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In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, you'll see how my team and I execute a live shopping stream on Whatnot. This is a live Q&A session that doubles as "commerce-tainment" as I sell copies of Entrepreneur Magazines that feature me on the cover. During this Q&A session I answer questions on: Why Perfectionism is just Fear as a DisguiseHow to have Compassion for Your HatersWhy 97.6% of You do not start making content: Fear of Judgement

Money can make life more convenient, but it cannot make me execute or stay focused. I still have to show up, stay disciplined, and do the work every day. Without discipline, my time and attention get wasted no matter how many resources I have. Real results come from consistent execution, not from money alone. Show Notes: [05:34]#1 Consistent execution. [07:53]#2 Focus and attention control.  [10:53]#3 Control over your time. [14:07] Recap Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent.   It is a standard. If your results don't match your ability, something in your approach is out of alignment. Most people do not have a motivation problem.   They have a consistency problem. Power Presence is the system for operating with greater discipline, clarity, structure, and execution under pressure. Learn more: → http://www.PowerPresenceProtocol.com  Know what to do but not always doing it?  Measure your execution at → http://RateMyExecution.com. Get Dre's free Daily Game email at http://WorkOnMyGame.com. Every day you'll receive one practical lesson on leadership, mindset, discipline, and execution to help you perform at a higher level. No fluff. Just game

Best Ball Breakfast locks in for four more drafts in the Best Ball Mania 7 contest on Underdog. Pete drafts solo, welcomes on Mark Dank from the ETR projections team, and then is joined by our BBM champions Sam Sherman and Pat Kerrane. Topics discussed: Playing the Jags through a back-stacked Trevor Lawrence, the latest rankings updates and targets from ETR, big stacks on the Broncos and Chargers, and how many Browns is too many Browns?

Leadership is easy when everything is working. Your true ability is revealed when the business is under pressure. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down how to remain calm, think clearly, and lead your team through a major operational crisis. When suppliers fail, key employees leave, or revenue suddenly disappears, panic only makes the situation worse. Your team will mirror your emotional state. If you stay composed, focus on the facts, and move decisively, you give the entire organization a chance to recover. In this episode, you'll learn: • Why emotional control is essential during a business crisis• How your reactions directly influence your team's confidence• Why separating facts from emotions leads to better decisions• How surviving difficult seasons can strengthen trust and loyalty The truth is simple: A crisis is a test of your leadership. Stay calm. Diagnose the real problem. Build the solution. Execute with confidence. When you lead through the fire with discipline and clarity, you do not just save the business. You build an organization strong enough to survive the next storm. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compassion and Empathy of Jesus in You • Friday Service Website: www.PastorTodd.org To support this ministry: www.ToddCoconato.com/give The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. Psalms 145:8 (NKJV) The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalms 145:9 (NKJV) And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. Matthew 14:14 (NKJV) Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Mark 1:40 (NKJV) Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Mark 1:41 (NKJV) “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. Zechariah 7:9 (NKJV) Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.' Zechariah 7:10 (NKJV) Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd. Luke 7:11 (NKJV) And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. Luke 7:12 (NKJV) When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Luke 7:13 (NKJV) Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” Luke 7:14 (NKJV) So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother. Luke 7:15 (NKJV) Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen up among us”; and, “God has visited His people.” Luke 7:16 (NKJV) And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region. Luke 7:17 (NKJV) Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; Colossians 3:12 (NKJV) And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 (NKJV) Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 (NKJV) Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; I Peter 3:8 (NKJV)

Zechariah 7:9-14 (KJV) Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Day 4: Engage StakeholdersSuccessful project leadership depends on more than creating plans and tracking progress. Project managers must actively identify the people and groups who can influence the project, understand their interests, and build productive relationships throughout the project lifecycle.In this session, we examine how to identify and analyze stakeholders, assess their level of influence, interest, expectations, and potential impact, and tailor communication to meet their specific needs. We also explore how to execute the stakeholder engagement plan, address competing priorities, and maintain alignment between stakeholder expectations and project objectives.You will learn how to build trust, strengthen relationships, manage resistance, and influence stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority. The goal is to create meaningful engagement that supports collaboration, improves decision-making, reduces misunderstandings, and helps the project achieve its intended outcomes.Key areas covered:• Identify stakeholders• Analyze stakeholder influence, interests, and expectations• Tailor communication to stakeholder needs• Execute the stakeholder engagement plan• Align stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives• Build trust and influence stakeholders• Address resistance and competing priorities• Maintain stakeholder support throughout the projectJoin us for Day 4 of 40 Days to PMP Exam Success 2026 as we connect stakeholder engagement concepts to realistic PMP exam scenarios and practical project leadership.Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5688675175366656

Motivation disappears the moment the work gets difficult. Discipline keeps you moving anyway. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why motivation is too unreliable to build a successful business and why disciplined execution is the only metric that truly matters. Feelings change. Standards should not. The entrepreneurs who win are not always the most inspired. They are the ones who follow the process, complete the checklist, and execute regardless of their mood. In this episode, you'll learn: • Why relying on motivation destroys consistency• How systems and standard operating procedures remove emotion from execution• Why the hardest days build the strongest entrepreneurs• How discipline creates the consistency required to scale The truth is simple: Amateurs wait until they feel ready. Professionals go to work. Stop analyzing your emotions. Follow the system. Execute the plan. Discipline dictates your destiny. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What was James' motive? His inspiration? And is it really possible for you to know peace, strength and power?

ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONSCB 2026-104: A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute an Intergovernmental Animal Control and Impound Services Agreement with the County of ChampaignCB 2026-105: An Ordinance Amending the Annual Budget for the General FundCB 2026-106: A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Fifth Amendment to a Subrecipient Agreement with the City of Champaign TownshipCB 2026-107: An Ordinance Amending the Annual Budget for the General FundCB 2026-108: A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Subrecipient Agreement with the City of Champaign TownshipCB 2026-109: A Resolution Accepting a Bid for the 2026 Sewer Lining ProjectCB 2026-110: A Resolution Accepting a Bid for the 2026 Sewer Rehabilitation Project

Is there such a thing as being too old to execute? AP correspondent Julie Walker reports aging death row inmates are set to die in Florida.

On this episode, Jonty Yamisha, CEO of Axxonsoft, draws on a career that has spanned private equity underwriting, operating partner roles and the CEO seat to explain what gets lost when investors, operators and portco leaders don't speak the same language—and how to close that gap.Hear how the "what needs to be true" reframe transforms a top-down financial mandate into a shared problem-solving conversation, and why building a unified data taxonomy across marketing, sales and finance is the unglamorous prerequisite to any coherent value creation plan. Then learn how Jonty's three-factory model—delivery, customer success and go-to-market—uses the customer journey as connective tissue to align teams that otherwise default to blaming each other.The information contained in this podcast is not intended to constitute, and should not be construed as, investment advice.

Rob Wilson is a human performance coach, educator and author with significant experience training professional fighters and all branches of the military, but especially those within the special operations community.   He brings a very practical, grounded perspective to what an appropriately designed training program looks like, how to think about recovery (what some might call self-care), and how easily practiced breathing techniques could make the difference between a missed opportunity and achieving your goals this season.   Rob's Check Engine Light Book  @thecheckenginelight  ---------------------------  TRUSTED PARTNERS:  For over 100 years Leica has set the standard for premium optics. From spotting scopes to binoculars, rifle scopes and the new CRF MAX rangefinders, Leica is the choice for those who accept no compromises.  onX Hunt is the most powerful 3D mapping solution for hunters. Get your FREE trial today. If you're already a member, check out the exclusive offers and perks available when you upgrade to an Elite Member.   Spartan Precision Equipment is built for the mountains. Ultra-lightweight, packable, and versatile across shooting platforms. Be sure to check out their new Springbok line of products and the Ascent and Javelin series.  If you're interested in becoming a truly competent, confident and capable rifleman the Modern Say Sniper platform and Modern Day Rifleman community need to be on your radar. Digital courses, podcasts, videos, and in-person instruction taught by one of the best in the industry.  Tired of gut rotting instant coffee? Check out This Is Coffee and get yourself some great instant coffee for when you're in the backcountry or on the road.  ---------------------------  CONSERVATION ORGS TO SUPPORT:  Go to Wild Sheep Foundation to find a membership option that suits your budget and commitment to wild sheep.  Go to Wild Sheep Society of BC to become a member, enter raffles, buy merch and support BC's wild sheep populations.  Go to Rocky Mountain Goat Alliance to find a membership option that suits your budget and commitment to conserving mountain goats and their habitat.   

How do you break free from the constant exhaustion of 65 to 80-hour work weeks while continuing to perform at the top of your corporate stack ranking?   In this powerful solo episode, host Billy Keels addresses the severe burnout plague hitting senior corporate leaders and elite enterprise sales executives. Billy shares an eye-opening lesson from his time leading teams in the UK, where he discovered a top-producing account executive pulling in seven-figure bonuses who remained completely fresh by focusing strictly on high-quality outcomes rather than endless hours. Learn how to implement Billy's exact "Time Telescope" exercise—auditing your schedule in 15-minute snapshots to pinpoint hidden time leaks, systematically reduce your work week by 10%, and reclaim up to eight hours every single week to spend with loved ones, restore your mental presence, or launch a profitable side business.  

Most people are still using AI like a prompt box. They ask a question, get an answer, copy a few lines, and then the work comes right back to them.In this podcast, I show a different way to think about AI. I wanted a public ClickUp chat where I could share AI discoveries and training updates. Instead of brainstorming forever, I told Codex the outcome, rejected unnecessary platforms, and had it build the form, welcome flow, instructions, and email handoff.That is the difference between a prompt and a loop. A prompt answers. A loop keeps moving until the outcome exists.To find out more go to www.talktoaninja.com today.#AIForBusiness #AILoops #BusinessAutomation #ManuelSuarez

Smart people don't always get the best results. I've seen teams explain why things aren't getting done, but explanations never replace execution. Knowing more, having degrees, or being intelligent doesn't produce results. What produces results is consistently doing the work and enforcing the discipline to follow through. Show Notes: [03:55]#1 Intelligence replaces action. [09:28]#2 Nobody is enforcing the standard. [15:19]#3 Clarity without follow through is useless. [22:51]Recap Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent.   It is a standard. If your results don't match your ability, something in your approach is out of alignment. Most people do not have a motivation problem.   They have a consistency problem. Power Presence is the system for operating with greater discipline, clarity, structure, and execution under pressure. Learn more: → http://www.PowerPresenceProtocol.com  — This show is the public record of standards. All episodes and the complete archive: → http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com 

https://youtu.be/uePyn0u75sY Staff Sheehan, CEO of Project Omega, is driven by a mission to strengthen America’s energy independence and national security by rebuilding the nation’s nuclear fuel cycle and scaling a culture-first business rooted in exceptional leadership and execution. With a career spanning energy, sustainable fuels, hydrogen, and chemical physics, Staff is leading the development of technologies that transform spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power sources while helping usher in a new era of reliable, abundant nuclear energy. We explore Staff Sheehan’s Scaling Framework — Build the Best C-Suite, Due Diligence Your Investors, Build Things, and Execute, Execute, Execute. Staff explains why exceptional leadership is the foundation of every successful company, why founders should carefully vet their investors, and why hardware startups must prioritize building real products over ambitious concepts. He also discusses how AI-driven energy demand is fueling a nuclear renaissance, why restoring the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle is essential to energy independence, and what it takes to scale both advanced nuclear technologies and a high-growth company. — Scale a Culture-First Business with Staff Sheehan  Hi, everyone. Steve Preda here with the Management Blueprint Podcast. My guest today is Staff Sheehan, the CEO of Project Omega, an advanced nuclear recycling company with a mission to rebuild America’s nuclear fuel cycle end-to-end and unlock a new era of energy abundance for the United States. Wow. What a mission. Welcome to the show, Staff.  Thanks so much for having me, Steve. Great to be here.  Wow. You really are not playing small. Rebuilding America’s nuclear fuel cycle and unlocking a new era of energy abundance. Tell me about your personal “Why.” How are you manifesting it through the business? Well, I’ve been working in the energy industry, or adjacent to the energy industry, for a long time. This is the fourth business that I’ve started. Prior to this, I was in sustainable fuels. Prior to that, I was in metals and hydrogen. Before that, I did a Ph.D. in chemical physics. And before that, I was in software, but it was in something that was energy-intensive. So I've always been focused on how we can improve the energy industry in the United States. More recently, especially, that has become more and more intertwined with national security.Share on X  So I would say that for the last 10 years, I’ve spent a lot of time focused not just on energy, but also on national security. Right at the intersection of energy and national security is the nuclear industry. Over the last year, especially since four executive orders on nuclear power were signed, I’ve been focused on the nuclear industry. This has really been the resurgence of nuclear power in the United States over the last year or so. Yeah, it’s super fascinating. So, I mean, stupid question: why is this important?  Well, now I think we’re learning—and we’re having an acute learning experience, especially in the United States—that energy is a key bottleneck. And I think the thing that woke us up to that, in a lot of ways, is AI and the need for compute. But it’s not been only AI. We’ve been exporting manufacturing. We’ve been exporting a lot of things from the United States that rely on electricity or rely on energy in one way or another. Our exporting of that has caught up to us, and we now have to reshore a lot of things that maybe in the ’80s and the ’90s we decided to export out to China, for example. Now that we’ve realized that was not the greatest idea, we now are realizing that we need the energy to power it.  And so energy has become a key talking point, and the infrastructure behind energy has become a key talking point, especially in the United States. People’s electricity prices have gone up, so it’s not just industry and not just the folks who are building AI and data centers. It’s really everybody who’s now feeling the pain of our energy crunch. It’s crunched a little bit now, and I think people see that also because of what’s going on in the Middle East and the high price of gas. But the crunch is continuing because we know we have a high energy demand for all of the AI build-out that we’ve been doing for the last handful of years. Yeah, that is so interesting. And I remember in the 1990s, there was this phenomenon that actually the energy demand was falling, at least in Europe, where I come from, and there was overcapacity, and there was approval of overbuilding capacity. And the discussion was, “Okay, why do we need this? How do we slow this down?” And now the opposite thing is happening, which is pretty fascinating.  There’s a big question as to how idle assets are used, right? Because a lot of people don’t understand how electrical grids work. Everywhere in the world, energy is pretty much generated as you use it. So the energy that we’re using to talk on this podcast is being generated, depending on where you are located in the United States. From my location, it’s probably being generated by a natural gas power plant because it’s 2:10 in the afternoon, and this is around the time when a lot of natural gas peaker plants start to get going.  Depending on where you’re calling in from, those electrons are being generated live as we’re speaking. There’s not much storage on the grid. We do have some storage on the grid. California uses pumped hydro. They’re building battery infrastructure in places like Texas, but they’re not quite there yet. Grids don’t operate by just making the energy and then using it later. No. Grids operate by putting energy into the grid as demand is increasing. So the energy that you use is being generated live. You have to think about it that way.  Historically, back in the ’80s and the ’90s, there were not a lot of sinks for that live energy that was being generated, and people were also really bad at predicting demand. Another thing that happened in the ’80s and the ’90s, as I said right before, is that we were outsourcing a lot of our manufacturing to China. So China was building energy capacity because they saw all this manufacturing demand coming in. Their cost of labor was cheaper than what you guys had in Europe and what we had in the United States.  Robotics was not a thing, so everything was pretty manual. And the energy wasn’t needed here. It was needed, but Europe and the US were outsourcing, so we didn’t have the need for the energy here because we were sending all the jobs over to the Far East. They needed the energy there, so they built a bunch of coal-fired power plants. They built a lot of energy capacity while those conversations were happening in Europe. And now I think we’ve realized that it was a mistake to outsource so many things—and, in a sense, outsource your energy generation as well.  We need to find ways of either storing energy or converting that energy and using it productively. So rather than storing it, you could convert it into chemical products. You could convert it into a variety of different things. I think we've learned a lot since the '80s and the '90s, and I think that ties into the original learning experience: don't outsource everything. You need to learn how to be self-sufficient.Share on X Yeah. Yeah, don’t outsource your key competencies and your key resources. And energy is clearly one of those. Just a quick side question: How much energy is being wasted because it’s not able to be stored?  It depends on where you are. A lot of energy gets wasted in places where you have high hydroelectric utilization. But the cost to produce it is very cheap because hydro is indirect solar. The water evaporates, comes down, and it’s very dependent on the landscape where you can deploy hydroelectric power. In other places where you have power plants that follow load, like natural gas, for example, then you’re probably not wasting quite as many electrons as you are in places where you could potentially overproduce.  But I think we’re generally pretty efficient. We don’t waste too much, and a lot of that is because of the way grids work, where we predict how much electricity is needed, and we ramp production up and down as required.  Okay. Let’s talk about frameworks that you may have in your business. This podcast is about frameworks—the processes that are maybe unique to your business or that you discovered as you were building your business. Anything come to mind that can be explained in three to five steps, or as approaches or perspectives?  Yeah, I mean, I guess the learnings that I've had over all of my businesses. I think the first learning is: hire the right people.Share on X As a CEO, you have to spend an inordinate amount of your time on hiring, recruiting, and finding the right people. It’s super important to make sure that you have the best team. So that was my number one job when I started Project Omega: to hire the best possible team that I could hire.  And that was really, like, I told my investors that your first KPI is: build the best C-suite that you can. And I think I did that. I have a really incredible team of folks at Project Omega who are subject area experts in the parts of the business that they lead, and so I’m really happy with how I did it in this business. I’ve had stumbling blocks in prior businesses, and that’s how you learn. You call them learning experiences for a reason. My biggest stumbling block in my prior company was investors.  I didn’t do proper due diligence on investors. There’s ongoing litigation that I’m a part of that has to do with investors where you may not know where their money comes from. I think the number two thing is: make sure that you do a lot of diligence on who’s backing you. Typically, investors do diligence on founders, but founders don’t do quite as much diligence on the investors. And we need to flip that narrative. It’s especially true in national security. In national security, you have to be very sensitive to foreign actors. And this, again, was the issue that I ran into in my last business.  You can’t accept money from people who have significant backing from groups that are adversarial to the United States. A lot of those groups are U.S.-based funds. They’re not foreign funds, but they just get their money from foreign sources, and you have to be very careful about that when you’re in the national security world. It may not be as important if you’re making, like, a consumer app.  But if you’re doing things in energy and you’re doing things in national security, those are places where those people could seriously cause problems for your business down the line. And it comes out years after they invest in you. It’s not like they invest in you and then middle around two days later. All of these groups, including adversaries to the United States, are playing the long game. It’s not a next-week thing. It’s a several-years-from-now thing.  Interesting. Interesting. Okay. So that’s good advice. So build the best C-suite you can, and make sure you do your due diligence on your investors. What’s the next important lesson that you learned about building a business?  Focus on execution. Execution is the challenge. I think there are a lot of businesses out there that exist on paper, and when you’re a hardware company, that’s not the way to do things. I think there are a lot of on-paper businesses that, for better or for worse, have been very successful. Some of them have had IPOs and SPACs and things like that. There are businesses that exist on paper—at least in the nuclear industry, the energy industry, and the fuels industry—that have gone very far for on-paper businesses. But I think a very large portion of those—and I haven’t done all the statistics, but I’m sure Claude or Grok or GPT could—a lot of those businesses don’t do very well because they don’t have any actual experience building things in the real world.  So I think it's extremely important to execute, to get steel in the ground, and to focus on actually building things when you're in the hardware space.Share on X Now, of course, in software, that’s a little bit different. So it depends on whether you’re running a hardware or software business. In software, you may be able to keep going for a lot longer without a product or without having things in market because you’re building something that you know is going to have a huge splash when it comes out. But that’s not necessarily the way hardware businesses are able to be put together.  So give me an example of a business that’s on paper and not in the real world. Give me a hypothetical example.  A hypothetical example would be a business that has put together a number of contracts and a number of marketing materials about what they’re going to do, but they’ve never actually gone out and done it. Whether that’s at a small scale, like the lab scale, or at a larger scale, the point is they haven’t actually built it. My business—we’re very public about this. There are photographs and things like that of our lab out there. My business is at the lab scale. We’re working on going up to the pilot scale right now.  So that’s grams and kilograms of material. We’re not recycling metric tons of nuclear material. No business is doing that in the Western world except the one in France. So no business is doing that in the United States currently. But we’re public about where we are and what scale we’re at. A lot of businesses out there say they’re going to go out and operate XYZ widget, let’s say, and get a lot of traction around that before they’ve actually operated any sort of widget. And I think hardware is different than software.  Some venture markets have learned that, and some are probably going to learn that. But it’s been my experience over the last 12 years of running hardware businesses. My prior two businesses—Catalytic Innovations and Air Company—were both hardware businesses. And before I went to college and graduate school, I was in the software world, so I’ve kind of seen it from both sides.  Yeah. That’s interesting. So I saw your LinkedIn post about these underwater unmanned vehicles—UUVs, I think you call them. Is this like an underwater drone? Yeah. So, a UUV is an unmanned underwater vehicle. If you're trying to do something underwater, like do reconnaissance or try to find out what's going on under there with your adversaryShare on X or even a neutral party using a UUV is a way to do that without putting service members in harm’s way and a way to do that in a low-cost environment. So that’s one of the major applications for UUVs. But one of the big challenges for them is: how do you power them? You could use fuel to power them, but then they could run out of fuel, and then you have a stranded asset.  You could use electricity to power them with a battery, but the battery also runs out, and once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s very hard to recover these. You’re not going to go down to the bottom of the sea to recover your UUV. The other option is to use—and we already do this, right, with our manned underwater vehicles, or our nuclear submarines in the United States—we already use nuclear power to power those submarines. And so that’s been the way that we've historically been able to operate underwater for long periods of time, and that's the way that I think we're probably going to go for these unmanned vehicles as well.Share on X  And that’s what my business focuses on. So we not only do this for UUVs but for space applications as well as terrestrial applications by building power sources. Those power sources are made using material that we recycle from spent nuclear fuel. Those power sources are called radiovoltaics, and you could imagine them as like an AA battery that lasts 30 years. And that’s really, I would say, the next step for operational energy. So we’re focused on using those as replacements for batteries in these small applications. You could think of it as a much broader application in the future—not just operational energy for the military, but beyond that. We actually use these sorts of materials in our everyday lives.  You’re sitting in a room, I’m sitting in a room, and I’m looking up at the smoke detector in my room. You’re sitting in a room with a smoke detector in it as well, and that smoke detector has a little piece of americium-241. Americium-241 is an isotope recovered from nuclear waste. We don’t recover it in the United States because we haven’t recycled nuclear waste in probably a little north of 50 years. But you can get these isotopes from places like France, where they recycle nuclear waste today. So all of us are sitting in a room with a radioisotope-powered device. Americium-241 specifically powers the detector in your smoke detector. Americium spits out alpha particles.  Those alpha particles are little helium nuclei. They hit a detector continuously, and that generates a current. Now, if smoke goes up into your smoke detector, those alpha particles hit the smoke instead of hitting the detector, and you won’t get that same current generation in your smoke detector. So that’s how we detect smoke, and right now, nuclear waste is sitting in all of our houses, keeping us safe. But that’s not really a mainstream part of the narrative yet.  Yeah. And what about the radiation? Is it not dangerous?  No. So for americium, there are different types of radiation. Well, not all radiation is created equal. There’s alpha radiation, which is what americium-241 emits predominantly, and those are little helium nuclei. Those can’t go through a piece of paper. Alpha radiation stops very easily. Like, your skin will very easily stop alpha radiation. Beta radiation, which is different from alpha radiation, is an electron that is flung out of a nucleus. So beta radiation is also stopped relatively easily.  Like, if you ingest it, then it could cause problems, but again, your skin can stop it. Gamma radiation is the one that we’re concerned about from a health perspective. Now, gamma radiation can be used for medical treatments and is very effective when it’s used in medical treatments, like to treat cancer, but gamma radiation is generally pretty bad because it goes straight through you. Gamma rays are little photons, and they’re very high-energy photons, so they can fly through you and they can cause damage to your DNA.  A lot of the, I would say, like, negative effects of any nuclear incident are really caused by gamma radiation more than anything else. Like Chernobyl, which is the famous one, had cesium-137 polluting a lot of the countryside around Chernobyl, and cesium-137 is a very strong gamma emitter. So gamma is what we try to avoid. At Project Omega, we don’t use gamma emitters for our power sources, and so all of our power sources use the safer types of radiation. That’s fascinating. So, Staff, I’d like to switch gears here a little bit and go back to business. So what drives growth in a business like yours—or specifically, your business?  A lot of things drive growth. Our business right now works together with a lot of groups in national security.Share on X We’re driven by the growth of the United States, and we’re driven by the growth of our economy. But beyond that, the demand for nuclear electricity has been very high, and that’s driven a lot of growth for us as well. How do you generate enough electricity to power data centers and power compute? That’s a huge problem in the world right now.  A lot of people who initially invested in AI are pivoting to invest in energy, actually, because they’re realizing the bottleneck for AI is not the chips. It’s the energy that’s needed to power the chips. As people are building these new assets that require all this energy, they’re quickly realizing that nuclear is one of the best ways to fulfill all of these energy requirements. As the nuclear industry grows, we’re seeing the need to reshore and bring the nuclear fuel cycle back to the United States.  We stopped doing commercial enrichment, for example, a long time ago, and there are a lot of great companies working on commercial enrichment. We stopped doing recycling and reprocessing back in the 1970s, and we’re bringing that back. We’re one of the groups working on bringing recycling and reprocessing back to the United States in a more responsible way than we did back then because technology is undoubtedly and unarguably better today than it was in the 1960s and 1970s.  That’s fascinating. So you’re helping all these old economies, which are obviously in a new skin, recover here—manufacturing and energy. So what’s one thing that you’re trying to figure out in your business right now?  So one of the challenges that everybody in the nuclear industry faces right now is scale. There’s a whole new group of reactors called small modular reactors, and another colloquial term for those is advanced reactors. Figuring out how to scale those is one of the challenges. So we’re working right now on scale. We're focused very heavily on scaling up our process so that we're able to build these true infrastructure projects that will ensure that the United States has a domestic nuclear fuel cycle going into the future. So that's really the main focus…Share on X  Being able to not only scale our technology but also execute at the current scale that we operate. On the execution side, we work together with two really great national labs: Idaho National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Execution in the nuclear industry is historically challenging, and working together with the government and the national labs is a big value-add because those national labs have the institutional memory, and they have the experience of working with radioactive materials and nuclear materials that we’re able to piggyback off of. They also have a lot of infrastructure that we’re able to work with.  Yeah. And when you say scale, is it about scaling energy generation, energy transmission, or the manufacturing of equipment that utilizes the recovered nuclear fuel? Or is it also about scaling the organization in terms of managing the organization? All of the above. All of the above. This time last year, we were pretty much one person. Or, this time last year, we were still a concept, and we started the business in July last year. So this time last year, we were pretty much one person, and now we’re close to 20. We’ve already scaled by a lot in just the last year. But we probably need to scale by another order of magnitude by the time we get to next year. So a big part of it is managing the growth of a high-growth and rapidly moving organization.  But a big piece of it is also scaling energy in the United States—scaling transmission, scaling generation, and scaling the production of nuclear fuel. Right now, we get a lot of our nuclear fuel from overseas. Twenty percent of the United States electrical grid is nuclear. So today, we use a lot of nuclear electrons to power, as I mentioned, based on our locations, we’re probably not using too many nuclear electrons right now. Or, Steve, I don’t know where you’re calling in from.  I’m in Virginia, the capital of data centers.  I take it back. You’re actually probably using nuclear electrons as we speak. So we need to scale that generation, but we also need to scale the fuel for those reactors. The nuclear electrons that you’re using to talk with me right now are most likely coming from Russian uranium that we buy from Russia.  I think your home country and many folks in Europe have learned that relying on Russia for your energy resources is not the greatest idea. We still, to this day, rely on Russia for a lot of our commercial uranium for our commercial reactors, and that’s something that we need to change. So scaling our nuclear fuel cycle in the United States is a key aspect of what we’re doing.  So what’s really fascinating is we were on vacation in Moab, Utah, just a few weeks ago, and we noticed that there was a lot of mining of nuclear materials there. Is this something that happened in the past and essentially the industry wound down in the U.S., or is there still mining of nuclear materials here?  So there’s very little actual mining of uranium in the United States. I think something like 99% of our uranium comes from foreign sources. So there’s not a lot of uranium mining. The management of nuclear resources in the United States… There is a good amount of nuclear work that’s being done in Utah, but there are a handful of states that actually do the majority of the nuclear-material legwork. Utah is one of them, I think. Idaho is the birthplace of nuclear energy, and so Idaho is doing a lot of work on the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear materials management.  Idaho is where all of the spent fuel from our naval fleet goes at the end of the life of aircraft carriers and submarines. That’s public knowledge. You can look it up. There’s a lot of work that’s been done to make sure all of that material is managed completely safely and very effectively. So Idaho is the birthplace of nuclear energy, and it’s also where a lot of work on the nuclear fuel cycle is happening. That’s actually the other state where we operate at Project Omega. So Idaho is, I would say, one of the leaders in the nuclear renaissance that’s happening right now.  Okay. So that’s a really good point. So you’re in Idaho. Where else are you in the United States, and what would you like our listeners to do when they hear about you? Who are the people that you would like to get in touch with you?  Well, I’m calling in from Newport, Rhode Island, right now. So Newport, Rhode Island, is our headquarters. We have a laboratory that we operate that’s down the street from here. So we have some operations in Rhode Island, and that’s our headquarters. We also have operations in Idaho, and that’s where we’re building some of our infrastructure. We have a small contingent in the DC area as well. We have other facilities as well, but we keep those confidential. Publicly, we’re headquartered in Rhode Island, and we do a lot of work in Idaho and in the DC area. That’s fascinating. So if people get interested in what you’re doing and would like to get in touch with you or learn more about Project Omega, where should they go, and where can they learn more? They would go to projectomega.com. info@projectomega.com is our main inbox. We do a pretty good job of staying up to date with it. That’s also what we use for careers and hiring. As I mentioned, hiring is one of my top jobs. So we’re always interested in finding the best candidates out there who want to revolutionize the nuclear fuel cycle in the United States. That’s fantastic. So if you’re interested in the nuclear industry, recycling nuclear fuel, and driving the UUVs of the next generation, then definitely check out the Project Omega website and reach out to Staff. And if you enjoyed this conversation, make sure you follow us and subscribe on YouTube. Stay tuned, because every week there’s an exciting entrepreneur coming on the show. Staff, thanks for coming and sharing your wisdom and unique knowledge. And thanks for listening.  Awesome. Thank you so much for having me, Steve. This was great. Important Links: Staff's LinkedIn Staff's Website Staff's email: info@projectomega.com

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You do not always have to build from scratch. Sometimes the smartest move is buying the playbook. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why the franchise model can become a powerful wealth vehicle for entrepreneurs who want speed, infrastructure, and proven systems. Let's be real… Building every system yourself takes time. Creating every process from zero takes energy. Testing every offer from scratch takes capital. And reinventing the wheel can cost you years. In this episode, you'll learn: Why franchises can help entrepreneurs buy speed and infrastructure How proven systems reduce the cost of trial and error Why operators win by executing the playbook with precision How scaling multiple locations can create predictable cash flow and long-term wealth The truth is simple: A franchise is not just a logo. It is a system. A playbook. A supply chain. A brand. A tested model. And a shortcut through mistakes someone else already solved. High-level operators do not always need to be the original creator. Sometimes they need to be the best executor. They run the system. They manage the team. They protect the standards. They scale the model. Because proven systems can create predictable cash. You do not have to be the architect to own the building. Buy the blueprint. Execute the playbook. Scale the wealth. And keep leveling up. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dre Baldwin shares insights from his Work on Your Game framework, emphasizing the importance of execution, discipline, and strategic clarity for high performance in real estate and beyond. Discover how to build reliable habits, avoid common pitfalls, and scale your success with proven mental models.   Professional Real Estate Investors - How we can help you: Investor Fuel Mastermind:  Learn more about the Investor Fuel Mastermind, including 100% deal financing, massive discounts from vendors and sponsors you're already using, our world class community of over 150 members, and SO much more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/apply   Investor Machine Marketing Partnership:  Are you looking for consistent, high quality lead generation? Investor Machine is America's #1 lead generation service professional investors. Investor Machine provides true 'white glove' support to help you build the perfect marketing plan, then we'll execute it for you…talking and working together on an ongoing basis to help you hit YOUR goals! Learn more here: http://www.investormachine.com   Coaching with Mike Hambright:  Interested in 1 on 1 coaching with Mike Hambright? Mike coaches entrepreneurs looking to level up, build coaching or service based businesses (Mike runs multiple 7 and 8 figure a year businesses), building a coaching program and more. Learn more here: https://investorfuel.com/coachingwithmike   Attend a Vacation/Mastermind Retreat with Mike Hambright: Interested in joining a "mini-mastermind" with Mike and his private clients on an upcoming "Retreat", either at locations like Cabo San Lucas, Napa, Park City ski trip, Yellowstone, or even at Mike's East Texas "Big H Ranch"? Learn more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/retreat   Property Insurance: Join the largest and most investor friendly property insurance provider in 2 minutes. Free to join, and insure all your flips and rentals within minutes! There is NO easier insurance provider on the planet (turn insurance on or off in 1 minute without talking to anyone!), and there's no 15-30% agent mark up through this platform!  Register here: https://myinvestorinsurance.com/   New Real Estate Investors - How we can work together: Investor Fuel Club (Coaching and Deal Partner Community): Looking to kickstart your real estate investing career? Join our one of a kind Coaching Community, Investor Fuel Club, where you'll get trained by some of the best real estate investors in America, and partner with them on deals! You don't need $ for deals…we'll partner with you and hold your hand along the way! Learn More here: http://www.investorfuel.com/club   —--------------------

Execution is not a talent problem. I've seen too many leaders think they just need better people, when the real issue is how the work gets done every day. As the operator, it's my job to make sure execution happens consistently, whether I do the work myself or lead others to do it. If the results aren't where they need to be, I don't start by blaming talent. I start by fixing execution. Show Notes: [05:42]#1 Employees wait and operators move. [10:42]#2 Employees focus on tasks. Operators focus on outcomes. [18:16]#3 Employees require supervision. Operators require self enforced standards. [22:54] Recap Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent.   It is a standard. If your results don't match your ability, something in your approach is out of alignment. Most people do not have a motivation problem.   They have a consistency problem. Power Presence is the system for operating with greater discipline, clarity, structure, and execution under pressure. Learn more: → http://www.PowerPresenceProtocol.com  — This show is the public record of standards. All episodes and the complete archive: → http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com 

https://teachhoops.com/ Show Notes Episode Title: Are Your Timeouts Changing the Game… or Just Stopping the Clock? Every coach uses timeouts, but not every timeout actually helps the team. Too many timeouts turn into long speeches, emotional reactions, or overloaded coaching moments where players hear too much and execute too little. In this episode, Coach breaks down a simple timeout system that helps players reset, understand the problem, and return to the floor with one clear action. A timeout is not a lecture. A timeout is a reset. The goal is not to say everything.The goal is to give players the next thing they need to do. Sentence 1: Reset the emotionGet your players calm, focused, and looking at you. Sentence 2: Name the problemIdentify the one thing that needs to change. Sentence 3: Give the next actionTell them exactly what to do when they return to the floor. Reset. Problem. Action. Bad timeout:“We have to be stronger with the ball.” Better timeout:“Take a breath. We are rushing the first pass. Catch, chin, pivot, and reverse it.” Clear. Simple. Actionable. Bad timeout:“We have to rebound. They are tougher than us.” Better timeout:“Settle in. We are watching the shot. Hit first, then go get it.” Players need something they can carry back onto the floor. Trying to coach the whole game in one timeout: offense defense rebounding effort special situations new plays A confused team plays slow.A clear team plays fast. It does not always have to be the head coach. Sometimes: an assistant gives the defensive reminder the point guard settles the team the captain repeats the standard a player says the cue back before breaking the huddle If players cannot repeat the cue, the coach probably said too much. The board can help, but it can also become a trap. In a timeout, simple wins: one entry one main action one read one reminder Do not draw five options when players need one clear job. Not every timeout is tactical. Sometimes the team is panicking.The crowd is loud.The opponent has momentum.Your players look shaken. That timeout might simply be: “Look at me. We are fine. One stop, one good shot.” Confidence is contagious.So is panic. Use scrimmage situations: down 3 with 30 seconds left up 2 needing a stop opponent on a run need to break pressure late-game sideline or baseline situation Run the timeout like a real game: Assistant talks.Head coach gives the cue.Player repeats it.Team breaks the huddle.Execute. Before or during a timeout, ask: What is the emotion? What is the problem? What is the next action? Who needs to say it back? Write down three timeout cues this week: One for pressure One for rebounding One for defensive transition Keep each cue to one sentence. Do not ramble.Do not chase every mistake.Reset the emotion.Name the problem.Give the next action. Timeouts are not for proving how much you know. They are for helping players do the next right thing. For late-game tools, special situation templates, practice plans, and complete coaching systems, go to: teachhoops.com Episode SummaryThe Big IdeaThe 3-Sentence Timeout SystemTimeout Example: Pressure OffenseTimeout Example: ReboundingCommon Timeout MistakeWho Should Talk in the Timeout?Using the Board the Right WayEmotional Timeouts Matter TooPractice Your TimeoutsTimeout ChecklistCoach ChallengeClosing Thought Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You said it as a thought. They heard it as a decision. And now there's tension, confusion, and maybe a project that was never supposed to happen actually happening.In this episode, I'm joined by Joel Fortner to talk about one of the most overlooked leadership blind spots we see on coaching calls — the gap between how a leader communicates and how their team receives it.[00:01:27] Why Leaders Don't Realize the Weight of Their Words[00:04:32] The Loyalty Problem — When Teams Run with What You Never Meant[00:09:42] Type 1 — Information (The Decision Is Made)[00:17:46] Type 2 — Input (You Haven't Decided Yet)[00:24:22] Type 3 — The Directive (It's Time to Execute)[00:29:52] The Challenge — Start Every Meeting With Your Goal

Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@mreapodcastToday, we are joined by Cameron Herold, a serial entrepreneur, coach, speaker, and author who knows how to grow a business with speed and purpose. Cameron helped take 1-800-GOT-JUNK? from $2 million to $106 million in revenue, and he has spent decades helping leaders build companies that can grow without chaos.In this episode, Cameron teaches us how to create a vivid vision, a clear three-year picture of what your business looks like, acts like, and feels like. This isn't a list of goals. It's not the plan. It's the picture that helps your team see what you see, so they can help you build it.We also dig into the real power of masterminds, why entrepreneurs need people outside their own industry, and how to show up with purpose at every event. Then Cameron gives us his success formula: focus x faith x effort. When one of those drops, your odds of success fall fast.If we want a bigger business, a better life, and a clearer path forward, this episode gives you the model. Write the vision. Share it. Protect your focus. Build your faith. Bring the effort. Then go make it real.Resources:Visit Cameron Herold's website: CameronHerold.com Read Vivid Vision by Cameron HeroldOrder the Millionaire Real Estate Agent Playbook | Volume 3Connect with Jason:LinkedinProduced by NOVAThis podcast is for general informational purposes only. The views, thoughts, and opinions of the guest represent those of the guest and not  Keller Williams Realty, LLC and its affiliates, and should not be construed as financial, economic, legal, tax, or other advice. This podcast is provided without any warranty, or guarantee of its accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or results from using the information.WARNING! You must comply with the TCPA and any other federal, state or local laws, including for B2B calls and texts. Never call or text a number on any Do Not Call list, and do not use an autodialer or artificial voice or prerecorded messages without proper consent. Contact your attorney to ensure your compliance.

A few takeaways from our conversation with Gilad Bechar- CEO of Moburst (Adweek's fastest-growing agency): Growth rarely stalls because of bad ideas. It stalls because execution slows down. 3 takeaways every business can learn from: 1. Speed creates advantage The bigger the organization, the slower decisions move—even with clear data. Teams that execute faster learn faster and win sooner. 2. Data should drive action, not delay Testing isn't about perfection. It's about knowing enough to move forward without lowering the bar. 3. Nothing is ever "done"—only right for now Markets shift. Attention shifts. What worked last quarter needs to be challenged again. Test. Learn. Execute. Repeat. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience Website: https://jondwoskin.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Jeff Gunsberg: Website: https://title-connect.com Connect with Gilad Bechar:Website: https://www.moburst.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/begilad   *E - explicit language may be used in this podcast.

Dr. Judy Wright burned out more than once before she started paying attention to what was actually driving it. As a family doctor who spent years staying two hours after her last patient to finish charting, she knows firsthand what it costs to keep grinding without ever stopping to ask what you actually need. In this episode, she talks about burnout prevention, energy management, and the quiet belief that saying yes is just part of being a good doctor and a good person. For high-achieving women in medicine who are still doing everything for everyone, her PACE method and her very honest account of learning to say no offer something more useful than another list of self-care tips. Highlights [02:00]: Her residency director told her she was slow because she cared too much about her penmanship. Dr. Wright explains what was actually going on, and why nobody gave her anything useful to work with. [06:00]: She spent years leaving clinic two hours after her last patient before a single conversation with a colleague cracked something open for her. [11:00]: The moment she came back from maternity leave, she walked into her clinic and asked for something she had never asked for before. What she asked for, and how she asked for it, is worth hearing in full. [19:00]: Dr. Wright introduces the PACE method and makes a distinction between time and energy that reframes what sustainable clinical medicine actually requires. [23:00]: She moved from clinical practice into leadership and immediately repeated every pattern she had spent years trying to break. She explains why, and what finally shifted. [40:00]: A free stress assessment she has built specifically for doctors who think they are managing fine, because that is exactly where she was every time she burned out. Three Key Takeaways 1. The problem is rarely time. It is almost always energy. Most doctors who feel overwhelmed reach immediately for a time management solution. Dr. Wright argues that time is the wrong lens. Everyone has 24 hours. What varies is energy, and energy is renewable in a way that time is not. When she started working with groups of high-achieving women, she found that underneath the complaints about not having enough time was something else entirely: exhaustion, depletion, and a capacity that had been quietly shrinking for years. Protecting your energy, she argues, is not a luxury. It is the prerequisite for everything else. 2. Saying no is a skill that has to be practiced, not a decision you make once. Dr. Wright is clear that she was not a people pleaser, but she still had work to do around saying no. For doctors who are socialized to help first and for women who are socialized to say yes, declining a request carries a weight of guilt that does not disappear just because you know it is the right call. She offers several practical ways to say no that do not require a single-word answer, and makes the case that every yes has a cost. The question is simply whether the cost is one you can afford. 3. Delegation only works when you know the people you are delegating to. Dr. Wright is not interested in getting things off her plate for the sake of it. She watched leaders hand tasks to whoever was available and then spend more energy managing the fallout than the task would have taken. What she learned, both in clinical teams and at home with her own children, is that effective delegation starts with knowing people well enough to match the right task to the right person. That takes time upfront. It also, eventually, creates something that no amount of personal effort can build alone. Guest Bio Dr. Judy Wright is a board-certified family doctor, burnout prevention strategist, and performance coach based in the United States. She works primarily with high-achieving women leaders, helping them protect their energy, set meaningful boundaries, and continue performing at a high level without burning out in the process. Her PACE method, which stands for Pause, Awareness, Calibrate, Execute and Excel, gives doctors and leaders a practical framework for sustainable performance.Connect with Dr. Wright on Linkedin. Would you like to view a transcript of this episode? Click Here Charting Champions is a premiere, lifetime access Physician only program that is helping Physicians get home with today's work done. All the proven tools, support and community you need to create time for your life outside of medicine. Learn more at https://www.chartingcoach.ca Enjoying this podcast? Please share it with someone who would benefit. Also, don't forget to hit “follow” so you get all the new episodes as soon as they are released. Come hang out with me on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me @thechartingcoach to get more practical tools to help you create sustainable clinical medicine in your life. Questions? Comments? Want to share how this podcast has helped you? Shoot me an email at admin@reachcareercoaching.ca. I would love to hear from you.

The whole market is chasing the same thing: one magic creative that lowers your CPI. But this month's creative trends show the real storyWe run through the month's creatives and surface the patterns: AppQuantum/Golden Goblins as the copy-machine the whole market imitates (now with a ~100-person creative team), the onboarding land grab where studios slap My Perfect Hotel, Last Asylum, and other hyper-casual hooks onto match and merge onboarding, the Game of Thrones IP game (Dragonfire) as a test of whether Western IP can punch back against the Chinese creative machine, Voodoo's standout new mid-core game Path of Kings (old-school pixel RPG nostalgia, 60K downloads/day since a May launch), AI creatives flooding every genre (and the hand-movement tell that still gives them away), and several games clearly in troubleThe throughline: copy and execute are two different things. You can copy any creative - but can you actually execute it?⏱️ TIMESTAMPS00:00 The full crew and creative trends kickoff02:30 Golden Goblins / AppQuantum — the copy machine09:00 The "getting slapped" hook and Whiteout Survival09:40 Game of Thrones IP vs the Chinese creative machine20:00 Panteon, Raid Rush, and the AI-tower signature22:50 Voodoo's Path of Kings — the standout new game26:30 The onboarding land grab — Match Villains & beyondThis episode is brought to you by Kinoa — the AI operating system for mobile game operations: flows, live segments, in-app messages, push notifications, and A/B testing in one place, run by the operators who own the numbers. Carry1st saw +43% ARPDAU; PlayStudios saw +31% revenue on Tetris Block Party. Learn more at Kinoa.http://www.kinoa.ai?utm_source=MatejPodcast&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=Matej+Podcast&utm_id=100--------------------------------------PVX Partners offers non-dilutive funding for game developers.Go to: https://pvxpartners.com/They can help you access the most effective form of growth capital once you have the metrics to back it.- Scale fast- Keep your shares- Drawdown only as needed- Have PvX take downside risk alongside you+ Work with a team entirely made up of ex-gaming operators and investors---------------------------------------For an ever-growing number of game developers, this means that now is the perfect time to invest in monetizing direct-to-consumer at scale.Our sponsor FastSpring:Has delivered D2C at scale for over 20 yearsThey power top mobile publishers around the worldLaunch a new webstore, replace an existing D2C vendor, or add a redundant D2C vendor at fastspring.gg.---------------------------------------This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers session. Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let's not forget this is a 4 a.m. conference discussion vibe, so let's not take it too seriously.Panelists: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jakub Remia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠r,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Felix Braberg, Matej Lancaric⁠Join our slack channel here: https://join.slack.com/t/two-and-half-gamers/shared_invite/zt-3bckldvr8-8PXvzciMWdheOzED9hq0SA---------------------------------------Matej LancaricUser Acquisition & Creatives Consultant⁠https://lancaric.meFelix BrabergAd monetization consultant⁠https://www.felixbraberg.comJakub RemiarGame design consultant⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubremiar---------------------------------------Please share the podcast with your industry friends, dogs & cats. Especially cats! They love it!Hit the Subscribe button on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple!Please share feedback and comments - matej@lancaric.meIf you are interested in getting UA tips every week on Monday, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lancaric.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & sign up for the Brutally Honest newsletter by Matej Lancaric

What happens when a consulting company decides that adding AI to existing workflows isn't enough? In this episode, Mal Vivek, CEO and co-founder of zeb, joins me to discuss the launch of Substrate, an AI-native operating architecture that challenges many assumptions about enterprise consulting, software delivery, and AI adoption. Rather than layering AI onto legacy processes, zeb made the bold decision to scrap its own operating model and rebuild the company from the ground up with AI at its core. The result is Substrate, a system designed to learn from every project it completes, continuously improving through a Plan, Execute, Evaluate operating loop while helping organizations move from experimentation to measurable business outcomes. Our conversation goes far beyond another AI product announcement. Mal explains why so many organizations remain trapped in what she calls "pilot purgatory," investing heavily in AI without producing measurable returns. We discuss why treating AI as an assistant often limits its potential, and why businesses may need to rethink their organizational structures, workflows, and even leadership models if they want AI to become part of their operational foundation. We also explore one of the most talked-about aspects of zeb's business model: a 100 percent outcome guarantee. Instead of charging for time or software licenses, zeb only gets paid when agreed business outcomes have been delivered. That raises interesting questions about accountability, risk, and whether the traditional consulting model still makes sense in an era where AI can dramatically compress delivery timelines. Mal also shares why zeb gives customers ownership of their own version of the Substrate engine instead of locking them into a traditional SaaS subscription, how AI changes the relationship between technology vendors and their customers, and why she believes future organizations will become flatter, faster, and increasingly focused on builders rather than management layers. If you're a technology leader trying to move beyond AI proofs of concept, or a business executive searching for a practical path to measurable AI value, this conversation offers plenty of fresh thinking on what AI-native organizations could look like over the next few years. Can businesses continue adapting yesterday's operating models for tomorrow's technology, or is it time to rebuild from the ground up? I'd love to hear where you stand after listening to this episode.

74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, which will make him the oldest man ever executed in the state of Florida. Spencer’s attorneys have made a last ditch appeal to the Supreme Court, citing cruel and unusual punishment towards a 74-year-old man suffering from significant medical conditions. Spencer was convicted for the 1992 brutal stabbing and beating death of his wife Karen in front of her teenage son. Her murder led to significant changes in the way police and state courts address domestic violence. Spencer had warned Karen from jail he was going to finish what he started.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, which will make him the oldest man ever executed in the state of Florida. Spencer’s attorneys have made a last ditch appeal to the Supreme Court, citing cruel and unusual punishment towards a 74-year-old man suffering from significant medical conditions. Spencer was convicted for the 1992 brutal stabbing and beating death of his wife Karen in front of her teenage son. Her murder led to significant changes in the way police and state courts address domestic violence. Spencer had warned Karen from jail he was going to finish what he started.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Lee returned to the Dad Edge Alliance for an exclusive live Q&A with members asking real-time questions about raising kids to think like value creators. The conversation covers everything from how to engage a four-year-old in family finances to what to do when a capable adult son is drifting in a digital fog. If you've ever wanted to raise kids who don't just follow rules but genuinely understand why building a life of meaning matters, this one delivers. Most parenting conversations focus on values, the character traits we want our kids to have. Lee draws a sharp distinction: having a values list is fine, but the real work is teaching kids to create value, holistically, across three buckets: material (money and lifestyle), positive emotional energy (how alive you feel going through life), and spiritual connectedness (family, community, and purpose). That framework, combined with one simple question (how would you like to create value in the world?), is the thread that runs through every answer Lee gives, whether he's talking to a dad with four-year-old twins, a dad with checked-out teenagers, or a dad watching a 20-year-old spend six hours a day alone in his room. This is especially powerful for any dad who has felt the frustration of talking at his kids instead of being with them, who wants to make family meetings something his kids actually look forward to, or who is watching a young adult drift and wondering when to push harder versus when to change the environment instead.   Timeline Summary [1:02] Larry introduces Lee Benson: Wall Street Journal bestselling author, founder of Dinner Table (impacting 50,000-plus families), serial entrepreneur with eight companies and a nine-figure exit, back for a second exclusive Alliance Q&A [3:31] Lee's entrepreneurial origin story: pulling weeds at age 6 for $0.25 an hour, playing over 1,000 shows in a band in the early 80s, and launching his first actual business in 1993 after a lifetime of learning to trust the struggle [5:36] Coming home at 17 to find his clothes in paper grocery sacks on the porch and the locks changed, and why getting forced out of a toxic, dangerous home was one of the best things that ever happened to him [10:23] The Dinner Table framework: the critical difference between having a values list and intentionally creating holistic value across three buckets, material, positive emotional energy, and spiritual connectedness, and why keeping all three in balance is the whole game [12:41] How the monthly family meeting works: setting shared goals, defining what leadership looks like in the family, reviewing the household budget as a team sport, and why a six-year-old can absolutely have her own line item [16:19] Tommy's follow-up on his 23-year-old daughter who comes to him for financial advice but won't take it, and the one question Lee says works better than any advice you could give [19:18] Luke's question: his family used to have a dinner table culture, but phones and teenage independence have caused it to drift, what's the one actionable thing he can take into tomorrow? [21:23] The loneliness epidemic Lee witnessed firsthand: speaking to six groups of high school seniors in a single day, he watched every group melt when asked what it actually feels like to be more digitally connected and lonelier than ever [24:03] The statistic that stops the room: only 18% of American families are traditional nuclear families with two biological parents and kids under 18 at home, and why it means anyone can build the family culture they want, regardless of where they started [27:02] Larry's raw personal question: his 20-year-old son is a great kid headed for the fire academy, but right now he's spending five to six hours a day on screens, physically declining, and stuck in a liminal space with no clear purpose, and Larry doesn't know how to get through to him [32:49] Lee's answer: environment shapes human nature more reliably than any conversation, and the story of his own brother whose entire trajectory changed when the Marine Corps changed his surroundings, and reversed the moment it was gone [35:31] Lee pushes back hard on the "kids can't do it today" narrative: two grown men agree they would crush the exact same challenges facing young people right now, so why do adults keep having conversations that tell kids they can't? [39:36] The digital isolation question: why providing basic needs without accountability for how hours are spent creates the exact environment that enables drift, and what rules of engagement actually look like when you apply them clearly and without flinching [43:56] Lee flips the table and asks Larry a question: in his entire life, across thousands of leaders he has studied and worked with, only two people have ever been truly "with" him, not talking at, over, or down to him, and what does Larry think most dads are missing? [45:29] Larry's honest answer: 80% generative questions and psychological safety, 20% intense and emotion-driven lectures, and why that 20% probably feels like the majority of the experience for his son [48:42] Lee reframes the whole conversation: planting seeds takes time, and being frustrated that a 20-year-old hasn't learned what took you 30 years to figure out is a form of unfairness, the job is to keep planting, not to demand the harvest [53:06] Lee and Luke on using a hard childhood as rocket fuel: it took Lee 17 years to fully separate from a toxic family situation, and the shift that freed him was realizing it was never about him, it was about people who couldn't even raise themselves   Five Key Takeaways There is a critical difference between having values and intentionally creating value. Values are character traits on a list. Value creation is an active, daily practice across three buckets: material (money and the lifestyle your family needs), positive emotional energy (how alive and energized you feel going through life), and spiritual connectedness (your bonds with family, community, and purpose). Families that confuse the two drift. Families that focus on all three build something that compounds over decades. The one question that works at every age is: how would you like to create value in the world? For a four-year-old it plants a seed. For a teenager it opens a door that lectures can't. For a 23-year-old in "I Know Everything Syndrome," it bypasses the defense wall entirely and invites her into a real conversation about who she wants to become. Lee uses it with 3-year-olds and 80-year-old CEOs because it is never about telling someone what to do, it is about making the conversation theirs. The environment shapes human nature more reliably than any conversation. If you make it easy to drift, human nature says they'll drift. Lee has seen this in a brother who became a model Marine the moment the Corps changed his surroundings, and unraveled the moment it was gone. For any dad watching a young adult spiral, the most powerful lever is not a harder talk. It is changing the rules of engagement in the home, clearly and without negotiation, so that moving forward becomes the path of least resistance. Only 18% of American families are traditional nuclear families, and households with two parents where one stays home represent just 7%. Lee's point is not that the numbers are discouraging, it is that they are liberating. The vast majority of families are navigating this in some non-traditional structure, which means there is no inherited blueprint you are obligated to follow. You can build exactly the family you want to lead, and you can start that process at any age. Most adults talk at, over, or down to kids. Almost no one is truly with them, with their potential, with their future self, with who they are still becoming. In Lee's entire life, across thousands of leaders he has studied, only two people showed up for him that way. The dads in this community have the chance to be that person. Getting curious, asking generative questions, and sitting beside a kid instead of facing off against him is not just a communication tactic. It is the whole relationship.   Links & Resources   Dinner Table Community: https://dinnertable.com Execute to Win (CEO Mastermind Groups): https://etw.com Value Creation Family by Lee Benson: https://www.amazon.com/Value-Creation-Family-Playbook-Setting/dp/1636805981 The Dad Edge Alliance: https://thedadedge.com/join Episode Shownotes: https://thedadedge.com/1495 http://thedadedge.com/kidquestions   Closing What Lee brought to this Q&A is not a framework you need a consultant to implement. It is one question, how would you like to create value in the world?, and the willingness to ask it and actually listen to the answer. Try it this week with one of your kids. And if Larry's raw honesty about talking at his son instead of being with him hit close to home, share this episode with a dad who needed to hear it. If you're not yet part of the Alliance where conversations like this happen live every month, head over to thedadedge.com. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and help us get this in front of the dads who need it most. Go out and live legendary.

74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, which will make him the oldest man ever executed in the state of Florida. Spencer’s attorneys have made a last ditch appeal to the Supreme Court, citing cruel and unusual punishment towards a 74-year-old man suffering from significant medical conditions. Spencer was convicted for the 1992 brutal stabbing and beating death of his wife Karen in front of her teenage son. Her murder led to significant changes in the way police and state courts address domestic violence. Spencer had warned Karen from jail he was going to finish what he started.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, which will make him the oldest man ever executed in the state of Florida. Spencer’s attorneys have made a last ditch appeal to the Supreme Court, citing cruel and unusual punishment towards a 74-year-old man suffering from significant medical conditions. Spencer was convicted for the 1992 brutal stabbing and beating death of his wife Karen in front of her teenage son. Her murder led to significant changes in the way police and state courts address domestic violence. Spencer had warned Karen from jail he was going to finish what he started.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of Making Risk Flow, Juan de Castro sits down with Kristoffer Lundberg, CEO of Insurtech Insights, to explore how AI is transforming insurance from a story of disruption into one of collaboration. Recorded at InsureTech Insights in New York, the conversation examines what it takes to deploy AI at scale, from defining clear business goals and building the right partnerships to redesigning operating models around automation. Kristoffer shares lessons from real-world AI implementations, including claims transformation, and explains why insurers must “think slow, execute fast” to create lasting value. The episode reveals how ecosystem partnerships, human-centered design, and measurable outcomes will shape the next era of insurance innovation. Kristoffer Lundberg is the CEO of Insurtech Insights, a global insurance technology community connecting insurers, startups, investors, and technology leaders to accelerate innovation across the industry. Since joining Insurtech Insights in 2018, Kristoffer has helped grow the platform into a leading global destination for insurance transformation, hosting major conferences across Europe, the U.S., and Asia. His work focuses on bringing industry stakeholders together to explore emerging technologies, collaboration, and the future of insurance. Fan Mail: Got a challenge digitizing your intake? Share it with us, and we'll unpack solutions from our experience at Cytora.To receive a custom demo from Cytora, click here and use the code 'Making Risk Flow'.Our previous guests include: Bronek Masojada of PPL, Craig Knightly of Inigo, Andrew Horton of QBE Insurance, Simon McGinn of Allianz, Stephane Flaquet of Hiscox, Matthew Grant of InsTech, Paul Brand of Convex, Paolo Cuomo of Gallagher Re, and Thierry Daucourt of AXA.Check out the three most downloaded episodes:The Five Pillars of Data Analytics Strategy in Insurance | Craig Knightly, Inigo20 Years as CEO of Hiscox: Personal Reflections and the Evolution of PPL | Bronek MasojadaImplementing ESG in the Insurance and Underwriting Space | Simon Tighe, Chaucer, and Paul McCarney, Moody's

Alcohol And AI...What's Your Take? Best Friend or Tool. Day 3066...! Join us every day in 2026 for a quick challenge that is all about you Improving and creating the life you want! https://www.facebook.com/ThrivingSharon Ask your questions and share your wisdom! Master your planning method with this simple framework. Learn how to organize your workflow using the SUPER strategy for better results. This video breaks down the SUPER acronym, which stands for Specify, Uncover, Plan, Execute, and Review. If you struggle with inconsistent progress or need a clearer path for your daily tasks, this system provides a direct way to organize your thoughts and actions. It is designed for anyone looking to refine their approach to personal projects or professional goals. By following this planning method, you gain a repeatable process for tracking your development from start to finish. We focus on the practical application of each step, ensuring you know exactly how to apply these concepts to your specific situation. Using this productivity strategy helps eliminate guesswork, making it easier to maintain momentum throughout your work week. Implementing this step by step planning approach creates clarity in your routine. Start using this project management tips framework today to see immediate improvements in how you handle your objectives. Each phase of the SUPER model is explained to help you align your daily activities with your long-term vision. Subscribe for weekly productivity strategy breakdowns, and comment below with your biggest challenge when starting a new project. #supersize #doonethingeverydaytosupersize #lessonslearned #missedopportunities #decisionmaking #beabetteryou #personalgrowth #developskills #uncoverwhatis #exercise #physicalhealth #physicalwellbeing #physical #sleep #strength #breathe #preventthis #recovery #rest #training #consistency #eliminatetoxins #alcohol #ai

You're Making a Huge Mistake With Alcohol and AI! Hot Take: Alcohol And AI Are Not Your Best Friends! Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge Day 174! Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective! https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness Supersize Your Business (free) Skool link: https://www.skool.com/supersize-your-business-1654/about AI limitations are real, and relying on technology for everything can be as problematic as unhealthy alcohol habits. Here is why. This video explores the boundary between using AI as a helpful assistant versus becoming overly dependent on it. I share personal reflections on why AI tools should not be treated like a best friend, drawing parallels from my own experiences with alcohol to highlight the importance of maintaining healthy boundaries. You will learn how to approach technology with a more critical eye. By using the SUPER framework—Specify, Uncover what, Plan Path, Execute, and Review—you can ensure your personal productivity remains intentional rather than reactive. We look at how to keep AI in its place as a tool, not a crutch, so you stay in control of your creative output. Subscribe for daily critical thinking breakdowns, and tell me in the comments: where do you draw the line with AI in your daily routine? #supersizeyourbusiness #supersizechallenge #supersizeyourbusinessannualchallenge #supersizeyourbusinesschallenge #physicalhealth #physicalwellbeing #energy #recovery #alcohol #AI #yourtake #shareyouropinion

This is a behind-the-scenes bonus episode — a real, unedited session from inside my Top 1% Club mastermind. The theme? The Death of the Old Man. Before you can build the 2.0 version of yourself, you have to dismantle the beliefs, habits, and false narratives that belong to the version you are outgrowing. You cannot build a future on a condemned foundation. And most men are trying to do exactly that. In this session, I take my clients through one of the most powerful frameworks we use — and they get raw and honest about the outdated beliefs that have been holding them back. Inside this session: •Why new growth is impossible in a crowded room — and what you need to clear out first •The three vines of your old identity: beliefs, habits, and false narratives •Real examples from the group: "I'm not good enough for a relationship," "I need to sort my shit out," and "Who am I to have this success?" •Why imposter syndrome is stopping men from pushing their businesses forward — even when the product is exceptional •The toxic habit of sacrificing your health for one more hour of work •Why men isolate when things get hard — and why that is the worst thing you can do •Reacting with anger instead of leading with intent — and how to break the cycle •The Evolve, Execute, Embody framework in action — live, with real men doing the work This is what real transformation looks like. Not a highlight reel. Not a motivational speech. Men in a room, doing the work. If you want to be part of conversations like this and build the next version of yourself over the next six months, find out more here:   https://consulting.boardmanjames.com/6monthmission Let's get to work.

On this episode of Run the Numbers, CJ sits down with Confluent CFO Rohan Sivaram to talk goal setting, prioritization, consumption-based pricing, hybrid zero-based budgeting, and the frameworks finance leaders use to scale companies. Rohan shares why he carries his 12-month goals with him, how he evaluates opportunities through TAM, technology, and team, and why usage-based pricing changes the entire operating model.—SPONSORS:EY has been part of Silicon Valley since it was just a valley, helping the most successful names in tech go from startup to exit to megacap. With teams across strategy, tax, audit, and transactions, EY helps you get your financials right early, long before your investors start asking for it. You build the next big thing, and EY will help you build it right. Learn more at https://www.ey.com/techstartupsSpendHound cuts your SaaS and AI spend by up to 30% using real pricing benchmarks across 10,000 vendors, so you always know what fair pricing looks like before your next renewal. Rated #1 on G2 in SaaS spend management, it's free forever for teams up to 1,000 employees. Sign up by June 12th and get $500 just for getting started. Go to https://www.spendhound.com/cjBrex is an intelligent finance platform with AI-powered agents that capture expenses automatically, enforce policy before the spend happens, and close your books in minutes instead of weeks. 35,000+ companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Anthropic, and DoorDash already run on Brex. It's time to get Brex AF. Learn more at https://www.brex.com/metricsAleph is a modern FP&A platform built for teams that want more than another planning tool. By connecting your ERP, CRM, and other systems into one trusted data layer with AI workflows, Aleph helps you move faster with real-time insights. Get a personalized demo at https://www.getaleph.com/runRightRev is an automated revenue recognition platform that lets your product team ship new pricing without asking finance for permission, and your sales team close deals without creating downstream chaos. Check out their free tool at calculator.rightrev.com It scores your rev rec process, shows what's exposing you to risk, and tells you exactly where to focus before it bites you in the rear end. Check it out at https://calculator.rightrev.comRillet is an AI-native ERP built for modern finance teams that want to replace NetSuite and close faster. With revenue recognition, close management, multi-entity support, and native Stripe and Salesforce integrations, Rillet helps scaling companies run their finance stack in one place. Hundreds of teams, including Windsurf and Mercor, use Rillet to make the zero-day close real. Book a demo at https://www.rillet.com/cj—LINKS: Mostly Talent: https://mostlymetrics.typeform.com/to/cLTxtAsNGuest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-sivaram-69007b7/Company: https://www.confluent.io/CJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cj-gustafson-13140948/Mostly metrics: https://www.mostlymetrics.com—RELATED EPISODES:A CFO Explains Marketplaceshttps://youtu.be/LpbH9GpBrSY—TIMESTAMPS:0:00 Preview and Intro2:26 Writing down 12-month goals and carrying them6:33 Rule of 168: 168 hours a week7:36 Delegation and calendar management9:25 Learning to say no: cultural shift11:32 Sponsors — EY | SpendHound | Brex14:29 Joining Confluent: the state of the company16:57 Building blocks of a budgeting process19:46 Execute, learn, adapt21:59 Healthy tension in the planning cycle22:26 Sponsors — Aleph | RightRev | Rillet25:46 What is hybrid zero-based budgeting?30:37 Moving from subscription to consumption pricing32:22 Why this was a one-way door33:56 New metrics required in a consumption business35:28 Evaluating job opportunities: the three T's37:39 Networking and reciprocity39:54 Lightning round40:04 Screwed up: free cash flow sign error42:03 Advice to younger self: take more risks42:38 Finance software stack43:00 AI tools the team has built43:44 Credits

Today, we're going to talk about rehash… following up with the people who DIDN'T buy… and giving them another chance. But first, Rich wants to review with you why people don't buy in the first place, and then show you how to craft marketing to lure them back in later, over the long haul. There is money out there waiting to be made–you just have to put the systems in place to go do it.

Comfort can feel safe. But it can also become the ceiling that keeps you stuck. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down the trap of the middle class mindset and why survival is not a strong enough business plan. Let's be real… If your only goal is to cover your bills… Take one decent vacation… And stay comfortable… You are not building an empire. You are recreating a paycheck. In this episode, you'll learn: Why survival is not a real business strategy How comfort can quietly destroy growth Why entrepreneurs must normalize bigger numbers and bigger goals How true wealth creates leverage, security, and impact The truth is simple: Stagnation is not safety. Inflation does not care about your comfort zone. Market shifts do not care that your bills are paid. Competitors do not stop moving because you feel stable. If your business stops growing, your security starts shrinking. High-level operators do not build just to survive. They build to dominate. They raise the standard. They think in bigger numbers. They push past the mental ceiling that once felt normal. Because true wealth is not just about luxury. It is about leverage. It is about options. It is about protecting your family, expanding your impact, and creating a future that cannot be taken from you. Shatter the ceiling. Think bigger. Execute harder. And keep leveling up. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Do Not Fall For It! What's SHE Up To Now Day 3061? Supersize Challenges, Coaching Program, Mastermind, Skool...! Join us every day in 2026 for a quick challenge that is all about you Improving and creating the life you want! https://www.facebook.com/ThrivingSharon Ask your questions and share your wisdom! #supersize #doonethingeverydaytosupersizeyou #lessonslearned #missedopportunities #decisionmaking #beabetteryou #personalgrowth #developskills #uncoverwhatis #exercise #physicalhealth #physicalwellbeing #physical #sleep #strength #breathe #preventthis #recovery #rest #training #consistency #flexibility #mobility #corevalues #core #coaching #balance #coaching #mastermind Learn how to manage your career transition from the corporate world to a successful online business model. See how experience helps. Sharon shares her journey of owning and selling 27 businesses before pivoting to digital platforms. This session outlines her practical approach for anyone looking to leave a traditional role. If you are ready to build a new venture, her experience provides a clear roadmap. We break down the SUPER framework—Specify, Uncover what, Plan Path, and Execute—to help you organize your next steps. Whether you are scaling an existing company or starting an online business for the first time, these principles offer a structured way to manage your career transition effectively. Applying these methods can help you avoid common pitfalls when moving from corporate structures to independent work. Subscribe for daily business owner strategy breakdowns, and comment which part of the SUPER framework you find most challenging to execute.

With threshold training all the rage, there is a lot of discussion about “X Days”. Should this always be a fast, speed based session or is there more to it than that?

Most listeners to Creation Moments will know that honeybees communicate with each other through a complex dance. These dances are used by bee scouts who communicate the location, direction, and distance of a new food source to other bees. Researchers have now learned that there is more to this communication than simply dance.Scientists have discovered that bees can also hear the buzzing sounds that accompany the dance. More than that, scientists have been able to mimic those buzzing sounds, but they have not yet been able to reproduce the language that bees use. In order to further study bee communication, researchers in Denmark plan to construct a tiny robot dancing bee which can be used to recruit real honeybees to food sources - if they can learn the bees' language.In a previous Creation Moments program, we spoke about the recent discovery of an ancient bee encased in amber. Scientists said that even though the bee dated back to the beginning of flowering plants, it was just like modern bees. The Lord's message through all these lines of evidence - sophisticated bee society with complex communication and the evidence that it has existed since there were bees - is clear. If a robot dancing bee must be manufactured by intelligence, then the real dancing bees must also have been made by an intelligent Creator.Zechariah 7:9-11"Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.”Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, it is sometimes perplexing to see how deaf the world is to what You have to say so clearly. Yet, I confess that I too, don't always hear Your voice when I should. Help me to hear You more clearly and to lead others to hear Your call to them. In Jesus' Name, Amen.REF.: “Honey bees listen to the dance,” Science News. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

I can invest in all the systems, frameworks, courses, and tools I want, but none of them execute on their own. Structure only defines the plan. Behavior is what produces the result. In this episode, I explain why access is only the beginning and why consistent action, enforcement, and follow-through are what turn good systems into real outcomes. If behavior isn't there, even the best framework becomes nothing more than decoration. Show Notes: [03:22]#1 Structure defines the process. [06:18]#2 Behavior overrides structure under pressure. [11:28]#3 Organizations mistake design for execution. [17:00] Recap Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent.   It is a standard. If your results don't match your ability, something in your approach is out of alignment. Most people do not have a motivation problem.   They have a consistency problem. Power Presence is the system for operating with greater discipline, clarity, structure, and execution under pressure. Learn more: → http://www.PowerPresenceProtocol.com  — This show is the public record of standards. All episodes and the complete archive: → http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com 

Ego will keep you stuck. Coachability will collapse your timeline. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why being coachable is one of the most important traits any founder can develop. Let's be real… If you walk into every room acting like you already know everything… The people with the answers will stop trying to help you. And if you argue with every piece of feedback… You are not protecting your intelligence. You are protecting your ego. In this episode, you'll learn: Why arrogance is one of the most expensive traits in business How ego blocks mentorship, feedback, and growth Why the best founders remain students even after major success How humility and rapid implementation create faster results The truth is simple: You cannot learn while you are busy trying to prove you are already right. If you hire an expert… Join a mastermind… Work with a mentor… Or ask someone successful for advice… You have to become an empty cup. Listen. Absorb. Apply. And execute. Because the fastest way to grow is to learn from people who have already solved the problems you are facing. The most dangerous founder is not the one who knows everything. It is the one who is humble enough to keep learning… And disciplined enough to apply what they are taught. Drop the pride. Listen to the experts. Execute the playbook. And keep leveling up. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A doctor said he needed knee surgery. He said no. Robert Norris is 22 years old, has Down syndrome, and completes Ironman triathlons without a guide. He taught himself to ride a bike, swam with Navy SEALs in the Hudson River, ran the Boston Marathon through bloody blisters, and trains daily with a volume most able-bodied athletes never touch: 80-mile bike rides, 10-mile runs, 2100-yard swims.   Joe De Sena sits down with Robert and his mother, Wanda, a retired Navy veteran, to unpack how a slipped kneecap became a turning point, why Robert refuses to quit under any condition, and what happens when a young man with an extra chromosome decides the hard way is the only way. This episode delivers a direct challenge: if Robert Norris can show up every single day without excuses, what is stopping you?   Things You Will Learn: Why a physical setback can become the trigger for a higher standard instead of a retreat. The structure behind a non-negotiable daily routine that eliminates the need for motivation. What consistent action proves to the people who expect you to stop.   Tools & Frameworks Covered: Setback-to-Standard Conversion: Use injury or adversity as the catalyst for a higher training commitment, not a reason to stop. Non-Negotiable Daily Structure: Wake time, bedtime, training order, and nutrition are locked in. Remove decision fatigue. Execute the plan. Progressive Proof of Capability: Start with one mile. Then eighteen. Then a hundred. Let results silence doubt.   If this episode moved you, do not just listen. Do something about it. Sign up. Show up. Do the work. Spartan.com. No more excuses.   Robert Norris is a Guinness World Record–holding endurance athlete who redefined limits by becoming the first athlete with Down syndrome to complete a full Ironman triathlon independently, setting the fastest time in his category. His journey represents relentless discipline, the breaking of perceived limitations, and the building of an unshakable mindset through years of preparation and adversity.   Connect to Robert: Website: https://www.robertnorrismanofiron.com/about  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertnorrismanofiron/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.norris.432406/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/@GETFITWIthRobert-21 ꚠ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robertnorrismanofiron?   We gave you the tools, now use them during your next SPARTAN RACE! Use codeword PODCAST on checkout for 10% your next race.  

579 agency leaders were asked what they need to do to succeed. The answers were clear. Then they were asked if they're doing it. 83% aren't. Brian Gerstner, president of White Label IQ and co-founder of Agency Core, sits down with host Erik Martinez to unpack what the Agency Core 2026 research found when it studied the gap between knowing and doing across small and mid-sized agencies. As Brian puts it: "there was very clear understanding of what needs to be done. And when we ask people, what are you doing? massive gap" The research identified three mindsets shaping the industry right now. One group is pulling ahead. The other two are either moving fast without a clear destination or stuck and overwhelmed. The difference between them is not what they know. Brian has a specific prescription for every agency still stuck in that gap, and it starts with something most agency leaders have been putting off.

I'm breaking down the exact nutrition principles I use to lose fat, get leaner, and stay consistent without going all-or-nothing. This episode covers calories, protein, meal timing, cravings, late-night snacking, and the small adjustments that compound into long-term results. Build the plan. Execute daily.CHAPTERS:00:00 Intro01:24 Goal of This Conversation08:18 The Truth About Calories In, Calories Out15:29 Start by Finding Maintenance19:06 Adjust Calories With Patience24:28 Avoid the All-or-Nothing Trap27:26 Meal Timing, Fasting, and What Matters Most36:54 Build Consistent Meals You Can Repeat40:22 Using Calorie Undulation With Intention46:28 How to Set Macros for a Cut47:05 Protein First for Fullness and Retention54:30 Fat Intake, Digestion, and Gut Health59:11 Use Carbs to Support Performance01:01:11 How to Stop Late-Night Snacking01:07:57 Go-To Meals That Make Dieting Easier01:10:53 How to Eat Out Without Losing Progress01:14:51 Small Changes That Drive Real ResultsORDER MY BOOK HERE: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Go-One-More-Intentional-Life-Changing/dp/1637746210FOLLOW:Become a BPN member FOR FREE - Unlock 25% off FOR LIFE ⁠https://www.bareperformancenutrition.com/collections/performance-nutritionIG: ⁠instagram.com/nickbarefitness/⁠YT: ⁠youtube.com/@nickbarefitnessThis podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal [health or profession] advice. Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN) is not responsible for any losses, damages, or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast. This podcast is not intended to replace professional medical advice.This podcast may not be republished without the written consent of Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN)