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On today’s episode is the brilliant sports journalist and author Ian Ridley. In February of 2019 Ian’s wife, Vikki Orvice, who was also a brilliant and renowned journalist, sadly died of cancer at the age of just 56.  After experiencing the unbearable feelings that grief can bring with it, Ian decided to write a book called The Breath of Sadness: On Love Grief and Cricket, which explains his own grieving process and how the varying emotions changed over time.  For Ian, deciding to watch a summer of county cricket helped him through the darkest moments, and he encourages others that are suffering after the loss of a loved one to find their own activity that might be able to provide some respite from the sadness.  I really admire Ian’s bravery in coming on the podcast to talk all about all of this, in the hope that it might be able to help others.  I hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to hit follow/subscribe!  ---  Buy Ian's book, The Breath of Sadness: On Love Grief and Cricket: https://www.floodlitdreams.com/product/the-breath-of-sadness-on-love-grief-and-cricket/  Follow Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanRidley1  ---  Follow me on social media!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backontrackpodcast/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/BackOnTrackPod  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/backontrackpod 

Ian Walsh is a skilled and experienced real estate professional with over 10 years of experience investing in PA and NJ. He is the Managing Partner at Hard Money Bankers PA. For Ian, lending is a passion, and making the loan work for its borrower excites him. [00:01 – 08:30] Opening SegmentGetting to Know Ian WalshIan talks about his backgroundWholesaling Company and Property Management CompanyLaunching the Hard Money BankersUnderwriting deals and sourcing capital before and during CoVid [08:31 – 21:22] Real Estate and LendingTerms and Structures of Lender and Potential Investor Ensuring the Integrity in Underwriting and dealing with funding capitalTheir large-scale filters when it comes to making a dealProtecting the company on the Lending side Take-back Strategies and flexible solution for borrower and lenderThings they've done 7-years ago that they would have done differentlyScaling the business and lessons learned along the journey  [21:23 – 23:11] Final Four SegmentIan's advice to aspiring investorsLearn your market and learn to market. How he stays on top of his gameHis way to make the world a better placeHow to reach out to Ian – links belowFinal wordsTweetable Quotes:“Learn your market and learn to market.” - Ian Walsh“My routine and consistency are probably what keeps me on track every day.” - Ian WalshResources Mentioned: HMB - Private Real Estate Lending------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Ian! Contact him at 215-839-3271 and send an email at ian@hardmoneybankers.com. Connect with me:I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify strategy and provide solid predictable returns.Call: 901-500-6191FacebookLinkedInLike, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on. Thank you for tuning in! Email me --> sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com

CEO of The Hatch Institute, Ian Fuhr, talks paradigm shifts: culture-driven leadership and improving customer service CEO of The Hatch Institute and Founder of the Sorbet Group, Ian Fuhr, has come a long way since starting his very first business in the late 1970s. Today, he is a respected serial entrepreneur with seasoned experience in leadership and creating exemplary business cultures. For Ian, culture always comes first; without it a business cannot thrive. In this week's Business Unusual podcast, Ralf Fletcher, CEO of Topco Media chats with Ian about facing failures head on and turning challenges into research for future business success. Together, Ralf and Chris unpack themes surrounding self-belief, crossing industry lines, building a strong culture that motivates employees, and learning to compromise. Ian provides insight into culture-driven leadership, building credibility, and challenging the status quo. Ian Fuhr is a serial entrepreneur, founder of the Sorbet Group - the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa - and the CEO of The Hatch Institute: building a new breed of Leader purpose-fit for South Africa. His first business, K-Mart, catered to the black market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, Ian is passionate about fostering successful business cultures and creating a common purpose of obsessive customer service. In the early 1990s, Ian launched a labour consultancy called Labour Link, to assist businesses navigate race relations within their organisations during one of South Africa's most tumultuous periods. He then launched Sorbet in 2004, which grew into the largest beauty salon chain in Africa. Today, Ian is passionate about grooming ‘cultureneers' through his personal and leadership coaching and business support services at the Hatch Club

14. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show  Tuesday 12th January. Presented by Rich Davies   TRACK 1 All along the Watchtower - XTC (Bob Dylan 1967)  TRACK 2 Don't Give up- Herbie Hancock with John Legend and P!nk (Peter Gabriel and Kate 1986) TRACK 3 Whiskey in the Jar - Pulp (Traditional Irish song) TRACK 4 Eloise - Claude Francois (Barry Ryan 1968) For Aline. TRACK 5 You've Got the Love - Florence and the Machine (The Source featuring Candi Staton 1986). For Ian and Sean. TRACK 6 Naive - Lily Allen, singing live (The Kooks 2006) TRACK 7 Blinding Lights - Kaleidoscope Orchestra (The Weeknd 2019) For Jo & Phoebe. TRACK 8 It's Oh So Quiet - Betty Hutton 1951. For Jason and Toni. TRACK 9 It's Oh So Quiet - Björk 1995. TRACK 10 Mr Brightside - Paul Anka (The Killers 2004) For my Dad. TRACK 11 Dance Monkey - Peter Buka (Tones & I 2019) For Geoff. TRACK 12 War Pigs - Cake (Black Sabbath 1970) For Stuart. TRACK 13 Feeling Good - Muse (Nina Simone 1965) For JJ. TRACK 14 Like a Prayer - Susan Boyle (Madonna 1989)   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

As we were not allowed to record the Pubcast in-person this year we managed to convince those who were there for the last one, to join us again! You can listen to Alan and Andrew chat with Erica Haddon from Toyota, Ian Robertson from Diesel Car and Eco Car magazines, Scott Brownlee from Toyota and Phil Huff from Front Seat Phil and Editor of Pick-Up Truck and Professional 4x4. Simon Branney was unable to join us due to a cursed internet. You can hear what positives came out of the year, the mocking of last year’s prediction quality and what everyone thinks will happen in 2021. Happy New Year to all our listeners and hope you have a safe and prosperous one! To follow our fine guests on Twitter click the relevant links below;For Erica, click the link here.For Scott, click the link here. For Ian, click the link here. For Phil, click the link here.

Our final episode of 2020 marks another 25 episodes of HARK and another 50 songs on our list, so as per tradition, we're aiming to unseat the songs at the top and the bottom. For Ian's best-of-the-best pick, he selects a song that leans into the philosophical questions Christmastime poses and also our early-00s-indie-bullshit wheelhouse. For RJ's bottom-of-the-list pick, they select a scalding hot take on a classic Christmas character that physically hurts. The ranking music is "Grinch 2000" by Busta Rhymes and Jim Carrey.

Catch up on the greatest in covers with Rich! This week's track listing:   Track 1 All along the Watchtower - Afterhere (Bob Dylan 1967) TRACK 2 Hello – My Kullsvik (Adele 2015) for Martin. TRACK 3 We're the Pet Shop Boys - Pet Shop Boys (My Robot Friend 2002) For Jean. TRACK 4 Heart of Glass - Miley Cyrus (Blondie 1978) For Lee TRACK 5 Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson 1988) For Zoe. TRACK 6 Nothing Compares 2 U - The Family (Prince 1985) TRACK 7 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor 1990 TRACK 8 You Only Live Twice - Soft Cell (Nancy Sinatra 1967) For Ian. TRACK 9 Walk on by – The Stranglers  (Dionne Warwick 1964) For Steve E. TRACK 10 Mad World - Jasmine Thompson (Tears for Fears 1982) For Angie. TRACK 11 Me and my Shadow - Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes (Jack Smith 1927) For Jak. TRACK 12 Viva Las Vegas - ZZ Top (Elvis Presley 1964) For DJ Tony Bates. TRACK 13 Time Warp - Jack Black and Tenacious D (The Rocky Horror Show 1975) For JJ. TRACK 14 I'm forever blowing bubbles - Dean Martin (Broadway musical The Passing Show of 1918) For West Ham fan, Tony Elvin.   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

There will always be a new crisis to deal with, and organisations with teams across the globe have to be prepared to facilitate effective localised responses when they hit. Today’s guest is Ian Wall, the Group Director of Security and Resilience at Worley. In this episode, Ian shares his unique perspectives from 15 years of experience building Worley’s global crisis planning and response capability and how this has recently been deployed in more than 50 countries during the COVID pandemic. Ian shares some of the major crises he has dealt with in his time at Worley, and some of the major differences and commonalities terms of the crises themselves as well as the response protocol between those and the current situation. He talks about the value of investing upfront in preparation, and what this means at Worley with its vast network of teams and clients all over the world. For Ian, responding to crises effectively is a matter of localised action and he talks about training branches of the organisation in different parts of the world to think critically under pressure and instilling a sense of preparedness in them. Ian believes that no response is the result of one leader with all the ideas, and he shares about doing what it takes to make it to the finish line as a team. We hear from Ian about his personal response to his line of work too – his thoughts about building perspective amid crisis, taking care of himself as well as many others, and how to see this moment not just as a disaster but a seed from which many great things can flourish too.Key Points From This Episode:A profile on Worley and Ian’s role in crisis prevention, preparation, and incident management.Insights into Ian’s personal life, his family, stunted travel plans, and love of gardening.Prior crises Ian has helped mitigate leading up to the present one in the form of COVID.Common practices for preparing for all kinds of crises whose main challenge is the unknown.The value of responses being team initiatives with a clear distribution of responsibility.How Ian and his team work with clients around the world to foster crisis preparedness.The unprecedented scale of the Worley response to COVID; the value of localised initiatives.Getting teams and clients across the world to buy into preparedness in benign periods.The toll this crisis has taken on Ian, lessons he has learned, and how he gets perspective.How Ian approaches caring for so many people being just a single person.Personal habits that help a handle a demanding position like Ian’s at this unique moment.Ian’s advice for business leaders at this time; seeing this moment as an opportunity.State of Matter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/state-of-matter/Adam Detwiler: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adam-detwiler/Ian Wall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-wall-a8b10114/

In this great episode of Thrive Bites, I speak with the Plant-Based Cyclist on his journey into the plant-based world and his contribution to the community and the negative effects on our planet.Ian Cramer is passionate about spreading the message that diet and lifestyle dramatically affect individual health as well as the health of the planet. He motivates others and is motivated, by the simple yet challenging concept that maintaining good health and peak performance involves making good choices. Likewise, chronic disease may be reversed or prevented when these good choices, that are easily and economically available, become the norm every day.Ian is an allied health care professional with degrees in Kinesiology and athletic training. Beyond his day job, he's a public lecturer and produces an interview-based podcast. Driven by knowledge, evidence and civil discourse, he created The Ian Cramer Podcast. With a mission to interview doctors and scholars of lifestyle medicine and plant-based nutrition, Ian's unwavering focus in his podcast is to learn more, disseminate this information to a larger audience, educate lay-people and the medical community and change the world by leading in positive and responsible ways.In June 2015, he and a group of three friends from Ohio rode their bikes across the country in what's known as The Race Across America. Supported by a full crew, Team Oxford Autoimmune completed the 3200-mile journey in 7 days 16 hours and 27 minutes. For Ian, the estimated 6000 miles of training and racing for the event were all done on a plant-based diet. He continues to race and ride recreationally in Rochester, New York.Social Media Links:Website: https://www.plant-basedcyclist.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IanMichaelCramer/Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanCramerPlease support this podcast to impact others to live better: https://patron.podbean.com/thrivebitespodcast*Interview views are opinions of the individual. This podcast is not a source of medical advice*Copyright © 2020 by TheChefDoc, LLCAll text, graphics, audio files, Java applets and scripts, downloadable software, and other works on this web site are the copyrighted works of TheChefDoc, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized redistribution or reproduction of any copyrighted materials on this web site is strictly prohibited.

In this episode we meet visionary founder Ian Clark who now runs a multi-million dollar, award winning business. It all started as vacant crown land of no value and is now a successful and awarded tourist destination. For Ian, gold tourism awards is just the beginning. music: https://www.bensound.com

GUEST BIO: My guest on today’s show has worked in IT for over twenty years after failing to become a writer and divides his career into three parts.  The first third was spent building applications for the fast-paced online gambling industry. The second third was spent maturing that business, in the area of third line support and operations.  And the remainder of his time was spent working on container technology within the highly regulated financial sector. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s IT Career Energizer podcast is Ian Miell. He is a developer, author, blogger, open source coder and conference speaker who has been working in the IT industry for nearly two decades. During that time he has held various positions at OpenBet and more recently moved into the financial sector. Working for Barclays as their Lead OpenShift Architect before moving to State Street to work as a VP, in late 2018. Ian is the co-author of Docker in Practice, Learn Bash the Hard Way and Learn Git the Hard Way. He is also a prolific blogger and international conference speaker. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (1.06) – First, can I ask you about why you transitioned from writing into working in IT? Ian explains that he studied history at university. As a student, he worked at The Times for a few weeks and enjoyed the experience. So, he thought he might like to be a journalist. However, he later realized that journalism wasn’t for him. He enjoyed the writing side of things, but not the pressure to simply churn out words. So, he gave up on journalism and went abroad to teach English and write a novel. But, he was unable to sell it. This was in the pre-internet era and Ian had no agent or publishing contracts, so the fact he could not get it published is not really surprising. That experience got writing out of his system, at least for a while. It was then that he decided to turn to an old passion of his – computers. Ever since he was a kid he had been fascinated by them. So, he did a conversion masters at Berkley College, London and started his IT career from there. (2.46) – But, you haven't necessarily left your writing skills behind. I believe you've subsequently written books, with a technology, slant to them. Ian agrees he has come full circle by co-authoring “Docker in Practice” for Manning Publications. It was very well received. He did a video on Docker for another publisher. The combination of these two things got his name known. At that point, his blog really took off. Now, he mainly writes for fun, covering anything that he is currently interested in. He has written a couple of books and self-published them. So, the writing side of his career has finally taken off. (4.02) – So, are you writing another book? Ian has a day job but he is still able to put aside time to write and help others to learn. He is due to do some live Bash training for O’Reilly, at the end of June. Ian also does some technical writing for various businesses. As well as updating his blog. So, right now, he does not really have the time to work on another book. But, he is learning about Terraform and waiting for the next version to come out. (4.44) – Can you please share a unique career tip with the audience? Ian says that you need to realize that you are a product. This is a fact whether you like it or not. Once you accept that and start to think about what you are selling to the market, your horizons start to open up. Ian spent 14 years working at the same company and never really got out there. He stuck to his comfort zone, which really held him back. A friend of his got him to read Ten-Day MBA, specifically the first chapter, which is all about marketing. That is when he realized that he was doing nothing at all to sell himself. At that point, he had no blog, never attended meet-ups. Effectively he was invisible to anyone who was not working with him directly. When he realized this, he started blogging, giving talks and generally putting himself out there. This helped him to focus his energy in the right direction. (6.23) – When was that? Ian says it was only about 7 years ago. When he wrote his first blog post, nobody cared. It was a bit disheartening. But, Ian managed to keep things in perspective. He recognized and took pleasure from the fact that he had actually produced something he could refer back, to in the future. This realization drove him on to do it again and again. He figured he had nothing to lose by sharing what he knew in as many ways as possible. However, Ian points out that it is not always easy. He still gets nervous when he has to stand up and talk. But, doing this opens up so many opportunities. For example, after one speech someone from Barclays offered him a drink. A year later he was working for them. There are a lot of talent spotters who attend events to recruit. So, giving talks can be a good way to find work. (9.21) – Can you tell us about your worst career moment? And what you learned from that experience. Ian explains that he was a little older than the average graduate, so felt he needed to catch up. As a result, he was quite driven and did well in his first job and quickly progressed to the point where he was asked to head up a technical team. For Ian, it was a big step up and something he really wanted. So, when, after about a year, his team had not been able to really deliver he was more than a bit disappointed. The whole experience knocked his confidence. But, after a while, he recognized that failing had actually taught him a lot. He realized that what he was trying to achieve was actually quite a cultural shift for the business. They had been making money one way, for a long time. So, when he tried to get them to try another way of turning a profit, there was a lot of resistance. For a lot of businesses, cultural change is a huge hurdle. (11.16) – Why do you think that is? At the time, the company he was working for built products, sold them, then bastardized them to fit in with what each client needed. Ian wanted them to move towards producing a range of products and selling them en masse to buyers without the bespoke element. This is a much simpler, manageable and profitable way to do business. But, people could not shift mentally from being a materials company to being a product producer. At the time, Ian did not have the experience to be able to effectively push back on that. (12.19) Phil had a similar experience. He worked for a firm that ended up supporting over a hundred variations of the same core product. In the end, the complexity of managing all of this outweighed the business benefit of offering such a tailored product. Ian says that is why, these days, we have product managers. Someone who is responsible for looking at requested changes and working out if they are financially viable. If they are not they should be telling the customer that the change is not possible, at least not yet. (13.49) – What did you take away from that experience? Ian now realizes that if senior management is not behind your idea it is best not to invest too much time into it. Without the right support, even the best ideas will fail. This experience and his time working with Barclays taught Ian that enterprises move slowly. Now, he realizes that if you want to effect change you have to work with the grain, be persistent and be patient. (15.06) – What was your best career moment? Successfully, setting up an effective knowledge base for a company that had a team of 50 live-time developers, working in different locations, was a big achievement for Ian. It got everyone working more efficiently and protected the £7millon worth of contracts the firm had, at the time. Getting this knowledgebase working properly saved the company a huge amount of money and greatly improved productivity. It also made for a happier team. Putting together the base knowledgebase was a mammoth task. It took Ian about 7 months to go through everything line by line, updating things and making sure all of the current issues were comprehensively covered. It then took a further 4 months for it to gain traction. That is when the benefits finally started to show through. (17.34) - Did you actually have to train people on how to use the knowledge base you created? Or was it very intuitive? Ian insisted on keeping the documents within Jira and making everything as simple as possible. Initially, there was some resistance to this approach because it was different from what had gone before. But, Ian stuck to his guns and once everyone realized it was easy to edit, flexible and truly real-time the resistance fell away. Everyone was allowed to contribute. If others did not like or could not follow the editing style they just had to speak up. Very quickly an effective standard for working with the new knowledgebase emerged. The fact everyone could contribute made a huge difference. It also helped the DevOps team. They had access too, so knew exactly what had been tried when a problem had to be escalated to them. He tried to do something similar at Barclays, but ultimately it failed. Ian just did not have the power or backing to get the use and updating of the knowledgebase enforced. Because it was not updated properly it quickly became out of date and was just as useless as the system it replaced. To implement a project you always need to the backing of management. (21.11) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? The fact that IT is going to become an even bigger part of our lives is exciting. Ian’s kids use computers almost constantly, throughout the day. This move towards making tech a ubiquitous part of our lives opens up all kinds of new opportunities for those working in the industry. Ian used to worry about becoming obsolete. Now, that notion seems absolutely crazy. (23.18) – What drew you to a career in IT? Ian had always like maths, logic, and computers. So, he chose a career in IT instead of one in the law. He especially liked the fact that he did not need to specialize to be able to work in the tech industry. (23.40) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Get organized is the best career advice Ian has been given. When he was about 30 he made a mistake at work. The error basically occurred because he had failed to track everything. So he read the book “Getting Things Done” and applied all of the principles to his life. That has freed his head up enough to get the things that have advanced his career, done. (24.14) Conversely, what's the worst career advice you've ever received? A CEO once told Ian that to pay the mortgage he needed to get promoted. Ian now realizes that is not true. On reflection, he thinks this was an example of poor incentive management. (24.39) – What drew you to a career in IT? Ian had always like maths, logic and computers. So, he chose a career in IT instead of one in the law. He especially liked the fact that he did not need to specialize to be able to work in the tech industry. (23.40) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Get organized is the best career advice Ian has been given. When he was about 30 he made a mistake at work. The error basically occurred because he had failed to track everything. So he read the book “Getting Things Done” and applied all of the principles to his life. That has freed his head up enough to get the things that have advanced his career, done. (24.14) Conversely what's the worst career advice you've ever received? A CEO once told Ian that to pay the mortgage he needed to get promoted. Ian now realizes that is simply not true. On reflection, he thinks this was an example of poor incentive management. (26.39) – Phil asks Ian to share a final piece of career advice with the audience. Someone once told him to always choose the thing that makes him feel slightly uncomfortable when he is offered the opportunity to do two different things. Taking this approach leads to you expanding your horizons much more quickly. BEST MOMENTS: (3.42) IAN – "Now I write for fun. I write about whatever I'm interested in." (5.00) IAN – "You've got to realize that you are a product. Whether you like it or not, you're selling something within the market." (8.42) PHIL – “Standing up in front of people to give a talk and letting them know who you are is a good way of marketing yourself” (13.58) IAN – "If your strategy is not aligned with support from senior management, then your effort may well be wasted." (26.33) IAN – "Getting away from straight line thinking is really important." (26.54) IAN – “When you have a choice between two things to do. Choose the thing that makes you feel slightly and comfortable.” CONTACT IAN: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ianmiell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-miell-694496/ Personal Website: https://zwischenzugs.com/ Company Website: https://ian.meirionconsulting.com/

GUEST BIO: Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008.  Ian has around 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting, telecommunications and cloud service providers.  Ian has a particular interest in the development of Connected Device and IoT applications. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Ian Massingham. Ian has already had a long IT career and is still enjoying getting involved in new fields and pushing the boundaries. He started his career by working for a hosting and internet company that is credited with opening up the UK market. Ian and his team used their telecommunications and coding experience to provide fast and affordable internet services to thousands of UK homeowners. Over the years, Ian has worked as an engineer, developer, manager and leader. Today, he leads Technical and Developer Evangelism for Amazon Web Services. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (0.58) – So Ian, can I ask you to expand on that brief intro and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Ian starts by elaborating on the scale, scope and reach of his AWS role. He is responsible for educating software developers and technical end users of AWS on a global scale. Plus, of course customers who are not yet users of the service. Helping them to see how they can use the platform to improve what they are currently doing and use it for new projects. (1.57) – Does that mean that you have to travel a lot? Ian responds by saying yes. He has to attend a lot of different kinds of events and provide support for team members, right across the globe. Plus, he is a prolific speaker in his own right, which also entails a lot of travel. (2.25) – Phil asks Ian to elaborate on the amount of public speaking work he does. Speaking is a big part of his role as the Director of AWS Evangelism. In fact, his whole team spends a lot of time making presentations. When they recruit new members they look for people who are capable of connecting with software developers across the full range of skill levels. (3.05) – Can you please share a unique career tip with the I.T. career audience? Like many developers he went from being an individual contributor to a manager, then a leader and senior leadership roles. However, unlike most other IT professionals he has periodically taken a step back and worked as an individual contributor again. This slightly unusual approach has really borne fruit. It has helped him to develop all kinds of new skills and deepen his understanding of the latest technologies and how they are deployed. (4.09) – Phil asks if taking this approach refreshes his existing skills as well. Ian says absolutely. When he first joined Amazon Web Services, in 2013, his tech skills were getting rusty. He had just spent several years in a leadership role in which he did not really do any developing. So, when he joined AWS he took the opportunity to spend a bit of time working as an individual contributor, technology evangelist. He really enjoyed reawakening and refreshing his skills, while he got up to speed with cloud computing. It enabled him to familiarize himself with the AWS way of working and their product range. Those three and half years took him into a lot of new areas. (5.18) Phil says that it sounds like Ian enjoys keeping his hand in from a technical perspective. Ian agrees, that is true, which is one of the reasons he enjoys working for AWS so much. Recently, they invested in AI and machine learning services. Just last year, they announced some robotics services. There is also Ground Station - a service for people who want to download data from their satellite infrastructure. So, there is plenty going on within the company that enables Ian to indulge his passion for new technologies.  (6.11) – Can you tell us about your worst career moment? Ian says his worst moment was not a single incident, more of a challenging period in his career. Back in the 90s, he worked for a small hosting and internet access startup. They provided hosting, mainly for businesses like Channel 4 and the Dixon stores group. At the time, most companies did not have a website, so this was actually quite exciting work. In 1998, the Dixons group asked them to set up and run their new Freeserve internet service. It was an innovative service that grew at a phenomenal rate. At the time, everyone was still using dial-up. There was no cloud computing either. So, every time a customer signed up they needed server space and the company was constantly running more telecommunications links to the building. Unsurprisingly, Ian and everyone else at the company ended up working ridiculous hours. It was an exciting time that opened up all kinds of opportunities for Ian, but it was also very stressful. (9.14) Was there anything in particular that you learned from that experience? One of the things Ian learned from the experience was how to recruit. The phenomenal rate at which the company grew meant that Ian was constantly recruiting new staff. It was a relatively new business which still had a startup mentality, so everything was very fluid. Recruiting the right people at a fast enough rate was a challenge, especially because the roles were so blurred. There was a lot going on, which meant people just had to muck in to get everything done. In that situation getting the onboarding right proved critical. New staff needed to have the right support. Without it they could not settle in quickly and become viable members of the team. It was also important from a retention point of view. Even today, when it comes to recruitment, Ian’s focus is on getting the onboarding process right. He knows from experience with the right support new people quickly ramp up to full capacity and are far less likely to leave after just a few months. Making sure that people feel like they have got the right kind of support around them is really important in leadership. (10.44) – Phil asks Ian what his best career moment was. Again, for Ian it was not a single moment, more a period in his career that he has found to be fulfilling. Right now, he is particularly enjoying the rate at which AWS is innovating and introducing new services. For example, in 2017, they introduced 1400 new services and features. This astonishing rate of change ensures that Ian gets to talk to people about a huge range of services, technologies and innovations. He is also lucky enough to be able to find out, first hand, how people are using these new services and features. All of which he enjoys and loves speaking about. In the past year alone, he has run sessions about the application of AI and machine learning. He also delivered the keynote speech at an O’Rilley AI conference, in London. In April, he gave the closing keynote speech at a major AWS summit that was held in Singapore. At that event, he got to live demo a chatbot. During his presentation, the audience interacted with chatbots using text and Facebook Messenger. The really cool thing about the whole experience was that Ian was the one who had written and deployed the code being used. Naturally, that experience is one that he views as a career highlight. He has also really enjoyed building out the AWS team. Seeing people that he has recruited grow and go on to bigger and better things is something that Ian takes a lot of pleasure from. (13.12) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? Ian knows that the services AWS provides are going to free up organizations, so that they can focus their cash and time on being truly innovative. There is not going to be a need for the next generation of developers to spend their early career doing repetitive tasks. For example, in the 90s Ian’s team would spend every Monday provisioning infrastructure. Now, that same task can be done with just a few clicks using the AWS console. Freeing up people’s time in this way is going to have a hugely positive impact. It will leave developers free to be more creative and truly innovate. This means that all kinds of problems can be solved using the vast range of technologies that are now available. (15.22) – What drew you to a career in IT? To answer that one Ian has to go right back to when he was a child. Back then, his father ran a training program for teachers. He produced all of the written training materials using a hand-cranked duplicating machine. At the time, photocopiers were too big and expensive for small organizations to own and run. So, when he discovered he could computerize things, he did. Ian witnessed the way this transformed his father’s business. That in turn sparked his interest in IT. At school he got involved in technology in every way he could. So, it was only natural for him to study computer science at university. (17.09) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Ian says he would not call it advice as such, more encouragement, which he listened to. While he was working for Planet Online, they were taken over by a telecommunications firm. For Ian, this meant a change in direction, a big one. His new boss saw something in him, so set about persuading him to get involved in the process of finding, assessing and acquiring other telecoms firms. In that role he had to deal with the CEOs of some very large companies, something Ian did not think he was equipped to handle. It was his boss who persuaded him that he could and he was right. In that role, Ian grew in confidence and acquired a whole new skill set. (18.27) – If you were to begin your IT career again, right now, what would you do? Ian says that he would focus on software rather than infrastructure. Now that infrastructure is an area of diminishing impact. Today, it is all about software. He would seek to learn a range of languages and become a true software engineer rather than just a developer. Having the ability to jump across different programming languages and a strong understanding of the foundations would be his aim. Ian believes anyone that is new to the industry will succeed if they take this approach. (19.45) – What career objectives are you currently focusing on? Ian main task, right now, is growing his team. In fact, that is one of the reasons he wanted to join Phil for his podcast. Currently, he is recruiting for all kinds of roles, positions he is very keen to fill. He is currently hiring managers and specialist evangelists for various domains. So, his immediate goal is to fill those positions, which are available in AWS offices across the world. Ian will also be focusing on a couple of other AWS projects that are yet to be announced. He will also be hiring for those, a bit later in the year (20.36) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Ian says for him the ability to communicate has proved invaluable. Being able to listen properly and understand what the customer wants and distil it down to its essential has really helped him in his career. Ian points out that you also need to be an effective outbound communicator. It is very important to maintain high standards of public communication and to be able to adapt your message to suit your audience. (21.51) – Phil asks Ian to share a final piece of career advice with the audience. “Don’t be afraid to try out new things.” Apply for new roles even if you do not have all of the qualifications and experience asked for. Ian says that when AWS recruits, the specification they come up with is more of a wish list than anything else. They really don’t expect to find many candidates that tick all of the boxes. That is the case for most organizations. So, it is always worth just applying for roles that you think might be just a little bit beyond you. BEST MOMENTS: (4.48) IAN – "It was a great opportunity to come back to software development, and rediscover some of the more technical aspects” ( 10.32) PHIL – "I think the onboarding process and just embedding people into a team, making them feel part of what's happening, is vital." (11.09) IAN – “In 2017, we released over 1400 new services and features. That's a huge beat rate of new innovation. " (12.48) IAN – “It’s really awesome to see the talent that you've bought into the organization progressing through the senior IT levels." (15.03) IAN – “As software continues to evolve, the services will get more and more sophisticated," (21.45) IAN – “Those are really important skills in my view, communications inbound and outbound.” CONTACT IAN: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanMmmm @IanMmmm LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imassingham

Salespeople need mental toughness to weather all the ups and downs of the industry, as well as the pressures and difficulties when things aren't going well. Sometimes clients choose another seller. Sometimes a customer ends the relationship. In other cases, we do everything we're supposed to do, and the deal still won't close. Today Ian Wendt talks with us about one of the most difficult moments in his career and how he got through it and continued his journey. TEACHING INSTEAD OF SELLING Sales is full of challenges, and it requires a certain amount of self-motivation. For Ian, though, the greatest challenge was when he decided that he didn't want to knock on doors. He realized that while he was really good at selling, he was even more valuable as a teacher. He needed to find a way to make himself valuable enough that he could teach other people how to sell and how to be mentally tough, which was what he was really passionate about. It's sometimes tough for people to build a sales career that doesn't involve knocking on doors. Finding a way to make the transition felt daunting to him. He was haunted by the fear of what would happen if he couldn't make it work. Ian shared a quote from the book Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins that goes like this: “Most people don't even start if they don't have a guarantee.” That was Ian's mindset at the time of the transition. PULLING THE TRIGGER Ian decided to sell for one more summer, and his regional manager used him to do some training. When Ian went to certain offices, those groups started seeing huge spikes in their performance. He was helping them close significant deals and move the needle. He started tracking his results so he could demonstrate his value. Ian asked for the opportunity to run a training program, but his leadership told him there was no such position available in the company. If, however, Ian could prove the value in his training, the company would consider creating one. Ian is a big believer that you don't negotiate until you bring value, so that's what he set out to do. He was determined to produce something he could negotiate with. TRACKING RESULTS Ian started tracking the offices, reps, and leaders that he was training. He tracked their metrics and their increases and the improvements in their completion rates for about three months. He visited about 11 offices and trained more than 60 reps. Once he had a binder full of information, the leaders called him in to ask what he was doing. They were seeing improvements and they wanted to hear how he was doing it. He got the leadership on board and he created a pitch for his proposed training. They jumped on board with his idea and moved toward getting started. UNSEEN STRUGGLES One of the biggest struggles for Ian was that he wasn't directly selling anymore. He was investing his time and efforts into these offices and these other sellers, so he wasn't selling a ton of accounts. He got a few sales, but he went from making a lot of money to making very little. Ian overdrafted his account at least four times, which was unheard of for him. He was battling the stress of the downward mindset. As a result, he now teaches that stress is the number one factor in negativity and negativity is the one thing that will destroy a sales career. Those reps that operate in fear can be completely debilitated. WHAT IF? What if I'm moving the needle but this doesn't pay out? Or what if I have nothing to show for all my work? Worse yet, What if I don't make enough to live off of? Ian lived with exactly that fear during the summer he spent training other sellers. He was plagued by the internal debate over whether to return to the regular sales or to keep trying to develop his training idea. RESULTS Ian put himself in a position to do work that he loves. Now he's over all of the training and content creation for his entire company, and he gets paid really well for it. He's grateful every day that he was able to create his own future. He recently spoke at a conference where he reminded the audience that sales will always be hard. But, he said, if you can master it, you can really control the outcome of your life.   If you can sell yourself or sell a product, it will allow you to create the life you want, and maybe the life you never imagined. #Selling CLICK TO TWEET   You can find a way to do work that you love and position yourself to look forward to the work week. He loves the opportunity to share what he has learned with other people, and he loves being surrounded by people who are constantly trying to develop themselves. “FEAR AND MENTAL TOUGHNESS” EPISODE RESOURCES Ian is in the process of developing a consulting and coaching program. In the meantime, he's doing some side work with individual organizations and people.  Connect with Ian via direct message on Facebook @ian.wendt, LinkedIn @ianwendt, and Instagram @iwendtster. This episode is brought to you in part by prospect.io, a powerful sales automation platform that allows you to build highly personalized, cold email campaigns. To learn more, go to prospect.io/tse. It will help you with your outbound to expand your outreach. It allows you to set it and forget it. Your prospecting will never, ever be the same. Previously known as TSE Hustler's League, our TSE Certified Sales Program offers modules that you can engage on your own schedule as well as opportunities to engage with other sellers in other industries. This episode is brought to you in part by mailtag.io, a Chrome browser extension for Gmail that allows you to track and schedule your emails. It's super easy, it's helpful, and I recommend that you try it out. 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Ian Cramer, a competitive cyclist, is passionate about spreading the message that diet and lifestyle dramatically affect individual health as well as the health of the planet. For Ian, this reality speaks of encouragement. He motivates others and is motivated himself, by the simple yet challenging concept that maintaining good health and peak performance involve making good choices. Likewise, chronic disease may be reversed or prevented when these good choices, that are easily and economically available, become the norm everyday.   Ian is an allied health care professional with degrees in Kinesiology and athletic training. Beyond his day job, he's a public lecturer and produces an interview-based podcast. Driven by knowledge, evidence and civil discourse, he created The Ian Cramer Podcast. With a mission to interview doctors and scholars of lifestyle medicine and plant-based nutrition, Ian's unwavering focus in his podcast is to learn more, disseminate this information to a larger audience, educate lay-people and the medical community and change the world by leading in positive and responsible ways.     In June 2015, he and a group of three friends from Ohio rode their bikes across the country in what's known as The Race Across America. Supported by a full crew, Team Oxford Autoimmune completed the 3200-mile journey in 7 days 16 hours and 27 minutes. For Ian, the estimated 6000 miles of training and racing for the event were all done on a plant-based diet. He continues to race and ride recreationally in Rochester, New York. MORE LISTENING OPTIONS Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/vdritunes Spotify: http://bit.ly/vdrspotify   IAN CRAMER https://plant-basedcyclist.com The Ian Cramer Podcast https://facebook.com/PlantBasedCyclist1/   * * * * MORE FROM ME Read - http://veggiefitkids.com/blog Listen: http://bit.ly/vdrpodcast Watch - http://bit.ly/vfkvideos TEDx Talk - http://bit.ly/DOCTORYAMITEDX   * * * * Exclusive offers, news, and education: SIGN UP - http://bit.ly/veggiefitfamily   SHARE THE EPISODE http://bit.ly/VDRepisode45   Please check out Rocket Surgeons at: Facebook.com/RocketSurgeonsMusic RocketSurgeonsBand.com FIND ME AT Facebook.com/VeggieFitKids Veggiefitkids.com Questions? Email me: VeggieDoctor@veggiefitkids.com Remember to share this podcast, rate and review! Have a plantastic day!

For Ian. This week… James did a swear, Fudge could do better, Lord H's juice is at an end and we discuss all the rest of this weeks swfc news including the Carlisle and Cardiff games, how the new gaffer is getting on, Mr Pelupessy, and a preview of the Reading and Middlesbrough games all…

In this episode, the pair spotlight a fellow CU student's fantasy survival game that is currently being backed on Kickstarter. They also take on Net Neutrality and its implications for everyone on the Internet. For Ian's Corner, they discuss Justice League and Thor: Ragnarok and the difference between the DCEU and MCU. The two wrap up by trying to answer the question if immortality is a good thing. Use #CoffeeTalk for comments and ask the pair some questions using #AskIanIvy for their advice segment at the end of the month. Like our” Facebook Page for show notes in the "Notes" tab (www.facebook.com/coffeewianivy/). Tweet us @coffeewianivy. --- Intro & Outro Music: Corporate (Vision) by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Corporate__Motivational_Music/Scott_Holmes_-_07_-_Corporate_Vision http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/ Background & Transition Music: Moody Breakfast by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being/06--Dee_Yan-Key-Moody_Breakfast http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/”

Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios joins JD this week to talk the WHY of violence. Specifically, why does violence matter so much to so many people who play games? Ian explores why the mission to keep violence in video games feels so personal to so many people, and why conversations about the cultural implications of violence in video games get so heated. A particularly relevant conversation, seeing as the past few years have seen a flurry of intense (and somewhat scary) responses to critiques of the ubiquity of violence in video games (Gamergate and the harassment directed towards Anita Sarkeesian being notable examples). For Ian, regardless of how we think the violence affects us, there is the question of what the violence is used to sell and who it’s supposed to sell itself to. Tune in this week to learn about the ripple effects of censorship attempts, the gendered nature of marketing, and how the perceived naughtiness of violence in video games can affect our emotional attachment to these digital playscapes. Ian Danskin is a New England media artist and video essayist. He makes videos about games and web culture on his YouTube channel, Innuendo Studios. This episode is the second in a current mini series on violence and video games. For the first episode in the series, check out Episode 10: Moral Combat--Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong. Stuff we mentioned...Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong90s Censorship WarsJack ThompsonAnita Sarkeesian and Feminist FrequencyGamergateDOOM: Bethesda E3 Showcase Gameplay Reveal“Blood is Compulsory” video by Ian DanskinMortal Combat Blood CodeSupreme Court ruling on video games being artNancy Drew Games"No Girls Allowed" Polygon Article on the relationship between stereotypes that "video games are for boys" and marketingDear EstherWhat Remains of Edith FinchMystWalking SimulatorsCasual Games (and "Casual Revolution" by Jesper Juul, just for kicks)Sonic the Hedgehog is so meanPlay it Loud Campaign“Will thoust get the girl? Or play like one?”Part 1 of Ian’s “Why Are You So Angry?” Series (part 2 gets to "bubble popping")D.A.R.E.The Sims JD (The Broad)Website: GamingBroadly.comTwitter: @JayDeeCepticonInstagram: @JayDeeCepticon Ian Danskin (The Cast)Twitter: @InnuendoStudiosYoutube Channel: Innuendo StudiosPatreon: Innuendo StudiosTumblr: InnuendoStudios Gaming Broad(cast) is the official podcast of GamingBroadly.com. Thank you to everyone who has liked, subscribed, and commented about Gaming Broad(cast) on Apple Podcasts! You can also follow this podcast on Spotify, Podbean, Stitcher, Google Music, or subscribe directly using our RSS feed. Want some gamey goodness in your email inbox? Sign up for some occasional(ly) playful newsletter updates. Thanks to Los Kurados for the use of their song "Rojo Y Azul" for the intro and outro music of our podcast.

The Secrets Of A Successful Podcast Launch - An Interview With Professional Podcast Producers. For Ian's how-to course on Podcasting, go here: http://www.milesbeckler.com/podcasting For more information on their professional podcast production services (the white-glove service) go here - http://freedompodcasting.com/

“Finding” is the title of saxophonist and composer Ian Christensen’s debut album, and it’s the twenty seventh release on PJCE Records. When Ian talks about getting lost in the music, he’s talking about what some people call a “flow state.” It’s the state of fulfillment you experience when you are completely absorbed in a task that you care about. For Ian, the moments when he achieves it make all his hard work seem easy.

Ian had a distinctive college search and admissions experience: as a talented squash player looking at small liberal arts schools in the northeast, he was drawn to the highly selective NESCAC schools. The sometimes grueling recruiting process made finding the right fit a highly intensive endeavor. For Ian, considerable research, contact with coaches, and numerous visits ultimately led him to a small school in Maine, the venerable Bowdoin College. In this interview he also offers some advice for other athletes interested in the recruiting process.