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======================== OUTPUT B: PODCAST DESCRIPTION How to Get More Leads and Sales with Instagram Reels ft. Dr. Kimberly Olson If you've been posting on Instagram but not seeing consistent leads or sales, this episode is your turning point. Ray Higdon sits down with Dr. Kimberly Olson — award-winning Instagram strategist, seven-figure entrepreneur, and creator of the bestselling #Instagram course — to break down exactly how network marketers and direct sellers can leverage Instagram Reels to grow their audience, fill their DMs with qualified prospects, and close sales with confidence. Kimberly shares her personal journey from six figures of debt to generating consistent seven-figure annual revenue, and how stepping into radical authenticity — including sharing her faith, her values, and her real story — was the catalyst that changed everything. In this power-packed training, Dr. Kimberly Olson walks you through her proven "Reel Domination" playbook, covering the five essential reel types every entrepreneur needs to be posting: educational, inspirational, social proof, high-value lead generation, and entertaining/controversial content. You'll learn how to stop the scroll with magnetic hooks, how to turn reel comments into DM conversations, and how to convert those conversations into sales using a simple one-conversation close. Whether you have zero followers or you're looking to 10x an existing audience, Kimberly's system has been proven with thousands of students — including people who went from two jobs to full-time network marketing income within a single year. You'll also get a behind-the-scenes look at Kimberly's complete #Instagram course, a 7-module mega-program with over 60 video lessons, step-by-step reel and story templates, a Trello-based content planning system, and lifetime access with ongoing updates — all designed to help you build, brand, and monetize your Instagram presence from the ground up. If you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and start getting paid consistently for the content you create, this episode — and Kimberly's training — is exactly what you need. —

Leslie Bosserman shares powerful insights drawn from her new book, "Emotional Endurance." With Stephanie, she explores her personal journey, the necessity of emotional endurance, and practical strategies for developing this crucial skill set from a Christian perspective.  NOTE | We are giving away 3 copies of Leslie's book, "Emotional Endurance." Sign up at https://www.gospelspice.com/lesliebossermangiveaway today! Leslie Bosserman defines emotional endurance as a “dynamic inner capacity to keep going and rise above your circumstances as you deal with life's stresses and challenges”. It is not a one-size-fits-all solution but a set of skills and tools that can be developed and customized to each person's needs, rooted deeply in faith, self-awareness, and lived experience.Emotional endurance is a lifelong journey—dynamic, adaptable, and deeply rooted in our walk with God. Leslie offers a hopeful, practical, and theologically rich path for us to develop greater endurance in the face of life's challenges.Leslie's journey began with a drastic life change: after only four weeks of marriage, Leslie and her husband moved to the Middle East to serve with a non-profit—an experience that profoundly shaped her understanding of endurance, faith, and the necessity of resilience in unfamiliar and challenging environments. Through cultural adaptation, crisis, and change, she learned the importance of inner strength, flexibility, and spiritual grounding.Leslie organizes emotional endurance into six alliterative principles, each with actionable skills:1.      Fortitude to Fail: Embracing failure as a necessary step in growth; learning that God has designed us for recovery and redemption, not perfection.2.      Resilience to Rise: Applying the science of resilience to rise above difficulties, using setbacks as opportunities for persistence and learning.3.      Hope to Heal: Building sustainable hope, even in times of discouragement, by integrating psychological research and Christian theology.4.      Courage to Change: Leaning into bravery to accept the need for change and transformation in alignment with God's purposes.5.      Energy to Engage: Managing one's energy—both physical and spiritual—to avoid burnout and remain engaged in life's calling.6.      Purpose to Persevere: Connecting daily actions to a deeper sense of purpose and legacy, fueling perseverance in long-term challenges.Leslie Bosserman breaks each principle into three actionable skills, allowing for a customized, non-linear journey. This approach encourages small, manageable steps rather than overwhelming change. For example, an essential first step Leslie Bosserman recommends is developing margin—the space between your “load” (responsibilities and stresses) and your “power” (resources and capacity). When margin is lacking, growth and endurance become even more difficult. Cultivating healthy margins means intentionally reducing overload and creating space for God's work in and through us.Another example is the key difference between a fixed mindset (believing abilities and circumstances are static) and a growth mindset (seeing challenges as opportunities to learn). As Stephanie says, we are “half-baked masterpieces”—in progress, growing, and continually shaped by God.By focusing on small, intentional steps and embracing both faith and self-awareness, anyone can begin building the resilience necessary to live out their God-given purpose.MORE ABOUT “EMOTIONAL ENDURANCE”Learn how to come back stronger and keep going when you experience setbacks and disappointment.Why do some people bounce back from adversity while others stay stuck? We all face stress and setbacks, but not everyone recovers the same way. What makes the difference? Executive leadership coach, educator, and TEDx speaker Leslie M. Bosserman has spent decades helping people answer that question. Through research, experience, and her own personal journey, she's identified the key: emotional endurance.In Emotional Endurance, you'll develop the mindset and skills to face life's hardest moments and come out stronger, wiser, and more grounded. Based in psychological research and biblical truth, this practical and hope-filled guide offers a framework for building resilience that lasts. Soon you won't just survive adversity; you'll bounce back stronger with the skills to keep going.Emotional Endurance offers practical tools and transformational results, including how todevelop inner strength and grit through six core principles and eighteen actionable skills;recover from failure, turn it into a source of strength, and use it to fuel your growth;build resilience that lasts beyond a single crisis;access hope to heal from emotional wounds;replace fear and paralysis with courage and clarity;learn to manage your energy by anticipating what drains you and making space for what restores you; andfind strength to endure challenges by standing firm in your clearly defined purpose.This book is a perfect gift for anyone going through a difficult season, friends facing burnout or transition, graduates stepping into uncertain futures, small groups or book clubs focused on personal growth, or leadership retreats and team-building sessions.Real strength isn't about avoiding hard things. It's about moving forward with emotional steadiness when life gets tough. Emotional Endurance equips you with the mindset and resilience to keep going, keep growing, and come out stronger on the other side. Your bounce-back starts here.MORE ABOUT LESLIE BOSSERMANLeslie M. Bosserman, M.Ed., CPCC is an Executive Coach and Lifestyle Strategist for innovators and creative professionals leading dynamic and diverse teams. After working for a decade in higher education and student development, Leslie launched Lead With Intention® – a boutique coaching and consulting practice that specializes in leadership coaching, customized training, and organizational strategy for clients and their teams around the world. She collaborates with a range of creative professionals from entrepreneurs launching their startups to executive leaders at Fortune 500 Companies. Leslie is committed to enhancing her local community and co-created and launched The Makers Place™ with her husband, Joel. As the regions first coworking space with onsite childcare, this innovative multi-use space supports parents who need a professional workspace along with flexible childcare options. She also currently works as the Director and Site Supervisor of Mini Makers™ Preschool. Leslie has also served locally on the leadership team for TEDxSacramento as the Event Coordinator and volunteered as a coach for emerging female leaders through The Women's Impact Alliance (formerly The Coaching Fellowship). She has been a featured speaker at TEDxEustis with over 1.3 million views! Before becoming a Professional Coach, Leslie worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she taught leadership and diversity classes as well as ran a campus-wide Leadership Certificate Program for over 500 students, faculty, and staff members. She also has worked professionally in residential life and academic research at UCLA and in Public Affairs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy. Before becoming a Professional Coach, Leslie worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she taught leadership and diversity classes as well as ran a campus-wide Leadership Certificate Program for over 500 students, faculty, and staff members. She also has worked professionally in residential life and academic research at UCLA and in Public Affairs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy. Leslie loves to travel and explore new places and has visited over 30 countries as well as living abroad in the Middle East for a year where she volunteered at local schools with her husband, Joel. She is an avid artist who also enjoys karaoke, cooking ethnic food, supporting local coffee shops, and practicing yoga. Leslie lives in Northern California with her husband and three children, and travels internationally for coaching, organizational trainings, and retreat facilitation.https://www.lesliembosserman.com/ https://leadwithintention.com/ What does it look like to truly delight in God, in a way that transforms us? Delight in God isn't the same thing as emotional joy every day. It's so much better, and so much deeper! When we awaken our delight in God, we experience less anxiety. We discover a deeper prayer life, and soul-satisfying joyful obedience. We build resilient peace in suffering.  In short, we practice for heaven.Awaken Delight is a theologically grounded, Scripture-centered spiritual formation book that invites believers to recover resilient joy in Christ, freeing them from performance-driven faith and exhaustion.Find out more at https://www.gospelspice.com/awakendelight Support us on Gospel Spice, PayPal and Venmo!

✨ Like/Subscribe/Comment where you listen! YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ Become a member for our reading group, community calls, and years of members-only recordings — including the excellent raps we had recently on Alexander Douglas and Wendell Berry. Our next call is this weekend, May 2, at 2 pm MDT!This week I decant a conversation with the brilliant Mathew Mytka (Website | LinkedIn) — a self-described “Earthian living on and learning from the Country of the Bidjigal, Gweagal and Kamay clans of the Dharawal Nation, in Sydney, Australia.”Mat is a moral imagineer, social entrepreneur, UX designer, educator, artist, and public policy advocate. Cofounder (with Alja Isakovic) of the the inquiry-driven social venture Tethix and mission steward (with Gemma Palmer) of Collective Futurecrafting, Mat has over twenty years' of product, project, and program management experience, designing and running real-world relational experiments everywhere from startups to federal government initiatives, Fortune 500 tech companies, and grassroots communities. He also makes delightfully weird code-as-art projects like The Ministry of Futility, a bureaucratic adventure game where players navigate a maze of pointless decisions.In short, he's precisely the kind of incompressible generalist I look to as a model for how to live wisely in our age of accelerating weirdness.Mat and I met in 2024 in the group chat that spawned the Wisdom x Technology Discord Server and immediately realized a common thread ran through both our lives: a commitment to fostering our collective imagination aimed at ecologically-grounded, mutualistic, more-than-human futures.In today's episode we riff on themes from the Tethix blog and podcast, including:• How do we embrace the lunacy of tech?• What should we do with the time that new technologies save? (if they even do) and• How do we nuture weird online communal gardens where we can play together?We also draw from the Tethix codesign principles, product ethos, and elemental ethics documents.Along the way we explore the fundamental problems of scale and institutional misalignment, the value of ritual, and the return to embodiment.✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future.✨ Browse and buy all of the books we discuss on the show at Bookshop.org✨ Music: “Scalar Reconfigurations”Chapters00:00 Intro06:02 Starting Over With Play08:05 Mat's Origin Story13:56 Online Performance and Anxiety18:24 How Tethix Began40:07 Teaching The State about The Duty of Care46:26 Collective Futurecrafting from Circles to Bioregions47:05 Start With What Exists48:34 Pivot Beyond Tech Ethics50:08 Weird Gardens for Online Community57:42 Composting The Leviathan01:01:48 Trauma, Empathy, Care01:13:11 Agency Rituals and Closing This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Cheryl Bevelle-Orange. Retired Chief Information Officer (CIO) of FedEx Custom Critical and author of The Courage to Continue: Navigating Your Corporate Journey, shares her inspiring story of rising from humble beginnings in Bessemer, Alabama, to becoming a high-ranking executive in a Fortune 500 company. The conversation centers on her book’s core themes: mentorship, advocacy, and sponsorship.

I just got back from three days in Atlanta with some of the most impressive people in the online business space, and I am still processing all of it.We're talking New York Times bestselling authors, YouTubers with millions of subscribers, book agents and editors, SaaS founders, and high-level consultants serving Fortune 100 companies. All 40 of us crammed into rooms, hot seats, and late-night fire pit hangs for what turned into one of the most valuable professional (and personal) experiences I've had in years.I walked away with pages of notes on pricing psychology, LinkedIn strategy, storytelling, community building, and what it really takes to write and sell a book. But honestly? The biggest thing I took away wasn't a tactic at all. It was the realization that even after building a multi-seven-figure business, giving keynotes, and writing a book, I still don't fully believe in myself or what's possible for me.And it turns out? Neither does pretty much everyone else in that room. So I figured I'd bring all of it back to you.In this episode, you'll hear…The pricing psychology tip from a master business consultant that will make you rethink every number on your sales pageWhy the words "fee" and "costs" are quietly working against your sales (and what to say instead)The LinkedIn profile mistakes almost everyone makes and the simple fixes that actually drive traffic to your businessWhat spending three days with NYT bestselling authors taught me about the realities of publishing, book deals, and where authors actually make their moneyWhy the most successful people in the room still felt like they didn't belong there, and what that means for youThe honest truth about AI that nobody in the online space seems willing to say out loudWhy going deep in one community beats trying to be everywhere at onceClick here to find the full show notes and transcript for this episode.EPISODE RESOURCES:Grab Sam's book When I Start My Business, I'll Be Happy and join the Live Book Club Call (purchase book by April 29th to get your invite)Jo Franco's travel showCraft + Commerce ConferenceSam's episode on The Nathan Barry ShowIf you have a question you'd like Sam to answer on a future podcast episode, you can submit it here.Click here to be notified when new episodes of On Your Terms® come outCONNECT:Get Sam's weekly newsletter, Sam's SidebarFollow Sam on InstagramFollow Sam on YouTubeSubscribe to Sam's Substack, Beyond BusinessTake Sam's free legal workshop "5 Steps to Legally Protect & Grow Your Online Business"DISCLAIMER

Amjad Masad is the Co-Founder and CEO of Replit, one of the leading "vibe-coding" platforms. Under his leadership, Replit has raised a total of $922 million in funding, recently raising at a whopping $9 billion valuation. Replit has over 50 million registered users and is used by employees at 85% of Fortune 500 companies. Replit's revenue jumped from $10 million to $100 million in nine months, and the company is on track to reach $1BN in ARR by the end of 2026. AGENDA:  00:00 — Why Coding Models are Hitting a Performance Plateau 07:21 — Is Most of the Value of Replit Not Anthropic Model Quality? 10:04 — Why Did Replit Decide to Not Build Their Own Model, Like Cursor Did? 11:58 — Why Product Quality Must Always Beat Cost Optimization 14:51 — How Do Replit Choose Which Model To Route To For Different Tasks? 24:43 — The SaaS Apocalypse: Why it is Fair and Just? 29:55 — What Will the Cost of Tokens Be in 5 Years? 31:09 — Is Cursor Dead? Debunking the Twitter Narrative 33:36 — Are IDEs Dead? 35:54 — Should Students Still Study Computer Science? 42:47 — Are US Companies Using CCP Subsidised Open-Source Chinese Models 56:59 — What Do No Founders Know About True Product-Market Fit  

Story of the Week (DR):Apple names John Ternus as CEO to replace Tim Cook, who will become chairmanApple CEO Tim Cook is stepping downMeet John Ternus, the 51-year-old former swimming champ who will succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEOTim Cook to step down as Apple CEO. In letter, describes 15 years of emailsTim Cook's exit is part of a CEO reckoning sweeping Corporate AmericaAre internal CEOs the way to go?Best Buy taps insider Jason Bonfig as new CEO, Corie Barry steps downShe's actually leaving the boardLululemon names former Nike exec Heidi O'Neill as CEO MMLululemon CEO Pick Heidi O'Neill Faces Skeptical Wall Street AND Lululemon shares dive on new CEO pick — as investors fear she may not have chops to save struggling companyO'Neill brings more than 30 years of experience in performance apparel, footwear, and sports, including over 25 years at Nike, where she was credited with transforming their women's business from a side-project into a global juggernaut. Her leadership spanned product creation, brand strategy, marketing, and global operations, making her one of the most influential executives in the company's modern era. Most recently, she served as President, Consumer, Product & Brand, overseeing Nike's global consumer and product engineGolden hello: $7M equity, $2M cashRoughly 75% of Lululemon's customers are womenLululemon board: 7 of 11 FChair Martha MorfittCommittees:Audit: 2 of 3 F, including chairNomination: 3 of 5Pay: 3 of 5 F, including chairAlso: CFO, Chief Merchandising Officer, Chief People & Culture Officer, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Chief Brand & Product Activation OfficerNow we get why Chip is so mad: Chip Wilson, Lululemon's founder, largest shareholder and chief agitator, has not weighed in on the pick yet, although he previously advocated for waiting to name a new CEO until the board could be resetBest Buy taps insider Jason Bonfig as new CEO, Corie Barry steps downBest Buy taps insider Bonfig to succeed veteran Barry as CEO amid demand slowdownOil giant BP suffers shareholder revolt over climate transparency at tense AGM“BP suffered a shareholder revolt at its AGM over the election of a new chair and resolutions that included dropping some climate disclosure obligations”BP failed to get majority shareholder approval on two highly anticipated motions, which would have permitted online-only AGMs and retired two company-specific climate disclosure obligations. Each resolution received around 47% support, far short of the required 75% required to pass.Ahead of the AGM, BP's board blocked a motion tabled by Follow This that would have required the company to share plans on creating value for shareholders under future scenarios of falling oil and gas demand.Resolution 1: Annual Report and Accounts – 98% For / 2% AgainstResolution 2: Directors' remuneration report – 95% For / 5% AgainstResolution 3: Directors' remuneration policy – 95% For / 5% AgainstResolution 4: To elect Albert Manifold as a director – 82% For / 18% AgainstSome activist investors had said even a 5% vote against Manifold, who has only been in post as chair since October, would represent a severe reprimand, particularly after a historic 24% vote against outgoing chair Helge Lund last year.Resolution 5: To elect Meg O'Neill as a director – 97% For / 3% AgainstResolution 6: To re-elect Kate Thomson as a director – 96% For / 4% AgainstResolution 7: To re-elect Dame Amanda Blanc as a director – 95% For / 5% AgainstResolution 8: To re-elect Tushar Morzaria as a director – 96% For / 4% AgainstResolution 9: To re-elect Ian Tyler as a director – 96% For / 4% AgainstResolution 10: To re-elect Satish Pai as a director – 92% For / 8% AgainstResolution 11: To re-elect Dr Johannes Teyssen as a director – 89% For / 11% AgainstResolution 12: To re-elect Hina Nagarajan as a director – 96% For / 4% AgainstResolution 13: To elect Dave Hager as a director – 97% For / 3% AgainstResolution 14: Reappointment of auditor – 100% For / 0% AgainstResolution 15: Remuneration of auditor – 100% For / 0% AgainstResolution 16: Political donations and political expenditure – 98% For / 2% AgainstResolution 17: Directors' authority to allot shares – 96% For / 4% AgainstResolution 18: Special resolution: Authority for disapplication of pre-emption rights – 99% For / 1% AgainstResolution 19: Special resolution: Additional authority for disapplication of pre-emption rights – 99% For / 1% AgainstResolution 20: Special resolution: Share buyback – 100% For / 0% AgainstResolution 21: Special resolution: Notice of general meetings – 94% For / 6% AgainstResolution 22: Special resolution: New Articles of Association – 47% For / 53% AgainstResolution 23: Special resolution: Revocation of previous 2015 and 2019 resolutions – 47% For / 53% AgainstResolution 24: Special resolution: ACCR shareholder resolution – 26% For / 74% AgainstNetflix authorizes $25 billion share buyback after stock dropPopulist Math Time:Employees: As of 2026, Netflix employs roughly 16,000 people. If you took that $25 billion and distributed it directly to the workforce = $1,562,500 per employeeAlternatively: They could fund a $100,000 annual salary for 250,000 new people for an entire year.Customers: Netflix has roughly 325 million subscribers globally. If they decided to use that money to subsidize the service instead of buying back stock: $77 per person.Netflix could give every subscriber on the planet roughly 4 to 5 months of service for free.Or, they could lower the price of every subscription by about $6.40 per month for a full year.Social impact:Various estimates (including from HUD) suggest that ending homelessness in the US would cost roughly $20 billion to $30 billion.It could provide a full four-year scholarship (at an average cost of $100k total) to 250,000 students.It could fund the eradication of several neglected tropical diseases or provide clean water infrastructure for tens of millions of people globally.For perspective, the entire annual budget for NASA in 2025 was around $25 billion. Netflix is essentially spending one "National Space Program" worth of cash just to tweak its stock price.Shareholders:If Netflix successfully retires that 6.4% of shares and the market maintains its current valuation, the stock price should mathematically rise by about 7% to compensate for the reduced supply.If the price jumps 7% (from $93 to roughly $99.50), here is the wealth jump:Vanguard: $2.5BBlackRock: $2.1BFidelity: $1.4BReed Hastings: $138MGoodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights to Save Fuel Amid Iran War Price SurgeMM: The Onion Says It Has Again Struck a Deal to Take Over InfowarsMM: Texas Capital stays incorporated in Delaware after shareholders reject 'Dexit' voteAre investors waking up??? They rejected TEXAS CAPITAL redomestication to TEXAS!Assholiest of the Week (MM):White guy victimhood DR‘The disfavored groups, No. 1, obviously, would be white males': Ron DeSantis is still signing anti-DEI legislationWhite males are…70% of governors70% of congress60% of US corporate boards31% of US populationWhat percentage of DEI programs for companies were designed by white male CEOs? 90% of CEOs in Fortune 500 are white guys - so ALL OF THEMSo when we read: White House study says DEI policies cost US economy by promoting unqualified managers…Even if the premise and math and methodology and concepts are literally all make believe, we SHOULD take away that “white men pretending to do DEI are bad for the economy” right?Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is UpDonald Trump 'Honours' UGA Women's Tennis Champions With Bizarre Photo Featuring Only Men In The ForegroundThe anti DEI, white male victimhood movement should entirely OWN DEI itself - this is the great blame transfer - somehow manage to blame black women and gays for the fact that white men running the world instituted shitty policies not meant to distribute equal opportunity, just meant for press releases - anti DEI is actually anti white male leaders. Make every company CEO a black woman and then see what DEI looks likeWhite guy manifestosPalantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful' and ‘middling' and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt' to the U.S.Why are tech bros so insistent we listen to everything they think? Were you not listened to as a child? Did no one ever validate you? Is this just about sex? Could you not get laid, and now because you have money you need to get everything you ever thought off your chest?Here are snippets of what Alex Karp, man who couldn't get laid, thought so important that we know:The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone.The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service.Man who exposes private lives as a business model says it's badWe, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity.All very important points from a man we should clearly listen to about everything - the lane I want you to stay in is “shut the fuck up” lane where, BECAUSE you have billions, I'm not forced to listen to you as if you matterWhite guy philanthropyJeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Donate $34 Million in Fashion GrantsMacKenzie Scott's latest donation takes her HBCU giving to well over $1 billionMacKenzie Scott has donated more than $26 billion—but it's barely made a dent in her net worth because of the power of Amazon sharesHeadliniest of the WeekDR: The blowhards:Sam Altman opens up about the Molotov cocktail attack on his home: 'The way Anthropic talks about OpenAI doesn't help'Nvidia CEO says that AI agents will make workers busier than ever—they'll ‘harass' and ‘micromanage' you, instead of take your jobMcDonald's boss on abuse claims: 'I don't want to talk about the past'Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you won't lose your job to AI—you'll lose it to your coworker who uses it‘I think it's a mistake': Delta CEO Ed Bastian refuses to call it ‘artificial intelligence' because it scares peopleAI will boost productivity so ServiceNow won't have to backfill open jobs, CEO saysDR: The Nutter Chutter Butter Double: Morgan Stanley biotech banker Jessica Chutter joins Tectonic board AND Tectonic Therapeutic Appoints Jessica Chutter to Board of DirectorsI screwed up: blanked and thought that was two different companies. But then I did 3 seconds of research and found that she had joined a second board: PTC Therapeutics on March 24, 2026.MM: Apple's New CEO Needs to Be a ‘Cowboy' — But Can He With Tim Cook Still There?MM: SEC Imposes Strict Nine-Year Cap on Independent DirectorsPhillipinesWho Won the Week?DR: Jessica ChutterMM: The Philippines, whose corporate boards will no longer be allowed to have Edward Sylvester of WestAmerica Bancorp, born in 1938 and on the board for 47 yearsPredictionsDR: Nobody ever talks about Jason BonfigMM: Edward Sylvester steps down as Lead Independent Director of WestAmerica Bancorp to take the role of Non Executive Advisor to the Lead Independent Director Emeritus of WestAmerica Bancorp, says the rise of AI calls fresh blood on the board

The firm advisors think they know is not the firm that exists today. And if you are going to say NO, at least know what you are saying no to. Frank LaRosa goes one on one with Brian Mora of Ameriprise for a candid conversation that challenges some of the most common misconceptions advisors carry about one of the largest and most innovative firms in the industry. Frank and Brian break down what $1.7 trillion in assets actually means for an advisor looking for stability in a consolidating market, why Fortune named Ameriprise one of the most innovative companies in America and how their AI-powered CFP brain is giving advisors back hours of time every single week by transforming how they prep for meetings, generate recommendations and summarize client conversations. They also get into the numbers that matter most. Advisors who transition to Ameriprise are at 101% of their hiring assets after just 12 months, compared to the industry average of 91%. The conversation also breaks down how their digital transition process moved a billion dollar team onto the platform in just 16 days and why a firm telling you it takes six months to transition your book is a red flag you should not ignore. The episode closes with the message Frank keeps coming back to: before you say no to Ameriprise, at least know what you are saying no to. Because the firm advisors think they know is not the firm that exists today.   Questions answered in this episode include: Why are advisors surprised by what Ameriprise has become in the last 20 years? What does $1.7 trillion in assets mean for the stability of the firm you choose? How is Ameriprise using AI to help advisors grow their practices and serve clients better? What is the CFP brain and how does it work inside an advisor's practice? Why do Ameriprise advisors move 101% of their book after transitioning when the industry average is 91%? How fast should a book of business actually move when an advisor transitions today? What is the impact analyzer and how does it help advisors see the real financial difference of growing faster?   Chapters: 00:00 — Know What You're Saying No To: The Ameriprise Truth 01:04 — Why Ameriprise Surprises People: 1.7 Trillion and the Innovation Awards 03:00 — How Ameriprise Changed 20 Years Ago and Why It Matters Now 06:18 — Fortune, Time, and the Case for Innovation 09:18 — The CFP Brain: AI That Thinks Ahead for Every Client 10:07 — Meeting Summarization and Giving Advisors Their Time Back 12:52 — 101% vs 91%: Why More of the Book Moves at Ameriprise 15:37 — 16 Days, a Billion Dollars, and the Digital Transition Difference   Learn more about Elite and our resources: Elite Consulting Partners | Financial Advisor Transitions https://eliteconsultingpartners.com Elite Marketing Concepts | Marketing Services for Financial Advisors https://elitemarketingconcepts.com Elite Advisor Successions | Advisor Mergers and Acquisitions https://eliteadvisorsuccessions.com JEDI Database Solutions | Technology Solutions for Advisors https://jedidatabasesolutions.com Elite Wealth Management Insights Report https://eliteconsultingpartners.com/insight-report Listen to more Advisor Talk episodes https://eliteconsultingpartners.com/podcasts/

======================== OUTPUT B: PODCAST DESCRIPTION How to Recruit Professionals Into Network Marketing (Without Begging, Chasing, or Sounding Like a Pitch Artist) | Todd Falcone Industry legend Todd Falcone — 36 years in network marketing, 17 of them building in the field — sits down with Ray Higdon to break down one of the most powerful and underutilized recruiting strategies in the profession: targeting high-caliber professionals. Todd shares why commission-based professionals like realtors, insurance agents, and financial planners are a natural fit for network marketing — they already prospect, sell, handle rejection, and take risks for a living. The result? Higher-quality conversations, faster decisions, and teammates who actually show up and produce. Ray and Todd walk through exactly how Todd developed his signature "peak interest question," why he ditched purchasing business opportunity seeker leads in favor of cold outreach to professionals, and the mindset shift that separates distributors who stay stuck talking to unqualified prospects from those who build with momentum. They also tackle the #1 reason most network marketers never take this approach — fear of judgment — and why that fear is completely unfounded when you're approaching people who are already wired for business. Todd also previews his free training at HigdonGroup.com/Professionals, a step-by-step deep dive into recruiting professionals word for word, without begging, chasing, or sounding like a pitch artist. Whether you're brand new or a seasoned builder frustrated with low-quality conversations, this episode will change how you look at every for-sale sign, insurance office, and real estate listing in your area. —

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Jessica Kriegel, of Culture Partners, a global consulting firm that helps organisations create clarity, alignment, and accountability around purpose, strategy, and culture to drive real results.Through her work with leaders and executive teams, Jessica guides organisations from 1,000 employees through to the Fortune 10 to move out of the action trap and into focused execution that actually moves the needle.Now, Jessica's personal commitment to surrendering in seasons of fast growth and change reflects the core message of her book, Surrender to Lead, and the power of letting go to lead more effectively.And while helping organisations achieve extraordinary outcomes at scale, she is also modelling what it looks like to lead with trust, intention, and impact during complexity and expansion.Here's where to find more:culturepartners.com jessicakriegel.com________________________________________________Welcome to The Unforget Yourself Show where we use the power of woo and the proof of science to help you identify your blind spots, and get over your own bullshit so that you can do the fucking thing you ACTUALLY want to do!We're Mark and Katie, the founders of Unforget Yourself and the creators of the Unforget Yourself System and on this podcast, we're here to share REAL conversations about what goes on inside the heart and minds of those brave and crazy enough to start their own business. From the accidental entrepreneur to the laser-focused CEO, we find out how they got to where they are today, not by hearing the go-to story of their success, but talking about how we all have our own BS to deal with and it's through facing ourselves that we find a way to do the fucking thing.Along the way, we hope to show you that YOU are the most important asset in your business (and your life - duh!). Being a business owner is tough! With vulnerability and humor, we get to the real story behind their success and show you that you're not alone._____________________Find all our links to all the things like the socials, how to work with us and how to apply to be on the podcast here:https://linktr.ee/unforgetyourself

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & KLV Capital and Experience Ventures   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Vic Keller — the quiet operator who founded 17 companies, exited 9 of them, and had three acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. No hype, no flash. Just results.   Vic breaks down why building a great team is the only real multiplier, what it actually takes to build a business buyers want to pay top dollar for, and why the next 5–10 years will be the greatest window in history to sell a business. He also gets into the buy vs. build debate, why blue-collar industries are the new gold rush, and what AI will never be able to replace.   This conversation separates the operators from the talkers. If you're building, buying, or thinking about selling — this one's worth your time.   [Insert Timestamps here]  

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & letsgetfunded.com   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode brings back Evan Rugen — the entrepreneur who reverse-engineered the banking system and built a multiple 7-figure company teaching everyday people how to access real money for their businesses.   Evan breaks down how he personally accessed $1.5 million at 0% interest, why most people are playing the funding game completely wrong, and how his team helps people fix their credit and get funded, no matter where they're starting from.   Whether you're sitting on bad credit, waiting to save up, or already in business and need capital to scale — this episode lays out exactly how to get the money and what to do with it once you have it.   Stop waiting. Start getting funded. This conversation is your golden ticket to free capital.    00:00 - Intro 6:02 - Inside the 'Let's Get Funded' Community 07:45 - Understanding Lexus Nexus & Credit Repair 12:17 - Six Levels of Business Funding 16:38 - Why Credit Repair is Essential for Entrepreneurs 25:10 - The Importance of Marketing & Sales Skills 29:48 - Sponsor Break 34:40 - Secrets to Maximum Funding Approvals 38:41 - Real Client Funding Success Stories 47:00 - Best Banks to Get 0% Loans 48:31 - Getting Started with Funding (Actionable Advice) 55:19 - Wrap-up & Final Thoughts

How to Get Found on ChatGPT Before Your Competitors Do A complete stranger asked ChatGPT how to explain binge eating to their partner. ChatGPT recommended one woman's podcast. That stranger listened, fell in love with her work, and showed up to the consult call already knowing the price and ready to sign. She made $3,500 from a conversation that happened without her. This is what's happening in search right now. AI tools are recommending specific businesses by name, and the businesses getting named are the ones who figured this out first. Rachel Lindteigen spent 25 years in marketing, Fortune 500s and ad agencies, before turning that expertise toward one question: how do small businesses get found? She now teaches entrepreneurs how to show up in both Google and AI search. One of her students found a single keyword, optimized her homepage around it, and made $150,000 in six months. No launches. No ads. In this episode, Rachel breaks down how AI tools decide which businesses to recommend, how to find the right keywords, and the three mistakes keeping most online business owners invisible. The window is open. This is where you start. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: You've built something real. A business making $150K to $500k annually, an audience, and offers that work. But revenue still feels harder to predict than it should. The Revenue Consistency Formula is a free live training for established female founders who have built momentum but are tired of inconsistent results. In this training, I'll teach you how to turn scattered marketing effort into predictable revenue. Ready to build that system? Save your seat here. Etched Marketing (Rachel's website) Marketing for Entrepreneurs Podcast Rachel Lindteigen on Instagram ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Yoast SEO Plugin WordPress Squarespace HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1️⃣ AI Search Is Recommending Specific Businesses by Name, and Yours Could Be One of Them — When your ideal client asks ChatGPT a question in your area, those tools recommend specific businesses by name. Getting named comes down to one thing: content that directly answers what your clients are already asking, in their own words. 2️⃣ Content Strategy Comes Before Optimization, and That Order Is Everything — The most important SEO question is strategic: what is your ideal client searching for? Answer those questions first, then optimize for findability. Most business owners do it in reverse, and that's why the results never come. 3️⃣ The Keyword You Haven't Found Yet Might Be Worth More Than Your Next Launch — One of Rachel's students found one phrase, optimized her homepage around it, and made $150,000 in six months. No launches. Finding the right keyword is a learnable skill, and for the entrepreneurs who do, it quietly changes everything.MORE FROM ME Follow me on Instagram @amyporterfield SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW If you loved this episode, please take a moment to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Your support helps us reach more entrepreneurs who need these insights.

This is the story of the world's most valuable sunken treasure galleon - the San José - lost off the coast of Colombia in 1708. "Neptune's Gold: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire" recounts the events surrounding the sinking of the vessel - and then 300+ years of searching to find the $1 billion in gold and silver that was lost in the wreck. This includes a cast of characters as colorful as they are mysterious - including Cuban-American shipwreck fanatic Roger Dooley. In this episode we interview author Julian Sancton (who also wrote the amazing "Madhouse at the End of the Earth") who talks about the book, the people involved, the legacy of Spanish gold and silver, and the future of the treasure. Learn more about Neptune's Fortune: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723956/neptunes-fortune-by-julian-sancton/ Sponsors: Quince. Get free shipping with your order by using code EXPLORERS at quince.com/explorers Factor. Go to factormeals.com/explorers50off and use code explorers50off for 50 percent off and free breakfast for a year. New subscribers only, varies by plan. 1 free breakfast item per box for 1 year while subscription is active. The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My conversation with Andrea starts at about 41 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D., is a data and social scientist, science educator, standup comedian, and circus performer. They are a professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the NYU Center for Data Science, where they teach the flagship undergraduate course, Data Science for Everyone, as well as advanced courses on Natural Language Processing. Andrea is also a research consultant and keynote speaker for global Fortune 500 and tech companies of all sizes on how to thoughtfully integrate data science into achieving their goals, especially in the people analytics space. When they aren't doing those things, they perform standup, trapeze, and fire all over the world. Andrea hosts the podcast Majoring in Everything and is working on a book about why focusing on just one thing is overrated. Get in touch after the interview… • @jonesrooy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok www.jonesrooy.com  jonesrooy@gmail.com   Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page     Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo All things Jon Carroll  Buy Ava's Art    Subscribe to Piano Tuner Paul Paul Wesley on Substack Listen to Barry and Abigail Hummel Podcast Listen to Matty C Podcast and Substack Follow and Support Pete Coe Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing    

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Courtney Smith is an enneagram coach, author, and consultant who works with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies. After receiving a degree in mathematical economics, she graduated from Yale Law School with her JD and intended to start her career in law. She then decided to change course to consulting, where she worked at McKinsey & Company before transitioning to Condé Nast, briefly working for a real estate start-up, and even considering a career as a doctor. She soon joined the board of Planned Parenthood and received her masters in public health, but was forced to pivot due to the start of the pandemic. After this career shift, Smith, who had used the Enneagram personality system herself, began using the tool to help others. This led to where she is today: coaching and consulting high-profile clients such as Brené Brown and co-authoring the book Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full Self.

If you can make conversation, you can make your own luck.Good communication isn't passive. And good luck, says Tina Seelig, is the same. There's “what the world gives us,” and then there's “how we respond to it.”Seelig is executive director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford University and author of What I Wish I Knew About Luck. For her, good fortune doesn't find us, we find it. “Opportunities for lucky things to happen are ubiquitous. But they're invisible and most people don't see them,” she says. In the same way that communication requires active listening, making our own luck requires presence to the people and possibilities that come our way.In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Seelig and host Matt Abrahams explore how communication creates luck. From curious listening to resolving the conflicts that block opportunity, Seelig offers practical ways to respond to what life offers — and turn everyday interactions into the foundation for good fortune.To listen to the extended Deep Thinks version of this episode, please visit FasterSmarter.io/premium.Episode Reference Links:Tina SeeligTina's Book: What I Wish I Knew About LuckEp.111 Rethinks: How to Spark Creativity in Your CommunicationEp.159 Earn Your Audience: You Can't Lead If No One's Listening Connect:Premium Signup >>>> Think Fast Talk Smart PremiumEmail Questions & Feedback >>> hello@fastersmarter.ioEpisode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTubeMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInChapters:(00:00) - Introduction (02:46) - Luck vs. Fortune (03:55) - The Idea of Making Luck (04:40) - Building Your Luck Framework (05:49) - Listening Creates Opportunity (06:56) - Focus on Others (09:57) - Staying Connected to Others (11:09) - Appreciation as a Habit (12:04) - How Conflict Blocks Luck (13:35) - Apologies Create Opportunity (14:33) - Ask, Don't Assume (16:26) - Communicating for Your Audience (18:13) - Prepare Your Stories (21:46) - The Final Three Questions (26:16) - Conclusion ********Thank you to our sponsors.  These partnerships support the ongoing production of the podcast, allowing us to bring it to you at no cost.Strawberry.me. Get 50% off your first coaching session today at Strawberry.me/smartJoin our Think Fast Talk Smart Learning Community and become the communicator you want to be. 

On today's episode, I welcome Pam Sherman, Author of the new book Play You: The Role of a Lifetime — Bridge the Believability Gap to Boost Confidence, Connection, and Impact. Pam is an actor, leadership consultant, and President of The ShermanEDGE who has spent her career helping leaders ignite audiences with who they truly are. A former lawyer turned professional actor — a transition profiled in People Magazine — Pam now works with Fortune 50 companies and global leadership organizations, including YPO, EO, and Vistage, guiding leaders to communicate with greater authenticity and impact. In Play You, Pam introduces the concept of the “Believability Gap” — the space between who we are and how we show up. Drawing on techniques from the stage, she reveals how acting tools can help leaders embody their core character more fully, strengthen confidence, and connect more powerfully with teams and audiences. The book challenges the common belief that authenticity alone is enough, showing instead that believability — the ability to truly inhabit your message — is what drives influence and trust. In this episode, Pam shares how her unconventional journey shaped her leadership philosophy, why storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have, and how small shifts in presence can dramatically change the way others experience us. We discuss overcoming self-doubt, navigating toxic cultures, breaking the “fourth wall” in everyday communication, and how teams can collaborate more effectively when individuals close their believability gap. A compelling conversation for founders, leaders, and anyone ready to step into their own role of a lifetime. Whether you're looking to boost confidence, reconnect with your purpose, or increase your impact, this episode offers practical tools and inspiration to help you “play you” more fully — starting now. Don't miss it!   Are you interested in sponsoring and advertising on The Kara Goldin Show, which is now in the Top 1% of Entrepreneur podcasts in the world? Let me know by contacting me at karagoldin@gmail.com. You can also find me @‌KaraGoldin on all networks.   To learn more about Pam Sherman and Play You:https://www.thepamsherman.com/play-youhttps://www.thepamsherman.comhttps://www.instagram.com/thepamsherman/https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-sherman/   Sponsored By: LinkedIn Jobs - Head to LinkedIn.com/KaraGoldin to post your job for free. AT&T Business - Switch to AT&T Business at business.att.com Intuit QuickBooks Payroll - Keep your focus on the big picture and get ready for what's next. Learn more at Quickbooks.com/workforce 1-800-Flowers - Visit 1800Flowers.com/KARAGOLDIN to claim your Double Roses offer before they're gone! HomeServe - Go to HomeServe.com to find the plan that's right for you.   Check out our website to view this episode's show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/828

I sit down with Imran Muthuvappa to get a hands-on walkthrough of Hermes Agent, a personal AI agent that ships with built-in memory, 40+ tools, and pre-installed skills out of the box. Imran walks me through why he migrated from OpenClaw, how to install Hermes on a Mac or even an Android phone via Termux, and how he cut his token spend by roughly 90% using OpenRouter. We get into agent design (one agent vs. multiple), connecting Hermes to Telegram and Obsidian, and the kinds of prompts that turn a personal agent into a daily operating system. By the end, I have a practical roadmap to install Hermes, pick a model, and start automating real parts of my life and business Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:38 – Why Imran Left OpenClaw (Memory, Gateway, Tokens) 04:26 – Hermes Setup Tour and 40+ Built-In Tools 07:06 – Installing Hermes on Mac, Linux, and WSL 12:21 – Telegram and Android Agents 17:09 – Auditing Your Life With Your Agent 20:04 – Must-Know Hermes Tips: Updates, Tailscale, Telegram 21:07 – Should You Migrate From OpenClaw? 25:58 – Hermes + Obsidian as a Daily Dashboard 27:16 – Must-Use Prompts for a Personal Agent 31:29 – Must-Install Skills: Obsidian, Honcho Memory, G-Stack 33:04 – What G-Stack Is and Why It Matters 34:18 – Customization Is a Trap; Output Is the Skill 35:19 – Closing Thoughts Key Points Hermes Agent solves OpenClaw's three biggest pain points: built-in memory (writes to SQLite on successful tasks), gateway stability, and token visibility. Installation is a single command on Mac, Linux, or WSL, and Hermes ships with 40+ tools and popular skills (Apple Notes, Reminders, iMessage, Find My) pre-installed. Switching to Hermes with OpenRouter can cut token spend by roughly 90%, from about $130 per five days to around $10 per five days in Imran's case. You can run Hermes on a cheap Android phone via Termux + Termux API, unlocking SMS, sensors, and on-device social posting as a cheap alternative to a Mac Mini. The real skill is defaulting to your agent for work, then meta-prompting it nightly: "What am I procrastinating? What should I automate? What tool can you build me tonight?" Imran recommends pairing Hermes with Obsidian for a clean daily dashboard and installing G-Stack (a Y Combinator-style startup skill from Gary Tan) if you are building a product. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND IMRAN ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/imranye Alif: https://alif.build

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“We've seen a lot of technological innovation over the last few hundred years. I think this is the last invention.”In this episode, Dr. Michael Housman – Wharton-trained data scientist, founder of AIccelerator, and bestselling author of Future Proof – cuts through the noise on why most organizations are failing at AI adoption. The problem isn't the technology. It's the people. We dig into what leaders consistently get wrong, how to architect real behavior change inside organizations, and why the ability to tell a compelling story might be the most durable career skill of the AI era.What You'll Discover:[00:00] Why OpenAI Was as Surprised as the Rest of Us→ An insider account of how ChatGPT caught fire – and why even its creators didn't see it coming.[06:26] Technology Is Easy, People Are Hard→ The cautionary tale of hiring software that worked perfectly and changed nothing – and what it taught Housman about the real barrier to AI ROI.[08:49] Carrots, Sticks, and Lightbulb Moments→ The practical change management playbook for getting a workforce to actually adopt AI – and why incentives alone aren't enough.[11:40] From Pilot to Production→ How to bridge the gap between “AI wow moment” and systematically redesigned business processes that stick.[20:49] Stop Using AI as a Better Google→ Why the real unlock is using LLMs as a thought partner – and how to force them to stress-test your ideas instead of flattering you.[22:43] Can AI Fix Your Cognitive Biases?→ The nuanced truth about AI bias, why classification models outperform doctors, and how to prompt against your own blind spots.[29:13] Follow the Interesting→ Career advice for a world where developer jobs are already being disrupted – and why storytelling may be the last skill algorithms can't touch.Key Takeaways:- Successful AI adoption is a change management problem first. Without behavior change at the frontline, the technology is irrelevant.- Don't use AI to do your work for you – use it to pressure-test your thinking. Ask it to beat up your ideas.- The most future-proof career move is leaning into distinctly human skills: storytelling, relationship-building, and judgment.About Dr. Michael Housman:Dr. Michael Housman (House) is the founder and CEO of AIccelerator and author of the #1 bestseller Future Proof: Transform Your Business with AI or Get Left Behind. A Wharton PhD in applied economics, he has spent 17 years building and deploying AI platforms across Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups.

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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & crane-financial.com   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Dylan Crane — former pro basketball player turned insurance sales machine who claims to be the #1 insurance producer in America.   Dylan breaks down how he went from the hardwood to writing $1.9 million in life insurance his first year, hitting $120K in his pocket by month two, and how his sports mentality is the reason most people simply can't keep up. He also gets into the lead system that prints money, why most agents fail before they ever find their stride, and the step-by-step blueprint he's using to build one of the largest insurance agencies in America.   Oh — and he's thinking about running for president. No big deal.   Whether you're already in insurance or just tired of trading time for a paycheck, this one's worth your full attention.  

Justin Bieber's Coachella comeback continues to dominate headlines with major developments across multiple fronts. According to Parade, PR expert Colm Phelan revealed that Bieber's stripped-back performance was part of a deliberately calculated comeback strategy. Rather than following typical celebrity playbook moves like redemption interviews or tearful magazine covers, Bieber's team resisted modern PR instincts and instead relied on selective silence and anticipation-building. Phelan emphasized that the Coachella headline booking wasn't the comeback itself, but rather the moment the comeback became visible after years of a carefully orchestrated rebuild.The financial impact has been staggering. According to The Street, Bieber became one of the highest-paid artists in Coachella's history, earning a reported ten million dollars total for his roughly ninety-minute sets across both weekends. Even more impressive, his fashion label Skylrk generated five point zero four million dollars in merchandise sales during Coachella's first weekend alone, surpassing the festival's previous two-week combined merchandise record of one point seven million dollars. This merchandise surge reflects the transformation of artist products into forms of identity and social currency rather than simple transactional goods.The performance itself sparked mixed reactions from fans, but ticket demand tells another story. According to Parade, Coachella pass prices surged over two hundred percent after Bieber's set, reflecting renewed attention and demand for Weekend Two. Notable attendees included former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry, who were spotted checking out the performance, according to Global News.Behind the scenes, Bieber negotiated his own Coachella deal without an agent, which Rolling Stone reported is essentially unheard of in the industry. This move underscores his hands-on approach to managing his comeback. It's worth noting that Bieber sold his entire music catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Capital back in January twenty twenty-three, a decision that initially raised questions about his Coachella performance capabilities, though reports confirm this did not limit his set.The cumulative effect positions Bieber's Coachella appearance as a watershed moment in his career trajectory, combining strategic silence, financial success, and renewed cultural relevance into what may ultimately be remembered as one of pop's most calculated comebacks.Thanks for listening to this update on Justin Bieber's recent developments. We'd love for you to subscribe to never miss an update on Justin Bieber and search the term Biography Flash for more great biographies. Thanks for listening. This has been a Quiet Please production.This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

I go live and get my hands dirty with Claude Design, Anthropic's new design tool in research preview. Across roughly an hour, I run a real workflow end-to-end: pulling a product idea from Idea Browser, generating wireframes, iterating into visual designs, building a pitch deck, and attempting a 30-second video ad. I share my first reactions in real time and take feedback from the chat. By the end, I land on a clear verdict — best-in-class for wireframes and visuals, weaker for video — and give you a practical sense of where this tool fits in your workflow. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:50 – Claude Design walkthrough 03:48 – Picking a product idea from Idea Browser: Senior Brains 05:54 – Wire-framing Senior Brains 13:54 – Reacting to the generated wireframe 20:44 – Building a pitch deck for Senior Brains 30:39 – Reacting to a pitch deck 34:58 – Reacting to Hi-Fi wireframe 40:40 – Creating a 30-second animated video ad 48:58 – Reacting to animated video ad 58:10 – Final verdict and recommendations Key Points Claude Design's wireframing is the strongest capability I've seen in a design tool to date, especially the questionnaire that extrapolates like a product manager. The pitch deck generation nails roughly 90% of the output with minimal input, which saves hours. Visual design mockups come through clean and usable, ready to iterate with 30 minutes of back-and-forth. Video generation lands at about a 5/10 — workable as a social post, weaker as a real commercial. Start with wireframes first to conserve tokens and sharpen feature decisions before committing to high fidelity. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & ExtinctMALE   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Jimmie Harris, founder of ExtinctMALE — a movement helping men reclaim who they're supposed to be.   Jimmie went to prison young, turned his life around through faith, and built a successful business empire from nearly nothing. Now he's on a mission to bring real masculinity back.    We break down what real masculinity actually looks like, why so many men have lost it, and what it takes to get it back. No fluff — just a raw, honest conversation about identity, responsibility, and why the world needs strong men now more than ever.   This is the conversation most men aren't having… but should be.  

Wanna hear the FULL Episode? Sign up for the Grad Program today! Most service members have been denied their right to carry privately owned firearms on military bases until now. A landmark memorandum signed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth finally empowers troops to exercise their Second Amendment rights during off-duty hours, transforming military installation policies that treated soldiers like second-class citizens for decades. In this eye-opening episode, we delve into the profound implications of this policy change. Hear the inside story of how years of bureaucratic mindset have now shifted to favor personal protection for those who voluntarily serve our nation. We explore the deep-rooted issues of disarmament, officers' elitism, and the dangerous mentality that Army and Marine Corps troops cannot be trusted with firearms, an outdated outlook that still lingers in many ranks. Discover how the Department of Defense's internal culture has historically suppressed the individual's right to self-defense, and how the new memo aims to correct that injustice. TOPICS COVERED THIS EPISODE Huge thanks to our Partners: EOTech | Blackout Coffee EOTech Talk - EOTechInc.com TOPIC: Ultimate Load Out www.eotechinc.com Coffee Corner - BlackoutCoffee.com TOPIC: Increase retention and recall of what you learn The Pizza Story: Colonel Robert K. Brown, Editor of Soldier of Fortune, and Dave Biggers SOTG Homeroom - SOTG University TOPIC: Finally… Hegseth Authorizes Service Members To Carry Firearms on Base www.shootingnewsweekly.com

In this episode I sit down with my friend Sirio, one of the most creative AI minds I know, to break down Seedance V2. Sirio walks us through the exact use cases, prompts, and tactics he's using to build on top of this model inside his platform Enhancor, covering multi-input generation, virtual try-ons, ad translation, AI influencers with lip sync, video extension, and 3D product template replacement. I wanted this to go beyond the "look how cool this is" tutorials and focus on how creators and founders can actually build businesses, run ads, and produce creative assets with it. By the end, you'll have a practical playbook for Seedance V2 and a clear view of where it fits alongside other models like Kling 3, Veo, and fine-tuned options. Timestamp 00:00 – Intro 02:22 – Demo 1: Replacing Characters and Background in a Green Screen Scene 08:03 – Prompting Tactics and Optimize Prompts 09:45 – Demo 2: Virtual Try-On in Montreal (Minus 30 Degrees) 13:05 – Demo 3: Ad Translation and Character Replacement (Chinese to English) 16:02 – Demo 4: 3D Product Template with Brand Texture Swap 18:40 – Demo 5: Video Extension and Filling in the Middle 20:55 – Demo 6: AI Influencers and Prompting Realistic Emotion 29:31 – What Happens to Adobe Over the Next Five Years Key Points Seedance V2 is the first widely available video model to support true multi-input generation — up to two images, two videos, and an audio file combined in a single prompt. Treat Seedance V2 as a video editor, not just a generator: character swap, background swap, text preservation, ad translation, and template population all work from natural-language prompts. Seedance rewards highly specific prompts; I pair my own draft with Claude Opus 4.6 to optimize prompts for vision models. Strong source reference images remain the single biggest quality lever — the model mimics taste from what you feed it. For AI influencers and lip sync, describe muscle movements and emotional transitions rather than simply labeling an emotion like "sad" or "happy." Seedance V2 is the current default for editing and generating video, yet other models (Kling 3 for cinematic feel, Enhancer V4 for talking-head realism) still win on specific use cases. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND SIRIO ON SOCIAL Enhancor AI: https://www.enhancor.ai Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heysirio/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SirioBerati

# How I Made It Through Podcast## Episode: Finding Strength Through Sensitivity — A Conversation with Karen Hall**Host:** Bernadette Thompson**Guest:** Karen Hall — Publicist, Publisher, Producer at Momentum Media; Editor-in-Chief of *Global Women's Journal* and *Spanish Journal* (partnered with the *Los Angeles Tribune*); Emotional Intelligence Leadership Coach; Host of *The Hero Within* podcast---## Episode SummaryIn this deeply moving conversation, Bernadette sits down with Karen Hall to explore how early trauma, lifelong sensitivity, and a passion for storytelling shaped a career dedicated to elevating the voices of others. Born two and a half months premature, Karen spent her earliest days in an incubator — an experience that left her with preverbal trauma and an unusually sensitive nervous system. Rather than letting those challenges define her, Karen turned them into fuel for a life of writing, coaching, publishing, and connecting people to their own stories.From selling newspapers as a nine-year-old to coaching Fortune-level CEOs, from writing her first book at eleven to producing global broadcasts with hundreds of speakers, Karen's journey is a testament to what becomes possible when we learn to regulate our nervous systems, reframe our limiting beliefs, and meet ourselves with compassion.---## What You'll Hear in This Episode- How being born prematurely shaped Karen's lifelong journey with anxiety, sensitivity, and the drive to understand the nervous system- Why Karen started writing at age nine — and how journalism became her first path to healing through storytelling- The surprising way her podcast, *The Hero Within*, reached the top 3% globally within three months with no advertising- How Karen went from terrified-to-speak to a TED-style stage in New York with no notes — and what that moment taught her about authentic connection- The accidental birth of her coaching business when sales colleagues started asking, "How are you not afraid to cold call?"- Why every limiting belief, no matter how it shows up, traces back to a wound from the past- How emotional intelligence and co-regulation changed the way she coaches CEOs (one client called her a "CEO whisperer")- The launch of *Global Women's Journal* and the Spanish-language *Latin Journal* — and why creating platforms for underrepresented voices matters- The spiritual dimension of the work: Marianne Williamson's influence, ancestral connection, and seeing ourselves as beings of love- Why Karen reframed "it took me too long to learn this" into "now I have the empathy to help others"---## Key Takeaways**On trauma and the nervous system:** Karen shares how understanding preverbal trauma — trauma that happens before we have words — helped her make sense of why her brain defaulted so easily to fear. Learning to regulate her nervous system became a lifelong practice, and eventually the foundation of her coaching work.**On sensitivity as a strength:** Being a highly sensitive person (HSP) and an empath is genetic and real — and it's a gift, not a flaw. The work is learning to channel that sensitivity outward in service of others rather than letting it pull us inward.**On the universal struggle:** Whether someone is a CEO, a first-time author, or a parent, the same question surfaces when we hit a wall: *What's wrong with me?* Karen teaches that nothing is wrong — the amygdala has simply hijacked the prefrontal cortex, and the way back is through self-compassion.**On storytelling:** Everyone has a story, and someone out there needs to hear yours. Platforms, podcasts, and publications matter because they break isolation and remind people they are not alone.**On the spiritual dimension:** When we see ourselves — and others — as beings of love with unmet needs, compassion and forgiveness become natural. Unloving behavior is simply a forgetting.---## Memorable Moments- Karen's mother role-playing newspaper sales pitches with her at age nine — a practice Karen still uses today with her husband and kids before big talks- The New York stage moment where Karen threw away her notes and spoke from the heart for the first time- Being nicknamed "the queen of empathy" by her coaching clients- The realization that her nervous system work gives her something polished coaches without lived experience can't offer: authentic empathy for how long healing actually takes- Bernadette and Karen's shared reflection on ancestors visiting them during their most transformative seasons---## About the GuestKaren Hall is an emotional intelligence leadership coach, publisher, and broadcast producer who has built her life's work around elevating women's voices and helping leaders regulate their nervous systems so they can lead with connection instead of control. She is the host of *The Hero Within* podcast, Editor-in-Chief of *Global Women's Journal* and the Spanish-language *Latin Journal* (in partnership with the *Los Angeles Tribune*), and a mentor to speakers, authors, and CEOs. She has also served for a decade in volunteer ministry work with Native American communities on the Fort Apache and Navajo reservations in Arizona.---## Connect with Karen Hall- **LinkedIn:** Search for "Karen Hall — Queen of Empathy" (a title given to her by her clients)- Karen welcomes connection and would love to hear your story---## Connect with the HostBernadette Thompson is the host of the *How I Made It Through* podcast, an author, and a guide who helps people explore their ancestry and intergenerational stories as part of their healing journey. After losing her husband to alcoholism eight years ago, Bernadette reinvented herself and now helps others navigate grief, transformation, and the spiritual dimensions of coming home to who they truly are. www.tellmeourstory.com---## A Closing Thought*"When you hear stories like Bernadette's guests, you gain hope — because you know: I can make it through too. She did it. He did it. I can do it. And you can do it too."* — Karen Hall---*If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who needs to hear it, and subscribe to the* How I Made It Through *podcast for more conversations with people who have walked through the fire and come out with wisdom to share.*

What if uncertainty isn't the problem — it's that you haven't learned to tell the difference between what can change and what can't change? In this episode, Daniel Burrus, one of the world's leading futurists and a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, shares the framework he has used for four decades to predict technological change with remarkable accuracy. From describing Netflix in 1993 to advising the Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies on AI strategy, Daniel has built a reputation as someone who doesn't just see what's coming; he teaches others how to see it too. As CEO of Burrus Research and creator of the Anticipatory Organization model, Daniel's work has one core goal: help people find certainty in an uncertain world so they can make bold moves, presolve problems, and shape their own destiny. And in an age where AI is reshaping every industry, that ability has never been more valuable.   [00:04:40] What He Does and Who He Serves Runs Burrus Research, a firm monitoring global innovations across AI, robotics, genetics, fiber optics, and more Has been doing this work for four decades, starting out as a biology and physics teacher Serves Fortune 500 companies, the Department of Defense, and entrepreneurs worldwide Works as a translator: takes complex technology trends and makes them actionable for anyone [00:05:20] The Science of Certainty Uncertainty causes hesitation; certainty drives bold moves and big decisions Accurately predicted Netflix, Amazon, and smartphones in his 1993 book Techno Trends Has authored seven books including New York Times bestseller Flash Foresight and Amazon number one bestseller The Anticipatory Organization His goal is not just to share trends but to teach a repeatable process anyone can use [00:08:20] Hard Trends vs. Soft Trends All trends fall into two categories: hard trends based on future facts that cannot be changed, and soft trends based on assumptions that may or may not happen Hard trends let you see disruptions before they hit and presolve problems before they occur Soft trends are changeable; if you don't like one, you can influence it The litmus test: can this trend be stopped or changed? If not, it is a hard trend [00:13:40] The Three Categories of Hard Trends Technology is a hard trend category: wireless went from 3G to 4G to 5G and will keep accelerating Demographics is a hard trend category: 10,000 Americans turn 70 every single day and that is not reversing Government regulation around areas like cybersecurity is a hard trend category regardless of the current political climate Combining two hard trend categories, like demographics and technology, is how low-risk, high-reward innovations are born [00:15:00] Billion-Dollar Ideas Hidden in Hard Trends There is currently no easy-launch boat trailer designed for aging seniors, despite a massive and growing market of older boaters An exoskeleton designed for seniors could prevent the falls that lead to broken hips, one of the leading causes of death in older adults A small Bluetooth sensor attached to a shoe and linked to a hearing aid could warn seniors of steps, obstacles, and uneven surfaces All three ideas are grounded in demographic hard trends that are already certain [00:25:40] The Skip It Principle: Your Problem Is Not Your Problem Whatever you think your biggest problem is, that is not it; you are working the wrong problem Drill down by asking why two or three times until you find the real, solvable problem underneath A drug company CEO thought he needed 2,000 PhD researchers; the real problem was unsolved molecular challenges, solved by crowdsourcing solutions globally online The makers of Jaws couldn't make the shark look real, so they skipped that problem and showed the shark's perspective instead; the rest is cinema history [00:33:00] AI: Hard Trend, Not a Threat AI getting more powerful is a hard trend; it cannot be stopped or reversed AI gets you 80% of the way to any task fast, but the human 20% is where trust, relationships, creativity, and judgment live Letting AI do everything makes you obsolete; using it to eliminate busy work frees you to do higher-level, more meaningful work Think of AI as a magnifier, not a replacer [00:36:40] What AI Means for CPAs and Every Other Industry Has been contracted by the global accounting association AICPA to map out what 2040 looks like for the profession Tax preparation and auditing will be fully automated, but CPAs will not disappear; their role will shift to anticipatory problem solving and trusted advisory No industry will be decimated; every industry will be redefined and reinvented The mistake is waiting to be replaced; the opportunity is reinventing yourself now with a more consultative, forward-looking skill set [00:43:00] Shape Your Own Destiny Ask yourself what parts of your current work are repetitive and could be handled by AI Use hard trends to identify what your future role needs to look like, and start learning those things now Download his free 25 Tech Trends Report at www.25techtrendsreport.com Download his free AI Strategy Report, with top AI tools across categories and real company case studies, at www.aistrategyreport.com   KEY QUOTES "When you're uncertain, you hesitate. When you have high levels of certainty, you write the big check, you make the bold move." — Daniel Burrus "AI is not good at establishing trust. AI is not good at relationships. You gotta remember that this is a machine." — Daniel Burrus "There is more opportunity right now than any other time in history to not just change, but transform every business, product, service  and career." — Daniel Burrus CONNECT WITH DANIEL BURRUS

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a raw comeback story with David Saylor — an eighth-grade dropout who went from drug addiction and a first-degree murder charge to building an eight-figure bootstrapped empire completely from scratch.   David breaks down the moment everything changed, what he promised God in a jail cell, and how a $700 bet turned into 40 retail locations, a private jet, and two pouch brands he believes will hit a billion dollars.   He also gets into his nicotine pouch brand ALTRD, why it hits differently than anything else on the market, and Motion Pouches — the nootropic pouch built for entrepreneurs who can't afford to be unfocused.   This conversation will change the way you see what's possible. Your comeback starts here.  

If you've ever felt like you need more confidence before you start selling, this episode will completely shift your perspective. In this powerful training, Ray Higdon breaks down why waiting to feel confident is actually the very thing holding you back in sales. Instead of chasing confidence, he reveals the truth that confidence is built through action, repetition, and real-world experience, not overthinking or perfectionism.   Ray dives into one of the biggest mistakes sales professionals and entrepreneurs make, spending too much time trying to "get it right" before ever having enough conversations. He emphasizes that success in sales is not about talent, but about repetitions. Through compelling examples and real stories, including someone who faced hundreds of rejections before succeeding, he shows how consistent outreach, prospecting, and conversations are the real drivers of confidence and results. If you want to improve your sales skills, close more deals, and build unshakable confidence in your sales conversations, this episode gives you a simple but powerful strategy. Stop waiting, start doing. The more people you talk to, the more confident and successful you'll become. ⸻ —

Willy sat down with Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place To Work, the global research and analytics firm behind the Great Place To Work Certification, annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and more. Willy and Michael explored what separates companies that make the list from those that do not, why trust is the foundation of a strong workplace culture, and why great leadership matters more than perks or benefits alone. They also discussed how investing in people, fostering connection, and using employee feedback can drive long-term performance and business success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step into a raw, courageous, and heart-opening conversation with Sean Clayton and Sophia Powe, partners in life, love, and deep inner work, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Together, they share a lived journey of trauma, healing, accountability, and the sacred devotion required to move from soulmates shaped by wounds into a wholemate partnership rooted in truth. Sophia, an award-winning Storyteller and former CMO, and Sean, a Miracle Code Abundance Architect, open the conversation vulnerably about their nonlinear love story, including betrayal, separation, profound personal reckoning, and the choice to stop bypassing pain and finally feel what had been avoided for decades. Their relationship became the crucible that forced each of them to confront inner child wounds, people-pleasing, shame, guilt, and the survival strategies that once kept them safe, but no longer served. We explore how real intimacy is built not through chemistry or spiritual language, but through nervous system regulation, embodied presence, and the willingness to stay with discomfort rather than manipulate outcomes. Sean shares how learning to feel sadness, anger, and fear in his body freed him from performance and strategy. Sophia reflects on reclaiming self-worth, being willing to be seen, and choosing herself without abandoning love. We also talk about: -Moving from rolemate and soulmate patterns into wholemate partnership -Trauma bonding versus conscious, embodied intimacy -Inner child healing and staying present with difficult emotions -Ending spiritual bypassing and integrating shadows -Boundaries, self-responsibility, and asking for help -Nervous system regulation in relationship conflict -Choosing love without abandoning the self -Marriage as a sacred container for growth, not avoidance This episode is an extraordinarily powerful reminder that the work works. That love deepens when we stop running from ourselves. And that wholeness within is what makes true intimacy possible with another. You can learn more about Sean's work at https://www.themiracleacademy.com/ and explore Sophia's storytelling and creative work at https://depuis.org/ ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Sean and Sophia:   Sean Clayton is a "Miracle Code" Abundance Architect who helps leaders build 6–7 figure success without relying on hustle or disconnection. A Black man who forged his own path, he overcame adversity including trauma, incarceration, and homelessness, transforming those experiences through resilience and spiritual awakening. Today, Sean lives in alignment with the principles he teaches, enjoying a life of freedom, purpose, and abundance grounded in deep inner work and a strong marriage that fuels his growth. Professionally, he has founded and advised multiple companies, working with Fortune 500 leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives to integrate purpose, strategy, and impact. His approach has driven significant growth across industries. At the core of his work is the "Miracle Code," a framework blending spirituality, psychology, and universal principles to help leaders create "coherent abundance"—success across wealth, relationships, and well-being. His mission is to guide influential individuals to embody a more authentic, love-driven form of power that elevates both their lives and the world. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sophia Powe is an award-winning storyteller, former CMO, and serial entrepreneur who is currently in a season of transition—shifting from day-to-day execution into advisory leadership, creative exploration, and deeper self-inquiry. Over the past two decades, Sophia has built and scaled multiple eight-figure businesses, helped take a global travel company public, and led brand and storytelling initiatives for Fortune 500 brands and executives. Her work has lived at the intersection of strategy and soul – using story as a catalyst for connection, impact, and transformation. Today, Sophia's focus has softened and deepened. At her core, she is a storyteller devoted to creating spaces where truth can be spoken and healing can occur. She is the founder of Rabbit Hole Media Lab, a creative sanctuary in Austin, Texas, designed for conscious creators to record podcasts, video, and voice work in a deeply intentional, heart-centered environment that fosters collaboration, creativity, and meaningful dialogue. She is also the founder of Depuis.org, a women-centered storytelling platform and movement dedicated to helping women reclaim their voices, release shame, blame, and guilt, and take their power back through vulnerability and shared lived experience. As an advisor, investor, and philanthropist, Sophia continues to support purpose-driven founders and initiatives while intentionally creating space for her own becoming. Her work now is less about building at all costs, and more about building what's true – inside and out.   Website: https://www.themiracleacademy.com https://depuis.org Facebook URL https://www.instagram.com/abundance10000 Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/abundance10000/  https://www.instagram.com/voicesofdepuis/  https://www.instagram.com/sophiapowe/  YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@Abundance10000 Heart Opener Meditation https://courses.themiracleacademy.com/heart-opener   Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. 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Today, I interview Rachel Radway who spent years in corporate leadership, showing up, performing, and doing what was expected, while quietly carrying the sense that something about it did not fully fit. Like many who struggle with confidence and speaking up, she learned how to adapt, even when it meant holding parts of herself back.As she was growing up, she was creative and expressive, using her voice freely. But after moving frequently and being teased for being different, she began to feel that she did not quite belong. Even as she continued to show up, there was an inner tension between wanting to be accepted and knowing she experienced the world in her own way.Over time, she reached a point where she could not continue in the same way. She could not take another job, and that led her to make a bold decision to quit her work, sell her home, and move to Peru without a plan. Living in different places gave her the space to step back and listen more closely to herself.Since then, she has come to understand her neurodivergence and the patterns of masking she lived with for years. Today, she supports others who think and feel differently to build confidence, speak more authentically, and express what is true for them.__________________Rachel Radway is a certified leadership & executive coach, mentor, speaker, and award-winning author with more than 25 years' experience in corporate leadership roles at startups, national nonprofits, Fortune 100s, and global enterprises.With compassion and a deep understanding of all the disconnects between the corporate world and brains that are wired differently, Rachel helps high-achieving, highly perceptive, and neurodivergent clients lead with confidence, clarity, and authenticity—and without burning out.Her book, Perceptive: Insights for leaders who feel more, process deeply, and think differently, reframes misunderstood and stigmatized neurotypes, including HSP and AuDHD, as a set of strengths—and leadership assets—accompanied by challenges, the other side of the coin.__________________Find Rachel here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/reradway/https://www.rercoaching.com/Support the showI'm Dr. Doreen Downing and I help people find their voice so they can speak without fear. Get the Free 7-Step Guide to Fearless Speaking https://www.doreen7steps.com​.

Mea Culpa welcomes back, Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and an independent political strategist. A veteran public affairs and political commentator with more than 20 years of experience. Reed has been involved in politics, government, and business at the highest levels. Galen has spent more than a decade advising Fortune 50, 100 and 1000 companies in need of high-level counsel in the fields of strategic communications, procurement, and legislation. In addition to his private sector work, Reed has managed several high-profile ballot measure campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado – Before moving to the private sector, Reed served as Deputy Campaign Manager for John McCain's presidential campaign and Deputy Campaign Manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful 2006 re-election campaign. Galen also worked on both of President George W. Bush campaigns and served the Bush Administration at both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security. Michael and Reed dig into Kevin McCarthy, the documents, George Santos, and immigration.

Laura Kavanagh knew she would encounter challenges as the first female fire commissioner of the FDNY. But she didn't anticipate the false rumors that she slept her way to the top — or the nastier rumors about her supposed pregnancy. Now, for the first time, she shares what was actually going on in her reproductive life when she ran the fire department. … Recommendations from the archive • Listen to Eggs Over Freezy for more about the process of freezing your eggs. • Curious about IVF? Check out One Woman, 3 Kids, 15 Rounds of IVF. … Episode resources • Laura Kavanagh wrote an op-ed for Fortune about her time as FDNY commissioner, and how to change the workplace for the better. … Sponsors (using our links supports the show!) … • Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! • Follow us on Instagram • Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media • Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!) • Website: longestshortesttime.com ... Cover photo credit: Guerin Blask for City and State Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & whooptriggerz.com   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/   Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Carlton "C-Dub" Whitfield, who went from playing piano in his dad's church to building a multi-app ecosystem used by musicians and churches worldwide — no funding, no label, no gatekeepers.   In this episode, Carlton breaks down how he made the leap, what almost stopped him, and what it actually takes to build recurring revenue as a creator.   Creators, musicians, and faith-based entrepreneurs — this one was made for you.   __

Having a family is such a blessing. Having a family that stays in contact is even more of a blessing.  Today, I sit down with Lance Welch, and we talk about how intentional he and his wife were on setting relationships with his boys.    In this episode, you'll discover…  "I hope my wealth doesn't screw up my kids." (3:35) Family Vision. (8:20)  What would Lance do differently in parenting? (15:30)     Lance's Bio:  Lance is a Certified Business Development Coach with the John Maxwell organization as well as a Certified Behavioral Consultant for DISC Personality Profiles.  Lance was a Sales and Leadership Director and oversaw over 3,000 reps in 14 states for a Fortune 100 company prior to stepping out on his own in late 2018.   His book, The Legacy Navigator - creating intentional multi-generational impact will be released in early Q1 of 2024.  Lance has been described as "The words guy"; a Thought Leader; a Legacy Coach.   Lance and his wife Allison have been married for over 37 years.  They raised three strong-willed sons to be successful adults and have two grandchildren, a 6-year old granddaughter and a 2-year old grandson. Find Resources Here   What's Next?  NEW!! Join the new RISE community. Check out my newest book, 'Rise and Go', HERE!

Here's a question: how many corporations do you know that have made a public commitment to cut their carbon emissions? Probably a lot. About 40% of the world's largest companies have set full net-zero targets across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, according to Accenture's Destination Net Zero 2025 report, with target-setting rising for the fourth consecutive year. But how many actually know how to achieve those goals? Only about 16% are on track to reach net zero in their operations by 2050. That gap between pledge and execution is what today's guest has spent the last twenty years working on. Dan Kalafatas grew up in a family shaped by his grandparents' advocacy for working people and came of age questioning the role of business. That changed after a lunch talk on renewable energy at Stanford Business School. Today, Dan is the Co-Founder and Chairman of 3Degrees, a global company helping organizations deliver on their energy and emissions commitments — from sourcing clean energy and structuring power purchase agreements to navigating carbon markets. What began with renewable energy credits has grown into a platform supporting Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions work across more than 67 countries, with partners including Microsoft, Mars, Cargill, Etsy, and Rivian. The company has supported over 20,000 decarbonization projects, worked with more than 80 Fortune 500 companies, and helped bring more than 12 gigawatts of clean energy online. From wind farms in Oklahoma to forest conservation on California's redwood coast to power purchase agreements worldwide, 3Degrees focuses on implementation. In our conversation, Dan walks through that journey — from growing up in a working-class mill town in Massachusetts to finding his direction at Stanford, to driving through California rice fields blasting Eminem to land his first customer, to surviving the 2008 financial crisis with just days of runway, and ultimately building a company that now generates over a billion dollars in annual revenue. About Powerhouse Innovation and Powerhouse Ventures Powerhouse Ventures backs seed stage startups developing innovative software to advance clean energy, mobility, and industry. If you are thinking about building something in this space, get in touch with our team. Powerhouse Innovation is a best in class consulting firm, powered by the strongest energy innovation network, data and team in our industry. We partner with world's leading corporations, investors, and utilities to source and evaluate disruptive startups shaping the future of energy and industry. To hear more stories of founders building our energy abundant future, hit the “subscribe” button and leave us a review.

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & glownaturalwellness.com LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Dr. Michelle Sands, a naturopathic physician who cuts straight through the noise on peptides, hormones, and everything wellness culture gets wrong. Dr. Michelle breaks down the direct link between hormone health, sexual vitality, and business performance — and what your sex drive is actually telling you about your health and your success. She also covers what peptides actually do, why GLP-1s are being recklessly prescribed, why testosterone levels in young men are tanking, and the parasite conversation nobody wants to have. Raw, specific, and worth every minute. This one covers everything your doctor probably never will.

Want to retire early and live off passive income? Isabelle Guarino is here to share to us how to turn assisted living into a goldmine.Discover how to snatch up cash-flowing properties, spot opportunities faster than a hawk, and dominate the wholesale game in this niche! Dominate the assisted living market and watch your wealth soar (listen now!). For more cash building tips visit the TTP training program. ---------Show notes:(1:07) Beginning of today's episode(1:48) Buying cash flowing assets(4:31) How do you know when you find an opportunity that could be good for assisted living? (6:05) How can wholesalers find these types of properties?(16:07) How to run these types of businesses? (22:29) Being the “bank” ----------Resources:RAL 101Follow RAL 101 on InstagramTo speak with Brent or one of our other expert coaches call (281) 835-4201 or schedule your free discovery call here to learn about our mentorship programs and become part of the TribeGo to Wholesalingincgroup.com to become part of one of the fastest growing Facebook communities in the Wholesaling space. Get all of your burning Wholesaling questions answered, gain access to JV partnerships, and connect with other "success minded" Rhinos in the community.It's 100% free to join. The opportunities in this community  are endless, what are you waiting for?

What should you say after a prospect has already seen your presentation? In this episode,   reveals the single most powerful question elite closers use to dramatically increase their closing rates. Instead of overwhelming prospects with multiple questions or jumping straight into pitching, Ray breaks down why asking "What did you like best?" is the key to uncovering real buying intent and guiding the conversation toward a sale. You'll discover why prospects who watch your presentation are already signaling interest, and how to leverage that position without becoming pushy, desperate, or salesy. Ray also explains how to handle both positive and negative responses, showing you how to stay in control of the conversation, build posture, and uncover the real problems your prospect is trying to solve. If you want to improve your sales conversations, handle objections more effectively, and close more deals with confidence, this episode gives you a practical, step-by-step sales script you can apply immediately. Learn how to expand your prospect's problem, connect it to your solution, and confidently move them toward a decision without chasing or convincing. —

This episode was sponsored by Cardiff LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode is a return visit from Mike Kortas, the man who went from homeless at 18 to building the #1 mortgage brokerage in the country. Mike breaks down how NEXA Lending dominates the mortgage industry, why the broker model is crushing the big banks, and the bold moves he's making right now while everyone else plays it safe — including an industry-first move that will pay loan officers residual income on their own loans, something that's never been done before.  If you've got a mortgage or real estate license and you're not making the money you should be, this episode is for you. And if you don't have one yet, you'll want one by the time this is over.

Tig and Fortune muse about a modern-day Lilith Fair music festival and catch up on each other's spring plans on a Pretty Little Episode that will make you feel renewed! Don't forget to get tickets to our May 4 Live Show in LA!Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterSubmit your questions to speakpipe.com/handsomepodFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.comWatch Handsome on YouTubeThis is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Handsome via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.