Podcasts about frameworks

#1061 What if the biggest thing holding your business back isn't strategy or execution — but the identity you're operating from? In this episode, host Brien Gearin sits down with Cassie Shea, founder of The Possibility Investor, to unpack what it really means to iterate with your identity as a business owner. Cassie shares how her journey from running a $14M company at 28 to logging 3,500+ coaching hours shaped her core framework: Desire → Deserving → Decisions — starting with the deceptively hard question, “What do you want?” Together, they explore why so many entrepreneurs hit an invisible “deserve ceiling,” how proving energy can quietly drive (and drain) growth, and how constraints — like health, seasons of life, or boredom — can become the catalyst for smarter, more sustainable business evolution. Cassie also previews her free 3D Assessment and where listeners can connect with her as she launches The Possibility Investor! (Original Air Date - 12/31/25) What we discuss with Cassie: + Identity-driven business growth + Iterating with your identity + Desire → Deserving → Decisions framework + The “deserve ceiling” + Proving vs. creating + Boredom as a signal + Constraints fuel creativity + Building beyond scarcity + Frameworks over hustle Thank you, Cassie! Follow Cassie on ⁠LinkedIn⁠. Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠video podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of this episode! Get your FREE 5 Minute Business Plan at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MillionaireUniversity.com/Plan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To get exclusive offers mentioned in this episode and to support the show, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MillionaireUniversity.com/Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samuel Ben-Ur and Edmund Fitton-Brown discuss how, following a temporary lull, Hamas has intensified attacks in Gaza, emboldened by disarmament frameworks proposed by Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators. Ben-Ur notes Hamas only accepted the deal under the pretense of disarming while intending to survive intact. However, following Jared Kushner's visit, the US aligned with Israel's stance, demanding total disarmament before military withdrawal. Fitton-Brown and Ben-Ur discuss the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (ENCAG), a secular government planned to replace Hamas. Lacking military power, ENCAG's deployment depends on an international stabilization force, though troop commitments remain severely short. (8)

Get the full reset: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/reset Feeling like your home - and your head - is spinning out of control? You're not alone.Chaos isn't just the piles of laundry or the dishes in the sink. It's the mental clutter, the constant rumination, and the feeling that you can't handle one more interruption without snapping. If you're easily frustrated and mentally exhausted, this workshop is for you.In this 90-Minute Reset, I'll show you how to move From Chaos to Consistency without turning your home into a rigid, joyless machine. Homemaking is a caretaking job, not an engineering job. You don't need a system that makes life run like clockwork - you need frameworks that free up your mental bandwidth so you can be emotionally available for what really matters.IN THIS VIDEO, YOU'LL LEARN:Why consistency is NOT about doing the same thing perfectly every day, and what it really means for a busy momHow to stop systems from becoming a straitjacket and start using them as tools you can flex with your real lifeThe 4 Frameworks for Your 90-Minute Reset:1. Calendar & Time Budget: Make decisions in advance so you stop spinning about what to do next2. The 15-Minute Morning & Evening Routine: Bookend your day to create stability no matter how chaotic the middle gets3. Core Personal Habits: Anchor yourself with prayer, Bible reading, and real reading before you serve anyone else4. A Simple Meal Strategy: Remove the daily 4pm dinner panic and decision fatigueThis isn't about perfection. It's about building cheerful competence through small, flexible frameworks that help you show up with grace - even when life doesn't go as planned.WHO IS THIS FOR?Perfect for Christian homemakers, homeschool moms, and any overwhelmed mom who wants a peaceful, purposeful home built on biblical principles - not Pinterest pressure.If this was helpful, please subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss the next practical homemaking encouragement!Let me know in the comments: Which of the 4 frameworks do you need to reset FIRST?#christianhomemaking #homemakingroutines #overwhelmedmom #homemaking #christianmotherhood #homeschoolmom #homeorganization #biblicalhomemaking #morningroutine #mealplanning

Send us Fan MailIf your case framework doesn't pass the toothbrush test, it's too generic for McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.Ex-Bain coach Abi Chen walks through the toothbrush test, the 3 mistakes that cost most candidates their offer, and the 4-step process to build strong frameworks.Finally, she walks through two full framework examples – an M&A case and a pharma product launch.Resources:If your frameworks keep failing the toothbrush test, Black Belt is how you fix the processWant to build a framework like this on a real client problem? Apply for the Case Competition World CupConnect With Management ConsultedCreate a free MC account or download the MC app (Apple, Android) to start your prep todaySchedule a free 15min consultation with the MC TeamWatch the video version of the podcast on YouTubeFollow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTokJoin an upcoming live event – case interviews demos, expert panels, and more

Where Part 1 followed the companies, Part 2 is about the person behind them. Picking up from Mukesh Bansal's move from one venture to the next, this half gets into how he finds talent ("work with them for six months"), the mental models he runs his life by, and the beliefs underneath them. He explains why rationally no one should start a company, how he processes every rejection as "no means not now", why he writes three books by simply showing up to a blank page, and how he separated the longevity basics he trusts from the biohacking he no longer does. It ends close to home: loyalty as loyalty to a mission, what he wants for his two children, why parents' expectations matter less than they did, and a life he rates an 8 out of 10.Chapters0:00  Where we left off1:46  Finding talent: "work with them for six months"3:23  The one open-ended question he asks5:57  Winning vs looking good8:00  The compounding argument, revisited9:40  Learning vs winning: drawing the 2x211:17  Three books, and the annual look-back16:18  Making time to think in a full life18:45  What a chief of staff is actually for21:27  "No means not now" and other mental models25:57  How he writes a book28:30  How health became a throughline31:24  From ecosystem to the longevity basics34:29  Why strength training matters after 5038:08  Why he runs SparX, and the deep-tech turn44:05  Loyalty to a mission, and the number two50:35  The Apple teaching model52:52  Three adjectives, and being "scary" to juniors55:30  His kids' worldview57:54  Do parents' expectations still matter?1:00:12  Weekends, food, and reading now1:02:17  Rating his life an 8Quotes[8:44] "I don't know if this rocket thing will work. But if it works, it'll take at least ten years… they said, we are willing to work on it for the rest of our lives."[21:56] "I call this no means not now. That's how I process all the nos in my life."[24:59] "Zomato was started in 2007. They did not pivot into food delivery till 2017."[26:05] "Just show up and stare at a blank page for an hour. Sooner or later you'll start writing."[61:43] "I feel very privileged and very fortunate. So many lucky breaks have worked out for me."Frameworks & mental modelsNo means not now: process every rejection as timing, not a verdict; it protects the ego and the relationship.Long-term patient, short-term aggressive / product is marketing: charge hard daily, give the ten-year game room, and let a product people love do the selling.Horizontal compounding: compound entrepreneurial skill across ventures, not tenure in one sector.Loyalty to a mission: the durable teams are bound to an unfinished job, not to a person; build a number two and give people room.The longevity basics beat biohacking: sleep, eat less, move, strength-train after 50, tend emotional health; the exotic stuff is largely unproven.Credits & sharingThis episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

If you've been producing content, speaking, consulting, or coaching for a while, you probably know your stuff inside out. But knowing it and being able to transfer it - to clients, audiences, or products that work without you - are two very different things. That gap is exactly what this episode is about.Susanna Rea is a visual framework specialist, author of Framework Thinking, and one of the clearest thinkers I know on how to turn what you already do into something that genuinely scales. This conversation went places I didn't expect, including some honest reflection from me about the times I've left value on the table by not leaning into my own framework when it mattered most.If you're sitting somewhere between being good at what you do and being properly known for it, this one's for you.Visit her website : https://susannareay.comThree things we got into:✳️ A framework isn't a rigid process map - it's a way of connecting your ideas so your audience understands your value at a glance, stays in your world longer, and can follow the journey without you having to explain it from scratch every time.✳️ The four elements of Susanna's Framework Thinking model - impact detection, boundary setting, visual recognition, and transfer integrity - with transfer integrity at the centre, because a framework that only works when you're in the room isn't really a framework.✳️ Why AI is useful at the edges of framework development (spotting patterns in your data, suggesting names) but cannot do the excavation work in the middle - that part has to come from your lived experience, or it'll fall flat the moment someone asks you to speak to it.Susanna's amplifiers:✳️ Know your way - stay true to your own values and inner wisdom rather than mimicking what others are doing. Intuition is just your gathered thoughts over the years. Trust it.✳️ Block time to think with pen and paper - step away from screens and give your brain the space to percolate. No agenda. Just see what comes up.✳️ Lean into persistency over consistency - keep your eye on the goal, but experiment with how you get there. Doing the same thing every day and expecting different results is a trap.If you want to take the next step with Susanna, connect with her on LinkedIn and take her free Natural Authority Style Quiz - it takes under 3 minutes and gives you a personalised starting point for framework thinking.And if this episode has you thinking about your own positioning and how you get known for what you do, the Leader Brand Business Roadmap is a great place to start. It's 50 pages, completely free, and it begins exactly where Susanna does - with the foundations.Follow or subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next.Timestamps00:00 - Introduction and what a visual framework actually is 04:17 - How frameworks give your business a competitive edge 07:04 - Bob's storey: what happens when you stop using your framework in a sales call 11:11 - Why simplicity is the superpower in framework design 13:13 - Frameworks as a point of competitive difference 15:04 - The four elements of Framework Thinking: impact detection, boundary setting, visual recognition, transfer integrity 20:38 - How to start building your framework (the artist approach) 21:26 - Susanna's SPARK process explained 26:46 - The danger of being everywhere without an anchor 28:18 - Why codifying your thinking eliminates creative and decision fatigue 35:55 - Where AI helps and where it gets in the way 42:04 - How to use the book under deadline pressure 43:19 - Amplifier 1: Know your way 44:19 - Amplifier 2: Pen, paper, and blocked thinking time 46:06 - Amplifier 3: Persistency over consistency 48:43 - How to connect with Susanna----Get your copy of my Personal Brand Business BlueprintIt's the FREE roadmap to starting, scaling or just fixing your expert business.www.amplifyme.agency/roadmap----Subscribe to my Youtube!! Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentleJoin the Amplify Insiders Facebook Community : www.amplifyme.agency/insidersPlease take a second to rate this show in Apple Podcasts. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.Mentioned in this episode:Signature StudioGet started today - signtaturestudio.me

In this episode of Innovation Meets Leadership, host Natalie Born continues the Set It On Fire: The Art of Innovation series with Chapter 9: Funding Innovation. Joined by Moriah Hidden, Natalie explores why smart investment matters more than simply spending more, how clear constraints can fuel creativity, and how leaders can determine whether an idea should move forward, pivot, or stop. From balancing transformative, breakthrough, and disruptive innovation to using stage gates and studying the larger ecosystem, this episode offers practical guidance for funding ideas wisely and building for the future.[00:00 - 04:13] Funding Innovation: Lessons from Nokia and AppleWhy greater R&D spending does not automatically lead to better innovationHow Nokia spent significantly more while Apple created the stronger outcomeThe danger of funding a slow-moving train wreck of projectsWhy investment must be connected to strategy, focus, and customer value[04:14 - 11:28] Freedom Within a FrameworkHow organizational capabilities create useful boundaries for innovationWhy limited resources and beautiful constraints can spark creativityUnderstanding transformative, breakthrough, and disruptive innovationRecognizing when changing customer preferences require a new category[11:29 - 16:31] Stage Gates, ROI, and the Innovation EcosystemUsing customer feedback to decide whether to invest, pivot, or stopBuilding a little, learning a little, and testing demand before scalingKnowing when a promising idea has become something customers do not wantLooking beyond a single product to create value across the entire ecosystem[16:32 - 19:35] Look Back, Look Out, and Look UpLooking back to learn from mistakes and failures without repeating themLooking out to understand competitors, market signals, and the wider landscapeLooking up to plan for the future through three-, five-, and ten-year strategyHelping visionary leaders see around corners before change arrives[19:36 - End] Turning Innovation into ActionBringing intentionality to the teams, funding, and insight behind an ideaConnecting stage gates and investment decisions to meaningful executionChoosing who an innovation is for before bringing it to lifeUsing practical frameworks to move ideas from concept to funded realityKey Quotes“Funding alone doesn't determine your success.” — Natalie Born“Oftentimes, it's through the constraints that we get creative and through that creativity, we're able to build the future.” — Natalie Born"If you don't disrupt yourself, you'll be disrupted by somebody who's thinking about that." - Natalie BornResources & LinksLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliebornWebsite: https://innovationmeetsleadership.comBook & Resources: https://setitonfire.coIf this episode encouraged you, share it with a leader who wants to invest in innovation wisely, evaluate ideas with clarity, and build for the future.Be sure to subscribe to Innovation Meets Leadership for more conversations on leadership, innovation, culture, and growth.

In this episode of the Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley, an ecommerce entrepreneur with over $20 million in annual revenue, delivers a comprehensive guide to building a true brand. He argues that most ecommerce sellers operate transactional "product acquisition machines" rather than genuine brands. Josh presents a 16-step framework across three phases: defining your brand identity, expressing it consistently, and compounding trust over time. He emphasizes that real brands drive customer loyalty, premium pricing, and long-term competitive advantage—ultimately shifting entrepreneurs from chasing short-term sales metrics toward building sustainable, generational business value.Bullet Points:Importance of branding for ecommerce businessesDifferences between building a brand and running a product acquisition or arbitrage businessChallenges faced by ecommerce sellers, such as increasing conversion rates and reducing customer acquisition costsThe misconception that having a trademark or storefront equates to having a brandCharacteristics of a true brand versus a product acquisition machineA comprehensive 16-step framework for building a brandPhases of brand development: defining, expressing, and compounding the brandStrategies for creating a recognizable brand identity and customer experienceThe significance of customer journey mapping and brand loyaltyMetrics and practices for sustaining brand equity and protecting brand integrityTimestamps:00:00:00 The Power of BrandingThe host lists eight benefits of strong branding, such as higher conversion rates, repeat purchases, and lower acquisition costs.00:01:01 What is Branding?The host introduces the topic of branding and a 16-step framework for building a brand for your e-commerce business.00:02:11 Custom GPT and ResourcesThe host mentions a custom GPT and slides available to help listeners implement the 16-step framework discussed in the episode.00:03:11 Host IntroductionJosh Hadley introduces himself, his e-commerce experience, and his podcast, E-com Breakthrough, for e-commerce entrepreneurs.00:04:12 Brand vs. Product Acquisition MachineThe host differentiates between building a true brand and simply operating a product acquisition or arbitrage business, common on Amazon.00:07:06 What a Brand IsA brand builds trust, optimizes for customer retention, focuses on long-term growth, and is difficult for competitors to copy.00:10:53 How Brands CompoundThe host explains how brands create a compounding effect through customer trust, repeat purchases, word-of-mouth, and easier product launches.00:12:43 The 16-Step Brand Framework IntroductionAn overview of the three phases of the branding framework: defining the brand, expressing it, and compounding its value.00:13:43 Step 1: Choose Your Primary CustomerA strong brand serves a niche customer. Defining this avatar makes all other branding decisions much easier.00:17:40 Step 2: Choose the Outcome You OwnCustomers buy products to achieve an aspirational identity. Brands must own the outcome their product provides, not just the product.00:23:48 Step 3: Choose Your AssociationsA brand is built by repeatedly connecting your company to a small number of desirable ideas, words, or phrases.00:26:54 Step 4: Write the Brand PromiseCombine your customer, outcome, and approach into a clear internal statement that serves as a decision-making tool for your business.00:28:02 Step 5: Define What the Brand Is NotBrands become clearer through exclusion. Deciding what your brand refuses to be is as important as defining what it is.00:30:06 Step 6: Choose Your Hero ProductYour hero product is the clear entry point that teaches customers what your company means and establishes your brand's identity.00:33:05 Step 7: Make the Product RemarkableThe product experience earns the second purchase. A remarkable product builds durable trust and generates powerful word-of-mouth marketing.00:34:25 Step 8: Create a Recognizable Brand IdentityDefine your brand's personality through one of three models: founder-led, a brand character, or a design-led identity.00:39:34 Step 9: Build a Distinctive Visual and Verbal WorldDesign makes your brand's meaning easier to recognize. Your brand should be identifiable even without its logo.00:40:26 Step 10: Audit the Current Customer ExperienceEvery customer encounter either reinforces or contradicts your brand promise. Audit all touchpoints, from packaging to social media.00:47:34 Step 11: Reinforce Through Trusted AssociationsBorrow trust by deliberately pairing your brand with people, organizations, or communities that already represent your brand's core values.01:02:29 Step 12: Repeat the Same Meaning ConsistentlyBrands are built through consistent repetition. While campaigns can change, the core meaning and message must remain recognizable over time.01:05:36 Step 13: Build the Next Purchase into the BrandMap the customer journey to create a logical product ecosystem that guides customers from one purchase to the next.01:08:23 Step 14: Align Every Customer TouchpointThe brand is the total experience. Ensure every interaction, from advertising to customer support, reinforces your brand promise without contradiction.01:13:36 Step 15: Run a Monthly Brand ReviewConduct a monthly review to prevent brand drift, track key metrics, and ensure all activities align with your brand strategy.01:21:16 Step 16: Protect and Compound the MeaningBrand building is ongoing. Use a brand extension test before launching new products to ensure they reinforce your core meaning.01:24:41 Final Thoughts and Call to ActionThe host summarizes the framework, offers a custom GPT and slides, and asks listeners to share and review the podcast.Links and Mentions:Tools and Resources  "Custom GPT for Brand Building": "00:02:11"  "Ecomm Breakthrough YouTube Channel": "00:09:58"  Notable Concepts and Frameworks  "16-Step Framework for Branding": "00:12:43"  Brands and Examples Mentioned  "Boom Beauty": "00:14:45"  "AG1": "00:15:46"  "Liquid Death": "00:16:39"  "Patagonia": "00:22:41"  "Rolex": "00:22:41"  "Apple": "00:22:41"  Videos and Content  "

► Want to work with Randy directly: https://randygage.com/breakthroughu/ ► Prefer audio? Get the podcast https://randygage.com/podcast You have thirty seconds.That's it. Thirty seconds to grab an audience before you spend the next sixty minutes trying to win them back.In this episode, Randy Gage, Speaker Hall of Fame inductee and someone who has spoken to more than two million people across fifty-three countries — breaks down the five frameworks he uses to open a speech and pull every person in the room forward in their seat before he's said more than two sentences.Most speakers blow this moment completely. They thank the introducer. They mention the city. They crack a joke that stopped being funny a decade ago. And just like that, the audience has mentally checked out before the speech even begins.Randy covers exactly what to do instead — five specific frameworks, each built around a different psychological trigger, each designed to create the one thing every great opening needs: an open loop the audience can't resist staying for.This is the first in a series Randy is building on how to become a world-class presenter. If speaking is any part of how you build your business or your brand, this is the episode to start with.Who is This Guy?Randy isn't some influencer who listened to a couple podcasts and started posting hot takes. He's the streetwise founder of Prosperity Factory, Inc., who has been building and scaling businesses for more than 40 years. Randy has authored 16 bestselling books, translated into 25+languages, including his latest—Wealth Without Apology—and spoken to more than 2 million people across 50 countries. He's been inducted into both the Speaker Hall of Fame and Direct Selling Hall of Fame.But none of that is why people follow him. They follow him because he calls BS…and says what most people are too afraid to admit. When he's not rocking the stage or building his next project, you'll probably find him coaching a softball team somewhere.Connect with Randy:Instagram: randy_gage Twitter: randy_gage Facebook: randygage

If you find yourself constantly resetting back to square one, you aren't building capacity—you are managing symptoms.True resilience isn't defined by how fast you bounce back from pressure; it is measured by how steady your baseline remains when pressure hits. Every experience creates a somatic-mindset feedback loop. When you autonomously self-regulate, either you leverage these moments to expand your baseline capacity, or you stagnate in a cycle of temporary recovery that perpetuates as is over time.In this episode, we unpack why conscious leaders, spiritual practitioners, and self-led individuals utilize somatic-mindset micro-habits to transcend the reset loop and move into an enlightening and intelligence growing loop instead. Discover how shifting from basic emotional control to mastery and dynamic self-leadership allows you to expand your capacity and navigate pressure from a grounded baseline. This foundation creates empowered composure, allowing you to uphold relational integrity and co-regulation.In This Episode, We Cover: The Symptom Management Trap: Why relying on repeated "resets" keeps your baseline static. The SMART MICRO-HABIT Somatic-Mindset Loop: How real-time somatic awareness and conscious mindset choices strengthen your baseline under pressure. Expanding Capacity vs. Managing Activation: Transitioning from reactive coping mechanisms to proactive baseline expansion. Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habits in Action: Practical, high-impact strategies to maintain emotional sovereignty and personal accountability.Episode Timestamps:(0:00) — Beyond Symptom Management: Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habits & Expanding Capacity (Window of Tolerance to Welcome)(5:10) — Emotional Sovereignty & Self-Leadership: Evolving from Control to Dynamic Regulation(7:14) — The Liberating Shift: Empowering Personal Sovereignty through Somatic Integration(7:40) — Recommended Reading for Nervous System Sovereignty & Mindset Mastery(7:59) — Moving Beyond the Reset: Aligning Intrinsic Motivation with Adaptive Self-LeadershipResources & ConnectSubscribe & Share: If you know spiritual and conscious, regulated leaders who want to navigate reactive survival loops with self-compassionate honesty and steady empowering composure using somatic-mindset micro-habits share this episode with them.Explore the Frameworks and digital resources on the Payhip store: Access dedicated somatic-mindset tools, guides, and workbooks designed to support baseline expansion: https://payhip.com/InspiringHumanPotentialShift from Reactive Survival Loops to Real-Time Empowered Composure—The SMART Way. Download Your FREE 10-Minute SMART MICRO-HABIT Check (PDF): https://payhip.com/b/r3sNW

Are you crushed under the weight of being the decision czar in your business? Does your to-do list include tasks your team should handle? Then it's time for a leadership upgrade.If you're the CEO who still picks slide colors, approves every invoice, and solves all the "quick questions," this episode is your wake-up call. Today, we break down why great decision-making isn't your superpower anymore, decision architecture is. Learn how to train your team to think like you (without needing you), free up your time for true CEO work, and finally step out of the weeds and into your strategic zone of genius.Key Takeaways:Why your decision-making skills are actually holding back your business growthThe 4 types of decisions every founder must identify.How to stop being your team's crutch by building scalable decision frameworksThe mental cost of unnecessary decisions (spoiler: it's more than time)Practical scripts and steps to empower your team without sacrificing standardsGrab it:Free Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better LeaderBook a free Transition Assessment Call with Dawn: dawnandrews.comJoin it:Free Community: AI for FoundersRelated episodes to keep you in your CEO flow:EP 072 How Female Founders Delegate Like a CEO Before They Burn OutSend us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

Mukesh Bansal has founded and left more companies than most people build in a lifetime, and in Part 1 he explains why. He founded Myntra and sold it to Flipkart; he co-founded Cult.fit and turned fitness into a category; and today he runs the AI company Nurix and the Meraki Labs studio. Asked what he is now, he says "a learner", and admits he gets bored the moment a company starts working. Part 1 traces the thesis and the companies: how he allocates his weeks, why he thinks the AI era rewards the hands-on operator over the people-manager, what Nurix and Fermi are, why Myntra's move into fashion was an "adjustment" not a pivot, and the small-town Haridwar upbringing and library habit that set him off. This is Part 1 of 2; Part 2 turns to the person, the mental models, and how he thinks about health, family and success.Chapters0:00  Welcome and who Mukesh Bansal is3:15  How First Principles is already connected to him4:21  "Do you see yourself as an operator, a founder, an investor?"5:27  Zero-to-one, and where learning stops9:11  Allocating time across companies10:34  Why an hour of his time isn't what it was12:59  The three kinds of professionals in the AI age14:52  His stack: Claude, Warp, agents overnight17:58  Founder mode, reversed by AI20:19  No more waiting for a tech co-founder23:02  How big Nurix is; and what Fermi is25:38  The Socratic tutor that won't answer27:18  Back to Myntra: the fashion category today31:30  Koyu, Lyskraft and the CRED hypothesis33:41  Why a venture studio, one company a year38:18  Rejecting the compounding path42:57  The near-death at Myntra, and raising with a short runway45:03  Haridwar, BHEL, and the books that lit the fire48:15  Pivots as chess "adjustments"50:48  Conviction vs discovery: betting the megatrend53:08  The Bay Area years and the return to IndiaQuotes[4:33] "I see myself as a learner… doing one company over a period of time, I get bored."[7:08] "Crisis always comes wrapped with a massive gift, if you are only willing to unpeel the onion."[17:12] "I'm making an even stronger point. If you're only a people manager, watch out."[18:58] "For the first time you can hire something equivalent to human cognition for cents an hour."[48:50] "I use the word adjustment rather than pivot. You come to work every day, you're playing chess."Frameworks & mental modelsLearner over operator: hand off once a company stops teaching you.Crisis and momentum: cut the bad, double down on the good.The three professionals in the AI age: the hands-on veteran is the one AI turns into a superpower.Adjustment, not pivot: the best move on the board each day; a true "wipe the slate" is just a new company.Bet the megatrend, stay loose on the path.Credits & sharingThis episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

This is a behind-the-scenes bonus episode — a real, unedited session from inside my coaching programme, where I take a group of high-performing men through one of the most important conversations I have ever had in a coaching room. Why men drift. And what to do about it before it costs you everything. Because here is the truth: you did not become a bad husband overnight. You did not lose your edge overnight. You did not wake up one morning and suddenly feel lost. It happened slowly. Invisibly. One invisible compromise at a time. In this session we cover: •The drift belief — why men think they have lost themselves overnight, when the reality is months of compounding disconnection •The harbour analogy — how structure, routine, and accountability are the only things keeping your life from drifting out to sea •Why work is the one pillar that never drifts — and how that is silently destroying the other four •Framework two: Awareness — why you cannot change what you do not acknowledge, and why men will drift for years before something monumental forces them to wake up •The mirror exercise — the question "what is really true of you?" and why you will hate the answer but need it more than anything •Framework three: Standards — why identity is built through standards, not motivation, and what the Royal Marines taught me about non-negotiables •The discipline and boundaries framework — how discipline is internally built through action, and why boundaries are the external wall that protects everything you are building •The quarterly review — how to compound your progress month by month so the next 90 days become inevitable This is what real transformation looks like. Not a highlight reel. Men doing the work, being challenged, and raising their standard. If you want to be in a room where this is the standard, join the seminar waiting list:   https://consulting.boardmanjames.com/seminarwaitinglist Stop existing. Start living. Let's get to work.

What if the thing you've been calling burnout is actually your business revealing a design flaw?Burnout isn't always caused by doing too much. Sometimes it's the predictable result of building a business that depends on you for every decision, approval, and problem.In this episode, Dawn Andrews challenges one of entrepreneurship's biggest myths and explains why rest can't solve a business that's structurally dependent on its founder. You'll learn how to recognize dependency before it becomes burnout and why fixing your business architecture creates the freedom you've been chasing.If you've ever returned from a weekend away only to find everything waiting for you, this episode is for you.If this episode made you realize your business still depends on you more than it should, join Dawn's Insider List for practical leadership insights, behind-the-scenes strategy, and the thinking that often reaches subscribers before it becomes a podcast episode.Key TakeawaysWhy burnout is often a business design problem not a workload problem.How founder dependency quietly becomes the biggest obstacle to scaling your business.Why vacations don't create chaos, they reveal the systems that were never built.How real delegation transfers ownership instead of simply handing off tasks.The one simple question that helps you identify where your business still depends on you.Resources & LinksJoin Dawn's Insider ListFree Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better LeaderRelated EpisodesEp. 165 – The System Your Business NEEDS to Stop the Bottleneck Before You Add Any Other SystemEp. 173 – Why Being the "Face of the Brand" Is Secretly Killing Your Exit Value (And How to Fix It With Systems & Delegation)Send us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

If you don't know what side quest to focus on next… Or You feel conflicted about where to channel your energy… Or You can't seem to start or finish your next project… This episode is for you! I explore 4 - 6 frameworks for organizing your ideas and selecting which one to take action on. This is a “CPT UNPLUGGED” episode, which means there's no music or edits, it's a yap session exploring where I am at right now and what's helping me navigate this moment. Hope it helps you as much as it helped me to record it! UK MEETUP WHATSAPP CHANNEL: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb8ns6v1NCrdqHbZmk36 UK BOOK EVENT DETAILS: Holmfirth, West YorkshireAugust 13th11am AT READ BookshopRegister: https://to-be-read.co.uk/books/andy-j-pizza-event/ Horbury, WakefieldAugust 14th10am AT Darling ReadsRegister: https://darlingreadsbooks.com/products/andy-j-pizza-author-event-ticket-only London (Richmond)August 16th11am AT The Alligator's MouthRegister: https://www.thealligatorsmouth.co.uk/event-details/mysterious-things-andy-j-pizza-author-illustrator-visit   SHOW NOTES: Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on This Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZIE7PHG5I1Ddg1BuVGRzj?si=4x_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACg&pi=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hour 3 opens with Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge detailing the arrest of an armed suspect near President Trump's golf course in Southern California, connecting political violence concerns to aggressive campaign rhetoric. Policy analyst Andrew Harding from The Heritage Foundation joins the show to discuss back-channel negotiations involving Oman, Iran, and the U.S. regarding the Strait of Hormuz. Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town evaluates Senate delays surrounding the SAVE America Act, incoming Attorney General confirmations, and Dr. Anthony Fauci's Fifth Amendment claims before Congress. Hour 3 concludes with Kim on a Whim, examining UNLV's new cannabis industry certificate programs alongside national substance usage trends. Hour Hashtags #TrumpGolfCourse #MiddleEastPolicy #StraitOfHormuz #JayTown #SAVEAct #MOpol #DennyHoskins #KimOnAWhim Hour Guest List Andrew Harding (Senior Associate for National Security, The Heritage Foundation) Jay Town (Former U.S. Attorney, Newsmax Contributor)

In the season three finale of The Parlor Room Presents: Hello AI, host Chris Linnane revisits his three most-played clips of the season with Harvard Business School faculty Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Christina Wallace, and Nien-hê Hsieh. Tune in for their insights into AI's effect on jobs and productivity, the future of creative work, and whether a robot can ever truly care for us. GUESTS Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration Christina Wallace, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Nien-hê Hsieh, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration RESOURCES Catch up on previous episodes of The Parlor Room: Felix Oberholzer-Gee on the Frameworks of Business Strategy Felix Oberholzer-Gee on Winning with AI ⁠Christina Wallace on Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset⁠⁠ Christina Wallace on AI and Entrepreneurship Nien-hê Hsieh on Ethical AI, Decision-Making, and Investing

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. -------------------- 01 Introduction In a response to a post on a previous episode, I said that I would take a look at ID3 tags. ID3 tags are text information that is added to an MP3 audio file, such as the author, date, name, and other information. 02 While I am at it I will also look at Vorbis comments, which perform a similar function for vorbis, the container format for "ogg" audio files. As example audio files, I will use a recent HPR episode, hpr4678 in both mp3 and vorbis formats plus also one from another podcast as well. 03 There is Free Software which you can use to view, edit, or remove both types of tags or comments, and I will describe how to use it in this episode. 04 I will cover how to view tags and extract the text information, as well as how to strip the tags from a file and why you may wish to do so under certain very specific circumstances. I won't cover how to add to or edit tags in an MP3 or OGG file, as that is a more involved subject that I don't have much experience with. 05 I will mainly talk about ID3 MP3 tags rather than vorbis comments for the simple reason that the situation with MP3 files is an utter mess while vorbis comments are very straightforward and so there isn't as much to say about them. 06 As often happens when researching a subject to write a podcast script, I have learned quite a bit that I didn't know previously, and discovered that things that I thought I did know were wrong. I hope that you may learn a few things from this episode that you didn't know previously either. -------------------- 07 Background I won't go over the detailed history of ID3 tags, as I don't have a reliable source for this. Briefly however, so far as I can determine, there is no official independent standard for ID3 tags or vorbis comments. Both seem to be more in the nature of a convention that was created by an unofficial group of contributors rather than something issued by a standards body. 08 However, I don't see the lack of a conventional standards body as necessarily a problem with respect to the use of ID3 tags or vorbis comments. I just am not familiar enough with the industry to know who to regard as being an authoritative source when it comes to the history and development of them Since I am unsure as who to credit with what developments, I will avoid that sort of detail. 09 ID3 Tags There is a web site with the URL of ID3.org that seems to have the best reference material on the topic of ID3 tags. According to this site, the term "ID3" means "IDentify an MP3". 10 Vorbis Comments For vorbis, the reference site seems to be xiph.org. Although the implementation details may differ from ID3, from our perspective as podcast listeners, they can be seen as more or less equivalent in terms of what I am going to address here. -------------------- 11 ID3 Details Versions One of the problems with ID3 is that there are multiple incompatible versions, particularly from the very early days. ID3v1 tags are located at the end of the audio file in the last 128 bytes. This was done for compatibility reasons to allow early MP3 players to simply ignore the tags if they didn't know how to deal with them. The tags would simply appear as a short burst of static from the perspective of these early players. 12 ID3v2 moved the tags to the start of the MP3 file to allow players to scan the tags for information such as titles without having to read to the end of the file to find them. There are far fewer limits on the amount of information that can be placed in ID3v2 tags. 13 ID3v1 is obsolete and only very old players will require it. However, it is still used by some publishers for backward compatibility reasons. ID3v1 included numerical musical "genre" category codes which apparently turned out to be a very bad idea in practice. 14 Furthermore, all genre categories above 70 were defined by an audio software company called Nullsoft who created software such as Winamp. These codes were never actually part of the ID3 standard, although there was never really a standard to begin with. 15 The current ID3 version is 2.3. There is a version 2.4, but apparently it is not actually generally accepted and may be a developmental dead end. 16 The id3.org web site contains a copy of the ID3v2.3 standard, but I am not going to address the technical details here. This would only be of interest to someone who was creating software to read and write ID3 tags. 17 ID3v2 Frames The ID3v2 information is encoded into what are called "frames". The text information is contained in text information frames. 18 Text information frames start with a set of four character identifiers, all starting with the capital letter 'T'. Examples "TALB" is the "Album/Movie/Show title" frame. "TIT2" is the "Title/Songname/Content description" frame. "TYER" is the "Year" frame. There are many more, but I won't go into more detail here. 19 HPR ID3 Tags HPR makes an interesting case study because they use both ID3v1 and ID3v2 in the same file. This can cause some interesting problems with software that tries to read those tags. This is because most software appears to expect one or the other, but not both. However, so long as this does not cause problems with anything that actually plays the files, this is not a problem so far as people who just want to listen to podcasts are concerned. It does mean though that we have more to talk about than we would otherwise would have had. -------------------- 20 Vorbis Comment Fields The situation with Vorbis comments is much simpler, as there seems to be just one standard that was adhered to from the start rather than a succession of hacks. Information is stored in "fields", which xiph describes as being like Unix environment variables. These consist of a field name followed by an equal sign and then the information intended for that field. Field names are case insensitive. 21 The field names are not firmly defined at this stage, but there is a list of recommended names. Examples are "TITLE" is the Track or Work name. "ARTIST" is the person responsible for the work. "LICENSE" is the license information. 22 You can see the complete list for yourself on the comment field and header specification page at xiph.org -------------------- 23 Software for Listing, Adding, and Modifying Tags and Fields There are three software packages that I will now describe which allow you to list, add, modify, and remove tags and fields. There are other packages which can do the same, including some which offer a GUI interface. However, I will limit myself to describing these three. The principles should be the same for others. 24 ffprobe ffprobe is part of the ffmpeg package. If you have listened to my previous episodes on audio, you will have heard me talk about ffmpeg. ffprobe is used to display information about media files rather than for modifying them. ffprobe is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. ffprobe can be used to display information about both MP3 and OGG Vorbis files. 25 ID3v2 The next is the rather aptly named id3v2 and works with MP3 files. On Linux systems, this should be provided by the id3v2 package. On Debian derivatives this can be installed as follows sudo apt install id3v2 26 This also installs a man page which provides a brief list of the options. According to the README file in the source tarball, this is published under the LGPL ID3v2 is particularly useful for displaying ID3v1 tags. 27 vorbiscomment The third is "vorbiscomment" and works with OGG files. On Linux systems this should be provided by the "vorbis-tools" package. On Debian derivatives this can be installed as follows sudo apt install vorbis-tools 28 The vorbiscomment program is used to list or edit comments in Ogg Vorbis files. This also installs a man page which provides a brief list of the options. According to the license.lgpl file in the source tarball, this is published under the LGPL version2. 29 The display format for vorbiscomment follows the data definition format in the vorbis standard, whereas ffprobe re-formats it to match its own preferred appearance. -------------------- 30 Examples from HPR With the background out of the way, I will now give several examples of how to list the tags or fields. 31 Listing ID3v1 Tags As previously mentioned HPR uses both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in the same file. However, so far as I can tell, most software seems to look for ID3v2 tags first, and don't display the ID3v1 tags if both are present. 32 The ID3v2 program however seems to do the opposite, at least with HPR podcasts. However, the number of samples that I have which have both are rather limited, so I can't be sure if this is always the case or if this is a side effect of something else. I did mention that ID3 tags were a mess, didn't I? 33 Let's go on to our example however. If we want to see the ID3v1 tags, then using hpr4678 as an example, if we type id3v2 -l hpr4678.mp3 = we get the following result. 34 id3v1 tag info for hpr4678.mp3: Title : High Resolution Elapsed Time i Artist: Whiskeyjack Album : Hacker Public Radio Year: 2026, Genre: Unknown (186) Comment: https://hackerpublicradio.or Track: 0 hpr4678.mp3: No ID3v2 tag 35 The first line tells us that this information is ID3v1 tags. The last line tells us that there are no ID3v2 tags. This last line is incorrect, but we will come back to that later. 36 In between are three lines of text. The first line contains the title and the artist. The title is the name of the HPR episode, or at least part of it. The artist is the HPR contributor who made that episode. 37 The second line contains the album name, the year, and the genre. The album name is this case is simply Hacker Public Radio, as the concept of an album doesn't really fit a podcast. The year is the year that the episode was recorded, or at least the year in which the MP3 file was assembled with the HPR intro and the tags added. 38 The genre is listed as "unknown 186". Recall that with ID3v1 tags there is a one byte numeric genre code, but that no genres above 70 were ever officially assigned. It seems to be a general convention though to use a code 186 for podcasts. 39 The third line contain a comment and track number. The comment in this case is the HPR web site URL. The track is zero. "Track" would appear to serve no useful purpose in this instance. However, it may be there for reasons of compatibility that I am unaware of, so I would be very reluctant to remove that without very good reason. 40 If we look at the above information in detail we can see that two of the tags appear to have cut their text information off short. The title is cut off in mid word after the 30th character. The final "g" in "hackerpublicradio.org" is cut off in the comment. 41 Alternative Method for ID3v1 We can confirm whether the text being cut short is due to a problem with the id3v2 program, or whether it really represents the data in the file by using a rather simple check. 42 Recall that ID3v1 tags are simply the last 128 bytes of the MP3 file. All we need to do is to extract the last 128 bytes of the file. We can do this using the standard tail command. tail -c128 hpr4678.mp3 | tr '' ' ' | tr -c '[:print:]' 'x' 43 The -c128 option used with tail tells it to extract the last 128 bytes of the file. We then pass the result through the "tr" command and tell it to replace null bytes with new line characters. Then we replace any remaining non-printable characters with an 'x'. When we do that we get the following 44 TAGHigh Resolution Elapsed Time iWhiskeyjack Hacker Public Radio 2026https://hackerpublicradio.or x 45 The first three characters are capital TAG. This is a flag which indicates that what follows are ID3 tags. 46 Next, we have 30 characters which specify the title. The next 30 characters specify the artist. The next 30 characters are the album, or in this case just "Hacker Public Radio". The next 4 characters are the year. The next 30 characters are a comment, or in this case the HPR URL, except for the final "g". The last character is the genre code, which we have replaced with an "x" because it is otherwise non-printable. 47 Taken together, these add up to 128 bytes. We can see that the field lengths are of fixed length with pre-defined meanings based on position. -------------------- 48 ID3v2 Using ffprobe Now lets move on to ID3v2 tags, which is probably more useful for most people. For this, we will switch to using ffprobe. The command for this is ffprobe -hide_banner hpr4678.mp3 The -hide_banner option suppresses extra data about the codecs which doesn't interest us much and leaves mainly the tag information plus a few other things. 49 The output gives us the full data that is associated with the podcast episode from the HPR web site. This includes the episode number, year, full title, author, license, and full summary text. You can see a full copy of this in the show notes. Input #0, mp3, from 'hpr4678.mp3': Metadata: track : 4678 year : 2026 title : High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts author : Whiskeyjack copyright : CC-BY-SA artist : Whiskeyjack album : Hacker Public Radio comment : https://hackerpublicradio.org Clean; Surprises encountered when measuring elapsed time in shell scripts The license is CC-BY-SA genre : Podcast encoder : Lavf61.7.103 date : 2026 Duration: 00:30:10.18, start: 0.023021, bitrate: 64 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 64 kb/s 50 The ID3v2 tag version contains all of the information which was provided by the author, including the full title and description without the 30 character limit of ID3V1. If you want any of this information for some reason you should be able to extract it from the MP3 file using a combination of ffprobe, grep, and cut rather than trying to scrape the HPR web site and matching it to the MP3 later. -------------------- 51 ID3v1 Using ffprobe I previously mentioned that HPR MP3 files have both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in the same file, and that ffprobe will default to using ID3v2 tags if present. However, what happens if we remove the ID3v2 tags and leave the ID3v1 tags? I will describe how to strip tags later on in this episode, but let's just assume for now that I have done this. If we then use ffprobe to read the ID3 tags using the same command as before, we get the following output. 52 We get a series of lines in the same format as with ID3v2, but with each data element limited to at most 30 bytes. These include title, artist, album, date, comment, and genre. You can see the full output in the show notes. Input #0, mp3, from 'test.mp3': Metadata: title : High Resolution Elapsed Time i artist : Whiskeyjack album : Hacker Public Radio date : 2026 comment : https://hackerpublicradio.or genre : Podcast Duration: 00:30:10.18, start: 0.023021, bitrate: 64 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 64 kb/s 53 The information is the same as when read by the id3v2 program, but formatted for display in the manner that ffprobe uses. This shows that ffprobe can indeed read ID3v1 tags if they are the only ones present. -------------------- 54 Reading Vorbis Comments Now let us turn our attention to vorbis comments, which are the equivalent to tags for ogg files. We will look at this using two methods. 55 Using vorbiscomment The first method we will look at is using the vorbiscomment package. The command is vorbiscomment -l hpr4678.ogg 56 The output of this is a series of lines with key value pairs separated by equal signs. The output is also exactly the same as the MP3 file, except that there is an additional "language" field, "track" becomes "TRACKNUMBER", and there is no "date" field. You can see the full output in the show notes. encoder=Lavc61.19.101 libvorbis TRACKNUMBER=4678 year=2026 language=English title=High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts author=Whiskeyjack copyright=CC-BY-SA artist=Whiskeyjack album=Hacker Public Radio DESCRIPTION=https://hackerpublicradio.org Clean; Surprises encountered when measuring elapsed time in shell scripts The license is CC-BY-SA genre=Podcast 57 Using ffprobe Now lets do the same again using ffprobe. The command for this is ffprobe -hide_banner hpr4678.ogg 58 The output content is the same of course, but the field names have all been forced to lower case, and instead of an equal sign as a separator between the key and value, this has been replaced by a colon and white space has been added to make the output look a bit nicer. You can see the full output in the show notes. Input #0, ogg, from 'hpr4678.ogg': Duration: 00:30:10.14, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 86 kb/s Stream #0:0(English): Audio: vorbis, 192000 Hz, mono, fltp, 4294967 kb/s Metadata: encoder : Lavc61.19.101 libvorbis track : 4678 year : 2026 title : High Resolution Elapsed Time in Shell Scripts author : Whiskeyjack copyright : CC-BY-SA artist : Whiskeyjack album : Hacker Public Radio comment : https://hackerpublicradio.org Clean; Surprises encountered when measuring elapsed time in shell scripts The license is CC-BY-SA genre : Podcast -------------------- 59 Another Example from Another Podcast The above is interesting, but it's a sample of one podcast. Let's look at another different one altogether. For this test I used two episodes of the Linux Matters podcast, episodes 68 and 82. As to why I am using two different episodes I will explain in a moment. 60 Episode 68 We will start with examining episode 68 Using id3v2 The command using id3v2 is id3v2 -l LMP68.mp3 61 This provides output as a series of lines containing the official 4 character identifiers from the standard, a description of the identifiers, and the text provided by the authors. The identifiers include TIT2 indicating title, TALB indicating show title, TRCK indicating track number, and a number of others. You can see the full output in the show notes. id3v2 tag info for LMP68.mp3: TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Linux Matters TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Linux Matters TYER (Year): 2025 TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 68 COMM (Comments): ()[]: https://linuxmatters.sh/ APIC (Attached picture): (LMP-3000-moon.jpg)[, 3]: image/jpeg, 554576 bytes LMP68.mp3: No ID3v1 tag 62 From this we can see what the id3v2 program would normally do with ID3v2 tags. Note that it outputs the actual 4 character identifiers, plus a description of what they mean, and then the actual data. This helps when trying to understand the actual encoding of the data. 63 Using ffprobe Now let's try that with ffprobe. The command is ffprobe -hide_banner LMP68.mp3 64 This provides the same publisher provided data as before. However it does not display the 4 character identifiers but instead uses its own format for display. Also note in both cases that there is a picture embedded in the MP3 file which is used to generate an icon for display in your file manager. With ffprobe this results in there being two keys called "title" and two keys called "comment". This makes grepping for the metadata more complicated, but it should still be possible. You can see the full output in the show notes. Input #0, mp3, from 'LMP68.mp3': Metadata: title : 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes artist : Linux Matters album : Linux Matters comment : https://linuxmatters.sh/ track : 68 date : 2025 Duration: 00:28:12.45, start: 0.025056, bitrate: 114 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 112 kb/s Metadata: encoder : LAME3.100 Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg (Progressive), yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 4166x4166 [SAR 72:72 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic) Metadata: title : LMP-3000-moon.jpg comment : Cover (front) 65 Episode 82 Now lets try that again with a different episode, 82. Using id3v2 The command for id3v2 is id3v2 -l LMP82.mp3 This results in id3v2 saying LMP82.mp3: No ID3 tag What happened here? 66 Using ffprobe Let's try that again with ffprobe. The command ffprobe -hide_banner LMP82.mp3 provides the expected output. Input #0, mp3, from 'LMP82.mp3': Metadata: date : 2026-05 title : 82: Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce album : Linux Matters track : 82 artist : Linux Matters comment : https://linuxmatters.sh Duration: 00:33:37.83, start: 0.025056, bitrate: 113 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 112 kb/s Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc, gbr/unknown/unknown), 3000x3000, 90k tbr, 90k tbn (attached pic) Metadata: title : Linux Matters Logo comment : Cover (front) 67 This results in a few minor changes from episode 68, but otherwise it looks the same. So there are ID3 tags, but for some reason id3v2 couldn't recognize them. A bit more research and experimentation shows that this change appears to have happened right after episode 68, when they changed hosting and processing arrangements. I suspect that something changed with respect to the ID3v2 tag formatting somewhere along the way in the change over, and this in turn has affected the ability of the id3v2 program to recognize the tags. I will come back to the implications of this later in my conclusions. -------------------- 68 Stripping ID3 Tags Now let's turn to a differen topic. Stripping ID3 tags refers to removing the ID3 tags from the audio file. I will start off by emphasizing that normally, you don't want to do this. You should only be doing it if you suspect the ID3 tags are causing a problem with the playback or ordering of the files. 69 In my case I do it when I have problems with my MP3 player when playing certain podcasts. This MP3 player orders files according to ID3 tags rather than by file name. This can result in the podcasts being played in an unpredictable order which I find undesirable. This is particularly a problem with podcasts from certain publishers where the title data does not follow any consistent pattern, but is whatever someone felt like doing that day. 70 I also often have to normalize the files from the same publishers to get a consistent audio loudness. See my series on Simple Podcasting for information on how to use ffmpeg to normalize the audio loudness. The solution to the inconsistent tag formats in these cases is to simply strip the ID3 tags altogether. The player then falls back on using the file names, and I can readily rename the files to a consistent format. I have never had these sorts of problems with HPR podcasts. If you are not having any problems of this nature, then as I said, don't bother stripping the tags. 71 To strip the ID3 tags from an MP3 file use the following. id3v2 -D hpr4678.mp3 id3v2 will strip the tags and overwrite the existing file. If you wish to keep a copy with the tags, be sure to keep a backup before you try things. 72 When it comes to stripping tags, the options are "-s" deletes ID3v1 tags. "-d" deletes ID3v2 tags. "-D" deletes both v1 and v2 tags. -------------------- 73 Conclusions In this episode we took a very brief look at ID3 tags and vorbis comments and ways of reading them. 74 ID3 tags and Vorbis comments provide a means of allowing information about an MP3 or OGG Vorbis file to be embedded in the file itself. Podcast publishers very often use this to label the file with information such as title, publisher, and author. We can read this information using Fee Software tools such as ffprobe, ID3v2, and vorbiscomment. 75 ID3 tags seem to be a mess with more than one incompatible versions, and difficulties in reading them even within the same version. They are difficult to test for because there is so much hardware out there of varying ages, much of which you will never have heard of let alone had access to. If you are recording episodes for HPR you do not have to worry about this, as HPR will do this behind the scenes for you. However, if you are responsible for producing a podcast or other similar audio and you have a setup that works, it is probably best not to change anything without good reason. 76 Vorbis comments seem to be much less of a problem. However, there are far fewer devices which can play OGG files compared to MP3, so simply switching to OGG may not be a realistic solution to the ID3 tag problem. 77 If you wish to have one tool that can read ID3 tags of all sorts and vorbis comments, then ffprobe is your obvious choice. 78 The ID3v2 program will provide more information about the ID3 tags, including the actual identifiers used. However, it does not work in all cases. 79 The vorbiscomment program will read Vorbis comments from OGG files in a manner which is closer to the actual vorbis format than ffprobe does, which uses its own display format. 80 HPR includes both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in its MP3 files. ffprobe can be used to read the ID3v2 tags, and the id3v2 program can be used to read the ID3v1 tags. You can also read the ID3v1 tags using the tail command. 81 I have barely scratched the surface of this subject and have not talked at all about creating tags or comments. If anyone else would like to take up the challenge of providing more detail, or of correcting any mistakes that have made, please send in a podcast episode on the subject. If you have any comments you would like to make, leave them in the comment section below this episode on the HPR web site. 82 I hope to see you all again in future in another episode of HPR. -------------------- References https://id3.org/Introduction https://www.xiph.org/ https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment -------------------- Provide feedback on this episode.

This summer, I'm revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven't heard it, now is the time. If you have, it's a classic and worth listening to again. Brad Jacobs has built eight billion-dollar companies, completed more than 500 acquisitions, and created extraordinary returns for shareholders over four decades. Few people understand how great businesses are built better than he does. This conversation is about the principles behind that success. Brad explains how he spots trends before they become obvious, why psychology matters as much as strategy, and how he thinks about acquisitions, hiring, capital allocation, decision-making, and building organizations that consistently outperform. He also shares lessons from therapy, meditation, and decades of leadership that changed how he manages people and makes decisions. ----- Chapters: 00:00 - Finding Every Opportunity to Make Money 02:03 - The Singularity & The Future of AI 04:14 - How to Think Rationally 05:40 - The Meta-Trend Driving the Future 07:50 - His Research Process 10:21 - How to Ask Better Questions 16:26 - Rearranging Your Brain for Success
20:55 - What Music & Math Teach Us About Business 30:59 - The Asymmetry of Leverage, Debt & Optionality 35:07 - The Psychology of Contrarian Bets 40:41 - Where True Confidence Comes From 50:19 - The Hidden Cost of Negative Feedback 56:12 - Core Lessons on Money & Wealth 58:11 - The M&A Playbook: How to Build an Empire 01:07:50 - The Exact Questions to Read Anyone Instantly 01:11:10 - The Reality of Board Meetings 01:16:55 - Frameworks for High-Stakes Decision-Making 01:23:35 - The Brutal Truth About Capital Markets 01:25:40 - Avoid Hiring This Type of Person 01:31:16 - Traits of the World's Best Capital Allocators 01:33:53 - The Biggest Lesson of the Past Year 01:37:20 - Redefining Personal Success ----- Follow Brad Jacobs: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradjacobsqxo/ QXO: https://www.qxo.com/ ------ Newsletter: The Brain Food newsletter delivers actionable insights and thoughtful ideas every Sunday. It takes 5 minutes to read, and it's completely free. Learn more and sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------ Follow Shane Parrish: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/shaneparrish⁠ Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/farnamstreet/⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-parrish-050a2183/⁠ ----- Thank you to the sponsors for this episode: +Applovin: Launch your first AppLovin campaign and grow your business: https://applovin.com/shane +HeyGen is a message-first AI video platform that helps people and AI agents turn ideas into professional video in minutes. Try for free at https://www.heygen.com/tkp +Matic: the robot vacuum that does it all—grab yourself a year of free bags here. http://maticrobots.com/shaneparrish +LMNT: My go-to zero sugar electrolytes — get a free LMNT Sample Pack here: https://DrinkLMNT.com/TKP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Ken Jacobs, principal of Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching, joins host Jason Mudd to discuss how communications leaders can apply proven leadership principles to AI adoption.Tune in to learn more!Meet our guest:Our guest is Ken Jacobs, principal of Jacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching. Ken helps public relations, communications, and marketing leaders become more effective and inspiring leaders through executive coaching and consulting. Before launching his consulting practice, he spent 25 years in leadership roles at leading PR agencies. He also hosts Taking the Lead, a leadership video podcast, and writes the quarterly Taking the Lead column for the Public Relations Society of America's Strategies & Tactics publication.Five things you'll learn from this episode:1. How courageous leaders embrace AI2. Why every organization needs AI guardrails3. How leaders can build AI confidence4. Why listening leads to stronger teams5. How AI and human judgment work together Quotables"If you're not already deep in AI, you're behind, but it's also never too late." — Ken Jacobs“Walk the walk, not just talk the talk.” — Ken Jacobs“True leaders update their knowledge and fluency.” — Ken Jacobs“You as a leader have to be able to ask the right kind of questions.” — Ken Jacobs"Hire smart people and get out of their way." — Jason MuddIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to share it with a colleague or friend. You may also support us through Buy Me a Coffee or by leaving us a quick podcast review.Guest's contact info and resources:Ken Jacobs on LinkedInJacobs Consulting & Executive Coaching websiteTaking the Lead PodcastHow to stay ahead of AI in communications and marketingFour leadership tips to guide you through uncertain timesAdditional resources:What sources feed generative AI answers?What Google AI Mode means for your PR and media strategyHow are AI tools changing PR jobs?Axia's AIVisibility serviceListen to more episodes of the On Top of PR with Jason Mudd podcast.Find out more about Axia Public Relations.If you like this episode, you're going to love this:The best argument for PR? Surprisingly, it's AI95% of AI citations come from PR content Managing communications and PR in the AI eraEmbedded AI: The future of PR and communication workflowsRecorded: July, 2026Support the showOn Top of PR is produced by Axia Public Relations, named by Forbes as one of America's Best PR Agencies. Axia is an expert PR firm for national brands.On Top of PR is sponsored by ReviewMaxer, the platform for monitoring, improving, and promoting online customer reviews.

If life knocked you out of your business for two months, would your company keep running or would everything stop with you?Most founders unknowingly build businesses that only work when the Founder is operating at 100%. In this episode, Dawn Andrews shares the leadership lessons she learned during one of the hardest seasons of her life and why that experience exposed the difference between real systems and processes that only existed in her head.If you're an ambitious founder ready to scale without becoming the single point of failure, this episode will help you rethink delegation, documentation, AI, and what it truly means to build a resilient business. Listen now and start designing a company that can thrive even when life gets “life-ey”.If your business still depends on you to keep everything moving, it's time to build stronger leadership systems. Download the free guide 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better Leader and discover practical ways to use AI to improve delegation, decision-making, and business resilience without losing the human touch.Key TakeawaysWhy building for your best week is actually a leadership liability. Learn how to design systems that keep your business running on both ordinary Tuesdays and catastrophic ones.The difference between delegation and dependency. Discover why requiring your approval at every step isn't delegation; it's just another bottleneck.How AI creates leadership leverage, not leadership replacement. See how AI workflows can protect your time by handling repeatable work while preserving your judgment for high-value decisions.Why documentation is a CEO skill, not an administrative task, if critical knowledge only lives in your head, your business is carrying more risk than you realize.The simple question that reveals whether you're scaling or just surviving. Identify which responsibilities only you can own and which ones you simply haven't let go of yet.Resources & LinksFree Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better LeaderRelated Episodes191 | Why Smart Founders Still Answer 11 PM Calls: The Hidden System Failure Making You the Bottleneck189 | Warning: Your Competence Is Quietly Becoming Your Growth Ceiling. Here's How to Stop.173 | Why Being the "Face of the Brand" Is Secretly Killing Your Exit Value and How to Fix It With Systems and Delegation169 | Why "Just Delegate" Is a Lie in Leadership (And How AI Changes the Game)Send us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

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Use the free CAC Calculator I made with HubSpot for Startups: https://clickhubspot.com/0dda8a #ad #hubspot My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you. More profit, less pain. It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/oobo_bigdeal - cs You've been talking. A lot. But nobody's listening. You're explaining your ideas, pitching your vision, trying to convince your team, and somehow the room just glazes over. Here's the truth: the problem isn't that people don't care. It's that you haven't learned how to make them care. And great ideas die every single day because the person behind them can't communicate well enough to make them stick. Communication isn't a soft skill. It's the highest ROI skill you'll ever build. It's how you raise capital, close deals, lead teams, and turn strangers into believers. The difference between someone who gets funded and someone who gets ignored isn't the idea. It's how they deliver it. This episode breaks down five of the most effective communication frameworks straight from the best speakers who have ever lived, from Steve Jobs to Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm Gladwell, and how you can use them starting today. In this episode, you'll learn: The simple map framework: why Steve Jobs told Stanford graduates he'd share three stories before he ever started talking and how giving your audience a roadmap removes anxiety and makes them actually listen Why repetition isn't boring when done right and how Martin Luther King Jr. used I have a dream eight times in one speech to build weight, not waste time Specificity as credibility: why saying this laundromat does $3 million in revenue from 164 machines is infinitely more believable than saying this business makes a lot of money How to use silence like a weapon and why the pause before your biggest line is more powerful than the line itself, just like Steve Jobs did when he introduced the iPhone Why story beats argument every single time and how Malcolm Gladwell turned a spaghetti sauce case study into one of the most memorable TED talks ever by making you feel the discovery instead of hearing the lesson Stop filling the silence. Stop apologizing for your point. Start speaking like someone who deserves to be heard. Because the moment you learn to communicate like a CEO is the moment people start treating you like one. Thanks to HubSpot for Startups for sponsoring this episode! Want to know if your business is actually making money or bleeding cash? Use the free CAC calculator I built with HubSpot. It takes two minutes and tells you the one number that decides everything. Grab it here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/bigdeal_cac ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: Great Ideas Die Because You Can't Communicate (00:00:33) The Simple Map Framework: Tell Them Where You're Going First (00:02:40) Repetition That Builds: Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream (00:04:56) Specificity as Credibility: The Three Million Dollar Laundromat Story (00:07:06) Silence Is Sexy: Steve Jobs and the iPhone Reveal (00:09:52) Show Me, Don't Tell Me: Using Silence to Force Discovery (00:11:08) Story as Argument: Malcolm Gladwell and the Spaghetti Sauce Lesson (00:12:31) The Customer Acquisition Cost Reality Check (00:15:10) Go Big or Go Home: Masayoshi Son's Apple Crate Speech (00:16:50) Don't Apologize, Reframe: Fred Smith's FedEx Vegas Gamble (00:18:14) Communicate Visually: Herb Kelleher's Dear Mrs. Crabapple Letter (00:21:00) Build a Business That Runs Without You ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL

How can wholesale distributors plan for growth when interest rates, tariffs, global conflict, artificial intelligence, and changing buyer behavior are all moving at once?Kevin Brown and Tom Burton examine the economic and technology forces shaping manufacturing and wholesale distribution. They discuss Federal Reserve policy, consumer confidence, Section 301 tariffs, supply chain visibility, AI-native business models, agentic purchasing, and the growing role of robotics in industrial operations.What You'll Learn:Why the Federal Reserve has limited options for responding to inflation caused by geopolitical price shocksHow Section 301 tariffs could affect inventory planning, margins, sourcing, and supply chain strategyWhat new industry survey data reveals about distributor confidence, demand recovery, tariffs, and technology adoptionHow businesses can move from basic AI assistance toward an AI-native operating modelWhy agentic AI could reshape how contractors and other B2B customers research products, request quotes, and place ordersHow humanoid and purpose-built robots may change industrial labor, workplace safety, and the protective equipment marketEpisode Highlights:00:00 – Looking at the upcoming 200th episode of Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution13:40 – Why the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and why some policymakers still favor an increase29:15 – What declining consumer confidence could mean for spending, employment, and distributor demand38:40 – How Section 301 tariffs are changing inventory valuation and supply chain planning47:25 – Why global shipping chokepoints are creating new risks for oil, freight, and product availability54:20 – What electrical distributors say about demand recovery, tariffs, margins, AI, and data center growth1:03:30 – The stages of AI maturity and what it means to build an AI-native enterprise1:12:10 – How agentic AI could transform the traditional wholesale distribution buying process1:20:35 – Humanoid robots, purpose-built machines, and the future of industrial safetyTools, Frameworks, and Strategies MentionedLeadSmart Meridian 360 enterprise growth platformSmart CRM and CRM-ERP integrationLeadSmart Revenue ExpanderHidden revenue detection and trapped-potential analysisAI maturity stages, from AI-assisted to AI-nativeAgentic AI purchasing and automated orderingInventory visibility and supply chain analyticsHuman-centered sales automationSection 301 tariff analysisClosing Insight:The companies that succeed through the next phase of wholesale distribution will understand more than what is happening inside their ERP. They will connect customer, sales, marketing, e-commerce, inventory, and operational data so their teams can make faster and better decisions.Subscribe to Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution for weekly insights into the economy, technology, supply chains, manufacturing, and distribution growth. Visit AroundTheHornPod.com to explore previous episodes and sign up for the newsletter. To learn how LeadSmart Technologies helps distributors connect their data and uncover hidden revenue opportunities, visit LeadSmartTech.com.Leave a Review: Help us grow by sharing your thoughts on the show.Learn more about the LeadSmart AI B2B Sales Platform: https://www.leadsmarttech.com/Join the conversation each week on LinkedIn Live.Want even more insight to the stories we discuss each week? Subscribe to the Around The Horn Newsletter.You can also hear the podcast and other excellent content on our YouTube Channel.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok.

Federal agencies often struggle to turn high‑level guidance on AI and cybersecurity into everyday decisions about procurement, deployment and risk. NIST's new Cyber AI Profile is meant to help close that gap by showing how AI risk management can work in practice. We'll talk about how it's intended to be used and what not to do with it, with Kat Megas, the program manager for cybersecurity, privacy and AI at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if the referrals, clients, and opportunities you're chasing don't require more LinkedIn content but better conversations?Let's be honest.Most founders treat LinkedIn like another task on an already overflowing to-do list.Post something. Check notifications. Accept a few connection requests. Move on.But according to relationship marketing expert Janice Porter, that's exactly why so many founders are missing out on the biggest opportunities hiding inside their existing network.In Part 2 of this conversation, Janice gets tactical. She breaks down how busy founders can use LinkedIn strategically, how to nurture relationships without spending hours online, and why a simple message to the right person can outperform another week of content creation.If you've ever said, "I don't have time for LinkedIn," this episode is for you.Connect with Janice Porter and book a LinkedIn Profile Audit.If you're wondering whether your LinkedIn profile is helping or hurting your visibility, Janice offers a complimentary 20–30 minute audit and conversation to help founders identify opportunities for improvement.Key TakeawaysLinkedIn is a relationship platform disguised as a social platform.Visibility matters more than perfection.Consistent engagement beats endless content creation.Referral networks need nurturing.AI works best when it amplifies your voice not replaces it.The relationships you've already built may be your most valuable growth asset.Connect with Janice PorterWebsite: janiceporter.comLinkedIn: Janice PorterPodcast: Relationships Rule Related Episodes195 | Why 68% of Clients Leave (It Has Nothing to Do with Your Service) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI FrameworksSend us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

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What if your next client, referral, or six-figure opportunity isn't hiding in your marketing funnel but in a relationship you've accidentally neglected?Most founders think client retention is about delivering great work.It's not.In this conversation, Dawn Andrews sits down with relationship marketing expert and LinkedIn strategist Janice Porter to unpack why people leave, why follow-up feels so awkward, and why the businesses growing fastest aren't necessarily marketing harder; they're remembering people better.If you've ever worried about sounding salesy, struggled to stay in touch, or treated LinkedIn like another item on your endless CEO checklist, this episode will completely reframe how you think about relationships, visibility, and business growth.Download Janice Porter's FREE Real Connection GuideIf this conversation made you rethink how you're approaching networking, follow-up, and client retention, grab Janice's free resource and learn the practical steps behind her REAL Connection System.What You'll LearnRelationship Marketing Is 80% Relationship, 20% MarketingYour LinkedIn Strategy Might Be More About You Than Your AudienceThe Secret to Better Networking Isn't More MessagesSlow Down Your Outreach to Speed Up Your ResultsClient Retention Has Less to Do With Service Than You ThinkResources & LinksConnect with Janice PorterWebsite: janiceporter.comLinkedIn: Janice PorterREAL Connection GuideSend us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

1 · SummaryPart 2 of 2. Part 1 laid out the bet: a fund built only for Indian consumer brands, back when the idea sounded absurd, and the anti-power-law machine Kanwal Singh built to make it work. This half is the person. The near-decade at Hindustan Lever that gave him his love of consumer, the Intel years, and the Paper Boat conviction that taught him to back the founder over the idea. Then the man himself: parents who came to India as refugees from Pakistan, a father who kept collecting degrees while feeding the family, the coach he started seeing in his sixties and what separates coaching from therapy, and how he reads a founder by meeting their family. He turned down twice the money he could have raised. He rates his life a 10.2 · Chapters0:00 Part 2 intro 1:22 The Hindustan Lever decade that started it all 2:25 Intel Inside, and bringing the inside out 4:22 The Paper Boat conviction: backing the founder 6:38 What he adds as Fireside's "CEO," and value of good 17:53 Capping the fund: turning down 2x the money 20:24 Hiring: read the person, meet the family 27:01 Refugees, and a father who never stopped studying 30:39 Three words, and a 100%-locked calendar 33:30 Motivating through the down days 34:51 The coach, and coaching vs therapy 43:40 How he learns, and consumer vs tech founders 51:27 Rating his life a 10, and success redefined 52:47 Cotswolds, golf, and the empty nest refilled3 · Pull-quotes[17:56] "I could have raised 2x of this. Genuinely, we could have raised 2x of this."[23:55] "You cannot build to sell. You build for sustenance, you build for good."[27:04] "Both my parents were refugees from Pakistan."[51:34] "A 10." (asked how happy he is with his life)4 · Frameworks & mental modelsFounder assessment through the family: read a founder by their story and support system, often over a meal with their spouse, on the belief that no one survives a decade-long build without one.Build for sustenance, not to sell: the best businesses are bought, not sold; you build for the long run and treat a sale as a business decision along the way.Value of good ("do good to do well"): founder first, planet first, one Fireside, with goodness as the foundation of doing well.Coaching vs therapy: therapy addresses a medical issue; coaching is vulnerability and honesty in a business context, and only works once you have the self-awareness to accept there's a problem.This episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

What happens when tariffs, global shipping disruptions, AI infrastructure demands, and changing buyer behavior all hit wholesale distribution at the same time?On this episode of Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution, Kevin Brown and Tom Burton examine the economic, technological, and supply chain forces shaping manufacturers and wholesale distribution teams. They discuss inflation and interest rates, the transition to Section 301 tariffs, growing risks across major shipping routes, Amazon Business's expanding influence, the copper shortage behind AI data center growth, and why companies need a more disciplined approach to AI investment.What You'll LearnHow Section 301 tariffs could create greater planning certainty for distributors, even as import costs remain elevatedWhy disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal, and the Panama Canal could create a global supply chain “perfect storm”How distributors can compete with Amazon Business by solving complex problems and embedding themselves in customer operationsWhy AI efficiency may increase total energy and computing demand instead of reducing itHow revenue leaders in distribution can evaluate AI tools based on measurable business outcomes instead of promisesWhy employees who guide, challenge, and pressure-test AI produce stronger work than those who simply delegate tasksEpisode Highlights04:20 – How LeadSmart uses connected ERP and CRM data to uncover hidden revenue opportunities13:45 – What the Federal Reserve's inflation language could mean for interest rates and business planning23:10 – Why Section 301 tariffs may be more legally durable than previous tariff policies34:05 – The global supply chain risks developing around the Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, and Panama Canal43:20 – How Amazon Business reached $60 billion in merchandise volume and what distributors should do next52:15 – Why complex services, technical support, and customer integration remain powerful competitive advantages59:40 – Copper shortages, data center construction, and the infrastructure required to support AI growth1:10:05 – Why workers who actively direct AI agents outperform people who accept the first answerTools, Frameworks, and Strategies MentionedMeridian 360 HubLeadSmart's connected data hub brings information from across the business into one environment, giving leaders greater visibility into customers, teams, sales activity, and growth opportunities.GeniusFeed AI and Revenue ExpanderThese tools analyze business data to identify white space, wallet-share opportunities, customer risk, and hidden revenue. The discussion also explores how this type of predictive sales analytics could support M&A due diligence and business valuation.Make Complexity Your StrategyDistributors can protect their customer relationships by focusing on services that are difficult for large online marketplaces to replicate. These may include product customization, technical support, equipment commissioning, kitting, cutting, and on-site problem solving.Embed Into Customer OperationsVendor-managed inventory, on-site personnel, tool cribs, vending systems, and job-site inventory programs make the distributor a direct part of the customer's workflow.Jevons ParadoxAs technology becomes more efficient and less expensive, demand often grows faster than the efficiency gains. The hosts apply this idea to AI computing, data centers, energy consumption, and future infrastructure requirements.Outcome-Based AI AdoptionBefore investing in AI or sales technology, businesses should define specific outcomes they expect to achieve. Those outcomes should guide implementation, client success meetings, performance measurement, and technology budgeting.Closing Insight:AI, tariffs, e-commerce, infrastructure shortages, and supply chain disruption are creating a more complicated operating environment for wholesale distribution. The companies that succeed will be the ones that improve visibility, strengthen customer relationships, and connect technology investments to measurable growth.Subscribe to Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution for weekly analysis of the news and trends affecting manufacturers, independent sales agents, distributors, and the global wholesale supply chain.To receive the weekly newsletter, visit AroundTheHornPod.com.To learn how LeadSmart Technologies helps distributors connect sales, CRM, ERP, marketing, quoting, and customer intelligence data, visit LeadSmartTech.com.Leave a Review: Help us grow by sharing your thoughts on the show.Learn more about the LeadSmart AI B2B Sales Platform: https://www.leadsmarttech.com/Join the conversation each week on LinkedIn Live.Want even more insight to the stories we discuss each week? Subscribe to the Around The Horn Newsletter.You can also hear the podcast and other excellent content on our YouTube Channel.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok.

In this episode, Eva Rose Daniel joins host David Rendall and shares practical strategies for distilling your message into a single, clear idea and developing frameworks to organize your speeches effectively. Learn how to craft memorable speeches that resonate and inspire action.David's new book Speak Different: How to Present Ideas That Inspire Action written with co-author, Stan Phelps, is available now!Eva Rose Daniel is a Public Speaking Strategist & Coach and Founder of The Speak Shop.

What if the reason you're exhausted isn't because you're leading your business but because you're carrying responsibilities that were never yours in the first place?Burnout doesn't always come from working too many hours. Sometimes it comes from accepting responsibility for outcomes you can't actually control. In this episode, Dawn unpacks the leadership shift that helped her stop carrying jobs nobody hired her to do and why so many female founders unknowingly fall into the same trap.If you're constantly rescuing your team, reclaiming delegated work, or feeling like everything eventually lands back on your desk, this episode will help you redefine your role, strengthen your leadership, and create healthier ownership throughout your business.If you're tired of being the person every decision flows through, start by strengthening your leadership with AI. Download 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better Leader and discover practical ways to delegate smarter, communicate more clearly, and create the space to lead like a CEO instead of the busiest employee in your company.Key TakeawaysWhy burnout is often a leadership problem not a workload problem. Carrying responsibilities that don't belong to you quietly drains your energy and limits your ability to lead strategically.The difference between caring and being responsible. Supporting people doesn't mean owning decisions or outcomes that are outside your control.How undefined roles create founder bottlenecks. When you never define what people can count on you for, everything becomes your responsibility by default.The leadership question every CEO should ask. "What can they actually count on me for?" creates clarity, stronger boundaries, and better delegation.Why you need to build the exit before the fire. Defining your role while things are calm makes it far easier to lead with confidence when challenges inevitably arrive.Resources & LinksLearn more about working with Dawn Andrews: https://dawnandrews.comFree Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better LeaderRelated Episodes072 | How Female Founders Delegate Like a CEO Before They Burn Out Send us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

Most people don't have a short attention span. They have a low threshold for boredom.Netflix asks "are you still watching?" and you always say yes when the story's good. The same thing happens in a boardroom, on a stage, in a pitch meeting. People don't tune out because they can't focus. They tune out because you gave them a reason to.So what makes some speakers impossible to look away from, while others lose the room in the first thirty seconds?It's not charisma. It's not luck. It's a handful of specific, learnable habits: how fast you get to the point, how often you deliver something worth hearing, and whether you're brave enough to say something only you could say.In this episode, I break down exactly how I coach CEOs, TEDx speakers, and total beginners to hold a room's attention from the first second to the last. You'll learn why you have one tenth of a second to make a first impression, why "rate of revelation" matters more than most people realize, and why stories beat spreadsheets every single time.I also share the exact opening formula I use before every talk, the reason AI generated content falls flat no matter how polished it looks, and a personal story about my son that shows why none of this works without honesty.If you've ever watched someone speak and thought "why can't I do that," this episode is the answer.Apply to work with me: https://www.michaelxcampion.com/Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelxcampion/(00:00) Why Public Speaking Fear Is Universal(01:20) It's Not About You: Serve the Idea, Not the Ego(02:36) Nervous or Excited? The Story You Tell Yourself(03:22) Practice Is the Enemy of Doubt(04:39) Record Yourself: The Fastest Way to Improve(05:52) Is Persuasion Manipulation?(08:33) The H.I.U. Formula for Opening Any Talk(09:49) First Impressions and the Rate of Revelation(12:33) Attention Span Myth: Why Stories Beat Spreadsheets(15:26) Why AI Can't Replace Your Voice(17:58) The SHUSH Storytelling Formula(22:21) Structure, Frameworks, and Why Talent Is Practice in Disguise

If AI can write the perfect business boundary, why are you still afraid to set it?AI isn't stopping you from leading, it's exposing where you've already stopped yourself.In this episode, Dawn Andrews introduces The Permission Stack™, a three-layer framework that explains why founders hesitate to set boundaries, make decisions, and fully leverage AI in their businesses. If you're an ambitious founder who wants to delegate with confidence, lead more decisively, and stop being the bottleneck, this conversation will help you uncover what's really keeping you stuck. Listen in and discover why the decision always comes before the prompt. If today's episode helped you realize your biggest AI challenge is actually a leadership decision, come join the free AI for Founders Community on LinkedIn. It's where ambitious founders learn to make stronger CEO decisions first and then use AI to execute them with confidence.Key TakeawaysWhy your AI output reflects your leadership decisions not just your prompts. If you haven't made the decision, AI can't execute it for you.The three Permission Stack™ layers every founder must clear before AI becomes a true strategic partner: Belief, Identity, and Relational Permission.How to use AI without outsourcing your confidence as a CEO. The best founders let AI amplify decisions they've already made not make them on their behalf.Why hesitation around AI is often a values conversation, not a technology problem. Many female founders aren't resisting AI because of competence, they're protecting what matters most to them.How one honest leadership decision unlocks better delegation, stronger boundaries, and more effective AI systems throughout your business.Resources & LinksAI for Founders CommunityFree Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better Leader Related Episode191 | Why Smart Founders Still Answer 11 PM Calls. The Hidden System Failure Making You the Bottleneck Send us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

  Episode: 140 RAISING PPA assessment and treatment from the Ground Up: In Conversation with Jeanne Gallée     In this episode you will discover: · Assessment and Intervention Aren't Separate — Conversation itself can double as both. By listening closely and responding to what a client offers, in a "more art than science" way, clinicians gather meaningful data and provide support at the same time, rather than treating these as two distinct phases of care. · Rigid Testing Can Erase the Person Behind the Diagnosis — Traditional standardized assessments often serve the goals of an institution or research protocol more than the person being assessed. Frameworks like RAISE and the PACT scale shift the focus toward strengths, natural conversation, and what someone can still do, rather than repeatedly measuring decline. · PPA Needs Its Own Identity and Training Path — Because primary progressive aphasia sits uneasily between post-stroke aphasia care and traditional dementia care, clinicians often receive little formal training in it. A global survey found major gaps in education and confidence, underscoring the need for dedicated resources, like Dr. Gallée's PPA roadmap, built specifically for this population. Do you ever wish you could step back in time and undo the missteps and errors of the past? What if you had the opportunity to build something from the ground up? Certainly, knowing what you know now, you could begin in a better place. But of course, there's always pitfalls with new beginnings, even with the knowledge of lessons from the past. You could, however, make a positive impact on that new beginning. Welcome to the Aphasia Access Conversations podcast. I'm Jerry Hoepner, a professor from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, and co-facilitator of the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp, Blue Gold Brain Injury Group, Mayo Brain Injury Group, Young Persons Brain Injury Group, Brain In-Cog, and Thursday Night Poets. I'm also a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. Aphasia Access strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas about their aphasia care through a variety of educational resources. I'm privileged to introduce today's guest, Dr. Jeanne Gallée, who is a clinical scientist in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Gallée is a licensed speech language pathologist practicing in the greater Washington state area. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College in 2016 and Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology in 2021. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Early Career Professional by ASHA and a Distinguished Scholar by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. Her work is dedicated to improving assessment practices and functional outcomes for individuals living with aphasia and neurodegenerative conditions. Jerry Hoepner: Jeanne, it's really nice to see you again today, and to have this opportunity to have a conversation with you as a recent recipient of the Tavistock Scholar Program, and to talk about your work with individuals with primary progressive aphasia. So, thanks for being "on" today for the conversation. Jeanne Gallée: Thank you so much for having me, Jerry. I'm really honored to be here. Jerry Hoepner: Likewise, I'm really excited for this conversation, and as I just alluded to, I wanted to congratulate you on being awarded the first Tavistock Scholar with an emphasis doing work in primary progressive aphasia, and I thought maybe I could get your thoughts on being selected as a Tavistock Scholar. Jeanne Gallée: Thank you. It feels honestly incredibly remarkable in the sense that I think it represents a shift in how we're thinking about the separate diagnoses of progressive aphasia versus an aphasia that's due to an acute injury. And I'm really honored to be a part of that. I think there have been many discussions growing over the years, and I think we're seeing that shift in how we do think about addressing assessment and intervention and general care for people across the aphasia continuum. Jerry Hoepner: Agreed, I think there's been so much growth in the last five years in that area. I can remember at the outset of the pandemic, having discussions about "What do we do with people with primary progressive aphasia who were a part of our aphasia group? Should they be a part of our aphasia group? How do we pivot to that in an online context?" and it feels like we've come so far in our conversation about where primary progressive aphasia fits in in all of those different contexts. Jeanne Gallée: Right, I entirely agree, and I think the journey of my own work has already evolved in so many ways that I couldn't have imagined, like you say, five years ago I completed my doctoral work March 2021 and just seeing the phenomenal amounts of change that have really taken place since then has been incredible, and I feel very lucky to be part of that momentum right now. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, it's exciting to see these things move forward. And one of the differences that I see is primary progressive aphasia started out within the Life Participation Approach, just soundly from day one, as opposed to a lot of aphasia care, which has kind of evolved from this medical model, and how refreshing it is to see something built from the ground up. Done right, so to speak. I don't know if you have thoughts on that piece… Jeanne Gallée: No, I do. I think that's a really interesting point. I think I might be part of the camp that at times feels like progressive conditions get a little bit lost in the rehabilitation space, but I think you're absolutely right. I think the absence of pharmacological treatment, or a cure that has long standing effects for these progressive conditions has made rehabilitation specialists much more attuned to focusing on quality of life, life participation, maintaining autonomy, and so forth. So, I think I forget that perspective sometimes. Perhaps from the space that I work in, I tend to be in a more interdisciplinary environment where I feel on the opposite end. I'm often asked for justification for providing these types of services, and that fits in nicely with our previous discussion on how we do see that differentiation and how people with aphasia due to a progressive condition may be siloed from people who have the more quote unquote traditional aphasia symptoms. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, that's a really good point. And you know, referring to those previous conversations we discussed that need for primary progressive aphasia to have a space of its own. It's tricky because it doesn't fit into post-stroke aphasia quite right, and it doesn't fit into the Alzheimer's and dementia world quite right. So, yeah, it's nice to see this developing in the Life Participation kind of context, really excited about Anna Volkmer's conference dedicated to primary progressive aphasia. Yeah, what an excellent point, that even though we feel like it's great to build it from the ground up, there's still people in that interdisciplinary context, who are very much looking at this, like,"Justify this. How is having conversations and doing activities with someone justifiable, as a, you know, as a skilled intervention?" Jeanne Gallée: Right. I think a lot of it comes back to misunderstandings about the scope of our profession. So, coming from the speech language pathology standpoint, we may have a perspective that other providers may not. And it's interesting, particularly when that confusion or disconnect happens in conditions that are communication led, where we see the symptoms primarily touching upon our ability to interact verbally or non-verbally to communicate. And it's fascinating, and I think speaking to that silo, we see PPA having been a relatively new and still considered very rare condition, but there's so much overlap with other conditions, right, in the kinds of symptoms that we see and there's so much where, as any speech pathologist with experience in acquired neurogenic communication disorders, we can see that we can apply our skill set, but again, likely due to the terminal nature of the condition, we end up seeing providers taking it a different route, or saying either there's only the pharmacological route, or we just let it lie or let it be as is, which we wouldn't do with any other condition. We wouldn't say that for someone with ALS. We would want to provide them the supports, even if they're temporary, to improve quality of life. So, it is an interesting, almost cultural phenomenon as well. I think. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, that I think it's really fascinating, and I'm so glad you brought that up. It reminds me of kind of the phrase, the company we keep, right? It's easy to be amongst, you know, people who are in the [Life Participation Approach to Aphasia] LPPA world, who think the way that we think, and who do the way that we do. And I do a lot of work in the area of cognitive communication disorders with acquired brain injuries, and so forth, and there's been a remarkable shift in the last five years there as well towards a more Life Participation bio psychosocial approach, and some of the work that I've been passionate about for years has been more and more accepted. So you feel like when you're in that company of all of your people that everything's all good, but it also reminds me of something that my friend Natalie Douglas always says, which is that "We need to be out there amongst others who need to understand the importance of this kind of a perspective, and sharing that." And when you talked about those other professionals, I really didn't think about that until you said that. Right, really important to get them on the same page, and to help them understand why this is so important. Jeanne Gallée: Right? And I think that's where the conference that you mentioned, the first PPA only conference that's taking place this summer in London, is so special because one of the reasons why we were so motivated to have this type of a conference is that there wasn't really the space at the typical aphasiology conferences, and then the larger neurology-based conferences, or more broadly dementia-based conferences, also didn't quite feel like a home. I think, especially their studies of quality of life, in particular, we're really not seen as rigorous in those contexts. So, this conference, what's nice is that we have that uniting force of everyone being focused on PPA, but it's super interdisciplinary, and that I think will really promote some fantastic conversations. Jerry Hoepner: Wow, that's really encouraging and exciting to see that move forward. I'm not in the primary progressive aphasia world, although when we're at aphasia camp and things like that, certainly that's a part of my role. But as soon as I saw the call for papers come out, I'm, you know, texting and messaging all of my PPA folks to say, "Did you see this? This is great. Are you doing something?" It's very exciting. So, I'm excited to see where that moves in the future and to hear how things go this time around. That's great. Jeanne Gallée: Likewise, I'm really excited, and I do really believe it will lead to a whole future cascade of collaboration. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, amazing. Well, before we delve into your amazing work, I've been reading your articles, and it's been just a pleasure to read it. I'm always impressed with how certain themes of importance can come across in different areas of our field, and it's been fun to see that. I wonder, because I'm looking at the list of collaborators, just some incredible collaborators on that list, in those papers, I'd love to hear a little bit about your mentorship, both in primary progressive aphasia and kind of thinking about the Life Participation quality of life kind of context as well. Jeanne Gallée: Yeah, I think in hindsight my mentorship experience seems more linear than it did in the moment. And I think it goes back to my original journey in my doctoral program. The program I was in, the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology program at Harvard was a little bit different from others, where we didn't apply to work with a specific mentor, but truly just to get into the program. And they encouraged a pretty extensive shopping period to work with a variety of mentors to get a feel for topic area, mentorship style, and so traditionally first year students didn't even have any experiences, they just focused on the very time-intensive and rigorous coursework. I came in and started my first experience with Evelina Fedorenko at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had worked with an undergrad. And that I think from the get-go gave me a very holistic view. I think, of the ways in which we could think about language, and in particular, the language network. So, there I was working on MRI studies of what activations do we see in the language network. In response to linguistic stimuli. And we were working with undergrads at MIT who were all healthy between the ages of 18 through 30, and I just felt at a certain point that I had this growing interest towards thinking about what happens when something goes wrong. So when it's atypical processing of language. I first thought I might be interested in pediatric population, so I was all over the place, but through the partnership that my program had with the MGH Institute of Health Professionals, I ended up having this amazing opportunity to be mentored by Evelina Federenko, as well as Sophia Vallila Rohter at the Institute of Health Professions, as well as the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit at Mass General Hospital, through my actual clinical training. So I had this quite hefty consortium of mentors, and I think that has its own set of challenges, right? It's a little bit less mentor-directed and more on the student to say, "This is exactly what I want to work on." But I think that allowed me to build a network of experiences and mentors, and that just has bled into every experience I've had since then. I also think the pandemic, you brought that up before, had a huge role in this, and all of a sudden people were very, very open to virtual meetings and connections and wanted connection. I think everyone felt very stuck at home and wanted to find more people and to find meaning and Anna Volkmer and I had the opportunity to meet at the Academy of Aphasia in Macau in 2019. And honestly meeting her in our connection has been also one of those launching pads for me to really jump out into the world of international collaboration. So all that to say, I think a lot of chance encounters and just a lot of plunging into possible conversations head first has led to this phenomenal mentorship team. And a lot of people who I collaborate with now I see as my inadvertent mentors, and that includes Anna, that includes Maya Henry at UT Austin, Amy Mooney in Oregon, just people who have consistently volunteered their time to mentor me in ways in which I can only say I would have never expected. Jade Cartwright and I have had such a phenomenal collaboration over the past few years as well, where we just had the same interests, and Zoom allowing, we were able to build on those. Jerry Hoepner: That's really an amazing answer to that question. I love the term inadvertent mentors, because I just think that those are the best mentors, where you're as much a mentor to them as they are to you. And it's just this really reciprocal relationship, but it's also built on this organic, like passion and interest for the same kinds of topics. Where it's not forced and that's a really nice kind of look back on your entire process. I was also struck by the term "mentor shopping", or "mentor shopping period", whatever. And I think that's really great that you had an opportunity for that not to be so mentor-led, and I mean it clearly shows through when you talk about your clinical experience and how that was connected to your research experience, and kind of all used to create this amalgamation of who you are. I mean, it's clear in talking with you, it's clear in reading your work that you have that strong, multi prong kind of basis. It's not just research, it's not just this specific area of research, it's really broad and the clinical connection is there, so that makes a lot of sense when I hear you talk about that, for sure. Jeanne Gallée: Oh, thank you. Yeah, I think in hindsight, again, it seems more linear, and in the moment it sometimes felt a little wild, I will say, in terms of just wrangling what do I actually want to pursue, and how. And I'm still figuring that out. But I think this community of collaborators and mentors is truly what has kept me in the field and as well. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, I think when you can connect with other people who are passionate about the work that you're doing. I can't imagine sitting at alone in my office doing a project, and I mean it's just so much more fun when you're doing it with other people. And other people who can expand the way that you think, which I'm sure everyone that you've mentioned on that list really does, when you can say, "Well, I think we should do it this way" and someone says, "Have you thought about…" and it just completely wrecks your world in a good way, "Like, oh my gosh, I didn't think about that, that's so exciting!" and then you just get into this back and forth. Yeah, very fun to hear about that. And again, it clearly shows through in the work that you do. In our previous conversations, you also mentioned this idea, and this again built on those clinical foundations that your initial mission was really to help develop interventions for people with primary progressive aphasia, and then you kind of got not off track, but inadvertently focused on working on assessments. You mentioned that there's just such a need, and this is so common in a lot of areas, but there's a need for more person-centered, ecologically valid strength-based assessment, and that the traditional measures just don't tell us enough. So, I'm really excited to talk about the work that you're doing on assessment, and how that brings us closer to what we need from an intervention standpoint, too. Jeanne Gallée: Yeah, so that really is at the heart of what has been my experience. Also, right from the get-go, we started talking about the differences, or the possible differentiation that the field has historically taken in thinking about post-stroke aphasia versus primary progressive aphasia. One of my first real PPA projects in my doctoral work was meant to be a naming treatment study for people living with PPA, and one of the roadblocks I kept hitting was also my mentors and reviewers telling me that I was trying to add too many things. And in that process I realized I don't think just using something that exists for post-stroke aphasia is going to be the best way to address the patients I'm seeing right now. And it's not because there's something wrong with that treatment. That treatment was not designed for these individuals. And that led to many more rabbit holes, and you know me really just feeling this existential crisis of "Well, why are we working on the stimuli that we are, and why are we asking questions about these ones?" And I have so much respect for the assessments that exist, and the individuals behind them, and the time they invested in making them. I am also of the belief that we can move forward and improve our processes. There are certain assessments that may be widely used and have so much again power behind them. You know, we have best associated certain assessments with characterizing a diagnosis, but what I ended up seeing in my placements and throughout my clinical work is that many assessments serve more of a mission of an institution or a research protocol than the person being assessed. And in the face of a person with a terminal condition who is using their precious time to serve you in that space, I just think it's so much more important, or that much more important, to really consider what is most functional for them. What will serve them? And how we, how can we give back to that person? And again, part of that emotion, I think, comes from having worked in many research-centered spaces, where someone might not get intervention afterwards, or they might not understand why they are participating in up to five hours of assessment, and I think that's where that passion for focusing on reprioritizing the patient or the client really came from. Jerry Hoepner: I think that attention to "what's in it for them", is really important and clearly based in kind of where your heart is at and where your clinical mindset is at. Because it's easy to go in and say, "Well, we need this data. We need all the data that we get." but to what end, right? Like, how is it going to help? And how is that going to give us any more information about how to help this person, then what they can't do, right? So, I appreciate that mindset a lot, you know. It makes me think, and this is a little off track, and we didn't talk about this question earlier, but what a shift it will be clinicians working with people with primary progressive aphasia, and how they'll be able to shift from using kind of the existing tools that were out there for other purposes to moving towards tools that are designed specifically for people with PPA, and maybe just a snapshot of your thoughts about that piece. Jeanne Gallée: So I think it's really important to know where the field comes from, the work in which it was grounded in. So, I think it, it makes sense to talk about standardized assessment scores. It makes sense to talk about, you know, the specific assessments that can help us quickly differentiate presentations or needs, right? So, using the symptom-led approach, can we identify specific behaviors really quickly in a standardized way? I think the issue comes in when we stop being dynamic in how we use them. It's very easy to use an assessment in a way that feels rote. It feels just like a test, and it's like you said, "just collecting data for the purpose of collecting data." And lose that aspect of humanity. And maybe I'm putting words in other clinicians' mouths, but especially when a certain condition is rare, like PPA is. You may not have very much experience with seeing someone with PPA, or any type of progressive condition, and feel really stuck and needing to be in the motivation of being really professional, sticking to a certain set of tests. "This feels right." Right, this is what someone told me to do. I can fill this out, and there's something very potentially vulnerable or scary about just going with your gut in those moments. And what Anna Volkmer and I have spoken about so often is just the power of having a conversation with someone, and seeing what you can learn from that conversation, not only about the person themselves, but their communication behaviors. And how you can get so much from that conversation, including the trust and comfort of the client in front of you. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, yeah. One of the things that I think about when you're talking about that is, in working with people with acquired brain injuries and traumatic brain injuries one of the things I've learned is they will tell you, or they will ask, right? They'll say, "What is this? "What kind of information is this giving you?" "Why do we have to do this stupid test?" And I think that's good. I think that's a mindset that we should have when we're thinking about all of the assessments that we do. Why are we doing this? Is this really necessary? And they're very willing to say, "If it's necessary, that's fine, I'll do it, but are you getting something from this that I'm not seeing?" Right, I love that question, and I think it speaks to what you just said, right? Like, there's so much information that we can gather from conversations, from our interactions with people, we should be thinking about getting that, and if we're doing something else, we should have a why directly following, yeah. Jeanne Gallée: Yes, the why is so important, and you're right. Sometimes we do just need to get certain information. I think for me, one of the most striking moments early on in my training was having small talk. You know, just conversation with a person with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, and thinking, "Wow, this all feels quite typical. I'm curious about why they're here? What their testing will look like…" and then moving on to the Boston Naming Test and immediately seeing the challenges that came. That dichotomy is really helpful to have in those moments, but again, there's the argument of why are we asking about the name abacus, right? Why are we using that right now, and how does that represent how someone is performing functionally in their everyday life? Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, yeah, totally. I agree. Can you share a little bit about the RAISE framework, which I really love, because it relates to the way that I think about assessment from the standpoint of counseling, like you build on relationships and connections. William Miller is famous for saying, "The last thing you should ever do at the beginning of a session is assessment." You're beginning of a relationship with someone, don't assess first thing. So, I love that piece, and then thinking about the pact, and I'll let you kind of expand those, but I'll let you unpack them – ha ha- but how that starts to move us towards intervention. Jeanne Gallée: Right. So the RAISE assessment framework was really built out of those conversations, and I guess realizations on my own part about that discomfort with the really rigid end that assessment can…I'll restate that. The rigidity that assessment can have, so again speaking to really, really standardized sets and rigid protocols of specific measures that someone uses, and like you said, having the experience of multiple research participants, as well as patients, asking "Why are we doing this? I know I'm not good at this. Why are we doing it again and again?" And in those moments, not feeling like I had the power to really justify exactly why we were doing everything, apart from, "Oh, this is important for the research study." Which it was, but just feeling like there was that aspect of humanity that was missing, and coming up with my own toolkit in those moments to fill in those blanks. So right after the completion of my PhD, Anna Volkmar and I started speaking a lot more about the power of conversational assessment. And then that led into conversations where we worked with Anne Whitworth, Deborah Hersh, and Jade Cartwright, where again, through the power of Zoom across all times. I was pregnant with my first, and meeting everyone usually at midnight my time. I already was nocturnal at that point!  Where we would just be discussing all of these issues, and what was amazing about this is that, particularly Anne and Deb come from more of the post-stroke aphasia world, and had these amazing principles grounded in those populations where Deborah Hersh had also really come forward with the concept of therapeutic assessment. So as you had said assessment and intervention shouldn't be separate, they belong together and coexist at all times if we're smart about it. And what we ended up doing, first informally and then formally through the more official Delphi process is coming up with a set of principles as a framework for assessment. So, to take a step away from, "Oh, it's just Lucy Goosey, we're having a conversation and chit chat." What we're actually promoting is a pretty structured set of principles to guide the ways in which we can cultivate assessment for individuals with PPA and their loved ones. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, absolutely. I was kind of scanning on my computer, I was trying to think of the name. I love this name of the article, where it says, 'Please don't assess me to death, or something like that. Jeanne Gallée: Yes, yeah. Jerry Hoepner:  Yeah, and, and thinking about that whole entire process from beginning to end as a relationship, as you know, not discreetly assessment, not discreetly intervention, I think it's just really important. Can you talk a little bit about the PACT and kind of where that has moved things in terms of the assessment piece, but also kind of set a set up for intervention and what that looks like? Jeanne Gallée: Great, so the PACT the Progressive Aphasia Communication Toolkit kit builds off of what we put forth with the RAISE assessment framework. So with RAISE we promote that the relationship might be temporary, it might be a single interaction, or it might be long term, and we cultivate that through conversation and then the PACT is a set of scales that leverages that conversation, we take that natural or as natural as can be interaction and use it to come up with a concrete framework of communication strengths. So that might all sound very esoteric. To make that more concrete, there are four scales to the PACT. They're all clinician ratings, where the clinician is asked to look at a pre-recorded conversation that would occur naturally in a clinical or research context, and then on a scale from four to zero, rate the person speaking's strengths. So within the domains of speech and voice, as well as language and social pragmatics, as well as discourse, and the point or the purpose of that was to really anchor a person's communicative ability in one of these more natural environments with a provider. We collect so much phenomenal qualitative data, but at times it can feel challenging to quantify it and the hope with the PACT is that we can quantify our very real, possibly subjective evaluation of a person's communication at a certain moment in time. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, and what I love about that, and you might have a slightly different thought about this, because you're deeper into it, but from an assessment standpoint, you can then do that all the way through. You can say, "Here's where they are this year, here's where they are next year, here's where they are the year after that, or you know, two years ago, or whatever your lens is at that point." You can do that without kind of this constant repeating of, "Okay, let's see how bad you are today compared to a year ago, or compared to two years ago." Just a very different mindset. And I love the focus on "What can you still do? What what's working? And how can we leverage what's working to really help you to actually communicate today?" As opposed to saying, "Oh boy, the ship is sinking." which is kind of the typical approach. Jeanne Gallée: Yes, that exactly what you're saying. The tendency tends to focus on what's no longer there. And while that might be helpful in clinical trials to characterize a person's performance diagnostically and the trajectory of a diagnosis over time. It really does not serve the person who goes home after the assessment, nor their loved ones to help them maintain that autonomy and quality of life, and also caregiver burden. And that is actually one of the points I really love about the PACT, is it builds on that RAISE aspect, that final tenant of evolution or adaptation over time. There's no repeat measure conflict here, where you know something might seem familiar. One of the unique parts of the PACT is that the clinician doesn't fill out the scale while they're talking to the person, they're really just recording them talking, so it is on the clinician side where, as often as they'd like to, they could implement the structured prompts of the PACT and then fill out the scale and see how performance might vary over time. They might see effects of context of the conversation, or the environment, or maybe the time of day, you know, phase of life, but it remains a way to use that really important information you gather through these conversations without recreating a testing environment frequently. Jerry Hoepner: I really love that framework. I think there's a lot of room for that to be used in other contexts as well. I just think it's really a wise way of thinking about it. I also, you just mentioned caregivers and caregiver burden in this context, and how does that fit into this entire RAISE framework, the PACT, and so forth. Jeanne Gallée: I think for both the RAISE assessment framework as well as the PACT the carers play an essential role in the sense that if they are available and present in the patient's life, then they are involved in the process. And so within the RAISE framework, the care partner is involved to provide feedback or to be given feedback, and in the PACT the same occurs, where if they are present at the time of the conversation, they are involved in the conversation. What I tend to do in the people I have piloted the PACT, I say come in as you would naturally, but then also take a step back. Let the person that with PPA that we're talking to take the lead, but I want you to interact as you would naturally. And then they're separately also asked to comment on the strengths that the person with PPA has. Their feedback is so integral because if they are present in a person's life, they play an essential role in promoting anything that we do work on in speech therapy. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, yeah, really well said. And I wanted to dig in, partly because I have envy of this figure, the roadmap figure for PPA, and I think it really sets up well for as we think about professionals out there too, like what's the roadmap, not just for the person and their partner, but what's the roadmap for clinicians, future clinicians, all of that. Maybe you can talk a little bit about that figure. Jeanne Gallée: I'd be delighted to. So, this was one of those, I would say classic for me moments where I had an idea and went to PowerPoint and started playing around with a visual of what I was thinking. The roadmap paper in no way is meant to be the only guide for how we can work with a person with PPA, but was really born out of discussions with Amy Mooney, as well as Zoe Ezzes, and Kristin Schafferr Mendez through the National Aphasia Association about the possible gaps in education or preparation a person might experience when first working with people living with PPA.  There are so many ways in which we could say, "Oh, just work on this exact task. Work on these.." and that can feel so lost and unanchored, unmoored moreover. And I wanted to provide the clinical toolkit that I've been using to help me think about my broader approach. So to not get lost in the weeds, but just generally think about what's my purpose here, what's my journey, and so at the center of this road that I created is the tenant of providing that person-centered care, like we aim to with the RAISE assessment framework, so really bringing it back to establishing that honest and holistic and person-centered relationship with your client and their care partners. And focusing on creating a journey that's unique to the client that I think can feel hard when there are so many unknowns with a condition like PPA, where you're always working with an interdisciplinary team. Which you may or may not have contact with. So the first part of this roadmap is really defining your role. Who are you as a professional, and what kinds of support can you provide, and part of defining your own role includes defining your role relative to the rest of the interdisciplinary team. How can you provide a different approach from the neurologist or the neuropsychologist who play vital but very different roles in a person's care journey? Part of that definition also includes advocating across professions, so a classic conundrum that people with communication-led disorders face is that they may not have certain challenges in other domains, but their communication results in a domino effect of difficulties. And so, as the speech language pathologist, coming up with ways in which you can provide supports to other providers or your client to improve their communication can be essential for that comprehensive care. That might include coming up with a communication notebook that has a single page related to specific questions or common topics when talking to the neurologist or the physical therapist or other providers. And then part of this roadmap includes referring out. So having the humility and confidence to say I can't help with this in the ways that you may need. I will either refer you to a specialist within our field or outside of our field to help with these specific aspects, and I think that's just responsible care. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely. Really well described, and such a perfect. A segway to my next question. I always tell my students, assessment isn't just the first and last session that you're working with someone, and the same goes for intervention, right? It's not excluded from the beginning and the end, right? Like, you can't do intervention on day one, you can't do it on the last day, right? I think we kind of silo those things as well, you know, we assess and we intervene every day side by side. Can you share a little bit of your perspectives on this? And, and how that relates to kind of what we just talked about in terms of that roadmap? Jeanne Gallée: Yeah, I think part of the challenge with some of these concepts is that it's very helpful to have experience in working with individuals, whether it is through formal speech therapy or elsewhere, to feel comfort with the unknown. Because a lot of it relies on your ability to listen and to respond to what you notice. You may inadvertently put in assessment by asking follow-up questions to a point a person made when you were talking about their commute. Ad you may offer different technological supports or just visual supports to your client in that conversation in a way to build up supports to see, "Oh, do we see a difference in how they're responding to what I'm saying? And how I provide support? Or when I dial it back, do we see a completely different direction?" So, it is this beautiful, possibly more art than science approach of responding to what a person is giving you. And there are so many individual differences in all of us.  I always joke about how when I used to collect data on the picture description using both age match controls and people with PPA, I would almost burst out laughing when some of the controls provided responses, because I would get one to two sentences sometimes because see the difference in motivation. A person who does not have a communication concern, does not see the need to show exactly what they can do. And would benefit from some encouragement to show exactly how much they can say, whereas a person with PPA, who might have an Aphasia Quotient that recognizes their aphasia, might speak for five to 10 minutes to show exactly everything that they can accomplish. And so I think having that in your back pocket is really important when it comes to thinking about coming up with your recipe of all the ingredients of your assessment and intervention approach and counseling approach. So, I think that's where most of my work comes from, is that there is no one size fits all, but there are certain ingredients or components that we need to apply, and the exact ratios depend on the person you're working with. Jerry Hoepner: That is such a good description of dynamic assessment and intervention and how that I agree, probably more art than science. And that's hard for people who want a black and white answer, like "Step one…" but it's so true, and, and being effective in working in this context, that really moves us nicely into a recent paper that you did, those global perspectives on the management of PPA, and I was struck by the numbers here. Only 40% of respondents said that they had received training in primary progressive aphasia at their university, and they identified all of these needs, right, like online instruction, sample tools, and activity dealing with end of life care and trainings for end of life care. When you mentioned counseling, that totally relates to what we're up against in terms of counseling, right? No one feels confident or has very good self efficacy. Tey don't know if what you know the lines are, what part is theirs and what part is someone else. And I think just really important to like I said, lay out a roadmap and help people to understand what we were just talking about in terms of that art and science of how do you navigate this space when it has to be individualized for every person, and that can feel uncomfortable for a lot of people. So, I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on that, and kind of what you learned from that context. Jeanne Gallée: Yeah, so this research study. Was really an amazing endeavor on part of everyone who was involved. It felt like a grassroots effort to find the speech language pathologists around the world who aren't associated with a particular institution who do work with primary progressive aphasia. So of course it will never be a fully representative sample of every clinician who does so, but I do think we worked very hard to cast a wide net. So we used a snowball method. I contacted almost 40 institutions and governing bodies to find speech language pathologists who do have experience with PPA, because while more and more non-specialist providers will be seeing this patient population, we wanted to hear from the people who currently are in the field and creating their own expertise and toolkits to work with these individuals. So, what we found is that a lot of people are out on their own creating their own wheels, so to speak. And it just really led to that beautiful conclusion of now with the power of our globalization of education and sharing of resources, we can come up with a resource that's shared worldwide. Of course, there will be adaptations to fit different contexts, cultures, languages, but one of the issues has been that the systems of care for PPA have often relied upon very specific individuals. And that's reflected in the educational level. Even I was in the master's program between 2017 and 2019, I didn't hear about PPA formally in my coursework, and if it was mentioned we did not go into any of these aspects of specialized care. Part of that might have been because I didn't take very specific courses that then you know were optional or precluded, so I might have missed it, but I really didn't receive that education in the classroom. I received it through my clinical training, which I would argue is possibly even more valuable, right? You have that experiential training. But I think for clinicians who might want to transition in their careers, or you know, inadvertently in their place of work, are transitioning based on who shows up, that is a huge disservice. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, agreed. And it's a complex issue, right, because I can remember actually teaching about this back before Tom [Sather] was in my department. I taught the aphasia class and the acquired cog class, and I was thinking, like, where do I talk about primary progressive aphasia? Do I talk about that in acquired com? Do I talk about that in aphasia? Do I do it in both? Where do I talk about end of life care, and like, how does that fit in, because that's, you know, at that point I was teaching dysphasia, too. Believe it or not, and I'm like, it's kind of there, it's kind of here, it's kind of, it's kind of in counseling, it's all right. So that makes it tricky to have kind of a uniform message when it's all over the place. And love to just get your thoughts on that too. Like, where do you put that stuff? Like, it's it's PPA, it's end of life care, it's aphasia, it's right, it's counseling, it's so many things at once. Jeanne Gallée: It is so many things at once, and I do think that speaks to the fact that it may well need its own class as part of progressive conditions. Jerry Hoepner: Yeah. Jeanne Gallée: But I do think a large part of what we share there is that understanding of we may also need to shift the identity of who we think about when we think about life care. And when we think about a progressive condition. Since a huge flavor, so to speak, of PPA is the fact that it is early onset, and especially with our cultural shifts, and you know, people starting families later in life. The face of a person with PPA looks very different from, at least in my childhood, of what looked like typical Alzheimer's disease dementia. And it's a younger, possibly more dynamic working person, possibly with little kids at home. And I think that's where that symptom-led approach has been most beneficial for my practice. Where we think about "What are you experiencing and how is it impacting your life?", rather than saying "This is the diagnosis, let's put you over here in this box." Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, the idea of putting it in a box and siloing things really resonates in this context, and I love what you said about identity, right? The identity - what we all have in our mind's eye when we think about end of life care is not the typical person with primary progressive aphasia. Like I can remember as an elementary school student visiting the nursing homes and singing to the residents and things like that, and this was not, this was not the group of people that we were thinking about in that context. Very, very different, and I just think that's a really good mindset shift to recognize how actually broad that is. I'm sure there's people listening to this who work in, you know, end of life pediatric care who want to slap me in the face right now, but right, we have such a different mindset when we're thinking about end of life care, and that reset that you just made super important. Jeanne Gallée: Yeah, yeah, and easier said than done, I think, As well as just seeing who shows up to the University of Washington support groups, and just the own perspectives that individuals bring there. But I think we can do it. I think, as a field, that will be the way in which we can become the best generalist provider, so to speak, where we take general principles of addressing symptoms or situations, and then apply those to diagnoses across the spectrum. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, really well said, and a great place to kind of wrap up our questions, but I want to give you the opportunity, are there points that you want to share before we kind of close our conversation? Things that we missed. Jeanne Gallée: I think the general thread throughout our conversation has just spoken to the power we do have as providers or researchers working with patients with primary progressive aphasia or related conditions, I think when we feel that our expertise in the newest theories or approaches might be lacking, we can always rely upon our empathy and full body listening, just to bring in elements that go across the lifespan, and that in of itself can lead to so many honest and transparent choices in our clinical care that can best serve our communities. I think we are much more empowered than we think we are. Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely, that's a really important thread through many places where clinicians feel uncomfortable. They've got it there and they just have to gain that confidence, and being empowered to step into those moments. Well said. Well, Jeanne it's been just a really fun conversation. I'm sure we could talk all afternoon, but I look forward to catching up to you at future conferences and things like that. It's been my pleasure to have this conversation. So, thank you for being a part of it. Jeanne Gallée: Right back at you, Jerry. Thank you so much. This has been a really fun conversation, and like you said, I hope to meet in person in the near future. Jerry Hoepner: Agreed. On behalf of Aphasia Access, thank you for listening to this episode of the Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast. For more information on Aphasia Access, and to access our growing library of materials, please go to www.aphasiaaccess.org. If you have an idea for a future podcast series or topic, email us at info at aphasia access.org Thanks again for your ongoing support of Aphasia Access.   Resources and Readings 1) The RAISE Assessment Framework: Gallée, J., Cartwright, J., Volkmer, A., Whitworth, A., & Hersh, D. (2023). "Please Don't Assess Him to Destruction": The R.A.I.S.E. Assessment Framework for Primary Progressive Aphasia. American journal of speech-language pathology, 32(2), 391–410. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00122  Gallée, J., Volkmer, A., Whitworth, A., Hersh, D., & Cartwright, J. (2024). Applications of the R.A.I.S.E. Assessment Framework to Support the Process of Assessment in Primary Progressive Aphasia. American journal of speech-language pathology, 33(5), 2280–2290. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00085 2) A roadmap for clinicians just starting to work with PPA: Gallée, J. (2023). A Roadmap to enhance care for people living with primary progressive Aphasia: What Can Be Done Now?. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8(5), 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-0002  3) Aspects of language functioning in early and late-onset Alzheimer's disease dementia: Gallée, J., Gibbons, L. E., Choi, S. E., Lee, M., Scollard, P., Trittschuh, E. H., Mez, J., Saykin, A. J., Foldi, N. S., Mukherjee, S., & Crane, P. K. 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AI adoption isn't slowing down—and neither are the risks. The challenge isn't that organizations don't know AI can create problems. It's that employees are already using it in ways leaders can't fully anticipate, while governance models built for yesterday's technology struggle to keep pace.In this episode, David Rice sits down with AI ethics expert and The Ethical Nightmare Challenge author Reid Blackman to explore why traditional AI governance is falling behind the rise of generative and agentic AI. Rather than treating ethics as a bureaucratic exercise or a brake on innovation, Reid argues that the organizations moving fastest are the ones that learn how to identify potential "nightmares" before they become public failures. The conversation offers a practical framework leaders can begin using immediately—without waiting for enterprise-wide policies or perfect alignment.Related Links:Join the People Managing People CommunitySubscribe to the newsletter to get our latest articles and podcastsConnect with Reid on LinkedInVisit Virtue ConsultantsCheck out Reid's book – "The Ethical Nightmare Challenge: How to Avoid the Worst of AI"Support the show

1 · SummaryPart 1 of 2. Kanwal Singh is the first venture capitalist to appear on First Principles, and the reason is the bet he made with the fund itself. In 2017, at the peak of the tech boom, he walked away from tech investing to raise a fund only for Indian consumer brands, when almost nobody believed India had a consumer story worth venture capital. His first backers weren't institutions, they were the consumer families who had built India's brands. This half covers the whole bet: what investors actually said when he pitched a consumer-only fund, why he raised in India rather than abroad, the ownership and follow-on design he corrected fund after fund, his claim that most of his companies succeed rather than one outlier, and his working map of India 1, 2 and 3. Part 2 turns to the person behind it.2 · Chapters0:00 Cold open and Part 1 intro 3:27 What Fireside is, and why it exists 10:04 How the fund makes money 11:23 The stats: 9 years, 4 funds, 68 investments 12:50 Raising fund one: consumer families, not global institutions 17:14 Two years as a solo angel 25:51 Ownership by design, and the follow-on model 34:05 What "success" means, and the anti-power-law 36:56 The centre of excellence 45:40 The three breaks from the VC default, and India 1/2/3 53:47 Quick commerce is brand-first 57:54 Brand vs performance: Underneat, Truvi3 · Pull-quotes[0:20] "For a 5x, nobody will call you legendary."[34:24] "We can build successful funds, fund after fund... not necessarily depending on those one or two outliers. Good news is we also have the outliers."[40:26] "The answer lies in the question. It is hard."[54:12] "The power of the brand is truly manifest in quick commerce."4 · Frameworks & mental modelsAnti-power-law investing: a portfolio where most companies clear "capital plus," not one built to live or die on a single outlier.The three breaks from the VC default: consumer over tech, Indian consumer-family LPs over global institutions, one shared-credit team over lone-hero dealmakers.India 1, 2, 3: his working map of where consumption grows, with India 2 needing products designed for it and India 3 reached through doorstep models.Quick commerce is brand-first: scarce shelf space and a buy-not-browse shopper mean only brands with genuine pull survive.This episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

In this SG Deep Dive, Dan Krikorian, Patrick Carney, and Eric Fawcett examine how offenses are attacking the hedge-and-plug pick-and-roll coverage that continues to spread throughout European and modern basketball.The conversation begins with why the coverage has become so effective. Hedge and plug allows the defense to pressure the ball without fully committing two defenders, protect the short roll, and remain compact behind the play. Because many offenses still rely on two quick passes to escape the hedge, defenses have also become increasingly prepared for the rotations that follow.From there, the group explores ways to create an advantage before the defense can settle. They break down rejecting the hedge, using Gortat screens against the recovering big, flipping or hooking the screening angle, “sticking” the plug defender, and flowing into boomerang rescreens that can turn the original hedge into a drop or switch.A central theme is the micro closeout faced by the on-ball defender after disengaging to plug the roll. The discussion covers how offenses can attack that vulnerable footwork, along with defensive teaching points involving stance, handwork, jump timing, and calculated risk.The episode also revisits Dave Collins' idea of coaching as “informed art.” The group discusses blending cognitive science, ecological dynamics, the constraint-led approach, and predictive processing while still accounting for the players, context, and human feel of coaching.They close with the European teams and playoff series currently filling their film queues. What You'll Learn Why hedge and plug can create ball pressure while keeping the rest of the defense compact.  How advanced defenses are solving the pick-and-roll two-on-two and preparing for the offense's second pass.  Why rejecting the hedge can expose the on-ball defender's moment of disengagement.  How to use Gortat screens, flip screens, and boomerang rescreens against the recovering big.  What the group means by a micro closeout, and why it gives the ball handler an immediate advantage.  Teaching considerations for the plug defender's footwork, hand positioning, and jump timing.  Why offenses need to generate an advantage inside the initial ball-screen action instead of simply accepting the coverage.  How coaches can blend cognitive science, ecological dynamics, and predictive processing without becoming tied to a single framework.  Why good practices and wins deserve the same level of reflection as poor performances.  Teams and playoff series worth studying across the Spanish ACB and European basketball.To join coaches and championship winning staffs from the NBA to High School from over 70 different countries taking advantage of an SG Plus membership, visit HERE!

What if the exhaustion you've been trying to fix with more sleep is actually resentment asking you to make a leadership decision?You're probably not as tired as you think you are. In this Thursday Founder's Rant, Dawn unpacks why so many ambitious female founders mistake buried resentment for burnout and why that distinction changes everything.If you've been overdelivering, undercharging, saying yes when you wanted to say no, or quietly carrying the emotional weight of everyone else's priorities, this episode is for you. You'll leave with a simple leadership check-in that helps you uncover the real source of your exhaustion and one clear action to move forward.If this episode hit a little too close to home, join Dawn's Insider List for the founder conversations, leadership insights, and practical strategies that don't make it onto the podcast or social media first.

What happens when wholesale distributors realize “CRM” is no longer the real conversation, growth, data, AI, and sales enablement are?In Episode 198 of Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution, Kevin Brown and Tom Burton unpack the shift they saw firsthand at the Affiliated Distributors Functional Success Summit: distributors are moving beyond traditional CRM adoption questions and toward connected data systems, AI-enabled sales strategy, and future-proofing distribution. The episode connects macroeconomic uncertainty, supply chain risk, AI governance, human judgment, and enterprise growth strategy to the real decisions facing wholesale distribution teams today.What You'll Learn:Why distributors are moving past traditional CRM conversations and focusing instead on how to help sales teams create more value, become more consultative, and grow revenueHow CRM-ERP integration, data warehouses, e-commerce platforms, marketing automation, and disconnected point solutions can limit customer visibility unless they are unified into a true enterprise growth platformWhy inflation measurement, interest rate uncertainty, and prediction markets matter to revenue leaders in distribution making investment and growth decisionsHow Strait of Hormuz disruption, Suez Canal risk, oil volatility, plastics, fertilizers, helium, and global logistics instability can ripple through manufacturing and wholesale distributionWhy AI still needs human judgment, oversight, and strategy, and why many companies miss expected ROI when they assume full automation instead of building a realistic digital transformation planEpisode Highlights:01:16 – Lessons from the Affiliated Distributors Functional Success Summit and why sales enablement is replacing traditional CRM talk03:55 – Why disconnected data across ERP, marketing automation, e-commerce, and point software creates risk for distributors06:37 – Episode 198 begins: how Around the Horn connects the economy, supply chain, M&A, sales, marketing, AI, and robotics to wholesale distribution08:30 – LeadSmart's Meridian 360 Enterprise Growth Platform and the move from Smart CRM to broader business growth engines12:32 – Inflation cooling, gas prices, and why energy volatility still affects distributors, manufacturers, fertilizers, heavy minerals, and supply chains15:23 – Kevin Warsh, Fed measurement reviews, CPI, PPI, the 2% inflation target, and the need for more real-time data20:25 – Prediction markets, PolyMarket, Kalshi, and whether betting markets can offer useful economic signals27:17 – Strait of Hormuz risk, Iran, shipping disruption, oil exposure, the Suez Canal, Houthi rebels, and what it means for global supply chains43:02 – AI watchdogs, model testing, DeepMind, Fable, Mythos, and the role of government QA for high-powered AI systems48:38 – Human judgment in the age of AI, digital twins, job displacement fears, and why AI ROI depends on data readiness and realistic automation expectations56:00 – APR Supply's sales tool adoption gains and how better sales technology can support outside sales revenue growthTools, Frameworks, and Strategies Mentioned:LeadSmart TechnologiesMeridian 360 Enterprise Growth PlatformSales CompassSmart CRMSales Co-PilotAI Co-Pilot for SalesCRM-ERP IntegrationCRM Data Enrichment with AIHidden Revenue DetectionSales Automation Without Losing the Human TouchFuture-Proofing DistributionHybrid Selling ModelsConsultative CommerceData warehouses and data lakesMarketing automationE-commerce data integrationERP data unificationAI-enabled business intelligencePrediction marketsPolyMarketKalshiCPI and PPI measurement reviewsAI model QA and AI watchdog conceptsHuman judgment in AI strategyAPR Supply sales tool adoptionMaster of Distribution Management programClosing Insight:The episode's central message is clear: the future of distribution is not about buying more disconnected technology. It is about connecting data, people, process, and AI into a strategy that helps teams sell smarter, serve customers better, and make better decisions under uncertainty.Leave a Review: Help us grow by sharing your thoughts on the show.Learn more about the LeadSmart AI B2B Sales Platform: https://www.leadsmarttech.com/Join the conversation each week on LinkedIn Live.Want even more insight to the stories we discuss each week? Subscribe to the Around The Horn Newsletter.You can also hear the podcast and other excellent content on our YouTube Channel.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok.

If you're making inclusion decisions without a system for testing whether your assumptions are true, I break down the 3 frameworks I use with clients every week. In this episode we cover: How 4 evidence sources ground every client decision Why assertions without evidence deserve dismissal How to separate claims from testable hypotheses If you're … 3 Smart Frameworks I Love Using With Clients Read More » The post 3 Smart Frameworks I Love Using With Clients appeared first on Element of Inclusion.

Click the link to access the Burn Rate Calculator/Freedom Number and start planning with clarity: https://fulfillionaire.com/yourfreedomnumber/?utm_source=test&utm_medium=test&utm_campaign=test   A high net worth can still leave you feeling broke. In this episode of The Fulfillionaire, you'll learn the second Fulfillionaire framework that changes how you think about money. This is where tactics meet truth. You see why net worth alone will not make you feel wealthy, why liquidity matters more than most people realize, and why cash flow is what gives you real freedom, safety, and peace. Many small business owners look successful on paper but still feel pressure every month. Their money is tied up. Their options are limited. This episode shows you how to stop chasing numbers and start building a financial life that actually supports your business, your family, and your future. You'll also learn how cash flow, liquidity, and burn rate work together. When you understand those three, you make better decisions, handle setbacks with more strength, and stop building wealth in a way that keeps you stressed. This is how you move from looking wealthy to feeling wealthy. This is how you become a Fulfillionaire. If Part 1 helped you define what wealth means to you, Part 2 shows you how to build it in real life. For extra support, you can also access the Wealth On Your Terms resource here: https://fulfillionaire.com/wealthonyourterms/ Tune in to Two Valuable Fulfillionaire Frameworks That Will Change Your Life Around Money | Part 2 and start building money in a way that gives you more than status.   JP Newman is the founder of Fulfillionaire and CEO of Thrive FP, known for helping high-achievers align financial success with deeper human connection and purpose. With over $2 billion in real estate transactions and hundreds of investors coached, he brings a powerful blend of strategy, psychology, and emotional intelligence to the world of investing and negotiation. JP teaches that the best deals are built by understanding people, energy, and intention. Through his Fulfillionaire™ movement, he helps leaders stop operating from fear and start making decisions rooted in clarity and alignment. His approach redefines negotiation as a human-centered skill that turns insight into influence and lasting success. IG: https://www.instagram.com/jpnewman_/  LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-newman-45a1ba/    

Your boundaries aren't failing because you're weak. They're failing because they don't exist yet, not really. A limit that only lives in your head isn't a boundary. It's a wish. And wishes don't hold at 11pm.What if the reason your boundaries keep failing isn't your discipline, it's your business system?In this episode, Dawn Andrews unpacks why so many ambitious founders keep breaking the boundaries they genuinely want to keep and why willpower has almost nothing to do with it. You'll learn how to turn private wishes into documented business systems that protect your time, strengthen your leadership, and reduce founder dependency.If you're ready to stop answering late-night emails, lead with more confidence, and build a business that doesn't require your constant availability, this episode is for you.If you're tired of being the person every decision, question, and emergency flows through, you're not alone. Join the free AI for Founders Community on LinkedIn, where ambitious founders are building smarter systems, using AI strategically, and learning how to lead businesses that don't depend on them every minute of the day.Key TakeawaysWhy boundaries are actually a leadership system not a personal discipline problem.The hidden difference between boundaries that live in your head and boundaries that actually shape client and team behavior.How "borrowed boundaries" quietly disappear the moment your business grows or your environment changes.Why every effective boundary needs a documented location and a predefined consequence to hold under pressure.How AI can help you draft contracts, onboarding documents, welcome emails, and communication policies that protect your time without sounding cold or corporate.Resources & LinksAI for Founders Community – Join the LinkedIn community and continue the conversation.Free Guide: 10 Ways AI Will Make You a Better Leader Related Episodes074 | 3 Business Systems That Secretly Sabotage Female Founders and How To Break Free073 | The Hidden Cost of Doing It All: A Wake Up Call for Female Founders072 | How Female Founders Delegate Like a CEO Before They Burn OutSend us Fan MailWant to increase revenue and impact? Listen to “She's That Founder” for insights on business strategy and female leadership to scale your business. Each episode offers advice on effective communication, team building, and management. Learn to master routines and systems to boost productivity and prevent burnout. Our delegation tips and business consulting will advance your executive leadership skills and presence.

140+ Business Ideas (Database): https://clickhubspot.com/efdj Episode 840: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Mark Pincus ( https://x.com/markpinc ) about figuring out what projects to spend your life on.  — Show Notes: (0:00) $0- $38M in 7 months (3:00) if you pick the right body of water, you don't have to have the right boat (16:51) pattern matching  (23:17) there's always a new freak (25:00) picking macros (27:48) a case for gold (39:50) How to know what to chase (49:12) create a book of life (59:59) Frameworks vs instincts (1:09:00) being hated and misunderstood (1:11:13) the story of farmville (1:15:00) avoiding the fur coat moment (1:19:49) the nickelback problem (1:22:02) introspection vs rumination — Links: • Life At The Speed of Play - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Play-Launch-Products/dp/0063352575  — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/  Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

Ramiro Roballos grew up in Buenos Aires, and 6 or 7 years ago, moved to Miami and now lives in Buffalo, NY. His path to entrepreneurship has been different, as he started out as a musician, and then an orchestra conductor for several years. He eventually got into building how companies, starting his own music school and his own orchestra. Eventually, he got his MBA, worked for McKinsey and some startups before doing his own. Outside of tech, he is married to a cellist, and keeps playing music for fun. He also enjoys Formula 1, and watches every change he gets.Ramiro went through the immigration process in the US, and was very disappointed in the quality of the service, given the importance of this process in determining a pillar life outcome. He felt there should be a better way, one that has excellent service and quality, and centralizes the expansive process into one platform.This is the creation story of Tukki.SponsorsUnblockedTECH DomainsMezmoBraingrid.aiLinkshttps://tukki.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramiro-roballos/Our Sponsors:* Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://cash.app* Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Reaching financial independence is only half the battle, knowing how to withdraw your money in early retirement is just as important. The right withdrawal strategy can help you minimize taxes, avoid unnecessary penalties, and make your portfolio last longer. In this episode of the BiggerPockets Money podcast, Mindy Jensen and Scott Trench break down six early retirement withdrawal frameworks. Whether you're planning to retire before age 59.5 or you're already financially independent, you'll learn how to access your retirement savings, reduce your tax bill, and create a withdrawal plan that fits your goals. If you're pursuing FIRE (financial independence retire early), this episode will help you make smarter decisions with the money you've worked so hard to build. Resources from this episode: To access the slides from this episode: www.biggerpocketsmoney.com/withdraw To use the Healthcare Costs Projection App: https://biggerpocketsmoney.com/healthcarecosts/ To go beyond the podcast: Kick start your financial independence journey with our FREE financial resources - https://biggerpocketsmoney.com/ Subscribe on YouTube for even more content- www.youtube.com/biggerpocketsmoney  Connect with us on social media to join the other BiggerPockets Money listeners - https://www.facebook.com/groups/BPMoney We believe financial independence is attainable for anyone no matter when or where you're starting. Let's get your financial house in order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this deeply personal and insightful episode of The Greatness Machine, host Darius Mirshahzadeh sits down with Adam Roa, a viral spoken word poet, executive coach, and author. The conversation explores themes of personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and authentic self-discovery. Both guests openly share their journeys through major life transitions in their 40s, discussing how they moved from external validation to inner alignment. Adam discusses his upcoming book "Crazy Love" and addresses controversial topics around spiritual bypassing in modern culture. The episode offers a raw, honest look at what it takes to overcome self-limiting beliefs and create lasting change. In this episode, Darius and Adam will discuss:  (00:00) Navigating Life's Transformations (03:08) The Journey of Self-Discovery (05:57) The Spiral of Growth and Learning (09:01) The Power of Identity and Authenticity (12:11) The Awakening: A Spiritual Journey (15:14) The Intersection of Creativity and Analysis (17:57) Understanding the Mystical and the Scientific (24:40) Understanding Manifestation and Spirituality (27:53) The Journey of Self-Discovery (28:28) Frameworks for Change (33:42) Managing Energetic Capacity (37:31) The Arc of Love: Adam's New Book (41:15) Spiritual Bypassing and Accountability Adam Roa is a transformational coach, speaker, and consultant who helps leaders and organizations unlock their potential, build resilience, and create meaningful change. With more than a decade of experience coaching executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and creatives, he combines practical leadership strategies with deep insights into human behavior to drive lasting growth and performance. A sought-after speaker, Adam has appeared at events including MindValley, the Oslo Freedom Forum, and The Rise. He is also the creator of the viral spoken-word poem “You Are Who You've Been Looking For,” which has reached over 250 million viewers worldwide. Through his podcast, The Creative Path, and his coaching and consulting work, Adam continues to empower individuals and organizations to lead with purpose, authenticity, and impact. Connect with Adam: Website: https://www.adamroa.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adam.roa/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdamRoaOfficial  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Executive Authority and National Security Frameworks. Guest: John Yoo. Legal expert John Yoo analyzes the scope of executive power, particularly in relation to national security and foreign policy. He explores the constitutional foundations that grant the presidency authority during international crises and the legal debates surrounding the use of executive orders in managing the nation's defense and security. 91900 MAIN STREET LA

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 Dr. Willie Jolley.