the list also Free and we will rush it to your in box!   Get our list of Free stuff at Disney World     Join us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Mouse Chat Facebook Mouse Chat Instagram Mouse Chat Twitter Mouse Chat YouTube We would love to hear from you. Is there something you want to know about Mouse Chat? Please leave a comment. Please join us by listening to our show at MouseChat.net or by downloading and subscribing to Mouse Chat on iTunes. If you subscribe to our Disney Podcast on iTunes you can schedule it to update your player so you will never miss a show. We also have Mouse Chat Radio if you would like to listen to our Internet Radio station. We stream our current and last three episodes on Mouse Chat Radio. Have limited Data? You can listen to Mouse Chat at Mouse Chat Radio. You can listen to Mouse Chat Radio on ZenoRadio. Anyone can listen by calling: (701) 719-2539 Mouse Chat Radio is also broadcasting 24/7 at all of your favorite internet stations (iTunes Radio, TuneIn, etc.)

Author Wendy Spinale shares her experience doing readings at Barnes and Noble, publishing in the Peter Pan world, and going traditional as far as publishing

With a new World of Warcraft expansion on the horizon, the Battle Bards turn their attention to Warlords of Draenor to see how it stacks up to the rest of the series. The answer? For at least one of the bards, it's the best WoW soundtrack ever. Crank up the volume and get your Orc on, for it's time to go on the musical warpath! Follow Battle Bards on iTunes Follow Battle Bards on Stitcher Follow Battle Bards on Player.FM Episode 63 show notes Intro (featuring "Malach" and "Shadowmoon Valley") "Wolf at the Gates" "Chieftans Gather" "Family" "Last Light (A Hero's Sacrifice)" "Man Down" "T's Have It" "A Light in the Darkness" Which one did we like best? Jukebox (featuring "Abadis Forest" from Dust: An Elysian Tail, "Main Theme" from Fallout 4, "EverLand" from Ragnarok Online 2) Outro Email the Battle Bards! Special thanks to Tesh for the Battle Bards logo! Battle Bards is part of The Gaming and Entertainment Network of podcasts