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Many student athletes (or at least their parents) dream of earning a full ride to the college of their dreams. What most applicants find is that having sports on their resumes yields different but still substantial advantages. Amy and Mike invited educational consultant Matt Arant to demystify Division III and Ivy League athletic recruitment. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Who is an athletic/admission liaison and what do they do? How does the recruitment process differ between Division III and Ivy/Patriot League schools and Division I and Division II schools? Can Division III athletes be awarded athletic scholarships? Do athletes typically apply earlier than non-athletes? How should I approach my application as a prospective DIII athlete? What are the test score requirements for DIII athletes? MEET OUR GUEST Matt Arant is the founder of Arant Academic Planning, LLC. Prior to becoming an independent counselor, Matt worked as an admission representative at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At F&M, Matt was the primary athletics liaison for the Office of Admission, working closely with over two dozen intercollegiate sports throughout the entire application cycle. Matt has been invited to present on college athletic recruitment and the admissions process to public and private schools all across the country and is an active member of both the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) and Texas Association for College Admission Counseling (TACAC). He is also a current associate member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), based in Metro Austin, Texas. Find Matt at https://www.arantacademicplanning.com/. LINKS NCAA Eligibility Center Division I and II Recruitment Calendars Division Recruiting Fact Sheet Ivy League Recruit Information NESCAC Admission Statement RELATED EPISODES MYTHS ABOUT TESTING AND COLLEGE SPORTS LOOKING FOR A FULL RIDE HOW TENNIS AND TEST PREP ARE SIMILAR ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and LEAP. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.
In this episode you will learn:00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Easy to build good relationships with Investors? 03:55 - Importance of a Good Relationship with Investors 05:59 - Size and Strategy of a fund affects Founder-VC Relationship 07:37 - Components of a Successful Relationship 09:04 - Hummingbird's POV on Investor interference 12:16 - VCs' Role in Crucible Moments 14:39 - Power Dynamics in Founder-VC Relationships 16:35 - Can Investors and Founders be good friends? 21:03 - Scenarios Leading to Founder-Investor Friction 26:36 - Handling Co-Founder Breakups28:29 - Evolution of Founder-Investor Relationships34:49 - Measuring the Founder-Investor Relationship35:57 - ConclusionAboutAkshay leads investments in both emerging markets and global fintech at Hummingbird.Previously, Akshay worked at Citigroup, where he raised equity capital for large corporations, and at Artivest (acquired), where he helped build and grow a platform that enables retail capital to access alternative investments. During graduate school, Akshay had the opportunity to work with MIT's $25 billion endowment fund.In his spare time, Akshay records music and writes about founders in his newsletter, 'Amplify'.He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a BA in Economics with a minor in Ethnomusicology from Franklin & Marshall College.
Over the last couple of years we've had multiple guests questioning the economic and moral value of a college education. But Daniel R. Porterfield, the Aspen Institute CEO and former President of Franklin and Marshall College, strongly disagrees. In his new book, MINDSET MATTERS, Porterfield argues that in our age of rapid technological change, the college experience is particularly valuable, especially to young people from less privileged backgrounds. At a time when it's become fashionable to bash American universities, Porterfield's argument is a timely reminder of the personal and civic value of a college degree.Daniel R. Porterfield is President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. He has been recognized as a visionary strategist, transformational leader, devoted educator, and passionate advocate for justice and opportunity. At the Aspen Institute, Porterfield has worked to build upon the organization's legacy of societal influence and commitment to human dignity while positioning it for a future where it can make its most profound and lasting impacts. In recent years, the Institute has launched new initiatives focused on criminal justice reform, science and society, economic inclusion, grassroots and community leadership, and more. In the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, where the Institute was founded and where it maintains its Aspen Meadows campus, it has broadened its partnerships with the local community through the Hurst Community Initiative and deepened its connection with its aesthetic and cultural heritage through the creation of a $20 million educational facility and creativity corridor celebrating the works of Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer, one of the founders of the Aspen Institute. To respond to one of the most urgent challenges of our time, the Institute created the Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy (APIE) in 2019 with a founding partner, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and a $26 million multi-year commitment from Mastercard. Through APIE, the Institute is bringing together its networks and programs with a diverse range of public, private, and nonprofit leaders to help reconstruct our global economy so that it drives greater security, opportunity, and resilience for all. Prior to leading the Aspen Institute, Porterfield served for seven years as the President of Franklin & Marshall College, a national liberal arts college founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1787. Under his leadership, Franklin & Marshall set records for applications, fundraising, and fellowships; developed cutting edge new centers for student wellness, career services, and faculty excellence; and constructed a new athletics stadium and visual arts center.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe
We are back and we have 4 shows lined up for the opening of Season 4. We have some amazing guests coming out over the next four weeks and we are very excited for Season 4. Following todays post with Rebecca Hoffberger we have three more great Marylanders, Keiffer Mitchell, Pat Moran and James Williams of the Amerrican Cancer Society. Stay tuned for these Tuesday releases over the next few weeks as we get in the studio with some great new guests. It's so great to Welcome the great Rebecca Hoffberger. A visionary for the Visionaries, Visionary Artists that is, she's established one of the most unique treasured Museums in the Country. Rebecca is someone that Rev. Al and I have both known for a long time. She was married to an incredible man who also had vision the late Leroy Hoffberger, father to one of my best friends Doug Hoffberger... Smaltimore... Rebecca has done an incredible job with the American Visionary Arts Museum, how about this fact, AVAM is second to the BMA when it comes to visitors and that's saying something given the incredible Museums we have in Baltimore. Rebecca is gifted and she has the most beautiful soul, she's traveled the world and worked with some incredible minds. A life-long devotee of the power of intuition and fresh thought, Hoffberger was accepted into college at age 15 though chose instead the personal invitation of internationally renowned mime Marcel Marceau, to become his first American apprentice in Paris. By 19, Rebecca had co-founded her own ballet company and by 21, was a sought-after consultant to a broad spectrum of nonprofits, including research and development scientific companies. At 25, she was awarded the title of “Dame” for her work to establish medical field hospitals in Nigeria. She studied alternative and folk medicine in Mexico. Returning to the States, Hoffberger served on the Board of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center in Virginia and worked as Development Director at the Sinai Hospital's Department of Psychiatry for People Encouraging People, where she first conceived her unique national visionary museum/education center. In recognition of this distinguished achievement in the museum field, Hoffberger was awarded the 2011 Katherine Coffey Award by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. Hoffberger has received Honorary Doctorates from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Stevenson University, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, and McDaniel College, as well as awarded Loyola College's Andrew White Award—the school's highest civic honor—the College of Notre Dame Sarah's Circle Award, and was selected as Franklin & Marshall College's Conrad Nelson Lecturer. She is an inductee into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, a winner of the Urban Land Institute's National Award for Excellence, Israel Bonds' Golda Meir Award, and the first recipient of the Sir Arthur C. Clarke Vision and Imagination Award. Any questions, we get into lots of things, there's so much to talk about, both Rev. Al and I are thrilled to know and call Rebecca a good friend. Thanks Rebecca! You're gonna love this one! Enjoy!
We recently hosted a group of global institutional clients from 23 different countries for an educational event in our San Mateo headquarters. This feature episode is a panel discussion that Tony moderated with Brooks Ritchey, chairman of K2 Advisors, and Peter Blue, head of Alternative Solutions at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. We hope you enjoy this special edition of our podcast series. ********* Brooks Ritchey joined K2 Advisors (a hedged strategies division of Franklin Templeton) in 2005 and is currently a Portfolio Manager and Chairman. He is also a voting member of the K2 Investment Committee. Prior responsibilities at K2 include Co-Chief Investment Officer, Co-Head of Investment Research & Management, and Head of Portfolio Construction. Mr. Ritchey works with clients and investment management teams to analyze market and macroeconomic conditions, help determine asset allocation tilts, and manage absolute return and multi-asset hedged portfolios. Mr. Ritchey began his investment career in 1982 as a proprietary trader for the NYSE Specialist Firm of Conklin, Cahill & Co. Since 1987, Mr. Ritchey has successfully managed multi-asset mutual fund and hedge fund portfolios for institutional and registered portfolios while located in New York and Paris. Prior employers include Steinhardt Partners, Citibank, Finch Asset Management, Paribas, AIG, and ING/Barings. Mr. Ritchey graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1982 with a B.A. in Business Administration and is Series 3 NFA registered. Peter Blue is the Head of Alternatives Solutions for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. He is responsible for the development and implementation of multi-asset alternatives capabilities for the Solutions team. Most recently, he was a client portfolio manager, also for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Mr. Blue focuses on designing, managing, and maintaining multi-asset investment solutions for institutional clients in the Americas. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Blue was an investment analyst at QS Investors, a quantitative multi-asset and equity manager, where he was responsible for leveraging the breadth of QS' capabilities in the creation of new and custom investment solutions. QS Investors combined with Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions in October 2020 to create Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Before QS Investors in 2019, Mr. Blue was an alternatives product specialist at Legg Mason. Previously, he held product development, business development, and investment analyst roles with Guggenheim Partners, AlphaMetrix and Cambridge Associates, respectively. Mr. Blue holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Washington & Lee University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations. Mr. Blue is a member of the CFA Society New York and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Amanda Kemp. Dr. Amanda Kemp, also known as Aminata Desert Rose Plant Walker Fire Woman, graduated from Stanford University after surviving the NYC foster care system. She is the founder and producer of the Mother Tree community and the Mother Tree Network podcast, which is in the top 10% of all podcasts globally. Aminata is the Amazon best-selling author of Stop Being Afraid: 5 Steps to Transform your Conversations about Racism, a workbook for individuals who want to be more effective in racial justice. Her memoir, "Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community", is used in high schools and colleges throughout the U.S. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Franklin & Marshall College and the winner of the 2018 Advoz Dignity in Dialogue Award. In her capacity as a Board member of the Lancaster NAACP, performing artist, and master teacher, she has helped over 30,000 people have more open-hearted conversations about racism and compassionate community. In 2021 Dr. Amanda had a spiritual awakening where she received her new names from an ancestor and received the message to stop everything and that the trees on her land wanted to adopt her. Over the course of a two-year learning journey, she has been working with deeper truths underneath social justice, journeying with plants and fungi, and has since integrated the wisdom from trees into her Mother Tree Network podcast and community and continues her deep apprenticeship to the Earth and the feminine divine. She can now be found teaching, and creating theatre, poetry, and ritual via Theatre for Transformation and inside the Mother Tree Community.
Welcome back, TBL Nation! Anji and Anna are buzzing with excitement as they dive into the incredible journey of the winningest coach in Timberwolves history—Chris Finch. We kick things off with a trip down memory lane to Finch's early days. Born on November 6, 1969, in Cambridge, Ohio, Finch's basketball prowess was evident early on. A two-time All-American at Franklin & Marshall College, he left an indelible mark on the court. Despite the NCAA Division III championship loss in 1991, Finch's impact at F&M earned him a spot in the college's Hall of Fame in 2002. Post-college, Finch took his skills to England, playing professionally for the Sheffield Forgers/Sharks from 1993 to 1997. But Finchy wasn't just a player—he transitioned into a player-coach. His coaching career took off as he led the Sheffield Sharks to multiple titles, earning him the prestigious BBL Coach of the Year award in 1999. The journey didn't stop there. Finch ventured into coaching in Germany and Belgium, leaving a mark of success wherever he went. His arrival in the NBA's G-League with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers saw immediate triumph—a championship and the D-League Coach of the Year award. Fast forward to the NBA, where Finch's coaching acumen shone. From the Houston Rockets to the Denver Nuggets, New Orleans Pelicans, and eventually the Toronto Raptors, he left an impact at every stop. On February 22, 2021, Finch took the helm as the head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves. In his first full season, he guided the team to a remarkable 46–36 finish and secured their first playoff berth since 2018. Finch's coaching brilliance didn't go unnoticed. He received well-deserved recognition in the 2021–22 NBA Coach of the Year voting. And on April 11, 2022, he inked a multi-year extension with the Timberwolves, solidifying his place in the team's storied history. Join Anji and Anna as they celebrate Chris Finch's journey, from player to the pinnacle of coaching success. It's a tale of passion, perseverance, and a deep love for the game. Don't miss this episode, Wolves fans!
This episode explores the investment landscape and fundamentals of car wash assets with Edward Otocka of NNN Pro Group.The Crexi Podcast explores various aspects of the commercial real estate industry in conversation with some of the top CRE professionals in the space. In each episode, we feature different guests to tap into their wealth of CRE expertise and explore the latest trends and updates from the world of commercial real estate. In this episode, Crexi's Ashley Kobovitch sits with Edward to discuss all things car wash, including asset class fundamentals, current transaction activity, and what broader macroeconomic factors mean for the NNN sector. Their wide-ranging conversation includes:Introductions, early career path, and key mentorsThe importance of maintaining a beginner's mindset and the discipline of daily habits as a brokerFavorite transactions and what made these deals unique The fundamentals of the car wash sector and what potential investors need to know to find a good dealImportant trends and changes in the net-lease car wash space over the last 5-10 years and what to watch moving forward.Car wash performance across Class A vs. Class B and different markets and shifts in deal velocityA 30,000-foot overview of the car wash sector today amid macroeconomic factors, differences among markets, and other variablesRapid fire questions and sign-offsAnd much more!If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our newsletter to receive the very next one delivered straight to your inbox. For show notes, past guests, and more CRE content, please check out Crexi Insights.Ready to find your next CRE property? Visit Crexi and immediately browse hundreds of thousands of available commercial properties.Follow Crexi:https://www.crexi.com/ https://www.crexi.com/instagram https://www.crexi.com/facebook https://www.crexi.com/twitter https://www.crexi.com/linkedin https://www.youtube.com/crexiAbout Edward Otocka:Edward Otocka is a Senior Managing Director, Private Equity Specialist with the NNN Pro Group, one of the top-performing net-lease brokerage teams in the country. Eddie joined the NNN Pro Group in 2011 and works in the Institutional Coverage Group. His expertise is in sale-leaseback, build-to-suit, and structured equity debt transactions on behalf of private equity funds, national retail, industrial, and medical tenants, REITs, and net lease funds. Eddie has closed over $6.0 billion in transactions during his career, including over $3.0 billion over the last four years. Before working with the NNN Pro Group, Eddie began his professional career in the Sales and Trading departments at UBS AG and Credit Suisse. He is a Franklin & Marshall College graduate and resides in Duxbury, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.
Abdul Malik Muhammad, Ed.D. speaks with host Claire de Mézerville López Claire de Mézerville López and Abdul Malik Muhammad, Ed.D. discuss the revolutionary aspects of Restorative Practices. Dr. Muhammad references Affect Psychology (Tomkins, 1962; Tomkins, 1963) and the Compass of Shame (Nathanson, 1992). View this descriptive video to learn more about these principles and their integration with Restorative Practices. For nearly three decades, Abdul-Malik Muhammad, Ed.D. has been serving both youth and adults as an educator, transformational leader, entrepreneur, and author. Always working with the underserved in urban and rural areas, he has focused on the development of boys to men, been active in social justice, and building progressive organizations. His previous leadership journeys have included being a principal, career college president, corporate director of education, and regional vice president of a national mental healthcare organization. Throughout this time, he has launched 18 schools and specialized programs, led a staff of 2,400 across 11 states, and spoke on leadership and community-building in 4 continents. He is currently the CEO of Akoben LLC, a professional development company, and Transforming Lives Inc., a provider of alternative education services, both of which he founded. He is the author of The Restorative Journey – Book One: The Theory and Application of Restorative Practices and contributing author of the recently released Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities. He has a BA in International Affairs from Franklin & Marshall College, an MA in Educational Leadership from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Delaware.
"When I think about reinvention, I think about finding talents, hidden parts of you that need to come out and be front and center," says Dr. Joan Fallon. With over 20 years of experience researching autism and related disorders, Dr. Fallon founded Curemark, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic treatments for neurological disorders. In this inspiring conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Dr. Fallon explains how her personal reinvention led her to changing the world of autism. Pass it along to anyone who needs to know about the groundbreaking work being done in the treatment of this disorder. About Dr. Joan Fallon: Dr. Fallon began her research on Autism and related disorders over 20 years ago and founded Curemark as a platform to develop product candidates to address her findings. Dr. Fallon has both clinical expertise and academic experience—the former from running a private practice specializing in pediatric development, and the latter as an Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Yeshiva University. Dr. Fallon has played an integral role in two very successful (and unprecedented) medical ventures. She was an Oxford Health Plans board member and helped achieve underwriting authority from New York State, for alternative and complementary medicine where none had yet existed. She also helped implement a cost-effective, interdisciplinary health plan for Oxford that increased the level of quality care for all children enrolled there. Dr. Fallon has written numerous scholarly articles, lectured around the world on developmental problems in the pediatric population and served on the Board of Directors of the ICA and Kentuckiana Children's Center. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College/Columbia University. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College. Dr. Fallon holds a B.A. degree from Franklin and Marshall College, a DC degree from Palmer University, and has completed the coursework for the MSc in clinical investigation from Harvard University's joint program with Massachusetts General Hospital. Connect with Dr. Fallon: Website Twitter LinkedIn Publisher Connect with Lesley Jane Seymour & CoveyClub: Website Instagram LinkedIn Join CoveyClub
Claire de Mézerville López and Abdul Malik Muhammad, Ph.D. discuss the revolutionary aspects of Restorative Practices. Dr. Muhammad references Affect Psychology (Tomkins, 1962; Tomkins, 1963) and the Compass of Shame (Nathanson, 1992). View this descriptive video to learn more about these principles and their integration with Restorative Practices. For nearly three decades, Abdul-Malik Muhammad, Ph.D. has been serving both youth and adults as an educator, transformational leader, entrepreneur, and author. Always working with the underserved in urban and rural areas, he has focused on the development of boys to men, been active in social justice, and building progressive organizations. His previous leadership journeys have included being a principal, career college president, corporate director of education, and regional vice president of a national mental healthcare organization. Throughout this time, he has launched 18 schools and specialized programs, led a staff of 2,400 across 11 states, and spoke on leadership and community-building in 4 continents. He is currently the CEO of Akoben LLC, a professional development company, and Transforming Lives Inc., a provider of alternative education services, both of which he founded. He is the author of The Restorative Journey – Book One: The Theory and Application of Restorative Practices and contributing author of the recently released Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities. He has a BA in International Affairs from Franklin & Marshall College, an MA in Educational Leadership from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Delaware.
Once one of the top 10 cities in the United States, Buffalo's historic Elmwood district could once again be a model for America's cities. On this week's PreserveCast, join us as we talk with Clinton Brown, a heritage and project architect, about his book Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, A Model for America's Cities. Brown takes us through this Buffalo, NY neighborhood's rich history, devastating decline, and ongoing renewal. Historic preservation architect Clinton Brown, FAIA, is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He has taught at the Willowbank School of Restoration Arts and is a frequent speaker about historic preservation and Main Street revitalization. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He founded Clinton Brown Company Architecture, pc, a leading full service historic preservation, architecture, and grant services firm, which is driven to renew historic buildings and heritage place to be better for everyone. CBCA nominated the Elmwood Historic District for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, one of the country's largest historic districts. This is the genesis of his book, Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, A Model for America's Cities, published by City of Light Publishing in 2022. The New York Governor appointed him to the Board that is overseeing the rehabilitation of the National Historic Landmark Richardson Olmsted Campus, the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. Successive Secretaries of the Interior have appointed him a Commissioner of the state-wide Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission, an affiliate of the National Park Service. He is a Board Member of the Willowbank School of Restoration Arts in Queenston, Ontario, of which HRH Prince Charles has been Patron. Purchase the Book: https://cityoflightpublishing.com/product/olmsteds-elmwood-the-rise-decline-and-renewal-of-buffalos-parkway-neighborhood-a-model-for-americas-cities/
Dr. Joan Fallon, Founder and CEO of Curemark, is a visionary scientist who has dedicated her life's work to championing the health and wellbeing of children. Her recent book Goodbye, Status Quo, equips readers with the tools to be agents of change: as entrepreneurs, leaders, and individuals. The book, which blends her own entrepreneurial experiences and scientific observations to give readers informative and actionable advice, was inspired by Joan's personal fascination with change. Joan's never ending curiosity is why Curemark continues to pave the way to develop novel therapies to treat serious diseases for which there are limited treatment options. The pipeline includes a phase III clinical-stage research program for Autism, and programs focused on Parkinson's Disease, schizophrenia, and addiction. Joan holds over 300 patents worldwide, has written numerous scholarly articles and lectured extensively across the globe on pediatric developmental problems. Currently she holds appointments as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College, The Pratt Institute, the DREAM Charter School in Harlem, and Vote Run Lead, a bipartisan not-for-profit that encourages women on both sides of the aisle to run for elected office. Joan was recently named one of the top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 by Goldman Sachs. She has also been awarded 2017 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year New York in Healthcare and received the Creative Entrepreneurship Award from The New York Hall of Science in 2018. Read the show notes on Arcbound's Podcast Page: https://arcbound.com/podcasts/ Find Arcbound here: Homepage: Arcbound.com Services/Work with Us: https://arcbound.com/work-with-us/ About: https://arcbound.com/about/ Founders Corner: https://arcbound.com/category/founders-corner/ Connect: https://arcbound.com/connect/
This podcast features Ayesha Khan and Dr. Shehla Khan in conversation with Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair of Religious Studies at Franklin Marshall College, and author of the widely acclaimed volume, Defending Muhammad in Modernity. Taking its cue from the political crisis that has erupted in Pakistan since the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022, the episode traverses the various articles that Dr. Tareen published prior to and during Khan's tenure in government on the interface between what he terms ‘Imranophobia', secular liberalism, and Islamophobia. Although the episode is primarily focused on Pakistan, its themes are resonant with political struggles and faultlines in other states across Muslimstan.
Welcome back to the Help on the Way pod, English. This week, our hosts Game, Fig and Knob are headed to Lancaster (pronounced Lancaster, not Lancaster) for the Grateful Dead's April 10th, 1971 show at Franklin & Marshall College. Discussions abound about drum solos, our favorite Amish dishes, and the (probably exaggerated) true story about the show. Casey Jones Me And Bobby McGee Next Time You See Me Loser Beat It On Down The Line Hard To Handle Bertha Playing In The Band Deal Good Lovin' Truckin' Sing Me Back Home Me And My Uncle China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider Cumberland Blues Sugar Magnolia In The Midnight Hour Uncle John's Band
What you'll learn in this podcast episode What is top of mind with board directors when they think about corporate culture, ethics, and compliance? How can leaders best assess culture in the companies they oversee? In the season 8 premiere of the Principled Podcast, LRN Director of Advisory Services Emily Miner is joined by Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames and Dr. Eric Baldwin at Tapestry Networks to discuss how board members can improve oversight. Listen in as the group shares insights from Tapestry Networks and LRN's joint report Assessing Corporate Culture: A Practical Guide to Improving Board Oversight, which draws from a working group of nearly 40 directors and executives representing over 60 public companies. Principled Podcast Show Notes [0:29] - Emily welcomes listeners to this episode with Marsha and Eric of Tapestry Networks. [1:46] - A discussion on the recently published report, “Assessing Corporate Culture: A Practical Guide to Improving Board Oversight.” [6:14] - Why the report offers a practical framework and what needs it seeks to address. [9:59] - The key findings or pillars of the report. [15:22] - How the report helps leaders answer “How?” questions. [20:30] - What is the potential broader impact of the report? Featured guest: Dr. Eric Baldwin Eric Baldwin is a principal at Tapestry Networks, working with teams in the firm's corporate governance and financial services practices. Prior to coming to Tapestry, he served for several years as a research associate at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he collaborated with faculty on a variety of research and writing projects covering topics ranging from organizational culture and change management to corporate strategy and healthcare policy. Prior to his time at HBS, Eric taught in the religious studies departments at Franklin & Marshall College and Boston University, while earlier in his career he served in engineering and operations roles at ON Technology Corporation, a software development firm based in greater Boston. Eric holds a PhD in religious studies from Boston University and a BA in history from the College of William and Mary. Featured guest: Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames is a partner with Tapestry Networks and a leader of our corporate governance practice. She advises non-executive directors, C-suite executives, and in-house counsel on issues related to governance, culture transformation, board leadership, and stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining Tapestry, Marsha was a managing director of strategy and development at LRN, Inc. a global governance, risk and compliance firm. She specialized in the alignment of leaders and organizations for effective corporate governance and organizational culture transformation. Her view is that compliance is no longer merely a legal matter but a strategic and reputational priority. Marsha has been interviewed and cited by the media including CNBC, CNN, Ethisphere, HR Magazine, Compliance Week, The FCPA Report, Entrepreneur.com, Chief Learning Officer, ATD Talent & Development, Corporate Counsel Magazine, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and more. She hosted the Principled Podcast, profiling the stories of some of the top transformational leaders in business. Marsha serves as an expert fellow on USC's Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making and on the advisory boards of LMH Strategies, Inc. an integrative supply chain advisory firm and Compliance.ai, a regulatory change management firm. Marsha holds an Ed.D. and MA from Pepperdine University. Her research was on the role of ethical leadership as an enabler of organizational culture change. Her BA is from the University of Southern California. She is a certified compliance and ethics professional. Featured Host: Emily Miner Emily Miner is the Director of Advisory Services at LRN's Ethics & Compliance Advisory practice. She counsels executive leadership teams on how to actively shape and manage their ethical culture through deep quantitative and qualitative understanding and engagement. A skilled facilitator, Emily emphasizes co-creative, bottom-up, and data-driven approaches to foster ethical behavior and inform program strategy. Emily has led engagements with organizations in the healthcare, technology, manufacturing, energy, professional services, and education industries. Emily co-leads LRN's ongoing flagship research on E&C program effectiveness and is a thought leader in the areas of organizational culture, leadership, and E&C program impact. Prior to joining LRN, Emily applied her behavioral science expertise in the environmental sustainability sector, working with non-profits and several New England municipalities; facilitated earth science research in academia; and contributed to drafting and advancing international climate policy goals. Emily has a Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Anthropology. Principled Podcast Transcript Intro: Welcome to the Principled Podcast brought to you by LRN. The Principled Podcast brings together the collective wisdom on ethics, business and compliance, transformative stories of leadership and inspiring workplace culture. Listen in to discover valuable strategies from our community of business leaders and workplace change makers. Emily Miner: What is top of mind with board directors when they think about corporate culture, ethics and compliance? How can leaders best assess culture in the companies they oversee? Hi, and welcome to another episode of LRN's Principled Podcast. I'm your host, Emily Miner, director of advisory at LRN. And today I'm joined by Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames and Dr. Eric Baldwin partner and principal respectively at Tapestry Networks. We're going to be talking about corporate culture and how board members can improve oversight. Marsha and Eric have just collaborated with us at LRN on a report entitled, "Assessing Corporate Culture: A practical guide to improving board oversight." The report presents insights from a working group of nearly 40 directors and executives representing over 60 public companies, including some of the largest companies in the world: Cigna, Sony, McKesson, Lockheed Martin, CDW, Coca-Cola, Excel Energy and Palo Alto Networks included. Marsha, Eric, thanks for joining me on the Principled Podcast today. Marsha Ershaghi Hames: It's great to be here. Eric Baldwin: Thanks for having us, Emily. Emily Miner: Okay, so let's jump right in. This report, a guide really, assessing corporate culture is the result of working group sessions of the ethics, culture and compliance network. Marsha, let me start with you. What is the ECCN, who are its members, and how did it come to be? Marsha Ershaghi Hames: Sure. Great. We're happy to continue to share the Ethics Culture Compliance Network progress. This network was founded in the summer of 2020. I mean, it was during the thick of a pandemic. Companies were spiraling. It was just a lot of crisis management and companies were starting to take a real reflective step back. They were assessing where do we need to look? How do we need to assess our planning for longer term future? And the conversation emerged initially, Emily, as a forum. It was a safe space to convene. Public company directors and senior executives, namely chief ethics and compliance officers, to really start exploring values, corporate culture and the role of ethical decision making in business. Emily, if I can highlight just a few key aspects that the stakeholders of ECCN started to really prioritize over the last two years, number one, the need for boards and executive teams to align and articulate culture so that management feels supported. Number two, to address the challenge of getting ethics and culture on board agendas and to really promote directors going deeper with management, we're going to get to shortly. Number three, ECCN stakeholders have continued to really want a forum to share peer to peer examples, pragmatic examples of the need for better communication and greater transparency between the CECO, the broader management team and the board. Emily Miner: Thanks, Marsha. Having sat in on some of these sessions, I know that those specific examples that you just alluded to, those were among some of the most powerful conversation prompts. So I think that the members got a lot of value out of that. I certainly know I did. And so this report builds on a report that we, Tapestry Networks and LRN, collaborated on last year, activating culture and ethics from the boardroom, which was a really insightful temperature check on board's attitudes about culture. Eric, can you talk about that project and how it led to this latest one? Eric Baldwin: Sure. With the last year's activating culture report, we had set out to understand the realities facing boards and their oversight of ethics and culture. What were their key concerns, the challenges they face, current practices. So to get at that, we interviewed 40 directors who occupied about 80 seats on public company boards with the aim of getting a really broad view of board oversight of ethics and culture. What we found was a pretty diverse range of practices across boards, in terms of what kinds of information they were receiving, their engagement with their management teams, including how often they heard from their chief ethics and compliance officer, a range of assignments of committee responsibilities and really it's just a variability and how much attention the issues get from boards. We also found a real lack of comfort among directors. So directors recognize the importance of culture and the risks associated with ethical lapses or with unhealthy cultures, but recognize that their ability to oversee culture doesn't have the level of clarity and rigor that you find in other aspects of board oversight, like say financial reporting. So there's a real gap between the seriousness of the risk associated with culture and the importance of culture on the one hand and director's sense of their ability, or lack of ability, frankly, to effectively oversee that set of issues. So given that, it seemed crucial to start to develop some board-level tools and practices that could help directors make their oversight of ethics and culture more robust. Emily Miner: Thanks, Eric. I know that this latest report traces its roots back to those earlier insights that you were just describing and the need for a practical framework that board members could adopt. Tell us why this framework and the specific needs it seeks to address. Marsha Ershaghi Hames: Yeah. So maybe I'll take that one. So to Eric's point, we have conversations with 40 directors in 2021 and coming out of it, it was the spirit of action. How can we now take action? So the consensus was, we want a simple, practical framework to start to advance a conversation, just get the conversation started. Think of it like a simple roadmap. How can we take this into the boardroom? How can we start to connect with management with simple prompts, questions. Help us organize our thoughts about how to activate and get the conversation started. Then, another goal was the input was we want to have a peer-reviewed framework. We don't want a treatise. We don't want a commission study by a third party. We want to be a part of driving the frame for what we think will have the greatest impact, both within board rooms and for the boards to explore directly with management. Emily Miner: You've talked a little bit about the approach to developing the framework, talking to the 40 directors and the peer-to-peer nature of it. What else about the approach of how the framework was developed, do you think contributes to the power of what it ultimately offers to boards and management teams? Eric Baldwin: Yeah, I can jump in here. As Marsha noted, we really wanted this to be as useful and practical for boards as possible so we thought it was really important that it'd be grounded in the experience of directors. We knew that there was a lot of good practice already going on in boardrooms. So if we could tap into that collective knowledge and pull that together, it could be really valuable. So the way we went about that was to recruit and convene a working group of about 12 to 15 members, 10 of whom were sitting public company directors. Several of those directors are current or former chief ethics and compliance officers so they've got deep experience in that space that they bring into the boardroom. We also included a couple of sitting senior ethics and compliance executives who report into boards on these matters on a regular basis to bring their perspective, as well as our colleagues from LRN, who brought their expertise in culture measurement. So, we brought the group together several times for virtual discussions, for peer exchange, to really surface the challenges and gaps that they're experiencing, to share and vet existing practices and tools and identify some key insights and good practices that are already going on. So out of that, our team developed a draft framework, which we shared then with a larger group of about 40 directors and ethics and compliance executives to pressure test our recommendations and get additional feedback before publishing the piece this summer. So I think what really gives it its power is that it's grounded in the experience of the boardroom, it's peer developed and peer vetted and rooted in the efforts of directors and practitioners. Emily Miner: Yeah. Thank you, Eric. And just to underline something that both you and Marsha shared, I think something that's so compelling about it in terms of being grounded in that experience is, as you mentioned, many of those directors are current or former chief ethics and compliance officers. So being able to hear from people that have worn both of those hats or are wearing both of those hats, I think is so powerful. So let's keep on talking about the framework. What are the key findings or pillars? I know that there are five pillars of the framework and I'd love for you to expand upon those five pillars for us. Eric Baldwin: Yeah. I'm happy to try to do that. There's a lot of insights there, so I'll try to be brief. As you mentioned, there are five key themes here, and we see them not so much as a series of steps, but more as sets of interlocking practices or that can mutually reinforce each other. So briefly, the first is really just to make ethics and culture a priority. We've heard from directors that culture and ethics often don't get enough time and attention in the boardroom. They get pushed to the bottom of crowded board agendas. So a key step is simply just to ensure that they get priority on the agenda, that they get enough time and attention. It's really crucial. We heard that boards communicate to management that culture and ethics are priorities, which they can do by pushing for information, asking questions, following up, probing. Management needs to know that ethics and culture are board priorities. The second is for boards to take a look at their own culture. Boards have their own internal cultures and the culture of the board influences the culture of the organizations. They sort of set the tone from the top. But directors tell us that boards don't often examine their own cultures in a rigorous way. So it's really important for boards as one member put it, to take a hard look at their own culture. In this, it's especially important for boards to assess their openness and transparency and the level of trust, both among the directors and between the board and the management team, and especially their willingness to hear difficult news and how the board responds to bad news or to hard truths. A key element we heard of ethical culture is trust and transparency and to foster an environment where bad news travels fast. That starts with the board and the board's willingness to hear bad news. The third is the challenge of being able to articulate the elements of culture and really to describe and articulate the culture you're aiming at, what you want to see in your corporate culture. The challenge here is that culture can be a very fuzzy and abstract concept. It's implicit, it's unspoken rules and norms, and that makes it really hard to measure and assess. So anything boards and management teams can do to make discussions of culture more concrete and precise will really help. This can mean breaking down ethical culture into various components, things like trust, willingness to speak out, fairness, organizational justice, so that boards and management teams have a clear answer to the question, "When we talk about culture, what exactly are we talking about?" A key insight here was the importance for boards to be active partners with their management teams in defining and articulating the attributes of a desired ethical culture, rather than just sort of hearing them from management. Contributors told us that the process of defining what a good culture looks like by fostering a robust and structured discussion of culture is as important as the outcome. So boards need to be involved in those discussions early, rather than just the management team coming to them and saying, "Here's what we think our culture should look like." The fourth is really about the tools that they use to measure and monitor culture. This is all about information and data and how it comes to the board. There's a pretty common range of data and information sources that boards depend on and there's plenty of data. But the key is for boards to get that information presented to them in the right way so that it has enough context that it can really make sense to them. So one key issue for boards we found is to push their management teams to report to them in such a way that insights from a range of data sources are integrated into a coherent picture or narrative. So survey data or data from culture surveys is overlaid with safety data, turnover data, and cost of hotline for example. Boards are really looking for a more integrated view from their management teams. Anything that will help generate a narrative or surface patterns that help boards know where they need to follow up and probe and potentially allocate more resources is really helpful. Then finally is the issue of establishing clear communication lines. There's a lot of information relevant to culture that comes from a lot of different functional areas bearing on ethics and culture. So boards need to push their management teams to be able to develop a holistic view and really ask the question who, if anyone, in the management team owns culture and owns reporting on it and can give a really coherent and holistic view of culture. The same goes for the board. At the board level, different committees on the board, get reporting from different management teams and information can become siloed. So the key question is how can boards overcome that tendency and make sure that the entire board is getting a full picture of culture. Emily Miner: Thanks, Eric, you did a great job of covering a lot of detail, very succinctly so I appreciate that. You framed a lot of those pillars in the form of a question: so how can boards do this, how can boards and management team collect the right data and interpret it together and break down those silos, et cetera, so I want to go into those hows a little bit because we call it a practical guide. So how does that manifest? How can this guide, I'll call it a guide and not a report, how can this guide help boards in their oversight of culture? Marsha Ershaghi Hames: Yeah, so Emily, maybe I'll jump in on that one. So to Eric's point as he went through these five key pillars and big insights or meta themes that jumped out, each pillar is supported with countless examples, practical scenarios, and we've even lifted up some direct quotes that came from all of the contributors. So part of this is practically speaking, we want to help agitate that curiosity from the directors. We want to encourage them, look behind the numbers, start asking some of those uncomfortable questions. We wanted to give them, when you talk about sort of manifesting, how do we give directors a simple roadmap or framework to go into, to start within their own boardrooms, and then to look at opportunities to connect and communicate with management, to build that bridge, to forge an ongoing dialogue. So this is not an overnight put your hero cape on. This is to start to create essentially more of that accountability partnership, a dialogue between management and the board and framing it in these five buckets. So it's, step one, are we even prioritizing this? So that can be a series of conversations. Step two, have we aligned as a board and management team? Have we been engaged as a part of articulating and assessing and understanding what is that desired culture? Are we as a board reflecting? So as Eric was going through these, it's you need to have a roadmap essentially to start agitating some of that dialogue. We wanted these pillars to become levers to begin that process to engage with management. Emily Miner: I love the way that you are framing this as agitating the dialogue. There's such a great mental, descriptive image. So thank you for that, Marsha. I know that one of the features of the report or the guide to help agitate that dialogue is a series of questions that can serve as a starting point for this dialogue with management teams and within boards. Can you share some of those compelling prompts? Eric Baldwin: Yeah, I'd be happy to give some examples. I think questions for boards are really a key tool in their tool belt. One of the things that boards are expected to do is offer a credible challenge to management, and it's really through asking questions that they do that. So we did include a number of questions, I think they're probably more than two dozen appended to the end of the report. I will not read anything like all of them at this point, but I'll give you a couple of examples of some of the questions that we include in the report. Again, many of them line up with some of the key buckets that we identified above. One would be just to ask yourselves as boards, have we identified the cultural attributes and behaviors that align with our stated values and our purpose? How can we effectively articulate the culture we're trying to achieve? This in turn would guide management's efforts to measure culture. Another question for the board to reflect on is, does our culture, that is the board's culture, encourage management to share those difficult truths with us? How open to debate and disagreement is our board? Then we also include some questions that boards can ask their management teams. One is to simply ask, to what extent can you provide the board with an integrated view that incorporates information from a range of sources of data into a single picture for us? How can you give us an integrated view of culture? Then another question for management is, are you able to communicate directly to the board when necessary? Do you feel you have the necessary independence to bring issues and questions to the board? So those are just a few examples of a number of questions that we've included in this report. Emily Miner: Thank you. I think that's another feature of the practicality of this. I mean, boards can in some sense sort of lift these questions up and apply them in their own contexts. So recently LRN's Ty Francis, our chief advisory officer had a conversation with Tom Fox, who I think we all know as the voice of compliance and founder of the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom called this report prescient more than once and cited both recent statements of Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general, and rulings of the Delaware Supreme Court about the need for boards to take a more active role in monitoring and measurement. So with those statements, that context, occurring around the same time as the release of this guide, what do you see is the potential broader impact of the guide, the framework with the five pillars, the practical examples and discussion prompts? What do you see as the potential impact of that? Marsha Ershaghi Hames: So maybe I'll take the lead here and, Eric, if you want to share any other thoughts ... But if we take a step back, this came up in ... so we had a summit, Emily, that you, of course participated in, where we brought together all of the Ethics Culture Compliance Network contributors, not only of the report, but other key stakeholders. It was interesting, a few people pointed to this and they said that if you look at the foundations of corporate scandals over the last few decades, there's a pattern that points to the failure to speak up and a correlating fear of retaliation. So it's that notion of someone always knows what's going on. Right? So when you look at the statements of Lisa Monaco and the Delaware Supreme Court about boards taking a more active role, you have to take a step back and look at what is the role that boards can play to encourage and drive a culture that is more transparent and more open. How can a board activate open dialogue? How can a board establish a more transparent tone. We know, there's enough research around this, that culture's fundamental to business and tone at the top matters. I could even say, and Emily, you and I have collaborated, full disclosure, over years in my consulting days. I saw this. I can just draw anecdotally that in 22 years of consulting, I would come across so many compliance executives who just felt like, "Hey, is my company going to make the investment in my team, and are they going to prioritize culture?" CECOs, they're under a lot of pressure to operate as a resource, enforce policy, developed policy. They're regarded as the primary architects of culture, but oftentimes we're also labeled as a cost center. So some of this stuff has been coming out as you know, Emily and Eric, and our conversations around like, "Are we leading on this or are we in a reactive mode?" So I would say in terms the broader impact of this framework, it's the notion of how can we be proactive? How can we put a framework and a roadmap in front of the board to agitate the curiosity, to ask for more data behind the numbers and to empower boards and management teams to get the conversation started. To Eric's point, it's like, is it a toolbox? Is it a tool set? Well, yes, it is. It's been pressure tested by peers. It was developed by peers. They're trying it in their own boardrooms. Some of these stakeholders are current or former chief ethics and compliance officers so there's an appreciative inquiry of the tensions on both sides of the table. So in my opinion, I really forecast that this is going to have a catalyzing impact on the industry. Eric, I don't know, thoughts on your end too. Eric Baldwin: No, I would just say, I think one of our hopes here is that as directors bring this into the boardroom and, Emily, you're right to point out that it does seem like the expectations for boards in oversight in this area are going nowhere but up. It is our hope that this is a tool that helps them meet those heightened expectations. But also that it's only a starting point, that boards will use the tools in this framework to get the conversation started and come back to us with further recommendations of what would be additionally helpful to assist them in their oversight here. Emily Miner: Well, I, for one look forward to following along and participating and seeing what the impact is and how this framework is used and what the feedback is from those that use it. Marsha, Eric, it has been such a delight speaking with you today about the genesis of this report and all of the insights assembled from such a stellar working group. We're out of time for today. But for those listening, if you're interested in learning more about the report, the framework, et cetera, please look at the link in the podcast description. My name is Emily Miner, and I want to thank you all for listening to the Principled Podcast by LRN. Outro: We hope you enjoyed this episode. The Principled Podcast is brought to you by LRN. At LRN our mission is to inspire principled performance in global organizations by helping them foster winning ethical cultures rooted in sustainable values. Please visit us at lrn.com to learn more. And if you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to our podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen. And don't forget to leave us a review.
This week we are joined by Daniel Muller, Founder & CEO of AeroPay to discuss:Payment Processing in CannabisSafe BankingDisrupting Visa, Mastercard & AmexAbout Dan Muller As CEO, Daniel Muller founded Aeropay in 2017 to create a better, faster and more affordable way to help people move money. Formerly Head of Product and Software Engineering at GPShopper and an Investor with New Colossus Ventures, Dan now leads one of the most advanced payment platforms in FinTech.Prior to founding Aeropay, Dan acquired over a decade of digital retail, eCommerce, and product experience at Fortune 500 companies. His past clients include Best Buy, Foot Locker, Adidas, Express, Alliance Data and Synchrony. Dan's expertise has been integral to building Aeropay's open architecture solutions and offering consumers best-in-class functionality in each layer of the tech stack, including integrated e-commerce, POS, and digital payments solutions. A Native New Yorker and First Generation Latin American of Uruguayan and Argentine descent, Dan is a member of the Latinx Incubator Program and has been named a Rising Star in Chicago Tech by Crains and to MJ Venture's 40 Under 40 List. He studied Political Science and Economics at Franklin & Marshall College and is an avid chess player. Learn more about Dan and Aeropay at www.aeropay.com. #Cannabis #Cannabistechnology #Cannabiscommunity At Eighth Revolution (8th Rev) we provide services from capital to cannabinoid and everything in between in the cannabinoid industry.8th Revolution Cannabinoid Playbook is an Industry-leading report covering the entire cannabis supply chain The Dime is a top 50 Cannabis Podcast Contact us directly at info@8threv.com Bryan Fields: @bryanfields24 Kellan Finney: @Kellan_Finney
This week we are joined by Daniel Muller, Founder & CEO of AeroPay to discuss:Payment Processing in CannabisSafe BankingDisrupting Visa, Mastercard & AmexAbout Dan Muller As CEO, Daniel Muller founded Aeropay in 2017 to create a better, faster and more affordable way to help people move money. Formerly Head of Product and Software Engineering at GPShopper and an Investor with New Colossus Ventures, Dan now leads one of the most advanced payment platforms in FinTech.Prior to founding Aeropay, Dan acquired over a decade of digital retail, eCommerce, and product experience at Fortune 500 companies. His past clients include Best Buy, Foot Locker, Adidas, Express, Alliance Data and Synchrony. Dan's expertise has been integral to building Aeropay's open architecture solutions and offering consumers best-in-class functionality in each layer of the tech stack, including integrated e-commerce, POS, and digital payments solutions. A Native New Yorker and First Generation Latin American of Uruguayan and Argentine descent, Dan is a member of the Latinx Incubator Program and has been named a Rising Star in Chicago Tech by Crains and to MJ Venture's 40 Under 40 List. He studied Political Science and Economics at Franklin & Marshall College and is an avid chess player. Learn more about Dan and Aeropay at www.aeropay.com. #Cannabis #Cannabistechnology #Cannabiscommunity At Eighth Revolution (8th Rev) we provide services from capital to cannabinoid and everything in between in the cannabinoid industry.8th Revolution Cannabinoid Playbook is an Industry-leading report covering the entire cannabis supply chain The Dime is a top 50 Cannabis Podcast Contact us directly at info@8threv.com Bryan Fields: @bryanfields24 Kellan Finney: @Kellan_Finney
This week we are joined by Daniel Muller, Founder & CEO of AeroPay to discuss:Payment Processing in CannabisSafe BankingDisrupting Visa, Mastercard & AmexAbout Dan Muller As CEO, Daniel Muller founded Aeropay in 2017 to create a better, faster and more affordable way to help people move money. Formerly Head of Product and Software Engineering at GPShopper and an Investor with New Colossus Ventures, Dan now leads one of the most advanced payment platforms in FinTech.Prior to founding Aeropay, Dan acquired over a decade of digital retail, eCommerce, and product experience at Fortune 500 companies. His past clients include Best Buy, Foot Locker, Adidas, Express, Alliance Data and Synchrony. Dan's expertise has been integral to building Aeropay's open architecture solutions and offering consumers best-in-class functionality in each layer of the tech stack, including integrated e-commerce, POS, and digital payments solutions. A Native New Yorker and First Generation Latin American of Uruguayan and Argentine descent, Dan is a member of the Latinx Incubator Program and has been named a Rising Star in Chicago Tech by Crains and to MJ Venture's 40 Under 40 List. He studied Political Science and Economics at Franklin & Marshall College and is an avid chess player. Learn more about Dan and Aeropay at www.aeropay.com. #Cannabis #Cannabistechnology #Cannabiscommunity At Eighth Revolution (8th Rev) we provide services from capital to cannabinoid and everything in between in the cannabinoid industry.8th Revolution Cannabinoid Playbook is an Industry-leading report covering the entire cannabis supply chain The Dime is a top 50 Cannabis Podcast Contact us directly at info@8threv.com Bryan Fields: @bryanfields24 Kellan Finney: @Kellan_Finney
Acharya S, whose real name is D.M. Murdock, was classically educated at some of the finest schools, receiving an undergraduate degree in Classics, Greek Civilization, from Franklin & Marshall College, the 17th oldest college in the United States. At F&M, listed in the "highly selective" category in guides to top colleges and universities, Acharya studied under Dr. Robert Barnett, Dr. Joel Farber and Dr. Ann Steiner, among others. Acharya S has served as a trench master on archaeological excavations in Corinth, Greece, and Connecticut, USA, as well as a teacher's assistant on the island of Crete. Acharya S has traveled extensively around Europe,and she speaks, reads and/or writes English, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and a smattering of other languages to varying degrees. She has read Euripides, Plato and Homer in ancient Greek, and Cicero in Latin, as well as Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. She has also been compelled to cross-reference the Bible in the original Hebrew and ancient Greek. Acharya S aka D.M. Murdock has gained expertise in several religions, as well as knowledge about other esoterica and mystical subjects. She is also the author of several books, including The Christ Conspiracy. Her book Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, is an expansion of the themes and thesis of The Christ Conspiracy. Acharya's book Who Was Jesus: Fingerprints of The Christ represents a scientific analysis of the data regarding this alleged superhuman god who purportedly walked the earth. Acharya has also written Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection, which demonstrates the Egyptian and Horus parallels to Christianity and Christ to be real and factual. Articles by Acharya S have been published in Exposure, Steamshovel Press, Paranoia, as well as other periodicals and ezines. - http://www.truthbeknown.com ******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************
The guys return for another great episode of Too Noobs by reviewing another Franklin & Marshall College poll taken before the PA primary elections in May 2022, talk about who will come to replace Seth Joyner's chair from Eagles Pre and Post Game Live shows on NBC Philly, discuss a terrific example of media misinformation (while trying to bring Steve back from the ledge at the same time), and shake things up by doing a tournament on "Seinfeld"'s best secondary characters.
Kojo Clarke is currently a Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) at a pre k- 9th grade school. In his role he works closely with school leaders to oversee programming and professional development, while supporting parents and caregivers to explore and understand the world of DEI. As a member of the Leadership Team he also supports work of the school's Board of Trustees in several diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, all with the communal goal of developing "culturally competent" students and adults and building a truly inclusive environment. Kojo completed his undergraduate degree at Franklin & Marshall College, where he double-majored in French and Psychology. He holds a Masters in Education degree from Northwestern University's School of Education & Social Policy. He started his education career teaching French at an international school in Ghana, and has also worked in public school. Some of his other roles have included: advisor to student multicultural clubs, member of school diversity committees, and as a leader of faculty and staff diversity and equity work. Kojo is a trained SEED facilitator, and has been "formally" involved with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts since 2015. He is a parent to a strong-willed 1-year old and loves her fiercely.
John Lardas Modernis professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs and Secularism in Antebellum America, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Alison Renna is a PhD candidate studying the history of ideas. In her dissertation, “The Symbiotic Mind: A History of Religion, Ecology, and the Microbial World,” she writes about the ways that religion, social theory, philosophy, ecology, neuroscience, and psychology shaped one another through the twentieth century, beginning with the birth of information theory in the 1940s and ending with research into the human microbiome-brain connection in the 2010s. Buy "Neuromatic" from Class 200 at the University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html
Have you ever heard about Carbon Capture Technology? What if I tell you that investing in those projects could be one way to help the environment and reduce your tax burden. In this week's episode, Dr. Eric N. Shelly and I get into the weeds on carbon capture. We talk about the environmental impact of this technology and how investing in this technology is beneficial to your bottom line with tax savings as well as cash flow. Eric talks about different ways that this technology impacts us and our environment through carbon capture and sequestration which decreases greenhouse gas and enhanced oil recovery decreasing the number of oil wells that need to be drilled. Our government wants private investors to provide these services and provides significant tax benefits against W-2 income. Dr. Eric is an entrepreneur and investor. After earning a BA in Physics at Franklin & Marshall College and a DMD from the University of Pennsylvania, Eric established and grew a thriving multi-doctor, a multi-office dental business that has prospered for three decades. Eric sold his dental business and now focuses on sharing his skills, connections, knowledge, and opportunities with successful professionals. He and his team build and manage diversified strategic portfolios and projects targeting high yields, tax advantages, and equity growth and preservation. Currently, Eric and his team are focusing on the clean energy technology space, where they have acquired over $50 million in assets over the past 2 years. Listen and enjoy! Key Highlights: [00:02 - 07:42] Opening Statement Eric shares his background and work experience When Eric decided to start looking at real estate and decide that you were ready to get rid of the dentistry Real estate has been a critical component of the financing of Eric's practice [07:42 - 19:44] Investing in Buildings Along with Practice Finance Why Eric ended up investing in carbon capture technology Eric shares capital gains and taxes when selling his properties How new technology for cleaning up gas works [19:45 - 29:43] Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal The economic benefits of carbon capture and storage (CCS) Freedom Energy funds essentially raise money to buy equipment in various packages How Eric's project takes advantage of the oil drilling deduction [19:45 - 36:58] The Economic and Environmental Benefits How to offset taxes with investments in projects that improve the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere The risks and rewards associated with investing in a fund that uses leverage The reason why tax advice should be sought before making any investment decisions [36:59 - 38:15] Closing Segment Connect with Eric through LinkedIn, and Facebook. Make sure to check out Freedom Impact Consulting, a company that provides entrepreneurial investors and busy professionals with passive income strategies and tax mitigation tools to take control of their family's financial future. To receive your FREE Report: Top Benefits of Investing in Carbon Capture Technology: https://bit.ly/3s35jDE or email carbon@moneywithmission.com. Are you ready to create wealth that lasts? Download our free eBook, How to Create Wealth that Outlives You. Enjoy the FREE download of 7-Steps to Building Resilient Wealth Let's Connect! You can connect with our host Felecia Froe on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Be sure to check out her website https://moneywithmission.com/ to discover investment strategies designed to make a difference! If you would like to schedule a call with Felecia, go to https://calendly.com/feleciafroemd and she will be more than happy to talk with you! LEAVE A REVIEW! Your ratings and reviews help get the podcast in front of new listeners. Your feedback also lets me know how I can better serve you. Tweetable Quotes: “Before storage technology, the gas with the CO2 would come out of the ground. They would have to take all of that product to someplace to have it cleaned up so that then the gas could be used for what the gas was going to be used for." - Eric Shelly “By capturing and storing CO2, we're able to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels while maintaining a healthy environment. This is an important technology because we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in a way that doesn't have a negative impact on the environment.” - Eric Shelly
Have you ever heard about Carbon Capture Technology? What if I tell you that investing in those projects could be one way to help the environment and reduce your tax burden. In this week's episode, Dr. Eric N. Shelly and I get into the weeds on carbon capture. We talk about the environmental impact of this technology and how investing in this technology is beneficial to your bottom line with tax savings as well as cash flow. Eric talks about different ways that this technology impacts us and our environment through carbon capture and sequestration which decreases greenhouse gas and enhanced oil recovery decreasing the number of oil wells that need to be drilled. Our government wants private investors to provide these services and provides significant tax benefits against W-2 income. Dr. Eric is an entrepreneur and investor. After earning a BA in Physics at Franklin & Marshall College and a DMD from the University of Pennsylvania, Eric established and grew a thriving multi-doctor, a multi-office dental business that has prospered for three decades. Eric sold his dental business and now focuses on sharing his skills, connections, knowledge, and opportunities with successful professionals. He and his team build and manage diversified strategic portfolios and projects targeting high yields, tax advantages, and equity growth and preservation. Currently, Eric and his team are focusing on the clean energy technology space, where they have acquired over $50 million in assets over the past 2 years. Listen and enjoy! Key Highlights: [00:02 - 07:42] Opening Statement Eric shares his background and work experience When Eric decided to start looking at real estate and decide that you were ready to get rid of the dentistry Real estate has been a critical component of the financing of Eric's practice [07:42 - 19:44] Investing in Buildings Along with Practice Finance Why Eric ended up investing in carbon capture technology Eric shares capital gains and taxes when selling his properties How new technology for cleaning up gas works [19:45 - 29:43] Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal The economic benefits of carbon capture and storage (CCS) Freedom Energy funds essentially raise money to buy equipment in various packages How Eric's project takes advantage of the oil drilling deduction [19:45 - 36:58] The Economic and Environmental Benefits How to offset taxes with investments in projects that improve the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere The risks and rewards associated with investing in a fund that uses leverage The reason why tax advice should be sought before making any investment decisions [36:59 - 38:15] Closing Segment Connect with Eric through LinkedIn, and Facebook. Make sure to check out Freedom Impact Consulting, a company that provides entrepreneurial investors and busy professionals with passive income strategies and tax mitigation tools to take control of their family's financial future. To receive your FREE Report: Top Benefits of Investing in Carbon Capture Technology: https://bit.ly/3s35jDE or email carbon@moneywithmission.com. Are you ready to create wealth that lasts? Download our free eBook, How to Create Wealth that Outlives You. Enjoy the FREE download of 7-Steps to Building Resilient Wealth Let's Connect! You can connect with our host Felecia Froe on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Be sure to check out her website https://moneywithmission.com/ to discover investment strategies designed to make a difference! If you would like to schedule a call with Felecia, go to https://calendly.com/feleciafroemd and she will be more than happy to talk with you! LEAVE A REVIEW! Your ratings and reviews help get the podcast in front of new listeners. Your feedback also lets me know how I can better serve you. Tweetable Quotes: “Before storage technology, the gas with the CO2 would come out of the ground. They would have to take all of that product to someplace to have it cleaned up so that then the gas could be used for what the gas was going to be used for." - Eric Shelly “By capturing and storing CO2, we're able to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels while maintaining a healthy environment. This is an important technology because we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in a way that doesn't have a negative impact on the environment.” - Eric Shelly
David Newman wrote the book "Do It! Speaking" and also the President of Duet Marketing. Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with BA in Drama and in English then went to City University of New York with MFA in Theater and Stage Directing Married for 35 years with two Kids Becka and Charlie. Went to Grad School to Professional Theaters in NYC, get into the Corporate World
Please welcome Myong Lee. Myong Lee is the President, Chief Operating Officer, and Co_Founder Clever Care Health Plan. With 14 years' experience in health care leadership, Myong has a proven track record in launching health care organizations. His leadership focus is in building provider relationships and contracting. Prior to founding Clever Care, Myong was instrumental in building Clover Health's provider network and overseeing claims operations. He also served as COO of Satellite Healthplan and as CFO/COO at Inspira Health and Vice President of Payer Contracting at Agilon Health. Myong earned his Master's degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Finance from Franklin & Marshall College.
In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we speak with Nikki Salenetri, VP of People at GymPass, about the importance of building a healthy work environment. Nikki Salenetri has licenses and certifications from reputable organizations including, Talent Acquisition Strategist Certification from Human Capital Institute and Behavioral Interviewing Certification from ZERORISK HR, Inc. Previously, she worked at Rodale Inc, a global health and wellness content company as a Senior Director of HR. She also spent more than two years working at Equinox as the Regional Director of HR. She graduated from New York University with a master's degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology and received her bachelor's from Franklin & Marshall College in Biological Foundations of Behavior. Enjoy this episode? Subscribe and stay connected with Happy at Work!
UMBC picks up their first win of the season with a victory over Franklin & Marshall College! Color Commentary done by Griffin Youngs.
POGIL is an acronym for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. It is a student-centered, group-learning instructional strategy and philosophy developed through research on how students learn best. Today we learn all about POGIL from Rick Moog, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the Executive Director of The POGIL Project and has implemented POGIL learning environments in his courses since 1994. Check out the show notes at: www.physicsalive.com/pogil The POGIL homepage https://pogil.org/ Two articles co-authored by Dr. Moog, the origins of POGIL: A guided inquiry general chemistry course Philosophical and Pedagogical basis of POGIL Other articles and books Article: The sequence of learning cycle activities in high school chemistry by Michael Abraham Book: POGIL - An Introduction to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning for Those Who Wish to Empower Learners More resources from the POGIL website: Effectiveness of POGIL Workshops Want to hear more from Rick? Listen to members of the POGIL team interview Dr. Moog on the POGIL Podcast: Part 1 of the interview Part 2 of the interview
Matt and John talk about a recent update to the Franklin & Marshall College poll in the state of Pennsylvania, whether or not racism is "built into roads", Aaron Rodgers being in "hot water" with the woke mob, Scott Boras stating that the trade system in MLB is "broken", and give Philly love to a retiring Jim Gardner in 2022.
Neil Krauter Sr. currently works as part of the Executive Committee at Risk Strategies, the 11th largest insurance broker in operation. Earlier in his career he worked as Vice Chairman of Aon Risk Services in New York and Global Practice Leader of AMAG, the Aon Merger & Acquisition Group. After a short retirement at age 40, Neil Krauter re-entered the brokerage world with The Krauter Group in 2004.Neil Krauter Sr. graduated from Franklin & Marshall College where he earned a BA in economics.In this episode….Neil Krauter Sr. grew up in Rumson, New Jersey and was the first male Krauter to graduate from college. He was always a competitive person and even in his youth was determined to succeed. During his time in Cub Scouts he won the peanut brittle fundraising sales contest in his first year with a sales total nobody in the country had ever reached. The second year he sold ten times as much. His secret was to sell the brittle two towns away where there were no Cub Scouts.This sense of ambition and of doing things his own way served him well throughout his career. As Neil tells Martin, he found that adopting a strategy of doing the opposite of what was expected was the best way to compete. He explains how he structured his company so he wouldn't have to manage people. He prefers to work with no org chart so there are no assigned titles or hierarchy.In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Neil Krauter Sr. discuss Neil's lengthy career and how he leveraged his experience in launching his own brokerage. Neil shares his thoughts on HR, on creating a forum for conversation within an organization, and how success requires both planning and full commitment. Neil gives examples of how he achieved innovative breakthroughs in business by doing the opposite of what might be expected.
Acharya S, whose real name is D.M. Murdock, was classically educated at some of the finest schools, receiving an undergraduate degree in Classics, Greek Civilization, from Franklin & Marshall College, the 17th oldest college in the United States. At F&M, listed in the "highly selective" category in guides to top colleges and universities, Acharya studied under Dr. Robert Barnett, Dr. Joel Farber and Dr. Ann Steiner, among others. Acharya S has served as a trench master on archaeological excavations in Corinth, Greece, and Connecticut, USA, as well as a teacher's assistant on the island of Crete. Acharya S has traveled extensively around Europe,and she speaks, reads and/or writes English, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and a smattering of other languages to varying degrees. She has read Euripides, Plato and Homer in ancient Greek, and Cicero in Latin, as well as Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. She has also been compelled to cross-reference the Bible in the original Hebrew and ancient Greek. Acharya S aka D.M. Murdock has gained expertise in several religions, as well as knowledge about other esoterica and mystical subjects. She is also the author of several books, including The Christ Conspiracy. Her book Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, is an expansion of the themes and thesis of The Christ Conspiracy. Acharya's book Who Was Jesus: Fingerprints of The Christ represents a scientific analysis of the data regarding this alleged superhuman god who purportedly walked the earth. Acharya has also written Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection, which demonstrates the Egyptian and Horus parallels to Christianity and Christ to be real and factual. Articles by Acharya S have been published in Exposure, Steamshovel Press, Paranoia, as well as other periodicals and ezines. - http://www.truthbeknown.com ******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************
In this episode we speak with Laura Brigandi to learn about the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), their outreach to community volunteers by having them engage in grassroots advocacy and tell their personal stories. Laura Brigandi has fifteen years of experience in government affairs. Currently, she serves as the Senior Manager of Advocacy & Campaigns for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), where she trains volunteers to engage in grassroots advocacy and outreach in their communities. Before joining PanCAN, Laura held various government affairs roles at the College of American Pathologists, American Federation of Musicians, and Pennsylvania Department of Education. She began her career as a fundraiser for the Rendell for Governor Campaign. Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Franklin & Marshall College and a Master's in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. In 2017, she received her certificate in PAC and Grassroots Management from the Public Affairs Council. Thank you to our sponsor: Rap Index, tell them Roger sent you. https://www.rapindex.com This podcast is dedicated to the art of advocacy. Also listen for this episodes advocacy tip. Contact Voices In Advocacy at: www.VoicesinAdvocacy.com 480 488-9150 At Voices in Advocacy we work with organizations that want to inspire, educate, engage, and activate their supports to become even better influential advocates.
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Bebe Miller (Columbus, OH). Miller has been named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center, has received four “Bessie” awards, United States Artists and Guggenheim Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Ursinus College, and Franklin & Marshall College, and is one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artist Award recipients.http://bebemillercompany.org/http://bebemillercompany.org/projects/dancefort/Bebe's E-book "How Dancing is Built: The Making of In A Rhythm"http://bebemillercompany.org/projects/in-a-rhythm-e-book/http://themakingroom.org/Darrell Drive from A History (2012): https://vimeo.com/399322591
Sara Harberson, America's College Counselor, is a nationally recognized authority on college admissions with formidable credentials: former Associate Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Admissions at Franklin & Marshall College, and Director of College Counseling at the Baldwin School. She shares her expertise with a wider audience as the founder and CEO of AdmissionsRevolution.com, a free website available to all, SaraHarberson.com, for personalized college counseling and free resources, and Application Nation, a private subscription-based Facebook group. Sara has appeared on HBO's Vice News, CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, TODAY, and CNBC. This Media Tour is sponsored by Hachette Books.Getting accepted to your dream college has always been a stressful task. Add a worldwide pandemic to the mix and now we are playing with a new set of rules. Like so many other aspects of life, Covid 19 turned the world of college admissions upside down. In 2020, most colleges in America were forced to institute test-optional policies that allow students to apply even without SAT or ACT scores. Campus visits have gone virtual and the future of on-campus classes is still very much unknown for the majority of schools.https://www.saraharberson.com/Meet David Kouri, a prolific writer based in Texas, he just released a new supernatural thriller, Elyria. He's also written a live action Batman series, as well as a book, The Curve about a fictional league called the American Baseball association, which has its own backstory, history, and 27 teams in the league. He's also wrapping up another screenplay, The Normals, a dramatic series in the vein of This is Us. He's an engaging interview and true character who is well versed in film, sports, pop culture and music. Below is more about the new book:David has studied at Los Angeles film school and at Oklahoma City University where he studied under Academy Award-winning Executive producer, Grey Fredrickson, known for The Godfather parts I and II, Apocalypse Now, and The Outsiders.Elyria tells the story of Cameron, who we first see as your average, run of the mill, seventeen-year-old kid. That is, until one night when all of the trappings of normalcy shatter. Close to his eighteenth birthday, all hell breaks loose – literally - his parents are murdered by masked home invaders which starts Cameron's descent into a bizarre, frightening world, he had no idea could possibly be real; a world where monsters truly exist, and not just humankind, but vampires, demons, dragons, witches, aliens, and giants. It is up to Cameron, and a select group of freedom fighters, to not only save the earth, but to also save the galaxy, and along with it, his true homeland, Elyria.https://www.amazon.com/Elyria-David-Kouri-ebook/dp/B0868ZJ46DThe Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.com
Sara Harberson, America's College Counselor, is a nationally recognized authority on college admissions with formidable credentials: former Associate Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Admissions at Franklin & Marshall College, and Director of College Counseling at the Baldwin School. She shares her expertise with a wider audience as the founder and CEO of AdmissionsRevolution.com, a free website available to all, SaraHarberson.com, for personalized college counseling and free resources, and Application Nation, a private subscription-based Facebook group. Sara has appeared on HBO's Vice News, CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, TODAY, and CNBC. This Media Tour is sponsored by Hachette Books.Getting accepted to your dream college has always been a stressful task. Add a worldwide pandemic to the mix and now we are playing with a new set of rules. Like so many other aspects of life, Covid 19 turned the world of college admissions upside down. In 2020, most colleges in America were forced to institute test-optional policies that allow students to apply even without SAT or ACT scores. Campus visits have gone virtual and the future of on-campus classes is still very much unknown for the majority of schools.https://www.saraharberson.com/Meet David Kouri, a prolific writer based in Texas, he just released a new supernatural thriller, Elyria. He's also written a live action Batman series, as well as a book, The Curve about a fictional league called the American Baseball association, which has its own backstory, history, and 27 teams in the league. He's also wrapping up another screenplay, The Normals, a dramatic series in the vein of This is Us. He's an engaging interview and true character who is well versed in film, sports, pop culture and music. Below is more about the new book:David has studied at Los Angeles film school and at Oklahoma City University where he studied under Academy Award-winning Executive producer, Grey Fredrickson, known for The Godfather parts I and II, Apocalypse Now, and The Outsiders.Elyria tells the story of Cameron, who we first see as your average, run of the mill, seventeen-year-old kid. That is, until one night when all of the trappings of normalcy shatter. Close to his eighteenth birthday, all hell breaks loose – literally - his parents are murdered by masked home invaders which starts Cameron's descent into a bizarre, frightening world, he had no idea could possibly be real; a world where monsters truly exist, and not just humankind, but vampires, demons, dragons, witches, aliens, and giants. It is up to Cameron, and a select group of freedom fighters, to not only save the earth, but to also save the galaxy, and along with it, his true homeland, Elyria.https://www.amazon.com/Elyria-David-Kouri-ebook/dp/B0868ZJ46DThe Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.com
Sara Harberson is America's College Counselor. She is a nationally recognized authority on college admissions with formidable credentials: former Associate Dean of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Admissions at Franklin & Marshall College, and Director of College Counseling at the Baldwin School. Sara is one of the only private college counselors who has led both an admissions office at a highly selective college and a college counseling office at an elite high school. Sara also shares her expertise with a wider audience as the founder and CEO of AdmissionsRevolution.com, a free website available to all, SaraHarberson.com, for personalized college counseling and free resources, and Application Nation, a private subscription-based Facebook group. Sara has appeared as a college admissions expert on HBO's Vice News, CBS Evening News , CBS This Morning, The Today Show, and CNBC. Her op-eds have appeared in USA Today, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, and various other national publications. She lives in Lancaster, PA.
For the first time, the educational advancement profession worldwide has a global set of standards for its work. Founded in the CASE Statement on Ethics and the Principles of Practice for Professionals in Educational Fundraising, Alumni Relations and Communications and Marketing, the recently published CASE Global Reporting Standards usher in a new era for transparency in educational philanthropy. The CASE Global Reporting Standards set the stage for benchmarking across other advancement disciplines in future editions. This conversation with the fearless co-chairs of the Standards Working Group, Matthew Eynon, Vice President for College Advancement, Franklin & Marshall College, and Brian Hastings, President and CEO of the University of Nebraska Foundation, provides insight into this work and why the Standards are important for every advancement professional, trustee, and institutional leader.
The premise of holistic admissions suggests that admissions officers consider the whole applicant. But how can intangibles like character or compassion be judged alongside empirical data like grades or test scores? Amy and Mike invited Glenn Manning and Brennan E. Barnard to describe how this challenge is being addressed by the Making Caring Common Project. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is the Making Caring Common Project and how did it get its start? What do admissions deans have to say about showing caring during the current crisis? Can character be measured or quantified? How can a student show character or caring? How can students and educators get involved with these programs? MEET OUR GUESTS Glenn Manning is a Senior Project Manager at Making Caring Common. He formerly served as a high school Wellness Coordinator, English teacher, and professional firefighter. Glenn leads MCC's school-based initiatives where he supports a variety of research efforts, helps school systems gather and use data to guide their programming and practice, develops and assesses evidence-based strategies to promote ethical capacities in young people, and consults with districts and schools to create positive changes in their cultures and climates. He is particularly interested in translating research into practice, mobilizing the energy and wisdom of educators and students, and coaching caring school leaders. Glenn earned a Master of Education in the Learning and Teaching program at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Saint Michael's College. Brennan Barnard, M.Ed is the Director of College Counseling and Outreach at The Derryfield School, an independent day school in Manchester, New Hampshire and at US Performance Academy, an on-line independent high school for elite athletes. He is also the College Admissions Program Advisor with the Making Caring Common project at Harvard Graduate School of Education. During over two decades in education Brennan has worked as a teacher, coach, dorm parent, admission officer, counselor and administrator at a number of independent high schools and colleges. He has counseled Olympians, thespians, artists, cadets, social workers, engineers, philosophers, doctors, writers, lawyers and everything in between. He is co-author of the book, The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together. A native of suburban Philadelphia and practicing Quaker, he is a graduate of Westtown Friends School. Brennan earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from The University of Vermont. This father of two lives in Hopkinton, New Hampshire where he is a volunteer firefighter. Find Glenn and Brennan at https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/ or on social media. LINKS The Character Collaborative Youth Advisory Board Turning the Tide College Admissions Campaign — Making Caring Common For Educators: Writing Character-Conscious Letters of Recommendation College Admission Deans Care In Crisis New Research Finds That Character Counts In College Admission Assessing Ethical Character In College Admission RELATED EPISODES LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION: GOOD VS. GREAT BUILDING AN A+ EXTRACURRICULAR RESUME COLLEGE ADMISSIONS DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.
How do you make good decisions under pressure? Beth is the CEO of the Critical Junctures Group and former Director of Corporate Innovation and Senior Vice President of Hearst Interactive Media. Previously, Beth served as President of Anthony Robbins' Dreamlife. She was the Founding COO of iVillage, Inc., and CFO of Goldman Sachs Ventures. She serves as a trustee of the Reynolds Institute of the University of Missouri Journalism School, the nation’s oldest journalism school, and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Georgia, which sponsors and administers the Peabody Awards. Beth earned her BA from Franklin & Marshall College and her MBA at Harvard Business School.
Nicola Fraser Website: www.nextkeyservices.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolamfraser/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FraserIrish Nicola Fraser is an experienced global executive at Fortune 50 companies. She held various leadership positions at world-class organizations including JPMorgan Chase, Fannie Mae, Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen. Nicola is a qualified financial expert with over 20-years of experience providing solutions to clients across multiple industries in finance, accounting, risk management, corporate governance and regulatory environments during times of significant change and challenge. She is respected as a credible voice in decision making, finding strategic partners and establishing governance. Nicola is Managing Partner at NextKey Services LLC, a firm she founded which provides management consulting services in addition to the management of a growing residential real estate investment portfolio. She partners through understanding the business and a commitment to establishing a business relationship that reflects the truest sense of a partnership. Nicola’s passion for affordable housing inspired her to manage and continue to grow a residential real estate investment portfolio. Nicola volunteers as a mentor in the Million Dollar Women Summit Street Sisters mentorship program where she advises entrepreneurs on how to evaluate and overcome financial challenges in their business. Nicola’s academic achievements include a Bachelor of Arts in business administration with a concentration in accounting from Franklin & Marshall College. She also attended Harvard Business School Executive Education program, Risk Management for Corporate Leaders. Nicola is a Certified Public Accountant. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). In this episode, we discuss: Taking a moment to shift your life Planning to follow your passion Putting your full self out there How to build relationships to build your future Knowing what you want and going for it How to embrace the mess for the long game How to manage it all personally and professionally Why it’s important to be uncomfortable Why the 4th quarter is a huge opportunity instead of a lost quarter
Rachael Quinn and Abigail Reed met at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. While there, they studied a range of acting, directing, and writing for both theater and film. After graduation, Rachael worked for an east coast production company while Abigail studied at the London Dramatic Academy under multiple professors from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. At the production house, Rachael had the opportunity to work alongside people with 20+ years of experience in the industry, both domestically and internationally. Thanks to the small nature of the company, she got to perform many roles, fine-tuning her experience in writing, casting, directing, editing, and producing.In 2017, they moved to Los Angeles where they soon developed the initial concept for The Fallen. Over the last two years, they continued to expand on the series while they networked on other projects and built a strong and dedicated team around the show. Between the two of them, Abigail and Rachael have collectively won multiple awards for best film at a variety of festivals, as well as national recognition for their writing. They recently co-founded their production company Moonwake, which is dedicated to telling unique stories, providing fresh perspectives, and giving platforms to underrepresented people, topics, and communities.
John Hesse is the Managing Partner of DHR International's Corporate Affairs Practice. DHR International is a global executive search firm with expert consultants who provide executive recruitment, management assessment, & succession planning. In his role, John identifies skilled communications and public affairs professionals who advance an organizational mission by engaging and influencing external audiences. Prior to joining DHR, John served as the Government & Public Affairs Practice Leader for The McCormick Group, working on retained searches for lobbyists, government relations and public affairs professionals for corporations, associations, law firms and consulting firms, as well as state, federal and international government affairs opportunities. He also provided confidential candidate representation to lawyers, lobbyists, and public affairs professionals seeking new roles. A key aspect of his work involved representing senior government officials and legislative staff seeking a transition to the private sector. Earlier in his career, John spent time managing his own consulting firm, CERO Strategies, LLC, as the Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at SOHO Resource Group, Inc. and as a Senior Attorney and Director of Government Relations for Direct Selling Association. John earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Government from Franklin & Marshall College and his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law. Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Don't forget to subscribe! Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at Jim@ThePoliticalLife.net Follow The Political Life on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates.
On August 22 as we mark the second International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief Sabrina Dent, Richard T. Foltin, Kristen Lavery, and The Rev. William H. Lamar IV shared their insights on religious freedom. Freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is the protection of the conscience and the free exercise of people’s understanding of the ultimate truth. It is not only a fundamental right but also an individual, institutional, private and public right as well. As enshrined in the First Amendment, the Articles 18,19, and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also protect the rights to freedom of religion or belief, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to peaceful assembly and association. However, not every region is always a stronghold of allowing people to live by their core values and beliefs. The rate of ill-treatment against religious institutions, people, objects, or events is increasing significantly. On August 22, 2019, UN General Assembly recognized this by adopting a resolution declaring “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief”. Upholding these rights and responding to the alarming increase in persecutions of religious people and communities around the world, we believe within the scope of open, constructive, and respectful exchanges at various platforms across local, national, and international levels will be invaluable assets in confronting these ongoing acts of intolerance. To that end, Rumi Forum has invited distinguished speakers to address various dimensions of the topic. On August 20th, our moderator Sabrina Dent and speakers Richard T. Foltin, Kirsten Lavery, and Rev. William H. Lamar IV, will share their insights on highlight mechanisms to prevent unfair treatments towards individuals, communities, and minorities. Moderator: Sabrina Dent, Senior Faith Adviser, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Sabrina is a life-long advocate for human rights and social justice. Throughout her career, she has worked with vulnerable populations including women and children impacted by domestic violence and abuse, youth with mental health and behavioral challenges, and racial and religious minorities. However, she developed a passion as a religious freedom advocate in 2015 when she became a Fellow with the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Freedom. Before joining the AU team, Sabrina worked as director of recruitment and admissions at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum. Prior to her time at the Religious Freedom Center, Sabrina served as program coordinator for the Doctor of Ministry Program at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University (STVU). Sabrina is the past president of the Interfaith Community of Greater Richmond. Sabrina earned her master of divinity degree and doctor of ministry degree from STVU. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech. Speakers: Richard T. Foltin, Fellow, Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Richard T. Foltin is a fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum. He served in a number of positions at the American Jewish Committee, most recently as director of national and legislative affairs in the AJC’s Office of Government and International Affairs in Washington, D.C., from 2009 to 2018. Prior to coming to AJC, he was an associate with the litigation department of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, a New York law firm. Mr. Foltin serves on the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice and as co-chair of the section’s Religious Freedom Committee; he previously served as chair and co-chair of the section’s First Amendment Rights Committee. Mr. Foltin is a member of the Committee on Religious Liberty, founded by the National Council of Churches and today convened by the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum. Mr. Foltin received his B.A. in Political Science from New York University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the bars of New York State, Washington DC, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Kirsten Lavery, Supervisory Policy Analyst, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Kirsten Lavery is Supervisory Policy Analyst and Team Lead for International Law, Africa, and Latin America for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Prior to joining USCIRF, Ms. Lavery worked at the Public International Law & Policy Group and provided legal and policy assistance to civil society representatives in conflict and post-conflict states. Her work focused on transitional justice and human rights documentation, as well as legal and policy reforms to advance human rights protections. Ms. Lavery has also worked on a range of international legal issues at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the UN Office of Legal Affairs, the UN Office of Human Resources Management, and the International Narcotics Control Board. Ms. Lavery previously practiced law in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where she focused on international criminal investigations. Through her pro bono practice and prior clinic work, she has experience representing clients in immigration proceedings, including in asylum cases based on religious persecution. She holds a B.A. in Government and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College and a J.D. with a specialization in International & Comparative Law from Tulane University Law School. Rev. William H. Lamar IV, Pastor, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church The Rev. William H. Lamar IV is pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. He previously served Turner Memorial AME Church in Maryland and three churches in Florida: Monticello, Orlando and Jacksonville. He is a former managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. While he continues to advocate for his community of Washington, D.C., you can find Rev. Lamar fueling his faith by proudly supporting the Poor People’s Campaign, the Washington Interfaith Network or every Sunday at pulpit of AME Church. Lamar is a graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and Duke Divinity School. He is the co-host of "Can These Bones," the Faith & Leadership podcast.
Our special guest for this episode is Duyen Nguyen '23, a rising sophomore at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Mathematics. She will be serving as an RA for her house at F&M this year. Listen in to learn more about many interesting features, resources, and opportunities available at F&M for students. We will also hear about Duyen's stories and her amazing involvement in the college community and in the town of Lancaster.
The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
https://youtu.be/nzO-QhBFz04 Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guest: Dr. Dana Backman, an astrophysicist with a Ph.D. from the University of Hawai’i. He was an infrared astronomy researcher at Kitt Peak Observatory and NASA Ames, then a professor of physics & astronomy at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dana has also taught introductory astronomy at Santa Clara U., in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Dana is co-author with Michael Seeds of three introductory college astronomy textbooks: Foundations, Horizons, and ASTRO. Currently Dana directs the NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (AAA) program for the SETI Institute, bringing high school science teachers on NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory. To learn more about the AAA program, visit their website: https://www.seti.org/aaa Regular Guests: Dr. Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ & @BrianKoberlein ) Chris Carr ( @therealccarr ) Beth Johnson - SETI Institute ( @SETIInstitute / @planetarypan ) This week's stories: - A ring galaxy in the early Universe. - FINALLY! A mission to Neptune! - The Standard Model is incomplete... From zapfanzapfan: Info on Trident and the Discovery selection: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-four-possible-missions-to-study-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
When everything in the present is turned upside-down, how can students manage current challenges while working towards long-term goals like college admissions? What will colleges even want from next year’s high school graduates? Amy and Mike invited author and college counselor Brennan E. Barnard to share insight into college admissions during a global pandemic. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What reassurance can be found in the global nature of a worldwide crisis? What elements of the application rise and fall in value during a global pandemic? Will application essays about your pandemic experience be well-received? How can students learn about colleges when campuses are closed? What can we learn from an unexpected crisis about when students should work on showing colleges who they really are? MEET OUR GUEST Brennan Barnard, M.Ed is the Director of College Counseling and Outreach at The Derryfield School, an independent day school in Manchester, New Hampshire and at US Performance Academy, an on-line independent high school for elite athletes. He is also the College Admissions Program Advisor with the Making Caring Common project at Harvard Graduate School of Education. During over two decades in education Brennan has worked as a teacher, coach, dorm parent, admission officer, counselor and administrator at a number of independent high schools and colleges. He has counseled Olympians, thespians, artists, cadets, social workers, engineers, philosophers, doctors, writers, lawyers and everything in between. Brennan is a member of the Advisory Board for the New Hampshire College and University Council’s New Hampshire Scholars Program and on the Executive Committee for the Character Collaborative. He presents regularly on character, athletic recruiting, mindfulness, discipline and other topics in college admission. He has written about college admission for the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes.com, HuffPost, Concord Monitor, Journal of College Admission and other publications. He has also been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe and Associated Press and an occasional featured guest on New Hampshire Public Radio. He has been interviewed about college admission by New England Cable News and ABC News. Brennan was a New England Association of College Admission Counselors Professional of the Year for 2017. He is co-author of the book, The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together. A native of suburban Philadelphia and practicing Quaker, he is a graduate of Westtown Friends School. Brennan earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from The University of Vermont. This father of two lives in Hopkinton, New Hampshire where he is a volunteer firefighter. LINKS The COVID College Choice: How To Pick A College During A Global Pandemic The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together Virtual College Tours (Episode #73) ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.76.
The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mi4qC44VU Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guests: Tonight we welcome Annie Dickson-Vandervelde, Emily Wilson. and Dr. Joel Kastner to the WSH. Annie led this team of Rochester Institute of Technology astronomers which used Gaia data to discover what may be a giant baby planet located closer to Earth than any other similarly aged planet so far. Since their paper was published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society on February 7, 2020, their collaborators at other institutions received additional new data and now the situation surrounding their discovery is now confusing. Annie, Emily, and Joel will be providing insight into their research and what this new data may now indicate. Annie Dickson-Vandervelde ( @astranniemy ) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Astrophysical Sciences and Technology program at RIT. She currently studies young stars and their protoplanetary disks. She is interested in the way that stars form and additionally the way that planets form around young stars. She did her undergraduate work at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC studying Computational Physics Emily Wilson ( @starstuffwilson ) is a Ph.D. student in RIT's Astrophysical Sciences and Technology program in Rochester, NY. Her research largely focuses on theoretical binary star evolution, though recent work has included observational stellar astrophysics studies on nearby young moving groups. In addition, she conducts research with colleagues at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on signing with conceptual accuracy in physics classrooms. Her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics was completed at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Dr. Joel Kastner ( jhkpci@rit.edu ) earned a BS in Physics at the University of Maryland (1981) and Masters and PhD degrees in Astronomy at the University of California Los Angeles in 1986. As a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he worked on a team developing the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Joel's research interests include Star and planet formation; late stages of stellar evolution; X-ray, optical/IR, and radio imaging and spectroscopy; and image processing algorithms and systems. Joel joined the faculty at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005, and in 2013 he also joined RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy. He served as the Director of the Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics at RIT from 2010 through 2016. In 2020 he was named an American Astronomical Society Legacy Fellow. You can read RIT's press release about this exciting discovery here: https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-scientis... Regular Guests: Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier ) Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz ) Veranika (Nika) Klimovich ( @veranikaspace / Pictame: @nika_klim ) This week's stories: - Mars 2020 gets a new name. Perseverance. - A bright comet. Finally! 2019 Y4 Atlas. - Bedrest studies for spaceflight. - Earth's tiny (temporary) new moon. - Setback for StarShip. - Merging white dwarfs. - 3D printed binoculars. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Rhod Shaw is the Principal and President of the Alpine Group, a bipartisan, bicameral government affairs consulting firm located on Capitol Hill. The Alpine Group's clients include Fortune 100 companies, private equity firms, trade associations, local governments and more. Rhod brings over 20 years of high-level government experience to the Alpine Group. Rhod's experience includes work affecting industries such as telecommunications, energy, automotive, technology, financial services, and those requiring the protection of intellectual property rights. Rhod attended Franklin & Marshall College, and worked in senior leadership positions for a number of members of congress before joining the Alpine Group. Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at: Jim@theLobbyingShow.com. Follow The Lobbying Show on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates about the show, our guests, and more.
Mitch Green joins host Steve Grumbine to talk about his work with Democratic Socialists of America in Portland, OR, and the role Modern Monetary Theory can play in DSA. As an eco-socialist, Mitch’s focus is on the climate crisis, and as an economist, he uses MMT to answer the ubiquitous question concerning solutions: “how will you pay for it?” Even when people are not open to accepting MMT, he finds it effective to simply ask them the price of continuing to live like this. The standard posture is to simply “tax the rich” but given the political climate, that probably won’t fly. So, what should we do? The clock is ticking. If we consider the costs of catastrophe, even standard cost-benefit analysis will tell us we must act and take what he refers to as a moon-shot approach, opening up the spigot of federal money creation. None of this is to say we shouldn’t tax the rich. But we need not rely on their money to implement the necessary policies. We can apply the levers of the state. People can be taught that the laws of economics are not immutable; they are social phenomena -- of human creation. Mitch sees the Green New Deal as something bigger and bolder than any list of traditional policy objectives. It is a bold statement that says we want to change every aspect of our society. It takes the threat of ecological collapse and uses it as a way to galvanize many interests into one organized body of action. The GND is an opportunity to change how, where, and for whom we produce things, irrespective of financial price tag. We’ll do it in such a way that protects and respects the people who are immediately affected by the transition. When Steve asks him about the challenges we face, Mitch talks about the need to get money out of politics. (Fans of this podcast may remember Scott Ferguson insisting that we only need to get private money out of politics and, in fact, should have an injection of public money into the process!) The truth is that most Americans don’t “do” democracy very well. We must have a theory of democracy that understands power. If we’re naïve about power in politics we’ll be frustrated by the inability to change. Mitch expresses optimism for the future. His experience working with DSA has shown that people have a proclivity for community and stewardship. Organizing with a rights-based framework is inspiring and powerful. We see that conservatives are animated by the fear of losing their rights, and while this is mainly concerned with their right to own guns, everyone wants the right to a dignified life. It is up to us to seize control of the narrative and tie it to the right to a job, a clean environment, health care and housing. This is where our power stems from. The discussion goes into the difference between micro and macroeconomics. They talk about Steve’s view of the job guarantee as a democracy enhancer. And they go into greater detail about the possibilities arising from the Green New Deal. Mitch Green is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has taught courses in political economy, economic statistics and applied microeconomics at Franklin & Marshall College and currently moonlights as an adjunct economics instructor at Portland Community College. https://www.salon.com/2019/09/02/this-economist-debunked-all-the-right-wing-talking-points-about-the-green-new-deal/
By Michael Tetreault, Editor/Host Today we are joined by two exceptional Concierge Medicine Physicians and members of the American College of Private Physicians (ACPP.md). Meet Dr. Jeff Puglisi Dr. Puglisi, Board certified in Internal Medicine, is a founding partner of Glenville Medical Concierge Care. Dr. Puglisi's specialized clinical interests are in men's health and cardiovascular disease prevention. He has served as President of the Greenwich Medical Society since 2006 and was recognized as a finalist for the Melville G. Magida Humanitarian Award in 2010. He earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin & Marshall College, medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he served as chief resident. Meet Thomas W. LaGrelius, MD, FAAFP Dr. LaGrelius has been a board-certified specialist in family medicine since 1977 and geriatric medicine since 1990. He completed his most recent family medicine board recertification in 2014 and his geriatrics recertification in 2010. Dr. LaGrelius graduated from the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, serving his internship and residency at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He is a staff member at two hospitals: Torrance Memorial Medical Center, where he served for six terms as chairman of the Department of Family Practice, and on courtesy staff at Little Company of Mary Torrance Hospital.Being a family physician is a great privilege, and he carries it with great responsibility. It is not a part-time job. It is a full-time calling to which Dr. LaGrelius has devoted his life – a decision he made as a youth. To him, it is the most interesting, challenging and rewarding of all professions. Tom is also the current President of The American College of Private Physicians (ACPP.md) which is the premier professional society for established, successfully functioning direct practices. Our network of leading doctors is dedicated to improving best practices for all our members through topical educational programing, exclusive cost savings on today's most effective practice management resources, new patient travel care coverage and efficient marketing services that elevate a doctor's online visibility. The ACPP believes the investment in membership is returned through improved practice management and patient care. The ACPP was launched by leaders in the field and pioneers in medicine who are strong political advocates for the industry at both the state and federal level. For more information, please contact - www.acpp.md. Resources Mentioned www.acpp.md www.skyparkpfc.com https://glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com/jeffrey-s-puglisi-md/ www.glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com www.ConciergeMedicineFORUM.com www.ConciergeMedicineToday.com
Isaiah has a Ph.D. in Anatomy & Cell Biology and is an internationally recognized Fortune 500 consultant. He is an expert in the biotechnology industry and specializes in helping people transition into cutting-edge career tracks.Isaiah believes that if you feel stuck somewhere in your life right now, you should make a change. Don’t sit still and wait for the world to tell you what to do. Start a new project. Build your own business. Take action. Experimentation is the best teacher.Isaiah did his undergraduate work at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Iowa. Since graduating, he has been advancing his career in cell biology and business coaching. In the last two years, Isaiah has given over 250 seminars in 20 different countries throughout Europe, New Zealand, Australia and North America.Isaiah has worked with numerous leaders in the biotechnology industry, including Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Leinco Technologies, Orflo Technologies, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Cellerant Therapeutics, Miltenyi Biotec, McCord Research, Expert Cytometry, Tree Star, Amgen, Celgene, Ambrx, BD Biosciences, Baxter Bioscience, Pfizer, Roche, and Genentech. He has also presented at Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Cancer Research UK, University of Amsterdam, German Cancer Research Center, Pasteur Institute, Curie Institute, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, University of Tasmania, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, and many other prestigious institutions.Check out what Isaiah is up to at: https://cheekyscientist.com/
Karen graduated from Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. with an honors degree in History. She continued her education by receiving a M.A. in American History and an M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York City. For the next three decades, Karen held a variety of marketing and management positions with increasing levels of responsibility in the financial services industry. Her assignments with Citicorp, American Express, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Capital One gave her experience in retail banking management, product management, market research, new product development, budgeting, and advertising.
“My ability to promptly and completely address your medical problems will lend itself to better healthcare and a more rewarding experience for us all.” – Dr. Ralph Cipriani By Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today (CMT), Host of The DocPreneur Podcast | iTunes + Soundcloud Today we catch up with Dr. Ralph Cipriani and Dr. Jeff Puglisi of Glenville, CT and Glenville Medical Concierge Care. This unique practice is a "group" concierge practice. In this interview we will unpack the challenges, opportunities and business side of Group Concierge Medicine and what it means to the local community of Doctors, specialists and Patients. What is an Infectious Disease (ID) Specialist? ID specialists review your medical data, including X-rays and laboratory reports such as blood work and culture data. They also may perform a physical exam to help determine the cause of the problem.[1] Meet Dr. Ralph Cipriani, Infectious Disease Specialist and Internal Medicine Concierge Physician, Glenville, CT Dr. Ralph Cipriani is a board certified Internal Medicine physician and Infectious Disease specialist. He has been on staff at Greenwich Hospital for over a decade and practicing for more than 17 years. Dr. Cipriani holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Masters of Science, both from Stony Brook University in New York. A 1996 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, he went on to complete his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Infectious Disease, both at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. Throughout his career, Dr. Cipriani has consistently earned highest honors and Castle Connolly's Top Doctor awards.About Our PracticeAt Glenville Medical Concierge Care, all patients receive the highest level of commitment and care from our dedicated, experienced physicians. We practice medicine the way it's meant to be, with extended, unhurried visits, a customized plan for your wellness and a strong focus on prevention. Our collective expertise and collaborative approach allows us to blend the latest in medical advances with truly personalized care. Meet Dr. Jeff Puglisi “We'll have the time to focus on every aspect of our patients' health, whether it means advanced lipid testing for those at high risk for cardiovascular disease or developing a plan for optimal nutrition and fitness at any age.” – Dr. Jeffrey PuglisiDr. Puglisi, Board certified in Internal Medicine, is a founding partner of Glenville Medical Concierge Care. Dr. Puglisi's specialized clinical interests are in men's health and cardiovascular disease prevention. He has served as President of the Greenwich Medical Society since 2006 and was recognized as a finalist for the Melville G. Magida Humanitarian Award in 2010. He earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin & Marshall College, medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he served as chief resident. Learn more, 7 Riversville Road Greenwich, CT 06831 Office: 203-531-1808 Visit https://glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com/ Resources Mentioned/Cited Infectious Diseases Society of America; https://www.idsociety.org/public-health/what-is-an-id-specialist#1 www.conciergemedicineforum.com www.specialdocs.com www.conciergemedicinetoday.com www.glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com https://www.facebook.com/glenvillemedicalconciergecare/
“My ability to promptly and completely address your medical problems will lend itself to better healthcare and a more rewarding experience for us all.” – Dr. Ralph Cipriani By Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today (CMT), Host of The DocPreneur Podcast | iTunes + Soundcloud Today we catch up with Dr. Ralph Cipriani and Dr. Jeff Puglisi of Glenville, CT and Glenville Medical Concierge Care. This unique practice is a "group" concierge practice. In this interview we will unpack the challenges, opportunities and business side of Group Concierge Medicine and what it means to the local community of Doctors, specialists and Patients. What is an Infectious Disease (ID) Specialist? ID specialists review your medical data, including X-rays and laboratory reports such as blood work and culture data. They also may perform a physical exam to help determine the cause of the problem.[1] Meet Dr. Ralph Cipriani, Infectious Disease Specialist and Internal Medicine Concierge Physician, Glenville, CT Dr. Ralph Cipriani is a board certified Internal Medicine physician and Infectious Disease specialist. He has been on staff at Greenwich Hospital for over a decade and practicing for more than 17 years. Dr. Cipriani holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Masters of Science, both from Stony Brook University in New York. A 1996 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, he went on to complete his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Infectious Disease, both at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. Throughout his career, Dr. Cipriani has consistently earned highest honors and Castle Connolly's Top Doctor awards.About Our PracticeAt Glenville Medical Concierge Care, all patients receive the highest level of commitment and care from our dedicated, experienced physicians. We practice medicine the way it's meant to be, with extended, unhurried visits, a customized plan for your wellness and a strong focus on prevention. Our collective expertise and collaborative approach allows us to blend the latest in medical advances with truly personalized care. Meet Dr. Jeff Puglisi “We'll have the time to focus on every aspect of our patients' health, whether it means advanced lipid testing for those at high risk for cardiovascular disease or developing a plan for optimal nutrition and fitness at any age.” – Dr. Jeffrey PuglisiDr. Puglisi, Board certified in Internal Medicine, is a founding partner of Glenville Medical Concierge Care. Dr. Puglisi's specialized clinical interests are in men's health and cardiovascular disease prevention. He has served as President of the Greenwich Medical Society since 2006 and was recognized as a finalist for the Melville G. Magida Humanitarian Award in 2010. He earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin & Marshall College, medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he served as chief resident. Learn more, 7 Riversville Road Greenwich, CT 06831 Office: 203-531-1808 Visit https://glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com/ Resources Mentioned/Cited Infectious Diseases Society of America; https://www.idsociety.org/public-health/what-is-an-id-specialist#1 www.conciergemedicineforum.com www.specialdocs.com www.conciergemedicinetoday.com www.glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com https://www.facebook.com/glenvillemedicalconciergecare/
“My ability to promptly and completely address your medical problems will lend itself to better healthcare and a more rewarding experience for us all.” – Dr. Ralph Cipriani By Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today (CMT), Host of The DocPreneur Podcast | iTunes + Soundcloud Today we catch up with Dr. Ralph Cipriani and Dr. Jeff Puglisi of Glenville, CT and Glenville Medical Concierge Care. This unique practice is a "group" concierge practice. In this interview we will unpack the challenges, opportunities and business side of Group Concierge Medicine and what it means to the local community of Doctors, specialists and Patients. What is an Infectious Disease (ID) Specialist? ID specialists review your medical data, including X-rays and laboratory reports such as blood work and culture data. They also may perform a physical exam to help determine the cause of the problem.[1] Meet Dr. Ralph Cipriani, Infectious Disease Specialist and Internal Medicine Concierge Physician, Glenville, CT Dr. Ralph Cipriani is a board certified Internal Medicine physician and Infectious Disease specialist. He has been on staff at Greenwich Hospital for over a decade and practicing for more than 17 years. Dr. Cipriani holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Masters of Science, both from Stony Brook University in New York. A 1996 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, he went on to complete his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Infectious Disease, both at Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. Throughout his career, Dr. Cipriani has consistently earned highest honors and Castle Connolly's Top Doctor awards.About Our PracticeAt Glenville Medical Concierge Care, all patients receive the highest level of commitment and care from our dedicated, experienced physicians. We practice medicine the way it's meant to be, with extended, unhurried visits, a customized plan for your wellness and a strong focus on prevention. Our collective expertise and collaborative approach allows us to blend the latest in medical advances with truly personalized care. Meet Dr. Jeff Puglisi “We'll have the time to focus on every aspect of our patients' health, whether it means advanced lipid testing for those at high risk for cardiovascular disease or developing a plan for optimal nutrition and fitness at any age.” – Dr. Jeffrey PuglisiDr. Puglisi, Board certified in Internal Medicine, is a founding partner of Glenville Medical Concierge Care. Dr. Puglisi's specialized clinical interests are in men's health and cardiovascular disease prevention. He has served as President of the Greenwich Medical Society since 2006 and was recognized as a finalist for the Melville G. Magida Humanitarian Award in 2010. He earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin & Marshall College, medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he served as chief resident. Learn more, 7 Riversville Road Greenwich, CT 06831 Office: 203-531-1808 Visit https://glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com/ Resources Mentioned/Cited Infectious Diseases Society of America; https://www.idsociety.org/public-health/what-is-an-id-specialist#1 www.conciergemedicineforum.com www.specialdocs.com www.conciergemedicinetoday.com www.glenvillemedicalconciergecare.com https://www.facebook.com/glenvillemedicalconciergecare/
Karen Feldman grew up in the Jersey suburbs of Philly. After getting her bachelor’s in English from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she headed to Manhattan and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her master’s degree, and came to the realization that northern winters were not for her. ----more---- So she headed south and got her first full time job as a cub reporter at the News Press. She went on to become a senior writer and editor in the Lifestyles department, as well as the paper’s pseudonymous mystery diner whose name I’ve never said out loud so this is just a guess: Jean Le Boeuf. After 28 years, she came to FGCU to create the university’s magazine and has worked in University Marketing for 12 years now. She lives in North Fort Myers with her husband, Jim McCracken, who’s an IT pro with Lee County, and their menagerie of 7 rescued dogs and 6 cats. She continues to review restaurants for Florida Weekly to this very day.
Conor Lamb spoke to his supporters just before 12:45 a.m. as absentee votes were still being counted.“It took longer than we thought, but we did it,” he said, even though results had not yet been released.kDKA TV The unofficial total for absentee ballots in Washington County, shows Democrat Conor Lamb with 609 votes and Republican Rick Saccone, 547. Democrats, meanwhile, may say that Mr. Lamb has shown that candidates can be competitive in districts won by Mr. Trump. Terry Madonna, a veteran pollster at Franklin & Marshall College, said, “Moving forward, that tells Democrats that in districts Trump won by 8, 10, 12 even 20 points not to nationalize the race.” Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald praised the candidate. "Conor is a great candidate and he ran a great campaign. ... I've never seen a campaign with so much grassroots enthusiasm."Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Terry Madonna is the Professor of Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College and a veteran pollster and observer of politics in the Keystone State. He shares his insights on this crucial midterms battleground where a special election is coming on March 13th.
When the Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed in 2004 they didn’t find any Tharks or H.G. Wellsian tentacled creatures with leathery skin, but they did find surprising evidence of water. Both rovers vastly exceeded their nominal missions and were joined on Mars by the larger Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity in 2012. In this episode, Senior Research Scientist and NASA Participating Scientist Bill Farrand from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, CO tells us how the rovers have helped to transform our view of the surface of Mars from a barren, dead volcanic planet to one that was once much like the Earth with flowing ground and surface waters and stunning scenic vistas. This presentation was given at Nerd Nite Denver in December 2015. Farrand is a senior research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He has a B.A. in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College and a M.S. and Ph.D. in the Geosciences from the University of Arizona. He has worked extensively in terrestrial remote sensing as well as in the remote sensing of Mars and of the Moon. In the terrestrial remote sensing field, Bill has worked extensively with data from airborne hyperspectral remote sensing systems for both commercial and government programs. Bill has been a Participating Scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission since 2002. Bill has worked extensively with multispectral Pancam data from both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers looking at the multispectral reflectance of rocks viewed by the rovers at the Columbia Hills of Gusev crater and on the plains and craters of Meridiani Planum. He is also involved in several other projects examining terrestrial analogues of Martian surface materials, working with orbital remote sensing data of Mars, and examining the hyperspectral reflectance of dry and ephemeral lakes. In his free time, Bill is an avid rock climber and also enjoys skiing, hiking, taking his dogs on walks, and pursuing useless TV and movie trivia.
When Nestor Taffur walked off the mat in Oklahoma City after falling to Rutgers' Anthony Perrotti in the Round of 12, he walked off the mat as the very last competitive wrestler in the sport of wrestling for Boston University.The New Jersey native had proposed to his then-girlfriend earlier in the tournament, so it was a spectrum of emotion. As Taffur realized the program he'd given so much to was about to go away, he spent more and more time with his college coach, Carl Adams, and realized he wanted to be a coach.In Episode 107 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, the news is positive for Taffur, who recently joined the coaching staff at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania under head head coach Mike Rogers. It's Taffur's first coaching job and it's at a place he nearly found himself competing for coming out of high school.Taffur talks about his excitement and anticipation to help the Diplomat wrestling program, which recently received a $5 million dollar endowment, preserving the wrestling program at the tiny private Liberal Arts school that's Division III in every other sport (save squash).Taffur also goes into detail on his feelings about the Boston University administration and how it stripped him and his teammate of having a school they could go back to, cheer on and potentially even donate. It's a retrospective about the past and a prospective of the future, chock full of candid responses and sound-off moments.
ENCORE One plus one is two. But what’s the square root of 64, divided by 6 over 12?* Wait, don’t run for the hills! Math isn’t scary. It helps us describe and design our world, and can be easier to grasp than the straight edge of a protractor. Discover how to walk through the city and number-crunch simultaneously using easy tips for estimating the number of bricks in a building or squirrels in the park. Plus, why our brains are wired for finger-counting … whether aliens would have calculators … and history’s most famous mathematical equations (after e=mc2). *The answer is 16 Guests: Ian Stewart – Emeritus professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, U.K., author of In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World Michael Anderson – Psychologist and neuroscientist, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA Keith Devlin – Mathematician and Director of the Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research Institute, Stanford University John Adam – Mathematician, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and author of X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life Descripción en español
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker speaks with students and faculty at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker speaks with students and faculty at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.
VINCENT UEBER - Producer Vince Ueber is a freelance reality TV and documentary producer who has worked for major cable and network television companies and film studios. He is the producer and co-writer of the feature length documentary film STREET DOGS OF SOUTH CENTRAL narrated by QUEEN LATIFAH and distributed by Lionsgate Films and Animal Planet. Ueber received his BA in Philosophy from California State University Los Angeles and is a member of the Producers Guild of America. Most recently, he produced 12 episodes of BETTY WHITE'S new NBC hidden camera series, OFF THEIR ROCKERS for NBC. BILL MARIN - Director Bill Marin received his Bachelor's degree in Animal Behavior from Franklin & Marshall College and achieved a Master's degree in Film/Television from Boston University. He has been working in non-scripted film and television for ten years as a producer, director, writer, cameraman and editor. Street Dogs of South Central' marks his first feature-length venture. Abandoned by man and forced to survive in his urban jungle, STREET DOGS OF SOUTH CENTRAL profoundly depicts the everyday struggles of life in the inner city for man's best friend. Scavenging through trash cans for food, sleeping in abandoned buildings, and navigating city traffic are all part of these homeless dogs' daily lives.
Host: Robert Price D.M. Murdock, who also goes by the pen name "Acharya S.," is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, the most controversial of modern treatments of the Christ Myth theory. She has had to field flack from both apologists and atheists. An independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology, Murdock was educated in Classics and Greek Civilization, at Franklin & Marshall College and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. She has traveled extensively around Greece, participating in the archaeological excavation at Corinth, in addition, probably, to eating loads of squid. Her other books include Suns of God, Who Was Jesus? and Christ in Egypt. Her articles and books can be found at her websites TruthBeKnown.com, StellarHousePublishing.com and FreethoughtNation.com. Point of Inquiry is happy to feature an interview with Acharya by fellow Jesus Mythicist Robert M. Price (assuming, of course, that both of them exist!).