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Invited Erik Mathais of Immertec to Collaborate His company films doctors in 360 and 3D in real time to use as course material for training doctors using Medoptic Virtual Surgical Observation.  He's based in Ybor, possibly at the Blind Tiger Cafe, according to the news.    Hi Erik,  Congrats on the piece in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.  I'm sure you are being slammed with fan mail right now so I'll be brief:   Big Cat Rescue's goal is to end the barbaric practice of holding wild cats in cages for amusement and we are investing in virtual reality as a way to change the demand for real lions and tigers in cages to virtual experiences.  We have over 7 TBs of stored 360 video that has been shot on the Insta360 Pro 2, GoPro Omni, GoPro Fusion, Insta360X and Insta360 One that we are happy to share, for free, to those who are willing to promote this technology and demand further.   We have an aging population of 60 exotic cats, and an onsite hospital where we mount both LIVE cameras and 360 cameras, and our two vets are already accustomed to having everything they do (except euthanasia and necropsies) being filmed in real time.  You can see some samples of our edited videos at:  360BigCat.com and 360BigCats.com   We just started messing around with 3D last week and think that's going to be a hit too.  I'd love to have you and your staff or family come see Big Cat Rescue and see if there are ways we can help each other.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

VeeR says we just got our 100th Subscriber   I wrote Shane Brown and Lauren Buckingham:   Tomorrow I'll be attending the PixVana pop up in NYC to check out their new editing tools.  I've started using their cloud based stitching for the GoPro Omni but it doesn't stitch GoPro Fusion yet.  The tools they are demonstrating will be using the Rift or VIVE to edit inside a headset so that proportions and distances are easier to master.   I reached out to Within and applied to be considered as a content provider because I really like the quality of what they share.  I noticed that we are showing up frequently in Oculus' promoted videos in the Go.  I also reached out to Magnopus who did Coco and CNN's amazing apps and told them we want to put the puss in Magnopus(s).  I'll let you know if any of them respond.   I'm not sure what is happening, but we are getting hundreds of people a day to sign up on Facebook Messenger with us, where it's usually been about a dozen a day.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

Live your life and forget your age ...because after yesterday my first inclination would be to make this headline, “Damn, you got old!”     Yesterday Mom married Fred Lively in a casual wedding / potluck at Florida College Academy.  She'd asked me if I'd do the flowers for her wedding, so I'd been stockpiling cases of them from my overseas vendors.  Her original intention was to be married in Fred's backyard on Lake Keystone because that's where he proposed and he's known for throwing church and family parties there for years.  I'd been buying flowers with the intent of draping their wooden swing and all the trees with long vines of pinks, creams, purples and a soft glowing orange.  Rain changed that.   Turned out to be a great decision to use the FCA lunch room as there were plenty of tables and chairs inside.  Chuck, MJ (Emily's boyfriend) and I turned the bleachers around backwards so we could use the safety rails on their back to drape the flowers.  Everyone pitched in and covered them and the tables with flowers.  There were 125 of their family and friends at the event and they were wed at 11:00 am.  Lunch followed and everyone was gone by 2:30.   What struck me most was how old everyone looked.  I'd just seen all these people two years ago when Dad died, but I must not have really seen them.  I'm sure they all looked at me and thought the same thing, but all anyone could talk about was my hair.  It really is amazing hair.  It's down to about my waist now, and so full and glossy and blonde.  I die it, but only because my roots are brown.  I'd love to cut it all off and come in w/ grey, if it would just turn grey.  Seeing cousin Scott, who was born the same day as me, was the most startling.  He looks sooooo old.  I didn't even know who Jackie Ellen was until I realized she was with Aunt Barbara (who didn't look any older...oddly.)   There was lots of loving, hugging and happy chatter and my job was to capture it in every way I could.  Jamie's job was to get still photos because no one can capture the essence of a person or a moment like she can.  I did Facebook LIVE to my own page, 360 footage with the GoPro Fusion, and  filmed w/ my iPhone X.  I worked on the wedding video until 8PM and posted it to YouTube and Facebook.   I'll do a 360 version today.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

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If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today we're gonna be talking a little bit about I think some of the 360 footers that I've been shooting at the waterfalls, some of the stuff up in the Mackenzie wilderness area, and some of it over like the three sisters wilderness area, so and then there's also cash budget stuff, we did a bunch of stuff on the coast, we did a bunch of stuff on hikes on bike rides, we had a friend with a motorcycle, drive it up a trail, that was cool. We shot over to Smith rock up to a couple of spots over in the high desert area, Eastern Oregon. Today, though, just for a minute, we're talking about some of the stuff that we did over proxy files, proxy files is a nice spot in Oregon, definitely a hiking destination that should be at the top of a lot of people's lists, especially for people that live I guess in the Willamette Valley area where you can get up on highway 126 and head out toward or if you're in the band area, and you want to come up that other way. But then you go up away up the 126, which is the main highway now. And then you take you take a little road that cuts off and that's the old road. I guess that used to be the old path that went overall you know, the mountain range there over the Cascades and then up on over to the part of Eastern Oregon, I guess we continued. But as you come up over the past there, there's a couple of cool lookouts up toward the top, but a little lower down as you're kind of, you're kind of starting your way up. There's a pull-out for proxy falls, and it's a really interesting waterfall. I think it's one of the taller waterfalls in Oregon. I think that watts and falls might be the tallest waterfall, which we also went to just a couple of days ago and I'll talk about that in the next couple of days on this. This flash briefing to the proxy false was beautiful. It was a tall waterfall, the way that it kind of cascades down and sort of blows up mist and creates kind of this mossy I guess kind of rain for his temperament. Or what would it be like oh, we're like a rain forest by him? So that sort of environment right around the place where the waterfall kind of crashes down all at one spot. But we took this 360 camera in there and recorded a bunch of footage and it has come out interesting. I love that sort of stuff. So it's really fun getting over there. 2:27 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. 360-degree photo work over the last couple of weeks which has been cool and I've enjoyed it a lot. I liked doing the 360 stuff I think back in June of 2018 we had done a bunch of podcasts about some of the 360 photography stuff that we were trying to do some of the video stuff we were doing with the GoPro Fusion at the time. And that was all cool and I liked that video a lot this time I was working with a Ricoh Theta zone. And I was going around to a few locations to try and get the photographs. Specifically, I think photographs a lot in this circumstance not so many videos. But yeah, really interested in the 360 photography stuff that I was able, to edit together and to capture during that time. So that was cool. But I went out to an area in instead of Central Oregon, that was pretty cool and went up on like a hillside to do some 360 work. And it's cool out there because you can see the topography of how the Great Basin was formed at the wall I guess like during the whole era of the Pleistocene as it was for a long-standing period. Like a lake is just a big lake out there. And then as things started changing at the end of the place to see anything there were huge changes that ended the Great Basin stuff that ended a lot of the megafauna that was in the area. And that kind of changed the topography of the landscape over the last 10,000 years to be something much more of the high desert sagebrush Juniper tree exposed rock landscape that we see today and a lot less of the forested temperate kind of mountain climate that we have through the Cascades and part Oregon I'm sure it was always drier given the rain shatters the Cascade Mountains there but I think that for a long time as according to signs posted on my drives in areas where I go hiking sometimes but you know like when you go up to someplace and it says you know this area so such and such time ago had these animals in it where you see like giant beavers or you see like camels or giant sloths, I guess they added the area to there's all sorts of stuff that they had. That ended up being wiped out 100,000 years ago, 60,000 years ago, too, what, 1020 10,000 years ago, something like that. There's a lot of changes that happened throughout the Pleistocene, I guess during what they call the quarternary period, a period of glaciations that the Earth has been involved in for the last 100,000 or 200, maybe million years. I'm not sure it's last couple 100,000 years we've been going in these cycles of glaciation. So you know, we're in an ice age period. So we go into an ice age like we have ice on the Earth right now. It'll be more ice at a point and then less ice at a point. More is at a pointless I said a point, I guess it's been going on for what they say somewhere around like 200,000 years, these 30,000 year periods of glaciation to non-glaciation, where like, I think we're coming, we're like on the far end of the Glacial Maximum now. So we had the, with the Glacial Maximum about like, what, 11,000 12,000 years ago? Or is that right? No, it must have been, like, 15 20,000 years ago that we're at the maximum, then it started receding. I suppose. That's when we were able to No, that doesn't make sense. We had like the landbridge, like the Beringia stuff where people got over that was probably 15 to 20,000. sea levels were low, or they were like 400 feet squared along the coastlines that came over through the land. So that was all pretty long ago. Well, anyway, at some point, like I was there like I'm gonna figure out Wait, let me remember. Let me think back to 15,000 years ago, where was I? Yeah, I wasn't here. So I don't know what happened. But apparently, there's been some recorded evidence that I was learned about, and I think it's like Montverde down in Chile. And that's a location where I think they carbon-dated something to 15,000 years old, like human remains, the human element remains, there's, there's like a few locations here in Oregon, where they, I guess, have evidence of the Clovis people that sort of around like the 1112 13,000 year mark. And then there's other evidence of things that are I don't know within like it's time it's like anything from like 7500 years to 15,000 years ago seems to all kind of be in flux have a date, because there's not many, 7:25 not many perfect ways to date that. And if it's a cultural artifact, like a, an arrowhead, or a pot shard, or a scraper, there's some indication of how those things are going to be created or how those artifacts are going to be created and how there's going to remain like Folsom points or Clovis points are pretty distinct from each other, but they're not culturally distinct from each other. So it could be like a variation of many different tribes and languages and peoples all well unrelated to each other but related with a similar vein of technology for a few 1000 years of you know, their tool use shape was kind of similar because they're all kind of from a similar descendency but I think when you get like more than 100 miles away, your language is separate over like a couple of generations. You just got to speak different languages. But man wild stuff anyway, so I don't remember where we started with this. But I was out in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Great Basin, I went up on a hillside and public land and I was doing some 360 photography work with the Ricoh zeta Oh, Ricoh Theta zone. That's what it is. And yeah, I was capturing some stuff on a hillside really beautiful areas up there where those ridges kind of drop in and out. And so it's cool when you get like up to a higher elevation, you can kind of see the pockets of where these lakes and pools of water and kind of sat and rested for what seems like I think I was saying something about recording some 360 photographs up on some public land in the high desert, in the Lake County in Great Basin area of Eastern Oregon. beautiful spot over there. I enjoy it. And yeah, it was awesome to use the Ricoh Theta zone to be capturing some images up in that area, it's cool when you're at a higher elevation. And with a 360 camera, you can kind of it provides a little bit of a different perspective, it seems silly to see like wider, but when you re when you kind of replay those images, and you're able to sort of look around in the context of what's the left hand to the right of you, you're kind of able to put together the context of the landscape a little better, a little faster than you could if you just had a series of individual photographs that had segments of the wider landscape captured in it so it's cool at that higher elevation. You can kind of look down to areas that we had been hiking around earlier in the day through Some of the ridges and troughs that would be over in that area, and you can look down, you know, it's like 500 feet down in elevation to what we thought was kind of the mountain top pass and then pass that as another maybe 1000 foot or a couple of 100-foot drop in elevation as it goes down toward the lake basin area. So all that was pretty cool. And what was also cool about it is just sort of visualizing how populated that area had been in the past, I think, you know, before the Western expansion of the United States, and as 1000s of years passed by in this region of land in the northwest, it had been populated in that region specifically been populated by nomadic tribes that had been able to travel and subsist off of the wild game that was there, I think a lot of like antelope and deer, and it looks like bighorn sheep by some of their planning some kind of sheep, but it looks like that from some of their, their pictographs and petroglyphs information that they left then the dynamics of some of those populations of animals have changed in the time. Now given like modern-day, I don't know, I don't know if we're gonna see a lot of sheep out there in Lake County. But there's one drawn on a rock out there. So they must have been trying to look for it. There's a lot of them in the southwest. Is he moving into the I think the Mohawk tribes. For them, that's more of a 3000 to 25 2000. I don't know, it's probably bad. It was 3600 years ago, sort of a thing. But or 100 years ago I think it was like Captain jack over there Captain jack stronghold for the Murdoch Indian Reservation area. That was like in the Indian Wars of the 1850s. So they allowed us to tell them, but yeah, there's some information about some of the 11:52 pirate, the pirate Indians, I think the Northern Piute there were in that area of Southern southeastern Oregon, Nevada, then into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico if I kind of understood, right, but I know there are some fluctuations in there. And differences and timing and stuff. But yeah, dollar, pretty cool stuff. It was really, it was awesome to get out there. It's, it's cool to get out and kind of walk around in scenarios of some public land, where we still have some access and still get out to try and do some photography stuff. Even in this period where you're supposed to stay home and there's a lockdown it was, it was cool to kind of get out and try and do some exploring and some social distance consciousness. I mean, that's fine with me, I don't, I don't have to be around a lot of people, it's better to do landscape wildlife photography worked while you're sort of in some type of isolation, I'm sure like a lot of hunters are kind of considering something like that to you know, hunters, fishermen, people like hiking or you know, a lot of those solo activities, it's cool that you know, this kind of this time, sort of is provided a little bit of a reset for probably a lot of people out there to have a bit more time to invest in some of the things that they'd want to, I suppose a lot of folks are probably stuck more in their local area but it's a great time too, to get to invest in some things that seem more important to you. So that's what I've been trying to do. I hope you guys are doing well. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more at Billy Newman photo comm I've been doing a ton of updates over there. It's an airplane taking off. Sounds like prop plans about to fly over my head. It's like that scene in North by Northwest. Cary Grant starts getting run down by that biplane. That'd be scary. So that's that in the future. You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward-slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or if you're more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com Ford slash Billy Newman photo. 14:29 I bought a domain name nightscape podcast calm and so I'm trying to build a pretty simple WordPress site that can host a lot of the information about that podcast about that project as a whole. So it'll be pretty basic and it's not supposed to be something that's hugely complicated by any means. But I'm interested in you know, just trying to try to make some different graphics and make some explanation of the podcast and sort of how it works just to kind of differentiate it a little bit. And so it's just like a side project at all. IBM trying to put it together. But I've been trying to find out some ways to do that more easily. So I've already built about three or four pretty usable WordPress websites. And what I was hoping to do is trying to try to take a lot of that, that work that I had already done, and then migrate that over to this new nightscape podcast website that I'm trying to put together, along with another site that I'm trying to put together get together. I'll probably talk about that in the next podcast. But through this nightscape podcast website, what I was hoping to do was take a lot of the way that I've customized the theme that I'm using, and a lot of like the Page Layout stuff that I've already put together for let's see my Billy Newman photo website. And I want to try and find a way to migrate that over to this night sky site, and then strip out the parts that won't be the same, you know, I'll replace the graphics replace a lot of the layout stuff in a way that would be unique and bespoke to the way that I want this nightscape podcast website to go. But it's a little better than ours, it's a lot less work, it saved me a ton of time so that I don't have to go back through and make customizations to each of them, the fields associated with the site in a way that would be like brand new to it. So. So I'm trying to learn about that a little bit. What I've been trying to do is find out, I guess, different ways to do that. So one thing that I ran into, while I was trying to do a bunch of this troubleshooting on my site over the last couple of weeks, was that I'm really in need of making backups of my WordPress sites. And so what I went through and did is I made sure there's ways within WordPress to do this, but I was using a plugin. That's and you should let me know if anybody's listening out there. And they've had experience doing backups at their WordPress site, you should let me know it was the most effective there's, there's like the cPanel backup that I've made from the server side where I backed up the files that were associated with the website. And so hopefully that can be restored in a way that'd be useful. But there are also some complications that I think I've run into with that. And it wasn't as user-friendly as I wanted it to be. And the restore points, I don't know, it didn't feel like it worked for me as well as I had hoped it would. But it did come in use, it was very useful for me to do that when I did run into problems, and I wasn't able to access the site. So I'm glad I had those backups of the cPanel. But I do still have access to the WordPress dashboard of my website, what I'm hoping to do is use this plug-in system that I found. And I'm sure like a million other people according to what it said, I have found it also. But I'm using this plugin called Updraft Plus, to try and make to try and make backups of my WordPress pages. So I went through and made backups of each of the WordPress websites that I've created so far. And first, that was the Billy Newman photo.com website. And then in addition to that, there was golden hour wedding calm. So I made backups of both of those. And then there are another two websites that I'm still kind of working on. And I wanted to want to try and make those new. But I did make backups of those also. And I was able to save those on my server. But I was also able to download those to my local drive and put those on an external hard drive. And the great thing is, is that I can version those backups. So when I make adjustments, or when I make updates to my site, and I want to make another backup of it, it'll make I can make a backup, and then I can download that. And that'll be like the, you know, this was in January 2019. But with all these extra pieces of content, and with all these extra additions to the site, this will be the backup I make in February 2019, something like that. What I'm trying to figure out those. And I think what I've discovered is that what I want to do is make a backup of my WordPress site, let's say in this case, that Billy Newman photo comm back up, and I want to use that to clone and then migrate that over to the night sky podcast.com website. And so I think I found a way to do that even within Updraft Plus now the Updraft Plus plugin offers a premium service where you can purchase the ability to do a database migration for I think, $30, it's not $30 per site, but I think it's $30 for the plugin, and then you get support from that plugin developer for some time, I think it's like six months on the low end. And then if you need support for a longer amount of time, I think it's more money than that. There are probably some caveats to it. But that is an option that I'm trying to explore right now as if I'd want to go through that process of using the Updraft Plus plugin to do a migration on my site where I can bring in a lot of the theme customizations, the theme itself and the, I guess, the database with the updated database over to the night sky podcast website. And it could be an easy sort of one-click solution for it. But I'm also trying to look around and see if there are other ways for me to do an import for a clone of the website and the website data so that I can bring in a lot of the information but maybe leave out a lot of pieces that I won't need because I'm not trying to make an end an exact duplicate or an exact copy, I'm just trying to bring over certain elements that would be that have already been adjusted in a way that I don't want to do the work over for. So if I could just kind of bring in this draft of the website version, that's almost everything complete in the way that I want. And then delete the content that was on the blog, delete the pieces that were you know, over in this section of the site, rewrite and about page and a couple of paragraphs over here, recreate some graphics, and then I would have what would seem like a familiar site that would be on-brand. But it would also be, you know, a new site that would have a lot of new content on it, and it would just kind of remain the way that I wanted it to. So that's sort of the hope that I'm trying to go for. And I guess that the Updraft Plus plugin creates XML files for you to use. And 20:50 I don't know how it works. But I think if you break open the file that you downloaded, you can go through and then and then there's an alternate way of making an upload for that sort of stuff. But I guess the problem is, is like the database. So if you're migrating a site, it's expecting all those domain names to be what they had been in the past and not migrated, or not a set of new links that have these new domain names, everything is going to link back to another site, that it's not, it's not at so the database, I was just not going to make sense. And I think that's what this migration tool is supposed to help you do. So I'm looking into that. And I'm hopeful that I can kind of put that together pretty quickly. I'm also trying to be conscious of my time a little bit too so that I don't spend a huge amount of time and development trying to figure out you know, how to how to go through and fix a bunch of errors that might be created if I tried to do a restore of a backup or a clone of my other site and try and migrate that over to this new domain. I'm trying to figure out a way where I don't have to worry about that all that much, but I'm still gonna do some more research. It's gonna be an ongoing project, an ongoing project, and I will update you in this podcast on my progress. That's what I figured. So I'm gonna do that with another site too. I think I might have mentioned yesterday that we're starting the golden hour experience podcast. And we've also started the golden hour experience.com website. And so I'm going to try and go through the same process over on that site. So I can import a bunch of the settings that I have from golden hour wedding calm and try and put it together in a way so that I get to save a bunch of time and not have to redevelop a WordPress site from scratch again. So that's it and it could work it seems like if I pay just a little bit of money, I can make it work, which might make it worth it. I figured the other news that I was going to get to was some stuff about ebooks. I'm sure you're excited now. Thanks for listening to all this. Thanks for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman's photo comm you knew things up there some stuff on the homepage, good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo calm. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back end

In this episode Brendan Hill talks with a special guest that has something a bit different to offer our SME marketers and businesses. Our guest is pro surfing legend, Mark Matthews.Mark has made a living achieving the unfathomable: crossing the intersection of danger and excitement. He knows all too well the crippling grasp of fear.While in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Terror engulfed every inch of his being. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn't know if he could ever surf again. At that moment, Mark made a decision never to allow fear to overpower him again.With his presentation business ” Life Beyond Fear”  has him deconstructing, fine-tuning, and personalizing emotional resilience techniques to successfully strengthen one's mindset and sustain long term performance.These techniques have helped him win an unprecedented three consecutive Oakley Big Wave Awards and cement him as one of the best big waves surfers in the world.  In this episode you will learn: How Mark overcomes the fear of surfing 50-foot waves and how you can apply these techniques to areas of your businessHow to get out of your comfort zone to get the experience you need to create that new comfort zone where new opportunities lieHow to build a personal brandHow Mark became a world-class keynote speaker when he couldn't even speak in front of a room of people at the beginningAdvantages of keeping your pitches raw and unpolishedHow to make your business more authentic and attract customersWhy having a high level of authenticity in every aspect of your business increases your chances of successHow to improve your presentation skillsWhy you need to have a plan in place for all business scenariosThe powerful moment that changed Mark's mindset after being told by doctors that he'd never surf againThe importance of building your own audienceHow studying standup comedy can make you a better public speakerResources Mentioned:Mark's Instagram AccountRed Bull Cape Fear (see Mark @ 48 seconds)Pragmatic ThinkingUpworkLinkedIn HelperMasterclassQuotes: When you push yourself through that fear and anxiety, usually the experience, feeling, result or success on the other side feels like that Holy Grail. You get that intrinsic reward and the external rewards that make it feel like a Holy Grail - like life's worth living.Talk to your audience like you're talking to one person, like you're talking to a friend and carry that tone. Match it to how you would just speak to a close friend, because you speak to your closest friends with the most authenticity.When you build your own audience you become like a small marketing agency yourself.There will be people that enjoy watching you do what you do. That's my model. Just stick to what you like. It's too tiring trying to be someone that you're not.What Business would you build on Mars?"It would have to be indoor wave pools. And surfing sells itself. All you got to do is offer a few free surf lessons and when people experience that feeling, what else is there going to be to do on Mars than ride a few waves? It will sell itself."Get in touch with Mark:markmathews.comMark on InstagramMark on LinkedInTranscript:Brendan:Mark, welcome to the show.Mark:Thanks for having me, Brendan.Brendan:You have an amazing LinkedIn profile, that's where I first found out about you. Can you tell us more about big wave surfing?Mark:Big wave surfing, I mean, that's my life. It's been my life for the last 15 years. It was my avenue to build a career out of the sport of surfing, even though I wasn't quite good enough or talented enough to be a competitive or a world champion level surfer.Brendan: Right.Mark:It was just this different avenue that I found that I could manufacture myself a career out of the sport that I loved.Brendan:Wow. When did you come to the realization that you could follow your passion and make that your career?Mark:It happened when I was about 20, so I was working, actually, here in Sydney, down at Darling Harbor, making coffees and cocktails at night. Out of the blue, I got asked to go on a surf trip down to Tasmania to surf a new wave that had been getting talked about in the industry. It was being heralded as one of the biggest and scariest waves that another had ever seen.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And no one had really photographed it at that point in time. And no part of me wanted to go and surf it, because I'd never really surfed big waves and I was absolutely terrified when I got the call. And it was funny because I couldn't figure out why they were calling me because I was kind of a no one in the industry of surfing.Brendan: Right.Mark:I found out down the track they probably called about 30 or 40 other surfers before they got to my name at the bottom of the list. Everyone politely declined because the waves sounded so scary, but I didn't have the chance of saying no. If I had said no, I would never have got my career off the ground because at that point, I didn't have the major sponsorships. Anyway, I went down to Tasmania, one thing lead to another and I ended up surfing waves bigger than I'd ever surfed before in my life.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And the photos and footage of that trip went around the world and I got my first surfing sponsorships and then that basically gave me the blueprint of what I needed to do to make a career, it was travel around the world, chase down the biggest waves I could find, surf them, create content, let that content get in the media and based on the media value, I'd get the sponsorship dollars.Brendan:Wow. So how big are these waves that we're talking about?Mark:Down in Tasmania, that first time, it was in the 15 to 20 foot range, but the way the waves break down there is what makes them so spectacular and dangerous. So super deep water waves breaking on a really shallow rock ledge, which magnifies the power and the spectacular nature of the waves. To me, way more dangerous than say, if I go and surf waves in excess of 50 feet, but break in deep water, while they look and are a whole lot bigger, it's nowhere near as dangerous or spectacular.Brendan:So in terms of taking that first step, I know that one of your mantras is life beyond fear, the other side of fear. So taking that first step. A good example, I just finished watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Netflix and when he's walking over that invisible gap to get the Holy Grail-Mark:I know the one.Brendan:Yeah, it's that first step. And I can imagine these massive waves passing by and 15, 20 feet, I mean, up to 50 feet, as you say. Can you tell us more about that first step and how to overcome fear? Because I mean, it has parallels in business as well. That first step is always the hardest.Mark:100%. And that's the interesting thing, because as scary as big wave surfing is, and the thought or the reality of maybe drowning, for me, I find public speaking and keynoting that I do now more stressful. I get more anxiety from it, it wears me down more than big wave surfing ever did.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So that's where the corelation is between what action sports people do and what business people do because fear is fear. It doesn't matter whether it's a fear of physical danger or harm or a fear of failure or not being good enough or making mistakes. The way your body reacts is exactly the same. So across the board, I think that's where the relationship is. And then like you said, the Indiana Jones reference is perfect.It's like the steps across the invisible bridge to the Holy Grail, in my head, it's so terrifying to get out of your comfort zone to get the experience you need to create that new comfort zone where the opportunities are, whether in business or in the sport of surfing. But when you do that and you push yourself through that fear and anxiety, usually the experience or the feeling or the result or the success on the other side feels like that Holy Grail. You get that intrinsic reward and the external rewards that make it feel like a Holy Grail, like life's worth living when you push yourself like that.Brendan:Yeah. It's interesting that you say that you get more anxiety now about public speaking than big wave surfing, validating what Jerry Seinfeld always says, "Public speaking is the number one human fear, followed by death at number two." Big wave surfing, I can imagine, wouldn't be far behind these monster swells.Mark:Yeah, I think Jerry is definitely right. For an introvert, anyway, I'm highly introverted, so public speaking is the scariest thing in life for me.Brendan:So what made you jump into public speaking after your career in big wave surfing?Mark:I had a sponsor who sponsored me from when I was in my early twenties, his best friend was in the world of corporate training and had a background climbing mountains and brought that to the business world and then he had said to me, years ago, in my early twenties, that this is the career path that you should look to take while you're still big wave surfing, so that you can build it then and then be able to carry it on down the track when I'm 50, when I can't surf big waves anymore. 60, maybe. I'm pushing for 60.Mark:And at the time, I was like, "There's no way I'm ever doing that" because for me, I couldn't even stand in front of a classroom when I was a kid and read from a book, I would stutter so bad, I'd have so much anxiety, so it took a lot for me to be able to do it. Spent untold amounts of money doing every speaking course under the sun.But eventually, it was exactly like learning to surf big waves, the exposure and the experience just builds up and then you build that new skill set so that it doesn't matter who you stand in front of, who I'm standing in front now, I've got the tools and the skills to dig into my bag and perform on stage and I don't have to feel too anxious about it now but originally, it was tough.Brendan:Yeah. Do you remember your first big keynote speech?Mark:I do. I was in Hawaii and it was for an insurance company and I got offered the talk two weeks before the event and I didn't have a keynote at all.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So I wrote the keynote in the two weeks before. The only person I said it in front of was my mom.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And I did the keynote in front of her and she actually features in the keynote because she's one of my big motivators in life to be successful. And she had a tear in her eye when I told her and that was kind of enough, I was like, "Okay. We'll see how it goes." And if I look back on the delivery of the keynote that I gave, the delivery was very average, but the bed of the keynote has almost stayed exactly the same. That's what I deliver today. And the feedback that I got from the audience was amazing, off that first keynote.Brendan:Right.Mark:I had the bosses say, "This is what you've got to do in life." And they just enjoyed, I think, the fact that I was so raw and real on stage because I had no other choice but to be that way. And it wasn't really too polished.Brendan: Right.Mark:And I've always taken that as I've gone on in keynote speaking, never to become that over-polished speaker that's talking to a track, because I think for the audience, you have to remember that they're seeing you for the first time, they want it to be real. Even though I'm telling the same thing that I've told a thousand times, it needs to feel real in that moment and the connection has to be real with the audience for them to even remotely take in what you're going to say.Brendan:Yeah. It's a interesting point that you touch on there, authenticity. So I guess that's part of your brand, being really authentic and not being too polished. I mean, when we go on social media feeds, like on Instagram, everyone is looking very polished. How can businesses become more authentic and tell their real story and start to, like yourself, really resonate with their audience?Mark:Ah, man, I think it takes courage to do that and it's tricky for businesses. When you have all these insurance factors and regulators and all this stuff hanging over the top of you and then investors, and depending on what size business you're running, to really let people know authentically what's happening within the business, where you're planning to go and all that, it takes courage, but I find that if you looked into some case studies on it, it is worth while to do.And especially small businesses and small business owners needing the motivation to do what they're going to have to do to be successful in small business, which is such a small amount of people pull that off, the authenticity level has to be there where you have to really love what you're doing and believe in it and there has to be deep meaning in what you're doing for you to go that extra level to the extent that you need to to be successful.So this authenticity on both aspects is how you run your business internally, but then how you speak to your customers, I think, both of them take some courage, but worth while.Brendan:And in terms of speaking to customers, you touched on presentation skills. Obviously very important in every day business. People are presenting on the phone, presenting in their content marketing, for example. What sort of tips can you give early stage businesseslistening on at home? Obviously, you had to learn from the ground up with your presentation skills for your keynotes. You did a lot of courses. People just starting now or wanting to improve their presentation skills, where do they start?Mark:I think the best tip that I got as far as tone, when you talk to someone, is that talk to your audience like you're talking to one person, like you're talking to a friend and carry that tone. And you've got to practice it and then watch yourself on video and see if you're carrying that tone because it's really hard to do initially, because when the camera's in front of you or the audience is in front of you, naturally, the anxiety shifts you into a different tone with the way you're speaking to people. But I think if you go back and watch what you look like and then try and match it to how you would just speak to a close friend, because you speak to your closest friends with the most authenticity, you know?Brendan: True. Yeah.Mark:And then if you can keep that tone, I think that helps a lot. And then by far, the most important thing is to be prepared. Unbelievably prepared. Nothing beats the fear of public speaking like preparation. You've going to have, for me, it's the same as surfing. So when I go and surf big waves, I'm ready for every worse case scenario that could possibly happen. I have a really detailed plan put in place.For example, if I blacked out under water and I had to be resuscitated, they had to restart my heart and then I had to call for a helicopter, we have the whole plan in place. So it takes some of that fear and that apprehension that you get in your mind in the lead up to scary moments away because I'm prepared for it. So the same way, if I'm going to do a keynote this afternoon, for WordPress, actually, here in Sydney, everything that could go wrong, I know exactly what to do.The whole power can shut off and I have to do my presentation without any photos or footage or anything like that, but I'm ready to do that.Brendan: Amazing.Mark:Or if my mind goes blank, which it does in front of an audience, if something happens, I've got a line and a story where I can go straight into at any point in my presentations.Brendan:It's a good idea. Yeah.Mark:Yeah. And then give myself the time to get back on track, so overly prepared is the key todealing with that kind of fear.Brendan:And speaking of scary moments, what was the scariest moments in your big wave surfing career?Mark:I've had a recent one where I dislocated my knee surfing down the South Coast of Sydney, five hours South of here. I hit the reef on about a 10 foot wave and completely dislocated my knee, tore every ligament and tendon.Brendan: Wow.Mark:Tore the major artery that runs through my leg. Major nerves. The pain that I experienced when I did that, I knew that something really bad had happened. And then to wake up the following morning in hospital after emergency surgery, and I was basically told that I was going to have a disability where I can't move my foot, I can't lift my foot anymore for the rest of my life.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So it was the doctors telling me, "Your surfing career is over."Brendan: Right.Mark:So that, by far, was the scariest, hearing that news was the scariest thing that I've been through within surfing. But managed to prove them wrong and I'm getting my surfing career back on track. It's taken me about two and a half years, but it's getting there.Brendan:Wow. So can you talk us through that mindset from being told you'll never surf again to rebuilding your career?Mark:I have to admit, the first six weeks to two months when I was stuck in hospital in the big metal frame brace, with my big wounds from the surgery on my leg and I couldn't get out of bed at all in the worst pain I've felt, nerve pain, by far, I've had almost every other injury youcan do, broken bones and stuff, but nothing compares to nerve pain. And yeah, in that two months I got really depressed. Not on the level of depression like suicidal depression, that's something completely different, but depressed in that I didn't want to see anyone. I'd given up hope of surfing again.Brendan: Wow.Mark:I wasn't sleeping because of the pain or they'd give me ridiculous amounts of medication to try and combat the pain, so it was that. All these things just lead to me being so unbelievably unhealthy, physically and mentally. It's interesting because it wasn't until, I'd like to say I just snapped myself out of it, but I didn't.It wasn't until I actually met a young guy in hospital who reached out to me on social media. And he said, "I've been following your career since I was young. Big fan. I'd love to come up and meet you and get a photo." Because he read that I was in Canberra Hospital and he was actually in there. And I didn't want to see anyone, so I didn't even reply. It was my wife who saw the message and wrote back to him and said, "Yeah, no worries, come up and get a photo."Mark:So this kid comes up probably three hours after I'd seen the message. He gets wheeled into my bedroom by his brother, he's a complete quadriplegic and had broken his neck about six months before I hurt myself and the moment that I shook Jason, his name was, hand, and I don't know if you've shook someone's hand who's a quadriplegic, it's confronting. They can't control their arm, anything. And he stuck out his arm with a big grin on his face. And the moment that I shook his hand, it was the craziest shift that I've ever had experienced in my life where my perspective or mindset about what I was dealing with did a complete 180.Mark:So I went from being really angry, full of self-pity for what had happened to me, blaming other people, the victim of this wipeout and this injury and just done with it to just feeling like the luckiest person on Earth because if I'd had hit that reef any other part of my body, I could have so easily been dealing with what he was dealing with. And his injury's a million times worse than mine and he's dealing with it that much better. So I was overcome with gratitude, feeling lucky. And from that moment onwards, it was like that feeling of feeling lucky about my situation was the catalyst to get me back on track. Everything fed on from there.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And now, two years later, after all the rehab, I've figured out how to surf good enough withthe disability that I can get back out into big waves. But I think meeting him and that shift in mindset was the saving grace for me in dealing with that.Brendan:That's an amazing story. So tell us about the first time after this accident that you got back on the surf board.Mark:I surfed a couple of times, probably a year down the track, but I would barely call it surfing, compared to what I've been doing. It was on a longboard, I could only just stand up. I could barely turn the board and at that moment, I was like, "It's nice to be surfing again, but this is ... It's nice to be out in the ocean and the water, but it's not really surfing for me."It took about another eight months after that to where I rode a wave and got my first barrel, say inside the barrel and caught a wave. Not a big wave, just sort of eight foot wave on the Gold Coast and that moment was just a game changer for me. All the hard work paid off because I could surf good enough just to do that, to get barrelled. It wasn't big waves and get my career on track, but that was enough.I was like, "If this is it, then that's fine." But then, my surfing ability just kept getting better and better after that, just up until about six weeks ago, I got to compete in the Red Bull Cap Fear event, a big wave surfing event down in Tasmania at that first wave that went to and I got my first big barrel there and that was the icing on the cake. That's two and a half years of rehab. Yeah, it was a good journey.Brendan:Yeah, amazing journey. And can you speak more on your mom being a major point of motivation in your life?Mark:Yeah. She's just on two different levels, but she's always been the type of person who has that internal reflection and thinks about who she is, what she's like and how she can be better, and she's always had that. She eventually does a lot of meditation and has lived in ashrams around the world and became a yoga teacher, so I think that rubbed off on me.How valuable it is to know yourself. Figure out who you are and try and work on your flaws and be better. So I think that rubbed off on me a lot. And then the other part is that I've just always wanted to, down the track, when she retires, support her, be able to buy her a house one day. It's the image that I always use in my head.Before I'm about to do something scary or when I got to get up early and go to training or when I've got to say no to eating that shit food and eat this boring food. All those things, I've just got this clear picture in my head of the day I get to buy her a house and I can see the excitement and that big smile on her face in those moments. So it's those two parts that she's only inspiring to me.Brendan:Yeah, amazing. So focusing on your business, now. Your brand that you've built for yourself and you mentioned that you went around the world chasing content. So talk us through, Iguess, your content strategy. You got the footage of you surfing the big waves. What did you do next?Mark:Yeah. It was interesting because from the start of my career, it went through the whole digital media revolution.Brendan: Oh, really?Mark:The first surf trip we did was on film, with cameras and photos. And then it was just going out into mainstream newspapers and stuff. And then we just tracked through the whole evolution of digital media in that time. So it's like having one of the first blogs in surfing that people could follow.Brendan: Wow.Mark:Because in my head, I had to make up for a lack of talent as a surfer by having the business smarts and how I could get the exposure and then that would make me as valuable as the other more talented surfers out there. That was what I always had, I was always looking for different things of how I could do that.And the digital media revolution was the game changer because then it wasn't up to the print media and surf magazines who had a stranglehold on the industry on who was successful. When you build your own audience and then you could show them and you've got your own audience, you become like a small marketing agency yourself.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:So by having that business smart, I controlled my destiny a little bit more. And yeah, I think it made that career, I could extend it longer also as well. So yeah, there are so many nuance things within that, how you do it, but it's the same core principle. Just show people what I love about what I do. Show them that and there's that many people out there on social media in the digital world.There will be people that enjoy watching you do what you do. That's what's my model. Just stick to what you like. It's too tiring trying to be someone that you're not. I could have gone down that path and you try and do the things that people like or that the big celebrities are doing, but to me, that seemed exhausting. It's just like, just show what you love about surfing and then see if people like it.Brendan:Yeah. It comes back to your point about talking to your best friends when you're doing your keynote.Mark: Yeah.Brendan:Focusing on that one person.Mark:Exactly. Yeah and then it keeps you authentic in a way.Brendan:And what channels are you using at the moment? Have you gone head first into video content as well? I imagine a lot of GoPro footage and ...Mark: Yeah.Brendan:Is live streaming possible in big wave surfing?Mark:It is. GoPro is a major sponsor of mine. I've always worked with them and that was just about me wanting to use the best cameras for what we did in action sports. I was always so interested in how can I make my audience get as close to this experience as possible as what I get inside the barrelling part of the wave. If you can help them try and experience that. The tiny point of view camera is where you can give that field and then the GoPro Fusion that shoots the 360 and virtual reality type content, they're awesome tools to be able to do that.And then on the live streaming front, when the technology became where it became possible to be able to set up these high production live feeds at the drop of a hat, because the difference in surfing as a sport, in big wave surfing as a sport, compared to say, live streaming a football game is what we do is all weather dependent. So I teamed up with Red Bull in that regard to create Red Bull Cape Fear, a big wave surf event.Brendan: Right.Mark:And it's the only company that, again, has set aside that kind of financial amount on the possibility that we may get big enough waves that year to run an event. I couldn't find, there was no other company out there that would just go, "Yeah, here's this much money" eventhough the event might not happen. You might only have a 50/50 chance of it happening. Yeah, so now we're able to do that in remote locations, so we could do that down in Tasmania, which is in the middle of nowhere where this wave breaks.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And we streamed it live to, I think, the numbers ended up being about 1.5 million people across a live feed and the first replay because it happens just when it happens, so people aren't prepared for it.Brendan: Right.Mark:We give them a 24 hour window.Brendan: Okay.Mark:Because that's when we got to take that the event's going to happen and then we send the production crews in, so yeah, that's been an interesting experience. I think that's been the latest frontier in regard to that digital media revolution and the way to bring surfing and big wave surfing to people.Brendan:Yeah, that's an amazing strategy. And what's next? What problems are you working on now in your business?Mark:For me, because I've been injured for the last couple of years, my main focus is keynote speaking in the corporate training world and establishing myself within there and really researching what companies and their employees and everyone needs to manage that hectic paced life of that corporate world. Because there's that sort of disconnect where companies want so much out of their employees.They want them to work ridiculous hours and the employees are getting burned out because of that but the world's so competitive that if you don't put up with that burnout, you'll lose your job because someone else will put their hand up and try and take it on. And so it's how can I equip those employees to still do the workload or the hours but not be as drained or affected by it? So it's how can you take on that and not have it rule their life where it destroys their relationships and their personal life? And I think that's, at the moment, within the corporate world, the Holy Grail of figuringthat complex web of its meaning for the employees to want to take on all the stress, they have to find that meaning and the company has to align with them to be able to do that. And then the physical aspect of being able to cope with the crazy work hours, so there's that physical element, whether it's diet, exercise, sleep, those parts.Mark:And then the relationship aspect of their work relationships and their personal relationships because that emotional side and that relationship side is the other big part of taxing you as a human. So it's a complex web, but I love it. For me, human performance on any level is amazing.I originally loved the freak performers who were the world champions at a given sport and how they did what they did, but the more you dive into that, it's like, usually once they're best of the best at something, they're freakishly genetically talented, which isn't that interesting to me.And then if they're not really good at one thing and really good at something completely different, then it's like the tools they're using to be good at one thing might not be transferrable to anyone else.Brendan: Right.Mark:Yeah. But when you see people that can go and be the highest level in one aspect of life and another aspect of life and another aspect of life, it's like whatever's working there is then transferrable. And that's what I've tried to find with surfing.I can conquer fear in the world of surfing, but do those same techniques and rules apply to public speaking or to developing business or to just all these other aspects of life? So I've just been testing them and I'm slowly coming up and still tweaking different programs and workshops for corporate.I deliver a keynote which is more on the inspirational side and then a more detailed workshop, where if I can get anywhere from three to six hours with an audience, then you can deep dive into it and make more lasting changes with people than a keynote can.Brendan:Yeah. And how do you find these companies to do the workshops, are they through their keynotes?Mark:Yes. There's lots of work out there for keynote speakers, if you're a half decent keynote speaker, the companies are coming knocking at your door.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And that's been the case, but because it's such a short amount of time, the companies don't mind giving you that little bit of time with the audience, because it's not as big an investment for them. Because the money that they pay you is not the expense, it's the investment of having a hundred employees sit there listening to you and they're not doing whatever other work they're supposed to be doing.So to then ask for three hours or six hours or a multi-tiered program over a year, where you make a radical culture change in a company, that's a big investment, money-wise and time-wise for them. So yeah, you've got to give to get, so it's like, "Here, we'll do it for you like this for a lesser amount and you'll see the results." And then now I've got the testimonials from certain companies, then the other companies can come aboard because they can believe what you're doing.Brendan:Yeah. And can you tell us any stories of the changes in culture and the results that you've seen in some of these companies?Mark:Yeah. To me, the interesting ones or the radical ones are usually the stress reduction ones, that's huge, and where you dive into stress programs. But then, if that's the main set of programs that you're doing, but then the offshoot of managing stress and creating resilience is say, a workshop around how to have tough conversations in an organization.Because that, to me, is probably one of the main relationship emotional factors that drain people in companies because there's animosity being carried around by employees because they're not speaking up and they can't have a tough conversation with their boss or with their peers without rubbing people the wrong way. And then they just live in this world of constant stress and social pressure.Brendan:Yeah, the conflict avoidance.Mark:Yeah. So we built, a company called Pragmatic Thinking, that I work closely with, they've got the best tough conversation program or workshop that I've seen. I can do a keynote, have all this stress reduction stuff and bring them and we'll do a tough conversations piece there.Brendan: Great.Mark:And then you see radical shifts because just that small number of skills, if you can criticize someone without tearing their whole ego apart, there's an amazing ride along effect from that because you can then give criticism without destroying someone. And then that just plays out. And once a whole number of people in your team can do that, the culture change in a year's time and the progression as far as the way the team works shifts hugely.Brendan:Yeah. That's amazing. So speaking of tools now, I like to ask all the guests that come on what marketing tools they use for their business. So what's been the best investment that you've made tool-wise?Mark: Marketing-wise?Brendan:Yeah, marketing-wise.Mark:Outsourcing with Upwork, for me, having a really small business, is amazing. The talent of people out there around the world that you can access at the drop of a hat is phenomenal. So probably that, as an outsourcing tool. I probably shouldn't say this, but I had a LinkedIn helper tool that was phenomenal.Brendan: Oh, yeah.Mark:But I think it might have just got shut down recently, so I have to go back to the old way of running LinkedIn. But yeah, any of those tools that can automate things that you do but automate them in a way that it doesn't seem like things are being automated, then it's super valuable.Brendan:Yeah. And are you a big reader, Mark?Mark:More listen. I like podcasts. I do like to read, but I just recently did an IQ test and my language comprehension skills are so low. It's ridiculous. So reading for me is time consuming whereas I love to listen to different podcasts and especially when you can get two experts debating on something, I find that the most valuable way to learn.Brendan:So more of the longform podcasts?Mark:Definitely longform podcasts or lecture series. A lot of universities and professors out there put their lecture courses online, like on YouTube, so you can access almost anything these days.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:And there's amazing learning platforms, like MasterClass and a whole bunch of other ones. To read is amazing if you're a good reader because it's really good for your imagination as well, but to just be able to have the highest end quality YouTube learning video or MasterClass platform or whatever like that that can just teach you through five different mediums at once, for me, that's way more beneficial. Yeah.Brendan:Yeah, I was on MasterClass yesterday, actually, some amazing courses.Mark:Amazing stuff, yeah. I think I did one of the value ones. I did Steve Martin's comedy one.Brendan: Oh, wow.Mark:Just for public speaking. And when you see the way they break apart jokes in telling jokes, you can then learn to refine the way you would deliver a keynote because the emphasis on how much ... I heard Jerry Seinfeld say this too. He can spend a week on one line.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:Writing and re-writing one line and pausing in different places and it can make or break a joke. So as a keynote speaker, if you can dive into that level of detail on what you deliver, it's interesting. But you just got to be bothered to give it the time.Brendan:Yeah. And I know Seinfeld has another statistic, I think it's one week for every one minute of content.Mark:Oh, that's perfect. Perfect.Brendan:How long does it take you to do one minute of one of your keynote presentations, preparation-wise?Mark:It would depend, it would be in that realm, but I find, for me, the preparation and learning is every time I deliver a keynote, then watching it and then re-structuring some part of it. Yeah, it would be in that realm, I reckon. Probably less. I think comedians, it's so much harder than, I think, any other form of entertainment.Brendan:Well, you have to get a laugh every 15 secs, I think it is.Mark:Yeah. I think that's the hardest version of entertainment there is. They're re-working a minute, compared to what I do with keynote because I can tell a story and there's five or 10 minutes of content and I don't have to spend that much time to get that story, I bet it does make a difference when you get some detail in there and do some work on the delivery.Brendan:And what about online education, is that an area that you've looked at for your workshops, for example?Mark:Yeah. I've built, just recently, for a client, a big software company, a video learning series.Brendan: Right.Mark:The feedback from that's been awesome. Yeah, it was a big investment, so it was just because the client specifically wanted it that I ended up going down that track. I was thinking more in a future plan of what I'm doing, I would do that, but I just ended up doing it because the client wanted it. And they really liked it. And it's matching a simple lesson that works across the board, whether it's in the corporate world or what I do as a surfer to a surf story.Brendan: Right.Mark:So it's just an entertaining way for them to see the same lesson that they're going to see on any other learning platform or internally, they see it all the time, but when you can match a surf story to it and what's going on in the business ecosystem of professional surfing, it just anchors the message a little more. It's a good way to bring a different world to it and then for me, I know it's working with a client is when the staff start using surf examples for what they're doing. It's like, "Ah, this is just like when Mark decided to chase a virtual realityopportunity over going to chase a new market production in China for a new sponsor." It's like these scenarios, so if they're talking in that way, I'm like, "Yes, that's working."Brendan:So Mark, wanted to thank you so much for coming on. Wide ranging conversation. So many inspiring stories and tactics as well.Mark: Thanks.Brendan:But before we go, we like to ask our guests two abstract questions. So are you ready for abstract part of the show?Mark:Yeah, my dumb brain is trying to figure out what abstract means. That's my language problem in the IQ world. But yeah, fire away.Brendan:So the first question, if you could have a billboard, it can be anywhere in the world, what would it say and where would you put it?Mark:What would it say? Oh, man, I had this quote I read on the plane this morning. It's something like, is high performance is more like a cobweb than it is an organizational chart? It's something like that.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:Yeah. And it's just like that complex adaptive systems theory where everything affects everything. And it's the same way companies run, it's the same way your physiology in your body runs, but it's more so intertwined that if you leave out one aspect of performance, then all the others suffer. But if you take an entire system's approach to fixing performance, regardless of what it is, then you get crazy results.Brendan:Yeah, it's awesome.Mark:So it's cobweb versus, I think it was organizational chart or something like that. It'd be a long-winded billboard, that one.Brendan:Yeah. And the final question, you are on the first flight to Mars, with Elon Musk and the first settlers aboard the SpaceX starship Rocket. So what business do you start when you land on Mars and how do you promote it to the new Martians?Mark:It would have to be indoor wave pools, I think.Brendan:The first time I ask-Mark:And surfing sells itself. All you got to do is offer a few free surf lessons and when people experience that feeling, what else is there going to be to do on Mars than ride a few waves? So it will sell itself.Brendan:Definitely. So Mark, once again, really appreciate your time today and the value you've dropped to the audience. Is there anything you'd like to say before we wrap up and how can people get in touch?Mark:Thanks for having me first and thanks to the listeners for listening. If anyone wants to get in contact with me, my website is www.markmathews.com. And Mathews with one T.Brendan: OneT.Mark:Yeah, or on LinkedIn or social media, it's @markmathewssurf, so feel free to reach out and I'd love to work with your company and figure out this whole complex cobweb of performance, stress, energy, all of that stuff.Brendan:Yeah, amazing. We'll put all the links and resources Mark has mentioned in the show notes. And Mark, thanks for such a fantastic conversation. And I'll also put up some of your big wave surfing photos in the show notes because they're absolutely mind-blowing and hard to describe on air.Mark:Yeah. I think when people look at that, they'll be like, "No, we're not listening to this crazy person."Brendan:No, it's an awesome mission that you're out on changing many people's lives. So yeah, I want to thank you for that and thank you for coming in today.Mark:Awesome. Thanks for having me. 

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LCP360 (Panoskin) CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in London --- Hi All,Got a GoPro Fusion and wondering how to publish to publish to Google Street View?".. any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion - whether it's by car or hiking - you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View," said LCP360 CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in a WGAN-TV interview."So you can create the Google -blue line- Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method."WGAN Forum discussions tagged:✓ TrailBlazer✓ GoPro Fusion✓ GoPro Fusion 2 (expected to be announced 1 October 2019)✓ Panoskin Pro[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]Best,DanTranscript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)Hi, so my name's Tom Chomiak.I'm with Panoskin, we're the developers of TrailBlazer.TrailBlazer is a desktop application that's available for both Windows and Mac OS.It's free for everyone to use. Once you download it, you could use it with the GoPro Fusion.And, any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion whether it's by car or hiking, you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View.So you can create the Google "blue line" Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method.So please check us out, it's taketrail.com.Once again you can download it for both [...] Mac OS and Windows.

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This week our Heroes talk about being stuck on a train, Momo challenge, the new GoPro 7, Spotify Playlists, and well... death. We start of today talking about the recent Momo Challenge. Momo is somewhat of an internet hoax that the media has blown up, and now people are replicating the hoax and scaring children on YouTube. Momo is in videos targeted at children, and she pops up and tells children to do scary things! She is showing up on the YouTube kids app. So we talk a bit about how the YouTube kids app is not a babysitter. We also talk about how people believe that Momo can show up in any video, when in reality, those videos are edited before they are uploaded to YouTube. Next we switch topics and talk about GoPro. From the short story of how Jess bought a GoPro Fusion, and it never worked and she had to fight to return it, to GoPro’s redemption with the release of the GoPro Hero 7 Black, which, she bought and is in love with. The GoPro was used to film Dogs doing Snow Agility which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A14WUAB6bLI During this discussion, we also find out that Dan has never played with Orbeez before! We talk about what would happen if we put Orbeez outside during winter. Would they freeze and burst? Would they just turn to mush? Maybe we will find out in a future episode. And then the topics switch to the Amtrak Train that was stuck for over 36 hours on the train tracks, while full of people. The people were running low on food, but they did have heat and bathrooms. This brought us to the I was on a Train once topic. When you fall off your train of thought, or your train of thought falls off track. So we try to find the origin of this saying. Talking about the train, switches us into talk about the massive amount of snow Michigan has been getting and the recent blizzard that cause a few people on snow machines to become stuck deep in the woods in large amounts of snow. Two of them were saved by locals, and the other two broke into a little hut and made it through the night. Then we switch to talking about new release music from Grandson, and Bad Flower, which spins us into talk about Spotify playlists, including songs to play at Jess’s funeral! Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ccmousepodcast/Instagram: https://instagram.com/ccmousepodcast Send us a Voice Message!https://www.speakpipe.com/CCMousePodcast Show Hosts Info:RFSDanInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/RFSDanYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/RFSDan Jess from Snow Dogs VlogsInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/SnowDogsVlogsYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/SnowDogsVlogs

We have a real world, but some people — including your podcast host — like the virtual world as well. In this episode of Tangible Tech, Steve talks about his experiences with VR and some new tools that are inexpensive enough for almost anyone to get into creating and viewing VR content. Items discussed in this episode include the Insta360 One and One X VR cameras, the GoPro Fusion, the Ricoh Theta, and the Oculus Go VR headset. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tangible-tech/support

Over geld verdienen met het leukste dat we hebben geleerd, noise cancelling headphones (alweer!), emoties om emoji's, drones, GoPro Fusion, taggen in Facebook posts en de vuist van Talpa. De 1.44 MB Podcast is een proeftuin van Matthijs en Bram. We hebben het over de onderwerpen die we graag willen opslaan, wat in regelmaat neerkomt op technologie, innovatie en marketing. Alle afleveringen zijn te vinden op SoundCloud en 1.44mb.nl.

Der liebe Ben Bernschneider hat uns das Mikrofon zurücküberlassen und so finden wir uns an diesem sonnigen Donnerstag mal wieder in unserem Heizungsraum im Dachgeschoss wieder. Mit Rücksicht auf Christians andauernde Krankheit behandeln wir heute eher saichte Themen. Wir schnacken über die Sony A7 III, wie Kai sie so findet, wie sie im Vergleich zu einer Canon steht, wo der dusselige Batteriegriff bleibt und so weiter und sofort. Überdies erklärt Kai stümperhaft was die GoPro Fusion ist und wir reden letztlich recht viel über aktuelles. Und auch Stephen Hawking! Alles in allem erwartet euch eine kurze, knackige Folge zum mitnehmen. Viel Spaß!

Apple CEO Tim Cook himself explains why Apple slowed down older iPhones,  Amazon Alexa gets an Australian launch date, Westpac lets you do your banking with iMessage, LG's V30 smartphone – and it's now cheaper, the GoPro Fusion 360-degree, Vodafone slashes pricing for its NBN plan and we finish off with the Tech Guide Help Desk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple CEO Tim Cook himself explains why Apple slowed down older iPhones,  Amazon Alexa gets an Australian launch date, Westpac lets you do your banking with iMessage, LG’s V30 smartphone – and it’s now cheaper, the GoPro Fusion 360-degree, Vodafone slashes pricing for its NBN plan and we finish off with the Tech Guide Help Desk.

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