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Humans and pets have shared a deep bond for centuries, yet our animal companions are now considered more a part of the family than ever. So, it's no surprise that pet photography is a blossoming niche, and a perfect subject for this week's podcast—especially since it's National Pet Month! Above photograph © Nancy Borowick We start by chatting with pet photographer Karen Hoglund, who alerted us to her work in response to Allan's musing about using the hashtag “kittens” to generate traffic on social media. After noting that #kittens only yields a 20 percent bump over #photographer, Hoglund offers advice on the dos and don'ts of posing pets, and picking up on their non-verbal signs of anxiety or stress. After a break, we switch gears from posed pet portraits to learn about Sony Artisan Nancy Borowick's candid editorial-style coverage of the Westminster Dog Show, and her long-term project, “Part of the Pack.” Primarily known for telling intimate stories about people, Nancy explains how an invitation to photograph the dog show helped her process the loss of both her parents to cancer. She talks about the challenges of covering the show's frenetic atmosphere, describing how she maintains focus by seeking out telling details.  As we all agree, pets are truly a gift in our daily lives, and learning how to capture their unique personalities in pictures can only deepen this bond and enrich our experience. Guests: Karen Hoglund & Nancy Borowick For more information on our guests and the gear they use, see: https://blogd7.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/kittens-picturing-pets-karen-hoglund-nancy-borowick Top shot © Nancy Borowick Episode Timeline:  2:06: Does #Kittens or pictures of cute pets help to drive traffic on social media?  4:28: How to recognize signs of stress and anxiety in pets, and tips for posing pets during a photo session. 7:48: Giving treats to a pet so they'll behave during a photo shoot and behavior differences to keep in mind when photographing dogs or cats. 16:06: Tips for photographing groups of pets and people, plus advice for photographing darker-colored pets. 21:32: Hoglund's pet photography gear bag and her thoughts on using mirrorless cameras and lenses. 25:57: Episode Break 27:04: Nancy Borowick's love of the Westminster Dog show and the challenges of working in such a fast-paced, frenetic environment. 36:11: Difficult breeds to photograph, the benefits of real-time eye autofocus for animals in Sony lenses, and Borowick's favorite dog breed. 39:25: Borowick's love for close-up details as storytelling tools, and her favorite lens: a Sony G series 85mm f/1.4. 42:30: Evolution from photographing at the dog show to Borowick's long-term project “Part of the Pack,” and the differences between dogs and owners at a top competition setting and in a home environment 54:30: Final thoughts from Borowick and Hoglund about owning pets today. Guest Bios: Karen Hoglund started out as a graphic designer, art-directing photo shoots for ad agencies and commercial clients. After honing her camera skills by photographing children and families, she shifted focus to her true love—dogs and cats. After starting a pet photography business in 2012, she hasn't looked back, working from her home base in Denver, Colorado with a squeaky toy in one hand, a camera in the other, and fur all over her clothes. Nancy Borowick is an internationally renowned photographer, author, teacher, and speaker. A graduate of the International Center of Photography, she is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a Kickstarter Thought Leader. Working regularly with the New York Times since 2013, Borowick has told intimate stories of people, places, and pets from every corner of the globe. Her break-out project about her two parents in parallel treatment for stage-four cancer has received major accolades and awards such as The Arnold Newman Prize and the Humanitarian Award from the organization Women That Soar. This project was published in 2018 as the monograph The Family Imprint. Borowick currently resides on the island of St. John, USVI with her husband, two sons, and her dog, Einstein. Stay Connected: Karen Hoglund Website: https://karenhoglundphotography.com Karen Hoglund Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenhoglundphoto Karen Hoglund Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenHoglundPhotography Karen Hoglund Twitter: https://twitter.com/khoglund_photo Karen Hoglund Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/khoglund/ Karen Hoglund YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@karenhoglundphotography/ Karen Hoglund TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@karenhoglundphoto   Nancy Borowick Website: https://www.nancyborowick.com Nancy Borowick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancyborowick/ Nancy Borowick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.borowick/ Nancy Borowick Twitter: https://twitter.com/nancyborowick

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Sierra Schultzzie, Riayn Christina, & Paloma Malfavon give big sis advice while answering viewer questions about everything under the sun! The Group Chat @ (917) 810-3045 Timestamps: 0:19 intro & catch up  4:29 Cheetah Girls 9:20 solicited advice 10:55 content creation on a budget 13:14 do I have red flags? 15:58 trying to live with family as an adult 21:28 politics in dating 27:17 feeling lovable  34:12 dual income no kids 41:59 body changes in your twenties 48:12 toxic in-laws 53:45 loneliness 56:51 postpartum & marriage 1:02:26 closing thoughts Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7gxdcCY7rDteu3VRj7K3w Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1470690716 Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9jNjFmODgwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Thanks for listening

Gayle Colman, CFP®, holistic and integral wealth coach and author, joins the Journey to Launch podcast to discuss making money choices with clarity and confidence, free from overwhelm. Gayle is co-founder of Colman Knight Advisory Group and has spent 35 years in the money psychology industry. Her work focuses on somatic finance, teaching and inspiring others to bring presence to their bodies and work from the internal first. We chat about the 7 stages of money maturity, why awareness is key and how you can excel in the gray areas of life. In this episode, you'll learn more about: What somatic finance is and bringing the wisdom of our bodies into all matters of money How to begin improving the external (debt, income, financial goals, etc.) while healing the internal (what matters most to us and why) Money polarity myths, dynamically steering decisions + embodied sufficiency Giving attention to your body, creating space to feel, expressing emotions in the present + more Other Links Mentioned in episode: Check out The Body of Money by Gayle Colman Read The Seven Stages of Money Maturity by George Kinder Check out my new personal website here. Join The Weekly Newsletter List Leave me a voicemail– Leave me a question on the Journey To Launch voicemail and have it answered on the podcast! YNAB –  Start managing your money and budgeting so that you can reach your financial dreams. Sign up for a free 34 days trial of YNAB, my go-to budgeting app by using my referral link. What stage of the financial journey are you on? Are you working on financial stability or work flexibility? Find out with this free assessment and get a curated list of the 10 next best episodes for you to listen to depending on your stage. Check it out here! Connect with Gayle: Website Instagram:@SomaticFinance Facebook:@Gayle.Colman Connect with me: Instagram: @Journeytolaunch Twitter: @JourneyToLaunch Facebook: @Journey To Launch Join the Private Facebook Group Join the Waitlist for My FI Course Get The Free Jumpstart Guide

helloooooo hotties of the world and happy Tuesday, today we have a fun episode starting off with a little update from my trip to Colorado (for all pictures follow me on insta @hannahmarlene) and we chat the chaotic energy in the air right now, Kali uchis concert, pink eye, and connecting with nature. We also chat fun free things to get up to this summer! Utilizing where you are! Giving into that teen rampage energy of discovering the world around you, I give you my swamp water recipe, we smoke a lil bit, talk parental judgement, learning to be your own person, sex & discovering what you like, keys to a phat ass, getting angry! don't text your ex, but do this instead, my spiritual journey, Gemini season energy, exorcising men from your life, how to cowgirl like a pro, social media tips, book recommendations, go to evening routine, does therapy work? weed anxiety, CBD, and how to combat that, plus finding what you wanna do with your life.. and much.. much.. much much more! Thank you all for joining me this week I had a blast and can't wait to see you all again next week for my birthday episode

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In today's episode, Sarah talks about how people look at those who leave law firms. The views tend to be distorted, especially from others who work at the firm. This comes up often in Sarah's conversations with former lawyers and people who are still currently working in law, so today, she's diving in a bit deeper. See show notes at formerlawyer.com/184  

Today we talk to Silvia Negri, the Founder and Creative Director of Negri Firman PR & Communication. Her journey in the fashion industry began in the late 80s and early 90s, when she worked for various PR firms and directly with renowned designers such as Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein, among others. Silvia has carved an extraordinary career path, with her agency rapidly gaining global recognition in just over a decade.Silvia shares her extraordinary journey in the fashion industry, working with prestigious designers and establishing her own firm to expand communication experiences and champion socially-minded causes, while candidly discussing the challenges she faced in the 90s and how those experiences shaped her leadership style and the collaborative culture she strives to foster in her company.KEY TAKEAWAYS [00:45] - Dino recaps last week's show with Dez Roc, and introduces listeners to Silvia Negri, Founder and Creative Director of Negri Firman PR & Communication. [01:30] - Dino shares some of Silvia's background and their special longtime connection. [03:39] - Silvia shares her burning passion for fashion and how she seized the opportunity to enter the industry during its prime in Milan—where she met her PR mentor. [04:15] - Silvia's leap of faith that led to an extraordinary journey filled with fashion designers, globe-trotting, and the realization of the PR's crucial role.[04:39] - The thrilling responsibilities of PR: learning the ropes and proving her worth at a remarkably young age.[06:47] - Giving it all up and starting something new—from her kitchen table. [07:26] - The diverse landscape of lifestyle PR Negril Firman PR operates in. [09:07] - How Silvia's tenure at Calvin Klein ignited a fervor for experimentation and propelled her to embark on her solo journey to become a trailblazer, shaping the future of brand promotion.[09:59] - Expanding to New York, LA, and London to support her clients. [10:41] - Using the challenge of growth as an opportunity and streamlining digital marketing techniques to effectively support her client's business objectives.[12:42] - Silvia shares some of the BIG names and influential people and causes Negril Firman PR has supported throughout the years. [13:35] - Silvia shares how starting her career in the golden age of fashion influenced her leadership style and taught her to protect her big-name clients.[16:51] - How the fashion industry has changed, and the one thing most of her clients seek in today's climate. [18:17] - How the trials she went through in the early fashion industry helped Silvia develop her strength as a leader. [20:17] - Developing the culture at Negri Ferman through teaching, learning by example, and an appreciation for ideas no matter what rung of the ladder they are coming from.[21:20] - What ‘confrontation' means in Italian. [21:28] - What it means to work in service of the image of a creative person. [22:17] - Silvia shares the most interesting part of her job, why her family and friends don't really understand what she does, and what she finds most remarkable about her work. [25:25] - The importance of...

Join Premium! Ready for an ad-free meditation experience? Join Premium now and get every episode from ALL of our podcasts completely ad-free now! Just a few clicks makes it easy for you to listen on your favorite podcast player.  Become a PREMIUM member today by going to --> https://WomensMeditationNetwork.com/premium Take a deep breath, A breath that softens your body, A breath that gently hums in your center as you stretch comfortably. LONG PAUSE Find the position that is right for you. And lets you melt into your bed Sinking slowly into it As you become one with it. PAUSE Then gradually inhale another breath, A breath of peace and calm, A breath that touches  any area of tension in your body. And softens that area as you let go. LONG PAUSE As you breathe, imagine a curtain  opening in your mind's eye, red velvet with thick gold cords  dangling at the end. PAUSE Behind the curtain are your dreams, the things you want to bring to life,  These dreams stir your soul  and spark your inner light. PAUSE These dreams are calling you Inspiring you to move with them, You're their Creator With the power to make them true. PAUSE Imagine, now, stepping onto the stage  Where they're holding space for you. Like an orchestra, ready to play, Just waiting for their Conductor to guide them, to bring them to life. All together. PAUSE Delicately, you approach a dream. You hear it whisper and hum like music,  Just waiting to carry you away On a cloud of relaxing sounds,  So you listen with your heart. PAUSE You raise your arms to conduct, Swaying them back and forth in a beautiful, hypnotic rhythm that creates the essence of your dream and the orchestra follows. PAUSE And with each soothing note the orchestra plays, You relax more deeply And feel your dream move closer and closer. Until the music of your dream  dissolves inside you, becomes one with you, becomes your Truth. PAUSE Take a moment to rest, to pause, like a musical note that you hold  to take in all its power. Breathe in your dream's power. PAUSE And now, set an intention for your dream, an intention you tell yourself  you will remember when you wake, an intention that is your truth. PAUSE Across the stage is another dream  ready to come to life, with an orchestra bathed in  all vibrant colors of the rainbow. PAUSE As you approach the dream,  The orchestra plays a lullaby. A distant, dreamy lullaby. Each note rises as a color,  swirling above you. PAUSE Moving with ease and grace, the colors roll in the air, blending into shapes and pieces of the dream you're ready to create. PAUSE Quietly, softly, your dream  embraces you. The colors embrace you, Giving you a safe, gentle hug before melding into you. Becoming you. You and your dream are one. PAUSE And again, you set an intention for your dream, an intention you tell yourself  you will remember when you wake, an intention that is your truth. PAUSE As you drift deeper into sleep, Deeper into the calming music of your soul, Where your dreams are tucked inside, Dreams that now live and breathe with life. Namaste, Beautiful Thanks to our amazing Sponsor! sleepnumber.com  

From Eden to Eternity, the Bible tells one big story of redemption. And this year we're walking through God's divine story chronologically. Today we are journeying through 1 Chronicles 27–29, Psalm 127 and exploring God's sovereign plan as the events of Scripture unfold and point to Jesus. Today, you can follow along with us in Eden to Eternity: The Chronological Story of Scripture Study Vol. 2, on page 124. Visit The Daily Grace Co. for the Eden to Eternity bundle and for more beautiful products that will equip you on your journey to knowing and loving God more. Follow @dailygracepodcast on Instagram for exclusive podcast content and @thedailygraceco for all things The Daily Grace Co. Subscribe to the Daily Grace Podcast on iTunes or Spotify. And, read the Bible in a year with us in the Bible App.

Prolific Baseball Author, Erik Sherman and Willow Seasonings & Blends, David Slade Erik Sherman returns for another triumphant appearance to discuss his latest book, Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Erik is a prolific baseball book author and his latest work is exceptional.  The book "retells Valenzuela's arrival and permanent influence on Dodgers history, while bringing redemption to the organization's controversial beginnings in LA. Through new interviews with players, coaches, broadcasters, and media, Erik Sherman reveals a new side of this intensely private man and brings fresh insight into the ways he transformed the Dodgers and started a phenomenon that radically altered the country's cultural and sporting landscape."  Eric is being honored in 2023 with his induction into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.  For more information on Eric, go to https://www.erikshermanbaseball.com/ David Slade is a US Navy Veteran and the creator of Willow Seasonings & Blends, a small business from the metropolitan area of Denver, Colorado.  "They strive to find the perfect balance of the ingredients that make up their products, as they do not want any single ingredient to dominate and want every ingredient working and dancing in unison to achieve a flavor experience that their customers will never forget.  Their products are made with all-natural ingredients.  Giving their customers the best product possible and never sacrificing quality in order to save money is how they do things."  David takes us on his journey from home-based rubs and sauces maker to starting a business in a very competitive market.  For more information, go to https://willowseasonings.com/ We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home by the musician, Dave Dresser, and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/ If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you.   Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  baseballandbbq@gmail.comTwitter:  @baseballandbbqInstagram:  baseballandbarbecueYouTube:  baseball and bbqWebsite:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq

May is the month for me ya'll! It's my birthday, mother's day, and it's also Mental Health and Foster Care Awareness Month. All of this is of course, near and dear to my heart. Find out what being a foster mama meant to me and what I've learned as the mama of a child (now an adult) living with a mental health disorder AND the four things about Mental Health Awareness Month that I hope you can remember year round. PLUS how you can help me celebrate my milestone birthdayMore great advice on mental health from a former guest and mental health advocate Natasha Pierre.

BUY YOUR MANTA MASK HERE: https://bit.ly/3MAKSYU & USE CODE "PHILLYTAKE" FOR 10% OFF! Daryl Morey held his exit press conference and talked about a ton of Sixers topics as we prepare to head into the offseason. After reports state that James Harden is opting out of his player option to seek a max contract, the biggest question becomes: Will the Sixers give it to him? Today, we discuss it all! #Sixers #darylmorey #jamesharden #joelembiid #tyresemaxey #docrivers #NBA #SixersNews #nbanews Philly Take with RB Merch Store: https://philly-take-with-rb.creator-spring.com/ Playback: https://www.playback.tv/phillytakewithrb Philly Take Discord: https://discord.gg/vEXh2Aqp Venmo: https://venmo.com/phillytakewithrb CashApp: https://cash.app/$phillytakewithrb Subscribe to Philly Take with RB on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ6xo8_BSzZJVYfWEqEt1Gw INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/rbphillytake/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RBPhillyTake

If it won't THRIVE, then Throw It Away! Up until this podcast, that's what Sky would advise any friend to do. But God. Follow Sky @Reaching4Sky for video of THRIVE on today's story.

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Lauren Maffeo is the author of Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up. Victoria talks to Lauren about human-centered design work, data stewardship and governance, and writing a book anybody can use regardless of industry or team size. Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up (https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Governance-Ground-Data-Driven/dp/1680509802) Follow Lauren Maffeo on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenmaffeo/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/LaurenMaffeo). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: VICTORIA: Hey there. It's your host Victoria. And I'm here today with Dawn Delatte and Jordyn Bonds from our Ignite team. We are thrilled to announce the summer 2023 session of our new incubator program. If you have a business idea that involves a web or mobile app, we encourage you to apply for our 8-week program. We'll help you validate the market opportunity, experiment with messaging and product ideas, and move forward with confidence towards an MVP. Learn more and apply at tbot.io/incubator. Dawn and Jordyn, thank you for joining and sharing the news with me today. JORDYN: Thanks for having us. DAWN: Yeah, glad to be here. VICTORIA: So, tell me a little bit more about the incubator program. This will be your second session, right? JORDYN: Indeed. We are just now wrapping up the first session. We had a really great 8 weeks, and we're excited to do it again. VICTORIA: Wonderful. And I think we're going to have the person from your program on a Giant Robots episode soon. JORDYN: Wonderful. VICTORIA: Maybe you can give us a little preview. What were some of your main takeaways from this first round? JORDYN: You know, as ever with early-stage work, it's about identifying your best early adopter market and user persona, and then learning as much as you possibly can about them to inform a roadmap to a product. VICTORIA: What made you decide to start this incubator program this year with thoughtbot? DAWN: We had been doing work with early-stage products and founders, as well as some innovation leads or research and development leads in existing organizations. We had been applying a lot of these processes, like the customer discovery process, Product Design Sprint process to validate new product ideas. And we've been doing that for a really long time. And we've also been noodling on this idea of exploring how we might offer value even sooner to clients that are maybe pre-software product idea. Like many of the initiatives at thoughtbot, it was a little bit experimental for us. We decided to sort of dig into better understanding that market, and seeing how the expertise that we had could be applied in the earlier stage. It's also been a great opportunity for our team to learn and grow. We had Jordyn join our team as Director of Product Strategy. Their experience with having worked at startups and being an early-stage startup founder has been so wonderful for our team to engage with and learn from. And we've been able to offer that value to clients as well. VICTORIA: I love that. So it's for people who have identified a problem, and they think they can come up with a software solution. But they're not quite at the point of being ready to actually build something yet. Is that right? DAWN: Yeah. We've always championed the idea of doing your due diligence around validating the right thing to build. And so that's been a part of the process at thoughtbot for a really long time. But it's always been sort of in the context of building your MVP. So this is going slightly earlier with that idea and saying, what's the next right step for this business? It's really about understanding if there is a market and product opportunity, and then moving into exploring what that opportunity looks like. And then validating that and doing that through user research, and talking to customers, and applying early product and business strategy thinking to the process. VICTORIA: Great. So that probably sets you up for really building the right thing, keeping your overall investment costs lower because you're not wasting time building the wrong thing. And setting you up for that due diligence when you go to investors to say, here's how well I vetted out my idea. Here's the rigor that I applied to building the MVP. JORDYN: Exactly. It's not just about convincing external stakeholders, so that's a key part. You know, maybe it's investors, maybe it's new team members you're looking to hire after the program. It could be anyone. But it's also about convincing yourself. Really, walking down the path of pursuing a startup is not a small undertaking. And we just want to make sure folks are starting with their best foot forward. You know, like Dawn said, let's build the right thing. Let's figure out what that thing is, and then we can think about how to build it right. That's a little quote from a book I really enjoy, by the way. I cannot take credit for that. [laughs] There's this really great book about early-stage validation called The Right It by Alberto Savoia. He was an engineer at Google, started a couple of startups himself, failed in some ways, failed to validate a market opportunity before marching off into building something. And the pain of that caused him to write this book about how to quickly and cheaply validate some market opportunity, market assumptions you might have when you're first starting out. The way he frames that is let's figure out if it's the right it before we build it right. And I just love that book, and I love that framing. You know, if you don't have a market for what you're building, or if they don't understand that they have the pain point you're solving for, it doesn't matter what you build. You got to do that first. And that's really what the focus of this incubator program is. It's that phase of work. Is there a there there? Is there something worth the hard, arduous path of building some software? Is there something there worth walking that path for before you start walking it? VICTORIA: Right. I love that. Well, thank you both so much for coming on and sharing a little bit more about the program. I'm super excited to see what comes out of the first round, and then who gets selected for the second round. So I'm happy to help promote. Any other final takeaways for our listeners today? DAWN: If this sounds intriguing to you, maybe you're at the stage where you're thinking about this process, I definitely encourage people to follow along. We're trying to share as much as we can about this process and this journey for us and our founders. So you can follow along on our blog, on LinkedIn. We're doing a LinkedIn live weekly with the founder in the program. We'll continue to do that with the next founders. And we're really trying to build a community and extend the community, you know, that thoughtbot has built with early-stage founders, so please join us. We'd love to have you. VICTORIA: Wonderful. That's amazing. Thank you both so much. INTRO MUSIC: VICTORIA: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Victoria Guido. And with me today is Lauren Maffeo, Author of Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up. Lauren, thank you for joining us. LAUREN: Thanks so much for having me, Victoria. I'm excited to be here. VICTORIA: Wonderful. I'm excited to dive right into this topic. But first, maybe just tell me what led you to start writing this book? LAUREN: I was first inspired to write this book by my clients, actually. I was working as a service designer at Steampunk, which is a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. I still do work for Steampunk. And a few years ago, I was working with a client who had a very large database containing millions of unique data points going back several centuries. And I realized throughout the course of my discovery process, which is a big part of human-centered design work, that most of their processes for managing the data in this database were purely manual. There was no DevSecOps integrated into their workflows. These workflows often included several people and took up to a week to complete. And this was an organization that had many data points, as mentioned, in its purview. They also had a large team to manage the data in various ways. But they still really struggled with an overall lack of processes. And really, more importantly, they lacked quality standards for data, which they could then automate throughout their production processes. I realized that even when organizations exist to have data in their purview and to share it with their users, that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually have governance principles that they abide by. And so that led me to really consider, more broadly, the bigger challenges that we see with technology like AI, machine learning, large language models. We know now that there is a big risk of bias within these technologies themselves due to the data. And when I dug deeper, first as a research analyst at Gartner and then as a service designer at Steampunk, I realized that the big challenge that makes this a reality is lack of governance. It's not having the quality standards for deciding how data is fit for use. It's not categorizing your data according to the top domains in your organization that produce data. It's lack of clear ownership regarding who owns which data sets and who is able to make decisions about data. It's not having things like a data destruction policy, which shows people how long you hold on to data for. So that knowledge and seeing firsthand how many organizations struggle with that lack of governance that's what inspired me to write the book itself. And I wanted to write it from the lens of a service designer. I have my own bias towards that, given that I am a practicing service designer. But I do believe that data governance when approached through a design thinking lens, can yield stronger results than if it is that top-down IT approach that many organizations use today unsuccessfully. VICTORIA: So let me play that back a little bit. So, in your experience, organizations that struggle to make the most out of their data have an issue with defining the authority and who has that authority to make decisions, and you refer to that as governance. So that when it comes down to it, if you're building things and you want to say, is this ethical? Is this right? Is this secure? Is it private enough? Someone needs to be responsible [laughs] for answering that. And I love that you're bringing this human-centered design approach into it. LAUREN: Yeah, that's exactly right. And I would say that ownership is a big part of data governance. It is one of the most crucial parts. I have a chapter in my book on data stewards, what they are, the roles they play, and how to select them and get them on board with your data governance vision. The main thing I want to emphasize about data stewardship is that it is not just the technical members of your team. Data scientists, data architects, and engineers can all be exceptional data stewards, especially because they work with the data day in and day out. The challenge I see is that these people typically are not very close to the data, and so they don't have that context for what different data points mean. They might not know offhand what the definitions per data piece are. They might not know the format that the data originates in. That's information that people in non-technical roles tend to possess. And so, data stewardship and governance is not about turning your sales director into a data engineer or having them build ETL pipelines. But it is about having the people who know that data best be in positions where they're able to make decisions about it, to define it, to decide which pieces of metadata are attached to each piece of data. And then those standards are what get automated throughout the DevSecOps process to make better life cycles that produce better-quality data faster, at speed with fewer resources. VICTORIA: So, when we talk about authority, what we really mean is, like, who has enough context to make smart decisions? LAUREN: Who has enough context and also enough expertise? I think a big mistake that we as an industry have made with data management is that we have given the responsibility for all data in an organization to one team, sometimes one person. So, typically, what we've done in the past is we've seen all data in an organization managed by IT. They, as a department, make top-down decisions about who has access to which data, what data definitions exist, where the data catalog lives, if it exists in an organization at all. And that creates a lot of blockers for people if you always have to go through one team or person to get permission to use data. And then, on top of that, the IT team doesn't have the context that your subject matter experts do about the data in their respective divisions. And so it really is about expanding the idea of who owns data and who is in a position of authority to make decisions about it by collaborating across silos. This is very challenging work to do. But I would actually say that for smaller organizations, they might lack the resources in, time, and money, and people to do data governance at scale. But what they can do is start embedding data governance as a core principle into the fabric of their organizations. And ultimately, I think that will power them for success in a way that larger organizations were not able to because there is a lot of technical debt out there when it comes to bad data. And one way to avoid that in the future or to at least mitigate it is to establish data governance standards early on. VICTORIA: Talk me through what your approach would be if you were working with an organization who wants to build-in this into the fabric of how they work. What would be your first steps in engaging with them and identifying where they have needs in part of that discovery process? LAUREN: In human-centered design, the discovery process occurs very early in a project. This is where you are working hand in hand with your client to figure out what their core needs are and how you can help them solve those core needs. And this is important to do because it's not always obvious what those needs are. You might get a contract to work on something very specific, whether it's designing the user interface of a database or it's migrating a website. Those are technical challenges to solve. And those are typically the reason why you get contracted to work with your client. But you still have to do quite a bit of work to figure out what the real ask is there and what is causing the need for them to have hired you in the first place. And so, the first thing I would do if I was walking a client through this is I would start by asking who the most technical senior lead in the organization is. And I would ask how they are managing data today. I think it's really important, to be honest about the state of data in your organization today. The work that we do designing data governance is very forward-thinking in a lot of ways, but you need a foundation to build upon. And I think people need to be honest about the state of that foundation in their organization. So the first thing I would do is find that most-senior data leader who is responsible for making decisions about data and owns the data strategy because that person is tasked with figuring out how to use data in a way that is going to benefit the business writ large. And so, data governance is a big part of what they are tasked to do. And so, in the first instance, what I would do is I would host a workshop with the client where I would ask them to do a few things. They would start by answering two questions: What is my company's mission statement, and how do we use data to fulfill that mission statement? These are very baseline questions. And the first one is so obvious and simple that it might be a little bit off-putting because you're tempted to think, as a senior leader, I already know what my company does. Why do I need to answer it like this? And you need to answer it like this because just like we often get contracts to work on particular technical problems, you'd be surprised by how many senior leaders cannot articulate their company's mission statements. They'll talk to you about their jobs, the tools they use to do their jobs, who they work with on a daily basis. But they still aren't ultimately answering the question of how their job, how the technology they use fulfills a bigger organizational need. And so, without understanding what that organizational need is, you won't be able to articulate how data fulfills that mission. And if you're not able to explain how data fulfills your company's mission, I doubt you can explain which servers your data lives on, which file format it needs to be converted to, who owns which data sets, where they originate, what your DevSecOps processes are. So answering those two questions about the company mission and how data is used to fulfill that mission is the first step. The second thing I would do is ask this senior leader, let's say the chief data officer, to define the data domains within their organization. And when we talk about data domains, we are talking about the areas of the business that are the key areas of interest. This can also be the problem spaces that your organization addresses. It also can have a hand in how your organization is designed as is; in other words, who reports to whom? Do you have sales and marketing within one part of the organization, or are they separate? Do you have customer success as its own wing of the organization separate from product? However your organization is architected, you can draw lines between those different teams, departments, and the domains that your organization works in. And then, most importantly, you want to be looking at who leads each domain and has oversight over the data in that domain. This is a really important aspect of the work because, as mentioned, stewards play a really key role in upholding and executing data governance. You need data stewards across non-technical and technical roles. So defining not just what the data domains are but who leads each domain in a senior role is really important to mapping out who your data stewards will be and to architect your first data governance council. And then, finally, the last thing I would have them do in the first instance is map out a business capability map showing not only what their data domains are but then the sub-domains underneath. So, for example, you have sales, and that can be a business capability. But then, within the sales data domain, you're going to have very different types of sales data. You're going to have quarterly sales, bi-annual sales, inbound leads versus outbound leads. You're going to have very different types of data within that sales data domain. And you want to build those out as much as you possibly can across all of your data domains. If you are a small organization, it's common to have about four to six data domains with subdomains underneath, each of those four to six. But it varies according to each startup and organization and how they are structured. Regardless of how your organization is structured, there's always value in doing those three things. So you start by identifying what your organization does and how data fulfills that goal. You define the core data domains in your organization, including who owns each domain. And then, you take that information about data domains, and you create a capability map showing not just your core data domains but the subdomains underneath because you're going to use all of that information to architect a future data governance program based on what you currently have today. VICTORIA: I think that's a great approach, and it makes a lot of sense. Is that kind of, like, the minimum that people should be doing for a data governance program? Like, what's the essentials to do, like, maybe even your due diligence, say, as a health tech startup company? LAUREN: This is the bare minimum of what I think every organization should do. The specifics of that are different depending on industry, depending on company size, organizational structure. But I wrote this book to be a compass that any organization can use. There's a lot of nuance, especially when we get into the production environment an organization has. There's a lot of nuance there depending on tools, all of that. And so I wanted to write a book that anybody could use regardless of industry size, team size, all of that information. I would say that those are the essential first steps. And I do think that is part of the discovery process is figuring out where you stand today, and no matter how ugly it might be. Because, like we've mentioned, there is more data produced on a daily basis than ever before. And you are not going into this data governance work with a clean slate. You already have work in your organization that you do to manage data. And you really need to know where there are gaps so that you can address those gaps. And so, when we go into the production environment and thinking about what you need to do to be managing data for quality on a regular basis, there are a couple of key things. The first is that you need a plan for how you're going to govern data throughout each lifecycle. So you are very likely not using a piece of data once and never again. You are likely using it through several projects. So you always want to have a plan for governance in production that includes policies on data usage, data archiving, and data destruction. Because you want to make sure that you are fulfilling those principles, whatever they are, throughout each lifecycle because you are managing data as a product. And that brings me to the next thing that I would encourage people working in data governance to consider, which is taking the data mesh principle of managing data as a product. And this is a fundamental mind shift from how big data has been managed in the past, where it was more of a service. There are many detriments to that, given the volume of data that exists today and given how much data environments have changed. So, when we think about data mesh, we're really thinking about four key principles. The first is that you want to manage your data according to specific domains. So you want to be creating a cloud environment that really accounts for the nuance of each data domain. That's why it's so important to define what those data domains are. You're going to not just document what those domains are. You're going to be managing and owning data in a domain-specific way. The second thing is managing data as a product. And so, rather than taking the data as a service approach, you have data stewards who manage their respective data as products within the cloud environment. And so then, for instance, rather than using data about customer interactions in a single business context, you can instead use that data in a range of ways across the organization, and other colleagues can use that data as well. You also want to have data available as a self-service infrastructure. This is really important in data mesh. Because it emphasizes keeping all data on a centralized platform that manages your storage, streaming, pipelines, and anything else, and this is crucial because it prevents data from leaving in disparate systems on various servers. And it also erases or eases the need to build integrations between those different systems and databases. And it also gives each data steward a way to manage their domain data from the same source. And then the last principle for data mesh is ecosystem governance. And really, what we're talking about here is reinforcing the data framework and mission statement that you are using to guide all of your work. It's very common in tech for tech startups to operate according to a bigger vision and according to principles that really establish the rationale for why that startup deserves to exist in the world. And likewise, you want to be doing all of your production work with data according to a bigger framework and mission that you've already shared. And you want to make sure that all of your data is formatted, standardized, and discoverable against equal standards that govern the quality of your data. VICTORIA: That sounds like data is your biggest value as a company and your greatest source of liability [laughs] and in many ways. And, I'm curious, you mentioned just data as a product, if you can talk more about how that fits into how company owners and founders should be thinking about data and the company they're building. LAUREN: So that's a very astute comment about data as a liability. That is absolutely true. And that is one of the reasons why governance is not just nice to have. It's really essential, especially in this day and age. The U.S. has been quite lax when it comes to data privacy and protection standards for U.S. citizens. But I do think that that will change over the next several years. I think U.S. citizens will get more data protections. And that means that organizations are going to have to be more astute about tracking their data and making sure that they are using it in appropriate ways. So, when we're talking to founders who want to consider how to govern data as a product, you're thinking about data stewards taking on the role of product managers and using data in ways that benefits not just them and their respective domains but also giving it context and making it available to the wider business in a way that it was not available before. So if you are architecting your data mesh environment in the cloud, what you might be able to do is create various domains that exist on their own little microservice environments. And so you have all of these different domains that exist in one environment, but then they all connect to this bigger data mesh catalog. And from the catalog, that is where your colleagues across the business can access the data in your domain. Now, you don't want to necessarily give free rein for anybody in your organization to get any data at any time. You might want to establish guardrails for who is able to access which data and what those parameters are. And the data as a product mindset allows you to do that because it gives you, as the data steward/pseudo pm, the autonomy to define how and when your data is used, rather than giving that responsibility to a third-party colleague who does not have that context about the data in your domain. VICTORIA: I like that about really giving the people who have the right context the ability to manage their product and their data within their product. That makes a lot of sense to me. Mid-Roll Ad: As life moves online, bricks-and-mortar businesses are having to adapt to survive. With over 18 years of experience building reliable web products and services, thoughtbot is the technology partner you can trust. We provide the technical expertise to enable your business to adapt and thrive in a changing environment. We start by understanding what's important to your customers to help you transition to intuitive digital services your customers will trust. We take the time to understand what makes your business great and work fast yet thoroughly to build, test, and validate ideas, helping you discover new customers. Take your business online with design-driven digital acceleration. Find out more at tbot.io/acceleration or click the link in the show notes for this episode. VICTORIA: What is it like to really bring in this culture of design-thinking into an organization that's built a product around data? LAUREN: It can be incredibly hard. I have found that folks really vary in their approach to this type of work. I think many people that I talk to have tried doing data governance to some degree in the past, and, for various reasons, it was not successful. So as a result, they're very hesitant to try again. I think also for many technical leaders, if they're in CIO, CDO, CTO roles, they are not used to design thinking or to doing human-centered design work. That's not the ethos that was part of the tech space for a very long time. It was all about the technology, building what you could, experimenting and tinkering, and then figuring out the user part later. And so this is a real fundamental mindset shift to insist on having a vision for how data benefits your business before you start investing money and people into building different data pipelines and resources. It's also a fundamental shift for everyone in an organization because we, in society writ large, are taught to believe that data is the responsibility of one person or one team. And we just can't afford to think like that anymore. There is too much data produced and ingested on a daily basis for it to fall to one person or one team. And even if you do have a technical team who is most adept at managing the cloud environment, the data architecture, building the new models for things like fraud detection, that's all the purview of maybe one team that is more technical. But that does not mean that the rest of the organization doesn't have a part to play in defining the standards for data that govern everything about the technical environment. And I think a big comparison we can make is to security. Many of us… most of us, even if we work in tech, are not cybersecurity experts. But we also know that employees are the number one cause of breaches at organizations. There's no malintent behind that, but people are most likely to expose company data and cause a breach from within the company itself. And so organizations know that they are responsible for creating not just secure technical environments but educating their employees and their workforce on how to be stewards of security. And so, even at my company, we run constant tests to see who is going to be vulnerable to phishing? Who is going to click on malicious links? They run quarterly tests to assess how healthy we are from a cybersecurity perspective. And if you click on a phishing attempt and you fall for it, you are directed to a self-service education video that you have to complete, going over the aspects of this phishing test, what made it malicious. And then you're taught to educate yourself on what to look for in the future. We really need to be doing something very similar with data. And it doesn't mean that you host a two-hour training and then never talk about data again. You really need to look at ways to weave data governance into the fabric of your organization so that it is not disruptive to anybody's day. It's a natural part of their day, and it is part of working at your organization. Part of your organizational goals include having people serve as data stewards. And you emphasize that stewardship is for everyone, not just the people in the technology side of the business. VICTORIA: I love that. And I think there's something to be said for having more people involved in the data process and how that will impact just the quality of your data and the inclusivity of what you're building to bring those perspectives together. LAUREN: I agree. And that's the real goal. And I think this is, again, something that's actually easier for startups to do because startups are naturally more nimble. They find out what works, what doesn't work. They're willing to try things. They have to be willing to try things. Because, to use a really clichéd phrase, if they're not innovating, then they're going to get stale and go out of business. But the other benefit that I think startups have when they're doing this work is the small size. Yes, you don't have the budget or team size of a company like JP Morgan, that is enormous, or a big bank. But you still have an opportunity to really design a culture, an organizational culture that puts data first, regardless of role. And then you can architect the structure of every role according to that vision. And I think that's a really exciting opportunity for companies, especially if they are selling data or already giving data as a product in some way. If they're selling, you know, data as a product services, this is a really great approach and a unique approach to solving data governance and making it everyone's opportunity to grow their own roles and work smarter. VICTORIA: Right. And when it's really the core of your business, it makes sense to pay more attention to that area [laughs]. It's what makes it worthwhile. It's what makes potential investors know that you're a real company who takes things seriously. [laughs] LAUREN: That's true. That's very true. VICTORIA: I'm thinking, what questions...do you have any questions for me? LAUREN: I'm curious to know, when you talk to thoughtbot clients, what are the main aspects of data that they struggle with? I hear a variety of reasons for data struggles when I talk to clients, when I talk to people on the tech side, either as engineers or architects. I'm curious to hear what the thoughtbot community struggles with the most when it comes to managing big data. VICTORIA: I think, in my experience, in the last less than a year that I've been with thoughtbot, one challenge which is sort of related to data...but I think for many small companies or startups they don't really have an IT department per se. So, like, what you mentioned early on in the discovery process as, like, who is the most senior technical person on your team? And that person may have little to no experience managing an IT operations group. I think it's really bringing consulting from the ground up for an organization on IT operations, data management, user and access management. Those types of policies might just be something they hadn't considered before because it's not in their background and experience. But maybe once they've gotten set up, I think the other interesting part that happens is sometimes there's just data that's just not being managed at all. And there are processes and bits and pieces of code in app that no one really knows what they are, who they're used for, [laughs] where the data goes. And then, you know, the connections between data. So everything that you're mentioning that could happen when you don't do data governance, where it can slow down deployment processes. It can mean that you're giving access to people who maybe shouldn't have access to production data. It can mean that you have vulnerabilities in your infrastructure. That means someone could have compromised your data already, and you just don't know about it. Just some of the issues that we see related to data across the spectrum of people in their lifecycle of their startups. LAUREN: That makes total sense, I think, especially when you are in a startup. If you're going by the typical startup model, you have that business-minded founder, and then you likely have a more technical co-founder. But we, I think, make the assumption that if you are, quote, unquote, "technical," you, therefore, know how to do anything and everything about every system, every framework, every type of cloud environment. And we all know that that's just not the case. And so it's easy to try to find the Chief Technology Officer or the Chief Information Officer if one exists and to think, oh, this is the right person for the job. And they might be the most qualified person given the context, but that still doesn't mean that they have experience doing this work. The reality is that very few people today have deep hands-on experience making decisions about data with the volume that we see today. And so it's a new frontier for many people. And then, on top of that, like you said as well, it's really difficult to know where your data lives and to track it. And the amount of work that goes into answering those very basic questions is enormous. And that's why documentation is so important. That's why data lineage in your architecture is so important. It really gives you a snapshot of which data lives where, how it's used. And that is invaluable in terms of reducing technical debt. VICTORIA: I agree. And I wonder if you have any tips for people facilitating conversations in their organization about data governance. What would you tell them to make it less scary and more fun, more appealing to work on? LAUREN: I both love and hate the term data governance. Because it's a word that you say, and whether you are technical or not, many people tune out as soon as they hear it because it is, in a way, a scary word. It makes people think purely of compliance, of being told what they can't do. And that can be a real challenge for folks. So I would say that if you are tasked with making a data governance program across your organization, you have to invest in making it real for people. You have to sell them on stewardship by articulating what folks will gain from serving as stewards. I think that's really critical because we are going to be asking folks to join a cause that they're not going to understand why it affects them or why it benefits them at first. And so it's really your job to articulate not only the benefits to them of helping to set up this data stewardship work but also articulating how data governance will help them get better at their jobs. I also think you have to create a culture where you are not only encouraging people to work across party lines, so to speak, to work across silos but to reward them for doing so. You are, especially in the early months, asking a lot of people who join your data stewardship initiatives and your data governance council you're asking them to build something from the ground up, and that's not easy work. So I think any opportunity you can come up with to reward stewards in the form of bonuses or in terms of giving them more leeway to do their jobs more of a title bump than they might have had otherwise. Giving them formal recognition for their contributions to data governance is really essential as well. Because then they see that they are rewarded for contributing to the thought leadership that helps the data governance move forward. VICTORIA: I'm curious, what is your favorite way to be rewarded at work, Lauren? LAUREN: So I am a words person. When we talk about love languages, one of them is words of affirmation. And I would say that is the best way to quote, unquote, "reward me." I save emails and screenshots of text messages and emails that have really meant a lot to me. If someone sends me a handwritten card that really strikes a chord, I will save that card for years. My refrigerator is filled with holiday cards and birthday cards, even from years past. And so any way to recognize people for the job they're doing and to let someone know that they're seen, and their work is seen and valued really resonates with me. I think this is especially important in remote environments because I love working from home, and I am at home alone all day. And so, especially if you are the only person of your kind, of your role on your team, it's very easy to feel insular and to wonder if you're hitting the mark, if you're doing a good job. I think recognition, whether verbally or on Slack, of a job well done it really resonates with me. And that's a great way to feel rewarded. VICTORIA: I love that. And being fully remote with thoughtbot, I can feel that as well. We have a big culture of recognizing people. At least weekly, we do 15Five as a tool to kind of give people high-fives across the company. LAUREN: Yep, Steampunk does...we use Lattice. And people can submit praise and recognition for their colleagues in Lattice. And it's hooked up to Slack. And so then, when someone submits positive feedback or a kudos to a colleague in Lattice, then everyone sees it in Slack. And I think that's a great way to boost morale and give people a little visibility that they might not have gotten otherwise, especially because we also do consulting work. So we are knee-deep in our projects on a daily basis, and we don't always see or know what our colleagues are working on. So little things like that go a long way towards making people feel recognized and valued as part of a bigger company. But I'm also curious, Victoria, what's your favorite way to get rewarded and recognized at work? VICTORIA: I think I also like the verbal. I feel like I like giving high-fives more than I like receiving them. But sometimes also, like, working at thoughtbot, there are just so many amazing people who help me all throughout the day. I start writing them, and then I'm like, well, I have to also thank this person, and then this person. And then I just get overwhelmed. [laughs] So I'm trying to do more often so I don't have a backlog of them throughout the week and then get overwhelmed on Friday. LAUREN: I think that's a great way to do it, and I think it's especially important when you're in a leadership role. Something that I'm realizing more and more as I progress in my career is that the more senior you are, the more your morale and attitude sets the tone for the rest of the team. And that's why I think if you are in a position to lead data governance, your approach to it is so crucial to success. Because you really have to get people on board with something that they might not understand at first, that they might resent it first. This is work that seems simple on the surface, but it's actually very difficult. The technology is easy. The people are what's hard. And you really have to come in, I think, emphasizing to your data stewards and your broader organization, not just what governance is, because, frankly, a lot of people don't care. But you really have to make it tangible for them. And you have to help them see that governance affects everyone, and everyone can have a hand in co-creating it through shared standards. I think there's a lot to be learned from the open-source community in this regard. The open-source community, more than any other I can think of, is the model of self-governance. It does not mean that it's perfect. But it does mean that people from all roles, backgrounds have a shared mission to build something from nothing and to make it an initiative that other people will benefit from. And I think that attitude is really well-positioned for success with data governance. VICTORIA: I love that. And great points all around on how data governance can really impact an organization. Are there any final takeaways for our listeners? LAUREN: The biggest takeaway I would say is to be thoughtful about how you roll out data governance in your organization. But don't be scared if your organization is small. Again, it's very common for people to think my business is too small to really implement governance. We don't have the budget for, you know, the AWS environment we might need. Or we don't have the right number of people to serve as stewards. We don't actually have many data domains yet because we're so new. And I would say start with what you have. If you are a business in today's day and age, I guarantee that you have enough data in your possession to start building out a data governance program that is thoughtful and mission-oriented. And I would really encourage everyone to do that, regardless of how big your organization is. And then the other takeaway I would say is, if you remember nothing else about data governance, I would say to remember that you automate your standards. Your standards for data quality, data destruction, data usage are not divorced from your technical team's production environments; it's the exact opposite. Your standards should govern your environment, and they should be a lighthouse when you are doing that work. And so you always want to try to integrate your standards into your production environment, into your ETL pipelines, into your DevSecOps. That is where the magic happens. Keeping them siloed won't work. And so I'd love for people, if you really enjoyed this episode and the conversation resonated with you, too, get a copy of the book. It is my first book. And I was really excited to work with the Pragmatic Programmers on it. So if readers go to pragprog.com, they can get a copy of the book directly through the publisher. But the book is also available at Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and local bookstores. So I am very grateful as a first-time author for any and all support. And I would really also love to hear from thoughtbot clients and podcast listeners what you thought of the book because version two is not out of the question. VICTORIA: Well, looking forward to it. Thank you again so much, Lauren, for joining us today. You can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter @victori_ousg. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com. Special Guest: Lauren Maffeo.

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What are the factors that drive short-term results while ensuring the long term success of your recruitment business?   If you have ambitions to grow your recruitment agency, you'll enjoy my conversation with Kevin Burch the CEO and co-founder of Questpro Consultants. Since they opened in 1996, Questpro has grown to a team of 35 people providing four service offerings: temp, retained/contingency, executive search, and college graduate placement.    In this episode, Kevin shares three of the secrets that have contributed to sustainable growth for the long run:   Fostering a culture of achievement and empathy Diversifying revenue streams The mindset of embracing technology and staying relevant   QuestPro, a staffing and recruiting firm based in Dallas, Texas specializing in the insurance and risk management industry nationwide.   Episode Outline and Highlights   [03:02] Kevin shares his perspective on collaborating, sharing ideas, and being in a community with competitors. 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Kevin shared how they celebrate little things and big things, initiate fun contests, and reward and recognize performers. These engagement activities in Questpro are actually initiatives from the top management. For Kevin, the culture that they have is a culture not only of achievement but also of caring and empathy.   Kevin also discussed the importance of protecting their culture by letting go of toxic members that can disrupt team dynamics. He shared their story where they had to let go of large producers for the greater good of the group. Despite being a small company at the time, he was willing to let go of a big revenue contributor for the well-being of others. You will hear how making this move led to their company hitting their best revenues the following year that they made that decision.   Diversify Your Revenue Streams   Kevin has a tremendous experience with permanent, retained, contingency, and contract staffing. He shared a very interesting mix in his business that includes 50-50 on temp and permanent (direct hire). They have four service offerings, namely:   Questpro – Contingency and Retained Search QTemps – Temporary and Temp-to-Hire Contract Staffing as well as Payroll Services QGrads – Internships, Entry-Level, and College Graduate Placement QExecs – Executive Placement through Seasoned Contract Executives   As Kevin said, “The theory that if you are a temp company you surely can't be a permanent staffing partner, or you can't be a retained partner is not true.”  They even offer a “Grad Division” which helps keep the industry they serve full of fresh talent.    For recruitment business owners, the idea of diversifying your revenue stream is critical for success.  If you are currently doing only direct hire or perm placements, for example, consider adding recurring revenue streams such as temporary, contract, or interim.   Keep on Learning and Embracing Technology   Another takeaway from this episode is how Kevin and his team embrace technology. Being a recruiter for more than two decades, Kevin finds the last few years have been interesting and they have seen a big flip in how business is done. We discussed how they are staying at the forefront of their market, such as:   Using videos when interacting with clients and candidates Best practices for using text messaging effectively in their search process Discussion of available tech tools and platforms that they use in their business   For Kevin, re-learning and embracing technology is an advantage that contributes to his longevity in the industry.   Our Sponsors   This podcast is proudly sponsored by i-intro and Recruitment Entrepreneur.   i-intro® is an end-to-end retained recruitment platform. Their technology and methodology allow recruiters to differentiate themselves from the competition, win more retained business, bigger fees, and increase their billings. Their software combined with world-class training enables you to transition from transactional, contingency recruiter to consultative, retained recruiter. Instead of being perceived as a “me too” vendor, you'll be positioned as a “me only” solutions provider. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Book your free, no-obligation consultation here: https://recruitmentcoach.com/retained Recruitment Entrepreneur is the world's leading Private Equity firm specializing in the international recruitment industry. If you've dreamed of starting, scaling, and selling your recruitment business, this is your chance. James Caan and his team at Recruitment Entrepreneur are actively seeking ambitious recruiters in who they can invest. They provide everything you need to grow a successful recruitment business including funding, financial expertise, coaching and mentoring, operational strategy, back-office support, marketing, and talent attraction solutions. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter. Start a conversation here: https://recruitmentcoach.com/vc   Kevin Burch Bio and Contact Info   Kevin co-founded Questpro Consultants in August 1996. Kevin went from the next great sportscaster and play-by-play man to sitting behind a desk and dialing for dollars! Now 25 Years later, he can safely say that it is the best decision he ever made. From coast to coast, Kevin and his team match top-notch insurance talent with the absolute best Insurance Carriers, Brokers, TPA, and more.   When he's not playing KOAR (King of All Recruiters), Kevin is at home with his lovely wife, Lauren, and three sons, that continue to challenge and keep him young: Parker, Owen, and Taylor. Kevin is also addicted and frustrated all at once by golf but loves the game.   Kevin on LinkedIn Questpro website link Questpro on Facebook Questpro on YouTube Questpro on Twitter @Questpro_   People and Resources Mentioned   Gail Audibert on LinkedIn Simon Lafosse on LinkedIn Bullhorn TextUs Hinterview   Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach Related Podcast You Might Enjoy TRR#116 How Treating People Well Delivers 30% Annual Revenue Growth for 15 Years, with Simon La Fosse TRR#153 Meet The Recruiter Who Survived And Thrived Through Four Recessions, with Gail Audibert TRR #171 4 Essential Skills that All Recruitment Business Owners Need to Be Successful, with Chris DiNaso   Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter  

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with sex expert, Dr. Emily on how to add more fun to the bedroom. Why is sexual health so important? (1:47) How stress, trauma, and shame are pleasure thieves. (4:40) Having an unhealthy relationship with masturbation. (8:17) Porn without education is problematic. (9:20) When do kids get sexually imprinted? (18:51) The components of healthy sex. (22:00) Comparing lube to sunscreen. (26:18) The common sexual challenges between men and women. (31:35) Couples that play together stay together. (37:45) The common misconceptions around orgasms. (42:18) The 5 Pillars of Sexual IQ. (47:03) #1 – Embodiment. (48:52) #2 – Health. (53:22) #3 – Self-Knowledge. (54:33) #4 – Self-acceptance. (55:10) #5 – Collaboration. (55:20) Compare and despair does not work with sex. (59:14) Leaning into what is easy for you. (1:01:59) Rebranding anal sex. (1:05:16) Examining where your beliefs around sex come from. (1:09:50) Knowing the difference between fantasies. (1:11:38) Giving your partner a ‘compliment sandwich'. (1:15:30) Her take on dating apps. (1:23:00) Has the “boss-bitch” movement helped or hurt women's sex lives? (1:30:32) The dangers of “hook-up” culture. (1:45:16) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Sleep Breakthrough by biOptimizers for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code MINDPUMP10 at checkout** May Promotion: MAPS Prime or MAPS Prime Pro or the Prime Bundle 50% off! **Code MAY50 at checkout** Sex With Emily - YouTube Smart Sex: How to Boost Your Sex IQ and Own Your Pleasure – Book by Emily Morse Voice of the people: Normalize discussions about human sexuality Sex Education and Parenting: What We Know | Psychology Today Better Sex in 10 Seconds—Guaranteed Conversation starters – Icebreaker Games | TableTopics Yes, No, Maybe List: Find New Ways to Play Women's techniques for pleasure from anal touch: Results from a U.S. probability sample of women ages 18–93 Why Is The Modern Dating Market A Mess? - Vincent Harinam | Modern Wisdom Podcast 410 Sex With Emily: Manifest Your Partner (It Worked For Me) Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources Featured Guest/People Mentioned Emily Morse (@sexwithemily) Instagram Chris Williamson (@chriswillx) Instagram  

Episode 745: As our society tips toward majority non-Christian, the need for clearer calls to the gospel becomes paramount. Ed Stetzer, Shane Pruitt and Catherine Renfro talk about how to give an effective gospel presentation.

We cannot even begin to contain the excitement we have to share this episode with you. We had the pleasure of interviewing author Ruta Sepetys about her journey as a writer and her latest novel, I Must Betray You.The interview begins with Ruta reading an excerpt from I Must Betray You. This is the perfect clip to play for your students if you practice “First Chapter Friday”! Then we delve into Ruta's decision to write for young adults and her choice to focus on historical fiction. She believes that this genre has the power to bring fading pieces of history to life and connect readers to the human experiences of the past - and we couldn't agree more. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did. If you do, please share with a teacher friend! Don't forget to tune into episode 153 for part two of this conversation. Show Notes: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/home/episode152Curriculum Rehab: https://www.curriculumrehab.com/Teach Graphic Novels with Confidence: Camp CreativeSupport the show

“I think the biggest mistake is we wait. We wait for other people to recognise our greatness instead of claiming our own greatness.” In this Best of Series episode, we feature Mastery of Money Guru, Adam Carroll, on Owner's Mentality and Building a Bigger Life.

Do you charge for strategy or give it away for free? Are your prospects aware of the value of your thinking and research? Charging for strategy benefits both the agency and the client but so many give it away. However, when you charge for strategy, you'll grow faster and easier. Instead of giving away value for free, you can improve your processes and offer a highly detailed offer and a productized option. Today's guest found himself in this situation as his agency started to grow. He feels one of his biggest mistakes was not charging for strategy sooner. Now his team gets paid for thinking as well as doing. Here's how you too can charge for your brainpower right now. Spencer Powell is the owner of Builder Funnel, a strategic marketing agency focused on helping design-build remodelers and custom home builders achieve sustainable business growth. With a combination of inbound marketing, software, and proven strategy, they shorten their clients' path to revenue and profit goals. In this interview, we'll discuss: Why giving away strategy is a mistake. Agency and client benefits of charging for strategy. Giving your sales team tools for success.   Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | Radio FM Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design, and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service.   Why You Should Get Paid for Strategy Spencer's journey in the agency industry started twelve years ago. Not knowing a lot about the business, he made mistakes early on. One of his biggest mistakes was not charging for strategy. Building a highly specialized offer and charging for strategy completely transformed the agency. So how did he turn it around and start getting paid for the thinking and the doing? Like any new agency, the first years are all about gaining clients' trust and figuring things out. That is why giving away strategy didn't seem like a big mistake at the time. A couple of years down the line, however, they became much more focused and experienced. Spencer realizes now they should've started charging for strategy. Their process includes looking into clients' Google Analytics and putting together a custom game plan which took significant “thinking time”. So they add that time into the proposal. According to Spencer, it is part of the plan they present and it makes sense to include it in the proposal. He wants his proposals to have some element of customization to them. Adding "thinking" and research is a logical part of creating a really good plan. The Agency and Clients Both Benefit When You Charge for Strategy The shift to charging for strategy is fairly recent for Spencer's agency. It all started with setting the goal of becoming the best agency for remodelers and custom builders. They picked a very narrow niche and started working towards that north star. Spencer knows ensuring that #1 spot would take a lot of groundwork to create a sound strategy and great execution plan. As they listed all the things they should do to create the best possible plan, the steps kept increasing. It was a good opportunity to justify charging for strategy. When strategy is billable, they're able to spend an appropriate amount of time on it. In hindsight, their free strategies weren't customized enough. All their clients got similar steps to follow. Now, they take a few weeks to review a clients' analytics and come up with a custom, detailed 12-month plan. Building a Sales Team and Giving Them the Tools to Success Two or three years down the line Spencer realized the need for salespeople selling custom marketing plans. But what level of knowledge and experience would his agency sales team need? Do they need to know the remodeling industry? How to sell and market within it? He was convinced he would never find salespeople with this specific expertise, so he decided to productize. Now, Spencer is three months into hiring his first salesperson. When hiring, he didn't look for agency experience. He specifically searched for a person with experience in their niche The new addition to the team worked out perfectly and he can already see the benefits. However, you can take someone who's really good at sales and teach them the industry and services if you have the right systems in place. With a productized offer, salespeople learn how to manage sales objections and value points. Eventually, as CEO you only need to assist with sales to add color and track progress. The key is to provide them with a solid process and the right tools. Stories as part of the toolkit. Why is the agency owner always so good at sales? Because they have the stories and can use them on sales calls to draw in prospects with details on how they helped past clients. When you start sharing those stories with your sales team they'll start seeing results right away. Eventually, they'll have their own stories. Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Increase Your Closing Ratio Back when they improved their processes and stopped offering strategy for free the agency's sales cycle was around 3 to 4 months. Their closing ratio has definitely improved since then. According to Spencer, this is most likely thanks to the positioning of a blueprint. Prior to the change, they were positioned from a brand perspective thanks to their niche. However, they still offered a list of deliverables similar to everyone else. Now, they have a $20K offer that includes an extensive questionnaire and a 4-week period to get a detailed plan with 12 months of deliverables. That blueprint is presented to the client who has the option to implement it themselves. They get access to the agency's training videos and SOPs to execute the plan. Companies under $2 million and over $15 million end up executing the steps in the blueprint internally. But the middle sector is Spencer's target. They'll almost always move forward with the agency to implement the blueprint. Filling Your Pipeline by Creating a Community Overall, Spencer's agency is closing the same percentage of retainer deals and unlocking another option for people who want to self-implement. The feedback has been great because many people actually want to learn to do their own marketing. As an aside, they've also launched a website theme for their target industry based on conversion principles, layouts for portfolios, about us, etc. It's modeled as a design-build approach mirroring their industry. These options have also led Spencer and his team to create a community of companies learning to market with their tools. This fills their pipeline with prospects that can afford to pay for the agency for marketing services in a couple of years. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? If you want to be around amazing agency owners that can see what you may not be able to see and help you grow your agency, go to Agency Mastery 360.  Our agency growth program enables you to take a 360-degree view of your agency and gain mastery of the 3 pillar systems (attract, convert, scale) so you can create predictability, wealth, and freedom.

Chris Lange is the founder of Second Bloom Auctions, a platform that aims to provide used equipment from greenhouses and vertical farms to the CEA community. In this episode of CropTalk's #KyleTalksAgtech, we explore the inception of this platform and discuss how the sale of such equipment can contribute to the community's success and sustainability.

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On today's episode of the podcast, Katie interviews Courtney Morey, Mother to Annie who was diagnosed with Trisomy 21, AVSD and Pulmonary Hypertension. Katie and Courtney have such great dialogue and raw conversation in this episode. Courtney shares the positive impacts on her marriage and the questions that arise when receiving a life altering diagnosis. Sharing about her journey of self discovery along the way and how it has changed her view on life, this episode will leave you feeling validated and inspired by Courtney's strength. [4:00] Introducing her family [6:00] Receiving a life changing phone call [8:24] Misconceptions about Trisomy 21 [8:59] Spencer having experience working with children who had Trisomy 21 [10:20] Learning Annie had AVSD [12:00] Being asked if you are a medical professional [12:50] Coping by learning about Annie's diagnosis's [15:25] Learning how to ask the right questions [16:55] Annie's birth [18:40] Annie's first heart surgery at 4 months old [20:40] Refusing to google and reaching out to other parents [22:04] Friendships carried her through difficult times [23:03] Annie coded post surgery [23:35] Starting ECMO [26:20] Caring for Annie while on ECMO [28:42] Pulling them closer together [30:30] Sharing updates about Annie's health helped her have a better grasp on the situation [30:04] How Annie's story impacted other people's lives through social media [32:49] Self care in the hard moments [35:34] Speaking up about the language we use [37:41] Giving feedback that is humbling and gracious [40:08] Receiving feedback from parents [42:00] Wrestling with the why [45:40] Meaning in being Annie's Mother [47:12] Starting a foundation Annie's honor [48:20] Resource hub to help families [50:10] Singing more alike than different [52:31] Annie's perspective keeps things real Connect with Courtney Instagram Shop for Spoonie Threads here! Whether you are a parent or professional, we want you to join our community. Sign up for our newsletter here. Parents, download our free parent starter kit. When you download our starter kit, you'll learn how to: Give medicine to your child without it becoming a wrestling match Prepare your child (and yourself) for a shot so they can feel less anxious Create and use a coping plan for any medical appointment or procedure The first sign of sniffles, or worse, shouldn't send you into a tailspin. Feel confident in your role as a parent and advocate, no matter what medical situation you're facing. Child life specialists, get affordable PDUs on-demand here. Shop for your CLOC gear here  

This week on the podcast, Dr. Roark and Stephanie tackle a topic from the mailbag. Dr. Fed Up writes in and asks for help with letting go of their guilt over giving their notice at their new practice. Dr. Fed Up was hired as a new grad and promised support and mentorship. Fast forward to the present where they are often working alone with no other DVM present in the building and tackling a full surgical caseload that they don't feel confident tackling. Dr. Fed Up wants to quit and move on to something that would be a better fit for them but is struggling with 3 questions - How do I tell them why I am leaving, how much notice do I give and do I feel guilty that the leaders of this practice may have to close a location (temporarily or permanently) due to lack of DVMs? Let's get into this...

JP Finlay, Mitch Tischler and Pete Hailey begin this Beltway Football Podcast by diving into the Josh Harris prospectus that was uncovered on Tuesday and reacting to all that was inside of it, including an updated stadium timeline and plans for spending millions upon millions to upgrade various aspects of Washington's operation. After they cover that from top to bottom, the trio moves on to their takeaways from last week's rookie minicamp, which features thoughts on Eric Bieniemy's personality and a couple of tall wideouts who made solid first impressions. Then, to close, you'll hear a scrum with sixth-round running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. If you like podcasts where JP badly butchers the name of the Steelers' home, then this is the episode for you.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Joe Templin is the Human Kaizen Expert, dedicated to making individuals and organizations better. He is the co-founder and President of The Intro Machine, a learning ecosystem and training environment that helps individuals build and grow an introduction-based business. Before co-founding The Intro Machine, Joe served as the Managing Director of The Unique Minds Consulting Group and the CEO of the Lamp of Castle Holdings, Inc. He is also a former director at Northwestern Mutual. His book, Every Day Excellence, outlines the process of making daily investments toward personal improvement and development. In addition to his work at the Intro Machine, Joe serves as a board member of the Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region, New York.   Joe joins me today to discuss why becoming a better human translates to better business. He reveals the most important skill entrepreneurs need to have in the early stages of their business and explains his “be more, sell more” philosophy. He describes how the lessons he learned from studying martial arts have helped him become a better financial advisor and why we all need to do difficult things every day. Joe also highlights why saying “next” is an essential skill for financial advisors to learn and underscores how having an attitude of gratitude positively informs one's ability to do good business.   “Having a more altruistic attitude, in general, translates into better production. It's capitalistic karma: the more you help others, it reflects and comes back to you.” - Joe Templin   This week on The Model FA Podcast:   What “kaizen” means and its application to human development Joe's journey from applied physics to financial services How being a better human naturally builds more business The relationship between commitment, consistency, and confidence Five good things to do on a daily basis Living with no regrets and the Stoic philosophy How to be a better human every day The art of goal planning, reaching for the stars, and setting and achieving big, audacious goals Giving others the gift of a smile and a kind word How good and bad habits compound Why the word “just” puts us on a slippery, downward slope of professional pride Holding yourself to the highest possible standards consistently The “Trust Factor” equation   Resources Mentioned:   Book: Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies by Paul J. Zak Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear Book: The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister Life Happens   Our Favorite Quotes:   “Trust is based on the accumulation of positive experiences someone has with you.” - David DeCelle “Convenience kills. Four or five times a day you need to do the harder thing; avoiding difficult things compounds.” - Joe Templin “Your confidence skyrockets when you do something that you, deep down, didn't want to do—it builds a certain level of resilience that makes you think you can do anything.” - David DeCelle   Related Content:   Ben Newman on Building and Seizing the Prize Fighter Day   Connect with Joe Templin:   The Intro Machine Everyday Excellence Book: Every Day Excellence: A Daily Guide to Growing The Intro Machine on LinkedIn The Intro Machine on Facebook The Intro Machine on Twitter Joe Templin on LinkedIn   About the Model FA Podcast   The Model FA podcast is a show for fiduciary financial advisors. In each episode, our host David DeCelle sits down with industry experts, strategic thinkers, and advisors to explore what it takes  to build a successful practice — and have an abundant life in the process. We believe in continuous learning, tactical advice, and strategies that work — no “gotchas” or BS. Join us to hear stories from successful financial advisors, get actionable ideas from experts, and re-discover your drive to build the practice of your dreams.    Did you like this conversation? Then leave us a rating and a review in whatever podcast player you use. We would love your feedback, and your ratings help us reach more advisors with ideas for growing their practices, attracting great clients, and achieving a better quality of life. While you are there, feel free to share your ideas about future podcast guests or topics you'd love to see covered.    Our Team: President of Model FA, David DeCelle   If you like this podcast, you will love our community! Join the Model FA Community on Facebook to connect with like-minded advisors and share the day-to-day challenges and wins of running a growing financial services firm.

In a gentle and heartfelt conversation, Korean American Storyteller Tasha Jun discusses her new book, Tell Me the Dream Again, with Latasha Morrison on the Be the Bridge Podcast. You'll hear Tasha vulnerably share about her journey of embracing the whole story of being biracial. They discuss the importance of being specific about our stories, of honesty and community, and of representation. Tasha and Tasha give listeners encouragement on how to persevere through injustice and also how to sit with the feelings of anger and lament and grief. This episode is an invitation to show up as your whole self and know you are worthy of belonging. We love our community of listeners and we want to know more about you! Find the Listener Survey Here. (One participant will receive a Be the Bridge swag bag!) Host & Executive Producer - Latasha MorrisonSenior Producer - Lauren C. BrownProducer, Editor, & Music - Travon PottsAssistant Producer & Transcriber - Sarah Connatser Quotes:“Belonging is being able to be in a place or a space, where you are your whole self and where your whole self is welcome to stretch out and also have room to become at the same time.” -Tasha Jun “I hope that being really specific will help people to be specific about themselves, and just take a look within and be able to see their own distinctions with value and give attention to those things.” -Tasha Jun “When we think diversity is really divisive, then we have missed something. Because diversity is a part of creation.” -Latasha Morrison Links:Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging book by Tasha JunVoices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Longing in a World Longing for Justice book edited by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson Connect with Tasha Jun:InstagramFacebookHer SubstackHer Website Connect with Be the Bridge:Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramTwitter Connect with Latasha Morrison:FacebookInstagramTwitter Not all views expressed in this interview reflect the values and beliefs of Latasha Morrison or the Be the Bridge organization.

Have you ever longed for a space to call your own? Welcome to your tribe! Today Kathi Lipp is joined by fellow book lover and Abundant Home Conference speaker Amy Betters-Midtvedt. Amy is an expert in all things home and parenting stirred with a super sized spoon of humor but today they talk about Amy's decluttering path to carve out a space for something she loves: books. Listen in as Kathi and Amy discuss: Creating small goals to decluttering bins of treasures from the past Knowing when to ask for help Giving yourself permission to change your plan Also, if you haven't listened to Kathi and Amy laugh through episode 547 Why I Don't Eat Green Bananas Anymore, put that one in your queue! Guest Host:  Amy Betters-Midtvedt Links Mentioned: Amy Betters-Midtvedt Website Amy Betters-Midtvedt on Instagram Amy Betters-Midtvedt on Facebook Sponsor Highlight: Sponsor Highlight: Get affordable, private therapy with BetterHelp anytime, anywhere. Special offer for our Clutter Free community – get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/clutterfree (code clutterfree will automatically be applied) Kathi's Favorites: The Clutter-Free Home Learn more about Clutter Free for Life. Kathi Lipp's Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group 30 Qt/7.5 Gal, Pack of 6 Stackable Plastic Storage Containers Let's stay connected To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.  

 “You're not alone. I'm awake and I've been thinking of you.” —Kygo According to Campaign to End Loneliness, loneliness is likely to increase your risk of death by 26% (Holt-Lunstad, 2015)! Loneliness is widely considered an epidemic that needs our attention now… SO, today we delve into the universal human experience of loneliness. Whether you're struggling with isolation or simply seeking to understand the complex emption, this podcast is here to provide insights, statistics, and practical (quick) strategies to help you navigate through it. Let's dive in and love one another just a little bit more! Articles Referenced: Campaign To End Loneliness: Facts and Statistics CDC: Coping With Loneliness     Highlights: Loneliness explored. Statistics and strategies to awaken and inspire you to connect to your community. Loneliness and age, gender, and other parts of the world. Living in service. Volunteering, listening, and creating space. Self-care. Giving grace. COMMUNITY. COMMUNICATION. LOVE.   Kristen M. Olson: Creative. Coach. Leader. Athlete. Entrepreneur. Podcaster. Pup Mom.  Uniting mission driven humans everywhere.  SEASONED MARKETING MANAGEMENT & BRAND DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL  CULTURE MARKETING | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP | STRATEGIC PLANNING  Highly skilled and passion-driven professional with demonstrated success and progressive growth in leading fundraising efforts, organizing and managing large-scale events, as well as acquiring artists while scaling large and small events. Champion at human relations, fashion & creative, organization management, and relationship management. Instrumental in managing strategic partnerships, marketing, and branding efforts, identifying culture marketing opportunities, developing potential culture activations, and leading activation strategy. Success in designing and launching marketing campaigns leading to increased audience growth rate by 15%. Excel at identifying regional artists and opinion leaders to boost culture plans, executing culture marketing business plans, managing event ticketing plans, achieving media outcomes and building high-performing teams.  Former D1 athlete, CrossFit Games Athlete, and current podcaster, Turmeric & Tequila™. Connect with T&T: IG: @TurmericTequila Facebook: @TurmericAndTequila TikTok: @TurmericTequila Website: www.TurmericAndTequila.com   Host: Kristen Olson IG: @Madonnashero Website: www.KOAlliance.com    

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Does Your Social Media Make You Look Like a Bad Therapist? Curt and Katie chat about therapists putting out advice on social media. We look at how bad this advice can be and when it can even be harmful. We talk about what makes this advice bad and what to do instead.   Transcripts for this episode will be available at mtsgpodcast.com! In this podcast episode we talk about therapist influencers giving advice on social media We look at really bad relationship advice that seems to proliferate on social media by therapist influencers. Why is the advice oftentimes bad from therapists on social media? ·      Micro-validation of what clients are already believing about themselves or their partners ·      Lack of context and very specific related to your target client (but seen by all folks) ·      Focusing on the people around the person reading the post, rather than the reader themselves ·      Single posts that go viral or reach wider audiences may be misconstrued or taken out of context What is the potential for harm for the therapy profession? ·      Bad advice = bad therapist, which can be generalized to all therapists ·      Harmful advice can lead to harm in the wider population ·      Saying that you're speaking for all of mental health (when it is actually not grounded in the evidence base) ·      It is hard to distill nuanced information in very short timeframes What should therapists do to improve their social media posts? ·      Citing sources rather than standing out as a sole expert ·      Grounding self in the evidence base or recognized psychological knowledge ·      Talking to clients about what they can do, rather than how to judge the people around them ·      Designing the content to be engaging, but also tie back to longer form content that can have more nuance and context ·      Each post has to stand alone, with sufficient context ·      Identifying questions or considerations for folks to look at (versus definitive statements) What are the concerns with therapists being too limited with what they share on social media? ·      Not providing information that can help folks in abusive relationships ·      Coaches and “fake therapists” may be the only people in the space, putting out even worse advice What are the characteristics of very bad social media advice? ·      Rigidity in perspective ·      Equating hurt and abuse ·      Overusing pop psychology terms like “trauma bond” ·      Giving overarching, single tactic coping advice that can be harmful for many folks ·      Putting things very definitively, without nuance related Resources for Modern Therapists mentioned in this Podcast Episode: We've pulled together resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links. Please note that some of the links below may be affiliate links, so if you purchase after clicking below, we may get a little bit of cash in our pockets. We thank you in advance! Relevant Episodes of MTSG Podcast: Navigating the Social Media Self-Diagnosis Trend Has Therapy Become the New Religion What Can Therapists Say About Celebrities: The ethics of public statements Stay in Touch with Curt, Katie, and the whole Therapy Reimagined #TherapyMovement: Patreon Buy Me A Coffee Our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/therapyreimagined Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Creative Credits: Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano https://groomsymusic.com/

Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle giving anniversary gifts, enjoying theme parks, sharing hotel rooms, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a hand-written thank you note if we could.) Have a question for us? Call or text (267) CALL-RBW or visit ask.wyrbw.com EPISODE CONTENTS AMUSE-BOUCHE: Traditional wedding anniversary gifts A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Theme parks QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Was I disinvited to my colleague's wedding because I'm going through a divorce? How do I get my mom to be more quiet when we're sharing a hotel room? VENT OR REPENT: Airport pick-ups, Interrupting meals CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Airport employees, A nice review THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW List of traditional wedding anniversary gifts from Wikipedia New York Times (1937): "Wedding Gift Proposal Deferred by Jewelers" Plastics scene from "The Graduate" (1967) Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO... Support our show through Patreon Subscribe and rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts Call, text, or email us your questions Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Visit our official website Sign up for our newsletter Buy some fabulous official merchandise CREDITS Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton Theme Music: Rob Paravonian ADVERTISE ON OUR SHOW Click here for details TRANSCRIPT Episode 184 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mohnish Pabrai's Q&A session with students at the JNV Pune on December 25, 2022.  (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:01:51) - Be a continuous learning machine (00:04:09) - Entrepreneurs do not take risk (00:14:12) - MLK: I have a dream (00:17:59) - What happens if I lose all my money today? (00:28:48) - Inspiration for Dakshana (00:34:36) - Super 30: Anand Kumar (00:39:48) - Toastmasters (00:44:56) - Giving back to society (00:49:15) - Buddha: The key to happiness is elimination of desire (00:54:38) - You are who your friends are

Barbara Mitchell & Cornelia Gamlem, human resource experts and authors of multiple award-winning books, share insights from their latest book, "The Decisive Manager." Learn to work out complicated people issues, address problems, and get everyone on track to succeed.Learn: How do you manage the asynchronous working environment? 5:00Adjusting to asynchronous working environments.Best piece of advice to embrace the new mindset.Not all employees work in an office or have the return to work kind of situation. 6:59Not all employees work in an office.The younger generation is the future of the workplace.How to build trust with team members.The importance of having a predictable schedule.If you invite employees into conversations, they may have better solutions to the way the work is being done. 11:40Inviting employees into conversations to build trust.A more collaborative leadership style is needed.It's all about listening to each other and using technology. 13:45Collaboration starts with listening and listening to each other.Using technology for collaboration.Giving employees leeway to do things the way they think is best.Challenges for business owners.How to get the right people in your organization. 17:23Hire the right people.The employee experience, who you hire, how you onboard them.How to avoid ghosting during an interview.Treating every applicant as a very important person.Make sure you've got a process that brings people in -. 22:20The importance of having a process to bring people in.Rescaling or upskilling.When it's time to end a relationship that isn't working out. 24:50Graceful endings. Barbara and CorneliaListen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn About Business Owners Radio: Business Owners Radio is a podcast that brings you insights, inspiration, and actionable advice from successful entrepreneurs and business experts. Hosted by Shye Gilad and Craig Moen, our show aims to help you grow your business and achieve your goals. Join us every week for new episodes packed with valuable tips and resources. Sponsorships: Are you interested in sponsoring an episode of Business Owners Radio? Reach out to us at email to discuss advertising opportunities.

Ellen Yin is the co-owner of High Street Hospitality Group in Philadelphia, PA. Ellen began working in kitchens at an early age and worked her way up to line cook. She then transitioned her focus onto FOH. Before she even entered college, she knew she wanted to open a restaurant. She studied business at Penn. State in order to better prepare herself for the restaurant industry. She intentionally left the industry in her early 20s to work in advertising and sales so she could save money and further her education in business through those jobs. In 1997 she opened Fork and soon after, she opened Fork, Etc. which did prepared meals and bakery options in 2004. Today, High Street Hospitality owns 5 concepts. Unstoppables! Please consider taking this survey about our listener demographics so that we can better determine how to best serve our listeners. Less than 10 simple questions. Here is the link: CLICK HERE Show notes… Calls to ACTION!!! 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Fred Langley, CEO of Restaurant Systems Pro, will lead a group of restaurateurs through the Restaurant Systems Pro software and set up the systems for your restaurant. During the 60 days, Fred will walk you through the Restaurant Systems Pro Process and help you crush the following goals: Recipe Costing Cards; Guidance in your books for accounting; Cash controls; Sales Forecasting(With Accuracy); Checklists; Budgeting for the entire year; Scheduling for profit; More butts in seats and more… Click Here to learn more. Knowledge bombs Which “it factor” habit, trait, or characteristic you believe most contributes to your success? Stubbornness What is your biggest weakness? Could be a better listener What's one thing you ask or look for when interviewing/growing your team? Everybody being on the same page What's a current challenge? How are you dealing with it? New business model Share one code of conduct or behavior you teach your team. Support for team members What is one book you think will make us a better person or restaurant owner? The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara GET THIS BOOK ON AUDIBLE What's one piece of technology you've adopted within your restaurant walls and how has it influence operations? Microsoft Teams What is one thing you feel restaurateurs don't do well enough or often enough? Take a rest If you got the news that you'd be leaving this world tomorrow and all memories of you, your work, and your restaurants would be lost with your departure with the exception of 3 pieces of wisdom you could leave behind for the good of humanity, what would they be? Personal accountability Giving back The importance of family and friends Contact: Email: careers@highstreethospitality.com Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! 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