Podcasts about Fiskars

Anna Blixt, manager och konsult på Deloitte, med erfarenhet av roller som Global Head of Employer Branding hos stora aktörer som Elekta och Fiskars, delar i detta avsnitt med Louise Thulin och Josefin Malmer med sig av sina bästa tips för att få samman EB och TA på ett bra sätt.

Why You Can't-Miss This EpisodeDive into the fascinating future of customer interactions as Sirte Pihlaja discusses the rise of machine customers and digital assistants. Discover how this emerging technology will revolutionize customer experiences, reshape industries, and create a new era of business opportunities. This episode is your guide if you want to stay ahead in CX.About the GuestSirte Pihlaja is the CEO and Customer Experience Optimiser of Shirute, the first customer experience agency in Finland. She is also heading the activities of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) in Finland. Sirte is an internationally known expert in her field, a trainer, designer, and strategist with over 25 years of experience in advising large domestic and international corporations and brands in different industries (e.g., Elisa, Arabia, Fiskars, Hackman, Iittala, Marimekko, Nokia, Nordea, Rovio, S-Group, TeliaSonera, Veikkaus, VR and Finnish Broadcasting Company).Sirte delivers creative solutions in customer experience research and experience design, customer experience management, data-driven business, the voice of customer and reputation management, and concretizing solutions through multi-channel service design.Relevant Linkshttps://linkedin.com/in/sirte https://www.shirute.fi/en https://www.machinecustomers.fi The Top 3 Key LearningsMachine Customers Are the Future: Autonomous digital assistants are evolving rapidly, offering businesses a unique opportunity to innovate and engage with a growing market segment.Empathy Meets Automation: While human connections remain essential, companies must also adapt to machine interactions that prioritize efficiency and convenience.Prepare for Hyper-Personalization: The rise of machine customers will demand tailored customer journeys and proactive, AI-driven solutions.Chapters00:00 Introduction and Guest Presentation 04:18 Exploring the Concept of Machine Customers 06:24 Practical Examples and Uses of Digital Assistants 09:12 Creating and Utilizing Digital Assistants 13:12 Challenges and Opportunities for Companies 23:26 Future of Machine Customers and AI 27:38 Conclusion and Contact InformationKeywordsmachine customers, digital assistants, customer experience, CX innovation, autonomous systems, generative AI, hyper-personalization, customer journeys, CX strategy, future of CX, AI in CX, empathy in CX, AI tools, proactive solutions, digital transformationFinal NoteThank you for tuning into the CX Goalkeeper Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, share, and leave a review. Stay connected for more insightful discussions:Podcast PageApple PodcastSpotifyYouTubeFeedback is always welcome—don't hesitate to reach out and share your thoughts!

Keskustelemassa analyytikot Joonas Häyhä OP:sta ja Rauli Juva Inderesiltä. Puheenaiheina Kesko, Anora Group, Lindex Group, H&M, Harvia, Fiskars, Marimekko, Nokian Renkaat ja Kamux. Toimittajana Mikko Jylhä.

As the festive season approaches, many of us find ourselves pondering the perfect gift ideas for gardeners in our lives. In a recent episode of the Veg Grower Podcast, host Richard delves into this very topic, offering a wealth of gardening tips, product recommendations, and seasonal cooking ideas. This blog post will break down the key insights from the episode, providing detailed, actionable advice for both seasoned gardeners and those new to the hobby. Links to all products mentioned. Germie seed starter trays Rubber seed starter trays Plug plant trainer Garden centre vouchers Autopot watering systems Vegepod Qwick hose Wormery Leon wellie boots Ryobi uk tools Root trainers Fiskers loppers Gift Ideas for Gardeners 1. Quality Over Quantity Richard emphasizes the importance of selecting high-quality gardening tools and products. He shares his personal experiences with various items, highlighting their durability and effectiveness. Welly Boots: Richard recommends investing in a good pair of welly boots. He owns both a shorter pair for gardening and dog walking, and a longer pair for more extensive outdoor work. Despite their lightweight design, these boots have proven to be durable and reliable. Fiskars Loppers: For pruning and cutting tasks, Richard praises his Fiskars loppers. These tools are essential for maintaining a garden, especially during pruning season. He suggests considering an additional pair for future use. 2. Seed Starter Kits Starting seeds early can lead to better yields, and Richard introduces the Germy Seed Starter Kit as a valuable tool for this purpose. Durability and Reusability: These kits are made of durable, reusable plastic trays that can be easily cleaned and used season after season. Versatility: Available in small, medium, and large sizes, these trays can accommodate various seed types. The small version can hold up to 41 plug plants, making it ideal for those with limited space. 3. Gift Vouchers from Garden Centers Gift vouchers allow gardeners to choose their own supplies, ensuring they get exactly what they need. Rocket Gro Compost: Richard shares his positive experiences with Rocket Gro compost, noting its consistent quality and suitability for various gardening needs. A gift card to a garden center that stocks this compost can be a practical and appreciated gift. Gardening Activities and Tips 1. Sowing Chili Seeds Richard loves growing chilies and finds that starting them early in the season leads to better yields. He advises against purchasing overpriced gift packs of chili seeds and instead recommends buying seeds separately from reputable suppliers. 2. Efficient Watering Systems Richard discusses the Auto Pot Growing System, which he finds invaluable for watering plants efficiently. How It Works: The system automates watering, ensuring plants receive the right amount of water without the need for constant monitoring. Winter Storage: Richard mentions that he packs the system away for the winter to prevent damage from freezing temperatures. He is excited to use a new four-pot system gifted by his wife in the upcoming growing season. 3. Year-Round Growing with Veggie Pods Veggie Pods allow for year-round growing, and Richard shares his experience with a new hose connector system from Quick Hose. Ease of Use: The connectors make watering much easier and more efficient, preventing hoses from popping off during use. Reliability: Richard appreciates the reliability of these connectors, which have made a significant difference in his gardening routine. 4. Composting with a Wormery A wormery is a fantastic source of liquid fertilizer and worm castings. Richard explains how he insulates his wormery during winter to protect the worms from freezing temperatures, ensuring he can continue to utilize kitchen waste for composting. Seasonal Cooking with Chef Scott

I denne uges udsendelse har vi måske taget fat i en lidt tidlig julegave, det er nemlig igen blevet tid til at kaste os lidenskabeligt over det tyske musikmagasin Bravo. Vi er tilbage i december 1991, og for bare 2 D-mark kunne man dengang få ajourført sin viden indenfor den nyeste ungdomskultur. Vi har Arnold Schwarzenegger på forsiden (men ikke rigtigt inde i selve bladet), vi kigger nærmere på ugens Bravo-foto-love-story, Andy fortæller halvdårlige tyske vittigheder og så ser vi på musikalske artikler om nogle af årets største kunstnere som f.eks. Bryan Adams, Simply Red og Seal. Derudover snakker vi Fiskars sakse, vi sender Michael Jackson i krydsild med Steffen Kretz, vi bliver bange for hans farlige storesøster La Toya, vi fascineres af fattigmandsudgaven af Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren og så kigger vi på julegaveønsker fra starthalvfemserne. Kort sagt, et ”God Damn Bravoblad”. Husk at I kan se billeder fra BRAVO-bladet på vores Facebookside på: https://www.facebook.com/NogetVedMusikken/ Playliste: Michael Jackson - Jam R.E.M. - Radio song Simply Red - Stars Rozalla - Everybody's free (To feel good) Genesis - Hold on my heart Pet Shop Boys - DJ Culture Bryan Adams - Can't stop this thing we started Enigma - Sadeness (Part 1) D.A.D. - Bad craziness

In this episode of The Unicorny Marketing Show, Professor Ben M. Bensaou of INSEAD Business School joins us to discuss how organisations can build a culture where innovation thrives. Bensaou shares real-world examples from companies like Starwood Hotels and Fiskars, showing how even established businesses can invigorate their innovation processes by involving everyone, not just the experts.• Understand how to foster innovation across your entire organisation.• Learn the significance of considering non-customers in your innovation strategy.• Discover ways to manage and sustain innovation beyond just the R&D teams.Don't miss out on this valuable discussion that could transform your approach to innovation in business.About Ben M. BensaouBen M. Bensaou is Professor of Technology Management and Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He served as the INSEAD Dean of Executive Education from 2018 to 2020. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School for 1998-1999, a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Management for 2007-2008 and a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley for 2013-2015. He was also a Visiting Professor at Kobe University for 2021-2022.Bensaou is a leading expert on Innovation and how to build, maintain, and enhance a company's collective innovating capabilities. He was nominated for the 2023 Thinkers50 Innovation Award and his book Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNA (2021, McGraw-Hill) was selected as one of the Thinkers50 Top 10 Management Books for 2022. Bensaou explains in detail his systematic approach. It defines specific innovative practices and roles for employees at each level of the organization, offers tools and a process methodology for innovating, and presents a host of vivid case studies that illustrate the dramatic benefits possible.Links Full show notes: Unicorny.co.uk LinkedIn: Ben M. Bensaou | Dom Hawes Website: benbensaou.comSponsor: Selbey Anderson Other items referenced in this episode:Built to Innovate by Ben M.Bensaou with Karl WeberFiskarsHow gamers with disabilities helped design the new Xbox Adaptive Controller's elegantly accessible packaging by Deborah Bach, MicrosoftBlue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. MauborgneUnicorny episodes Maja Gedosev from JetBlue AirwaysJoyce King Thomas' VCU Brandcenter graduation speech May 2019Chapter summariesThe state of creativity in businessDom Hawes explores

In this episode of The Unicorny Marketing Show, Professor Ben M. Bensaou of INSEAD Business School joins us to discuss how organisations can build a culture where innovation thrives. Bensaou shares real-world examples from companies like Starwood Hotels and Fiskars, showing how even established businesses can invigorate their innovation processes by involving everyone, not just the experts.• Understand how to foster innovation across your entire organisation.• Learn the significance of considering non-customers in your innovation strategy.• Discover ways to manage and sustain innovation beyond just the R&D teams.Don't miss out on this valuable discussion that could transform your approach to innovation in business.About Ben M. BensaouBen M. Bensaou is Professor of Technology Management and Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He served as the INSEAD Dean of Executive Education from 2018 to 2020. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School for 1998-1999, a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Management for 2007-2008 and a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley for 2013-2015. He was also a Visiting Professor at Kobe University for 2021-2022.Bensaou is a leading expert on Innovation and how to build, maintain, and enhance a company's collective innovating capabilities. He was nominated for the 2023 Thinkers50 Innovation Award and his book Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNA (2021, McGraw-Hill) was selected as one of the Thinkers50 Top 10 Management Books for 2022. Bensaou explains in detail his systematic approach. It defines specific innovative practices and roles for employees at each level of the organization, offers tools and a process methodology for innovating, and presents a host of vivid case studies that illustrate the dramatic benefits possible.Links Full show notes: Unicorny.co.uk LinkedIn: Ben M. Bensaou | Dom Hawes Website: benbensaou.comSponsor: Selbey Anderson Other items referenced in this episode:Built to Innovate by Ben M.Bensaou with Karl WeberFiskarsHow gamers with disabilities helped design the new Xbox Adaptive Controller's elegantly accessible packaging by Deborah Bach, MicrosoftBlue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. MauborgneUnicorny episodes Maja Gedosev from JetBlue AirwaysJoyce King Thomas' VCU Brandcenter graduation speech May 2019Chapter summariesThe state of creativity in businessDom Hawes explores

Fiskars LAB on tänä vuonna 375-vuotisjuhlavuottaan viettävän Fiskarsin uusi ja ketterä innovaatioalusta. Se tarjoaa Fiskarsin design-tiimille mahdollisuuden kokeilla mielenkiintoisia uusia ajatuksia, materiaaleja ja lähestymistapoja muotoiluun. Helsinki Design Weekly pääsi Fiskarsin kampukselle keskustelemaan lanseerauksesta otsikolla ”ENTÄ JOS?”. Yhteisöllisyyttä, epävarmoja aikoja ja onnekkaiden sattumien suunnittelua käsittelivät Anni Korkmanin johdolla Espoon Modernin taiteen museo EMMA:n kehitysjohtaja Saara Suojoki, […]

Ever feel like innovation is a superpower reserved for legends like Steve Jobs? Think again! Join the dynamic innovating duo, Ira S Wolfe and Ben M Bensaou, as they shatter this myth and reveal the secrets to building your innovating engine. This episode of the Geeks Geezers Googlization podcast is packed with actionable insights to transform anyone into a relentless innovator. Prepare to challenge your perceptions and redefine what it means to be an innovator with 10 game-changing insights such as Innovation for All,  Embrace "Innovating" over "Innovation", Empower Middle Managers, Customer Gold and more. Ben shares real-life examples of companies like Starwood and Fiskars, a 375-year-old company, that transformed into innovation powerhouses through structured and continuous innovating efforts. These success stories prove that innovation isn't limited to startups or high-tech companies but is attainable for organizations of all sizes and industries. Ready to Innovate Like Steve Jobs? Tune in to the Geeks Geezers Googlization podcast for more insightful discussions on staying adaptive in the evolving future of work and innovation. More about Ben M. Bensaou: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-m-bensaou/ Website: https://benbensaou.com Thinkers50 Best Management Book of 2022: "Built to Innovate": https://benbensaou.com/book/     

Viiden pörssiyhtiön suuromistaja Alexander Ehrnrooth sanoo, että Suomen pörssin alakulo vaikeuttaa yhtiöiden kehittämistä. "Oman pääoman ehtoista pääomahuoltoa on mahdoton tehdä ja hakea kasvua sitä kautta. Lainarahaa ei voi ottaa ihan loputtomasti”, hän sanoo Karon Grillissä. Matala arvostus johti osaltaan siihen, että Ehrnroothin orkestroiman Virala Acquisition Companyn kautta pörssiin tullut Purmo päätyi lunastustarjouksen kohteeksi. Rettig ja Apollo-pääomasijoitusyhtiö ovat tarjoutuneet ostamaan Purmon muut osakkaat ulos. Ehrnroothin ja hänen veljensä Virala myy osakkeensa. Helsingin pörssin aneemisuuden vuoksi merkintäoikeusantien järjestäminen ei Ehrnroothin mielestä toimi. Siksi esimerkiksi YIT:ssä päädyttiin tekemään muutamille vanhoille suuromistajille suunnattu osakeanti, jossa nämä saivat merkitä uusia osakkeita antitiedotetta edeltänyttä pörssikurssia vastanneeseen hintaan 1,60 eurolla. Kun rahoituspaketista kerrottiin, YIT:n kurssi nousi. Suunnattuun antiin osallistuneet valitut suursijoittajat ovat saaneet parissa kuukaudessa yli 20 prosentin pikavoiton. Idean isäksi tunnustautuva Ehrnrooth on vakuuttunut siitä, että toteutettu ratkaisu oli paras myös piensijoittajien kannalta. "Jos olisi tullut kuponkianti, kurssi olisi ollut yksi, ja sitten se olisi ehkä noussut 1,2:een”, hän heittää. Jaksossa puhutaan paljon siitä, miksi private equity eli pörssin ulkopuoliset omistukset ovat suosiossa ja miksi Ahlstrom-Munksjökin piti vetää pois pörssistä. Entä pitäisikö Ehrnroothien sukuyhtiö Fiskars pilkkoa? Marinadissa käsitellään sitä, kuinka sijoittaja voisi parantaa inhimillisyydestään aiheutuvia virheitä osakkeiden myymisessä. ”Ei siihen oikein auta muu kuin oman itsetuntemuksen jatkuva parantaminen, oman sijoitustoiminnan jatkuva analysointi ja sitoutuminen sijoitusprosessiin. Prosessi määrittää, mitä tietoa katsotaan, miten se analysoidaan ja miten toimitaan analyysin perusteella”, S-Pankin osakesijoituksista vastaava johtaja Seppo Kurki-Suonio miettii.

En modig och nyfiken inställning från HR-ledare och ledning är viktigt för att skapa en modern och framgångsrik organisation i dagens digitaliserade värld. I veckans avsnitt möter vi en inspirerande ledare som kanske inte själv ser sig som modig, men vars handlingar och inställning talar för sig själva.    Veckans avsnitt gästas av Anna Mindelöf, Chief People Officer på Fiskars Group.  Vi får en inblick i Fiskars Group och deras pågående transformationsresa, där Anna och hennes team spelar en central roll. Hon delar med sig av insikter om att skapa en modern organisation där digitalisering och data är i fokus, samtidigt som man värnar om individens utveckling och tillväxt. Särskilt betonas vikten av att våga utmana status quo och driva förändring- och det är tydligt att Annas beslutsamhet och nyfikenhet har banat väg för framgångsrika förändringar.    Så, är du nyfiken på hur mod och nyfikenhet kan driva framgång? Lyssna på dagens avsnitt!   I den här förkortade versionen är vissa delar av originalsamtalet borttaget. För att ta del av hela samtalet skall du välja originalversionen.

En modig och nyfiken inställning från HR-ledare och ledning är viktigt för att skapa en modern och framgångsrik organisation i dagens digitaliserade värld. I veckans avsnitt möter vi en inspirerande ledare som kanske inte själv ser sig som modig, men vars handlingar och inställning talar för sig själva.    Veckans avsnitt gästas av Anna Mindelöf, Chief People Officer på Fiskars Group.  Vi får en inblick i Fiskars Group och deras pågående transformationsresa, där Anna och hennes team spelar en central roll. Hon delar med sig av insikter om att skapa en modern organisation där digitalisering och data är i fokus, samtidigt som man värnar om individens utveckling och tillväxt. Särskilt betonas vikten av att våga utmana status quo och driva förändring- och det är tydligt att Annas beslutsamhet och nyfikenhet har banat väg för framgångsrika förändringar.    Så, är du nyfiken på hur mod och nyfikenhet kan driva framgång? Lyssna på dagens avsnitt!

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Holiday gift ideas abound. (6:04) Anker PowerCore Fusion (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GKL41V4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) (8:57) Deviled egg palette (https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/open-kitchen-deviled-egg-platter/) (12:22) Magic Puzzle Company (https://magicpuzzlecompany.com/) (15:12) Substack/patreon/buttondown (18:48) The Fuzzies (https://www.cmyk.games/products/the-fuzzies) (22:44) Fiskars billhook/machete (https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/gardening-and-yard-care/products/axes-mauls-and-machetes/billhook-saw-machete-18-385071-1004) Drinks! Adam - Kentucky Mule Mike - Negroni Followup and Footnotes Merch: Shirts, mugs, and more (https://www.etsy.com/shop/SafeasMilkPodcast) Break: De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm6Kkje7bBM) SteamWorld Build (https://steamworldgames.com/)

This week we celebrate National apple day with an apple affair podcast. In the Veg Garden: Cultivating Dreams of an Orchard This week, delve into Richard's dream of an orchard right in his garden. Learn how he tends to apple trees in pots with the correct rootstock. Discover the importance of choosing the right apple tree as the season approaches, and find out how fresh compost can boost production. Supporters Club: Sowing Seeds for Podcast Sustainability Explore the world of our supporters club where we've been busy sowing broad beans and celtuce seeds. To learn more about becoming a member, click the button below. Tool Care: Sharpening Fiskars Secateurs Richard takes you through the art of maintaining and sharpening his Fiskars secateurs. Ensure they're ready for pruning and in top working order for the year ahead with a bit of oil and a few simple tools. Chef Scott's Recipe: A Scrumptious Toffee Apple Delight Chef Scott shares a mouth-watering toffee apple recipe, perfect for the season, with Halloween and Bonfire Night just around the corner. An Apple Affair on the Allotment: Tending to the Trees Join Richard on the allotment as he tends to his two apple trees. Discover the story of the Kingston Black variety, ideal for cider making, and the plan to give it more space this winter. Learn how the second apple tree is being propped up to stay upright. Remember to Connect and Share Your Thoughts Don't forget to connect with us, rate, and review the podcast on your preferred platform if you've enjoyed this episode.

It's coming up on the nine-year anniversary of my first 20-miler, with my friend, Orly (aka Hundo). I look back on that experience and talk about the importance of having another person to mentally help you get through something hard. I've mentally Sherpa'd a couple of friends through 100-milers (doing a 20-mile or 31-mile segment -- usually in the middle of the night because I'm a talker.) There are also times, though, when you need to decide if someone you run with at a race needs your help or whether you need to run your own race. Sometimes, it's good to help someone through. Other times, you can give yourself the permission to run your own race. Also, looking ahead to next weekend, I'll be heading up to Hill Country SNA (aka: Bandera) to help the folks at Tejas Trails build and maintain trails. I'm not especially handy but I do have a sweet set of Fiskars limb cutters (which I employed this morning after discovering that a HUGE tree part was in my side yard.) We'll be camping and eating and running/hiking at one of the most beautiful places in Texas.) And, hey, leave a review, subscribe and all that jazz! It's free. If you want to sponsor this podcast, lmk. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestubborntortoise/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestubborntortoise/support

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I dreamt of being a pilot as a child and grew up watching The A-Team and my favourite character was 'Howling Mad Murdock' played by Dwight Schultz. I was obsessed with aircraft so he was the one I wanted to be as his character could fly any plane or helicopter that he had to. Years later I saw him with Jamie Glazov and Anni Cyrus on 'The Glazov Gang' and was intrigued at his strong Conservative Christian stance while delivering common sense commentary. This is the first interview he has done for many years so it truly is an honour to have Dwight join Hearts of Oak on this audio only discussion. (he is the voice king) We talk about those early days treading the boards in the theatre and as a star in Hollywood, working on the biggest TV programme in the world and Dwight shares some stories of how his strong conservative stance got him into much hot water. He truly is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly demonic industry that opposes truth at every turn and mocks all who have a Christian Faith or Conservative Values. (*Peter takes to the skies regularly and has held a pilots licence for many years) A respected performer on Broadway, Dwight Schultz found everlasting fame by playing the certifiable "Howling Mad" Murdock on the action series "The A-Team" (1983-86). A living, breathing cartoon with a seemingly endless selection of voices and accents at his command, Murdock provided the air power for the A-Team's clandestine adventures, provided that his compatriots could break him out of the mental hospital where he resided. One of the show's most popular and memorable figures, Murdock ensured Schultz steady work on television and on the big screen playing Reginald Barclay in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" An accomplished voice actor, Dwight can be heard in numerous hit computer games and in countless animated shows. Interview recorded 21.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! TRANSCRIPT [0:22] Hello Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up with Dwight Schultz, Howling Mad Murdock from the A-Team. He came in on a audio. Dwight hasn't done interviews for years. I was absolutely delighted to have him on when you talk to one of your childhood heroes who you grew up watching him in A-Team. And he was my favourite simply because he was a pilot. And I always wanted to grow up and that's what I wanted to grow up to be. But I'm talking to him about being a conservative, being a Christian in the industry, in Hollywood, in the movie industry. And actually we delve more deeply into his Christian faith, Roman Catholic background, and what it means for him to be a Christian in that industry where you're pulled every way and where your faith is ridiculed, mocked, and everything stands against that. So great conversation about some of his experiences and what it is to be a Christian and to be a conservative in the industry. We talk about his voiceovers, I mean his voice is legendary. Talk about that and why he stepped away from doing kind of in front of a camera in 2001, why that was, and all the voiceover and then I think 100 video games, his voice is in a whole other world, a whole other industry. So, I know you will enjoy listening to Dwight as much as I enjoyed speaking with him. [1:48] It is wonderful to have Dwight Schultz with us today. Dwight, thank you so much for joining us. [1:54] Oh, it's my pleasure, Peter, for my reintroduction to the world of podcasting, radio, television.   Well, this is something I've only been doing three years, So I know you have much more experience back in the day, but we'll get into some of that. And obviously I... Remember you fondly growing up. I think I was six when The A Team first came out, which is now 40 years ago. I'm sure I didn't want it when I was six. But your role obviously is as Howling Mad Murdock. So we can take just a little bit memory lane before we go into and talk about actually being a conservative in the industry and what that is like. But I mean, it ran for five seasons, 83 to think 87. Do you just want to let us know how you actually ended up in that role? Well, actually, it actually only went four seasons, real seasons, so it's not technically considered a success. That's true. I ended up in that role because I made a comedy tape at the Williamstown Theatre Festival around 1979, 1980. [3:18] Somewhere in there. And the comedy tape, and for two years, I didn't hear anything. And then suddenly I started getting calls from my agent to audition and to go to Los Angeles to audition. and it was because of this comedy tape. And I found out it had been making the rounds for two years and eventually Steve Cannell and Frank Lupo, his co-writer saw it and requested me to come. Joel Thurm, who was the vice president of NBC at the time, however, he had different ideas about this character. And anyway, I went in and they flew me out to Los Angeles. [4:03] And my wife was out here. She wasn't my wife at the time, but I had been dating her since 79. And she was out here living in Los Angeles, which was difficult. I mean, I was glad to come out here for any reason. And I had never. It was a joy, but I came in and I auditioned and it was a total flop. It was a bomb. I mean, you walk into a small room with 25 people, 30 people, and there was not a single laugh. There was nothing. There was no... And then they sent me out and they sent the director, Rod Holcomb, out with me to talk to me. I came back in, I did the same audition, And everybody was laughing and I had no idea why they were laughing now. And they weren't laughing before, unless someone said laugh when he comes back. You know, that's the way it was. It was just an astonishing thing. And they said, you got the part. [5:02] And then, uh, and this is the, really, this is the nub, right? So, uh, I, they shoot in Mexico and I went down to Mexico. And when we were down there, I was fired. I was fired. I was fired. Rod Holcomb came into my little room and he said, I'm afraid it's not going to work out. And I said, oh, what? He said, it's not Steven. It's not Frank. It's the would-be's at NBC. They just don't think you're quite right for it. And so they took me out of my little room and they put me in with a stuntman who I loved. I just loved him. I mean, it was incredible to work with these guys. And so there I was with the stuntmen for the rest of the shoot down in Mexico. And when we came back to the States, they were editing it and putting it together as we were shooting it, right? [5:58] I got a call from my agent said your dials were great. I said, what are you talking about? I had no idea what they were talking about. This is 82, right? This is 1980. I don't know what you're talking about. He said the dials, the dials, the testing. The audience loved you. You're the best dials that anybody had. So I was written back in. I was rehired before I was fired. And so you can't make this stuff up in life. You can't. So it just turns out that they had a different view of what this character should be like. And I had another view. And Stephen Cannell and Frank Lupo were in my camp. And so they had to write me back into the first five episodes, which they had kind of written me out of. And that's the way it started. And I was, [7:04] as anybody would be, you know, I got to work with some of the finest old actors [7:12] that I had grown up with in the 50s and 60s. And it was a thrill. The four years were a thrill. I mean, it was an absolute thrill. And I got along beautifully with everybody. And Stephen J. Cannell [7:24] was a conservative. I mean, I'm lucky. I'm fortunate there. I was fortunate because some of my other experiences were not so fortunate, working with people who knew I was a conservative and weren't going to have a conservative on their show. That was the way it started back then. But anyway, so it was four years of, we didn't really have a studio. We were working on locations and I got along famously with everybody. And it was a joy. It was four, believe me, it changed my life completely and totally. I never thought I would end up in Los Angeles and never leave. Well, what was I mean, it's intense, I guess, that you're living and breathing it. And most people, I have no idea what that's like. Most people go to a job and they go home, but you're there nonstop. What's that kind of intensity, especially for years with it's the same people? It's the same people. But listen, as an actor, I mean, I've been working I've been working professionally since nineteen sixty nine. This gig, it's over 50 years. Right. So I had, I have before the 18, I never knew what my next job was ever. I never knew what I was doing next. And after the 18, I never have known [8:50] what I'm going to do next. I've never had a consistent job other than those four years. And I thank God for them every night. I hoped it would go longer, but this was not the intention, nor the background of Stephen J Cannell. His shows were two years, three years. And then they name of every single writer that we had in the first year moved on to their own series. They all became producers. And this is not the way you have a successful series for an, actor, which is selfish, right? You want to go at least five years, seven years. But they all, you have to have somebody there who is consistently behind it, pushing it, making sure everything is the way it's supposed to be. But that was not the way it was. But I did everything that you can possibly imagine, I think, on that show. And as the 14-hour days, 15-hour day, I loved it because I knew that there was going to be an ending. I knew the day I started that there was going to be a last day. And so and I think that's the way life is, actually. [10:02] And so take advantage of what you have and enjoy it and hope for the best. But I savour it every minute and I look back very fondly. When you say it wasn't a success, I remember thinking this is the biggest thing ever. This is phenomenal. I watched it as a kid growing up. So it did seem to be the kind of TV show that you would watch. I mean, the only other one I remember at the same time was I think Knight Rider at the same time, but they were the shows to watch.   Yes, they were. But you see, we were on NBC, Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff, and their moniker was quality programming. And Grant Tinker, and well, Tartikoff gave an interview for the New York Times, right? This is not an example of our quality program, right? Really, this is it. That's what he said. You know, their ideas was Hill Street Blues, which they had on. This was their idea of quality programming, not this schlock that's number one. [11:12] This is not it. And I sent Grant Tinker a telegram and George Peppard said, don't do it, pal. Don't do it. Don't do it, Peppard said to me. I sent it to him and I said, this is third rate executive ship. I said, we do the best work we can and we're number one, why are you doing this to us? And then he sent me a telegram back, which I have kept, saying, well, you're assuming that that was true, what you read. And I said, well, I checked with the writer, the journalist, quote unquote, who he said, he talked to you and this is what you said. And indeed he did. And this is a tag to all of this. He, after the show was over, it was cancelled, several years afterwards, I have received a phone call from his assistant saying [12:13] Brandon wants to talk to you. And I said, sure, I'll talk to him. And I met with him in this basement office, 20th Century Fox. And I walked in and there was nobody there but Brandon Tartikoff sitting at a table and he apologized to me. [12:31] His daughter had been in a very serious accident and it changed his life. It was one of these things. And he apologized to me. I'll never forget it. And this does not happen in show business. It does not happen. And I said, thank you. Thank you so much for that. I said, and then I went into my spiel about being an actor. And that I, you know, you do the best job you can, whether you're doing Shakespeare, whether you're doing a show, or whether you're doing The A-Team. You do the best job you can. It is the same job if you're good and you love your work. It doesn't matter. You do the best thing, the best you put. You're not walking through it. I said, that's what we were doing. And we happened to be number one. And why did you rain on the parade? You know, I asked him and he gave me some explanations as to the the exigencies at the top of a TV network. And I, so at any rate, that that that's the experience. That's the beginning and end of that experience, really.[13:43] And I carry with me.   How did you cope with that fame? And you were what, 30, 32, so you weren't young, young. But still, when you're thrust into that level of publicity, how did that affect you personally and how did you cope with that? Well, you know, I was fortunate that I was working since I had been working since 69. I spent 13 years in regional theatre. I spent years in New York, three Broadway plays. I had a lot of experience. [14:17] Really, they walk in the boards, doing all the grunt work, getting there. And I, fame was not a, I was known and all my interests in theatre were to be, this is a joke actually, but never the same actor twice. I mean, that's it. You didn't want to do the same thing. And here I was, and I forced the idea that this actor, this character would be different in each episode, which the vice president of NBC said, that's the way you comb your hair differently. You should be the same. We want you to be polite on this. And I said, no, no, no, no, no, I don't wanna do that. I wanna be different in every show. And so I maintained, I think, because of the work that I had had. When you do the classics, when you're in, and I don't mean this, when you have the great opportunity to play a Shakespearean role. [15:22] You understand something about talent, about what goes into writing, brilliant writing, and then schlock writing. I mean, you see it all. And when you've been given that opportunity, There's a humility that hits you. So fame was never something that I wanted. I wanted to be able to – and I've had this ability. I've been able to go to a department store or take my daughter to a mall and not be recognized, which is – I'm telling you, I have worked with – I mean, I worked with Paul Newman and Paul Newman was, it was not a, he, he told me he couldn't go anywhere. He was a prisoner of his fame. [16:12] George Peppard was a prisoner of his fame. I mean, the closest I think I've ever gotten was somebody said, your voice sounds familiar, do you know my brother? I'll say, no, I don't know your brother. Then every once in a while, somebody recognizes you, but it's a curse. [16:33] It is a curse, really. If you have a family, if you want a family life, if you want privacy, which I think is necessary for survival in this business. I mean, I've seen a lot of actors drop to their knees and open cardboard tubes and pull drugs out. You know, and that's fame. And you ask them, that's it, it's driven. You know, you gotta have that fame, you gotta have that fame, you gotta. And it's not what I wanted. I really am a repertory actor, that's it. I'm a repertory actor. I spent one year in Houston, at the Alley Theatre in Houston, and it was one of the greatest years I've ever had. And I never wanted to leave. And someone told me, that's why you have to leave. I would have stayed there. I could have stayed there. But my agents all told me, you have to leave. You can't stay here, or your career will be over. And I said, but I love this. And they said, you won't love it when it dries up there. You know, you have to go to a bigger, a bigger yard in essence. But I'm really a repertory actor. That's it. [17:47] Your last I think your last TV role was 2001. I will get into the voice side later, but your last 2001. Why did, why did it end there? Was a personal experience? Was it just choice? Oh, yeah. No, it was a really a personal experience. It was CIA. 2001 was... [18:17] I went in for wardrobe fitting, and we were at the Memorial Cemetery, Veterans Cemetery down in Wilshire Boulevard, and that's where it was being shot. And I walked in, and this is nothing, I won't mention the name, I shouldn't have even said what the show was. Just someone in the wardrobe room. We were talking about 9-11. We were talking about what had happened in New York. I had a lot of friends in New York, of course, obviously. And she said, I don't have any connection to that. I don't know why everybody – I just don't have any connection to it, you know? She still connects? And she rubbed it off, you know? And I said, I mean, life was – rules were at that point not easy to come by, actually. And I said I can't do this, you know, I can't work. This to me was a sign, a sign from God. I'm not joking. You look for these things. This was a sign that this was the wave of the future. There was going to be a lot of denial and there was going to be, and it's complicated. I mean, I'm not judging anybody. [19:43] But for me, I had an opportunity to move into another direction, and I decided to do the other direction because I could be anybody, anything in voiceover work. Video games were just becoming big at the time, and the whole business was very big. And voice work was something that, as an actor in the theatre, I always did. If I couldn't find the voice of the character, I couldn't find the character. And so that was it. I mean, the fates came together at that time. And I was doing radio at the time on a fairly regular basis with a friend named Don Ecker. And I just moved in that direction. [20:36] I mean, there were opportunities there, but I knew things had changed at that point. Yeah, well, we'll get into that. I want to pick on being a conservative in the, the movie and TV industry, and that seems to be opposites. We've seen more and more, and I think it probably gets worse. And you're Roman Catholic, you're conservative. And what has been your experiences having a faith and also having a conservative belief? How does that fit into the showbiz industry? What has it been like for you? Well, going back, if you look at, [21:23] if you look at the world that we're in today, the Judeo-Christian world, which is, and I have to say if I have one criticism of modern Christianity prior to today, and I mean going back, because there's a lot of things I could say about today, which we will, I'm sure. But one of the things which always struck me me was about Christians, was their antipathy for the Old Testament, the Torah. It is Judeo-Christianity, and if a Christian doesn't understand that the Old Testament is their testament, there's, a problem. And they don't, indeed. In Bible study, the number of times that I heard Christians say oh, that's not my God. I want to get out of this. I want to get to my God. Well, that's two gods. [22:24] I mean, there is the Trinity, which is three gods in one, right? I mean, we do have that mystery, but we are monotheistic. And Christ's Old Testament was his Old Testament. He was here to fulfil the Old Testament. This is what he said, that it is the Father. You're speaking of your father. This is Christ's father and the Torah, the law as it was laid down is your law. It went on to the New Testament. [22:58] You know, and Catholics, I mean, I was raised a Catholic, and when I found out that it wasn't, thou shalt not kill, but thou shalt not murder, you know, the wheels begin to turn, and you try to think as best you can about these things. But there was a disconnect between the Old Testament in the New Testament. But that has to do with my criticism of my own faith. In motion pictures in the film industry, it was under attack, as it is today. Christianity is—and Judeo-Christian ethic, the West, everything that has been built through the Judeo-Christian ethic is under attack and they want to destroy it. [23:55] And basically at the very front of that is the communist wagon, and it always has been. And you can go back to 1918 or whatever and read about it, and they tried every which way from Sunday to do it, and they always failed, and now they've found another way of doing it. And they have succeeded by going after our children when we didn't know they were going after our children. But as Christians, we're pretending that it wasn't important to be mothers and fathers and the nuclear family really wasn't that important. Well, then why were they trying to destroy it? And why has it been number one? [24:35] Because and I'm going to say something else here in a second, which I'm pointing to, there's a quote. This is the technique that they have used, and you didn't know it, but you felt it all along. You felt this, but you didn't know it. [24:57] A quote by, it's attributed to Oscar Wilde. And I think it is his, I don't think, I don't think, I think it is his quote. And it is pithy and accurate and brilliant and beyond belief descriptive of everything. Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power. And boy, when I read that, I said, is this, did he really say this? Is it? And it hit me from every direction. The entertainment business in every which way is about sex. Novels, books, television, commercials, life itself, clothes, it's all about sex. And it goes back to God's edict to humanity. [25:56] Go forth and multiply. This is the power of procreation, is sharing in the power of creation. That power was given to all of us. We don't know, I mean, people have talked about it, but you don't, we don't know where that came from, except from God. And it is something to, what do we do with these gifts? Do we throw them away? Or do we say these are precious? [26:30] And you see by the people that you meet, those who recognize the gift and those who don't recognize the gift. And you are asked not to recognize it on a daily basis. And as a child, if you think back to your childhood when sexual urges, whether you're—and of course, I can't tell you what a woman goes through, but I can only tell you what a kid goes through—boy, when you're going through puberty, the whistles and gongs are going off, and you're you're having dreams at night and you can't stop it. [27:03] Everything is at the wrong moment and you're not purposefully thinking about it, but it's a force to be reckoned with. And you understand it as you grow older that this force is to bring you to someone else, to love, to have a family and to create the next generation and then everything changes after that. If you can contemplate that greatness, that extraordinary thing, and realize that the world seems to want to distort it, well, you realize the powers that are set up against Judeo-Christianity. And who say, we don't want the Ten Commandments, we don't want that Old Testament rag, we want freedom, free, and of course I went through that in the 60s and 70s in school, and I saw it. I mean, I was part of it in that it bounced off of me at every moment. And being a Christian, you stay in it. [28:10] I stayed in my Christianity. This is another tale. When I got to school, to college, I mean, I had 12 years of Christian education, right? I wanted to be an actor and I went to Towson University, which had a great theatre program. And it was the first time that I was in a purely secular environment. The thing that killed me was that everybody hated their parents. Everybody hated their parents. I mean, nobody wanted to, nobody had a good thing, I loved my parents. And I used to say, I used to have a long bus ride home and I used to sit in the bus looking out the window saying, why do I love my parents and I can't find somebody who loves their parents? What is that? Well, I can't say that I answered the question, but the answer was in the destruction of the family. [29:10] It was in the destruction, and it had started then. Not my mother and father. And then here's the next aspect, and I think that this plays a very big part in all the trouble we're having today. I never wanted to do something that shamed my parents, that they would be ashamed of. I felt shame. I still do. I feel shame. It was given to me by my mother and my father. Now, none of us are perfect. I know my mother wasn't perfect, my father wasn't perfect. I'm not perfect, but I feel shame and shame is rare. Now, look, I was listening to your podcast [29:58] with Father Calvin Robinson. Right.   Goodness, you make me blush. No, no. And no, but he said something. He said he said something about drag queens in the sanctuary. [30:19] I mean, we're talking about there's no shame if you do that. Before, shortly after, I guess we communicated, I went to here in Los Angeles, I went to the Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena, and I saw two, I don't know if you know these individuals, Dennis Prager, do you know Dennis Prager? Dennis is a Jewish scholar. I've been following him since since 1982, when I came to Los Angeles. He had a program called Religion on the Line, one of the great minds and thinkers of all time. In fact, many times after listening to him, I would say to myself, I'm a Jew. That's what I am, I'm a Jew. [31:05] And then there's Eric Metaxas, who is a Christian writer, thinker, and these two were in a program, an evening called ask a Gentile, Ask a Jew. And it was a great evening, two hours of just two brilliant people talking about the state of religion. What was the final outcome, sad outcome of the evening? Metaxas and Prager both came to the conclusion that we, organized religion, has failed us. It has failed us. The churches and the synagogues have failed us. They have not stepped up to defend their own dogma, their own beliefs. And we are left flailing, individuals almost. And we are struggling to connect, which is what you and I are doing right now. [32:08] I was dumbfounded by that, but at the same time, that's what I'm thinking. That's what I've been thinking for quite some time. And all of these things, you know, we are under attack from every direction. And in your own mind, what do you do? Do you throw it away? Do you say, well maybe I'm thinking the wrong thing. No, no, no, that is not the case. Because when you think about why our children, [32:47] and if you've seen this now, why our children are being told that they don't know what their sex is, Metaxas brought this up in the evening that this is one of those key cardinal points. You can see. This is a perversion of reality, because you know what the truth is. If you have a Supreme Court justice, as we do in the United States, who says, I can't define a woman, and that children, 10 year old children, 11 and 12 year old children, secretly, don't tell your parents the hallmark of a lie. Keep it secret. Don't tell anybody. Don't even tell yourself. [33:26] You know the hallmark of concealment, consciousness of guilt, everything that you know is, they are trying to tell you you know nothing and everything you know is not to be believed, but they are to be believed. That children, there are not boys and girls, that men can give birth, that there are, you know, these things that we, it's incomprehensible what's going on and it's all to destroy right from wrong. Well, that's because it's kind of, I look at it a different way. One is the difficulty of living in a society where evil is slightly different, where it's a slippery slope and it may be difficult to distinguish what you believe with something that's slightly different. But we see such a chasm now between what is true, what is right, and the collapse and degradation of society. So in theory, that means it is easier to be a Christian because it's easy to be distinct, because what you face is the opposite of what you believe. And and that's why it's curious and interesting to see churches going down this line whenever there's, [34:38] there's no question of what we see is the opposite of what is written in scripture. Oh, there's no question. You know what you're saying? You can be crushed. You know, you can be crushed at the same time. You have to deny so many things to accept what's going on. And yet you say to yourself, how do I stop it? The war that's going on in Europe at this moment. And this is why I love Bannon. I mean, I just, I adore him. I never got to, I would not, and I'll say this, Andrew Breitbart brought me out of the closet politically, really politically. I was doing a lot of things, but saying a lot of things that were in the basket, but he truly brought me out.   When was this? When was this? . This is a through also through Gary Sinise and friends of Abe. [35:48] Boy, this is this is in the, I have to say nine. I'd say 2000 to 2005, 2006. By 2008, yeah, I have to say around 2005, 2006. [36:09] I was like a Jew wandering in the desert alone and wondering where God was. And a friend of mine who I worked with on Fat Man and Little Boy, a film about making the atomic bomb, called me up, his wife was a casting director, and he said, you know there are conservatives just like yourself who get together on a regular basis. I said, no, I did not know that. He said, would you like to go to a meeting? I said, I would love to go to a meeting of other people. I went and it was Gary Sinise and Andrew Breitbart, and a lot of other extraordinary people who were all, and this is it, seeking, trying to make connections. And so Andrew said, you have to become public. He had big Hollywood and big, you know, all of, he had all of these big websites. And he asked me to write an article. [37:09] He heard me in private describe a situation that I was in, in which I was at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. I had just come back from working with Charlton Heston and I had a long discussion, which was just a wonderful discussion in the hallway at the Amundsen Theatre about Ronald Reagan becoming president, right? And this individual who was a big producer in Hollywood overheard me talking about Ronald Reagan, and he said, Oh, so you're a Reagan a-hole, you know? [37:58] And yeah, that's right. That's right. And I was, I got to tell you, I mean, this was a big guy at the theatre too, that I was working, and I went cold. I went cold. I said, yes. I said, you know, not as a, you know, and I pulled back. I was, you know, he was attacking me, obviously, with his language. And I was shocked. I was totally numbed. And I didn't want to continue with this discussion, because otherwise there would have been a blowout. But that was how in 78, 80, I understood that there was this chasm there. And [38:51] it only got worse as time went on. As I said, fortunate, it is not a zero-sum game. Fortunate there was for me, and I did have an audition for this producer. There was a writer there and a brilliant writer. We had a fallout, but he's just an extraordinary writer. His name is Tom Fontana. He wrote some very, it was St. Elsewhere, producer, writer for St. Elsewhere, The Wire, many wonderful programs. And he did not know about this problem that I had and invited me to read for a part called Fiscus in St. Elsewhere. And I walked in and there was this producer [39:37] who has passed away since now. And Breitbart wanted me to write about him. And I did, and I regretted it, but I don't regret it. But anyway, so I walked in and he was there and he said, oh, what are you doing here? And to this audition, and I said, I'm here to read for the part of Fiskars. He said, it's not gonna be a Reagan blank hole on my show. So you know what that audition was like, right? You know, I mean, and I walked out and I just, I said, God, is this going to be it? You know, is this the way it's gonna be? And at any rate, so, but I finally did write this article about him and I lost a lot of friends for writing it. And then at the same time, and I was one of the first actors for Breitbart to use my name. This was what he wanted because a lot of pseudonyms, writing for Big Hollywood, And which I understand, please, I did not do this, I did this [40:40] for personal reasons, but not because I'm brave or anything of that nature. I just was at the point where I was going to tell the truth. This is the way it's done. And you are excluded on a cocktail napkin. And that cocktail napkin is sent around to other producers and you're excluded. It is not a zero sum game because there was Stephen J Cannell and he hired me. [41:03] But the majority of people will not, unless, of course, you bring in 30 or 40 million dollars over a weekend. And then they'll hire you. But the attack on Judeo-Christianity, the attack on conservatism, which is a hallmark of Judeo-Christianity, is now at its height. It's never been greater than it is today. Well can I, you're obviously being a Christian, being a conservative within an industry within the workplace, but then you had your podcast, then you're doing, you mentioned Breitbart on the Glazov Gang, that's something different. You're stepping outside and actually you're much more public. I mean was that a conscious decision to actually begin to use radio, use the internet, use TV and speak of these issues as a Christian and conservative. Yes, absolutely. And the reason for that was I, you know, if you're, [42:13] make a point, like I would not, as Murdock from The A-Team, go out and evangelize. I wouldn't go out as Murdock from The A-Team, vote for. Right? [42:34] You're taking something that is not related and you're trying to use it to get somewhere. Where it's not as, to me, as honest as separating yourself out, creating a podcast, creating another world. This is where I talk politics. This is where I talk my personal life, my personal beliefs. This is where I do it. And so you come to me and then we go out from there. And I associate with people who talk about religion, and I associate with people who talk about politics, and I talk it there in that realm. [43:19] There's obviously a mixture. You can't divorce yourself from who you are and what you've done, and I don't. But I've never hidden my religion. I've never hidden my Christianity, as some people do. That's not the way to do it either. Yes, I am a Christian. I'm a Judeo-Christian. I believe in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And it's, for me, not a contradiction in terms. And so I express it that way. I express it here on my own podcast when I had it. And if ever anybody wanted to talk about it, I was willing to do it. And I attended every event, and with Jamie and [44:10] the lovely Anni Cyrus, that was just wonderful. That was absolutely wonderful. I went to a David Horowitz retreat, where I met Jamie. I had the great fortune, an opportunity to speak at a Freedom Concert event. Many of my public heroes were there from various political websites. And I got to meet them. And that's where I met Jamie. And he invited me on to engage with him on his program, the Glazov Gang. It's so funny. But, you know, and I met just so many fabulous people. And there are so many things right now, which I see things now and can talk about things that I couldn't prior to coming out with Andrew. And that, of course, is Bannon's big thing, Andrew. Andrew, I mean, he's – and Andrew changed – just brought the world together. I mean, his vision, his understanding of what was really going on was unique. And he was right into – he was dead on about everything. And I still don't agree with most of his friends. [45:38] I have very dark feelings about what happened to Andrew, even though I know he had a heart problem. But when the, I mean, you know what I'm talking about. I don't want to get into that aside, but I know the darkness that's out there and a voice like his had to be stopped. And they don't stop at anything. They don't. And we have now been witness to it in the United States for five or six years. Nothing stops them. Nothing. And they will lie to your face. They do not care because they are the voice of something that is dark. [46:20] That's not a knife you feel in your back. That's me scratching it. Oh, but I feel blood. No, that's not blood. You know, that's it. That's it. Can I finish off with your voice? Now, it is always wonderful to have a guest coming on and the sound is absolutely beautiful, crystal clear. You're coming through. Obviously, your voice is your how you make your your living now. And you've you've moved away from being kind of front of the camera to doing voice. Tell us what that is like, because it means you talked about fame and that means you're not recognized. It is your voice. And I remember watching, you were the one who, again, using your voice in all different ways, even back as in The A Team. But tell us about, how that works in the industry.   Well, in the industry, it doesn't. You have to be very fortunate. One of the first casting directors I ever met was Sylvia Gold, was her name. And she met with me, my first agent introduced me to her, and she said. [47:36] Oh, darling, she said, you don't understand. No one wants to hear that stuff. That's in the theatre. They want to hear you. They want to hear your voice. It's your voice that's important. And I said, no, it's not. I said, that's not what it's not. You know, I'm a vampire. I'm a thief. I listen to other people. I'm a mathematical idiot. And God gave me this ability to hear people's voices. And I said, I remember being seven years old. I was about seven years old, and I remember the first impression I ever did, which was, James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he had a line, it was, I am dying now, and the Nautilus is dying with me, present as him. And I said this out loud to myself, I am dying now, and the Nautilus is dying with me. And the more I did it, the closer I got. And I would spend time, and I became an Anglophile, and I started listening to Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, and I found that if I put headphones on, their voice came from the middle of my head, and I could steal from them. I could do impressions of their voice, and even if it wasn't perfect. [48:52] It became another voice, another character. And I began to identify with my relatives that way. I started doing impressions of my relatives and they did not like it. And I started doing impressions of my teachers at school and the kids liked it, but the teachers didn't like it if they heard it. And that's how it started. And I just had an ear for people's voices and dialects in the United States. And that's it. And in terms of, well, if I'm coming across crystal clear, That's because somebody recommended this microphone, the Heil PR-40, which is a dynamic microphone. Most people are wedded to very expensive condenser mics. But this is a rejection, it's a cardioid. People can open the door and come into the room and you won't hear it, you'll just hear me. Art Bell used this mic and he was always extolling the virtues of this mic, and I listened to him. And so, you know, and it's inexpensive, comparatively speaking, so it's available. [50:04] And so I, but I have spent years studying and recording people's voices and listening to them and trying to reproduce them. And one of the great thrills in my life was, I was, I knew somebody who was intimately involved with Laurence Olivier. [50:29] Peter Shaffer, and he wrote Amadeus, right? And he was just an absolutely spectacular man. And he gave me the play Amadeus to read before it was on Broadway and in Great Britain. And he was just a sweetheart of all sweethearts anyway. So I went into a bathroom and I did my impression of Olivier doing the Othello chamber scene. And I gave it to someone who was with Peter and asked them to listen to it to see if I caught any of it. And he said, this friend said, Shaffer listened to it and said, well, he said if Larry was very, very sick. But it was, you know, it was one of those, I, God, to have, you know, I, I, I think I listened, I don't know, I can't, I can't repeat anything that I've ever done myself, but I, I think I listened to the chamber scene from Othello, Olivier's Othello a thousand times. And that's how you learn when you're a young kid. That's how you learn. And you say, oh, my God, every comma. I followed it along, and he followed the text. [51:49] Amazingly, he followed the text and was dead on. And those are the kinds of things that I became very attuned to people's voices, and recorded them. And I have a lot of recordings and sometimes I still listen to Burton's Hamlet. And Gielgud, of course, directed it. [52:21] And it was considered a disaster on Broadway, but there's some great, there's just to capture, it is a miracle that I can sit here and listen to people who have passed away as if they're in my room. It is, it is a miracle, a technical miracle, but a miracle, or listening to the great choruses, motion picture choruses from 1958 and 60, and I listen to these grand voices, and I say, most of these people are not here now, But I'm listening to them and I get emotional about it. So anyway...   You've also embraced just finally about. I think I looked through and you've done the voice for like 100 video games. Well, yeah, I guess that's just if you're you're good at something, then that can be used across different, different industries. Oh, exactly. and video games are bigger than motion pictures now. And the hardest thing I was ever asked to do, and we were asked to do this periodically, you know, these great actors, right? [53:31] Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, right? Those two individuals. Do impressions of both of them, to do them in the same thing. They were in X-Men, right? So I can't do them because they're so close. And you just do. You're asked to do it. They can't make it to do a pickup, right? So they ask an actor to come in and do a line, half a line. That's it. I can't do Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart at the same time. But I can't. I can't do it because they're too close. And yet they're different. But I have not been able to. I mean, you know, you in Ian McKellen with Bilbo Baggins, you know, he's called the essence. [54:19] Patrick is done it. Patrick is down there, too. But I can't do them together. I cannot do them together. I have to do them separately. And Patrick is he was a delight, by the way. Very liberal, very liberal. But one of the great things about Star Trek is my greatest experience that I've had in Hollywood, because there was little to no politics on that set, and everybody was a delight to work with. Everyone, absolutely everyone. And walking around on the great Paramount lot was a thrill. Anyway, sorry, I'm getting side-lined. I loved all those people. I did. I really did. Dwight, I so appreciate you coming on. It's absolutely wonderful to speak with you and hear about your experiences in the industry. So we really do appreciate your time today.   Well, it's my pleasure and I am very grateful. It's been a long time since I've done anything like this.   Oh, maybe it'll become more regular. Well, thank you, Peter.   Thank you so much, Dwight. Thank you.   Bye-bye.

Today on the podcast, we're talking about treating yourself…with sewing! We'll discuss what that means to each of us, how often we do it, and why it's important. And then, as always, we share a little something in our Sew Inspo segment. Sew What's New? Discussion Segment: Treating Yourself with Sewing Sew Inspo Related Links: · Arkie Shirt and Bailee Shorts, Tessuti Patterns: tessuti-shop.com/collections/new-additions/products/arkie-shirt-bailee-shorts-bundle-pack-special-introductory-offer-limited-time · McCalls 8361: somethingdelightful.com/mccalls/m8361· Paloma Dress, Tint of Mint Patterns: tintofmintpatterns.com/collections/shop/products/paloma-ruched-detail-cut-out-dress-pdf-pattern· Pagosa Pants, Sew News: sewdaily.com/product/pagosa-pants-digital-sewing-pattern/ · Gingher: gingher.us/ · Fiskars: fiskars.com/en-us · Frixion pens: pilotpen.us/brands/frixion/ · Dutch Label Shop: dutchlabelshop.com/ · Up in Arms Blouse, Sew News: sewdaily.com/product/up-in-arms-blouse-sewing-pattern-download/ · Ogden Cami, True Bias: truebias.com/products/ogden-cami · Josie Sundress, Christine Haynes: sewdaily.com/product/sew-with-me-josie-sundress-pattern-download/?query=josie%20sundress · Ilford Jacket, Friday Pattern Company: fridaypatterncompany.com/products/the-ilford-jacket-pdf-pattern · Roscoe Blouse & Dress, True Bias: truebias.com/products/roscoe-blouse-dress-1 12 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's no secret that, in today's business climate, innovation is the only way companies can maintain an advantage over their competitors. No matter the field or industry you position yourself in, if you manage to create extra value for your company and the customers your company serves, you are almost undoubtedly destined for success.But, in order to achieve this holy grail and transform your organization into an innovating engine, you first need to learn to listen to your customers and your employees and understand the role they play in helping you identify real problems and the right solutions for those problems.Today's guest on “The Melting Pot” is Ben M. Bensaou, professor and former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD and business innovation thought leader. In his book, “Built to Innovate- Essential Practices to Wire Innovation Into Your Company's DNA”, Ben shares the proven system for building relentless innovation and culture that he discovered while researching companies from all over the world. We talk about all of his findings and the skills he thinks are required to create that perfect innovating culture, so make sure to download and listen to this fascinating episode! In today's episode: Solutions for businesses that struggle with innovationListen to your customer- they hold the key to discovering the weaknesses in your businessThree skills you need to develop in order to create the perfect exchange of information between you and your clients (or potential clients)The importance of middle managersHow to identify real problems that need solvingImprove your ability to spot and develop good ideas for your business Links: Website - Built to InnovateLinkedin- Ben M. BensaouTwitter- BenBensaouBlog- Built to Innovate by Ben M. BensaouBiography & Publications- Ben M. BensaouBen's book- Built to Innovate- Essential Practices to Wire Innovation Into Your Company's DNA Follow Dominic: WebsiteLinkedinYoutubeBlog Mentions: We Solve- an inclusive community engagement platform for companies and organizations that Co-create sustainable and lasting solutions together. Kordsa- develops reinforcement technologies for the tires of automobiles, airplanes, motorcycles, agricultural and industrial vehicles. Fiskars- a Finnish group company; its products are related to the home, outdoor activities, interior decoration and table setting. Allianz Insurance- the largest general insurer in the UK, offering a range of personal and commercial insurance solutions for their customers. W.L Gore & Associates- an American multinational manufacturing company specializing in products derived from fluoropolymers; it is best known as the developer of waterproof, breathable Gore-Tex fabrics Book recommendations: Aidan McCullen- Undisruptable Sumantra Ghoshal-The Individualized Corporation

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Omsøm er denne ukens tema. Vi snakker om hvordan du allerede i planleggingsfasen kan legge til rette for at plagget kan justeres i takt med at kroppen forandrer seg. Har du allerede plagg som ikke sitter som de skal, eller som har blitt veldig slitt noen steder, så har vi råd for det også. Vi svarer på spørsmål fra noen av våre lyttere også. God lytt!Episodens sponsor er Fiskars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heute berichten wir besonders blutrünstig von Bens Gleitcreme, Maliks Selbstverstümmelung und Johnnys Ballergames. Außerdem zeigen wir euch, wie ihr Werbung und Tracking auf IP-Ebene filtern könnt und es gibt auch wieder AI-Quiz und Hund.

Hur skyddar man både asp och bäver i en nationalpark? Och hur påverkas de inhemska fiskarna av förrymda regnbågar i Storsjön? Vi ger oss ut på bäverspaning i Färnebofjärdens nationalpark. Här syns många grova stubbar med märken efter mejlseltänder, och kanske får vi höra ett plask från en bäver som drämmer till vattenytan med sin platta svans.Bävern utrotades ur den svenska naturen på 1800-talet. Men för precis hundra år sedan återintroducerades den och idag finns en livskraftig bäverstam i Sverige. Bävern skapar livsmiljöer för andra arter och är ett fascinerande djur, med sin superpäls och sina hyddbyggen. Men det kan också uppstå problem när bävern omdanar landskapet. Och hur resonerar man i en nationalpark där det både finns unika lövträdsmiljöer och hungriga bävrar med aptit på asp? Morgonens ciceroner är Karin Haulin, nationalparksguide och Ingemar Södergren, förvaltare på Länsstyrelsen, tillsammans med fältreporter Erik Kohlström.Efter att tusentals regnbågar rymt från en fiskodling så har den inhemska fisken i Storsjön i Jämtland fått svår konkurrens både vad gäller lekplatser och föda. Länsstyrelsen försöker nu begränsa antalet regnbågar och uppmanar alla att fiska upp så många som möjligt - dessutom sätter de sitt hopp till glupska gäddor. Reporter Ingrid Engstedt Edfast har varit i Svenstavik i södra Storsjön.Vattennäbbmus är vår största näbbmus och dessutom vårt enda giftiga däggdjur. Lyssnaren Tina Jonsson på Alnön har den här sommaren lagt märke till att detta lilla rovdjur fullkomligen älskar solrosfrön.Fiskars ögon är inte kalla,  det är vår egen blick som saknar värme. Mats Ottosson försöker i veckans kråkvinkel förstå varför vi känner större empati för landlevande djur än de som lever på planeten "Vatten".Programledare är Jenny Berntson Djurvall.

An historic village in southern Finland plays host to one of the country's most anticipated design events this summer

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Dee and Carol talk about gladiolus, their favorite tools, a new book on weed-free gardening, and more on this week's podcast episode.A few links: Dee's Greenhouse info: My tropical plants are all tucked into the greenhouse - Red Dirt Ramblings®National Garden Bureau's  Year of the GladiolusGladiolus  Mon Amour at Brent & Becky's Bulb Heirloom Glad Search  at Old House Gardens'Atom' Gladiolus at Old House GardensTools:Dee's Long-handled trowel Fiskars loppers Corona FS ComfortGEL Leaf & Stem Micro Snips, Jakoti  shears (sold many places, including Amazon) Cobrahead mini cultivator Cape Cod weeder at A.M. LeonardCorona mini loppersPerennial spade at Garden Tool Company  Rockery trowel at Garden Tool CompanyRed Pig ToolsOn the Bookshelf:  Weed Free Gardening: A Comprehensive and Organic Approach to Weed Management by Tasha Greer   Flower Puns – Punpedia  from our friend Katie Elzer-Peters at The Garden of WordsGroovy Plants RanchAffiliate link to Botanical Interest Seeds. (If you buy something from them after using this link, we earn a small commission at no cost to you. This helps us continue to bring this podcast to you ad-free!)  Book links are also affiliate links.Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Don't forget to sign up for our newsletters, via our websites!

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Hokipodin haastatteluissa Pelicans-kippari Miika Roine sekä 11 kautta lahtelaisseuran fysioterapeuttina ja fysiikkavalmentajana työskennellyt Juha Nakari. Jakson ruokalista ja alkuhetkien hörppy. (00:08) Philadelphia Flyersin puolustaja Keith Yandlesta, 35, tuli viime viikolla NHL:n uusi teräsmies. Jukurit-sentteri Jarkko Immonen, 39, pelasi keskiviikkona 233:nnen perättäisen Liiga-ottelun ilman poissaoloa. Pelicansin keskushyökkääjä Sakke Hämäläinen, 23, on huhkinut 101 perättäistä Liigan runkosarjaottelua putkeen. (00:50) Hokipodin helmikuun kuuntelijakilpailu: Kuka on lahtelaisen jääkiekkoilun teräsmies? Vastaamaan pääset tästä: https://oma.media.fi/ess/hockey-time-kuuntelijakilpailu/. (08:26) Haastattelussa Pelicansin pitkäaikainen fysioterapeutti ja fysiikkavalmentaja Juha Nakari. Jääkiekkoliiton palveluksessa työskentelevää "Nakkea" ei ole enää kuluvalla kaudella lahtelaisten vaihtoaitiossa näkynyt. Alle 20-vuotiaiden MM-kisojen keskeytyminen oli valtava pettymys. Nakari arvostaa niin sanottuja "Fiskars-miehiä" ja ylistää Yandlen käsittämätön putkea: 12 kautta, liki tuhat ottelua ilman poissaoloja ja lähes tuhat blokattua laukausta. "Jääkiekko on vähän sellainen peli, että täysin kivuttomia päiviä on turha metsästää". (09:12) Jääkiekkoilijoiden kipukynnykset eroavat toisistaan siinä missä muidenkin ihmisten. Fysiikkaharjoittelu on muuttunut, ja pelaajien valveutuneisuus oman kehon huoltamista kohtaan lisääntynyt viimeisen kymmenen vuoden aikana. "Kokonaiskuormitus on avain siihen, että porukka pysyisi ehjänä". Välillä Nakari on käynyt aiheesta värikkäitäkin keskusteluita valmennusjohdon kanssa. (14:04) Nakarin teräsmieslistan ykkönen ei yllätä: "Jan Latvala on sellainen kaveri, kenestä jokainen saisi ottaa mallia. Ei varmaan ole sattumaa, että Hannes Björninen sai katsella häntä samassa kopissa." (21:45) Jakson toisessa haastattelussa Pelicansin nykyinen kapteeni Miika Roine. Dallas Starsin NHL-puolustaja Jani Hakanpää aiheutti "Roistolle" uran toistaiseksi kivuliaimman vamman. Vuosien 2015–2020 välisenä aikana Roine pelasi 260 Liigan runkosarjaottelua putkeen ilman poissaoloa: "Kivahan se on mieluummin pelata kuin olla sivussa". Viime kaudella soturimaisella asenteella illasta toiseen raatava hyökkääjä missasi yhden pelin: "Vielä pelipäivän aamuna pohdimme asiaa Nakarin kanssa". JYP-puolustaja Niko Seppälän taklausta seuranneesta niskajumista Roine syyttää itseään: "En kokenut sitä törkytaklauksena missään vaiheessa". (24:09) Murtuneella leualla A-nuorten Suomen mestariksi: "Juhlin mestaruutta pari päivää ennen kuin lähdin lääkäriin". Jan Latvalan veistoksellinen kroppa on jäänyt elävästi Roineen mieleen. (29:22) Sarjajumbo Ässät latoi keskiviikkona seitsemän maalia lahtelaisisäntien verkkoon. Kapteeni Roineen mukaan heikkoa esitystä puitiin Pelicans-kopissa rehellisesti ja kovin sanoin: "Kyllä oli karmiva peli. Ei se ollut taas siellä päinkään. Nyt on oikeasti isojen tekojen aika. Pelkät puheet eivät enää auta". (32:25) Ajatukset Pelicansin vaisusta alkuvuodesta. Pelillinen kriisi on seurausta henkisestä takalukosta. Lahtelaisseuran toimitusjohtaja Lauri Pöyhösen ajatukset Liiga-seurojen toisistaan poikkeavista yleisörajoituksista. Ainakin vielä perjantain Pelicans–Sport-ottelussa Isku Areenan yleisökapasiteetti on rajattu maksimissaan 50 katsojaan. (34:37) Kommentteja, risuja tai ruusuja voit lätyttää Twitterissä tilille nimeltä Hockey Time Lahti (@HokiPodi) ja aihetunnisteella #hokipodi.

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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Dr. Ben Bensaou, Professor at INSEAD and author of the new book Built to Innovate. We talk about some interesting case studies and essential practices that companies can use to make innovation accessible to everyone in the organization. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is a podcast to help the new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript of Dr. Ben Bensaou, Professor at INSEAD and Author of Built to InnovateBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today, we have Dr. Ben Bensaou. He is the professor and former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD and author of the new book, Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into your Company's DNA. Welcome to the show, Ben.Ben Bensaou: Good morning, Brian. And thank you for having me. Brian Ardinger: I'm excited to have you. And I understand you're in Japan right now, so we're different sides of the world. You've got a new book out called Built to Innovate. But I wanted to step back and talk about how did you get into the field of innovation research.Ben Bensaou: Well, actually, as a matter of fact, I got into the field of innovation starting where I am right now. I did my PhD looking at Japanese firms. And I had lived in Japan before, but my PhD at MIT Sloan was on the way that Japanese firms were actually developing production systems. And a production system was the quality management movement.So, I was in Japan at the time. And then when I went back and joined INSEAD, I continued my interest in Japanese firms, but this time I want to know what they were doing in the field of innovation. And this is how I got involved with companies in Japan and outside of Japan. Mostly its established firms who are trying to become more innovative.Brian Ardinger: One of the things that we think about is corporations, it's hard for them to innovate. Maybe now it's a little bit more thought of is, you know with all the disruption from everything from COVID to new technologies and that. Companies are a little bit more aware of the fact that they need to be innovating and that the world is changing around them. Can you talk a little bit about how your research and your experience in the field of innovation has changed and evolved over the years? Ben Bensaou: Yes. I would say that one thing that I've noticed over the years, I've been doing my teaching innovation and also helping firms is that I noticed that number one, a lot of people, a lot of organizations equate innovation with launching a new blockbuster product or coming up with a life changing new business model.Many also think that you need to have a genius leader or to be a startup by a matter of fact, to be innovative, to be able to innovate. But I found out that it's not true. I found in my research established even centuries old companies are able to innovate. How did they do this? Well, they don't only focus on industry changing effects, but also for small important changes, very often in unexpected places.And for this, what they do is that they rely on continuous and systematic innovation. Innovation of all kinds. And innovation driven by everyone in the organization. And that's what Built to Innovate is about. It's really about how do you embed continuous innovation inside an organization using a systematic approach.Brian Ardinger: I think that's so important because a lot of corporations that I've talked to want innovation to happen somewhere else. Or like they have their teams and they're executing on their business model and they're optimizing that, but they want innovation to happen somewhere else. So, they create an innovation lab or something and they throw the idea over to someone else to execute. But what I've seen, and I think what it's apparent in your book, and the examples you give is that again, to survive in this changing world, we all have to become innovators. And it doesn't mean, like you said, you have to come up with the next electric car, but you have to find problems and take those early ideas and then innovate them and execute on them so that they become value creation, parts of the business.Ben Bensaou: Absolutely. Absolutely. I find so many people expecting that the innovation is going to come from the leaders. Or, you know, like you say, they create a skunkworks, or they create specialist units that are supposed to do all the innovations for the company. And I think many organizations, and I found this very innovative companies in my research, are able to enlist and leverage the capability of everyone in the organization. For this, what they do is that that they create what I call an innovating engine. Which is a protected, fully legitimized and organized space within the company where everyone can innovate. Not just the specialist. You can innovate in everything you do. I mean, you can innovate of course, in your products and services, but you can innovate in your processes as well, or your internal functions. You can innovate in HR and legal. And you can make innovating a regular habit. Not a sporadic kind of burst of creativity when there's a crisis. And that's what I think I've seen some of these innovative companies do is to create this innovating engine. And leveraging everybody's inate capabilities. Brian Ardinger: So, what do you think are some of the common myths or mistakes that companies make when it comes to executing or putting these innovation initiatives into place.Ben Bensaou: I think it's always the same thing is that many of these organizations, like you were talking earlier about startups, don't have the problem of size. When they start, they're all innovating in a sense innovating mode. Everybody is in contact with customers. But as soon as you grow, you start to be dominated by an execution logic. And the execution, what I call the execution takes over. And the execution engine takes over. And the execution changing is very much about control. It's no surprise that many organizations, established organizations, develop hierarchies and vertical silos focused on supplier side view challenges. And innovating in a sense is less about control. Is more about delegating and is more about collaboration. Is more about teamwork. Horizontal structures that are focused on the customer. Like you said earlier, I think this is a very important word. You said innovation is about problem finding. What kind of new problems do we need to find to solve for the customers. And execution is very much about problem solving. It's a very convergent mindset.And I think this is where a lot of companies fail. Is that they don't realize that when you move into innovating and what I'm saying is that when you create an innovating engine, you allow for every employee to be able to spend time doing some innovating activity in the space of the invading engine. And at that time, they need to switch their mind. They need to switch from a supply side view to a customer side view. Brian Ardinger: That's really interesting because too many folks forego or forget about that exploration side of the business. That a lot of companies don't measure or reward for that type of activity as well. What are your thoughts when it comes to why is it so hard for employees to be innovating?Ben Bensaou: As a matter of fact, I would almost say that it's not very difficult for frontline people to be innovating. We can come back later to the importance of middle management, but I think it's said the dominance, I would almost say the tyranny of the execution mindset stops people from genuinely discovering what the customer really needs.So, for me, when people are switching from an execution mode to an innovating mode, they have to embrace a customer perspective. And there, there are three challenges that I like to think about. One is to listen to what I call the voice of the customer. What are the likes, the pain points, the wishes of the customer? And when you are in innovating mode, you have to switch away from the traditional tell mode or even worse, sometimes people are in complete sell mode and try to be in a listening mode very much with empathy for the customer. The second challenge I think, is about listening to what I call the silence of the customer. The silence of the customer is the things they don't tell you. They don't tell you. And they don't tell you about it either because they don't know or because they know, but they don't think it's your problem to solve. So maybe it could be interesting for the audience. I give you an example about how Phillips, I mean the Dutch appliance and consumer electronics company, develop the first kettle with limescale mouth filter. So, there was a colleague who was a consultant in a consulting firm, and he was part of the team was helping Phillips re-energize their market share for kettles in the UK market. The team leader at some point asked some of the team members to spend a few days and actually live in families in the UK. Observing how customers use their kettles.And after a few days, the members noticed that people were facing a problem they never told them about. I mean, when they were trying to pour the boiling water into the cup of tea. I guess, because the water had a lot of calcium, there was this little coat of limescale floating on top of the tea. And it's very interesting because the customer knew about the problem. It was obvious because they were trying to scoop the limescale with their spoon. But they never told the kettle manufacturer. As a matter of fact, they complain about it, but they complained to the water authorities, not to cattle manufacturer. Brian Ardinger: Interesting. Ben Bensaou: So, this is very interesting because it took only a few months for engineers at Phillips to develop this little filter, which you can find in any kettle these days, that blocks or stops the limescale. So, each time you pour the water, it stops the limescale from getting in your tea. This is what I call the silence of the customer. The customer wouldn't tell you about it. So, you need to find this problem in spite of the customer. Not thanks to the customer in spite of the customer.And then the third challenge is what I call the non-customers. It's very important to learn to listen to non-customers. So here I could give an example, one, for instance, kind of observed Fiskars's for instance, when they, the Finnish company that makes tableware and garden tools. So, for their cutting tools, for instance, they spend time with surgeons in operating rooms, you know. Or they look at first tree workers who cut trees in large scale. They're not like cutting small trees in the garden, but on a large scale and very often. And much more dramatic example is this company called EcoCem. It's in the cement business. They developed a new technology, a substitute for cement based on a technology called GGBS, which has much lower carbon footprint.And it is made out of a byproduct of the steel industry. So, it is very, very good for the environment. It has the same properties of traditional cement. Now, the only problem is that the dominant incumbents, were not looking at it very positively. So, when EcoCem tried to sell it to the customer, the customers we're hearing all this criticism from the dominant players, and they were not very keen on playing with it.It just happens at the cement industry is a very regulated industry. So, what EcoCem did instead of focusing on the customers, they focused their attention on their regulators. And they spent a lot of time engaging the regulators, bringing experts on the new technology to regulators. They managed to have the regulators actually accept and propose the new technology. And then the customers walked in. So, this is again, a very good example where the innovation didn't come by creating value to the customers, the construction companies. But to the regulators who are the people who can influence what the customer do. The Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationSponsor Voice: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri, that seeks to build inclusive prosperity through a prepared workforce and entrepreneur-focused economic development. The Foundation uses its $3 billion in assets to change conditions, address root causes, and break down systemic barriers so that all people – regardless of race, gender, or geography – have the opportunity to achieve economic stability, mobility, and prosperity. For more  information, visit www.kauffman.org and connect with us at www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.Brian Ardinger: And that's a good segue because I think a lot of folks think about innovation as this solo, mad scientist comes up with an idea and executes on it. But you talk a lot about in the book, this importance of collaboration. It is important engaging that idea with others and that. So can talk a little bit more about that process of collaboration. Ben Bensaou: I think this is very important, I would say that innovation is a team sport. And cross-functional teams are very important. And I always am surprised when I observed teams, to realize that it's not always the ones we think who are going to have that critical insights.So, it's very important to bring people with different mindsets. And then it's very important to close the gap. Close the distance between the would be innovators and the customers. Or there would be innovators in the company and the salespeople. For instance, I think these are two spaces and this is part of what I call the innovating engine.So maybe I can give an example of the first situation. This is about Kordsa. This is a Turkish company. They manufacturer fabric that is used to reinforce tires. On a regular basis, they send cross disciplinary team to their customer's plants. And these teams, they literally camp at the plants of the customers.They stay for a few days, and I've seen actually in the early days, they used to have a tent in the plant. And they just roam around, talk to people, observe what is happening in the plant. And these are cross-functional teams. You might have somebody from engineering, somebody from R and D, somebody from marketing, from legal, somebody from procurement.And at one plant, the team saw that the workers and the customer were having trouble to safely handle roles of reinforcing fabric that were loaded onto a truck. Now, again, this is an example of a silence of the customer. The customers knew the problem, they were facing the problem, but they didn't know the supplier could solve it.So, what happened is that this team at Kordsa, they just went back home and remedy the problems by developing a small kind of methodology, some process. They trained the customers into this new process, and they were able to help them reduce the resources from 30 minutes for three people to 12 minutes for one worker.And this was literally because they were able to go as a team and they close the gap between the team and the customer. So, it's very important to not only have multidisciplinary team, but also to bring the inside the firm first to bring the innovators together with the salespeople and then to bring the innovators together with the customer. Brian Ardinger: The last topic I want to talk about, and we talked briefly about it, but so everybody in the organization should be an innovator and should have the capabilities and aptitude to make things happen like that. But oftentimes middle managers and higher end managers either block that or change that. What are the roles of mid managers and upper management when it comes to innovation?Ben Bensaou: Let me talk to this as an example, and then I'll explain the roles. This is about Bayer, the global pharmacology and life science company based in Germany. So, this is a company that has a long history of scientific achievements through R and D and brilliant scientists. Yet in 2014, they decided to create from scratch to create an innovating engine, to leverage the capabilities of the hundred thousand employees in the company.So how did they do this? First, they made the whole board responsible for innovation. Then they selected 80 senior managers across all country groups and global functions. And these ambassadors, they made them as ambassadors. They were supporting these 80 senior managers became ambassadors, supporting the board. They were innovation ambassadors. And as ambassadors they spend most of their time with middle managers.Explaining, training, advocating, sponsoring innovation. And then they did something very important for these middle managers. They created a formidable support structure. Between 2016 and 2020, they trained and certified a thousand innovation coaches, which they activated locally across the whole company.And then for frontline people, they created WeSolve. This is a digital platform where any employee in Bayer can post information about a problem they're struggling with. And invite input and ideas from anyone in the company. So just to give you a sense. I visited the site once at any given time, they have 200 challenges posted on a platform. And then up to now, 40,000 employees at Bayer have participated in this platform. But to tell you the truth, Brian, what really impressed me the most in the statistic they showed me is that out of the best ideas that are proposed for all these challenges that are posted, two third of the best ideas effectively come from a department or unit different from where the person who posted the challenge works. This is to give you an example of what is a formal structure for an innovating engine. You can see that the senior leaders are the ones who have to give permission. They have the ones who have to give to permission to everybody to be able to innovate.They are the ones who create the governance structure, the coaches, and the local coordinators. Then the middle managers have a very important role. I was really surprised in my research to find out that middle managers are actually the key to innovation in corporate settings. Without middle managers, innovation gets lost.I've found it in any organization, senior leaders, they get it. They're facing a tough environment. They understand that without innovation, they can't survive. Frontline people, I mean the facing customers and non-customers on a daily basis. They understand that they have to innovate to solve the pain point and respond to the wishes and desires.But the middle managers are the ones who are caught in between because they don't have that direct pressure for innovation. And on top of it, they are the ones who are incentivized on execution. They're responsible for execution and they don't know if they don't get trained. They don't know how to help their people innovate.So, they need also this support structure to help them any time an individual or a team wants to innovate. They need to have these coaches. So, I would say you need to have senior leaders. You need to have the ones who create what I call the reframing. Allow for the organization to challenge the status quo challenge. Challenge the basic assumptions. The middle managers are the ones who participate in what I call the integration process. The process by which you connect the ideas and the people and the resources. And the process by which you winnow, channel, select, maybe prototype some of the best ideas before they get moved to the execution engine.So, this is a very important role for the middle managers. And they are the ones who support the frontline. And the frontline are the ones who have a huge contribution to make to what I call the creation process. The process by which the organization generates new ideas. New ideas are the raw material of innovation.And I explain how they do this by listening to the voice of the customer, the silence of the customer, and try to learn from non-customers. So, as I say, in this innovating engine, everybody has an important role to play. Senior leaders, middle managers and frontline innovators. For More InformationBrian Ardinger: And I encourage anybody who's listening to this podcast, who's in an innovation to pick up a copy of Built to Innovate. It's got a ton of great case studies, as you said. And it really helps set the framework for how you can start creating more of a culture of innovation within your company. If people want to find out more about yourself or the book, what's the best way to do that? Ben Bensaou: LinkedIn. I have a profile on LinkedIn. I have also my website on the INSEAD and then for the book, they can go to their local Amazon to find the book and to order it. Or they can go to the website for the book, which is BTIthebook.com. BTI for Built to Innovate thebook.com.Brian Ardinger: Well, Dr. Bensaou, thank you very much for being on Inside Outside Innovation. Really enjoyed the conversation and look forward to continuing it as the world changes in the future. Ben Bensaou: Thank you, Brian. It's a lot of fun.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. 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NB! Episode in English!Lise is visited by Simon McCabe of Noita Winery in Fiskars, Finland. Can you make wine in Finland and how do you do it? What is the future of Scandinavian winemaking? How can it be sustainable? And why haven't the British figured out can recycling yet? Boris, we're looking at you. Instagram-handles:Lise @thatnorwegianwineladySimon/Noita @noitawinery We drank the wine KataMacerato 2020 by EliosAs always: graphic work by Marius Vabo and music by Hans Andreas Laache⚡️⚡️⚡️

Jeremy Knopow set out to fulfill a promise he made to his late father who was diagnosed with ALS to make products better for those needing them. As a successful product designer, he was embarrassed by the lack of form and function that dated walkers provided. After spending many years researching and talking with users of walkers, older adults, caregivers, physicians, physical therapists, and many others- the Motivo Tour walker was created. Today I interview Jeremy Knopow, Co-Founder of Motivo, a company that has brought forth change in the walker industry by bringing thoughtful design, functionality, dignity, and independence. As Jeremy mentions, "This industry has been engineering devices for medical conditions as opposed to designing products for people. Those are two very different things...". We are encouraging families and older adults that use walkers or are looking to use the walkers that there is a better way. We talk about- what leads to walker use? The history of the original walker, a bigger conversation takes place about why these products have not been reinvented for so long and the call to designers and creators to look at what can we do to reinvent products for older adults, and create new products to provide solutions to common problems. I can't wait to see what Jeremy and Motivo design next! Thank you, Jeremy, for being a changemaker and making our world better. As a gift to our listeners- Motivo is giving $100 off your order- using the code WILLGATHER100 For more information and to place an order, visit https://www.buymotivo.com/ Jeremy Knopow is a Product Designer and Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years of Fortune 100 new product development experience at companies including Kohler, SC Johnson, Fiskars, and Procter and Gamble. In 2012 following his late father's battle with ALS, Knopow co-founded Motivo, Inc. to reinvent the world of mobility aids.   We are not medical professionals and are not providing any medical advice. If you have any medical questions, we recommend that you talk with a medical professional of your choice. willGather has taken care in selecting its speakers but the opinions of our speakers are theirs alone. Thank you for your continued interest in our podcasts. Please follow for updates, rate & review! For more information about our guests, podcast & sponsorship opportunities, visit www.willgatherpodcast.com Instagram: @willgather Facebook: WillGather Nicole Will is our host and founder of willGather.

On Part 2 of this 2 Part Podcast National Account Manager Grant Fraser of Fiskars delves further into the Gerber range that Silvan Australia is now distributing across Australia and New Zealand.

The consumer products designer holding numerous patents, Knopow spent his career applying user-centered design to purposeful projects. His company Motivo focuses on new generation mobility aids for older adults. His motto? “There's got to be a better way…” ENTER CODE GLOW100 FOR $100 OFF A MOTIVO TOUR About Jeremy Jeremy Knopow is c-founder of Motivo: Independence by Design. A Product Designer and Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years of Fortune 100 new product development experience, he has led innovation efforts at Kohler, SC Johnson, Fiskars, and Procter and Gamble. In 2012 following his late father's battle with ALS, Knopow co-founded Motivo, Inc. to reinvent the world of mobility aids. Along the way, he has also been applied his design skills to broader problems ranging from hot showers for 9/11 rescue workers, improving sanitation in the slums of Nairobi, to fighting malaria in Ghana. Knopow has been a frequent guest lecturer on user-centered design and social entrepreneurship at numerous universities around the world and is currently an Adjunct Prof. of Design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's of Fine Arts in Industrial Design, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as being named on over 170 patents. Key Takeaways The mobility industry is ripe for innovation. It is stuck in a time capsule with antiquated solutions dating back to the 1940's. Motivo's innovation process started with two years users of mobility products, doctors, nurses, rehab operators, physical therapists, caregivers, and senior living community operators, asking: “If you were to start from a blank slate, what would you ideally like to have in a daily mobility product?” Proprietary product features include a sleek, colorful design people could actually feel good about using, an upright stance to prevent hunching over, and enhanced functionality like a flip out seat, built-in tray and storage, and the ability to easily store by folding tightly. The logoed custom Motivo Tour is a vehicle for senior living communities to showcase their brand in a physical form. Opportunities include branded Tours and programs for prospective and current residents. ENTER CODE GLOW100 FOR $100 OFF A MOTIVO TOUR

Small Caps aus aller Welt! Tobias Kramer und Christian W. Röhl haben tief in die Kiste mit Euren bislang unerhörten Aktienwünschen gegriffen – und für dieses 77-minütige Feedback-Special 7 Unternehmen mit einem Börsenwert von unter 7 Mrd. Euro herausgefischt. Darunter einen niederländischen Energiewende-Profiteur, die günstigste Börsen-Aktie der Welt und eine deutsche Familienfirma, deren Wärmedämmsysteme allein 2020 rund 20 Mio. Tonnen CO2-Einsparung gebracht haben. Außerdem dabei: Der Online-Optiker Mister Spex, den Tobias kurz nach dem Börsengang klammheimlich ins echtgeld.tv-Depot gekauft hat und den es jetzt mit über 20% Rabatt auf den IPO-Preis gibt.

Pre-K Pages is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. The word “affiliate” means that we may earn a small commission if/when you click on or make purchases via these links at no additional cost to you.As a policy, the Company will only affiliate with products, services, consultants or experts that we believe will provide value to our customers and followers.You recognize that it remains your personal responsibility to investigate whether any affiliate offers are right for you and will benefit you. You will not rely on any recommendation, reference, or information provided by the Company but will instead conduct your own investigation and will rely upon your investigation to decide whether to purchase the affiliate product or service. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In last week's episode, I discussed how you can help your students develop their fine motor skills before working on their scissor skills.If you haven't listened to that episode yet, I invite you to do so, because the tips I gave in that one are going to build the foundation the children will need to develop and hone their scissor skills.Today, I pick up where I left off. I'll be focusing more on scissors and what you can do to teach your young students how to use them.To many, it seems like using scissors is something that's super easy to do. However, like everything else, it's a skill, and your students will need to work on it.How?I answer this question in today's episode of Elevating Early Childhood, so tune in now.Key Takeaways:Previously on Elevating Early Childhood (00:00)Step #1: Ripping (01:42)Step #2: Snipping (04:40)Step #3: Fringing (08:36)Step #4: Straight lines (10:53)Step #5: Zigzag lines (14:40)Step #6: Curved lines (16:43)Step #7: Right angles (19:17)What to do if your students can't hold Fiskars scissors (21:12)Additional Resources:- Visit our website to find tons of pre-K teaching resources here.- Get my book “Teach Smarter: Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood Teachers”.- Learn more about my exclusive mentorship program, “Teaching Trailblazers”.- Learn how to teach your students scissor cutting skills here.- Click here for my tips for teaching scissor cutting skills in your preschool classroom.- Get your FREE Printable Scissor Skills Checklist here. - Get your Cutting Skills Printable Bundle here. - Get Fiskars Blunt Tip Scissors here. - Get Preschool Training Scissors here.Elevating Early Childhood is an early education podcast dedicated to helping Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten teachers teach better, save time, and live more.If you enjoy the podcast, please follow, rate, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform.--Onward & Upward!

The Fiskars and Gerber brands are well known across the planet. On Part 1 of this 2 Part Podcast we chat with National Account Manager Grant Fraser of Fiskars as he delves into the Gerber range that Silvan Australia is now distributing across Australia and New Zealand.

During episode 357, host David Erickson interviews branding and public relations expert Coral Graszer, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Fiskars Group, about how literature and music played a role in her PR career, branding, influencer marketing, and much more. Coral earned her B.A. from UW-Madison in 2011 with a double major in Communication Arts and English Literature. Since graduating, she has explored many different areas within the marketing industry, including brand management, event planning, corporate communications, media relations and influencer marketing. She has held roles as a Public Relations Executive representing companies like 3M and Valspar, a Global Producer for the Apparel and Accessories categories at Target Corporate, and is currently the Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Fiskars. Video, Show Notes & Links: https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/357 Connect with the show on social media Subscribe to the weekly eNewsletter

"Iittala ei saa unohtaa kokeellisuutta nopean tuotannon paineessa," sanoo muotoilija Ville Kokkonen. "Mestari-miesnero-mytistä on päästävä irti," painottaa muotoilija Irina Viippola. Designmuseo kutsui arkkitehti Florencia Colombon ja teollisen muotoilija Ville Kokkosen konseptoimaan, kuratoimaan ja suunnittelemaan näyttelyn suomalaisen designbrändin Iittalan 140-vuotisesta historiasta. Pääosassa ovat lasi ja designklassikot. Suunnittelijat ovat käyttäneet aineistona Designmuseon kattavaa Iittala-kokoelmaa, joka koostuu yli kymmenestä tuhannesta esineestä sekä laajasta arkisto- ja kuvamateriaalista. Näyttelymateriaalia täydentävät lainat yksityisistä sekä julkista kokoelmista. Näyttely Iittala – Kaleidoscope: Luonnosta kulttuuriin kokoaa yhteen Iittalan koko historian uudella, tutkivalla tavalla peilaten sitä vahvasti suomalaisen yhteiskunnan kehitykseen. Iittala on kasvanut Pohjoismaiden suurimmaksi lasitehtaaksi sekä kansainvälisesti arvostetuksi designbrändiksi. Iittalassa valmistetaan lähes 200 lasin ammattilaisen voimin noin 90 % kaikista lasituotteista. Suomen ainoa edelleen toiminnassa oleva lasitehdas on nykyään osa Fiskars -konsernia. Vieraina ovat muotoilija Irina Viippola ja puhelimitse Sveitsistä Ville Kokkonen ja lasinpuhaltaja Tero Välimaa. Ohjelman juontajana on Pia-Maria Lehtola.

More about this week's show: Scissors are so important as a scrapbooker! Here's a rundown of the scissors we talked about on today's show and the things they are best at. Everyday/all-around scissors: Grey/Yellow -- Westcott 8" Titanium Bonded Scissors (https://amzn.to/2R7Zqok) These are my everyday go-to scissors. I cut everything with these. I use them for Daily Pages, stickers, washi tape, whatever I need on a regular basis. These scissors definitely get the most use. Cutting straight lines: Purple -- Westcott Extreme Edge Titanium 9” (https://amzn.to/3npoao5) For cutting straight lines, the most important thing is a long blade with a 'bent' edge. I use these scissors for cutting straight lines on paper when my trimmer isn’t an option. Like when I need to cut paper that’s less than an inch wide, or when the paper is super small. Or when I don’t want to bring the trimmer with me on a trip. Another pair of Westcott Titanium scissors. These are my paper-only scissors. I don’t let the blades go near anything sticky, gummy, or something too hard for them to cut. Heavy-duty: Red -- Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Non-Stick Micro Serrated Snips, 7" (https://amzn.to/3nyaDdN) It can be hard to find these Tim Holtz micro-serrated scissors with the classic red handles these days, but black is just as good. These are my heavy-duty scissors. I use these to cut bits of metal, chipboard, or anything else that might be extra tough. These scissors will go through some of the more annoying embellishments -- plastic, coated paper, any of the weird stuff. Detail work: Orange -- Fiskars Micro-Tip Scissors, 5” (https://amzn.to/3xxbrEy) These are my detail scissors. I use these Fiskars scissors to cut out anything small. Whether I want to hand-cut the letters of the alphabet and create my own title, or I want to fussy cut something from a patterned paper; these are my go-to scissors. The small blade is easy to maneuver in tight spaces, and the sharp tip will make clean detailed cuts to keep tiny images looking as crisp as you can make them. Scissor FAQ You can get by with cheap scissors. This is not necessarily the first place that you have to invest, but when you do, your money will go far. If you're in the USA you can take scissors in your carry on with up to 4" blades. This is from the pivot point (or screw) to the tip. But TSA has the discretion to take whatever they want, so don't take your favorite scissors. You can clean scissors with soap and water. Don't get water into the area with the screw and make sure you dry them thoroughly. I personally like to use a microfiber cloth and rubbing alcohol to get any of the sticky stuff off.

Natalia Kita är en möbelsnickarstudent. Hon är från Polen och har bott i Sverige de senaste 6 åren. Hennes resa inom möbelsnickeri började på hantverksakademin i Tibro. Nu går hon sina sista veckor på Malmstens och skriver sitt examensarbete innan hon flyttar till Fiskars in Finland för att jobba på Nikari där hon fick jobb efter att ha haft sin praktik där. #Hantverkardagboken Instagram @hantverkardagboken Första säsongen av Hantverkardagboken är sponsrad av: Rubanks verktygs

Inde i maskinen er en ugentlig podcast fra Computerworld. Med Inde i maskinen tager vi hver uge et skridt tilbage og ser på ugens it-historierHvad sker der? Hvorfor sker det? Og hvad er for tendenser, trends og begivenheder der ligger bag?Alt sammen ting vi normalt dækker på Computerworld.dk - men med Inde i Maskinen får du også historien bag ved.I denne episode, optaget torsdag d. 11. marts, går vi tæt på:1) Tusindvis af firmaer er blevet hacket gennem en sårbarhed i softwaren fra Solarwinds – og nu spøger endnu en stor sårbarhed kaldet Hafnium. Hvad er det som sker? Og hvem er i farezonen? Computerworlds it-sikkerhedsjournalist Ditte Vinterberg Weng er med i studiet til at give et overblik overudviklingen.2) Magrethe Vestager, i sin egenskab af konkurrencekommisær i EU, lanceret en storstilet plan der skal gøre Europa mere uafhængig. Men hvad indeholder de store ord – og følger der penge og initiativer med? Redaktør Jakob Schjoldager har kigget nærmere på det vi ved om milliard-planen.3) Til sidst ønsker vi Peter Cabello Holmberg tillykke med det nye job. Peter blev Årets CIO i 2020 for sit arbejde som CIO hos Pandora, men i starten af 2021 var det slut. Nu skal Peter Cabello trække i arbejdstøjet som CDO for Fiskars. Er der en tendens i udskiftningerne på CIO-pladserne – og skal man frygte sin CDO hvis man arbejder med it?Vært på episoden er Lars Jacobsen, chefredaktør på Computerworld.

We're in Helsinki, Finland, with Shelly Nyqvist of YourMescape.com. We talk about an island fortress, Nuuksio National Park, and the home of Fiskars scissors. Show notes are at WeTravelThere.com/helsinki. I love to travel, but I hate waiting. CLEAR uses biometrics to verify your identity to skip airport security lines. With this limited-time offer for listeners, you can try CLEAR free for 2 months, when you sign up at wetravelthere.com/clear

Vieraina analyytikot Joonas Häyhä OP Ryhmästä ja Petri Kajaani Inderesiltä. Korona-ajan hyötyjiä ovat olleet esimerkiksi Tikkurila, Fiskars, Tokmanni ja Musti Group, pohjustaa Joonas Häyhä. Tulostaan parantaneen Tikkurilan osake on jäänyt selkeästi verrokeista jälkeen, mutta yhtiöllä on jo pitkään ollut vaikeuksia kasvattaa liikevaihtoaan, Häyhä kertoo. Kaupan alan sijoituskohteista hän nostaa esille Tokmannin, Musti Groupin ja Kamuxin, joista kaksi jälkimmäistä tarjoaa selkeän kasvutarinan. Suomalaisista pörssiyhtiöistä eniten korona-ajasta on hyötynyt Harvia, jatkaa Petri Kajaani. Listautuessaan vuonna 2018 Harvia miellettiin tasaisen varmaksi osinkoyhtiöksi, mutta sen jälkeen siitä on kehittynyt kasvutiikeri, Kajaani sanoo. Vaikka yhtiön kurssi on yli nelinkertaistunut pörssitaipaleen aikana, Inderes näkee Harviassa edelleen merkittävää potentiaalia. Lisäksi puheenaiheina muun muassa Stockmann, Oriola, Marimekko ja Kesko. Toimittajana Mikko Jylhä.

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/PGEErB1sZh4   The CPSC and Fiskars Brands have recalled Fiskars 16 foot Extendable Pole Saw/Pruners.  The telescoping sections of this product may come apart permitting the saw blade and pruner head to fall and create injuries.  More than 467,680 of these have been sold in the Us and 95,000 sold in Canada.  If you own one, stop using it and contact Fiskars Brands at 1-888-847-8716 for instructions regarding how to dispose of the product an obtain a refund.   https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/Fiskars-Brands-Recalls-16-Foot-Pole-Saw-Pruners-Due-to-Laceration-Hazard   #extensionsaw #extensionpruner #fiskars  

Get to know the super sleek brand educator that is Tobias Dahlberg all the way from Helsinki, Finland. In this episode, we discuss the value of brand strategy for businesses and how it can be applied to multiple business units and not just marketing, plus exactly how to approach this and embed it in businesses. Tobias discusses brand theories such as “becoming the only choice”, “radical differentiation” and how he gets people on board when making “brand choices”. He also explains his background and the super work he is doing at The Future Academy. This episode is not to be missed! Show notes at justcreative.com/podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST: Tobias Dahlberg is an Entrepreneur & Strategist. He is the Founder of Wonder, a strategic brand and design consultancy in Helsinki, Finland. He is also the Founder of The Future Academy - a learning platform for entrepreneurs and companies who want to build game-changing brands and businesses. He has consulted, advised and created hundreds of strategies and innovative concepts for brands such as: Nike, The Coca-Cola Company, Fiskars, Fazer, Iittala, Hartwall, Nissan, Paulig, Telia, Marimekko, Halti, Neste Oil, Altia, Mandatum Life, and many more, from start-ups to multi-national corporations.

Kombucha is leading the way in the functional beverage market. Growth in recent years has been huge and there's a huge reason why: NUTRITION! Join Registered Dietitian, Danielle Fiskars Byers, founder of Physic Kombucha, on this episode to learn more about kombucha, brewing, and all of the nutritional merits it offers! Patreon | Love what you're hearing? Help fund ongoing episodes through donations as little as $1/month. Learn more here! Leave a review | When you leave a five star iTunes review, it helps others with similar interests and passions find us when they're looking for new content. Thank you in advance! Resources and Show Notes Physic Kombucha - Kalamazoo, Michigan Physic Kombucha on Instagram Physic Kombucha on Facebook Meyer Lemon Tart Avocado and Prunes Cake

Captain Bernardo J. Herzer is an entrepreneur and inventor with a deep passion for helping the environment. With more than 25 years experience in successful business operations, Herzer founded LEHR in 2004 to create a cleaner planet through environmentally friendly technology. With the recent announcement of a licensing deal with powerhouse multi-national company, Fiskars, LEHR will now apply propane technology to industries such as marine, industrial and construction tools, forestry tools, power generation and propulsion systems. LEHR is proud to have received the Popular Science 2010 Best Of What's New Award, Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Product of the Year, Handy Magazine Innovation Award and an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Excellence Award. LEHR's patent portfolio includes over 40 patents/trademarks and over 75 filed and pending. After a very successful run in the lawn and garden industry, LEHR is excited for many new product launches throughout several industries in 2011.

In today’s episode we’ll hear a chat between herbalists and authors Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han. Rosalee and Emily have spent the past couple of years collaborating to write the book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. And that’s what we’ll get to hear about in this episode! You’ll learn about the origins of the book, the writing process and so on. They also cover a few of the featured plants from the book such as chickweed, violet, elder, and more. Emily and Rosalee also teach us about harvesting techniques and even give us some recipes.  To celebrate the release of their book, they’re offering a few awesome bonuses to go along it! BONUSES Four part docuseries with 12 herbalists including Rosemary Gladstar, Dina Falconi, Dr. Rocio Alarcón, Guido Masé, 7Song and Tiffany Robbins Wild herb and recipe labels The Wild Spring Feast - 60 minute video lesson And one lucky person will win the THE WILDCRAFTING TOOLS GIFT BASKET! This custom basket was personally designed by Rosalee & Emily and includes… Fiskars pruning shears Sickle Hori hori Botany loupe Cotton harvesting bags Botanical Drawing: A Beginner’s Guide by Wendy Hollander A one-year membership to United Plant Savers CLICK HERE to learn more about the book and the bonuses!  Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com Breitenbush Herbal Conference www.herbalconference.net 

Botanisten Sofie Olofsson, entomologen Mikael Sörensson och limnologen Karin Rengefors svarar på lyssnarfrågor från Botaniska trädgården i Lund. Programledare: Joacim Lindwall. Vi på Naturmorgon får väldigt mycket frågor om mysterier i naturen. Vilken tur att vi kan kalla in våra experter i Naturpanelen för att reda ut dem! På lördag samlas panelen igen i Botaniska trädgården i Lund för att svara på lyssnarfrågor. Gästexpert denna gång är Karin Rengefors, professor i limnologi alltså läran om inlandsvatten. Så hon får äran att svara på frågor om just vad en limnolog gör, hur fiskar kommunicerar och vad det var för en konstig fläskkorv som svajade i vattenströmmen i en sjö i Dalarna. I panelen sitter också två ordinarie medlemmar i Naturpanelen - entomolog Mikael Sörensson och botanist Sofie Olofsson. De har fått frågor om allt från gula larver och skalbaggar som sitter ihop med en tunn tråd, till varför det alltid är udda antal klyftor i en grapefrukt. Så vad undrar du? Ställ din fråga på naturmorgon@sverigesradio.se eller kontakta oss på sociala medier. Under programmet på lördag morgon går det också bra att ringa telefonnumret 046-222 77 37. Programledare är Joacim Lindwall.

Geno Church is a sought-after and often-stalked thought leader in uncovering the DNA of sustainable word of mouth movements and building them from the ground, up. He is one of the co-authors of the very popular books "Brains on Fire" and "The Passion Conversation" which you can find on Amazon. He's a real deal word of mouth marketing practitioner with proven results to back it up having designed and delivered WOM movements for Fiskars, Best Buy, Love 146, and Rage Against the Haze (South Carolina's youth led anti-tobacco movement).I got the chance to meet and hang out with Geno during a recent event hosted by J Bayer and the Comcast CX executive team in Philadelphia, PA. Geno has an awesome personal story about business, marketing, customer experience, ideas for writing, ideas for building your business and provides the listener with a ton of value around how they can better market and grow their own business. He also provides some incredible parallels between pirate culture and today's world of startups and entrepreneurship. Huge thanks to Geno for coming on the show and chatting with the CXNation! Feel free to learn more about Geno here: https://www.thesharedship.com/Support the show (https://cxchronicles.com/)

Join Disegno's founder Johanna Agerman Ross, editor-in-chief Oli Stratford, and deputy editor Kristina Rapacki for a discussion of the 2010s in design. What was the single most important design typology of the decade? How did the role of the designer change? Is the starchitect dead? And why so many biennales? This episode is produced by Evi Hall, with editing and fact checking by Kristina Rapacki. The podcast tile is designed by Zlata Djienova, and features an image by Teresa Giannico. Erratum: In the podcast, Fiskars's history of ironwork is dated back to the 18th century, when in fact the village's first ironworks were established in 1649. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we celebrate the botanist who made his mark in human anatomy and the botanist who lost his civil war specimens to a confederate raider. We'll hear the most popular poem about trees written by a poet who was killed in WWI. We Grow That Garden Library with a self-published humorous garden book by one of my favorite garden authors. I'll talk about a garden gift that you can split - one for you and one for a gift - and in the perfect price point for holiday gift exchanges and then we'll wrap things up with a story about the protection of the work done by botanists over a century ago. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.     Today's Curated Articles:   Clove-Pink (Dianthus caryophyllus) syrup recipe | Quebec Terre a Terre by Sylvain Pilon & Bonnie Kerr Dianthus Syrup! In the past, Clove-pink was esteemed equally with the rose in mixtures. Regarded as "exceedingly cordial" and "wonderfully above measure comforts the heart." Clove-pink petals w/ verbena infused in alcohol was a refreshing bath liqueur.     A third of Africa's tropical flora threatened with extinction: study | @physorg_com The "Red List" is the go-to for birds and mammals but only covers ~10% of plants. A new study's preliminary estimate found a third of Africa's tropical flora (~7000 species) are likely/potentially threatened with extinction       The Potato Shines in New Missouri Botanical Garden Exhibit | @MobotMuseum You say Potato, I say Potato Exhibit! Just in time for the Holidays, the exhibit @MobotMuseum is called “Potato (Solanum tuberosum): Apple of the Earth" & will be on display through March 17. The potato is the most important non-cereal food crop in the world. Galleries feature contemporary artists Seamus O. Hames, Dornith Doherty, and Corina Kennedy. Each artist has interpreted the unique story of the potato, especially the historic impact of the late potato blight that devastated the potato crop in Ireland in the mid-19th century.     Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community on Facebook. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.     Brevities #OTD Today is the birthday of Johann Gottfried Zinn who was born on this day in 1727. Zinn died at the age of 32, but he accomplished much in his short life and he focused on two areas of science: human anatomy and botany. From an anatomy standpoint, in his early twenties, Zinn wrote an eye anatomy book and became the first person to describe the anatomy of the iris in the human eye. There are a number of parts of the eye named in his honor including the Zinn zonule, the Zinn membrane, and the Zinn artery. It's fitting that Zinn wrote about the iris - which of course is also the name of a flower - and so there's some charming coincidental connection between his two passions of anatomy and botany. In Greek mythology, Iris was a beautiful messenger - a one-woman pony express - between the Olympian gods and humans. Iris was the personification of the rainbow. She had golden wings and would travel along the rainbow carrying messages from the gods to mortals. In the plant world, the iris is a genus with hundreds of species and is represented by the fleur-de-lis. When Zinn was 26 years old, he became director of the University Botanic Garden in Göttingen (pronounced “Gert-ing-en”). He thought the University was going to put him to work as a professor of anatomy, but that job was filled and so botany was his second choice. Nonetheless, he threw himself into his work. When Zinn received an envelope of seeds from the German Ambassador to Mexico, he described the blossom in detail and he published the first botanical illustration of the zinnia. He also shared the seeds with other botanists throughout Europe. Like most botanists in the 1700s, Zinn corresponded with Linnaeus. No doubt Zinn's work as a bright, young garden Director and the fact that he tragically died young from tuberculosis, spurred Linnaeus to name the flower Zinn received from Mexico in his honor. And so, Zinn lives on in the name Zinnia - a favorite flower of gardeners, and for good reasons: They come in a variety of vivid colors, they can be direct sown into the garden, they attract pollinators like butterflies and they couldn't be easier to grow. And, if meditation is something you struggle with, you can still become a Zinn Master, if you enjoy growing Zinnias. :) And, I'd like to think Zinn would be pleased being remembered by the Zinnia because, like the Iris, the Zinnia has a connection to the eyes. We've all heard the phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well... in the case of the Zinnia, the Aztecs were clearly not a fan. In fact, the Aztecs had a word for zinnia which basically translated to the evil eye or eyesore. The Aztecs didn't care for the zinnia flower - but don't judge them because it was not the hybridized dazzling version we've grown accustomed to in today's gardens. (You can thank the French for that!) The original plants were weedy-looking with an uninspired dull purple blossom. This is why the blossom was initially called the crassina which means "somewhat corse" before Linnaeus changed the name to remember Zinn. Over time, the gradual transformation of zinnias from eyesores to beauties gave Zinnias the common name Cinderella Flower. And here's a little factoid: the zinnia is Indiana’s state flower. I like to imagine when it came time for Indiana legislators to vote in favor of the zinnia, Zinn was looking down from heaven and smiling as he heard these words: "All in favor of the zinnia, say aye."       #OTD On this day in 1852, the Harvard botanist Asa Gray wrote to Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Gray wrote the letter because he couldn't lecture at the Smithson due to his demanding schedule. But he also sent his reassurance in that Smithsonian was establishing itself as the scientific adviser to the United States Government and not to worry about any more negative media coverage of the Institution.       #OTD Today is the anniversary of the death of the Quaker doctor and botanist Jeremiah Bernard Brinton who died 125 years ago today in 1894. During the civil war, Brinton served as an assistant surgeon and on September 14, 1863, he was promoted to Medical Purveyor. It's hard to imagine, but Brinton managed to continue botanizing during the civil war. It's true. One time he was going to collect a specimen and he made a friend in Major General Gouverneur K. Warren. That little connection was a happy recollection for Brinton through the years. During the Civil War, there was a man named John Singleton Mosby who was a Confederate raider. Mosby and his men conducted raids on union soldiers and communications over the span of two years. On May 12, 1864, Mosby and his men captured a group of supply wagons. Dr. Brinton narrowly escaped, but his collection of botanical specimens from Virginia were destroyed when Mosby burned the wagons. After the war, Brinton founded the Philadelphia Botanical Club. The highlight of his botanical life was guiding Harvard's Asa Gray and the Linnaean Society's William Caruthers on a visit to the pine barren region of New Jersey. His successfully showed them an extremely rare plant - the Schizaea pusilla or the little curly-grass fern. In the final years of his life, Brinton dedicated himself fully to botany. He loved to entertain friends in his botanical workroom known as "the Den." In 1895, when Brinton was 60, he died from a heart attack and was found sitting in his chair in the Den. A Biographical Sketch of Brinton in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club reported that on the last night of his life, Brinton visited a friend and they discussed a German poem called "Good night." Over the quiet pathway Comes clear the bell-ring sound; Good night thy heart now sleep may And 'morrow a day comes round. Once more then let us whisper A good evening and good night. The moon shines o'er the housetops, Our Lord keeps us in sight.     Unearthed Words Today is the birthday of the journalist, poet, and World War I soldier Alfred Joyce Kilmer who was born on this day in 1886. Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and he was killed in action on July 30, 1918, while serving as a sergeant in the 165th Infantry regiment. Every year, Kilmer's childhood home at 17 Joyce Kilmer Ave. in New Brunswick, the city holds it's annual Open House is held from 10 am to 4 pm. Kilmer is best remembered for his poem, Trees: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.         It's Time to Grow That Garden Library with Today's Book: Plants Are Terrible People by Luke Ruggenberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Luke a few years ago and his love of plants and his sense of humor make for a delightful combination. Luke has worked in horticulture for quite some time. This book gives you another crack at reading Luke’s hilarious take on his favorite pastime: gardening. Personally, I love following Luke on twitter because his perspective is so original. He draws on the downright funny aspects of growing plants. Despite (or perhaps because of) a childhood spent dodging falling apples in his Dad's orchard, Luke harbored a dormant love of all things horticultural until college, when his brother showed him how to germinate an avocado pit. That experience inspired Luke to change his major to Botany and the rest is history. This is Luke's second book and it's a series of essays that offer another hilarious and heartfelt look at Luke's life with THE MOST terrible people on earth: plants. I love what IndieReader said about this book, "It reads like the kind of far-flung ruminations a wacky mind might ponder during the mundane processes of working on a garden." Luke's book would make a lovely gardener gift for the holidays for yourself or for someone else - because it's the kind of book you can pick up and just read a funny story or two and then go about your day with a little boost of garden happiness and humor. Best of all, it's Luke's passion for gardening and for life that makes his stories especially connect with those of us who give gardening our all. Don't forget, you can get a copy of Luke's book and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $14.         Today's Recommended Holiday Gift for Gardeners: Fiskars Non-stick Softgrip Micro-Tip Pruning Snip, 2 Pack Make quick, precise cuts when deadheading, trimming and shaping small plants with easy-to-use pruning snips Easy Action spring-action design gently opens blades after each cut to help reduce hand fatigue Fully hardened, precision-ground stainless steel blades stay sharp, even through heavy use Non-stick coating helps reduce jamming and buildup of sticky resin Full lifetime warranty You can get the 2 pruning snip set for gifts or give one and keep one for yourself and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $23.99.       Something Sweet Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart Last year on this day on a post on IDigBio we learned that the over 100,000 specimens that make up the University of Cincinnati's botany collection were going digital thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. In the post, the herbarium curator Eric Tepe, "... opened a folder on his desk to reveal a flower that was plucked on a spring day in 1884. He said, 'This is running buffalo clover. It does really well when there’s some disturbance in the soil. So in bison tracks, it would have been abundant.' Running buffalo clover began to disappear across much of the West with the wide-scale slaughter of buffalo. Today, the clover is federally protected as an endangered species. So UC’s specimen is especially valuable for researchers.” In the article, Eric pointed out that the single specimen of Running Buffalo Clover was shipped to two separate researchers over the past few decades - one in Kansas and once to Miami. Digitizing specimens means that everyone can have access and shipping won't always be necessary. That's a great thing because we learned just last year Australian customs purposely destroyed a herbarium collection because they were worried about bringing in invasive species. They were not aware that what they were intercepting was a priceless 200-year-old French collection on it's way to the herbarium in Queensland. Those kinds of tragedies can be avoided by going digital. And, if something does happen to the original, at least there is a digital copy - which is better than nothing at all. In the Cincinnati herbarium, like so many herbariums around the country, these collections have been waiting, largely undisturbed for over a century. And, I think, it's tremendous that the valuable long-ago work of botanists can be seen and referenced by all of us - at any time and any place - as long as you have wifi.     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."  

Fine Scale Freak shirts are available now! Enter code FREESHIP919c4799d at checkout for free shipping until 9/22/2019: https://hoscalecustoms.threadless.com/designs/fine-scale-freakHave you ever wondered if you REALLY need all of the media and mediums that we seem to collect? Now don't get us wrong, it's fun to get new stuff and we are in no way telling anyone that you shouldn't buy new materials and supplies. But sometimes I think we all get wrapped up in this brand, that brand, and "you HAVE to use that when you do this" kind of talk. When in reality, you can get by with a lot of other alternatives that you might already have or can pick up for a fraction of the cost. The other danger of the overload of media and materials is that it can quickly overwhelm and cause anxiety in newer fine scale and craftsman modelers who we're trying to get into this hobby to make it grow! So instead we discuss some alternatives and ways that people can 'de-clutter' or undo the overload of options that you might feel like you "just have to have"! In addition to that we give our Tools of the week and Todd's is this Fiskars 163050-1001 Fingertip Craft Knife (affiliate link). Brett's was just a stainless steel coffee pot... Exciting, we know. haha! This week's contest winner: Paul Stewart! Next Week's Contest: Comment on our pinned post on our facebook page or email us at podcast@hoscalecustoms.com what your all-time favorite episode of this show is! It can be the funniest, the best content, best interview, whatever reason it's your favorite, we want to know what your favorite of the first 91 of our episodes (+ any tool box talk episodes) is. All entries must be in by 11:59:59pm on Thursday, September 12th. One winner will receive an HO Scale Customs Koozie and a Craftsman Kit from RailroadKits.com. Make sure to visit our site any time for more great craftsman model railroading content: https://hoscalecustoms.com 

Amanda Nistor currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children, Luna and Oliver. She started Ruffled in 2008 while planning her own wedding as a creative outlet and has since worked for many brands creating content such as Fiskars, Hershey's, Macys, and Nordstrom and has gained recognition from publications such as Brides, Harper's Bazaar Australia, and The New York Times. What You Will Learn on This Episode: Creating and curating content to begin a blog and business Managing a team and a family How to get your submissions published - film vs. digital and styled shoots vs. real weddings About Amanda's Styled Social events If you enjoy the content that we are putting out here at Mistakes Make Magic, please take just a few minutes to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast and leave a review! We appreciate and value you!!

Amanda Nistor currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children, Luna and Oliver. She started Ruffled in 2008 while planning her own wedding as a creative outlet and has since worked for many brands creating content such as Fiskars, Hershey’s, Macys, and Nordstrom and has gained recognition from publications such as Brides, Harper's Bazaar Australia, and The New York Times. What You Will Learn on This Episode: Creating and curating content to begin a blog and business Managing a team and a family How to get your submissions published - film vs. digital and styled shoots vs. real weddings  About Amanda’s Styled Social events If you enjoy the content that we are putting out here at Mistakes Make Magic, please take just a few minutes to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast and leave a review! We appreciate and value you!!

It's nearly impossible to make paper flowers and not have heard of Lia Griffith, the internationally renowned designer, educator, and author. When we started our crepe paper flower journeys years ago, Lia's lifestyle website was one of the few that provided paper flower tutorials for crepe paper. As a leader of the craft industry, Lia's business model has evolved to a subscription model to provide consistently amazing handmade craft projects for “a handcrafted lifestyle”. She's partnered with some big brands such as Joann's and Cricut; she has a line of her own craft tools with Fiskars; and she has her own line of crepe papers, frosted tissue papers, paper flower kits. In addition to creative projects, Lia's team consistently pumps out easy, quick, and beautiful paper flower tutorials for beginners and ultimately provides a popular “gateway” into paper flower art for many crafters and artists. From her studio in Portland, Oregon, Lia's goal is to teach and help others “find joy in crafting and reopen the door to their creative soul.” Lia's first paper flower book, “Crepe Paper Flowers: A Beginner's Guide to Making and Arranging Beautiful Blooms” is now available for sale on her website and on Amazon. Listen to Lia as she talks with Quynh, Jessie, and Priscilla, about Lia Griffith and her goal to “handcraft your life”! You can learn more about Lia and her team by following them on Instagram at @liagriffith, and their website: www.liagriffth.com.

“Lia Griffith is a designer, maker, artist, and author. Since launching this handcrafted lifestyle site with her first paper rose in 2013, Lia and her team have developed thousands of original designs, templates, and tutorials for those who love to learn, make and create. While paper flowers are where this journey began, Lia is most passionate about helping others find joy in crafting and reopen the door to their creative soul. She believes in changing lives one craft at a time.” It’s nearly impossible to make paper flowers and not have heard of Lia Griffith, the internationally renowned designer, educator, and author. When we started our crepe paper flower journeys years ago, Lia’s lifestyle website was one of the few that provided paper flower tutorials for crepe paper. As a leader of the craft industry, Lia’s business model has evolved to a subscription model to provide consistently amazing handmade craft projects for “a handcrafted lifestyle”. She’s partnered with some big brands such as Joann’s and Cricut; she has a line of her own craft tools with Fiskars; and she has her own line of crepe papers, frosted tissue papers, paper flower kits. In addition to creative projects, Lia’s team consistently pumps out easy, quick, and beautiful paper flower tutorials for beginners and ultimately provides a popular “gateway” into paper flower art for many crafters and artists. From her studio in Portland, Oregon, Lia’s goal is to teach and help others “find joy in crafting and reopen the door to their creative soul.” Lia’s first paper flower book, “Crepe Paper Flowers: A Beginner’s Guide to Making and Arranging Beautiful Blooms” is now available for sale on her website and on Amazon.

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Today I’ve been thinking about one of the most common questions I see in Facebook cardmaking groups … “I’m new to cardmaking, what should I buy?”.  The answers always intrigue me. Everyone is so passionate about what they think is the best tool or most useful thing to have, and I really love seeing everyone being so helpful to those who are new to the craft.  However, while the answers come from a place of pure enthusiasm, they’re not always going to be what the person who has asked the question actually needs.  I think, when we’ve been cardmaking or scrapbooking for a long time, we forget how we started, and so the recommendations are often items that aren’t quite appropriate for a beginner.  Also, we are all really different, with different budgets, different size spaces and storage capacity, different tastes and different needs.  One person’s essentials may be another person’s waste of money. In one cardmaking group I belong to, there is a running thread in an album that is an excellent resource for members.  When I considered the question, and thought about what I would recommend, I realised that I started with the basics. Over the years I have levelled up as I discovered new products and techniques, my needs and space and tastes changed and I figured out what I liked. My contribution to that thread was pretty comprehensive, so I thought I would share it here on the podcast (in a LOT more detail), as it might come in handy for those of you who are just starting in the fun world of papercraft.  For those of you who aren’t papercrafters, feel free to stick around, as I’ll be discussing some of the reasons when, how and why we level up, which is appropriate to a bunch of other crafts. I started where everyone starts … Level 1 – Absolute Beginner Back in Episode 2, I talked about the top 6 things you need to begin cardmaking, and in Episode 3, I talked about the top 5 things you need to begin stamping.  Here's a link ... LINK – The Craft Room Podcast Episode 2 – https://www.dawnlewis.com.au/podcast2 LINK – The Craft Room Podcast Episode 3 – https://www.dawnlewis.com.au/podcast3 And … for the quilters … Marni Franks from Frankensteins Fabrics joined me in Episode 5 to discuss her top 10 must-have items to begin making a quilt top.  Here's that link ... LINK – The Craft Room Podcast Episode 5 – https://dawnlewis.com.au/podcast5 When you’re starting out, there’s really not very much you NEED to start making cards, scrapbooking, art journals, quilts, or whatever it is that you’re into.  I don’t know anybody who starts with ALL the tools, because, honestly, the cost is prohibitive, and who has space for all that stuff when you don’t even know what you’re doing yet? So here’s me .. back when I started, about 30 years ago, at level one as a cardmaker.  I sourced most of my supplies at the big Stitches & Craft Show, which I would attend religiously twice a year after saving my craft pennies for six months.  I was into stamps pretty much straight away, and I was super careful about what I spent my money on.  In my cardmaking box (yes, everything fit into one box … incredible!) I had … Cardstock – white, black, coloured Speciality papers Cutting Tools – craft knife, ruler, self healing cutting mat Stamps Ink pads – black and coloured Adhesive Scissors Punches We are talking very late 80’s / early 90’s, and there was nowhere near the range available then as there is now.  No clear stamps, so no need for an acrylic block.  This is actually quite close to the list that I recommend for now, so I wasn’t far off the ideal set-up.  I rarely use punches now, but back then I used them all the time.  It was the trend of the time, punches were readily available, and nobody had die-cutting machines … I’m not even sure if they were on the scene at all yet.  I was able to create cute cards, quickly and easily.  I chose items that I felt I would get a lot of use out of, and I was happy creating cards in my spare time.  Until the inevitable happened.  I started getting bored with my supplies.  I was so sick of using the same few punches and stamps over and over … and then new products started being shown at the craft shows.  That’s when I got the itch and took the leap into … Level 2 – Heat Embossing I already had stamps and ink pads, so heat embossing was a natural next step for me.  Do you remember the first time you saw heat embossing in action?  I do!  It was like magic, and my brain was full of ideas, entranced by the possibilities that this magical powder presented! I started with a basic kit … it had a clear embossing ink pad, and a few embossing powders (I think I started with clear, gold, silver and copper). The problem was that heat guns were really expensive, and a bit hard to find back then.  I was determined to find a solution that wasn’t going to take half a weeks pay, and can tell you that even though a hairdryer might seem like a good solution … it is not! What I ended up using was the toaster!  It worked really well, and I made do with a toaster for a very long time … seriously … over a decade!  If you are on a tight budget, and a heat gun isn’t in your future, then I recommend giving the toaster heat embossing method a try. I did learn some important tips that you need to know before you start, and I will endeavour to make a video showing how this works very soon (and when I do, I’ll come back here and add the link to the show notes).  If you are going to use a toaster, there are some things you should know. First you need to empty all the crumbs out of the toaster.  You don’t want to set off the smoke alarm or make your house smell like burnt toast. Second, take note of where the toast level setting is before you start.  Mark it with tape or photograph it.  It took a long time to decide on that perfect level of toastiness, and if you don’t put it back, someone is going to be cross. Thirdly, you’re going to need long tweezers or secure tongs to hold your piece of cardstock, because it is going to get really hot really fast, and you do not want your fingers that close to that much heat.  Bonus points if the tongs or tweezers have some silicone, because metal will get super hot as well, and you’ll still possibly burn your fingers. Stamp your image with clear embossing ink, sprinkle over the powder, tap off the excess onto a piece of paper (so you can pour it back into the jar), and brush off any loose powder that’s sticking where it shouldn’t be.  We will talk about that I a minute. Put your stamped & powdered piece of cardstock to the side, pour the excess powder back into the jar and put the lid on!  We don’t want to accidentally knock the whole thing over when the toaster pops up and gives us a fright! You’ve prepped your piece, you’ve prepped your toaster.  Turn the toaster heat setting up to full, and press the lever down … obviously without any bread in your toaster.  Hold the cardstock over the toaster, at least 5cm above, with the stamped & powdered side up.  Constantly move it around so that you don’t set your cardstock on fire or scorch it.  It will take a little while, but soon you will see the embossing powder begin to melt.  When you’re done, if the toaster hasn’t already timed out, pop the lever back up.  And when you’re completely finished, put the setting back to the way it was, lest you incur the wrath of someone who is unhappy with burnt toast! I mentioned before about embossing powder being where it shouldn’t be, and this is where I will add 2 items to this level list.  An anti-static powder tool is an excellent thing to have, as it stops powder sticking where it shouldn’t.  You can purchase one or make your own.  The last item would be a fine paintbrush.  I have one that I keep in my papercraft tool caddy, which I only use for embossing powder. Now, of course the next question is … what colour embossing powders should I buy?  It depends very much on what you like.  If you really don’t like silver, then don’t get silver.  If you don’t like gold, then don’t get gold.  Get the colours you like!  However, here’s a handy tip … if you already have coloured ink pads (especially if they are pigment ink pads), then you don’t need to buy a bunch of coloured embossing powder.  One of my favourite things to do in those early days was to stamp with coloured pigment ink, sprinkle over clear embossing powder, and heat set that.  I had the colour, I had the dimension and the gloss, but I didn’t have to spend my limited craft funds on lots of bottles of embossing powder.  To this day, I mostly use silver, gold, copper, clear and clear with sparkles. I was well and truly hooked, and started Scrapbooking, which lead to … Level 3 – Embellishments Ooooooh my goodness.  This is where it is tempting to go absolutely crazy.  These days I rarely use embellishments on my cards, but I used to use them a lot when I was scrapbooking, so I have a very generous collection in my stash.  I started small, with brass split-pins which my dad smuggled home from work for me once.  Some embellishments you might be tempted by are … Coloured & metallic brads / splitpins Eyelets Buttons Twine Ribbon Paper doilies Paper and silk flowers Fancy mesh ribbons Adhesive gems Adhesive pearls Sequins Beads Shaped paper clips Mini tags Coloured hot glue sticks … and I’m sure there are a lot more that I haven’t covered. It’s when you’re on this level that you are 100% sure that this is a craft you want to do for a long time … you’re all in!  You’re also likely in a phase where you’re crafting late at night, and if you’re making a big project, you want to be able to finish it without doing any online shopping (and the waiting that goes along with that), or stall because your local craft store is closed.  This is when you really start stash-building. For me, this was the phase when I was also on a really tight budget, and so I discovered that I could get some basics at the dollar shops that were popping up everywhere.  Some things I bought were great prices, and great value for those prices.  This was the level when I learned (the hard way) the difference between cheap and cheerful, and cheap and nasty.  There’s nothing wrong with grabbing a bargain, but if it’s something you never use, it’s not a bargain at all … it’s a waste of money.  So be discerning when you purchase dollar store items. When you have a reaction like “How is this a whole $2? Ewwwww”… that’s cheap and nasty.  When your reaction is more like “How is this only $2? It’s so gorgeous! Maybe it’s a mistake and they received a box from Lincraft by accident” … then that is cheap and cheerful.  I have a whole video that showcases 10 cards I created, which I’ve linked below ... LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyqcVcd_Ao My last pro tip would be … don’t go overboard buying embellishments.  Trends change, your tastes change, there will always be something new.  If you buy a bag of 52 printed die-cuts, but only use one or two, the rest are just going to sit in your stash, which is a waste of space and money.  If you really must have that 52 die-cut pack, plan to use all or most of them straight away, and finish that project before you go and buy more. This leads us very nicely into Level 4 – Die-cutting & raised embossing I had been papercrafting for a VERY long time before I was finally convinced that it would be good value to buy my own die-cutting machine. I had moved into scrapbooking, and specialty scrapbooking stores were opening up all over the place. I had started teaching at my local scrapbooking store (this would be about 16 years ago), and met one of my most awesome friends.  Through her I was introduced to the wonderful world of papercrafting swaps.  Oh boy! I became a hard-core serial swapper, which gave me so many wonderful excuses to pop into the scrapbooking store and make oh so many purchases.  Another friend had invited me along to a weekend crop, and it was tons of fun.  Around this time, Sizzix came out with a home diecutting machine. There was a big commercial one at the local store that anyone could pay to spend time on, which was great.  Why would I need my own at home when I could use the one at the store AND use their dies for such a tiny price?  But it was at one of those weekend crops that someone had their Sizzix machine with them … and when they let me have a go, I realised that I could actually get a lot of use out of one of these.  It still took over a year for me to take the plunge and invest in such an extravagant purchase, but I’m very glad that I did. I was at a stage where I preferred to make my own embellishments from scratch, and was starting to see that if I invested in tools with multiple uses, I could get better value than purchasing ready-made items that were single use. It was a pretty exciting day when I bought my first Sizzix machine.  It was the old school pull-down handle one, which took thick dies and Sizzlets, the thinner dies that preceded the wafer thin metal dies that are most common today.  The bonus was that I could use embossing folders in the machine, so it really pulled double duty, and helped me really get my moneys worth from it. There is something, though, that you kind of don’t realise when you purchase your first die-cutting machine … you have to feed it! As with everything, you get bored with using the same old alphabet die over and over again … you want variety!  So you are constantly adding new dies to your collection.  I figured out I could create handmade embellishments to sell on ebay in the early days of the internet.  It was great, because I was getting maximum use out of my tools, and was able to boost my Paypal account, and use my earnings to fund my next round of die purchases. I did upgrade to a Sizzix Big Shot about 6 years ago, just because all of my new dies were wafer thin metal dies, and my old Sizzix just wasn’t up to the job, even with the converters … it was just too hard to make it work. So … what do I recommend someone entering Level 4 now should buy in the die-cutting / raised embossing arena?  Well … that depends very much on the individual, and I have some tips to help you decide … * Take your budget into consideration, as there are a lot of choices to fit most budgets. * How much space do you have for a die-cutting machine?  They can take up a lot of space, so if your workspace is small, look for one that folds up. * What exactly do you want to die-cut?  Do you really need dies for every stamp set?  Because that can be very expensive.  If you like to fussy cut your stamps without the hassle of scissors, perhaps a Brother Scan N Cut would be a better option.  Sure, it’s a bigger outlay, but if you add up the cost of coordinating dies over the years, it may be better value. * Perhaps start with some basic, yet versatile dies, like rectangles, circles or ovals.  Do you prefer the look of a plain cut circle, or one with faux stitching or tiny pierced holes? * Do you prefer to stamp your sentiments, or would you get use from some commonly used word dies, like Happy Birthday, Get Well or Congratulations. * Which embossing folders should you get? How about starting with one that’s simple, like tiny dots or stripes, seeing if you enjoy using it, and going from there. Whatever you choose, make sure it’s something you will use over and over again.  There are lots of ways to use your dies.  Naturally you can cut them out, but if you add an embossing mat, you can just make an impression with them, which opens up a whole new world of techniques! LINK – embossing mat https://dawnlewis.com.au/product/universal-embossing-mat-couture-creations/ All too soon I hit Level 5 – MUST HAVE MORE STAMPS It all started with a Stampin’ Up demonstration at a friends house.  As we all sat round admiring our gorgeous work and these incredible products, I remember saying … “One of us needs to sign up”.  And one of us did (and no, it wasn’t me). This was when I started collecting stamps with much more ferver.  I mean … I was supporting my friend in her new business, my kids were older, so I had more time to craft, and not only were the designs getting better and better, but I was finding that stamps were becoming more and more affordable.  Acrylic stamps were hitting the shops, and while I’m not a big fan of acrylic because of the work you need to put in to get a decent impression from them, I was a fan of the price point! I did give a lot of stamping advice back in episode 3, but I feel some of it bears repeating.  These days, when you add stamping to your repertoire in a big way, there are some things to keep in mind. * Really think about the occasions that you make cards for, and buy sets that you can use for those. * When you look at a stamp set, can you immediately think of at least 3 different ways you could use it? * Versatility is everything.  Go for stamps you can use for a variety of ages and occasions as well as with a variety of techniques. * Are you falling in love with Christmas stamps and buying them all, only to realise that you don’t actually make Christmas cards?  You have two options here … stop buying Christmas stamps or start making and sending Christmas cards! * Consider quality.  If you are going to be stamping a lot, go for quality.  I always steer clear of acrylic and silicone these days because the quality just isn’t there, and they are entering into the realm of cheap and nasty.  A lot of cheap silicone stamps are counterfeit as well, which is devastating the many amazing stamp companies.  I have torn many an acrylic stamp trying to remove it from the acetate, and had silicone stamps deteriorate so badly after a year or two that they just don’t stamp a good image.  What a waste of money!  Give me polymer or rubber stamps any day! * Look at smaller sets.  They’re a great price point, and you can often get a lot of use out of them.  I have some video series on YouTube where I show you different techniques you can use with one stamps set.  I’ve linked a few below. This was also the point where I purchased my first stamp positioner … the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig.  I still use it for my rubber stamps, and it did the trick for over a decade, helping me improve my stamp placement, and even double stamp if I needed to. LINK Love You A Latte - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLyQrXIkZ7CYgAEUYTJ6XJq0J1Oc1xmTf Bork - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLyQrXIkZ7CYuuQ_AuSQZ4StR5uul3pE3 Painted Rose - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLyQrXIkZ7Cae0Sbx_l0upi7xGrHbRP7a  It was for work that I delightedly moved up to Level 6 – Electronic die cutting machine About 10 years ago, when I was working with Brandcorp, there was an Australian papercraft trade show called SIA.  I was invited to contribute to the Brandcorp display, run a workshop, demonstrate and create a LOT of worked models for the company.  It was TONS of fun, and I spent 2 days sitting in a stand across from Heidi Swapp, and was introduced to Copic markers for the first time … but we will get that that in an upcoming level (sufficed to say, there was NOT a lot of time between this level and the next). To prepare all the kits for the workshop, I used part of my budget to purchase a Cricut machine.  I had been playing with the original little Cricut at the store where I was teaching, and I was really impressed with it.  By now I was savvy enough to know I would need to purchase more cartridges, but given the impressive variety and volume of designs I could cut from one cartridge, I realised I would really get a lot of use out of it.  And I did!  I used it to cut out all the pieces needed for the workshop, which was a paper flower topiary showcasing a new paper range and embellishments. I was allowed to keep the Cricut as part of my payment package, and I still have it today.  I rarely use it now, just because, sadly, I don’t have a space where I can have it set up ready to use when the mood strikes.  I know there are much more up to date versions, but I really love my pink 12x12 Cricut machine. If you are considering an electronic die-cutting machine, there are a few different kinds, and it seems like there are always more coming out.  I honestly can’t keep up! What I do know is that they fall into a few different categories. * Electronic versions of a hand-crank machine, like the Big Shot or Vagabond. * Cartridge-based machines. * Computer-based machines. * Scan N Cut … which literally scans a page full of stamped images, then cuts them out. I confess … if I was going to invest in a new one, it would be the Brother Scan N Cut, just because it does the fussy cutting really quickly by literally scanning your stamped images, then cutting them out super fast!  And right now, that’s pretty much all I want. As I mentioned, I moved onto Level 7 very quickly – I must colour ALL THE THINGS After being introduced to Copic markers 10 years ago, I very quickly realised that I wanted stamps I could colour in!  For me, Copic markers are like painting with a marker, where I could achieve shadow and highlight, but with much less mess and faster drying times.  I was instantly hooked, and was very fortunate to be introduced to Copics by an amazing Aussie colourist as well as Copic royalty, Marianne Walker and Lori Craig. I had already been doing some watercolour with my Stampin’ Up ink pads, but this took it to a whole new level.  Before long I did the certification course to become a Copic Certified Instructor, and convinced the owner of the store I was working in to add Copic markers to the shop.  I was teaching classes within a couple of months, and Copics became a serious obsession. There was a lot to love about them … they were refillable, the nibs were replaceable … the fact that they were designed to last me a lifetime really appealed to me.  Plus they blend like a dream. I can colour embellishments to coordinate with my images … Maybe I need to do a Copic episode one day!  Yes … let’s do that, or I’ll be stuck in a Copic loop for hours! There are other mediums I like to use to colour my stamped images and figuring out how to colour with one led me to experiment and colour with others. * Distress Inks (regular and oxide) * Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers * Prismacolor Pencils * I’ve been known to use Acrylic paint for some digital stamps that I’ve transferred onto canvases … but I always come back to Copics. By the time I was presenting segments on Scrap It TV, I was firmly into Level 8 – Stamping is my life now! Stamping is not only fun, relaxing and creative, I also consider it to be an incredibly practical craft.  I love making cards, I love sending cards, I love the communities around stamping and cardmaking, and I love the sense of accomplishment that comes from taking cardstock and ink and markers, and turning them into a mini piece of art that can help turn someone’s day around. I love making videos to help people get the most from their stamps, and learn how to use all those fun supplies that jumped into their shopping basket and came home with them. With stamping very firmly in my life, I have allowed myself to make some tool upgrades. *Misti stamping tool. This is an expensive piece of kit, but given I was now working in the stamping industry, making lots of videos, making lots of cards, I needed to be more efficient, and the Misti did that for me.  I was sick of throwing away cardstock because I’d mis-stamped it, and I wanted to be able to batch stamp. There are lots of different stamping platforms on the market now, so choose the one that fits your needs and your budget.  I love that these tools make it possible for people with hand mobility issues to be able to stamp, whereas an acrylic block may have been difficult, frustrating or even impossible to use. * Trimmers. I cycle between 3 different types of trimmers.  I have an old Martha Stewart sliding blade trimmer, which I use when I need to cut a section out of a piece of card or paper, and it also doubles as a scoring tool.  I use a Fiskars rotary blade trimmer for when I need to cut lots of paper or cardstock … it’s a really solid workhorse.  And I use the Tonic Tim Holtz 8.5” Guillotine for trimming small bits and pieces. * I recently upgraded my work surface to a Tonic Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat … and I love it!  I can ink, and glue, and heat, and paint and cut on that surface and it takes all the punishment I can throw at it.  It had become a bit of a pain swapping out my work surface constantly, switching out self healing mats, chopping boards and non-stick sheets.  As you can tell, I was all in … then I discovered a new level … Level 9 – Design Team member I found blog challenges to be a great way to stretch myself, see what others were creating, and to discover new techniques.  In my travels around the many blog challenges that were on offer, I came across a Design Team call-out.  I had no idea there was such a thing!  I applied to a few, with no luck, but one day a little shop in Canada took a chance on me, accepting me onto their Design Team. I have always enjoyed the challenge of working with limited supplies and within a theme or colour scheme boundary, so I took to Design Team work pretty quickly.  It was a short term, and when I was done with that team, I was hooked!  I went looking for other DT calls, and before long I was was a member of the KennyK Krafty Krew, a digital stamp company with a difference.  I LOVED being on that team, and I ended up doing 2 DT stints for them.  I have also been on Design Teams for Tiddly Inks and Little Miss Muffett Stamps, also digital stamp companies. Earlier this year I was on the Kindred Stamps Video Design Team, which is a brand I stock in my store.  They make incredible fandom stamps … I’ll link to them in the shownotes because they are really cool!  I met some wonderful people in my time on design teams, I was able to promote brands I truly loved, and try things I might never have tried before. It is a lot of work to be on a DT … there are deadlines to meet and guidelines to follow, so you need to be very organised and able to follow instructions. I know a lot of people aspire to be on a Design Team, and I have a few tips if that’s something you’d like to do. * Be sure to read the DT requirements thoroughly. If you don’t think you can meet the deadlines, best apply later when you have more time. * Don’t be too disappointed if you aren’t accepted onto a DT first time around. They get hundreds of applications and usually only have a small number of places. * Make a lot of stuff!  If you post photos of your creations all the time to Instagram, then you’re building a great online gallery for stamp brands to view and get an idea of your style. * Take great photos.  Invest some time into learning how to take great photographs of your cards, as that can make a world of difference when applying to a DT. * You don’t always have to have a blog, but it helps. You can start a blog for free, and there are loads of tutorials on YouTube to help you do that. * If you aspire to be on the DT of one particular stamp company, use their products often, and tag them in every photo you post on Instagram.  It makes your name familiar when DT application time rolls around. LINK – Kindred Stamps in Australia https://dawnlewis.com.au/product-category/kindred-stamps/  It was during the final season of Scrap It TV that I moved, kind of accidentally into Level 10 – Stamp shop owner! Honestly, this wasn’t something I had really ever thought about before, but I was such a hard-core stamper by now that I was looking at obscure brands in the USA that we just couldn’t get here in Australia. I asked a question, expecting a no … but got a yes, and before I knew it, I was a stockist for Sweet Stamp Shop.  I had a background in selling handmade, and figured I’d just sell these stamps for a little while and see if anyone else was interested in them.  Um … well … that was a few years ago, and I am still selling stamps today! This is a pretty extreme level, and definitely not for the faint of heart, but it’s where I ended up, and I have to say … I’m really happy here. So … what can we learn from all of this?  Let’s go back to where I started, in the cardmaking Facebook group, where I see the same things come up over and over again. * Wanting to be an instant expert.  Sure … some people pick things up quickly, but for the grand majority, it takes time to build your skills.  It’s just not possible to have all the supplies, and all the tools and know all the techniques straight away.  Everyone wants to be an instant expert, but we all need to start at level 1, and just like in a video game, as you travel through each level, you become more dexterous, learn new skills, become better at them, and then you level up.  It’s what I did.  It’s what everybody does.  It’s going to take time, and if you want to hear my thoughts on that whole journey from beginner to expert, then check out last weeks Podcast, episode 9, which I will also link to in the show notes. LINK https://dawnlewis.com.au/podcast9 * Comparisonitis.  If you start comparing yourself to other people, I would gently recommend that you stop doing that.  You could be comparing the cards you’re making only 6 months into this new hobby to the cards someone else is making who has been doing this for 5 or 10 years (or more).  It’s like comparing apples to oranges … it just can’t be done … there are way too many variables. What it boils down to is this … it’s craft, and it’s meant to be fun.  You will figure out your favourite techniques, your preferred style and tools that help you get the job done as you go along and level up.  Maybe you will level up in a different order to me, maybe you will level up faster or slower than those around you, maybe you will hit a level you’re happy with and stay there forever … you do you, and make sure you’re having fun in the process! LINK – my craft cupboard tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIqGC5jF6c8

W programie Tomasz Sekielski rozmawia z Piotrem Strzelczykiem o tym, dlaczego Finowie to najszczęśliwsi ludzie na świecie i z czego słynie fińskie miasteczko Fiskars?

Welcome to The Craft Room!  Today I am joined by Marni Franks, of Frankensteins Fabrics, who is sharing with us the top 10 supplies & tools you will need to create a quilt top. Sure, there are lots of wonderful toys you can buy to make quilts, but we're talking bare basic necessities.  We've each thrown in an honourable mention each, so stay tuned till the end for those. 1. Pattern 2. Sewing Machine 3. Rotary Cutter 4. Ruler 5. Self-healing Cutting Mat 6. 1/4" Sewing Machine Foot 7. Fabric 8. Thread 9. Pins 10. Iron & Ironing Board Honourable Mentions Dawn - Quick Unpick / Seam Ripper Marni - Thread Snips Marni also has some great hints and tips along the way, especially if you've never made a quilt before, and you can read more information below. Here are the places you can view Marni's work and contact her with your burning quilt-related questions ... Website - http://www.frankensteinsfabrics.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frankiesfabrics Instagram - https://www.facebook.com/frankiesfabrics Email - franensteinsfabrics@hotmail.com Patterns Buy patterns from reliable sources to ensure that you are not supporting infringement of the pattern designers copyright/intellectual property. Buy direct from designers where you can. Give feedback to designers where you can. Do not photocopy and share purchased patterns as this is a breach of copyright/intellectual property and theft. Support designers by telling people where you bought a pattern from. Sewing Machines Sewing machine is personal preference. My best advice is grab a notebook, write down questions you have about what you want to sew, the functions and accessories and price. Take samples of the fabrics you’ll be using and go and visit every machine dealer you can to test drive machines. Buy the best machine your budget will allow. That way the machine will last you longer as you learn and you won’t out skill your machine too quickly. Buy from a dealer so you get the after sale care you need as well as warranties and help when needed. Keep your machine cleaned and oiled and serviced regularly and it will last you a long time. Rotary cutter The 2 brands I prefer are OLFA and Fiskars. Both companies are super reliable. They both do similar sizes but I love my 45mm ergonomic handled OLFA and my 28mm curvy handled Fiskars. I use them for cutting different things as its easier to do smaller controlled cutting with smaller rotary blades. When I’m cutting large pieces like strips, borders and background squares I always go a bigger blade to make it faster and more efficient. If you end up doing lots of strip cutting I also recommend purchasing a ruler with a rotary cutter built into it. This is a faster way to cut and protects your fingers from the blade. Rulers Patchwork rulers come in all shapes and sizes. My most recommended sizes for when you are starting out are a 6in x 24in ruler and if you are doing lots of big squares a 12.5in square ruler. I also found quite handy when I started out a small square ruler and there are two sizes which are good depending on your hands – a 4.5in and a 6.5in square. I tend not to be brand specific when it comes to rulers as not every company makes every style of ruler. I do recommend Matilda’s Own, Australian Rulers and Templates, Hobbycraft and Sew Easy.  Self-healing craft mat Best recommended brand OLFA. Sizes are small 12in x 18in, medium 18in x 24in and large 24in x 36in. OLFA is by far the best in my opinion as I’ve still got my original mat from 16 years ago and it’s in excellent cutting condition. 1/4in sewing machine foot This foot is a must for accuracy. Most of these feet will come with a small tongue guide that sticks out of the right hand side of the foot and helps you guide your fabric under the foot while stitching. The guide prevents the fabric from moving further to the right and creating seams that are bigger than 1/4in. There are a few out there that don’t have a guide, so if you feel you want to start your quilting with a little bit of extra help don’t buy one of these. Your machine feet are purchased from the dealer who sells your machine model. I can help with Bernina and some selected snap on feet (Brother, Janome, Bernette). Fabrics When you are first starting out its okay to use cheaper fabrics, however you do run the risk of having issues if the quality is poor. Keep to 100% cotton patchwork fabrics as they are more stable and easier to piece than many other fabrics. Once you’ve gained confidence you can play with other fabric types and compositions. Marni's favourite sewing thread Honestly thread is totally personal preference and selected on the basis of what I want the project to look like. So I tend to piece with Rasant (core spun polyester/cotton blend) and quilt with whatever takes my fancy. Rasant is by far the most economical way to piece quilt tops – there is 1000m on a spool and costs vary from store to store but its around $6-9. It takes me approx. 3 months to use an entire spool when just piecing. If I’m quilting with it however 1 spool will do approx. an entire quilt top and bobbin thread. My other favourite threads for quilting are Kingstar (machine embroidery thread that’s shiny) and Aurifil. They are more expensive but definitely worth it for special projects. I used to use a lot of Gutermann threads but the cost became prohibitive so I stopped using them. There is nothing wrong with them, they are fabulous threads and very good quality but when I was making lots of quilts (30 a year at one stage) it just became too expensive. Pins There are lots of different pins out there but Flower head pins are highly recommended because they sit flat. They are longer than most standard pins and generally are considered sharper as well. I like two brands when it comes to these pins – Clover and Hemline. Clover are the better quality in my opinion but they don’t contain very many pins in a packet so if you do buy them be prepared to be moving pins around your work more often. Hemline brand are cheap and cheerful. Lots in a packet, brightly coloured and pretty good quality. Ironing and Ironing Board Personal preference again – but basically an ironing board with a decent cover and foam, set at a comfortable height. An iron that you can use with or without steam, a good long cord and if possible one that turns itself off. Special mentions: Quick unpick/Seam Ripper Make sure your seam ripper is comfortable in your hand and has a nice sharp blade. If it has a lid, please use it. Always better to be safe than sorry. Thread Snips There are a few types of thread snips that I recommend. Cheap and cheerful ones are fine but generally I’ve found that they don’t stay sharp for very long. I do suggest buying a pair that cost a bit more so that you get good use out of them. Spring loaded snips (as well as scissors) are great if you have issues with your hands like arthritis as the spring mechanism takes the pressure off your hands. I have a small spring loaded pair on my long-arm to snip threads as I quilt but when I’m at my sewing machine I prefer a pair of duck-billed scissors. These are mainly used for machine embroidery to get better access for trimming jump stitches. TIP: Proper seam pressing Part of the key to gaining accuracy in your finished patchwork item is in the ironing. It takes practice to not put too much pressure on your fabrics and press them into oblivion. The trick is to lift and press, not to push. Pushing will warp the fabric and make your straight seams bow out of alignment. Check both right and wrong sides of your pieces to ensure that the seam hasn’t “rolled” over onto the joining piece and that all seams are pressed open/or to opposite sides for joining junctions. Steam can be both your enemy and your best friend but use it sparingly until you are comfortable with ironing in this manner. Check Marni’s blog post for more. Marni's class list, if you're ever on the NSW Central Coast - CLICK HERE

This is the DIY Garden Minute by Spoken Garden!  "Teaching you tips and tricks for your Garden in one minute!"    Find more one-minute topics at spokengarden.com/podcast.  Today's topic is 7 Garden Gifts for New Homeowners! This is part of our 12-part Holiday Garden Gift Series  As part of this episode, some of these gift ideas we are affiliates for.  They are:   The Husqvarna 350 BT, Professional 2-Cycle Gas Backpack Leaf Blower!  Corona 3180D ClassicCUT Forged Bypass Hand Pruner, 1" Diameter Cut  Fiskars PowerTOOTH 7-inch folding pruning saw   Sun Joe GTS4002C Garden Tool System  Fiskars' 28-inch Bypass Loppers  Starter 9-Piece Hand Tools Set by VREMI Horticulture  Sunset Western Garden Book: The Ulitmate Gardening Guide – Cloth bound  Check out and listen to other DIY Garden Minute episodes for holiday gift ideas or other topics at spokengarden.com/podcast. On Instagram or Pinterest under @SpokenGarden (all one word) to follow or leave us a comment.    See ya in the Garden! 

Ben Woods joins Tim Keirnan for a single point perspective on the Fiskars StaySharp Max reel mower. Needing neither gasoline nor electricity, this lawnmower is completely powered by the user to cut the lawn. Ben discusses the values that led to his wanting this mower and his experience with it over several summer months of use. As usual we follow the critique structure to learn his experience with Encounter Decision Purchase Out of the Box Longitudinal Use Ben can be found at www.dbenwoods.com.  

This is the DIY Garden Minute by Spoken Garden!  "Teaching you tips and tricks for your Garden in one minute!"     Today's topic: 5 Garden Gifts for Pruning Lovers! Part of our 12-part Holiday Garden Gift Series  Some gift ideas we are affiliates for, so we might get a small commission if you click and buy any of these products.  Our 5 garden gift ideas for that perennial pruner you know:  Corona ClassicCUT Forged Bypass Hand Shears  Fiskars 28-inch Bypass Loppers  Fiskars 7-inch PowerTooth Soft Grip Folding Pruning Saw  DeWalt Anti-Fog Safety Glasses  Husky Water-Resistant Leather Gloves      Other DIY Garden Minute episodes for holiday gift ideas or other topics at spokengarden.com/podcast.  Find us on Instagram or Pinterest under @SpokenGarden to follow or leave us a comment.    See ya in the Garden! 

Another mini-sode this week - yay! Just a little chit chat, I have a new podcast email info@makeanddecorate.com in addition to my main email stephaniesochadesign@gmail.comI review rotary cutters from Clover, Olfa, Fiskars, Gingher and Tula Pink. What am I watching on YouTube? I talk about three channels that I subscribe to and watch on YouTube. Show notes: https://stephaniesochadesign.com/podcast-make-and-decorateInstagram @stephanie.socha.design #makeanddecoratepodcastSupport the show (https://stephaniesochadesign.com/podcast-make-and-decorate)

Industridesignern Olavi Lindén har gjort en lång och framgångsrik karriär inom Fiskars. Hans yxor och trädgårdsredskap finns i miljontals hem runtom i världen. I sitt sommarprat talar han om lekens kraft och säger sig ha lekt på jobbet hela livet. Sina pensionärsdagar tillbringar han som framgångsrik byggare av musikinstrument. Redaktör:Thomas Lundin Produktion: Parad Media

This week - we got the chance to drive the Fiskar Karma this past week - originally with a starting price of over $100,000 it is easily the most expensive vehicle we've ever driven. Fiskars can now be had for much closer to $30,000 and after driving one, we're not even sure that they're worth that much...We also drove the Jaguar F-Type R. There's no comparison between the Jaguar and the Fiskar, the Jaguar is sporty, responsive, and refined in every way that the Fiskar is now. To quote Ferris Bueler - If you have the means, I highly recommend it...If you haven't already, make sure to join our league at FantasyGP.com code 14831491In the news this week - Carmen Jorda firmly plants her foot in her mouth and works to extract itThere's a new feeder series in the F1 ladder - Formula 3 is coming and will be promoted by the Formula 1 Group.Liberty is holding off on plans to reorganize the F1 calendarKevin Magnusson wants to drive in IndyCarWilliams says that they don't think that Mercedes gives them downgraded enginesThe French GP may be bringing back some old F1 traditions.Mercedes is concerned about how their car treats the softer tiresNew year, new colors, new engine manufacturer - but reliability is still a problem at McLarenRenault has a new wing coming for Australia.try{(function() {if (typeof(lpcurruser) == 'undefined') lpcurruser = ''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt') && document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value != '') { lpcurruser = document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value = ''; } if (typeof(lpcurrpass) == 'undefined') lpcurrpass=''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt') && document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value != '') { lpcurrpass = document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value = ''; } var lploc=1;var lponlyfill=1;(function() { var doc=document; var _u=null; var _p=null; var body=doc.body; if (lploc==3 && body.className.indexOf('squarespace-login')>=0) { var inps =doc.getElementsByName('password'); if (inps.length>0) { _p =inps[0]; } inps =doc.getElementsByName('email'); if (inps.length>0) { _u =inps[0]; } if (lpcurrpass && _p) { _p.value = lpcurrpass; } if (lpcurruser && _u) { _u.value = lpcurruser; } } })();lpcurruser = ''; lpcurrpass = '';})();}catch(e){}try{(function() {if (typeof(lpcurruser) == 'undefined') lpcurruser = ''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt') && document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value != '') { lpcurruser = document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value = ''; } if (typeof(lpcurrpass) == 'undefined') lpcurrpass=''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt') && document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value != '') { lpcurrpass = document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value = ''; } var lploc=2;var lponlyfill=1;(function() { var doc=document; var _u=null; var _p=null; var body=doc.body; if (lploc==3 && body.className.indexOf('squarespace-login')>=0) { var inps =doc.getElementsByName('password'); if (inps.length>0) { _p =inps[0]; } inps =doc.getElementsByName('email'); if (inps.length>0) { _u =inps[0]; } if (lpcurrpass && _p) { _p.value = lpcurrpass; } if (lpcurruser && _u) { _u.value = lpcurruser; } } })();lpcurruser = ''; lpcurrpass = '';})();}catch(e){}

Geralyn Coopersmith, Chief Content Officer at Flywheel, is on to talk about Brains on Fire by Geno Church. From the publisher: Develop and harness a powerful, sustainable word-of-mouth movement. How did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical instruments market? By understanding the Brains on Fire model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality. Brains on Fire offers original, practical and actionable steps for creating a word-of-mouth movement for corporations, products, services, and organizations. It takes you step-by-step through the necessary actions needed to start your own authentic movement. Develop and harness a powerful, sustainable, word-of-mouth movement Describes 10 lessons to master and create a powerful, sustainable movement Every episode, we provide a free Readitfor.me summary of the current book we are discussing.   Get the Brains on Fire summary here  

Brändääminen alkoi Suomessa jo 1600-luvulla kun ensimmäiset ruukit perustettiin, kertoo markkinoinnin asiantuntija Timo Leppänen. Tällainen varhainen brändi on esimerkiksi Fiskars. Teollistumisen alkuaikoina tuotemerkiksi otettiin usein valmistuspaikkakunnan nimi. Mutta aikojen saatossa yritysten ja tuoteperheiden nimivalinnoissa on käytetty hyvin monenlaisia periaatteita. 1800-luvun lopulla yrityksiä ja tuotteita alettiin nimetä uusilla positiivisia tunteita he4rättävillä nimillä. Tästä uudesta ajasta kertovat vakuutusyhtiöiden nimet, joissa käytettiin Kalevalasta otettua nimistöä kuten Sampo, pohjola ja Ilmarinen. 1900-luvun lopulla yleistyi käytäntö, jossa vanhat yritykset vaihtoivat nimensä uusiin nimiin jotka eivät viitanneet mihinkään eikä merkinneet mitään. Tässä oli ajatuksena usein se, että uudistunut tai toimenkuvaansa muuttanut yritys ei halunnut olla missään tekemisissä yhtiön vanhan maineen tai mielikuvan kanssa. Pyrittiin siihen, että asiakkaat suhtautuisivat siihen kuten aivan uuteen tulokkaaseen. Sittemmin saatettiin mennä jopa niin pitkälle että yritykselle keksittiin sekä fiktiivien nimi että myös fiktiivinen historia. Tällaisesta brändäyksestä on esimerkkinä mm. Ivana Helsinki, jonka taustatarina on puhdas sepitelmä. Toimittajana Kalle Haatanen.

Join us for this episode of Military Life Radio featuring the following guests: Brian Hanover stops by to share details on the 2013 Sears Heroes at Home Wish Registry which opens Aug 29, 2013 at 1pm central time. www.sears.com/heroesathome Denise Albert, the co-founder of "The Moms" and co host of "Moms in The City and A Dad Named David" shares her tips for creating a successful Back to School Battle Plan.  Krista's Corner: Krista Wells, The Military Spouse Coach (TM), shares her advice for a successful transition back to school. Join the conversation! Station Note: The Denise Albert segment is brought to you by ADT, Fiskars, Duck Tape, Discover Card, and Walgreens.   Laugh, Learn, Relate

Join host Tiffany Windsor and feature guests Jenny Doh who will be talking about her new venture Crescendoh.com and Stephenie Hamen from Fiskars who will discuss upcoming events, new stamp designs and more. Craft Concierge Maria Nerius shares her creative tips and Katheryn Tidwell-Bieber topic is Embracing Hope.