Podcasts about Gary Austin

Sign up for the changes here - www,theportugalclub.comSubscribe to Gary Austin's Wednesday Interconnect here - https://www.youtube.com/@UCbKc5PSg3TtnGW1LYIj3LjgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-good-morning-portugal-podcast-with-carl-munson--2903992/support.

Nikolay and Michael discuss Row Level Security in Postgres, focussing on the performance side effects and some tips to avoid (or minimize) them. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Row Security Policies (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html7+ million Postgres tables (recent talk by Kailash Nadh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi5Q_wL9i0Row Level Security guide (Supabase docs) https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-securitycurrent_setting function https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#id-1.5.8.34.3.6.2.2.1.1.1.1Our slow count episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-countRLS Performance and Best Practices (gist from Gary Austin) https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/14576Everything you need to know about Postgres Row Level Security (talk by Paul Copplestone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZT1Qx2xUCoBUFFERS enabled for EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c2a4078ebad71999dd451ae7d4358be3c9290b07Add UUID version 7 generation function (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=78c5e141e9c139fc2ff36a220334e4aa25e1b0ebPostgres hacking session with Andrey and Kirk (for UUIDv7): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPq_hiOE-N8~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is produced by:Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustardNikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork 

You might have seen Boston native Roz Browne in numerous commercials, including a Diet Pepsi commercial shown during the Oscars. Roz is undeniably one of the most talented comics and performers of this generation. With an earthy passion and tenacity, she draws from current and past relationships and observations to bravely weave humorous tales that makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about comedy. Audience members tell her that she reminds them of the late Robin Harris. What drives Roz? She thinks it was being the middle child with six brothers and sisters. How else was she going to get attention? The sassy performer, whose credits include Judd Apatow's critically acclaimed comedy series “Baskets” on the FX network, national commercial spots for Geico Insurance Company and Xfinity, has assembled an extensive body of work. A career that began as a Certified Public Accountant for various companies including Segal, Goldman and Macnow where she handled the finances for Lou Rawls, Natalie Coles and Earth, Wind & Fire, proved confining for this dynamic performer. While studying with Gary Austin, Founder of the Groundlings, she honed her writing and creativity to pursue her dream of being actor and standup comedian. A decade later, Browne was selected by Mitzi Shore, owner of the World Famous Comedy Store to become a regular at the club where her name is on the wall along with some of the greats like Richard Pryor and George Carlin. She perfected her persona and delivery and has performed on top-rated comedy shows including BET's “Comic View” and “Bryon Allen's Comics Unleashed and twice on ABC's “The View” as one of the Hilarious Housewives. In her role as Trish in “Baskets,” she made an impact with her deadpan expressions and laugh out loud one-liners. She even became president of “Baskets College”, much to the dismay of Zack Galifianikis' character. Today, she exemplifies creativity at its best with gut-busting humor, bold drama and good old fashion storytelling wrapped in a courageously authentic package. Whether she is performing in honor of the incomparable Robin Williams or acting in films such as “How High” with Danny Devito, Roz exudes skill and discipline. At home, she spends quality time with her dog Tipp who has his own Twitter account. For more information about Roz or to book the actress and comedian for a show or speaking engagement, please click here. https://roz-browne.ck.page/d994eee9db https://rozbrowne.com/ #rozbrowne comedian #actress #writer #host #livewithcdp #talkshow #WQEE #chrispomay #barrycullenchevrolet #sponsorship #youtube #applepodcasts #spotify#iheartradio Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/54200596...

An improv artist and teacher for nearly 40 years, and he has applied those principles to all facets of his work as an editor, writer, director, and actor. He is the founder of Turbine Arts Collective, a Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to the exploration of creativity, where he teaches weekly workshops in improvisation. After graduating from the University of Iowa with degrees in Communications/Theatre Arts and Journalism, he moved to Los Angeles, became involved in the local theatre community, and quickly dedicated himself to the performance and study of improvisation. His mentor Gary Austin (creator of The Groundlings) called him, "One of the best improvisers I've ever worked with." He co-founded The Bubalaires, an improvisational physical-comedy theatre troupe with roots in Commedia dell' Arte, and he created Shplotz!, an evening of improvisational theatre with celebrated guests like Helen Hunt, Jason Alexander, James Corden, and Dave Foley. Rob has taught improvisation workshops at the Walt Disney Studios, USC Marshall School of Business, JPL/NASA, SAG-AFTRA, UCLA Performing Arts Intensive and the American Conservatory Theatre. He also teaches creative practices to businesses and corporations. Rob is also well-known as an editor of commercials and music videos, collaborating with such varied directors as Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam and Joe Pytka. He won the Clio Award and many other awards for editing. As a director, his film Heavenzapoppin'! won the highest award given by the National Educational Media Association, and Leonard Maltin called it, "A delightful and ingenious film".

Deadair Dennis Maler kicks off the first live taping of "So What Do You Really Do?" at Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans with a bang, spilling the beans on the podcast's origins, the inspiration behind its confusing name, and a few of his own past day jobs. Then, he welcomes two hilarious New Orleans natives: comedian and actress Rosie Tran, who shares her journey from bullied kid to standup star, and writer and podcaster Meryl Klemow, who dishes on how her parents tricked her into going to college. Together, they explore the world of podcasting, its impact on society, and the surprising ways it's connected them to their hometowns. Don't miss this hilarious and insightful live taping! Subscribe to So What Do You Really Do? and leave a comment below sharing your favorite moment from the episode.

#HappyMondayPortugal #MindfulMigration #ExpatMenPortugalDelighted to be broadcasting from the legendary 'Man Cave of Al-Viagra' with Gary Austin, and James Holley as per usual on a Monday morning with Vitor Costa in his monthly residency too (-:Every Monday GMP! resident James 'Mindful Migration Monday' Holley shares his thoughts, reflections and suggestions for a happy landing and life in Portugal, so do chip in with your contributions, questions and suggestions throughout the show (-:Also joining us ... that cheerful chappie and all-round 'bom ovo' - Vitor Costa of meteoric expat-service company - http://www.portugaldoor.com Please join us for a fun and informative start to the week... ---All that we do is made possible by our GMP! VIP supporters, Portugal Club members, as well as associates including Expats Portugal and channel sponsors UrHome/Dynasty Homes.Feel free to support the Good Morning Portugal! show and community by becoming a GMP! VIP or joining the Portugal Club at www.gmpvip.comLearn loads more about Portugal every day here - www.learnaboutportugal.comJoin Expats Portugal for access to top migration professionals, discounts and perks - https://expatsportugal.com/?wpam_id=27 Check out Portugal's most exciting new sustainable development project - http://www.herdadedomeio.comNeed to exchange Dollars for Euros? Try https://www.goodmorningportugal.com/support-services/currency-exchangeContact Carl Munson - carl@goodmorningportugal.comWant to create live shows like mine? Try https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4668289695875072

It's #FeelGOODFridayPortugal and Mrs M is in the house, subbing in for Carl, who is on a Schist Trip with 'Filomena and Friends'.I was joined by Jennie Lowes and Gary Austin, as we chatted about the possibilities of what life was like on the Silver Coast / Central Portugal.If you would like to check out Gary's fb page, which lists events in Central Portugal, please click here https://www.facebook.com/groups/282403337833857 If you would like to find out more about the integrative healthcare options that jennie provides, please go to www.jenius.life or message Jennie here - hello@jeniuslifeHope you enjoyed our chat today and clips of Carl's exploits xxxxNeither Savvy Cat Ana, nor show sponsor Bobby O'Reilley were able to join me today, but to get in contact with them, please follow the links below:Find out more about Savvy Cat Realty and Ana here - https://www.savvycatrealty.com/Find Bobby here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-o-reilly-b77809ab/Both might have looked at this recent article - https://www.portugalresident.com/portugals-standard-of-living-takes-nosedive-and-may-continue-falling - that suggests "Portugal's standard of living takes nosedive 'and may continue falling'".Despite the NHR announcement and this research, is Portugal still a great place to be? Certainly feels like it to us!Mrs M is taking care of the studio this morning as we look towards a 'bom fim de semana'...--All that we do is made possible by our GMP! VIP supporters, Portugal Club members, as well as associates including Expats Portugal and channel sponsors UrHome/Dynasty Homes.Feel free to support the Good Morning Portugal! show and community by becoming a GMP! VIP or joining the Portugal Club at www.gmpvip.comLearn loads more about Portugal every day here - www.learnaboutportugal.com Join Expats Portugal for access to top migration professionals, discounts and perks - https://expatsportugal.com/?wpam_id=27Check out Portugal's most exciting new sustainable development project - http://www.herdadedomeio.comNeed to exchange Dollars for Euros? Try https://www.goodmorningportugal.com/support-services/currency-exchangeContact Carl Munson - carl@goodmorningportugal.comWant to create live shows like mine? Try https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4668289695875072

Here's the deal on fun! This week on the podcast we have guest speaker and producer, Gary Austin join us for a lighthearted conversation on upcoming summer fun, memories and things to look forward to! - - - Send your comments/questions/topic suggestions in the reviews or DM us on Instragram @heresthedealpod ---Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heresthedealpod/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heresthedealpod/message

Join the Podcast Producer's Bootcamp: https://www.7equis.com Join the 7EQUIS Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/954zkYtPv8⁠ More Bobby Lee TigerBelly: https://open.spotify.com/show/7auys1ONxyhCuL9I9aXvZm?si=2c0b3821152c4096 Bad Friends: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gaGfrqgnVqUBNDdtv5p3S?si=def9c06fa8e246f8 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobbyleelive Bad Friends Tour Tix: https://badfriendspod.com Tickets: https://bobbyleelive.com Follow Andres Rosende (aka Fancy from Bad Friends): ⁠https://www.instagram.com/fancyb.1⁠ 0:00 Bobby Lee's First Time Doing Stand Up 3:58 Gary Austin and Bobby's Groundlings Influences 9:01 Dumb Jokes Like Mia's 15:08 How Did Your Parents React to Your Success? 20:40 Quintin Tarantino, Jerry Seinfeld, and Dennis Miller 28:09 The Origin Story 32:10 Who's Your Wolf? 38:52 Exposing Bobby's Secrets 42:50 Why Do You Watch Soccer? 55:16 Bobby's Top 10 Movies BUY THE EQUIPMENT WE USE! MICROPHONE: ⁠https://amzn.to/3WcEZnA⁠ CAMERA: ⁠https://amzn.to/3ohqT7W⁠ HEADPHONES: ⁠https://amzn.to/3IqGY1P⁠ TRIPODS: ⁠https://amzn.to/3ohIigw⁠ WEBCAM: ⁠https://amzn.to/3pRjs7V⁠ This is a 7EQUIS PRODUCTION ⁠https://www.7equis.net/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Setting Your Vision for the New Year with SuccessLove In Midlife - Episode 26 Join Georgie Coote and Gary Austin as they discuss tips and tools on success in setting and reaching your goals and making your vision a reality in 2023. Whether you have relationship, life, or business goals, this episode is packed full of information on how to set goals and break them down into small steps so you can easily achieve them.   If you have a topic you would like us to discuss, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Exploring Intimacy in your Relationship - Listener Questions #8Love in Midlife - Episode 25 In our listener questions today, Georgie and Gary discuss ways to put the spark back into your sex life after years of putting family, home, career, and everything before yourselves and how to come together when one partner is on an emotional growth spurt or if your values don't match up. If you have a question, you would like us to explore, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Flow Outside the Box - Interview with Linda SoudersLove in Midlife - Episode #24 Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as we talk with Linda Souders about her book "Flow outside the box." How to navigate a deeply fulfilling, authentic, and exhilarating life! Learn more about stepping into your power for change. Linda Souders is a national board-certified health and wellness life coach; a certified master Journey meditation teacher, a registered yoga teacher, a B.F.A. in graphic design, a divorcee, and a dedicated mom who has written the book "Flow Outside The Box." The book is a collection of wisdom teachings - fundamental truths - passed on by both ancients and contemporaries to help others like you navigate "The Path" - your authentic life, honest, exhilarating, and enjoyable. She personally uses the wisdom teachings to navigate the ups and downs of her own wild ride called Life!https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-souders-3493388/https://www.instagram.com/linda.souders/https://www.facebook.com/linda.souders.54www.lindasouders.comIf you would like to explore your power to change or be a guest on our program, please reach out to us at loveinmidelife@gmail.comLove In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Is fear holding you back?Love in Midlife - Episode 23 Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as they discuss how fear can hold you back in your relationships and in life.What would it mean to step boldly into that place of fear and the unknown?  Learn a tool to put yourself in that place and give yourself the courage to make the change.If you have a  topic you would like us to discuss, please email us at loveinmidlife@gmail.comLove In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

A town built almost entirely on the hospitality industry, Las Vegas offers endless opportunities for exciting and fulfilling careers. In this episode of Career Conversations, I sit down with Karen Molina, Hotel Operations Manager, and Gary Austin, Director of Hotel Operations, at the beautiful Paris Hotel and Casino, located right in the middle of the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tune in to hear us talk about hospitality and the career possibilities that are available in one of the most famous destination cities in the world. The Paris Hotel, built in 1997, boasts nearly 3000 rooms and a wide variety of restaurants, shopping and casinos. Karen and Gary oversee a large group of employees who take care of guests who stay in the hotel. This task is to the tune of a little over 1000 check-ins, and 1000 check-outs every single day. Both Karen and Gary arrived at their current positions by moving up within the company. Karen started out as a guest registration clerk and Gary attended UNLV for a hotel management degree. Both moved through various positions to arrive at the top level of management within a 15-year time frame. Both love the energy and spirit of Vegas, and couldn't imagine doing anything else as their chosen career. Las Vegas currently has 150,487 hotel rooms available for travelers and vacationers. Shows run every single night, and food and beverage service is available 24/7. Current O*Net searches indicate nearly 6000 jobs are available right now in hospitality in Vegas. Karen and Gary discuss with me the day to day experience with running a world-famous hotel at the highest level of customer service, and the perks and excitement that come along with the career. Bottom line, if you want a fast-paced and exciting career in hospitality (with ample opportunities for advancement), Las Vegas may just be the destination for you. Hospitality Careers in Las Vegas Paris Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ryan-m-seely/support

Navigating Relationships during the Holidays - Listener Questions #7Love in Midlife - Episode 22 Do you set the bar too high during the holidays?  How do you cope with a change in your family dynamics over the holidays after a divorce or finding new love?  When your kids have grown, what do the holidays look like for you, and how do you make them what you want them to be?  Gary and Georgie reflect on listeners' questions and discuss navigating relationships through the holidays. If you have a question you would like us to discuss, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Radical Intimacy with Zoë Kors Interview Part 2Love In Midlife - Episode #21Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as with chat with Zoë Kors about her book Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships you Desire and Deserve.In part two of this interview, we chat to Zoë about being the tapestry thread, not the egg in your relationship. She shares a sitting practice as a small step into being with yourself and Zazen practice of counting your breath.Zoë also touches on the trifecta of anti Intimacy - Denial, Deflection, and Distraction.Zoë Kors is a sought-after thought leader in intimacy and sexuality. Her book, Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve (Hachette, 2022), is available wherever you buy books. She is the resident sex and intimacy coach and contributor at the sexual wellness app Coral. Zoë is the former Senior Editor and Creative Director of LA Yoga Magazine. Her article, 6 Ways to Have Radically Intimate Sex, quickly went viral and currently has over two million views and over 250K Facebook shares. In addition to a thriving private practice, Zoë offers services through the Center for Relational Healing, which specializes in treating sex addiction and betrayal trauma. As a member of the CRH team, Zoë works with clients to reintroduce healthy sexuality and intimacy after the trauma of betrayal.Connect with Zoë on Instagram - @zoekorsIf you would like to explore better intimacy or be a guest on our podcast, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Here's the deal on testimonies. This week our guest speaker, Gary Austin shares his testimony of how he came to know Christ. We talk about the importance of everyone's testimonies no matter their background, bringing up Jeremiah 29:11, Gary's life verse. Bible References Mentioned: Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 1 Timothy 4:12 - Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Bible References that Apply: 1 John 5:10 - He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. 1 John 5:11 - And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. Resources Mentioned: Revelation Radio - https://therev.fm/hosts/ - - - Send your comments/questions/topic suggestions in the reviews or DM us on Instragram @heresthedealpod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heresthedealpod/message

Radical Intimacy with Zoë Kors Interview Part 1Love In Midlife - Episode #20 Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as with chat with Zoë Kors about her book Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships you Desire and Deserve.Zoë Kors is a sought-after thought leader in intimacy and sexuality. Her book, Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve (Hachette, 2022), is available wherever you buy books. She is the resident sex and intimacy coach and contributor at the sexual wellness app Coral. Zoë is the former Senior Editor and Creative Director of LA Yoga Magazine. Her article, 6 Ways to Have Radically Intimate Sex, quickly went viral and currently has over two million views and over 250K Facebook shares. In addition to a thriving private practice, Zoë offers services through the Center for Relational Healing, which specializes in treating sex addiction and betrayal trauma. As a member of the CRH team, Zoë works with clients to reintroduce healthy sexuality and intimacy after the trauma of betrayal.Zoë introduces us to her Intimacy Matrix and addresses whether it's possible to rekindle the sexual spark in your long-term relationship.  She explores what the end of a relationship might look like while exploring intimacy with self and talks about how being mindful can help you learn to be comfortable with being alone without being lonely.Connect with Zoë on Instagram - @zoekorsIf you would like to explore better intimacy or be a guest on our podcast, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Keeping your relationship fun and playfulLove In Midlife - Episode #19Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as we discuss how to include fun and playfulness in your relationship to build a stronger connection.  Often the playfulness of your early relationship falls by the wayside, with some mindful attention you can bring it back to life.If you have a great discussion topic you would like to share, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

 Keeping the Spark Alive - Listener Questions #6Love in Midlife - Episode 18 Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as they reflect on listeners' questions. How do you keep dates interesting when you have been married for a long time? How do you come together when something changes, such as one partner retiring, and how do you find fun dates to keep the spark alive amidst everyday life with kids and work?   Please send your questions to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

What is codependency? Interview with Dr. Gloria LeeLove in Midlife - Episode #17 Explore codependency and codependent relationships in our interview with Psychologist,  Dr Gloria Lee. Gary Austin and Georgie Coote explore with Dr Lee what codependency is, how to find healthy relationships and move on from codependency.Dr. Gloria Lee is a Psychologist, Clinical Director at Brentwood Counseling Centre in Vancouver, Canada, Amazon bestselling and award-winning Author, Professor inCounseling Psychology, Clinical Supervisor, and Trainer for therapists and graduate students, sought-after speaker, consultant, and advocate for social justice and mentalhealth.For almost 25 years, Dr. Lee has been an authority on relationships and personal development. She has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, families, andorganizations to improve their relational and mental health. Dr. Lee is passionate about all things relationships and believes that healthy relationships contribute to healthy people (in mind, body, and spirit) and healthy societies.Website: https://drglorialee.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.gloria.lee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drglorialee/Dr. Lee is offering a gift to teach listeners one simple step to achieving a closer and more connected relationship: The Kickass Couple's Secret to Greater Closeness& Connection in 10 Minutes!If you would like to be an expert guest on our program, please complete this form, or reach out to us at loveinmindlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Love in Midlife  Episode #16Your Emotional Bank Account - Ways to keep it in the black. Explore how to build your emotional bank account so that your relationship can have strength in challenging times. Join Gary Austin and Georgie Coote as they chat about connecting with your partner by building love maps, turning towards them, and showing appreciation, amongst other ideas.Georgie told listeners about her upcoming Gottman Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work workshop on November 19th and 20th, 2022. Find out more:The 7 Principles Workshop for Couples | Georgie Coote CoachingIf you have a topic, you would like us to explore, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com. Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Online Dating, Beating the Clock & Boundaries with Adult Kids - Listeners Questions #5Love in Midlife - Episode #15Gary Austin and Georgie Coote reflect on listeners questions on online dating after divorce and it's alternatives, setting boundaries around kids moving back home and feeling the pressure to rush into trying to find love when you might not feel ready.If you have any questions, you would like us to explore, please email us at loveinmidlife@gmail.comLove In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Finding Love in Unexpected Places - Listener Guest AliLove in Midlife Episode #14 Gary Austin and Georgie Coote speak with guest Ali in today's episode. It's a story of letting go of expectations and putting the quest for love out there. Manifesting what she wanted with intention, led her to find her partner for life. If you would like to be a guest on our show, please email us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

Mindfulness in RelationshipsLove In Midlife Episode #13 Relationship coaches, Georgie and Gary, explore how to be present in your relationships. Taking a mindful approach to communication and love. The more you live in the present, the more you can learn about your partner while not holding on to the past or worrying about the future. If you have a discussion topic you would like us to discuss, please reach out to us at loveinmidlife@gmail.com.Love In Midlife with the 2GsWebsite: Home - Love In Midlife with the 2 Gs PodcastFacebook: Love in Midlife with the 2Gs | FacebookInstagram: Georgie Coote & Gary Austin (@loveinmidlife2gs) • Instagram photos and videosEmail: Loveinmindlife@gmail.com

At just 24, Laraine Newman was part of a renegade group breaking down doors for the next generation as a member of the Not Ready for Primetime Players on Saturday Night Live. But that's only one of her many accomplishments in her multi-decade career. She's appeared on hit television shows like St. Elsewhere and Friends, and worked in film with legendary directors like Guillermo del Toro. Laraine is on the board of San Francisco Sketch Fest, regularly appears in the long running award-winning Broadway show, Celebrity Autobiography and has written for Esquire, the Believer and McSweeneys. And she's one of the most prolific voice over actors in the business, lending her talents to animated classics, including Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Despicable Me and Shrek. Follow Laraine on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about The Passionistas Project. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Passionistas: The night that Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975, we slipped downstairs after our parents went to bed to watch the show with our older siblings. Our lives were changed forever. Before that moment, the comedians and actors we saw on TV were our parents contemporaries. But when the Not Ready for Primetime Players blasted through our set, we saw our sisters on the screen. At just 24 Laraine Newman was part of a renegade group breaking down doors for the next generation. Laraine hit the SNL stage with impressive credits already on her resume. She had studied mine with Marcel Marceau in Paris, was a founding member of the legendary Los Angeles improv troupe, the Groundlings and honed her skills developing original characters. SNL launched Laraine into rockstar status. But it's only one of her many accomplishments in her multi-decade career. She's appeared on hit television shows like St. Elsewhere and Friends, and worked in film with legendary directors like Guillermo del Toro. Laraine is on the board of San Francisco Sketch Fest, regularly appears in the long running award-winning Broadway show, Celebrity Autobiography and has written for Esquire, the Believer and McSweeneys. And she's one of the most prolific voice over actors in the business, lending her talents to animated classics, including Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Despicable Me and Shrek. As she says in her memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, she bore witness to and participated in many significant cultural moments in the country. And that's pretty cool. And through it all, she persisted. So it is our distinct honor to award the Passionist to Persist Icon Award to Laraine Newman. Laraine: Thank you so much to the Passionist Project for this award. It's a privilege to be able to follow your passions in life, in my case, all things comedy, and to ultimately make a living at it. I don't take that lightly. The field I work mostly in now, animation voiceover, is very egalitarian because nobody can see you. You're anonymous. They just know what you can do with your voice. What I've learned is that in a business like mine, you have to be good enough at what you do as to be undeniable, and that takes courage in the face of so much failure and rejection. Well, courage and what the hell else am I gonna do? I don't have any hobbies. I continue to try and improve my skills to learn new things and see what other people are doing, New voices, points of view and style, that inspires me so much. Although I've worked hard, I suspect I've had less obstacles than the other people that are championed by this wonderful organization, the marginalized to specific. As the mother of two LGBTQ children, I see progress. The world is more open to them than it might have been say 20 years ago, but we have a long way to go and thankfully there are entities like the Passionistas Project that are the uplifting gatekeepers, if you will. Again, thank you so much. Passionistas: What are you most passionate about? Laraine: Well, I'm passionate about, I guess justice, in the first place. I'm passionate about my kids. I'm passionate about my interests, which range from cooking to comedy. So I guess you could say that's a distillation of some of the things I'm passionate about. Passionistas: You were one of the founding members of the Groundlings with your sister Tracy. So what was the atmosphere like for women in improv at the time? Laraine: Well, we had a great director, Gary Austin, and he was, uh, you know, it was a meritocracy for sure. Whoever had something funny, that's what went up. And, um, I think that the world of comedy at that point was just at a turning point. You know, the Comedy Store had just opened, uh, there were lots of clubs along Beverly Boulevard. There were drag clubs, there was Waylon Flowers and Madam. There was a great, uh, Australian comedian named Daphne Davis, who was also an impressionist. And, um, there was a, a openly gay comic at the Comedy Store named Falstaff Wilde. So I think, you know, even though there is a polemic about women in comedy back then, uh, I never experienced that. Passionistas: So you went on to be part of the original cast of the Not Ready for Primetime Players on Saturday Night Live. So talk a little bit about what it felt like to be involved in creating this iconic show, and if you ever even imagined the groundwork you were laying or the doors you were opening? Laraine: Well, it was impossible to have that kind of perspective. Uh, I just knew that all of us represented a different kind of style and tone from the disparate parts that we came from. Chicago, you know, um, Toronto, New York, um, California. And it was just, it was a great kind of stew of a whole new generation of people that represented something that you'd never seen on TV before. We, you know, were so kind of, you know, the redheaded stepchild for NBC, wanting to just slam something into that time slot, you know, because Johnny Carson didn't want the reruns on Saturdays. So, um, we never even imagined anybody was watching us, but it was thrilling to be able to say, Hey. I wanna, uh, write a sketch about a girl who's from the valley as a stewardist. Well, I'd have done that in the Groundings, but, you know, uh, can I do that? Yes, you can. What? Great. You know, so it was that kind of thing. Passionistas: Do you feel like you and Gilda and Jane supported each other, leaned on each other back then? And what kind of ways did you do. Laraine: Because we all came from an improv background, that's a very cooperative art form. So, um, naturally we supported one another. You know, uh, the high stakes competition we weren't really aware of until later. But we all knew that none of us could do what the other one could do. So it wasn't a matter of competing with each other. We were really competing with ourselves. Passionistas: You were one of the queens of creating characters. So what's that process for you? Laraine: The process of creating characters is, uh, my God, usually in the beginning for people, it's an amalgam of the people they grew up with, the things that they noticed. And I was such a myna bird. I mean, I just, uh, I was fascinated by dialects and there were just characters all around me that I later exemplified. Passionistas: What's the power of comedy? Laraine: It offers so many things. It offers, uh, the ability to frame things in a way that, uh, tells the truth without being necessarily threatening. I think George Carlin's a really, a good example of that because he distilled things and he arranged the anatomy of things like hypocrisy and corporate greed and, and, you know, organized religion. He arranged it in such a way that people could see, you know, the uh, the flaw and the argument. And um, so I think if anything, you know, hopefully it furthers, uh, the dialogue on things. Passionistas: You have two incredibly talented children, Spike and Hannah Einbinder. What's your dream for their future? Laraine: They're already pretty much self-supporting, which, you know, it's like I've done my job as a parent, you know, uh, I'm so proud of them for that. They have a great work ethic, so it's not like something that I have to worry about them having they already have it. Um, I hope that they see a world that is a lot better than the one that is around right now. Passionistas: What advice do you give to them? Laraine: Like they would take my advice. I've learned as a parent that, you know, unless it's solicited, it's perceived as criticism. So if they seek my advice, then, you know, always it's like, uh, continue to learn. That's all I can say. Passionistas: Is there a moment in your journey of following your passions that you think would be most inspiring to people? Laraine: The moment I decided to, uh, pursue voiceover, even though it was really hard world to break into. I just knew that I, I figured out that that was what I was perfectly suited to do. I wasn't as invested in being an actor or being on camera. I loved the idea of working and acting with my voice, and I. I auditioned for shows for two years and I, I got roles, but I didn't get series regular roles. And then I studied with a guy named Charlie Adler and Chris Zimmerman. And you know, I think the willingness to continue to learn and recognize that there are certain aspects of a technique that you might need help with, being willing to do that is so important. Being willing to continue to learn is everything. Passionistas: What does the phrase Power of Passionistas mean to you? Laraine: Passion drives everything we do. The wish to, uh, achieve, the wish to evolve. Um, so, you know, I think helping others to recognize the process of achievement and the struggle of achievement is a really great endeavor.    

Teri Bolo joined by to discuss the lack of Groundling representation on my podcast; her first vivid memory of seeing Peter Pan on TV; going to see Pollyanna and being told she looked like Hailey Mills; her and her aunt going to Gary Austins improv class, which became The Groundlings; what it means to teach improv or to take improv classes; the rules of improv; whether characters are created or fine-tuned in improv; Laraine Newman; "Tunnelvision"; "If You Don't Stop You'll Go Blind"; The Dating Game; The Gong Show; her role in "Carrie"; being on a big time movie set; the famous shower scene; working with George Burns and John Denver in "Oh God"; being cut out of "Animal House"; going to movie locations while on vacation; Gary Austin; Del Close; improv being collaborative and not competitive; Robin Williams; Fred Willard; "The In Laws"; "Mommie Dearest"; my dad meeting Faye Dunaway and my mom meeting the bank robber from the "7-Ups"; making out with a girl for a scene i "Scarface" that you can only see her arm in; "Pee Wee's Big Adventure"; being a stand in for Julia Duffy and The Love Boat; the Newhart episode where she and Julia Duffy played twins; Bob Newhart not getting recognized at the gate; Don Rickles visits Newhart set; 24; "Little Miss Sunshine"; when to approach celebrities;

Stacey joins Jennifer and David on a bridge to talk about her first improv experience in NYC, the source of her creativity, and how improv has greatly affected her life. Stacey Reed Hanlon is originally from Akron, Ohio.  She began her improvisational career in New York City in 1999, where she studied with The Upright Citizens Brigade, Armando Diaz and Gary Austin. In NYC she co-founded improv troupe Late Night Ritalin, wrote for and appeared in Saturday Night Rewritten, and was a performer in Manhattan Comedy Collective's Character Dog Run. She has performed in improv festivals in New York, Austin, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Albuquerque & Phoenix.  Stacey can currently be seen performing with improv troupes Light Rail Pirates and JaxN Reed. Her local theatre credits include Jenna in Tangelico, ensemble performance in the world premiere of Greg Kotis' The Unhappiness Plays and Mabel in A Bloody Mary Christmas, a role that she created through improvisation along with co-creators Jacqueline Arend, Shawna Franks and Denny Guge. Stacey is a founding member of The Torch Theatre and the co-founder of Conducted Stories Improv, a Phoenix-based organization that uses improvisational theatre to foster communication and social skills with neurodivergent populations, including youth on the Autism spectrum and people with Dementia and their caregivers.   Stacey is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and studied abroad with the Institute for American Universities in Avignon, France. https://secondbeatimprov.com/ https://www.bridgeimprovtheater.com/

In this episode Nikki talks to Helene about the recent “Re-Facilitation Conference”. This was a hybrid conference with around half of the participants meeting in person and half Zooming in.  The conference had three streams - one fully in person, one fully virtual and one designed to be hybrid, joined by people in the room and those joining virtually. They start by talking about the evolving team including a core group of Hilary Topp, Camilla Gordon, Cat Duncan-Rees, Adrian Ashton, Paul Kelly and Paul Brand who helped with the tech,  and some who helped at various points including Caroline Jessop, Nicola Morris, Gary Austin,   Lee Button and Megan Evans.  They then talk about the planning process and the fact that a combination of uncertainty due to COVID and a curiosity about trying it out, led to a decision around the end of 2021 that this would be a hybrid conference.  One of the first things they thought about was the theme “Refacilitation” .  The conference then evolved from there with facilitators invited to populate the outline timetable with sessions. Nikki then asks about what assumptions were used as a basis for the planning.  There were a lot of unknowns but there was an underlying assumption that there would be a mix of in person and online and in reality the split worked out quite even.  The team also assumed that the facilitation community would support and trust them.   Nikki asks Helene about her hopes and fears before it started.  Key hopes were that the tech worked, that people enjoyed it, that the team didn't get lost in organising the event at the expense of the content and that it would be a learning opportunity.  The biggest fear was that the tech wouldn't work but also that there may not be enough people to do all of the things that needed to be done. They then talk about conundrums and how they were addressed.  Alongside numbers and the tech a few extra things came up, which included that Ukrainian facilitators were offered places free of charge but it wasn't possible to offer a translator.  Also creating a balance of content on the timetable, particularly given the three streams.  The main way to resolve these was through a lot of getting together and exchanging ideas.  The people resources and many months of planning time were important.   Helene then talks about her experience of the conference which was quite hectic.  A key challenge was not being able to get into the room until the morning of the event.  Paul Brand took the lead on the tech set up and meanwhile Cat set up the alternative room.  She reflects that the event felt a bit of whirlwind. Nikki asks what Helene learned from the process.  She says that with the time available and creativity, you don't need to have an expensive tech company and a DIY route can work. The number of people needed is a key learning point as there are so many different roles to fill.  Also, Helene acknowledges that sometimes it's worth just going for it and taking a risk.  Finally she reflects on the strength leadership team and the generosity and supportiveness of the facilitation community. Feedback has been largely positive aside from a couple of very specific points such as whether to spotlight speakers on Zoom (the jury's out), and that some music for the people on Zoom while there were organising activities in the room.  The shared WhatsApp group and Miro Board were positively received. Nikki reflects that the dedicated three stream approach made it feel balanced and that there was an even attention paid to each part of the audience.  It was useful that two of the leadership team joined online and were able to provide reminders if the thinking was too much from an in person point of view.  The only downside of the three streams was that participants couldn't go to everything!  Some of the “in person” participants deliberately joined online sessions to have the hybrid experience. Nikki then asks about future plans and if hybrid is the way forward.  Helene reflects there will definitely be another conference but there hasn't been a conversation as to whether it will be a hybrid.  It may depend on the times we're in and the confidence and preferences of the community but with the added consideration of the resource intensity, although there is now a “blueprint”. Helene's closing thought is that leaving plenty of time to plan is the key learning. Links All of the detailed information on the IAF England and Wales chapter is at https://facilitationstories.com/ Follow the chapter on Twitter @IAFEnglandWales and connect with Helene and Nikki @HeleneJewell and  @NiksClicks

Joe Towne (@MeJoeTowne) is an actor, producer, writer and performance coach and mentor for numerous athletes, actors, broadcast professionals and more. His professional journey has taken him from coast to coast and across the Atlantic. He graduated with a BA in Theater from The University of Southern California and interned at 20th Century Fox. Joe then headed back east, where he pursued a career in theater and embarked on a 30-year journey that took him to the UK and back. Along the way, he studied at NYC's Stella Adler with June Stein and with Gary Austin, founder and creator of The Groundlings. Some of Joe's most acclaimed roles include an “unfailingly imaginative!” 30-minute Star Wars Trilogy recap that was featured on BBC radio and performed live for George Lucas at Skywalker Ranch, Mr. Pink in Edinburgh Fringe Fest's highly rated production of Reservoir Dogs and opposite Rebel Wilson in the New Line feature film Isn't It Romantic. We brought Joe on the podcast because athletes and those who lead them have so much to learn from people in theater, who experience way more failure than successes, who struggle with adversity and must overcome negative self talk, and so many other areas of the inner game. Joe gives us some great tools and ideas for being mentally strong and learning from our toughest moments. Sound useful for your athletes?  You can connect with Joe at: www.theperformersmindset.com @theperformersmindset on IG @MeJoeTowne on Twitter and IG The Better Podcast on FB: https://www.facebook.com/betterpodcastwithjoe This week's podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  Yeah, there are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams.  Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you've been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at sprocketsports.com. Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including: Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don't have to crash your car trying to take notes! A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron. Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences. Thank you for all your support these past four years, and a special big thank you to all of you who become part of our inner circle, our patrons, who will enable us to take our podcast to the next level. https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions

For whatever reason, life has brought you in a new direction. It wasn't what you thought your life would be, yet here you are. Where do you start? How do you align yourself with a new path? Joining me today is Gary Austin, coach, author and podcaster, to share how you can be empowered and find your way to an abundant life. Connect with Gary at garyaustincoaching.com, on Facebook @garyaustincoaching and on Instagram @gary_austin_coaching Your support of The Roller Coaster is always appreciated, please make sure to SUBSCRIBE! If you REALLY like what you hear, leave a comment, and share it with your friends! Connect with me at www.therollercoaster.com and Instagram @the_roller_coaster_podcast  SUBSCRIBE on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb1mMxhdR154StDjzwz8jIw Are you loving what you're hearing and want more? JOIN US! It's FREE  www.necturegrowth.com  Thanks for joining me today and until next time I'm sending my virtually distant hugs! #mindset #motivation #success #personalgrowth #selfimprovement

#menshealth #movember #manchatIt's not just about growing strange facial hair! It's about speaking up and speaking out on men's health - physical and emotional - so that's what we will be doing.Hear, question and comment as we welcome a global panel of men from our own community comprising of Gary Austin, Francis Gersbach, Andrew Gilchrist, James Holley and Stephen Wells, after a keynote from US emergency physician and professor Gene Hern.All of this after our regular news, weather and update from 8.30 to 9am...---Carl 'Your man in Portugal' Munson is available for one-to-one consultations as part of Expats Portugal's Ask Our Expats team - https://expatsportugal.com/ask-our-expats-portugal/ABOUT EXPATS PORTUGALWe are an online community-driven website and forum offering help and advice to the English speakers already living in Portugal or planning to move here. We have been servicing our community since 2005. You will find articles, member benefits, real estate advice, events and more.Visit our site: https://expatsportugal.comSupport us by becoming a Premium Member: https://expatsportugal.com/upgrade/To be kept up to date with future webinars visit: https://expatsportugal.com/calendar-whats-on/View our forum: https://expatsportugal.com/community/Check out our English-friendly business directory: https://expatsportugal.com/business-directory/Proud to use Streamyard - https://streamyard.com?pal=4668289695875072

Andy is joined by Gary Austin to chat about ways to stay active outside of the gym and how finding non-gym activities can actually help support your fitness goals.   We add three more bangers to our spotify playlist and get the lowdown from Gary on gym etiquette.   https://www.thegymadvisors.ie   https://wwwthegymadvisors.ie/online-fitness    

Gary Austin is a Certified Health and Wellness Coach; a Certified Family, Adult and Kids Yoga Instructor; a Podcast personality, hosting the show, "Find Your Way".  He's also a Blogger, Business Owner and trains new coaches to effectively empower people.  Gary's expertise is empowering people to find their way to their abundant life.  Learn more about Gary Austin at GaryAustinCoaching.com and be sure to tune into his podcast, "Find Your Way".

A mature and sensible view of life in Portugal, theoretically. But who knows what might happen on Feelgood Friday when Gary Austin signs in from central Portugal, where the eagles fly and the people are proud...Join this channel to get access to clips and exclusives:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONoNEVBaAyCFcY6QpaFvbA/joinSerious about moving to Portugal? Join Expats Portugal's step-by-step, fully supported plan here: https://expatsportugal.com/premium-plus/Support the site and forum (and get discounts and perks) by becoming a Premium Member: https://expatsportugal.com/upgrade/

It's the Man Cave voice of reason and everyone's favourite tree-hugger Gary Austin, LIVE with carl on a feelgood Friday, 'Elemental Portugal' special!Find Gary's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o-sxgXp0rU---Our merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ExpatsPortugalCarl 'Your man in Portugal' Munson is available for one-to-one consultations as part of Expats Portugal's Ask Our Expats team - https://expatsportugal.com/ask-our-expats-portugal/ABOUT EXPATS PORTUGALWe are an online community-driven website and forum offering help and advice to the English speakers already living in Portugal or planning to move here. We have been servicing our community since 2005. You will find articles, member benefits, real estate advice, events and more.Visit our site: https://expatsportugal.comSupport us by becoming a Premium Member: https://expatsportugal.com/upgrade/To be kept up to date with future webinars visit: https://expatsportugal.com/calendar-whats-on/View our forum: https://expatsportugal.com/community/Check out our English-friendly business directory: https://expatsportugal.com/business-directory/

Episode 60 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is actress, writer, comedian and voice artist Laraine Newman.  An original SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE cast member, Laraine Newman grew up in Los Angeles with movie star neighbors, was witness to the 1960's music scene, saw the rise of comedy in the early 1970s, and studied mime in Paris under the tutelage of Marcel Marceau.Already having older sister Tracy pursuing a career in entertainment, "do not go into show business,” was Newman's mother's advice to her.  But, when she appeared on the TV show KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS at the age of 4 and got big laughs lying to host Art Linkletter, she knew something was up.While studying improvisation in the early 1970s with Gary Austin, she co-founded The Groundlings, the now-legendary Los Angeles–based improv and sketch-comedy troupe. Lorne Michaels, then a young producer, took along his friend Lily Tomlin one night and caught Newman's act and cast her for a spot on the 1975 Emmy Award winning THE LILY TOMLIN SPECIAL (Newman's television debut).Lorne would return months later to The Groundlings to recruit her for his new variety series for NBC, then titled NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT, where (at 23 years of age) she became one of the original cast members - known as The Not Ready for Prime Time Players - appearing on the show from its inception in 1975 through 1980.On, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Newman is best known for her roles as Connie Conehead, Valley girl Sherry, and Christie Christina, the ditzy co-host of E. Buzz Miller's (Dan Aykroyd) public-access television cable TV show.  Newman also played a TV news reporter for WEEKEND UPDATE with anchor Chevy Chase (Season 1) and later Jane Curtin (Seasons 2 thru 5).As a member of the original cast of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Laraine Newman was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2017.On film she appeared in AMERICAN HOT WAX, WHOLLY MOSES!, PERFECT, Woody Allen's STARDUST MEMORIES, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS and as Lawanda Dumore in PROBLEM CHILD 2. On television she was seen as Phoebe's step-mother on FRIENDS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN, AMAZING STORIES, LOS ESPOOKYS, among other hit sitcoms. As a voice artist she can be heard on MONSTERS, INC., THE OBLONGS, DOC McSTUFFINS, AMERICAN DAD!, THE GRINCH, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, the DESPICABLE ME trilogy, MINIONS, INSIDE OUT, WALL-E, CARS, as well as countless others.Her acclaimed new Audible book MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES is not only a fascinating memoir of her growing up in Los Angeles along with her years at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, but is also filled with incredible backstories and is a detailed snapshot of 1960s Los Angeles and 1970s New York City. Newman is also the mother of comedian, actress and writer Hannah Einbinder (of HBO Max's HACKS) and actress and writer Spike Einbinder (of HBO's LOS ESPOOKYS). Newman is also part of the Advisory Board of SF Sketchfest.  THE RIPE REPORT returns on Episode 61.  Watch Wendi and Dfernando and their Team GENERATION RIPE: Greg Covey, Shelley McLendon and Ponciana Badia on Season 7 Episode 2 of CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD - now on ABC OnDemand and on the GENERATION RIPE website.  Follow us on our Instagram:Wendi McLendon-CoveyDfernando ZarembaGENERATION RIPE... and our guest Laraine Newman and her Twitter and everything else here.  Remember to subscribe, rate & leave a review for GENERATION RIPEVisit Dfernando Zaremba's website: dfernandozaremba.com

#portugal #Q&A #expatsportugalYES! ANYTHING!!! Hump day is our jump day, so jump in and ask anything you'd like to know about Portugal of our happy hive mind of expats, natives and nomads...On this episode, delighted to be joined LIVE by Gary Austin in a picnic area in Alvaiazere in Central Portugal.---Carl 'Your man in Portugal' Munson is available for one-to-one consultations as part of Expats Portugal's Ask Our Expats team - https://expatsportugal.com/ask-our-expats-portugal/ABOUT EXPATS PORTUGALWe are an online community-driven website and forum offering help and advice to the English speakers already living in Portugal or planning to move here. We have been servicing our community since 2005. You will find articles, member benefits, real estate advice, events and more.Visit our site: https://expatsportugal.comSupport us by becoming a Premium Member: https://expatsportugal.com/upgrade/To be kept up to date with future webinars visit: https://expatsportugal.com/calendar-whats-on/View our forum: https://expatsportugal.com/community/

The home care industry is evolving quickly. In this episode,  Adam Torres and Gary Austin, CEO at OneCare, LLC, explore the home care industry and how it's being disrupted. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/​ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be interviewed by Adam on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podc...​Visit our website:https://missionmatters.com/

On this year-end episode of The Dish on Health IT podcast, host Gary Austin and co-hosts Ken Kleinberg, Pooja Babbrah and Jocelyn Keegan discuss prognostications on the year ahead in the areas of COVID-19, technology innovation, health data, and price transparency. Gary begins the episode by addressing the elephant in the room: the ongoing impact of COVID-19. He asks Pooja to open the discussion by giving her thoughts on the impact of the healthcare vertical COVID-19 is going to have in 2021. Pooja says COVID-19 is going to impact a lot of things, starting off with the vaccine. For the vaccines that are beginning to roll out, two different doses are needed for it to be effective. Tracking immunizations will be tricky for HIEs. Who has received the first dose? The second? Adherence will be critical. We need to make sure those who received the first dose of the vaccine also receive the second dose. Even the payers and pharmacies are going to be impacted by COVID-19 not just with the vaccine, but with how people are seeing their doctors. Pooja references past The Dish on Health IT podcasts that covered telehealth, the expanding role of pharmacists such as giving vaccinations, and the opportunity to better include community pharmacists in efforts, which all will remain relevant moving into the new year.Jocelyn agrees with Pooja in saying we need to drive volume in this market to the most suitable place that can best serve a patient and have the right tools and connectivity to make sure that data is comprehensively gathered. Jocelyn does see two things we will have to grapple with when moving into the new year. The first is the impact of profits and loss from a provider organization standpoint. There is massive loss happening for those in the direct line of care. She thinks when we look at 2021, it will be about leveraging the tools in front of us and taking advantage of the new technology that is being laid down. The second issue at hand will be impacts of market readiness. We wanted these rules to be put in place and then the rules were put in place. Will delays on these rules slow us down when we were at a point in time when we could have had a perfect storm to push through a lot of technology change? How fast do we allow ourselves to move? How much do we acknowledge what our provider teams are dealing with?Ken believes the vaccine will be key. He recently read an article that correlated the degree of someone's education with their willingness to take the vaccine. If you had an advanced degree, you would be most likely to want to take the vaccine. The less education a person had, the less likely they were willing to take it. There are big trust and education factors here that payers, providers, IT vendors – all of us really – need to take responsibility in helping with that. Gary moves the discussion to the next topic: health technology, specifically telehealth, FHIR APIs and health information exchanges (HIEs). What are your thoughts as to where these technologies are going in 2021? Ken notes that all three of these technologies have something in common and that is that they are connecting stakeholders together. We've experimented and piloted. We've had our successes and less so over the last two decades, but now we are seeing these technologies come together and become mainstream. This could be due to leadership, regulations, relaxation of regulations (in the case of telehealth), or simply the need to fight the pandemic. Once data starts to flow, we will be able to run advanced analytics with more varied data sources. This can inform decision support, risk stratification, analysis of social determinants of health, precision health and so forth. Ken is particularly excited about the promise of natural language processing and AI machine learning. Pooja agrees with Ken in saying these technologies are essentially connecting people together and sharing more information, which brings up trust. We are starting to open up more data. We have HIPAA which spans across our business entities. What will happen when we open up data to the patient? Patients having trust in applications will be critical for them in getting their information. Then comes the issue of who the patients are willing to share the information with. eConsent plays a huge role in this. Who are patients going to share the data with? Do they understand that when they share their record, it will essentially share their entire patient record? Is that something they want to do? Moving into 2021, trust and eConsent will be a huge focus. Jocelyn points out that if a problem is big enough, we can make the existing artificial barriers disappear. She goes on to explain that people have been leveraging tools that are available to them. When you're in the middle of a pandemic, it is about what tools are there that are being underutilized such as the HIE. She goes on to address new technologies and the unleashing of data by using APIs predominantly through FHIR. The pandemic has clearly shown how important these projects are and will allow stakeholders to progress towards more real work in the upcoming quarters. Payer and provider rules continue to get dropped. Jocelyn feels the work around FHIR and APIs is truly a nonpartisan topic. We are seeing universal agreement and will continue to push forward. Gary moves to the next topic, which is health data. What do you see happening with health care data in 2021? Jocelyn sees a couple of things happening here. First, payers and EHRs, around the information blocking rule, are mastering their information in a way that they haven't had to before; being able to comprehend where their clinical and claims data are. What's most interesting is the scope of data that's under regulation and having people meet those initial regulations. Secondly, we are realizing this is real. There are the people who are getting their house in order and then there are people who are trying to just check the box to get through this set of regulations. Ken notes that terminology and code set management have been important to providers and now to payers as well. Payers will need to get a handle on the clinical data they have and share it. Ken says some may only do the bare minimum while others will use this as a business advantage.  Jocelyn hopes that the next round of USCDI addresses some of the deficits in the payer-based data. Pooja adds that while we often talk about clinical and claims data, we need to also be thinking about pharmacy data. With USCDI 2.0, we need to start thinking about those stakeholders who haven't been involved like pharmacies. To have clinical, claims and pharmacy data together would be a very powerful thing.Gary asks Pooja to address price transparency. Pooja says that real time benefit check feels old hat now since it has been in the market for five years. With consumer-facing, there are implementation guides in place, and we are starting to see some PBMs pick those up and start to look at it. The biggest thing though is the final rules that dropped a couple weeks back for the payers and providers. Pooja thinks that's where we're going to see a lot of traction in 2021. Payers and providers need to be looking at this as a way to give themselves a market advantage. There is a long way to go, but it all comes down to freeing data and putting more opportunity in the consumers' hands. To find the care they need at a price they can afford it.  Ken says that consumers can play a very important role with price transparency. He wonders how we educate the consumers to operate in the proper vector. The more information you provide them, in an easily-digestible way, can make a difference. Ken believes these final rules can be used as a market differentiator that could lead to stronger consumer loyalty. Gary asks Jocelyn to discuss accelerators in terms of price transparency. Jocelyn says the name of the game with price transparency is that it needs to be patient-focused. It's about information equity, having the same information as my provider, which requires all the players to be involved. Jocelyn thinks that if we look across the board, that's the sentiment of what's happening. That's the foreseeing function we see coming out of these rules is make the data available so that we can have the innovation we need to get to a well-educated consumer. The final topic relates to the new administration. Gary first asks Jocelyn where she sees CMS and ONC going? She predicts that we can expect public health to get some money to actually do real work. Since this is a non-partisan topic, she also expects regulations to continue to come through. Jocelyn is confident that with the work coming out of the ONC and CMS teams around regulations and the work we are seeing come out of cross collaborations, we are making real meaningful progress in helping our consumers. Pooja adds that with CMS, we are still waiting on a final rule for the consumer-facing real time benefit check transaction. These topics seem to have bi-partisan support, so she does not see many changes in these focus areas. Ken gives his final thoughts. He thinks 2021 is going to be one of the most intense years in decades for health plans, providers, and IT vendors as they start to tackle all the game changing open API regulations that are going to require them to share data. Jocelyn thinks we have never been better positioned to impact change. We are in a unique situation with the move toward FHIR and APIs. It is rare to be able to fundamentally change how an industry works. That's what we're doing. Pooja closes by saying she thinks this pandemic has opened our eyes to everything that is wrong. The CMS and ONC rules were coming out just as we were going on lockdown. It makes you wonder, if we had these rules in place just on our own without being forced to do it, how much of this heartache and struggle we are going through now could have been avoided? Pooja was frustrated to see the rules get delayed. We are in the middle of a pandemic. We should not be slowing things down; we should be speeding them up. 

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Steve Bratt, lead of CodeX joins hosts Jocelyn Keegan and Gary Austin to discuss the integration of minimal common oncology data elements (mCODE)and leveraging FHIR API technology to accelerate significant improvements in cancer care and research.Gary first asks Steve to give listeners some background on CodeX. Steve credits the early conception of CodeX to the initial research his company MITRE conducted on standard health records. After recognizing the potential of their study, Steve's group decided to focus on a more specific problem within healthcare, cancer. The goal was to develop a common language for cancer data sharing. His team worked with the American Society of Clinical Oncology to convene a group of experts across pathology, radiology, surgery, chemotherapy and other areas to identify 90 of the most important data elements needed to treat all cancer cases. Gary asks Jocelyn how CodeX and Da Vinci interrelate. Jocelyn explains that with FHIR, they are building communities who can pick up and use preexisting toolkits. However, it is specificity that is needed to make these powerful tools work. That's where there is overlap. Da Vinci and CodeX use cases started to talk about where CodeX could build upon Da Vinci payer and provider frameworks. CodeX is extending the purpose by utilizing subject matter experts who know these workflows well. Jocelyn adds that she believes CodeX is amazing in many ways. It is focused on an area of healthcare that touches most all our personal lives, not just our professional lives. There is so much to be gained by unlocking and freeing this data. That is different from other accelerators. Gary asks Steve what types of people are engaged with CodeX. Steve says they start with the thought leaders. People like Aneesh Chopra, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, and John Halamka. These individuals not only have far-reaching networks who listen to them, but they also help develop the vision and unite communities. So how does CodeX get patients involved? Steve notes that one of the first use cases was patient clinical trial matching, which as is, is a very inequitable process. CodeX works with the American Cancer Society to automate the collection of data from EHRs. The data is sent to matching services using mCODE who then send back structured clinical trials matching certain patient characteristics. Patients will then be able to search and prioritize results.Another use case addresses how do we conduct clinical trials out of data in the EHR. If you're in a clinical trial, you receive high quality, structured data. Only 3-6 percent of cancer patients get in clinical trials, so if we get all the cancer patients' data out of EHRs and into mCODE, now there are 100 percent of the cancer patients from which we can learn. We will have a massive amount of information from all cancer patients. When you bring the EHRs up to a higher level, not just the quality of data, but also in a standard language, this would allow the EHRs to be a source of patient data for many use cases. Jocelyn notes that since FHIR makes data functionable and portable, there could be even more use cases developed. If we can make data move and be accessible, projects that previously could not get funded now become possible. These accelerators bring interested people together to do the right thing. Gary asks how accelerators can come together to quicken the prior authorization process. Jocelyn says layering is key. The value that Steve's team will bring to the table is to augment tools around prior authorization that have already been built. His group will look at their specific workflow, understand how it is different from a typical prior authorization and build upon that. Steve notes that many people affiliated with CodeX also work with Da Vinci, so they know the value it could provide if vendors adopt it. If we could share patient clinical pathways needed for prior authorization, it could speed up the process for patients who really need care. It would reduce back and forth on complex issues. There are so many promising things that can be done working with Da Vinci, provided we get the payers to table. Jocelyn points out that all the work we're doing by freeing this data via APIs is meant to automate when possible. We want healthcare equity. No matter where you are physically located, you have the same access to the same type of treatment. The second piece here is transparency. There's so much unknown when somebody is going through their initial cancer diagnosis. The ability to say, at a patient-specific level, here are what your options are and here is what your insurer will cover is game changing in helping that patient. We can make better care decisions if we can bring the two worlds of administrative and clinical together. Gary asks what engagement we are seeing from vendors. Steve has seen a lot of interest from many different vendors. Jocelyn notes that these projects, at their core, are human-powered efforts. It's the volunteers that get the work done. Steven has had great interest but in order to make the accelerators fully functional, it's really about the participation of organizations. Gary asks Steve what he would say to key decision-makers who could be involved in this work. Steve says everyone we talk to just gets it. We need to go beyond saying it's great, let us know when it's delivered. They need to see the value proposition in CodeX now and understand they can impact the direction it goes. You can get early insights into what is happening and work directly with vendors to let them know what your needs are. It's all about getting the word out. We need people coming to the table.  

On this episode of The Dish on Health IT, hosts Pooja Babbrah, Jocelyn Keegan, Ken Kleinberg and Gary Austin discuss key takeaways from the annual ONC Tech Forum. The discussion highlights key areas covered at the conference such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Public Health, United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), Lab orders and results, and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)Gary kicks off the discussion with a baseball theme and asks everyone to give their game (conference) highlights. Jocelyn first commends the ONC team for providing a positive, interactive online experience for participants. It was the next best thing to meeting in person. As for the content, the message of the day was FHIR and the urgency to make it work. Jocelyn brings up that those who are perceived as information blocking will also start to be targeted. Ultimately, she likes the synergy happening between CMS and ONC, there is uniformity among the sessions around moving forward.Ken's favorite session discussed healthcare systems in other parts of the world. He says there are certain aspects of healthcare that we do exceptionally well, and there are other areas where other countries do things better. Ken also listened in on a session highlighting the challenges facing labs, especially concerning inefficiencies with the exchange of results.Pooja observes that the overall theme of the conference seemed to reflect a pent-up consumer demand for a better healthcare system. She attended sessions she considered to be “off the beaten path,” such as long-term care. Pooja notes it's the specialty groups that feel like what is being done today does not meet their needs. When we look at the goal of supporting value-based care, we need to be thinking about everyone on the healthcare spectrum. How do we bring those other marginalized groups into the fold as well?Gary asks Jocelyn how fast is FHIR's fastball. Jocelyn says it's still too early to tell as FHIR is still maturing as a standard. However, she notes that it has been fantastic to watch real-world examples and leadership unfold in the meantime. More now than ever, it is evident as to why unleashing this data is so important. We are no longer tolerating inefficiencies like we have in the past. Jocelyn praises those on the frontlines using FHIR who come back and evangelize how they are leveraging it. Gary asks Ken what role HIEs will play in all of this. Ken mentions that HIEs vary considerably in their success, size, and scope. Some HIEs have started to work together, which is a very good thing. There are around 100 significant HIEs in the country now, much less than just a couple years ago. They've had to have some sort of sustainability in who they are working with. The providers have been key in clinical data. It's not quite clear what payer involvement looks like with HIEs. Ken says some payers claim that HIEs aren't fully focused on their needs. He thinks that is something that will probably change. HIEs will serve both payers and providers more equally than in the past.Pooja says HIEs can bring the longitudinal patient view. HIEs can take data from different sources and bring them together in a patient record as opposed to just bits and pieces sitting everywhere. We have the potential to reach more groups using HIEs during COVID that you couldn't normally reach with an EHR. Pooja agrees that we are down to a smaller group of HIEs, but the ones who are out there are doing innovative things and figuring out their new role in the environment. Gary asks how we can get payers more engaged with the HIEs. Jocelyn thinks the people who have focused on use cases and real business problems are the ones who will be viewed as a trusted partner when situations like a hurricane or pandemic arises. Payers will be more likely to wire in with HIEs when they are solving real business problems.Jocelyn hopes there are real, meaningful dollars put in place, so public health has an equal footing when it comes to implementation guides. Population health is complicated because there are so many endpoints. She hopes what we take out of this is that we need to seriously invest in our infrastructure for public health, then we all will win. Ken adds that on some issues, states are going to do things their own way, but when it comes to a pandemic, we need a more national approach. We are on our third attempt at a nationwide exchange, which is still, realistically, several years away. There may be some successes with the current HIE structure, yet in some areas like public health, it has proven to be inadequate. ONC is starting to fund some of these areas.Gary asks if there is any movement on a national patient identifier. Pooja mentions that ONC recently held listening sessions on universal patient identifier and a national patient identifier. She notes we are waiting to see if congress passes legislation to allow research on it. Pooja thinks we should look to other industries, outside of healthcare, who are doing this today, such as the financial industry. Other questions also arise concerning privacy and security. How do we share necessary information in a secure manner? Gary asks Jocelyn what she heard at the conference about USCDI. Jocelyn says the team at ONC recognizes there needs to be more frequent updates and ways for the public to impact what's in USCDI. There is a path forward to include ways for people to submit new ideas and to rely less on big annual/bi-annual updates. This becomes important as the expanse of people participating in the FHIR community gets larger and other stakeholders get engaged. The introduction of this new process to be able to expand and advance USCDI independent of the big turn of the wheel, is important for those who are implementing in the market. Gary asks Ken what he heard about labs. Ken notes key challenges like terminology and distributing results. For example, physicians may be ordering what they think is a certain lab test when they are actually getting another because the names are so similar, a capitalized letter could mean the difference between two tests. Then, you also have the challenge of distributing results. Public health often does not get results for a week or more after the results are known. The test results pass through many different places, which can sometimes also result in lost information.Pooja's final remarks talk about players on the bench, those who are waiting to get into the game. This is everyone outside of the main groups, including long-term care facilities, pharmacies, specialty providers, labs, or social determinants of health. She says that if we don't invest in these groups, we will not be able to accomplish what we are trying to achieve.Jocelyn is starting to see the work from the past several years produce itself in meaningful ways. She appreciated hearing from those on the frontlines who are using the tools at hand. Our healthcare system has unique challenges due to both our economic and political landscape, but there are plenty of opportunities for us to continue to lead around things like APIs and FHIR.

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Guest Dale Sanders, CTO of Health Catalyst, joins hosts Gary Austin and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the future of interoperability and health analytics and how healthcare can be positively impacted.  Gary begins the discussion with patient identification. He asks Dale why patients do not yet have a single healthcare identifier for their healthcare records. What is going to change this situation? Dale explains that the answer is a combination of a voluntary system for those in the commercial healthcare space combined with a mandatory system for those that are benefitting from Medicaid and Medicare. We need to commercialize the management of those patient identifiers, just like we've done with internet domains. Ken states that TEFCAis looking at an infrastructure for a nation-wide health information exchange with a lot of these interoperability initiatives. He thinks we could do the same with patient identifiers if we could agree upon a dozen or so fields to try to do a better job capturing core data that could aid with patient identification.Gary asks Dale why we can't have data normalized across the board. Why is this such a difficult process? Dale explains that it boils down to economics. He suspects we've normalized enough to enable reimbursements but that's it. If you think about it, does it matter to a single healthcare system to normalize to a national or international standard? Dale explains that it is probably not that valuable for individual institutions. They are normalizing to their own vocabulary, which works for them. If we're interested in analyzing data beyond the boundaries of healthcare systems – as we need nationally for public and population health – we need to incentivize or mandate broader normalization of vocabulary and go way beyond LOINC codes.  Gary asks Dale if he sees the CDC mandating some of this for public health purposes post-COVID. Dale strongly believes it is time to mandate normalization. Ken notes that lab mapping is strikingly ineffective. There are physicians ordering tests by names that they know, but they don't really know what tests they are actually asking for because what's behind the scenes isn't visible to them. There is no convention for how those things are named, which can be a problematic situation.Gary asks Dale why there is not a standardized vocabulary. Why can't the power of the computer be used to translate all of this in a normalized fashion? Is the power just not there? Dale points out that human language alone is a very difficult thing to make sense of, especially the English language. If you layer on the complexities of clinical vocabulary, then it gets even more complex to turn that into computable, discrete elements. We can progress toward passive dictation, but there will always be a need for humans to make edits.  The discussion moved on to cover combinatorial data. Gary asks “How do you look at pulling this data together and rationalizing it across the two massive domains (administrative and clinical data) that are really driving healthcare in this country?” Dale explains the Health Catalyst data model. He says what you would see are domain and vocabulary-oriented data models that sit in between late binding and enterprise data modeling. There is this middle ground of curated data that is a manageable thing to keep up with and execute.Gary asks Ken who he thinks is going to win by pulling all this payer and clinical data together. Is it the analytics companies, the EMR companies, big tech or who? Ken says there is this concept of a converged platform between payers and providers. Registries are an example of how pulling information together that a lot of people can use. The EHR vendors have taken a run at this, the analytics companies have taken a run at this. We've got the population health management vendors, some of which have been more on the business side of value based care, but there are also some that are on the tech side. It's frankly a huge opportunity. The payers don't have the same reliance on vendors that the provider side has. We have a very defined market of electronic health records vendors for providers, but how do you identify who the vendors are for payers? They are, in a way, a fortress to penetrate. I think Health Catalyst has a huge opportunity to sit in the middle and bring these two worlds together. Dale suggests that in the future, payers will need to become providers and providers need to become payers. The payers are moving toward the provider space at warp speed, the providers are moving into the payer space at a snail's pace. Providers need to be capable of working in the claims space, risk management and risk prediction space better than they are right now. The payers have to do the same working in the other direction in the clinical space. Are the recent CMS ONC regulations around FHIR APIs going to make a real difference for healthcare moving forward? Dale believes the regulations are going to be transformative. However, for FHIR to be successful, he thinks we're going to have to see more transformative changes in the EMR vendors. He'd like to see some aggressive re-architecting with the major software vendors to see if we can't move that along faster. Gary asks Ken to give a profile on consumer applications. Where are these things going? Ken thinks there are a couple of intersecting categories to consider. We have those apps that come under more FDA certification or approvals that are more medically oriented, and then others that will be more generally available that didn't have to go through all those approvals. There is another category of apps associated very specifically with, for example, EHR vendors, health systems or payers. Then, there are other apps that are more independent. The interesting competitive angle here is that those independent apps that can potentially tap into provider systems and payer systems can put a picture together that any one provider or payer organization can't equal. So it becomes more of a cross industry view and we're talking about a longitudinal view and it's usually longitudinal to the provider and the payer, but what it used to be was longitudinal to the patient. Whether those independent apps will succeed or not because they have a battle with the large players in their space. What CMS and ONC have delivered here is in fact that competitive environment far beyond the competition we saw in the past. Gary asks Dale if he sees Health Catalyst getting into the consumer applications space. Dale says the data operating system they build has three missions of data, including analytics, workflow application development and interoperability. They can build applications on top of that data operating system. We have a care management platform that we call a data first application so it looks like an analytics engine but it is really about the workflow of care management. We'll eventually put some patient-facing app on that as soon as the market calms down. That touchstone repository that I mentioned earlier is the national repository that I would eventually like to expose to the public so you, I and ken can query that national repository to other patients like me to see other patients like me where they are being treated, how they are being treated and eventually allow them to socially interact with other patients who are like them. We have to create social interactions between patients like all of us that's what will keep people coming back. Dale gives a primer about healthcare from a battlefield perspective. In the nuclear decision space, a lot of time is spent on subjective and objective data fusion as well as its reliability. The military has formalized decision making and the data required to support decision making. There's a concept known as intelligent preparation for the battlefield, which can be overlapped conceptually onto healthcare. We can build the digital battlefield of healthcare that would support population health, public health, ambulatory care, the framework applies.What is the biggest change we are going to see in healthcare next year? Dale says we will see a relaxation in some of the rules for FDA clinical trials. Additionally, he would like to see an increased emphasis on what we need to do to make quality measures more effective, less burdensome for clinicians. 

Carm Huntress, CEO of RxRevu, joins hosts, Gary Austin and Pooja Babbrah to discuss price transparency. Gary asks Pooja to start the discussion with a primer for price transparency. Pooja states that the topic itself is quite complex and, unfortunately, not very transparent. When receiving a prescription from your doctor, you never really think to ask if you should go to a different pharmacy or if there are coupons available for the medication. You simply pick up the prescription and pay the price that is due. Additionally, since the price of medications are going up, many patients do not pick up prescriptions because they are too expensive. Patients cannot afford to pay for them. Pooja explains that when we think about price transparency, it is all about being transparent with the consumer, letting them know what prescriptions and procedures are actually going to cost them out-of-pocket.Gary then asks Carm to briefly go over RxRevu and to give some opening comments about price transparency. Carm shares that RxRevu is a Denver based company focused on price transparency around drugs. The company helps providers at the point of care make cost-effective decisions by providing a large amount of information. Carm says on a monthly basis, RxRevu is helping millions of patients around affordability issues with their prescription drugs.There is a recent CMS ruling requiring hospitals and payers to post their charges online. Gary asks Carm what all of this means for consumers. Carm says the big idea of this ruling is directionally right. Healthcare is really the only industry where consumers don't know the price of products and services before they buy them. Carm explains that the problem with price transparency is that there's so much complexity in actually pricing medications and procedures, especially since negotiations are affecting these prices. Pooja says this ruling was an important step forward. There's a list of 300 items hospitals and payers are required to give pricing on. She notes that it may not be easy for them to offer this information and the timing for when they actually provide a complete list may be far into the future. Gary points out that price transparency sounds like a good thing for consumers, but what about the physicians? Gary asks Carm if the availability of this information will really change physicians' prescribing and referral habits. Carm explains that price transparency thoughtfully puts the right type of information into workflow, including what the patient will pay at their preferred pharmacy, types of lower cost therapeutic alternatives and insurance coverage. Carm states early findings show that one in every five doctors who are presented with this information make a cost-dynamic change.Prescription price transparency is moving along faster than medical procedure transparency, is that a fair observation and if so, why? Carm agrees with Gary and believes this is the case because the need for price transparency in pharmacy has been driven harder given the longevity of the idea. He says the claims system and the engines that we talk to in terms of getting the data out are a little less complex than on the medical side. The PBMs and the systems behind the PBMs were more ready to do real time benefit and that's why it came to market and matured faster. Gary asks Pooja what's going to be the tipping point for price transparency across the industry. Is there some event or some thing that will be a tipping point as we look out a year? Pooja thinks that from the PBM to the physician standpoint, we're almost there, but in order to progress further, we need to incorporate the consumer side. Doctors can't be price shopping for consumers all the time, so that's where we bring in the second piece of consumer-facing price transparency.RxRevu is growing exponentially. What is your company doing better, faster, or cheaper than the next guy with price transparency? Carm explains price transparency is the company's singular focus, which allows them to execute at a high level. RxRevu works alongside clinicians to finetune those transactions to make sure they go through clean and with the best experience possible. Secondly, Carm notes the company is a startup. There is no legacy business or bureaucracy in their organization. There's a real mission in delivering more value through better prescribing decisions. Lastly, Carm states that RxRevu is a startup. They have taken venture money, but also have several health systems as major investors. This has allowed the company to have a much more intimate relationships with providers at the point of care. Carm believes it has allowed them to uncover things others have not. Why haven't digital companies like Amazon or Yelp entered this space? Or have they and just failed? Carm says more than $10 billion dollars have been invested in digital healthcare over the past 10 years and we're really not seeing any outcomes. He believes this is happening due to the wide-spread assumption that the consumer is always the answer. Carm suggests focusing dollars and efforts on improving physician decision making instead. To conclude the discussion, Gary asks Carm to explain what he would say to a payer CEO about price transparency. Carm stresses this is the number one thing you can do. Bringing transparency is one of the first and most effective things you can do to help physicians understand there are lower-cost options. It's informed autonomy for the doctors. They still have the decision power, but you want those decisions to be informed by a high level of information and a narrow set of options. 

In episode one of a special two episode series, Tom Maxwell and Don Woodard talk about the creation of the Groundlings theater dating all the way back to the first workshops run by Gary Austin. Tom discusses the growth of the theater, what it was like for Don to have Tom as his teacher, and how they later came to form their extremely successful writing partnership.

Guest, Patrick Murta, Solution Architecture Fellow with Humana and Chief Architect for the ONC FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), joins hosts Gary Austin, Jocelyn Keegan and Ken Kleinberg to discuss how Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is transforming health data exchange and what HL7 FHIR Accelerators are doing to expedite progress and FHIR adoption. Gary Austin kicks off the discussion by asking Murta a couple of level setting questions. Why are FHIR APIs so different from legacy EDI transactions? Is this just an IT thing or is it a generational technology and business change? Murta explains that FHIR allows integration from not only an administrative perspective but also a clinical perspective. Information can now be served directly into the workflow at the exact time it's needed. FHIR enables business and clinical processes that were not yet possible with previous generations of technology.  Gary shifts focus to FHIR API Accelerators. He mentions POCP is a program manager for the Da Vinci FHIR Accelerator, has representation on CARIN (consumer-facing accelerator) as well as Gravity (social determinants of health accelerator). How do these accelerators “accelerate” the adoption of FHIR APIs? There are two important factors contributing to this acceleration: the technology (FHIR) and the cross-industry agreement and willingness to collaborate. Put these two things together and you can achieve much more, much faster than if operating ad hoc across the industry. On top of the FHIR API accelerators, there is FAST (FHIR at Scale Taskforce). Gary asks both Murta and Jocelyn to weigh in on the subject, including an overview, its origins and why it's needed. Murta notes the reason FAST exists is due to the development of “functional consortiums” like Da Vinci, CARIN and Gravity. Those groups focus on functionality whereas FAST focuses on the infrastructure capabilities needed to run those functional use cases at scale. FAST was created to identify any barriers to scalability of FHIR and create the appropriate tiger teams to start coming up with solution frameworks to address those problems.  Jocelyn points out that implementations happening today are targeted toward point-to-point traditional connections, but everyone that is building is asking themselves how I can reuse and leverage this API over and over again with all of my business partners. Although those questions are not being answered right now, implementors are evaluating how and where they can take advantage out of the recommendations and tools coming out of the FHIR community and specifically FAST . Gary asks Murta how he balances the details of specification and implementation guides with the galactic vision of accelerating the entire industry? Murta says it is rather easy to separate the different parts of the technology stack. With Da Vinci, the focus is on solving something for a stakeholder in healthcare (use cases). How would the provider, clinician or member interact with this data? Where do they need it in the workflow? What information do they need? On the other hand, with FAST, there is an emphasis on core capabilities and infrastructure. What do these transactions look like when flowing through the technical layers? What identities are going to be used? Jocelyn goes on to explain the temporal dimensions of the matter. What happens in 2020 with respect to these accelerators? Where do you see 2021 going? Jocelyn states that the current pandemic reveals why these workflows are critically important and how we need to move forward as an industry. In spite of the world we are living in now, Jocelyn is excited that we will exit 2020 with some good production implementations of Da Vinci implementation guides and start to see real recommendations coming out of the FAST community. She believes 2021 will be about continuing to finetune and support the wave of people needing to implement.  The discussion pivots to Ken as Gary addresses a significant problem plaguing the industry: identification at the human level. How do we take the intricacies of TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) and deliver that at scale? Ken explains that TEFCA is the federal government's latest attempt to connect the network of networks. It is voluntary and still in the development phase. TEFCA is being designed to address three modes of communication, including message push, targeted query and broadcast query for the information retrieval. FHIR is a newer approach to information exchange and its heavily used in the new ONC final rules. Ken believes it is likely FHIR will be included in future versions of TEFCA. What are challenges for accelerators? Murta worries that as we get additional accelerators, there may be saturation. The industry must keep in mind there are a finite number of resources available to accelerators. It would be detrimental to spread the scope too wide, only to halt forward momentum.  Gary asks Murta one final question. What would you tell an executive business leader in a payer or an IDN who may not be behind this interoperability transition? Murta would tell them to look where the industry is going. You owe it to yourself, your customers, your patients and providers to look at this. If you're not recognizing the value of this technology, you're not fully optimizing your processes.  Jocelyn concludes the discussion by promoting everything being built in the FHIR community. She says it is available for anyone to pick up and use. 

Pooja Babbrah from Point of Care Partners joins hosts, Gary Austin and Ken Kleinberg to talk about changes in the way payers are dealing with pharmaceutical management. Ken Kleinberg opens the discussion by emphasizing the impact of medications on the health of our nation and healthcare costs. Ken notes that payers are now more focused on medications than ever, particularly due to the rise of specialty medications and cost increases. To combat the challenge of prescription costs and healthcare coverage, Ken calls for an industry-wide team effort. For example, physicians need to be more aware of prescription costs, understand how much coverage patients have as well as what they can afford. Patients need to have access to better information in order to participate in their treatment decisions and adherence. Additionally, payers need to focus more on value.Gary moves the conversation to talk about key transformational topics in pharmacy, including consumer access to pharmaceutical data. Pooja mentions the recent approval to publish a joint HL7 and NCPDP implementation guide, which allows consumers to research the lowest price for their medications with a mobile application. The goal of the guide is to allow patients to identify the cheapest drugs and to compare insurance coverage against discount programs. When developing the guide, Pooja notes that there was an existing transaction within the marketplace that Health IT vendors, PBMs and payers had already employed. The new guide was made as a joint effort between the two standard development organizations to make sure it would be easier to implement from a PBM and payer standpoint as well as a Health IT vendor standpoint.Gary then asks Ken how payers might benefit from these changes. Ken explains that payers recognize if patients do not take their prescribed drugs, their health may deteriorate and lead to greater downstream costs. If the reason patients are not filling prescriptions or adhering to treatments are cost-based, payers need to know this. Payers also have the motivation to ensure patients are only prescribed what they need.Gary goes on to ask Pooja about price transparency around pharmaceuticals and what it means to the average consumer. She states it is all about consumers having a place to go to figure out what is the cheapest way to get a medication, where to get it and how to get it. Other content you may be interested in: CARIN Alliance Workgroup to Help Advance Real-Time Pharmacy Benefit Check for PatientsUrgent Need for Real-Time Pharmacy Benefit Check Confirmed in Senate Committee Hearings 

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Kurt Schiller and Mark Hughey from Arcweb join hosts, Gary Austin and Ken Kleinberg to talk about innovation in health IT. Our guests share what kind of innovative projects their Philadelphia-based software development firm is tackling, how they guide their clients through innovation projects and the importance of starting with a business use case before tackling a new project. Ken Kleinberg kicked off the conversation by setting the stage around software innovation and the use of APIs. Ken explains that while many leading EHR softwares, despite their large R&D budgets, are still using decades old technologies. Many EHR companies have developed their own app stores, however, many of these have relied on proprietary technology. With the entrance of and expanded of adoption of open APIs, there is a bigger opportunity fill in the gaps and impact patient experience in a big way. Arcweb is in the world of innovation and acceleration rather than enterprise systems. Mark Hughey shared his analogy comparing Health IT innovation with a successful race car driving team. Hughey shared that a main focus of the innovation Arcweb is seeing is around patient experience, more specifically, technology being applied to better meet patient's changing expectations. Kurt Schiller shared some examples of recent work completed which are examples of three different areas where there seems to be a lot of activity. One example is patient scheduling. Rather than expecting patients to call the physician office to make an appointment there is a desire to allow patients to make appointments via an app. Up to now, the barrier was a business issue related to software architecture. Allowing patients to book an appt in two clicks versus The next is around rare disease management to allow physicians to share data between themselves and augment their ability to treat patients with disease states they may not see frequently. Finally, apps to support behavior change to better support disease state management. Gary asked how Arcweb approaches new projects and how they go about planning the execution, timeframe and budget. Hughey empasized that they always begin by introducing customers to the idea of the iron triangle with three core pillars of scope, budget, and time. Two of these at any point can be optimized but never all three at once. This drives a conversation towards priorities so these are clearly articulated at project start. This helps Arcweb tailor the approach. Gary then asked how they measure success. Hughey explains that key metrics of success are established from the beginning. This helps ensure the client team is on the same page with expectation. Half of Arcweb's business is healthcare. Compared to other industries, healthcare key metrics of success are more confounding to set whether the client wants to improve patient experience, reduce administrative burden, improve clinical outcomes or some other metric. Ken weighs in on key metrics of success by saying the conversation that reminds him of the old balance scorecard and that innovation/excitement measure could almost be added as an additional metric on the scorecard. Gary then moves the conversation to talk about how COVID-19 has served as an accelerator for innovation planning. Schiller explains that many stakeholders realize there are gaps in data exchange inhibiting their response to the pandemic.  Some decisions for short-term ease may cause some longer term issues but definitely have stakeholders looking more long-term with how they can build solutions that will better support telehealth and other areas in the longer term as well as revisiting frameworks and infrastructures.The big challenge structurally is that even though you have innovation labs, core IT ops  and research but in the case of research they don't have access to core IT and the purpose of core IT is to keep data safe and not innovation. Key takeaway from Arcweb? As those responsible for bringing technology solutions to life to enhance the health and well being of those we serve, we should be unwilling to be less than we can be.  

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The discussion continues with guest, Dr. Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) joins The Dish on Health IT panel of senior consultants, Gary Austin, Jocelyn Keegan and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the role of Health Information Exchanges in healthcare, their role in the response to COVID-19 and what role they can serve in the future once TEFCA is finalized.  Part 2 of the discussion jumps in with how MiHIN responded to COVID-19 by creating a separate group to serve public health needs during the crisis. MiHIN also created a telehealth service to better serve patients and support stay at home orders. Dr. Pletcher explained they acceleration the connections with labs and expressed his desire for results to be sent back via API instead of batch files to expedite results availability. Data links and analytics have taken on a whole new role during this time. MiHIN has taken on a support role which may have pumped the brakes on some innovation projects but there has been opportunity to increase the priority of other projects that could directly positively impact the pandemic response. Jocelyn explained why its so important to meet people where they are in order to make progress. This time is also a time for these simulated barriers to drop. She asked Dr. Pletcher how MiHIN is dealing with perceived security issues when working with innovation projects or partnering with new stakeholders. Dr. Pletcher responded by saying that their biggest challenge right now are Quest and Labcorp because they don't like to share data but this will be resolved through government intervention. The issues generally are not technical issues but business issues with one partner either not wanting to share data or restricting how the data can be used. The group went on to discuss how dropping the rules to facilitate the use of telehealth more readily will be a huge driver for change and innovation and hopefully the rules will remain suspended because patients should have more access via telehealth even over state lines. The conversation moved to data blocking with Gary pointing out EHRs are usually the ones getting the finger pointed at them for data blocking. Dr. Pletcher expressed that Epic or Cerner have never blocked or withheld data in Michigan so he doesn't know who it really is doing the data blocking. Will the US do more around pandemic surveillance like Taiwan and South Korea? Will HIEs support something like? Ken pointed out that some people don't want to be tracked in this way and will opt out or avoid it, however, if it's the only way a person is allowed to get into a ball game or something, they likely will. Dr. Pletcher explained that opt-in and opt-out is an archaic concept. There is a much better framework which would allow patients to express a more granular desire of how they want their data to be used. Doctors have choices too and when patients consent to receive treatment, physician choices come into play. The group highlighted where there are similarities between the financial and healthcare industries related to security and data access until the complexities of healthcare ends the similarities with identity being a major hurdle. With the explosion of patient apps, there is also a trust factor the that comes into play as far as understanding what data that can be obtained from patients apps can be trusted and whether they will look at HIEs as the consolidator of data vs going to Payers.        

Guest, Dr. Tim Pletcher, Executive Director of the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) joins The Dish on Health IT panel of senior consultants, Gary Austin, Jocelyn Keegan and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the role of Health Information Exchanges in healthcare, their role in the response to COVID-19 and what role they can serve in the future once TEFCA is finalized.  Gary Austin kicked off the episode by having Ken and Jocelyn give their perspective on HIEs. Ken went on to provide a primer on the history of HIEs and their varying role depending on the model before going on to mention that the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) may change the ecosystem once finalized. Dr. Pletcher explained that the MiHIN Group is comprised of 3 companies: MiHIN,  Velatura & Interoperability Institute. Each company serves a specific purpose. Velatura was created to stay aware of what is happening at the national level and to operate nationally. The Interoperability Institute is a research and development group staffed by interns who are the next generation of Health IT professionals. HIEs were compared to public commons, like parks and good roads and bridges that people want to have but don't necessarily want to pay for. Dr. Pletcher pointed out that many HIEs were created prematurely before EHR standards and adoption was where it needed to be for valuable data exchange. Ultimately the value model for MiHIN is based on use cases that are then driven to mass adoption.    The value lies primarily with the government and health insurance companies so payers primarily pay for MiHIN service so providers are incentivized to improve data quality while being subsidized to change their workflow to do so. What's the difference between the successful HIE vs struggling models? Dr. Pletcher pointed out that it's centered around the value the HIE is bringing to each stakeholder and building upon it over time while following the money. Jocelyn added that solving real problems and talking about the elephants in the room to deal with barriers head-on is crucial. She offered that having MiHIN join the HL7 Da Vinci Project is hastening progress. There is an opportunity for HIEs to reinvent themselves as more flexible API standards are developed and take advantage of fielded codifiable exchange tools to get things into real production environments and take out custom codes and massive production efforts. The team continued to discuss the financial model of HIEs and how they may evolve post-COVID-19. Will there be more government funding after COVID-19 calms down? Maybe, but there are a lot of people in need and the general funds at the state level are tapped. There may be some federal programs that look toward automation to cut down on some of he manual processes that are still eating up resources. There may be other non-government revenue streams that open up either with employers or by offering telehealth services at the HIE level. Jocelyn pointed out that while streamlining and making data liquid in general (whether through HIEs or just better adoption of APIs in general) is a money saver for health systems and payers,  patients also win through getting better, more informed care and ultimately leading to better outcomes. Part 2 of this conversation is coming soon!  

Gary Austin kicked off the podcast by introducing Ken and Jocelyn who provided their opening comments on the ONC and CMS rules, information blocking and telehealth. Gary then introduced David Szabo before kicking off the discussion around the CMS & ONC Rules where they discussed how much enforcement teeth these rules carry and the opportunities for innovation for forward thinking organizations. The discussion then moved to information blocking where the group discussed why it may matter if an organization inadvertently blocks information because they don't understand the regulations versus organizations which may blatantly block information. There are implications not only for health IT companies but for payer and provider organizations. The group then moved to discuss the implications for patients when they consent to their clinical information to be shared with a 3rd party app outside of the protection of HIPAA. This is especially important because most consumers don't read the 10 page agreements they need to "consent to" before using an app. The group then tackled the explosion of use of telehealth which may have been an operational challenge for some providers. In the midst of COVID-19 there are waivers, relaxation of the site of practice and mandated reimbursements levels which may change once the pandemic wanes. With claims going up by as much as 1000% in some areas, there is also a huge risk for fraud. Look forward to Part 2 which covers price transparency and pick up the conversation around data privacy issues that may arise due to information blocking regulations and the priorities organizations should put on complying with new rules and regulations and developing interoperability roadmaps and agreements.     

In this episode Helene Jewell interviews Nicola Morris who together with Penny Walker conducted a survey to find out what facilitators feel they need at the moment, during the times of Covid 19. Participants of the IAF virtual coffee meet up in April 2020 reflect on what they got from the session, what is going on for them at the moment, facilitation with family members, the difficulty of building in the experiential element in virtual facilitation and “deep participation”. Also facilitation of community groups, the steep learning curves and feeling okay about not knowing how to do it all. The facilitators talking were: Penny Walker, London Koren Stark, Dublin John Varney, Yorkshire Orla Cronin, Manchester Paul O'Raw, Dublin and finally, from Susannah Raffe, London Nicola Morris then talks to Helene about her journey into facilitation and how she has always used facilitation in some shape or form. Her current career was catalysed by early redundancy and is a mix of training and facilitation and sometimes being able to host more of an emergent session, and sometimes being more structured. She has always done a lot of work online but having to be totally responsible for it is something new. She talks about some things being easy to transfer online, going with what people want and helping them to take ownership of sessions. But then in adapting training sessions has taken a lot more thought in terms of gaining engagement. Responding to what people want and seeing the tools as the enabler is important. Nicola talks about how idea for the survey came from an IAF meet up and the realisation that as everyone is having to adapt at the moment,the IAF can help people by supporting people. There were a lot of ideas but it was also important to ask people what was needed and so a survey was created. There were 65 responses – circulated to IAF members and others via social media. Some things were about needing to know how to use tools, some people needed confidence, and also wanted to know how to sell these different ways of doing things to clients. The survey results were fed to the IAF meet up hosts and there were also plenty of offers of help from people who responded. This will be used as a pool of resources to draw on during the meetups, so that these are as powerful as possible. The meet ups allow people an opportunity to play and explore new tools in a safe space. Participants from the Online London May Coffee Meetup talked about some of their thoughts: Jonathan Bannister, Susannah Raffe and Gary Austin, led along by Martin Gilbraith They talked about how to using a microphone can help when working on line. Also how can facilitators help recover from this in a transformative way. And resilience both in terms of clients but also family and friends. There has been an explosion of tools and maybe it is possible for the IAF to stress test some of these. QiqoChat for example is a wrapper that goes around zoom and allows people to choose a room to move to. Descript – a video editing product which transcribes files. Several whiteboards were also mentioned – Concept Board, Mural and the Zoom whiteboard. There was a discussion around how “deep” clients are wanting to go in their sessions at the moment and what that means for facilitators. And thinking about the after session support which is different now that it is not face to face. Get in touch: Twitter: @IAFEnglandWales; use #iafpodcast @helenejewell @nicolajmorris E-mail: podcast@iaf-englandwales.org - Send us some text, or even an mp3 audio! Find out more about us over at the  https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales for show notes    

Gary Austin kicks off the discussion by asking the panel about the massive increased use of telehealth. Guest Brian Bamberger defines what he means by telehealth and the distinction between telehealth and telemedicine. The panel moved on to address rule changes that make the use of telehealth more accessible to everyone. Bamberger acknowledged that telehealth for a long time was adopted to service patients in more rural areas but that moving forward, telehealth can improve accessibility for at risk, mobility challenged individuals in urban areas as well as capacity is built. There is no reason physicians or patients shouldn't continue conducting more routine visits as virtual visits. Jocelyn shared that her municipality, where she is a government official, has leveraged their first responders to do virtual visits for triage and help disseminate information. In the future, remote monitoring, delivering test results and other routine visits can be done virtually. This practice may increase usage overall and potentially increase the number of preventative visits which can help improve outcomes and for certain, generate more data that would be available for analysis. The panel then discussed how to "productize" telehealth in a fiscally viable way. What's pricing? What technology is needed? Will it help reduce medical loss ratios for payers? How does telehealth fit into value-based care? Bamberger makes that point that telehealth will also be critical for the next epidemic or for the second wave of this one.  The panel then discussed the risk of fraud and ways to monitor and avoid it. Each panel then shared their closing thoughts on impact, action items and strategies payers and providers should take around telehealth.   

In this episode, Pilar talks to Gary Austin about what learning opportunities he's found during his 30 years as a facilitator. But before that, we have a roundup of what's happening at the different Meetups from: Susannah Raffe, @SusannahRaffe https://www.meetup.com/IAF-South-West-England-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488389/   Peter Nelson https://www.meetup.com/IAF-North-of-England-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488388/   Hilary Topp, @HTFacilitation https://www.meetup.com/IAF-Midlands-East-of-England-facilitators-friends/events/266488390/ Megan Evans @megan_evans1 https://www.meetup.com/IAF-Wales-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488391/   Also check out what some of our other friends are doing: https://www.meetup.com/IAF-Ireland-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488392/   https://www.meetup.com/IAF-Scotland-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488393/ Check out Gianpietro's sketch @gpinuk, so that link will also be in the show notes, Gianpietro https://twitter.com/gpinuk/status/1201880321106620416?s=20 Gary describes the different facilitator titles that he's earned (and might earn at some point) from the IAF. https://www.iaf-world.org/site/pages/iaf-professional-development-path Link to full meeting. https://youtu.be/yWLIfIDp5_8 Conversation with Gary Austin How did he discover facilitation, and why did he move into the profession? And how does he use facilitation now, with his company circleindigo http://www.circleindigo.com/ How do people know they need a facilitator and decide to get in touch with circleindigo? Gary has looked for those times when he can find out what other facilitators are doing, and attend those kinds of sessions that don't always seem relevant. He tells us about a couple of times that unexpectedly led to great learning experiences. What are the kind of qualities/skills necessary to stay in facilitation for a long time. (Hint: values play a big part..., look out for our next episode!) Every interaction is an opportunity for learning. Gary's been around the IAF for a while and is now part of the leadership team of the England and Wales chapter, and part of the IAF Global board. Gary's last words: embed yourself in a network of peers and colleagues. http://www.circleindigo.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyaustin/ https://twitter.com/circleindigoGA Send your audio and feedback to podcast@iaf-englandwales.org  https://twitter.com/Fac_Stories #facilitation #IAFmeetup #iafpodcast      

  Helene Jewell and Pilar Orti discuss The IAF conference (18th/19th October 2019 in Birmingham) 2 days and an evening which included: Human map, Client Panel Interviewing, Parallel Sessions, Open Space (inspired), Dine Around  We hear from James at Session Lab @notjamessmart talking about the sessions he attended. Some of Helene’s and Pilar’s highlights: The panel interview – 3 clients from 3 different organisations, interviewed by Gary Austin with additional questions from the audience. It was great to hear from the panel and question them live. Lots of different aspects were discussed including not underselling the whole package of facilitation and the benefits of the pre and post work.  The panel discussion was useful in terms of helping everyone to understand how to explain to clients who “don’t get it”. They were advocates for the profession. They also talked about co-creation by using an external and internal facilitator together.  The human map – organised by Hilary Topp. A great way to show where participants at the conference came from and a good warm up exercise. The session from Paul Brand and Andrew Chilvers– emphasising the facilitation skills you bring before the facilitation event and the importance of co-creation with the client.  Justine Marchant’s session on internal dialogue and the discussions around the importance of understanding ourselves and the fact that imposter syndrome can still be present even if you are very experienced.  Mary Robson’s session on co-facilitation – talking about viewing co-facilitation as a part of the process and not an add-on and how it can be included as an integral part of facilitation. In between the sessions the conversations there were lots of great conversations to be had. During these, Emma Cragg (personal development coach) @ekcragg , suggested she could send a “microcast” , which you can listen to in this episode.  Camilla Gordon’s session on her work with refugees in Calais. One of the things she discussed was about what a facilitator brings in and leaves behind in a session, and being a bit more conscious of this  QUESTION TO LISTENERS: What do you bring into the session, what do you leave there and what do you take with you as a facilitator? Pilar ran Podcasting for Advocacy and Self Development – started the session with something similar to the human map to gauge people’s experience and interest in podcasting. The session focused quite a bit on the podcasting process.  Something to try out – taking notes by repeating what participants were saying by speaking into a phone that had a Google doc open. You can do this by using the microphone button instead of typing. Good to think about with respect to multi generational groups. Open space inspired (run by Penny Walker)– really energising and full of generosity from people wanting to do different sessions. Different people got different things from the sessions. Open space is about having the conversations people need to have there and then. It was also a good time to not have conversations if that is what you needed and take some time out. The sessions were written up on a Pinpoint pinboard (brought along by Keith from Pinpoint Facilitation)  The Wall of Wonder – put up by Gary Austin for participants to write up ideas, key phrases from the conference.  At the end of the first day Helene and Kim Jones lead a wrap up session using iDeeter – asking people for their key learning and best moments. It was a nice quiet reflective time. A genius moment at the end was the Dine Around organised by Lee Button. Lee chose 6 or so restaurants and booked tables in them so everyone could sign up to go to one of them.  Organising the conference – the planning started in January and from this a gentle trickle of work. It felt quite organic and everyone seemed really invested in it, stepped into doing what was needed. The energy of working in a team was great and it was easy to tap into the meet up networks to find out who wanted to do sessions. The content was created by the community so everyone was sharing what they could put into it rather than focus on what they could get out of it.  Please let us know your thoughts: podcast@iaf-englandwales.org  www.IAF-world.org And go mad on Twitter! @IAFenglandwales @Fac-stories  @helenejewell  @pilarorti  #IAFPodcast 

#BCS Tech Podcast – Summer Series Episode #2 – Gary Austin – Bradley County Schools Director of Pupil Personnel – Instructional Technology Coordinator Scott Webb (@Swebb_32) hosts the #BCSTech Podcast featuring Director of Pupil Personnel Gary Austin. On the show, we discuss Bradley County Schools' discipline procedures, Zero Tolerance policy, and due process.

#BCS Tech Podcast - Summer Series Episode #2 - Gary Austin - Bradley County Schools Director of Pupil Personnel - Instructional Technology Coordinator Scott Webb (@Swebb_32) hosts the #BCSTech Podcast featuring Director of Pupil Personnel Gary Austin. On the show, we discuss Bradley County Schools' discipline procedures, Zero Tolerance policy, and due process.

David Taylor has a 10-year history with Improvisation, studying at the American Acadamey of Dramatic Arts in New York and taking improv classes from Gary Austin, the founder of the Groundlings. In our conversation, David explains why he believes that improv can fundamentally change how we live our lives and how anyone, not just actors, can benefit from improvisation training. Also, Reed learns why trying to improv swimming on stage is probably not a good idea! Follow @davidnelsontaylor on Instagram and visit his website, davidnelsontaylor.com. Reed Fish is @tallreedfish on Instagram and @reedfish on Twitter. Follow Workin' It wherever you get your social media: @workinitpod on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Also, what the hell, might as well set your homepage to workinitpod.com, too. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reed-fish/message

Creating something from nothing. In this episode I talk with Terry Bolo, cult film actress, about the birth of The Groundlings, an improvisational sketch comedy troupe and school that she was a part of, and Paul Reubens creating Pee-wee Herman and Pee-wee's Playhouse. We also talk about how she changed her diet to get off all pharmaceutical drugs, and of course, yoga. Terry Bolo is originally from Detroit, Michigan, spent some formative years in Scottsdale, Arizona, and as a young teen, moved to Hollywood, California. She was a student at the Strasberg Institute in the early 70s and became one of the original founding members of the improv comedy troupe, The Groundlings. After 5 years of performing with the group, she went on to other theater and film projects (including a student in "Carrie", a party girl in "Big Wednesday", a passenger in "Airplane 2", and a biker chick in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", to name just a few), including a stint as a casting assistant at Warner Brothers. She became a stand-in, first for children, and then worked with actresses Julia Duffy and Roseanne Barr. On "Roseanne", she also worked as a dialogue coach. She has taught improv classes and coached actors. Besides film and TV work, Terry is also a Hollywood tour guide. And she appears in the award-winning documentary "Strictly Background," which centers on Hollywood extras/background artists. The Groundlings are an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe and school based in Los Angeles, California. The troupe was formed by Gary Austin in 1974 and uses an improv format influenced by Viola Spolin, whose improvisational theater techniques were used by Del Close and other members of the Second City, located in Chicago and later St. Louis. They used these techniques to produce sketches and improvised scenes. Its name is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III, Scene II: "...to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise." In 1975 the troupe purchased and moved into its current location on Melrose Avenue.    

Leah Yananton is a filmmaker, writer, actor, and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Yananton appeared regularly at The Groundlings Theatre in the Catmilk Show under the direction of founder Gary Austin. She is a member of Rob Watzke’s SHPLOTZ! improvisational theater company, with weekly performances featuring special guests such as Helen Slater, Helen Hunt, and Jason Alexander. Yananton’s professional film experience began in the camera department on Spike Lee’s Bamboozled and Marc Levin’s & Mark Benjamin's Brooklyn Babylon. She went on to travel the globe working on documentaries for HBO, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel. She received her B.F.A. from Columbia University where she received the Stephen Ades award for Creative Writing as well as a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, to study Mandarin Chinese. While studying in Taipei, she wrote and directed her first bilingual short film Baozhi / The Newspaper. Returning to New York, Yananton co-wrote and directed “The Naked Show,” the full-length off-off Broadway political satire about college activism and mainstream media in the wake of 9-11 and the start of the Iraq War. She studied directing under Columbia School of the Arts dramaturgy professor Lenore DeKoven as part of Our Workshop East. After completing the two-year Meisner acting conservatory program under James Brill at The Neighborhood Playhouse, Yananton wrote, directed and acted in the surreal short film, THE BURIAL (15 min) an Official Selection at the L.A. Shorts Fest, and appeared in Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS. Yananton was commissioned to direct the documentary MANHATTANVILLE: A NEIGHBORHOOD UNDER SIEGE (32 min) which chronicled Columbia University’s controversial expansion into her West Harlem neighborhood. MANHATTANVILLE screened at the Harlem Film Festival, Girl Fest Hawaii, and L.A. Shorts Fest, and continues to be screened by the Columbia community and West Harlem neighborhood to facilitate dialogue. Yananton performed LANDESCAPES, a performance art video installation commissioned by the cWOW Gallery in Newark. Leah is also developing an environmental justice documentary IN OUR BACKYARD, about the municipal polluting of an African American community in Athens, GA. Her next narrative feature deals with the problem of commercial exploitation of sexuality among the LGBTQ community in West Hollywood, and is currently in development.

Gary Austin Classic Bikini Divas are proud to have one of the last shows with the iconic improv guru Gary Austin, Founder / Director of the Groundlings. Gary shares his feelings for animals as they all talk about healthy eating and Hollywood.

In this week’s Yes But Why Podcast episode, host Amy Jordan talks to longtime friend and comedy colleague, Irene Carroll!Irene tells us about her adventures teaching improv workshops at And Theatre Company, about her mentor The Groundlings founder Gary Austin, and about the experience she had being artistic director for a year at Gotham City Improv. This is a great conversation for anyone interested in performing improv or working in theater, especially those in the New York area.

In this week’s Yes But Why Podcast episode, host Amy Jordan talks to longtime friend and comedy colleague, Irene Carroll!Irene tells us about her adventures teaching improv workshops at And Theatre Company, about her mentor The Groundlings founder Gary Austin, and about the experience she had being artistic director for a year at Gotham City Improv. This is a great conversation for anyone interested in performing improv or working in theater, especially those in the New York area.

In this bonus content, Mike and Kari talk about the amazing improvisation and development of the characters in Broken, Alaska. And it all began with Gary Austin and a package of cheese curds...

Natalie and Wayne pay homage to the Groundlings founder Gary Austin. Country music singer-songwriter Katelyn Marie joins them to chat about her writing techniques and building her team with the OC9 Music Group. Guest Links WEBSITE: https://www.katelynmariemusic.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KatelynMariePiz FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/KatelynMariePiz/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/katelynmariepiz/ Reverbnation https://www.reverbnation.com/katelynmarie

GARY AUSTIN, one of the country’s premiere improvisational acting teachers, is the Founder and Original Director of The Groundlings, Los Angeles’ premier character-based improvisational theatre company.Gary began his professional career as a performing member of San Francisco’s famed improvisational company, The Committee, where he worked with Second City’s Del Close. His work has been featured on NPR’s ”Fresh Air,” in major trades and in several books, including Acting Teachers of America by Ronald Rand, The Actor’s Guide to Qualified Acting Coaches, by Larry Silverberg, and The Funniest One in the Room – The Lives and Legends of Del Close by Kim “Howard” Johnson.Gary’s students work throughout the world of entertainment as actors, singers, comedians, writers, directors and producers. His students include Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, Paul Feig (Director Bridesmaids), Helen Slater, Lisa Kudrow, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman), the late Phil Hartman, Academy Award & Emmy nominee Lindsay Crouse, Tony winner Lillias White, Jennifer Grey, the late Pat Morita (Oscar nominee), Donna Summer, Loretta DeVine, Mark Dacascos (Iron Chef America & Hawaii Five-O), Robert David Hall (CSI) and Daphne Zuniga.Gary holds a BA Degree in Theatre from San Francisco State University. He is Producer and Artistic Director of The Gary Austin Workshops and teaches, directs and performs in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington DC.www.garyaustinworkshops.com

In this episode of Comedy Death Star, Denzil Meyers sits down with Groundlings founder and improvisational theater teacher, writer, director, and musician Gary Austin.

In this episode of Comedy Death Star, Denzil Meyers sits down with Groundlings founder and improvisational theater teacher, writer, director, and musician Gary Austin.

Tracy Newman started playing guitar at 14 with dreams of becoming a folk singer.  In the early 70s, she joined an improvisation class taught by Gary Austin, which became The Groundlings.   Tracy is a founding member, and besides being in the show, she began teaching and directing there. Her sister, Laraine Newman was the first Groundling to be discovered there by Lorne Michaels for Saturday Night Live. It was at the Groundlings that Tracy met her future TV writing partner, Jonathan Stark. They started on Cheers, and worked on many shows, including Bob (Bob Newhart), The Nanny, Ellen, The Drew Carey Show and Hiller and Diller (Richard Lewis and Kevin Nealon.) In 1997, they won the Emmy and the prestigious Peabody Award for writing the ground-breaking -coming out- episode of Ellen. In 2001, they created the ABC comedy, According to Jim, which recently completed it’s eighth and final season of production. Tracy has been writing songs all along and is once again performing full-time. She has three CDs:  “A Place in the Sun,” “I Just See You” and “I Can Swing Forever,” (which is for children). www.TracyNewman.com

What a thrill to chat with Gary Austin, founder of The Groundlings, about comedy, and acting, and music and life. We talk about the importance of being in the moment and losing fear, the happy accident that was the founding of The Groundlings, and so much more! You can learn more about Gary at GaryAustinWorkshops.com! You can check out Scotty’s Free Improv Workshops October 24th and 25th, and his four day Performance Intensive November 19th through 22nd. Check out ArtisticNewDirections.com for more information! Follow the show on Twitter at @DHAPshow, listen to and subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn Radio (leave a comment and 5 stars!)! Check out DHAPshow.com! #phenomenal

Improving Patient Outcomes On this episode we featured three organizations who are working on improving patient outcomes in several ways. We hosted Dr. Kim Dennis, CEO/Director for Timberline Knolls and her colleague, Sara Bright, Gary Austin, CEO of One Care, and Marc O’Connor of Curant Health came by to talk about their solutions. Timberline Knolls […] The post Improving Patient Outcomes appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

In acting, whether scripted or improvised, there are moments where split second choices make all the difference in performance. Learning to be comfortable in those choices, is the point of improvisation. Join us in a conversation with Gary Austin, founder … Continue reading →

In acting, whether scripted or improvised, there are moments where split second choices make all the difference in performance. Learning to be comfortable in those choices, is the point of improvisation. Join us in a conversation with Gary Austin, founder … Continue reading →

Gary Austin is the founder of The Groundlings, was in The Committee, is a master teacher, a wonderful musician, and is starring in the film "We've Got Balls," currently running on the festival circuit.

A lack of trust in the use of patient health information and a general reluctance to share patient information with industry competitors are the biggest obstacles to an open exchange of patient health information, says Gary Austin, a healthcare industry consultant on corporate/product strategy and program management. In spite of these roadblocks, the health plans he's met with support a climate of value-based healthcare choices. Many plans have already invested millions to equip physicians with the capability for e-prescribing, and more will underwrite physicians in the use of electronic medical records in the next few years. He envisions that consumer "smart cards" loaded with patient health information will initially be introduced within individual health systems, and eventually be usable between systems. Austin, Linda Davis, a consultant to the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) in Minnesota, Sue Lewis, senior vice president of health and productivity solutions at IncentOne, and Mark Xistris, director of provider relations and health information for The Alliance, examined how their respective organizations are using these four strategies to stay competitive in the fast-growing consumer-driven movement during a May 30, 2007 audio conference, Value-Driven Healthcare in Action: A Four-Pronged Approach to Meet Consumer Transparency, Quality and Access Demands.

A physician practice's measurements reporting efforts will flourish under a "physician champion" to lead the way, notes Linda Davis, a consultant to the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) in Minnesota. Once a transparent reporting effort is underway, it can bring about significant cultural change and raise motivation levels in the naturally competitive provider environment, she adds. Aware of the automated vs. manual reporting methods in use, the BHCAG facilitates the reporting effort via its direct data submission process, which accepts data from practices in many formats. Gary Austin, a healthcare industry consultant on corporate/product strategy and program management, Davis, Sue Lewis, senior vice president of health and productivity solutions at IncentOne, and Mark Xistris, director of provider relations and health information for The Alliance, examined how their respective organizations are using these four strategies to stay competitive in the fast-growing consumer-driven movement during a May 30, 2007 audio conference, Value-Driven Healthcare in Action: A Four-Pronged Approach to Meet Consumer Transparency, Quality and Access Demands.

Rewarding members and employees for being savvy medical consumers and shopping is an increasing trend in healthcare, notes Sue Lewis, senior vice president of health and productivity solutions at IncentOne. Companies are leveraging the corporate Intranet, meetings and health fairs to spread the word on incentives to their populations. She has also observed that companies offering consumer-directed health plans are in the best position tax-wise to extend benefits to dependents and retirees. Gary Austin, a healthcare industry consultant on corporate/product strategy and program management, Linda Davis, a consultant to the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) in Minnesota,Lewis, and Mark Xistris, director of provider relations and health information for The Alliance, examined how their respective organizations are using these four strategies to stay competitive in the fast-growing consumer-driven movement during a May 30, 2007 audio conference, Value-Driven Healthcare in Action: A Four-Pronged Approach to Meet Consumer Transparency, Quality and Access Demands.

Until patient satisfaction ratings can be evidenced to be linked to outcomes, they should not factor into a provider's quality ratings, says Mark Xistris, director of provider relations and health information for The Alliance, an employer-owned and directed not-for-profit cooperative that helps companies manage the total cost of ensuring the health and well-being of their workforce. His organization, recently named a community leader by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, believes that providers and payors have legitimate concerns about releasing cost information to consumers, who may misinterpret the data without proper guidelines. Gary Austin, a healthcare industry consultant on corporate/product strategy and program management, Linda Davis, a consultant to the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) in Minnesota, Sue Lewis, senior vice president of health and productivity solutions at IncentOne, and Xistris, examined how their respective organizations are using these four strategies to stay competitive in the fast-growing consumer-driven movement during a May 30, 2007 audio conference, Value-Driven Healthcare in Action: A Four-Pronged Approach to Meet Consumer Transparency, Quality and Access Demands.