Podcast appearances and mentions of grant perry

Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movement is a cost of meeting daily needs, and provided these needs are met, less movement is generally advantageous. Nevertheless, since the 1930s traffic engineers have pursued movement maximization in North American cities as if movement is an end in itself, and even as if movement is in itself freedom. The human costs have included unbearable burdens measurable as financial, health, safety, equitability, livability and environmental costs. Together these burdens impair human autonomy; that is, by constraining people's choices about where and how to live, they diminish freedom. Automobility, promoted as a deliverer of freedom, has instead imposed car dependency, a kind of unfreedom. Paradoxically, many engineers now pursue so-called “autonomous” (robotic) driving, promising thereby to sustain unsustainable quantities of movement, when the sole worthy end of movement is not machine but human autonomy. To escape the traps that these errors set for us, we must trace them to their origins. Though engineering is defined as applied science, history reveals that the origins and persistence of prevailing traffic engineering principles lie not in scientific research but in power politics, and that such principles have more in common with religious dogmas than with natural laws. Far more practical possibilities await us when we escape the confines these dogmas impose on us and recognize movement as a secondary good that serves us only as it contributes to human autonomy. Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the University of Virginia's Center for Transportation Studies and has been a visiting faculty member at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Norton is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving. He is a winner of the Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, and a frequent speaker on the subject of sustainable and equitable urban mobility. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of the conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman.  Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation, Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Amelia Morton and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.  “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.

Cities@Tufts is still on our summer break, but we have a special offering for you this month. For the past eight weeks, Shareable has co-hosted the Social Cooperative Academy with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and several other partners. Social cooperatives remain relatively obscure in the United States, despite thriving in various countries for over 30 years. Social coops blending the principles of cooperatives with a dedicated social purpose.  Today, we're sharing a recording from the first session of the academy, "Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more." This conversation features Doug O'Brien from the National Cooperative Business Association, John Restakis from Synergia Institute, Minsun Ji from RMEOC, and Matthew Epperson from Zolidar. In addition to this podcast, the video transcript and graphic recordings are available at Shareable.net. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman.  Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation and SHIFT Foundation. Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Deandra Boyle and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.  “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.

Professor Esther Charlesworth's talk for the Boston Salon on May 1, 2024 focused on her nomadic design journey across the last three decades. In trying to move from just theorizing about disaster architecture to designing and delivering projects for at-risk communities globally, Esther started both Architects Without Frontiers (Australia) and ASF (International); an umbrella coalition of 41 other architect groups across Europe, Asia and Africa. Architects Without Frontiers asks, how do we go from just pontificating about the multiple and intractable challenges of our fragile planet, to actually acting on them? Prof. Esther Charlesworth works in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, where in 2016 she founded the Master of Disaster, Design, and Development degree [MoDDD] and the Humanitarian Architecture Research Bureau [HARB]. MoDDD is one of the few degrees globally, enabling mid-career designers to transition their careers into the international development, disaster and urban resilience sectors. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman.  Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation and SHIFT Foundation. Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Deandra Boyle and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.  “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.

On this episode of the Deadass Podcast, I have my father Grant Perry on to share how he got involved in the funeral industry. Grant shares how he started as a hearse driver, then studying embalming and starting his own funeral business. Later in his career he joined the Kenyon International Emergency Services where he was deployed to Thailand in 2004 after the devastation of a Tsunami caused the deaths of 230,000 people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. Drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States' first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy – Kinkaid uses the lens of gastrodevelopment to examine how food culture is transformed into a form of symbolic capital that animates a broader project of urban development. Kinkaid shows how this transformation encodes differentials of value that are racialized and racializing and risk contributing to Tucson's uneven urban geographies. Kinkaid then turns to community visions of food-based development to imagine alternative trajectories for the project of gastrodevelopment. Dr. Eden Kinkaid (they/them) is a human geographer and social scientist whose work focuses on themes of sustainable and equitable food and agricultural systems, place, race, and development. They have researched these themes in north India and in the U.S. Southwest. In addition to this line of research, they publish on topics of feminist, queer, and trans geographies, geographic theory, creative geographies, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia. Their work has been published in Urban Geography, Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning D, and various other journals and books. Eden has served as an editor at Gender, Place, and Culture, The Graduate Journal of Food Studies, and you are here: the journal of creative geography. You can learn more about their work on their website or by following them on social media @queergeog on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman.  Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation and SHIFT Foundation. Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Deandra Boyle and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.  “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.

In cities across the world grassroots initiatives organize alternative forms of provisioning, e.g. food sharing networks, energy cooperatives and repair cafés. Some of these are recognized by local governments as engines in sustainability transitions. In this talk, I will discuss different ways that local governments interact with, and use, such grassroots initiatives, drawing from case studies in Berlin and Gothenburg. An argument will be made for that we need to reconsider what municipal infrastructure should entail, i.e. not only the traditional infrastructure for transport and waste but also new infrastructure for repairing and sharing. Karin Bradley is Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research concerns planning and policy for sustainability transitions, the role of civil society, alternative economies and justice aspects of transitions. She has been the co-director of the eight-year research programme Mistra Sustainable Consumption – from niche to mainstream that engages researchers from different disciplines as well as municipalities, civil society organizations, companies and national authorities in Sweden. She has had several assignments for the Swedish government, including leading a public inquiry on the sharing economy. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman.  Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation and SHIFT Foundation. Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Deandra Boyle and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn.  “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.

August 24, 2023 ~ Sean Baligian is joined by John Ogrodnick, John Pastor, Joe Neville, and Grant Perry as we ramp up to the football season.

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 Aloha Friends, it's Robert Stehlik. Welcome to the third season of the Blue Planet Show. I started this show a couple years ago in my home office, in the garage during the pandemic, just to get to know other wing foilers find out more what drives them, what inspires them. And as always, I like to find a little bit more about their background and just get to know them a little bit better and learn for my own benefit. And I'm stoked to be able to share it with all of you. I get people coming up to me all the time saying I'll watch your shows all the way to the end. So I'm one of the 5% that watches the whole thing. So stoked to hear that. And I know many of you are also listening to it as a podcast while you're driving to the beach or going foiling and getting stoked or just listening to it while you can't go in the water because it's too cold, or you're traveling or whatnot. Stoked. Always to hear that kind of stuff, super stoked. And today's guest is James Casey, who also has a great podcast. So if you haven't listened to that, it's all about downwind foiling. You should check it out. And he also has a coaching club that you can join to learn about downwind foiling. He's an amazing athlete. He holds the record for the most kilometers foiled in one day. And a great coach for any of you who want to get into downwind foiling. And he also invented the sport of winging upwind and then deflating and foiling downwind. Really cool stuff that he's doing and pioneering also designing and testing equipment and so on. Without further ado, here is James Casey. Okay, James Casey. Welcome to the Blue Planet Show. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I've watched a bunch of these shows and yeah, it's cool to be on here myself now. Yeah. And I've been listening to your shows while I'm driving and getting stoked and motivated to do more downwind foiling. So thanks for doing that. A lot of really good information on your show. And I want to get into that, like Doman foiling, your Casey crew or the coaching crew, and then also the Moloka race, and then your announcement about joining Code foils and all kinds of stuff. Your record 213 kilometer record on a foil all that kind of stuff. But before we get into all those things, let's talk a little bit about your background. Let's go into a little bit like where, where you were born, how you grew up, and how you got into water sports and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. So yeah, James Casey. I was born in Sydney, Australia, and it's basically the east coast. And my mom and dad both surfed as a kid. They took me out surfing and like a boogie boarding first and then surfing. And I think I got my, I remember vividly actually gave you my first surfboard when I was like, probably a bit of a late starter compared to people nowadays, but I was like 10 or 11. I got like this PCUs, four Finn, super nineties board, skinny nose, like super pointy, heaps of rocker. But that was my first board. This was just one of my dad's old boards that he didn't use anymore. Yeah, this is your board now. You can, you can take this here, this out. And yeah, pretty much surfed all through my teenage years. I competed in like board riders, so I was I won the juniors movale board riders season sort of competition. But then I got 18, 19, I started getting worn in my rugby union. So I was playing a lot of rugby. Played for the, I guess the local club, the Ringer Rats, and was, I played a couple games in first grade, but I was basically just too small to be to be, following that dream as a, as an athlete in rugby. I was also competing against basically , who's now the Wallabies captain, Michael Hooper. So like in people who watch rugby would know what I'm talking about. But yeah, I was playing rugby against him a lot, so rugby was always, I was always second field to him, but I just loved it. It was great camaraderie and that sort of stuff and, but I was still juggling my rugby and surfing and basically as a rugby player you're pretty big and bulky and so it's not the best for surfing. But I got into standup paddling in my sort of I guess it was, I don't know the exact date, but I was. Pretty young. I was probably like 14 or 15. We, we were in Hawaii and I sprained my ankle kite surfing. And wait, so when, how did you get into kite surfing? Yeah, I was thinking that when I said that. Gotta explain that, . So I got into kite surfing. I used to go to Maui a lot. Basically my dad was a wind surfer and basically every July we'd go over to Hawaii to f as a family holiday to windsurf. And I was learning to windsurf and then all of a sudden all these kite around and I'd just nailed for windsurfing, I'd nailed my like water starts. So on the small sort of wave riding board, I was water starting, I was just starting into wave riding. And then I cut my foot on the reef out at uppers at Kaha. . And so I was outta the water for a bit and when I was outta the water, my brother, younger brother and sister learned to kite surf and then I was all fired up. I wanna learn to kite surf, it looks easier and you're on a smaller board. And so basically going backwards, I guess windsurfing my dad, cause he windsurf, he took us out in the lake a lot. Just a local Naraine lake. And we'd learned to windsurf on a big, we used to call it the island. Just a massive, it was a starboard, I think a massive starboard and you can get three people on it. It was super stable for us kids as well. So we did that. Then, so then I learned on a smaller board, wave, wave sailing and never really nailed it. I one or two trips down to OA and then Hawaii was almost there and then I cut my foot outta the water for a week. Then went to kite surf and kite surfing was what we loved to do as a family. Like my brother, my dad, and myself would all go out kite surfing at home and then me when it was sick. But yeah, then I sprained my ankle. Kite surfing this one time. I guess it was, it must have not been July cause there was some waves. Must have been, winter. And there were heaps of good. It was good surf that year too. So I cut my foot so sprained my ankle kiting and I couldn't pop up on a surfboard like, like regular surfing because my, an basically res sprained my ankle. So we went to the local shop what's it called? High Tech in Maui. And we rented Hawaii Paddle Surf, like standup paddle board. Cause we'd seen lad do it, we were in hook keep and Lad was doing his helicopters and that looks pretty cool. Yeah, we went down the hike. So can you, do you guys sell these salmon paddle boards? Yeah, we got a couple. So we rented two of those and we're actually staying at like near Mama's Fish house. , and there's a few reefs out there and basically, When there's no wind. We managed to score some really good sessions out there on the standup paddle board, just like glassy and like four to six foot kind of thing. And I was on a standup paddle board on these outer reefs and it was like, oh, this is pretty legit. And on the standup paddle board was easier because you're paddling out to his outer east and instead you're comfortable. So I'm like, this is cool. So he went home and St. Paddling wasn't really a thing yet. Went home and the local shop, I came in Sydney WSS boards. Sam Parker had, didn't have any production boards, but he did have a custom one that he, a local builder had built him just basically a big longboard. And so we grabbed that off him for a week and just was roughing out on that. No ankle is now better now. So it was just like, it was just cuz we liked it. And basically we, when the stock came in, we bought one, but be between that we were I actually grabbed my dad's windsurf board and we'd never paddled, so we had a rake and we cut the prongs off the rake, the plastic rakes, and we were paddling around the local spot on this windsurf board, like a smaller windsurf board had the full sandpaper deck. So we got all, got smoked rashed up on the stomach. But yeah, that was, and then, basically once the production stuff was out in Australia, we were riding it, but I was never really competing. So like I did all this is all like, 13, 14 or whatever, what's that sort of age? And so I was paddling it, but I didn't know there was competitions and my brother worked in the local shop WSS boards. And there was, I went to one competition at Long ra and I wasn't really, it was fun, but it wasn't really something I was motivated to, to pursue. We did a race, actually the fir, my first s race was Movale to Collary, which is like eight Ks. and it was a nice little northeast Lee Breeze. My I'd never paddled a race board before my brother working at the shop had organized a board for my himself, my dad and me. And there was two 14 footers and 1 12 6 and somehow I got stitched up and was put on the 12 six. So we're doing the race and it's all like a little down window. We just cruising cause we don't know how to race. We're just paddling like we are surfing, looking for little bumps to catch. And all of a sudden this storm comes through and we're about halfway through the race, we're at the back cause we're this cruising and this hail it starts hailing on us. So we, the massive storm, the wind was northeast hailstorm comes through the winds now south. And so we're all lying on our boards paddling into the winds like prone style. And because I had a 12 six I could keep it pointed into the wind easier. I wasn't getting blown around as much. So I, I remember vividly beating my brother. And he was all off it because he is oh, it was because you were the shorter board. It was easier for you to, paddle into the window. Mate, a shorter board should go slower. So it was, the competitive spirit was always there, but I didn't touch another race board for a very long time. So that was that was interesting. That was a not the best start to to the whole racing stuff. It wasn't until my now brother-in-law Grant Hardiman got into ums racing that I really got into thes racing stuff. But in the meantime, I was stop surfing heaps. So I still stop surfed a lot when the waves were small back home, I'd stop surf heaps, wasn't really competing, but just loved it. On the small days and you can then, you can just pedal out. The same as in, in Maui were ping out to these outer reefs and surfing waves by ourselves rather than sitting in the pack of 20 or 30 on a shortboard waiting for that one that came through. That's a muddled history, . Once I got into this, I actually got into the subs surfing, went down to an event in Marula it, so called the Maru Classic. Quite a famous event here in us here in Australia. Anyway, yeah had like guys like Rob Robby Nash come over in the history of it all. And, but I met two, two good friends now, JC Schara and Toby k Cracknell and Kai Bates as well, actually, and Sam Williams. And those sort of four people got me into the competitive side of s cause I didn't even know like the, a PPP world tour or the whatever it was called before that. I didn't know what it, I didn't know what it exist. I didn't know you could compete on a standup paddle board. I didn't know there were races. I just was just doing it for fun. Wasn't really in the scene. So they, I went over to Hawaii, did the sunset event trials, got into the main event and basically from there Tristan was like, oh, you've qualified for the whole tour now if you wanna come to Brazil and France. And I was like, oh, this is pretty cool. So I rallied. And, you I'd just finished uni at this time, so I was like, okay, I've got a bit of time. I haven't really locked myself into a job yet. So I just did that for, two, three years competing on the, the sup surf and race circuit doing, Molokai to Oahu and a bunch of races in did a few races in Europe, did a few surf events in Morocco and Hawaii and France, and went to the wave pool in Abu Dhabi. And yeah, it was a pretty cool, time and then Brun, I was doing that until Covid hit and then now Covid hit up. We basically, it's all, it all stopped all the racings on the stop stuff. And yeah. So here's I wanted to share this video. This was oh, sorry. Definitely. This was when I first met you that this was like at the mall. Mochi race. And you had a yeah, it was you and Marcus. Yeah. Marcus harder with Yeah. Talking about the dugout. I was just curious about it and interviewed you and that. So this was in 2016, was it the first time you did the mobile Kai race? This is the second time I did it. Yeah. This is the second time I, yeah and it was my third season competing, like racing over in Hawaii, but I didn't get in the first year to to do Molokai. Cause I hadn't done enough races, basically.  And that. And you were one of the first guys to use the dugout in the Molokai race, I think too. Or, and you did really well with it, right? So everybody started being curious about the dugout boards. Yeah, so dugout boards were, pretty common on 14 foot boards. But for for the unlimited boards, Not many people were using them. So yeah, it's probably good to talk about this. I was writing for JP and basically JP had said, oh, we don't make unlimited boards. You can get, one made from s i c, you can get one made wherever you want. And basically the year before I used a s I see. And Marcus had spoken to Matt Knowledge and said, oh, I think I can make something faster than your s i c what do you think? And he was like, yeah, Matt was keen. And then I got caught winded oh, if you are getting one, Matt, he was my like, sparring partner. I was like, I want one too. So we both, paid Marcus to design a board for us. And deep sort of made the boards and yeah, these are the first, unlimited dugouts that that we'd used. and basically it certainly caused a bit of a stir in Hawaii when people saw him. It was like the world's biggest bathtub when they filled up. But  Yeah, it was, they were super quick and, this relationship with Marcus, stems all the way through, like within us and Simon son over the following year. And and then I, won Moloka in 2019 on a board that Marcus and I actually built like in, in his backyard. And and that was the last, that was the last time the race was held. So you're the defending champion, theoretically. . Yeah. Look,  four years, , I only have to race once. Yeah. So yeah, no, it's it was a little project that for sure. Yeah. So I just wanted to share that. That's a classic older video. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. That's the main, yeah. Marcus is now all clean cut too. He is. Got his hash and he is shaved and he wouldn't recognize him. . Yeah. And just so I'm in the background, so are you staying at his place right now or? Yes. I'm just, I'm over here in wa I was just cause we've just we're working together now with fun code foil, so it's been set started there that year deep that's, and then sent over and now with code foils and so it's pretty cool. But yeah, I marks my good mates and yeah, I'm over here in wa I was just doing a foil camp up in Exmouth and so I've flowed back down. get back to your history though. Okay. So then you started doing the kind of the racing and also computing as a subs, surfer subs, surfery competition. . Yeah. Yeah.   my, my best result in the subs surfing stuff was the second place at Sunset. I lost a ca vaz , but it was basically I got the, it was a good year for me. Like the surf was good, my ball was good. And that was, yeah, second place and that was, I was pretty stoked. And that year I won the overall race and surf sup champion, there wasn't an official world champion sort of thing, but it was like a thing they're trying to award, overall athletes, not just thes athletes, not just the races race athletes, but the overall. So I think that was 20 must have been like 2016 kind of time where I won that sort of thing. And that's probably the biggest, sup sort of world champion sort of thing I've done in that. But yeah, I did all that until until Covid hit really, I was doing all the s sub surf events and a lot of the supp race events and then foiling came out. It stalled the momentum, with the sup stuff because foiling the reason I got into the sup racing was because I I'm a surfer first, so I've always, I've, I still surf short boards longboards foils now, obviously and standups. But surfing was where it all started. And when I got into sap, competing in standup was all about s surfing and downwind racing, because to me, downwind racing was like longboarding out to sea and you're just trimming the whole time. So it's kinda like the longboard sort of style. . And then when the foils came out and you were, I started down winding them pretty early. I was like, this is like short boarding out to sea. I'm not long boarding anymore. I'm like, we are surfing now. And so that to me was like a real light bulb moment. And a lot of people are like, oh, you don'ts race anymore. And I'm like, oh, I still do the local events. Like I, I was at the Aussie champs last year  and still do a bunch of the local events. But yeah the foiling is and the downwind foiling especially is mind blowing honestly. It's it's pretty crazy. And I guess my foil history I started, I actually met Alex Aue when I was over in Maui for a ppp race event. And I was introduced him through the Spencers. So Jeffrey and Finn were testing ups to go for stuff Me. Oh Jimmy, you gotta meet Alex, you're gonna love this foiling stuff. And so I was actually staying with Vinny and Vinny Martinez and j Jake Jensen. And we were all in a house together. Cause we're doing a race and because I was introduced to Alex basically, but Vinny and I were both slopping boards and so we only had one foil set up. Cause Alex lent us a board and a foil, like one of the original cars. And we were out at Kaha lowers trying out then a bunch of other spots between there and who keep and just if one of us was on the fall, the other one would be on like a bigger surf up just filming each other with a GoPro. And we were just trying to get the shot of us flying above the water. And that was the, and as soon as we left there, we were like, man, I said to Alex, I gotta buy one, like when can I buy one? And he's, okay. That must have been like a sep September sort of time of year. It's 2016 and then maybe it was 2017 but around that time and I ordered probably the first go fall to ever arrive in Australia, It arrived in like November just before the event, the ISA event in Fiji. And I remember going over there, I was over there to race the distance race on the standup, but I brought this foil with me and on the, when we were all surfing cloud break and whatnot in between the events and I was towing behind the boat. on the drive out on my gofoil set up. And people are losing their shit. Oh, everyone's having a go. And that was the start of, the foil brain  and the downwind stuff. And yeah, it's been a cool, it's been a whirlwind four years, since then, or I guess five years, six years since then. But yeah then I was, and I heard like the first time you tried to do a downwind foil downwind, was it with the ca foil? Yeah, so it would've been just after I got from Fiji, I went over to Western Australia and there's a race called King of the Cut and all those, so it's really good downwind run cause the, you get these sea breeze and it's like super consistent. And basically one day we went out with my square JP board and the gofoil and must have been, the board must have been like seven two by 26, but a square not like the boards nowadays had this kind of pointy tails and stuff. Pointy noses, not long and skinny and . We went out the Mandra run and we paddled, A friend of mine, Matt  and I we were swapping boards, so one of us on the foil set up, one of us was on a race board stuff. And basically we did the run I think is about 10 kilometers, 10 or 11 Ks. We did half the run and we swapped out and I got up twice, which looking back, I'm actually pretty stoked, could get up. I got up twice for about a total of like maybe 50, 60 meters up on Foil . And I was like, man, this is hard. Cause we'd seen Kyle Leni do it on his, longer board. Oh, he must just need a longer board longer skinnier board at that time. And cuz Kai was on a sorn off race board, it's 12 foot kind of thing. It's funny how in the foiling world everything just comes back, right? So like  and then, cause now we're going back to that, but this was in 20, it must have been 2016 or 17. . But anyway, it doesn't really. And then I said to Alex, I think I need a bigger foil. So he sent me over the original malico the blue one that isn't curved down. It's like a flatter one. It was actually ahead of its time because it was it was higher aspect, than the macOS were. And like when I got that one, I got home and I did a downwind run from maybe I was, anyway I started downwind once I got that foil and once I had that bigger foil, I was getting up pretty much straight away because of my my, my sort of s racing and downwind knowledge. I could read the bumps well enough and was powerful enough to get up and foil and once up, I think I was just chasing bumps and it was, yeah, it was sick, but I had the, yeah that one definitely humbling moment where we got five Ks and 50 meters of foiling, , so yeah. Yeah, . But even for you, it wasn't easy to get started, but yeah, no way. No way. But the right equipment makes a big difference for sure. Yeah even just the slightly bigger foil was the biggest, the difference for me. I think I was still on the same board more or less. I can't remember my first successful downwind run actually because I definitely had gone to Maui again and I did a downwind run with Finn and Jeffrey on a prone board. We went from Kua to Sugar Cove and we were paddling into waves and then falling around. And then Alex had this 10 foot, it was like a square board. It was a like just a, he called it the aircraft carrier. It was super long and he'd just put a little bit more rocker in it. Yeah, super light. And I paddled that thing up easy and once I was up I was like, I was good to go thing. Cause the downwind knowledge I had from racing standups just translated straight across. But I remember that first run of that big board and it was like, oh, this is pretty cool. , this is pretty epic. Boiling down wind is, As I said before, short boarding and like surfing down the coast rather than, trimming on the longer, unlimited or 14 foot stops. Six. Wait, did you say you were prone foiling on a 10 foot board? Is that what it was? Nah, so I was, I was, I'll stand up, I'll stand up paddling on that one. Yeah, that was the aircraft carrier. It was like nine or 10 foot. long, long, but it was like square. It literally it was like this shape. Yeah. The early kma boards were like that too, right? That's at the time everyone thought that's how you get it as short as possible by just cutting off the nose and tail and like its square . Yeah. Yeah. It was interesting that one Alex made actually and, and it was it was like looking back at it if he just refined that shape. It was long and it it wasn't super skinny. It was probably like 25 or 26 wide, but it was like eight foot and just it was square for stability while going. Narrow for speed and long for speed. Looking back, like there's a lot of things that led us to, the latest design that, Dave has famously invented, the Barracuda style boards. Yeah. And then you're still a team writer for Sunova, right? So when did that relationship start with Sunova? So just that video you shared before was the year after? So it was it was just as when I got my Go Foil I started on JP boards, so that was November. And then the following year, January, February, I signed with Sunova. And the first thing I did was like, okay, we need to get on, we need to make foil boards because foiling is where it's gonna be. And so I went over to Thailand and we tested a bunch of staff and we drew up with Bert Berger. He was over there and Marcus was back here. So we didn't, but Bert and I drew up our first sort of, Foil board range, and it was long, they basically weren't thick enough. So I, my first s foil board that I did with them was seven two by 24 and a half, which like is a pretty good dimensions looking back like how it's aged. But it was super thin. Yeah. So it was only like, it was only like 80 liters or something. And for me it was fine. But I remember going, starting on that and then Marcus took over designing the FOIL awards cause he was head starter foiling too. And it made sense cause he understood it. And so we basically the rails on Bert's board were like super pointy like this. Yeah. And then Marcus just made him thicker and had the, added the chime in and that extra volume allowed us to go shorter. And a bit narrower. Yeah. And a bit narrower too with the same sort of volume. But yeah, I guess our the Sunova relationship was, has been, is epic. , we're still designing a bunch of boards. We've got a bunch of prototypes coming. And yeah, there's, because I persuaded them to build these foil boards, I said, ah, and then I built like a, created the Casey brand. They're like, okay we'll put the Casey logo on it. And, it's your job to curate the design with Marcus and make sure you write the design specs and the, the website, outline, explain to people what it is. So yeah, that relation relationship with Suno has been really good. And obviously like racing, they were helping me fly around the world and travel and and the stop surfing stuff. And yeah, it's been a very healthy relationship with the boys in Thailand. The over. . Yeah. And then for, regarding the foil, so I guess you were writing for Gold Foil and then at some point you tried a whole bunch of different foils and you ended up writing for access. So how did that ha all happen and what was yeah. Sorry. I was writing for Gofo for five years so Gofo for five years and basically, started with the Kai and then the MACO came out and then the EVA and the maico 200 and all that sort of stuff came out. And then the GLS came out, which was like mind blowing cuz they were these higher aspect things. Then the P 180 and basically I've all the way up to the RS and the GT wings. I was a part of the team and it was just, yeah, it was, I was just craving a bit more input in the design process because go for guys are just like fully Maui based and they've got a pretty good test team in Maui. They've got Dave and they've got. Jeremy Rigs and they got, Alex himself is great at testing too, so they didn't really need me. And unless I was there, and when I was there, I was heavily involved in the testing stuff. And remember vividly testing shimming the tail wing. We were out, off or out of Kalu Harbor in Alex's boat. And Connor and I were both testing some Damon wings for the, there was an oli, the Oli race was coming up. And so we were testing like how to shim, like basically we're tuning our foils to get 'em as fast as we could for the race. And unfortunately that year the wind was blowing like straight on shore, so it was just a course race. But the race we did was they dropped us out outside basically between uppers and lowers at Kaha. And we raced all the way back into shore. And I remember that, was that where there was a huge surf too coming in or was that huge surf? Yeah. Yeah. And a few guys, I think I got up last. , but I think Austin climber fell off in the surf This got maxed out. You got a bomb coming through and it was a, that was a pretty cool race that was just like full, like figuring it out, yeah, and it was a bit murky water coming through. I hit something coming in through at the end, but it was sick. It was a cool race. But yeah, so we I'd worked a lot with Alex and Alex was literally I've got a house over in Maui and my family is a house over in Maui and he's actually, we actually share a boundary with Alex. We're not direct next door neighbors, but like over the back fence, like Alex is our neighbor, so it's oh, cool. There's a pretty cool relationship. When I was in Maui, like last time I was in Maui Alex had literally picked me up and we'd go, okay, we're gonna go test this thing, James. Come on, let's go. And yeah, it was super cool to be doing that. But the problem was when I wasn't in Maui, I couldn't test anything and I was only really in Maui, maybe one or.  once or twice a year, and only really for maybe a total of three weeks. So I just, I was craving more input in the design and pushing the envelope to race the wings. But also I guess with my coaching stuff I wanted to be able to, have input to help people learn to. So yeah, about 18 months ago, I, announced I was leaving Gofoil and tried a bunch of different foils. was trying lift stuff, I was trying uni foil stuff access Armstrong. What else did I try? I felt like there was some cloud nine stuff too. And basically I, and I spoke to 'em all and basically the access guys were really keen to work on a range of foils with me. And basically in the last 18 months with access, I reckon I prototyped.  probably 50 sets of gear, wow. It was kinda like, be careful what you wish for , because then my job was like, one of the things they sent out six different towel wings. They didn't tell me what they did, but they said, go out and try them and tell me what you feel. And basically little examples like that. And, so we tried a bunch of different stuff and it was an awesome relationship with Evan and Adrian. And I was on the phone to Adrian after every session. And that was exactly what I craved, like with Gofo, I did the same thing, but I only spoke to Alex every now and then. Cause I only got prototypes every, once or twice a year. Whereas with access, I was getting like every month they were sending out a box of gear and saying, test this stuff for us, test that for us. And it was epic. And if fast forward to now, I guess I'm, I've just announced that I'm working with basically a few mates of mine, Marcus, Ben, and Dan. And.  basically creating our own brand, which is super exciting. Working with Code Falls and look, if this hadn't come up, I'd definitely still be working with Access because there was, there's basically, there's no bad blood with access. Like we're there we're still mates. Adrian's actually coming up. I'm just gonna miss him in Perth, but he's coming over and I've left a bunch of gear for him cause, given some of the gear back and yeah, they want me to come over. Adrian wants to come over to New Zealand and do a downwind foil clinic and yeah, but they were cool, especially like going know when I told them about when I told them about joining code about a month ago, they were obviously a bit upset, but they were super cool and they're like, they were stoked for me that we, that I was creating my own thing. So they weren't they weren't angry at me, and the beauty is we're still mates I guess. So it's it's cool. But as I said, like the relationship with Code Falls was really good. So it's, I'm sorry. Talk a little bit about that. So code photos, like who's behind it and what's the business plan and so on. Yeah, so basically Marcus and Ben basically ha they're brothers. They, their Batard brothers and they've been designing their own or basically in the sunova range. Marcus has been doing all the foil and stuff boards for a while and Ben Tark has been doing the same for one and basically for them to be working together. It's pretty cool cuz they've got some seriously good design brains and yeah, they just, they asked me did I wanna be a part of this company they're building and yeah, I was like, yeah, let's do it. Because I've worked with Marcus for, I guess five or six years now and I've known Ben for a bit longer and Basically the plan is to, just create foils for, for sorry, the dog's just done a fart. the plan is stinks, stubby . The plan is to create foils that that we want to use, you know and that I can teach with too. Cause my coaching business is super important thing too. So at the moment we've just had one, we've had two prototypes. Basically we've got a sort of surf wing and think it's around eight 50 square centimeters. And we've just had a prototype race wing that literally, I've only tried it twice, two or three times now, and it's been. Really positive. Like the whole philosophy I guess behind it is we want our stuff to be stiff and solid and the mast and the connection to the base plate, to the mast, it's all one. But like the connection point is overbuilt, but it feels so nice and stiff. And then likewise the master to the fuse. The fuse is thick and so that's, I'm seeing if I have one actually I've got a mask just here. I can show that. Yeah. Why don't you show us? Is it all one, you said it. The fuselage and front wing and tail wing are all one piece. No. So the don't think I've got a, a tail wing or No, there's none around to you. They must markers, must took it . But yeah. Yeah. Show the mask. So yeah, you can see like the, see how that's pretty chunky down the bottom here. But we just find it adds extra stiffness. And even the base plate's pretty, pretty chunky too. Uhhuh . And then the connection to the. , this is a thicker it's just like probably 30% thicker than the, like most other brands. , just, this just allows more Fuse to get onto. So that makes the fuse a bit chunkier. Yeah. What we found straight away was that it was just super stiff, even though like our first prototype, but everything was just so well connected. So yeah. The base plate things that I was talking about and then the fuse connection was just super solid.  And that to us was a really important thing coming out with a brand now and like after seeing a bunch of brands, work on certain things, then realizing their mask is a bit stiff, isn't stiff enough. And having the connections to the front fall or the rear fall a bit, basically don't want any flex. So having that able to see what other fall brands have done, we've learned from that and basically created a pretty. Pretty what I'm loving, especially in the surf, the eight 50, it's super well connected and a lot of people, so is it, is the fuselage like aluminum like the access foils or is it more like the lift flows where it's like a front piece together with the Yeah, it's yeah, more like the lift and uni foil sort of stuff. How it's just like the front one goes on and then the fuse bolts on. Like a lot of people are comparing it to the cab, how it's on the angle, so Oh, you kind, yeah. So it's it's a super snug connection. , I can't, there was one just on the couch there, but Marcus just took off with it. No worries. Show on the shop . But yeah, we're super So you, so are you actually a partner in the business or a team writer and r and d? Or like how does that work? Yeah. More of a partner not just team riders, which is why it's like an exciting. Sort of project. So there's, we're building a brand up from nothing, so it's, yeah, four. then, so Marcus is, designer Sonova. Ben was a designer of one, no, is the designer of one. And then Dan, he's actually a, he lives three doors down and he's an architects builder, but he's really good at basically drawing everything up and making it all, so the designs, he puts it into software that makes the, it can blend everything so super clean and, slick looking connections. And he's actually, he's been working the hardest of late trying to get all the files ready to build. It's been a, it's been a, it's been a busy month, that's for sure. Yeah. And that's why you're in Perth right now? I was actually over here to do a foil camp up in Exmouth, and I extended two days before and two days after, just so I could catch up with the team and. and, talk about a lot of things and get some footage and just work on all things code as, as well as do a bit of work up the coast here. Just, it was good timing, it wasn't planned, it was just good timing. Cool. Yeah, like when we look at Australia on a Globe or something, it looks like a small little island, but to fly from Sydney to Perth is like a six hour flight or something, like three time zones, or what is it, three or four time zones? Yeah. Yes. It's, I think it's a four and a half, five hour flight, depending on the winds. And yeah, it's a, it's three hours difference. Yeah. So back home when I chat to my wife, she's, at home now it's nine o'clock here and it's midday in, in Sydney. So yeah, it's a big country. It's a big country, that's for sure. Yeah. I haven't been over and during Covid we actually couldn't fly to Perth Bec because. Everything was locked down, so it was, yeah, it's it was almost like a new country over here in Western Australia for a while. Yeah. Everything, everything went yeah. Starting new for company, with like access, they have so many different foils and design, like shapes, like different, so many different wings you can choose from and stuff like that. So starting a new company, I guess one of the hard things is the tooling costs are pretty expensive. Every time you make a new wing you have to make a mold for it and all that. Yeah. And then if it doesn't work, you have to like toss that mold and make another one or whatever yeah, exactly. Yep. It's not easy. Yeah, it's not easy at all. Yeah. The plan for the Rangers at the moment is we've got our surf wing all round, surf wing and downwind wing, which is the eight 50. So I've been surfing and down winding it , and it's been unreal in terms of size, it's. , I feel like the area's not that good a guide. Cause we all know the one 20 probably surfs a bit bigger than what, or down winds a bit bigger than what the area is. . But it's, it, this eight 50 feels somewhere between the one 20 and the one 70. Probably like a one 30 or one 40 sort of size.  If you were to compare in the lift range in the access range, it feels like an 8 99, so that's the kind of size that the one we have now. And we've got plans to build one bigger and one smaller , at the very least. And we're probably gonna go at least two bigger. So probably have five or six foils within that range. And then we're gonna do an, a race range, which we are busily working on now to get ready for mochi because it may only be March, but it takes time to build molds and test stuff. And so we've got our first one here and we've it, it's great, but there's things we can improve upon it. So we're back to the drawing board and try to make it, better. And then we're gonna do like a more of a, lower aspect sort of style foil for basically bay runs, small, slow surf and just a sl a foil that goes slower so you can so especially for me when I'm teaching, I want, I wanna fall that I can teach with that isn't going so fast that it's like scaring people,  and it doesn't have to be a really big foil to go slow. You can make us foil that is still like compact, that goes slow. So we they're the kind of the three rangers that we're working on. But really we're just focusing on getting everything released and the launch date, I guess for shops to, to have these code falls in shops for the eight 50 and I guess, and that's first surf range is or the all round range is the 1st of June. So that's what we're working towards, which doesn't seem that far away.  For us, but for everyone else, we're like, oh, June, that's like March, April, may, June. It's three months. But I think Robert, you probably know it, it takes more than just, the stuff is good now. We're just getting stuff, ordering like our, the manufacturing and logistics and stuff. Yeah, just three months is not a long time.  Not at all. So three, four months. Yeah, we're pushing hard, but it's and obviously we're hoping to have to release the bigger and smaller wings in that range. But it probably won't be till after June. So the first one will be the eight 50 that sort of slightly bigger than the lift one 20 sort of size 8 99 axis sort of size. And then the rest will come after that. But yeah, baby steps because it all, the need a cost a bit, but it takes a lot of time too. So it's, yeah, it's been a. Spend a bit of a journey already. Just I'm only one, officially one week in . Cool. And then what about boards? Are you con gonna continue with Sonova making, like the Casey labeled boards or that, or are you gonna make code foil boards also, or? No, at this stage we're gonna, like Ben still works for One Ocean Sports and Marcus and I still work for Sunova. So it just, it makes sense for us to stick with them, for the, yeah. For the time being because it's we've got great relationships with Ben's got a great relationship with Jacko at one and Mark and I have a great relationship with, Tino and Dylan at Sunova. We don't wanna, we don't wanna break that relationship and Sure we've got good products and we're super happy with how it's all working. As is and the foils, are they made at the Sunova factory or where are they made? The fos are made in China. Yeah. So they're, that we've different factory, the Sunova. Don't really do carbon fiber. I guess they're more of the bolser and polonia skins, which for a foil doesn't really work. . Yeah. It's a, it is a very specialized manufacturing process and yeah. Definitely not simple. You have to have Yeah. Get everything right. Especially like to make the mass stiff and torsional and all that, all that kind of different kind of things to consider. But anyway, yeah. Cool. Congratulations. That's pretty exciting. Yeah. Super exciting. It's been, and let's talk about the Moloka race. Since 2019 we haven't had it. And then this year it's gonna be on July 30th, I think. And I got to see the list of people for the for the foil race. And it's a pretty, pretty impressive list. A lot of people are entered. Yeah, including you and Kailan and a bunch of other really top top writers are doing the foil race, so I almost feel like that's gonna be like the main event, almost like the down one foiling, yeah. But yeah, talk a little bit about that. Yeah. Obviously 20 Montana wanna 'em a stand up and uh, basically that was my goal. That was when I first started stop Racing, my goal was to win Malachi to Oahu when I was stoked to be able to do that. And I dedicated to my dad who's now passed away. And that was a really emotional, experience to be doing that. But I feel like to me, like a lot of people are like, oh, you gotta do it again. Go back to back on the s And to me, I feel like it's almost not that chapter's done, but it's like I've achieved what I wanted to achieve on the standup. Not only that, since I started racing mochi on a sap, like the first year I did that, there were 15 to 20 big names. And probably of those we five people could have won it. The previous year, the year I won, there were probably only like probably five or six people that were like really racing it com like super competitively with a win. And of that sort of five or six, there was probably only two or three or four that were real serious contenders. So it, what I've seen is the s downwind supp racing has declined a bit, or a lot. Yeah, for sure. Like all the guys that were downwind, downwind, standup paddling are now supp foiling or just, prone or they're downwind foiling now. So to me the sport that I was interested in has shifted to foiling, so for me, the foil stuff, it was even in 2019, I was foiling like a lot. And for Malachi, I put my, gave myself a bit of a foil band and Marcus was foiling and training for the foiling and He was like, come on, Jimmy, come on the phone. I'm like, nah man, I just gotta, I just gotta tick this off. I gotta win this race on the standup and I just wanna, I wanna get that done. And yeah, I'm stoked I did that because then it wasn't on for 20 20, 20 21, 20 22, and it's just come back in 2023. I could have been I could have been, still wanting to win it on a standup and, not having it mean for a while. They were talking about maybe doing the the foil event on a Saturday and then the paddle and prone event on the Sunday. If they would do that, would you do try to do both or would you just Only on foiling? Oh, I'd focus on foiling, but like the factors on the day before, I'd do both because I'm over there, so I, and I still have all my gear over there. It's all ready to go. The only thing is the extra cost. The moloka to a race is not a cheap event, and an escort boat is super expensive. And hard to find. That's one of the biggest challenges I think like this year especially. Cuz during the pandemic, a lot of the escort boats got out of the business or they, sold their boats or got into fishing or doing other things and then, yeah. So it's actually gonna be really hard to find escort boats for all the competitors I think. Big time. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah that, I'm lucky enough, I've got the same boat captain and Andrew he actually hit me up. He goes, I got a few people asking you doing mochi cuz people are hitting me up to do their escorting on it. Your first, you won it last year so last time we did it. So you are, you're my first guy and he is like, and he goes, and I hope you're foiling . Cause obviously for a boat it's quicker on a foil. Yeah. You need a fast boat to it, . Yeah, exactly. So yeah. Yeah. I signed up to do it on a wing foil this year, so I'm excited to, to be wing foiling. Yes. It's so cool that they did a wing event too. I assume. The wings should win. Like the wings should be the quickest really. But it'd be interesting to see how they go on the final bit. That up win leg could be pretty, there'd be a bit of tacking going on, and if there's no win, yeah. Going into the finish is gonna be tricky. But for you to, for you guys too, going into the wind with a Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, it's, yeah. And the foil board's gonna be super cheeky yeah. But yeah, last year we had that blue water race where jack hole came in like third overall I think the first two finishers were wing foyers and then he came in third, so he beat a lot of wing foyers on the standup foil board, yeah, pretty fast. Cuz you can go straight down wind versus on a wing, you have to angle more, a little bit angle off. Yeah. Yeah that's a big question. Can you go quick enough over further distance to, to beat the sub guys? We're going more direct I guess, but Yeah, I think you said you did the king of the cut with where there was wingers and standup foyers, a king of the cut race or something. Yeah. I haven't done it when there's wingers because it wasn't on last year and the year before. In 2019, winging wasn't a thing, wasn't a, what, people weren't racing. So the last time I did King of the Cup was 2019 and then Covid hit, so we couldn't get over here. And then when everything opened up last year, end of 2022, the King of the Cup wasn't on anymore. Basically all the volunteers, but they couldn't get enough volunteers together. But have you competed in any doman races that have both wingers and standup foil? I don't think I have actually. Yeah. I don't think I have. Yeah. I haven't competed again or rice against. It'll be interesting to see. Yeah. Who's faster . Yeah. You would think, definitely like with the Wing, you do have an unfair advantage and you can probably use a smaller, faster foil, yeah. But yeah, I think it, I think there's Yeah. A lot of, yeah. Yeah. A lot of animals that go into, I've had the Marcus about this, and he did the race when speaking of the cup when there were wingers and foyers and the wingers smoked them, not only because they were from the start, they were up and going. But smaller foils, they're using small foils. They're using big wings, like big sails and yeah. They're just, , they're moving. Yeah. The wings were quicker, even though they were having to go a little bit further distance. They were faster by, by fair bit, actually, five, 10 minutes I think it was. Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. Cool. So yeah, I think that's gonna be super exciting. We're gonna try to interview some more people that are in that race and yeah, it should be fun to be part of it, the first time they're doing wing foiling too, yeah. So actually, have you done much wing foiling or just more focused on down winding and surf foiling? Yeah, more focused on down winning and surf oiling. But I, I've done the, I guess the stuff the wing that I do is mainly around wave riding. So I'm, and not even heirs. So I'm, I do a few, hes, but I'm not a trickster. Like I don't, I'm I'm not as interested in the big jumps and the flips as I am, like the calves and, the re-entries and the cutbacks and that sort of stuff. So to me winging, winging is like poor man's towing, it's like toe falling cuz you can to toe yourself into the wave and then you just drop it in the back end and you're just surfing like you would anyway. So it's And then talk a little bit about I know you've done like upwind on the wing and then deflate and then just go down one with the wing under your arm or something like that. Or put on your back. Yeah. The wings is, talk a little bit about that. It's such an epic tool for that. So in Sydney especially, we get a lot of days where the wind is in winter we get offshore breezes, so it's like howling like 30 knots offshore. And we can go into sort of harbors or bays or river entrances and we can like big river entrance and we can what we do is we wing up wind, like five ks up wind, which is like almost 10 Ks cuz you have to z and zag up wind.  You attacking. And then I'll I, in what a lot of guys were doing was they were going on onto the shore, deflating their wing on a beach, rolling it up, putting the backpack, and then paddling up. And I was like, why are we doing this? Why don't we just deflate it on the water? So I started deflating on the water wrapping up trail on the backpack. It was a bit wet, bit soggy, but it was still doable. . And then I was like why am I sitting down and doing, why don't I just deflate it whilst en foil? So I deflate it whilst en foil and then hold it under your arm until you stop. And then you've got your paddle on your back knee. You pull that out once you're ready. But yeah, and then I was chatting with mate and I'm like cuz it's this run we do it's in a river and basically there's a national park so you can't drive. It's hard. It's like a bit of a, it's like a two or three K hike to get to the beach that you'd start at. . So instead of going there, we actually just start at the finish point and we wing up wind and then we do our pack down, however you wanna do it. And then we'd go like most of the way back to the finish. But you can go, there's two options you need to pull in to this little bay where the car is, where you can go around this headland and there's like, it's just a peninsula, so it's a sand spit and you can go around the other side so you get like an extra three or four kilometers. So I guess two, three miles of down winding and it's just it's like a kilometer. Upwind back to the beach. And so what I was doing was I was de like doing my deflate, like wing up wind deflate at the top of the run, and then I'd wing all the way down to the bottom of the run and I rigged up this soda stream bottle so I could use press a button and it reinflated the wing whilst I was up on fo. So instead of sitting down and pump, I was actually pumping up the wing. Prior to this, I was pumping up the wing of the water. Yeah. And I'd I sort do it that way. But yeah, the soda stream bottle is pretty sick. So you also don't have to carry that big pumper around, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah. But I heard someone say that the carbon dioxide is like not good for your bladder or something like that, that they used to do that with kites and it wasn't good for the bladder or something like that. Have you had any problems, like with your bladders or anything like that from the, I've only done it like three or four times. The soda, I use a soda stream bottle and I just rigged that up. So it's just a big, like a big CO2 canister. And yeah, I'm sure it's not great for it, but it was I still pump up on the water a lot of the time because to set up the Soda Stream bottles is a pretty specific thing, whereas I can just grab my pump and a dry bag and I'm good to go. , whereas the soda stream, gotta, you gotta attach it onto the boom and, have the hose. And it was just a cool it was an idea that Matt made of on Grant Perry and I worked on for a little while and yeah he, he's on a, he's on an E four, so he filmed it all. It was a pretty cool little clip. Yeah, it still has a lot of function, but yeah, the biggest thing that we noticed was when you did the co2 the wing itself got really cold. So the CO2 was a really super cold air. And it like sort frosted the now the outside of the. The canopy or the inflatable edge of the stratt. Yeah. The leading edge was like, freezing around the belt, probably especially, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I'm not sure how good it is for the long term . I haven't tested it enough times to know, but I've done it four or five or three or four times and it was fine. Prob actually probably four or five times. It didn't it didn't blow anything up. We tested it on land first because we were worried about that. What's gonna happen here? But yeah, it was sweet. It was sweet. Nice. There's I'm sure there'll be like, there's, I feel like there's a bit of a, there's a bit of a potentially a cool market in that, like if you can cuz winging down wind is epic. Yeah. But it takes a bit of wing management. So like I find it easier to downwind with a paddle than I do with a wing. Cause once I have the wing and I'm like letting go of it and it's just, flagged out, it's behind me. , it's all in front of me, I've got, if I change directions, , there's a bit of technique to either, you either swap hands or you've gotta bring it behind you and drop it down behind you and try to, it's there's a bit of, there's a bit of admin to, to keep the wing out of the way and not yes. To be able to go the same lines. Cuz what I find is when I'm wing it, I'm gonna cut across the wind a lot more than I would when I downwind. Even if I've just got flagged out to go straight down wind, the wing wants to blindfold you, essentially. So that's where it came from. The whole deflate thing. I I love the downwind thing, but, and I winging up wind was the free shuttle, but the downwind part, I was like, man, this wing just doesn't get, doesn't get outta the way and back home I'm using a four or five meter wing most of the time when I'm down winding. It'd be easier with a two or a three obviously. it's even easier for you to stay Flighted. . Yeah. What I've been doing for if you're doing, if you're racing downwind, what you can do is just put the wing up over your head and have it almost level so that if you're going faster than the wind, straight down wind it's just of been neutral over your head, so that works pretty well too, but it's, yeah, but it's not really, your sounds get tired. Yeah. Your arms get tired, right? Yeah, not so much cuz you can't really stay in that po you can do that when you're on a good bump and you go really fast, straight down wind. But then once you of come off the bump and you catch the wind again, so you bring the wind, bring it back down, wind, wind back down and stuff like that. But yeah, that makes a lot of sense for like speed going down wind, because you're like, I was thinking too, like the electric pumps are getting pretty good, like battery powered electric pumps. I wonder if you could set up something like that, but then you have they probably can't get wet, so be hard to make that waterproof. So yeah, I've had so many people hit me up and say, oh, you should try this electric pump. And I'm like, yeah, but electric I'm in the water. Like it's going to get wet. If I fall off all of a sudden that's 30, 40 bucks down the drain and electricity and water is something I don't really wanna be too close to. Yeah. Yeahium battery and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. The other, I think even better options, you just get a decent pump. Like electric pumps are great, but like you get good pumps that, like hand pumps instead of the ones we stand on and get hand pumps. Yeah. And you can just pump it up. It doesn't take that long. And a lot of the time I'll just deflate the leading edge and leave the middle strut inflated. So it's just pumping up the leading edge. So it's not the end of the world. And water in a pump is a lot less. It's less worse, it's less bad than water in a electric pump . Yeah. And you can make 'em pretty small to the hand pumps maybe. Yeah. Actually it's cause you definitely don't want something that you have to push against your board or something like that cuz it's like everything's moving around. It's more almost like you want two handles that you can push together or something like that. Yeah. Accordion style pump. That'd be pretty serious. Yeah. Oh, there you go. . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I just think it's all coming. It's all part of the evolution and I think I was probably people think it's a bit, hard to do or whatever, but I promise you any wingers out there who wanna learn a downwind like and downwind like we do on a sap or. it's way easy to learn to daylight your wing than it is to learn to paddle up . I guarantee you. Yeah. There's this guy, Paul, that he wants to do like channel crossings and stuff like that. And like one of the risks is that your paddle breaks, right? So he's thinking as a backup, he's gonna take a wing and a pump with him, so that just paddle breaks or you can't, the, you can, as long as there's wind you can, wing with it, so yeah. I think a better backup plan is the hand paddles. Have you guys seen those? Oh yeah. They just, you can, cause they're much smaller, like a wing and a pump gets pretty heavy. And that's gonna, that's gonna limit your ability to paddle up, which is probably gonna increase the chances of you breaking your paddle Cause the more you're paddling and the more weight you have to paddle. That's the biggest disadvantage of the deflate downwind.  Is that once you wrap it all up and put it in a backpack, The extra weight of the wing, like it's probably maybe five or six kilos. So it's a lot of water weight too, if it's still wet, right? Yeah, it's a lot of water weight and so I've actually done some of my fastest ever like downwind runs when I've had the wing in my backpack because the extra weight, I can just go faster, but it's way harder to get up. Oh, that, that's an interesting point actually. And I wanted to talk about that as well. And cuz Dave Klo also says in the down windows, when he is going fast, he likes a little bit heavier board just for better, more momentum and stability and more. Yeah. And I found that too actually, that sometimes weight is a good thing and lot of people I talk to is no weight is never good. You just wanted the lightest gear possible, you and it totally depends, like in my experience that's not really true. But what, how do you feel about weight in the board and the foil and so on? Like you said, like wearing weight on your back actually helps with going faster. Yeah, no big time. So the only thing is so Dave, for example, if it's only 10 knots, Dave being heavier compared to me will have a harder time getting up than I will if we're on the exact same foil. If Dave gets up and then, so let's change it up. So let's say it's a really windy day and Dave and I are on the same foil, the same setup, exactly the same, but he's heavier. Once we're up on foil, he should be faster. Ju just based on, and this is not taking into account how you read a bump or how you do all that, and you're pumping ability or any of that. But just on the, if you were going in a straight line together then, and you're next to each other on the exact same bump, Dave should be able to go faster than I can in big conditions, but in smaller conditions on the same foil. If he's slightly under foil, I'm just right, then I'm gonna go quicker. So the weight is a big thing and it's a hard thing to plan for because look, you're not gonna, you're not know for mochi, Oahu, the start of the race is generally a lot lighter than it is at the, in the middle. . So if I'm to, if I'm to wait my board for the start of the race, I'm gonna have a harder time to paddle up. But if I can get up with that heavier board, it's gonna be better for me in the middle. . But the other thing with Malachi is you got the off wind at the end. So you, I think for a race like Malachi where there's lots of different conditions, there's definitely an advantage for the lighter guys and lighter equipment, but not in the middle of the channel, just for the beginning and end. Yeah. Because for the middle of the channel, a big guy can probably make up a lot of ground on the guys that are smaller, but they've gotta be able to get up early and then foil as far as they can, as close they can to the finish. So it's interesting, there's a few things going on fo I can't wait to get into this foil racing because I've done a bunch of downwind fall races here in Australia, but mainly against surf skis in ri canoes and a few mates who are learning. I have, the best race I've had has been over here in Western Australia against the all the WA crew and Marcus and then Z Westwood, but there was heaps of seaweed, so it was like, it was who could foil through the seaweed best  and bit of a like, it it was like a obstacle course, but yeah, I'm looking forward to getting outta Hawaii and getting some. Some good rising and good conditions for sure. Should be fun. Yeah. Not too much seaweed in Hawaii, but yeah, sometimes I've noticed like just a little tiny thing that stuck on your foot makes a big difference in your speed, so huge. Yeah. Yeah, I was just thinking the way too, like I remember, back in the windsurf racing days, like slalom racing and stuff guys would wear like weighted jackets, like weighted life jackets so they can hold a bigger w sale basically, yeah. So that's another interesting thing, like yeah, where you wouldn't think that it doesn't really make sense, but when you're using he heavy equipment sometimes it's wow, this is nice, yeah. Anyway, but uh, you've seen the, to the to foil guys do it a bunch too lids on a big weighted heavy board putting lead, lead weights on their boards and stuff like that. Yeah. And that just means they can get away with a Basically going faster with the same foil, because I think especially in the toe falling and stuff, we're just in the, tip of the iceberg. There's a whole bunch of stuff that's gonna be like, basically I think toe oil is gonna be a lot smaller than what they are, so you shouldn't have to weight it up. You should just be able to use a smaller foil. But at the moment, the foils have too much lift, and we've gotta weight our gear up to make them work. So it's, I just think the fo they aren't enough. There aren't enough iterations of it yet.   I think it's similar to also, it's similar kind of to having a longer fuselage. It's less pitch sensitive. So if you have a heavier board, it balances out that pitch sensitivity, yeah. True. Lightboard will just, Harder to control the pitch and the heavier board just has so much momentum that you don't have to make as many adjustments, it's like more comfortable ride in a way, absolutely. Absolutely. But there, I think there's something to it, I, I would say lighter is not always better. That's what some people think, but it's not true. Yeah. I don't, I feel like for what most of us are using, like in, in smaller waves the lighter stuff is epic. Cuz a light set up is gonna be really reactive. . But when you start to get too much power and too much speed and that's when you want the heavy stuff, that's when you wanna dull everything down. Yeah. It's like having a nicer suspension or something, like a smoother, smoother ride or something like that. I don't know. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. All right let's talk a little bit more about equipment, like the foils. What have you learned from riding all these different foils and and what, now you're developing the quote foils, like what, what kind of things are you trying to put together and what, I guess when you're down with foiling, you're always trying to create a foil that's easy to pump up on and then fast and easy to control at the maximum speed or, has a high top end speed. So how do you do that? What's, how do you achieve that compromise? Yeah, so I guess if we talk about the range, like we've got our, like the planned range for co, the planned range for code foils is a race wing, which is obviously gonna be super as high aspect as we can get it because we want to be going, be able to go really slow and really fast. with the one foil, like for a race like mochi, you start in pretty much, no bumps. It's like howling offshore, but it's, there's no fetch in the middle. So at the beginning you need that foil that can paddle up easily, and then in the middle you wanna fall. That can go fast cause you're out in the middle of the ocean. There's a lot of stuff going on. And then at the end of the race, you've got an upwind pump. So like you need a foil that can pretty much do it all. And that's what we see a race wing is, I, it's something that it doesn't necessarily we don't want it to turn really well. Like we prefer to add another, two kilometers on the low end and two kilometers on the top end, rather than have it be able to do really nice roundhouse

October 21, 2022 ~ Bally Sports Detroit Play-By-Play Announcer Grant Perry speaks with 760 WJR's Sean Baligian about the Brighton (8-0) / Bellville (8-0) high school football game, which will air this Saturday starting at noon on both Bally Sports Detroit and 760 WJR.

The key to getting through this pandemic and life is a phrase coined by Arthur Brooks called "Earned Success," Governor Roy Cooper announces stronger orders for essential retailers, Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins the show, and William McGurn writes a great piece explaining how we get our economy back

Cassie Smedile, Deputy Communications Director for the RNC, joins the program to talk Super Tuesday 2.0, Grant Perry, Founder of Pinehurst Capital, discusses the volatility on Wall Street, and Governor Roy Cooper declares a state of emergency & Duke cancels classes all because of the Wuhan Flu

On this episode of the True Family Men Podcast I interview J.R. Grant Perry. Grant is the assistant pastor and worship leader at Life chapel church. This was a very powerful episode! Grant shares what it was like growing up as a pastors kid, how satan was trying to kill him when he shattered his ankle, the importance of studying the old testament, and how a coffee shop he started is impacting the city!  Grant’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jrgrantperry/ (https://www.instagram.com/jrgrantperry/) Contact me via email: truefamilymen@gmail.com (mailto:truefamilymen@gmail.com) Website: truefamilymen.com (http://truefamilymen.com)

The History Of RevivalA: Biblical Revivals1: The Cycle of ApostasyEx: Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the wall was probably one of the most obvious examples of a Cycle-Of-Apostasy-Revival.2: Acts 2B: “Theological” Revivals1: Councils and Monastic GroupsThe key difference between theological revivals and the later “Awakenings,” was the lack of involvement by the average individual. Christianity was cultural, as opposed to an individual matter. So the recorded movements during this time happen among the religious elite. 2: Reformation (Martin Luther)C: The Seeds Of Revival1: The Moravians Century of Intersession1720’s-1820’s D: Wesley to Azusa1: Wesley in Great Britain Whitefeild in America2: Whitefeild: The First Great Awakening3: Kentucky Camp Meetings4: Charles Finny: The Second Great Awakening5: AzusaE: Common Conditions of Revival1: High Religiosity/Low Morality2: Emotionally Engaging3: Pressed forward by a single individual or small groupF: Common Attributes of Revivalists1: Highly Disciplined2: Lack of RebellionNone of the Revivalists from Luther to Wesley and Whitefield intended to leave their organizations but rather saw themselves as internal reformers. Wesley never allowed the Methodists to meet on Sunday’s encouraging adherents to supplement their Anglicanism with the “methods.”3: Prophetic Edge (Holy Discontentment)2a: Lack Of Distraction4: Desperation3a: Prayer3b: Fasting3c: “Holy Living”3d: MissionWhitefield died at 56 while preaching an ever age of 10 sermons a week. In his lifetime Wesley rode over 250,000 miles on horseback, enough to cover the globe 10 times. Asbury never married, never owned more at one time than he could carry on a single horse, and in slept in 10,000 different homes in his travels refusing to spend money on lodging that could be given to the poor.

Ross Perot dies at the age of 89 but clearly his beliefs live on, US Court of Appeals rules that President Donald Trump can't block people on twitter that has caused quite the divide among conservative legal scholars, and Grant Perry from Pinehurst Capital discusses the biggest fear for seniors in retirement

Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, discusses the longest bull market in American history and why it is more important now than ever to have an investment plan with your advisor, Laura Trump, advisor for the Trump 2020 campaign, talks President Trump's trip to Iowa, news stories about internal polling, winning over minority voters, and whether or not Steve Bannon is joining the campaign, and it is the 25th anniversary of the murder of Nicole Brown & Ronald Goldman and despite so much changing a lot has stayed the same

Jon shares his thoughts on Saturday's tough loss in Columbus. You will also hear from Jim Harbaugh (4:00), Nico Collins (5:40), Grant Perry (7:30) and Sean McKeon (8:40).

In advance of Senior Day at the Big House, Jon speaks with four student-athletes from the Wolverines' impactful senior class - Karan Higdon (23:00), Grant Perry (29:15), Chase Winovich (34:00) and Tyree Kinnel (46:00). Before those conversations, Jon shares his thoughts on the Indiana game, the CFP rankings and much more. We finish up the show with some fan-submitted questions and Jon's weekly locker room speech!

We live in a world where there is a template, hack, or blueprint for every facet of life and business: whether it's a “high-converting” landing page or how to organize your closet. But in order to go beyond your competition, it has never been a more important time to think outside of the box when it comes to expanding on your greatest ideas. Grant Perry got to catch up with Marcus Ho from Stansberry Churchouse and Hung Ngo of 123personality.com to discuss how they were able to build a list to 1.5 million people over 1 ½ years by using quizzes. With incredible growth and over 20% open rates, they've definitely found a way to getting solid engagement from their customers. As marketers, we are constantly trying to get the right balance between acquisition and lifetime value. Unfortunately, there's no “magic formula,” or hack to get there because every business is different. If you want to learn more on the right tactics to mix up your strategy and how to test ensure there's opportunity for scale on your product, you can't miss this episode.

Jon is still ecstatic after Saturday's win. He shares some more thoughts on what transpired in East Lansing during this week's edition of "7 from 77." Then, it's the return of the 10-Second Timer--Jon discusses 10 topics in 10 seconds (24:00). The show concludes with three interviews--Tyree Kinnel (31:30), Grant Perry (37:30) and Jon Runyan, Jr. (43:20)--and a fan Q&A segment.

Jon breaks down Michigan's Homecoming victory over Maryland on Saturday. Also, we catch up with Jim Harbaugh (7:30), Karan Higdon (11:50), Grant Perry (14:20), Donovan Peoples-Jones (17:15) and Tyree Kinnel (18:20) to get their thoughts on the Wolverines' fifth straight win.

As a marketer, it doesn't happen often that you share a room with people from every industry, vertical, and corner of the globe who have been in your shoes, who have faced the same problems you have, and who have overcome the same obstacles. If you are invested and interested in digital marketing, then there is one event that will give you the opportunity to do exactly that. Traffic and Conversion Summit in San Diego is the single largest event for marketers in the US. With 5,500+ attendees every year, it is the place to be for learning, sharing, networking, and recruiting. In fact, next year the event promises to be even bigger with nearly 8,000 people attending, which is also why the Agora companies have decided to sign on as a major partner for Traffic and Conversion Summit 2019. To get the lowdown on why this is an event that cannot be missed, tune into this month's The Big Idea podcast, where Brian York and Grant Perry highlight the benefits of attending Traffic and Conversion Summit 2019.

The world of publishing has changed drastically since The Agora started as a direct mailing company, nearly 40 years ago, in a small office in Baltimore. Today, what began as a simple idea driven by a small group of passionate people has grown into a publishing powerhouse with a global footprint covering all corners of the world — Australia, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In today's The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry speaks with The Agora's International CEO, Erika Nolan and International Publisher Catherine Flannery about their vision for further global expansion and positioning The Agora as a group of international premiere media companies. Some of the new territories that Erika and Catherine are looking to break into in the next 24 months include Japan, Poland, Mexico, and Italy… to name a few. Establishing a new business in a foreign country will always be unchartered territory, even when following a clear (albeit unique) business model. However, if there is one thing that Erika and Catherine know, then it is that the success of this global vision depends on finding the right candidates — individuals with a certain caliber of talent and skill, and who can fold fluidly into a team of highly competitive people and begin contributing immediately. To find out more about what we do at The Agora companies, why we are so successful and whether there is a place for you to be part of our global vision, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

TE Sean Mckeon and WR Grant Perry talk to the media after practice on 8/17/18.

Good old Facebook… The media super-power has very much turned into Marmite — you either love the social media platform or you hate it. The latest controversy surrounding Facebook is its plunging share prices. Last week, the social media giant announced disappointing earnings, which wiped out about $120 billion of shareholder wealth. As a result, shareholder James Kacouris filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief financial officer, David Wehner, on Friday, July 27. Kacouris is accusing Zuckerberg and Wehner of misleading shareholders by failing to disclose slowing revenue growth, falling operating margins and a decline in active users. The lawsuit seeks class-action status and unspecified damages. It's thought to be the first lawsuit of many to follow. 2018 is most definitely not a good year for Facebook, and while these latest developments may not have a direct and immediate impact on marketers, the future is very uncertain for the social media giant. Is it time to think about a ‘world without Facebook'? Or is it still too early to jump ship? In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry share their thoughts on the latest Facebook debacle as they discuss alternative marketing opportunities and strategies waiting to be explored.

The world is getting smaller by the day and it comes down to the fact that the Internet has completely infiltrated our daily existence. As much as consumers rely on the Internet for their every need, businesses now too depend on it for their existence. With online reviews now playing a major role in how consumers consider purchases, we no longer control this relationship as we did in the old days. The consumer controls the relationship now. As a result, one of your most valuable and fragile assets is your online reputation. The old adage of “any publicity is good publicity” simply does not apply to bad or negative online reviews. If you don't own your online reputation, then somebody else will. In today's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with Darius Fisher, CEO and co-Founder of Status Labs, about why it's important that your business looks its best in search results.

How often do you conduct a website audit? In other words, how often do you test SEO performance, analyse content and find gaps and opportunities that could potentially generate and improve organic traffic to your website? In a recent audit of 54 different websites, Technical SEO Specialist Colm O'Sullivan found three critical issues that affected their visibility in Search and ultimately their bottom line. Chances are, your website's performance could fall victim to the same issues… especially if you don't audit your site on a regular basis. In today's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with Colm about why it is important to conduct regular site audits and how to specifically fix the critical issues that he identified in his recent site audits.

Talk to anyone who has been working at one of the Agora companies for some time, and you will almost certainly hear that it takes a certain kind of hustle to carve out your very own unique career path. One thing is clear, there are plenty of opportunities available for you to succeed in whatever direction you choose to take – whether it is in copywriting, editorial, digital marketing, creative and design, or information technology. Another thing you'll also find, is that during your time with The Agora, you will very likely wear a few different hats. In today's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with Francois Lubbe – the latest addition to the AIM team. Francois has been with the Agora companies for nearly 15 years, during which he has worked in customer service, SEO, web design and digital marketing, until he finally ended up in editorial. Listen to today's The Big Idea podcast to get Francois' perspective on what it means to work for The Agora.

Google is rolling out with important security updates on Chrome in the next few months. These updates will not only affect the credibility of your website, but they could also cost you your customers. When it comes to the web browsing market, Google Chrome holds the lion's share. So, chances are that these upcoming security updates will inevitably affect your website, especially if you collect email addresses and credit card information on your website. In today's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with SEO specialist Colm O'Sullivan about how to identify any potential security issues on your website. To avoid a negative impact on your site's bounce rates, advertising impressions, affiliate clicks, and e-commerce sales in the future, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast to find out how to ensure that your website is secure and ready by July 2018.

Pinterest is synonymous with DIY weddings, home decorating tips, vintage furniture, fat-burning workouts, and cupcakes. Unless you are focusing on a very specific demographic, none of these are ideal sources for leads. So, when it comes to using Pinterest as a potential ad platform, many marketers scoff at it...But don't be too quick to roll your eyes.Even though it may seem like an unlikely lead generation candidate, with 37 million wealthy customers, this visual search engine definitely has some hidden and untapped potential... and then we're not even talking about specialized audience targeting options such as “act alike audiences” (similar to lookalike audiences) and a robust keyword targeting mechanism, which could be a goldmine for low-cost leads.In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Christina Clapp and David Jackman share their thoughts and observations with Grant Perry about using Pinterest as part of diversified marketing strategy.Correction: It was previously mentioned that Christina's team hit CPCs that were around $1.50; however, while the bids were $1.50, actual CPCs of $.60-.70 were achieved for Actalike targeting, and $.95 for keyword targeting.

In our very first episode of The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry, Brian York and Natalie Eagling spoke about the challenges of finding the right marketing talent. For marketers, of course, there is an equal challenge in finding the right company to work with and convincing them you are the best person for the job. So, what's the solution? How do you side-step the restrictions of impersonal interviews that offer limited opportunities to find out what talent and skills candidates can bring to the table? Here at The Agora companies, we've run bootcamp-style recruitment initiatives for a few years now, which have proven to be very effective in bringing in the right talent. In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry speaks with the two newest additions to the AIM team, Will Palmer and David Jackman, about their experience at the marketing bootcamp held in Ireland earlier this year, and what attracted them to work for The Agora companies in the first place.

Where do you begin if you are looking to start an ad campaign? What copy do you use? What images do you to select? And if it's a lead generation campaign, what lead magnet do you use? These are all important questions, but finding the right answer can often be a massive hurdle. In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry is flying solo as he discusses a simple strategy that can help you translate the core ideas of a promotion into a congruent ad campaign.

For some of us, virtual assistants (like Siri, Alexa and Google Home) have slowly permeated our lives to the point that we almost can't live without them. Then for others, despite its tremendous potential, Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Voice Search in particular — has not been met with a great deal of enthusiasm.That's the topic of discussion in today's The Big Idea podcast with Brian York, Grant Perry, and Colm O'Sullivan as they talk about the future of AI, Smart Homes and Voice Search.Whether you are ready to embrace AI or if it is something that you don't have a need for (yet), the fact is by 2020, 50% of all search queries will be image or voice searches and by 2021, 8 billion devices will have digital assistants built-in. The robots are coming! Tune into today's The Big Idea podcast to find out where all of this heading…

As a regular listener to The Big Idea podcast, you already know that The Agora companies operate in a unique space. We are mostly financial and health publishers that specialize in direct response. Understandably, the niche market that we've created for ourselves also takes our requirement efforts to a completely new level. Following on from last week's episode, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with Jennifer DiFolco, the manager of Talent Acquisition. Over the years, Jennifer has seen The Agora companies grow into a global enterprise that often searches for talented candidates that have that “special something” that we are looking for… It's not always an easy find. So, what does it take to be a really successful direct response marketer with The Agora Companies? Or a copywriter? Or an editor? Or even a front-end developer? To find out, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

A stroke of genius? Or a man desperately trying to regain the trust of the 2.2 billion active users on Facebook? That's what many people asked themselves after Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of FaceDate at this year's F8 – the annual developers conference held by Facebook. Come to think of it, with all the data Facebook holds on its users, developing an algorithm that matches Facebook users who are looking for love is kind of a brilliant idea… Of course, the next question is: why did it take Zuckerberg this long? But this year's F8 was not all about casual hook-ups and marriage proposals. Tune into The Big Idea podcast with Brian York and Grant Perry as they unpack the big F8 announcements that could have a real impact on direct response marketers. Things like Facebook Groups getting their own tab on the app, the Messenger makeover that will make it simpler and faster, and WhatsApp new group video chat feature. Listen to this week's The Big Idea podcast to get the full scoop on this year's F8.

The Urban Dictionary defines “hustle” as having “the courage, confidence, self-belief, and self-determination to go out there and work it out until you find the opportunities you want in life.” Anyone who has ever worked for The Agora will tell you that the hustle is part of what makes working for The Agora so appealing and unique, because career progression is 100% self-determined. That is, as long as you embrace the virtue of thinking independently and taking individual responsibility for your future. If you are curious about what it is like to work in an environment where you are not pigeonholed by corporate structures and where your creativity and ideas are celebrated, then tune into todayrsquo;s The Big Idea podcast with Brian York and Grant Perry.

It's no secret that Facebook has taken a few hard knocks during the past month in light of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Coupled with changes the company made earlier this year to its newsfeed as well as a surprise clampdown on crypto currency ads, many marketers now look at the platform with great apprehension and skepticism… Is this media giant about to fall? Hardly. There's the old saying: The highest trees get the strongest winds. And it's certainly true for Facebook (and Zuckerberg!). While Facebook is going through a few hiccups and challenges, this uncertainty has created a perfect environment for digital marketers to get creative with their creative. The question on everybody's minds is: With more selective competitors on Facebook, potentially fever ad spots and stricter “community guidelines,” what can advertisers do to get their content seen? In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry, Brian York and Natalie Eagling discuss one of the biggest and easiest wins on Facebook that most publishers probably don't do: Facebook Videos. So, if you want to know how to make Facebook Videos work for your business during a time of rapid change, tune into this week's The Big Idea podcast.

Today we are broadcasting our 10th The Big Idea podcast. To mark this event, we asked our listeners a couple of weeks ago to send in their big ideas and topics that they would like to have covered. We received quite a lot of feedback and suggestions, and one of the most common topics that came up was around lead generation and how to monetize leads. Generating leads can be relatively easy but making sure that those leads become loyal, paying customers is where things become a bit trickier. Today, Grant Perry talks about one of the easiest (and most under-utilized) ways to accelerate your leads into paying customers… and it all comes down to one single page. To find out how you can turn this page into a handy little money-spinner, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

If your revenue stream depends heavily on reaching your customers via email, then today's The Big Idea podcast is just for you, as Grant Perry speaks with Brian York and Natalie Eagling about email deliverability. In a world where more and more businesses are being blocked from getting into readers' inboxes (or worse, blacklisted and labelled as spam), it's become crucial for marketers to stay on the forefront of best practices in email deliverability. To that end, we've decided to rebroadcast a podcast we recorded in November about email deliverability. In this, Brian York shares three crucial aspects of email deliverability we should be focusing on. If you want to know how to improve the conversation with your readers and to get a better chance of getting into their inboxes, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

The Wilmington Star News seems concerned about the breach of trust with community and the CFCC board after closed meeting vote for the new President but where was the outrage when CFCC was doing far worse things that breached the trust with the local community?  Grant Perry joins Tyler to talk about the importance of using a stress test to get an understanding of how at risk your portfolio is if there is a correction in the market

In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with SEO specialist Colm O'Sullivan, who has just returned from the Search Marketing Expo (SMX), in San Jose California.Colm plays a pivotal role in helping many of The Agora Companies lay down the foundation for a structured and effective SEO strategy, and to ensure higher search rankings for a wider organic reach.In today's edition of The Big Idea, Colm highlights his top takeaways from SMX and speaks in particular about the importance of Structured Data, or Schema Mark-Up, and how it dramatically impacts SEO.Google, Bing, and Yahoo use Structured Data to understand the content of a page better. In a world where we are moving fast towards Voice Search, Schema Mark-Up is super-important. Without it, search engines probably won't ever pick your site for any voice search query.Later this week, Colm will also do a deep-dive into Structured Data in an article he wrote. So, keep an eye out for when it drops in your inbox in a day or two. In the meantime, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast to find out how to incorporate Structured Data as part of your SEO strategy.

Kevin Hernandez, Policy Director for the Libre Initiative, joins Tyler to discuss the current spending debate in Washington, the lack of fiscal responsibility in Washington, the ongoing immigration debate, and the calls from the Koch Network that the President should accept the deal on immigration from Democrats, Trump congratulates Putin on winning a sham election and even though he is better on Russia than Obama he is still failing, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital joins Tyler to talk bout the importance of not staying in cash position as inflation becomes a bigger problem

In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Grant Perry and Brian York speak with Kevin Rogers, author of the Amazon best-selling book The 60-Second Sales Hook. After working as a copywriter for over a decade, Kevin discovered that great copywriters have trouble finding great clients and that business owners, who desperately need better copy, struggle to connect with great copywriters. Kevin solved this problem by creating CopyChief.com - a place where business owners and copywriters can get expert feedback on their copy, exclusive marketing and freelancer training, and opportunities to connect with true professionals. Today's episode focuses on the importance of copywriting and how good copy is the magic bullet to effective and successful marketing, and Kevin generously shares his insights and wisdom on how marketers can up their copy game. If you want to take your writing craft to the next level and improve your copy skills, tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

Former Press Secretary to VP Mike Pence & Special Assistant to President Trump, Marc Lotter, joins Tyler to discuss the special election in Pennsylvania, the November midterms, tariffs, GOP tax cuts, and the firing of Rex Tillerson, Students plan to walk out all across the country to support stronger gun control laws, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss the mindset change that is important when someones transitions from working to retirement

In this week's The Big Idea podcast, Brian York, Grant Perry, and Brian Swift discuss their top takeaways from the Digital Marketer Traffic & Conversion Summit in San Diego – the largest conversion conference in the world. Every year, the world's smartest digital marketers descend on San Diego to learn what is new, what is hot, and what is actually working right now in digital marketing – highlighting new traffic channels, the latest conversion breakthroughs and selling models that yield higher sales and happier customers. Keep your finger on the pulse of digital marketing trends and tune into today's The Big Idea podcast.

  Trump tweets about the trade deficit seemingly spreading the misinformation that the trade deficit detracts from the GDP, Trump’s own trade doctrine doesn’t support his tariff plan for steel and aluminum, even the aluminum industry doesn’t support these tariffs, and Tyler talks with Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital. about the intricacies of the tax bill passed at the end of 2017

  Kayleigh McEnany, National RNC Spokesman, joins Tyler to talk about her new book, the rise of populism in the party, free trade vs fair trade, the President announcing his reelection, the impact that could have on the midterms, the continuing Russian collusion story, and gun control.  Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about alternative investments to help mitigate risk 

In this week's The Big Idea Podcast Brian York, Grant Perry, and Christina Clapp discuss why Bing is such an undervalued PPC platform and why it shouldn't be overlooked when it comes to diversifying your marketing campaigns. Many marketers give a slight groan whenever Bing is mentioned as a potential Ad Platform. However, the recent crypto slap down on Facebook and the "misleading content" ban on Google Adwords once again highlighted the need for diversifying your marketing campaigns. If there is one thing all marketers have learned by now, it is that if all your marketing eggs are in one basket, you run a very high risk of getting shut down... and then you end up with no channels working. The bottom line: Diversification is key across the board and Bing - with its growing market share - could hold the answer to potentially yielding double the leads for your business with the click of a button.

GOP threatens subpoenas if Governor Cooper doesn’t answer questions about the pipeline slush fund negotiations, New Hanover County school board postpones vote on redistricting till September, President Donald Trump moves to ban bump stocks & could raise the age on semi-automatic rifles, Rev Billy Graham dies at 99, and Grant Perry from Pinehurst Capital joins me to discuss

In this week's The Big Idea Podcast, Brian York and Grant Perry speak with Customer Retention Specialist, Robert Skrob. Robert specializes in subscription retention, living and breathing the customer relationship. When it comes to a subscription-based business, like most of the Agora businesses, a lot of energy and creativity goes into acquiring new leads. However, if a similar focus is not given to maximize customer value after the sale - customers renewing year on year - then all of that frontline hard work amounts to absolutely nothing. So, how do you avoid being on the chopping block of canceled subscriptions and purchase refunds? How do you get that first sale to stick and generate more sales on the back of it? How do you increase your customer value, which will enable you to spend more and give you the edge over your competitors? It all comes down to becoming a master in the art of "dating your customers." And if there is one man who can show you how to turn customer "one night stands" into solid "relationships," it's Robert Skrob.

President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, admits to paying, porn star, Stormy Daniels $130,000 for reasons still unknown, FBI Director, Christopher Wray, blows up the narrative from the White House about former aide, Rob Porter, Governor Cooper continues to face questions over his slush fund provided by the pipeline with McCrory calling for an ethics violation, and Cooper is now arguing the legislature’s attempt to access those funds could endanger them, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss the importance of the Pinehurst Capital Money Map that they offer in this volatile market

In this week's The Big Idea Podcast, Grant Perry will discuss a topic that has been on everybody's mind the past few weeks: changes to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm. By now, you've probably already had a few conversations about Facebook's recent announcement about changes they're making to their News Feed.Moving forward, Facebook will favor user content or content that users actively engage with - like posts from friends and family. This effectively means that publishers' content (advertising and advertorials) won't be given priority in users' News Feeds.

  President Donald Trump interested in a grand military parade marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, House passes short term spending bill that is certainly DOA in the Senate, Republicans & Democrats could be close to a long term spending plan as we near another government shutdown, and Grant Perry, Founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about the recent volatility in the market and how you can protect yourself from

Welcome to our very first The Big Idea Podcast, with digital marketing experts Brian York, Grant Perry and Natalie Eagling. The Big Idea Podcast will focus on proven results and experiences gained from years of trial and error in direct marketing within The Agora Companies. The focal point of The Big Idea Podcast will always be direct response marketing — bringing you big ideas that will help improve results for your business and accelerate your marketing career. Today's podcast will focus on one of the biggest challenges for business owners and marketing directors: finding the right marketing talent. Equally, there is also a challenge for marketers in finding the right company to work with and convincing them you are the best person for the job. For business owners and marketing managers, we'll tell you how to side-step the broken requirement system by sharing a new and innovative way to find the right marketing talent, fit for your business.

Reports say Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to meet with President Trump about firing Flynn & Comey, 50,000 texts go missing between FBI agents Peter Strzok & Lisa Page, and some Republicans warn that there was a “secret society” within the FBI meeting that was anti-Trump, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss a strategy to lock in your market gains without missing out on possible future gains

It’s the 20th anniversary of Matt Drudge breaking the Lewinsky scandal on his website The Drudge Report changing news forever as it was the beginning of the end of the dominance of the mainstream media and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss the importance of tax-forward planning especially after the GOP tax plan

Blair Ellis, National Deputy Press Secretary for the RNC, joins Tyler to talk to wrap up 2017 and talk about the legislate agenda including; a DACA solution, government spending, debt ceiling, and ObamaCare.  Trump ramps up his twitter taunting Kim Jong Un again and possibly implementing a strategy coined during Nixon’s administration knows as the “madman theory,” and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss how the GOP tax plan changes will impact retirement planning in 2018

Shocking results as Democrat Doug Jones wins the Senate special election in Alabama, Steve Bannon’s reputation as a brilliant strategist could be destroyed, Trump needs to start picking is own endorsements from now on, exit polls show the WaPo article was not a deciding factor for the majority of voters, and exit polls show the GOP is still in bing trouble as the Democrats continue to perform well with growing demographics, and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about the best way to lock in your gains you have made in 2017

Senator Thom Tillis joins Tyler to talk about the current House & Senate negotiations to reconcile the GOP tax reform bills and the upcoming spending bill and how that could influence the debate about dreamers and border security, The GOP’s next agenda item will be welfare and entitlement reform which will be even harder than ObamaCare, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinerhurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about planning for next year and how to lock in the gains you’ve received from the great market this year

Alex Smith, Executive Director of America Rising PAC, joins Tyler to talk about the GOP tax plan, the national debt, and the controversy surrounding the new director of the CFPB. Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss why the GOP tax plan drama could be good reason to look at safe investments for your retirement nest egg

Dr. Mike Adams, UNCW Professor & Author, joins Tyler in studio to talk about his upcoming speech at UNCW discussing the state of college campuses in North Carolina and across the country that are being taken over by liberal activists.  Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss alternative investments and the money map

David Barnes, Policy Director for Generation Opportunity, joins Tyler to discuss the recent announcement that spending on Social Security has reached a trillion dollars for the first time, how the program could be fixed, and how millennials are planning for retirement way earlier than other generations, too many myths exist with Social Security like that the trust fund has been depleted and that the rich (if taxed enough) could pay for it both of which are false, and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to warn people to be careful about buying gold coins and bullion from advertisements

Cassie Smedile, National Press Secretary for the RNC, joins Tyler to talk about GOP infighting, tax reform, and the revelation that the Clinton campaign helped fund the Trump dossier, Ben Shapiro writes a good piece for Daily Wire arguing that Jeff Flakes collapse and retirement has nothing to do with Trump, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about the importance of dividend-paying stocks in retirement

Tyler talks with caller David about what defines someone as pro or anti-science, Trump and the Dems fight about his comments to a recent widow whose husband died in an ambush in Niger, and Grant Perry joins Tyler to talk about the rothification of retirement planning

Trump tweets about the economy and winning the football protest debate, Trump touts unemployment rate despite bashing it on campaign trail, wall street has never been connected main street, Harvey Weinstein was a shitty businessman, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss why ETF’s are better than mutual funds

Tax reform plan will be released today and the GOP seems to have a solid growth plan for the benefits of tax cuts but doesn’t seem to have any plan for offsetting the lost revenue other than a preposterous growth number that even if were true would not offset the trillions in tax cuts. Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, talks with Tyler about using old life insurance to better prepare for unexpected costs including longterm care insurance

President Trump gives his first speech at the UN and goes after “rogue regimes,” Despite Trump’s colorful rhetoric his speech was very traditional from a foreign policy standpoint, Arthur Herman writes that Russia could be the country who has been helping accelerate the norks missile programs, and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about the factors that go into deciding when is an optimal time to start collecting Social Security

Bernie Sanders is set to release legislation that would propose a medicare for all healthcare system and SHOCKINGLY he won’t explain how they are going to pay for 3 trillion dollars, Benghazi back in the news, and Grant Perry, founder of Pinehurst Capital, talks with Tyler about the importance of not running out of money in retirement

Trump holds a campaign rally in Arizona, New York Times reports that the relationship between Mitch McConnell & Donald Trump has reached new lows, and Grant Perry, found of Pinehurst Capital, talks about the importance of understanding your level of risk with so many afraid of a possible market correction 

Big Drew and Jim recap the Lions’ first preseason game at the Colts and talk some Michigan Football in regards to their Week 1 opponent, the quarterback battle, and Grant Perry being fully reinstated to the team.

Clark Neily, VP for Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, joins Tyler to talk about the damage that occupational licensing is having on our economy by directly hurting geographical and economic mobility as well as indirectly increasing the cost of services and goods because of government restrictions, and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to talk about the importance of gun trusts

Rex Tillerson tells North Korea that America “is not your enemy” and signals that the US is open to diplomatic discussions, many in the international community are worried about an alliance forming between Russia and North Korea which could help push Putin’s larger agenda with Russia on the national stage, and Grant Perry, the founder of Pinehurst Capital, joins Tyler to discuss tax forward planning

In Episode 5 of Burn It All Down, Julie DiCaro, Shireen Ahmed, and Lindsay Gibbs discuss Lebron James and racism in America, the NHL concussion lawsuit, and Lindsay's interview with Reem Abulleil of Sport360. Plus you'll hear The Burn Pile, and Badass Woman of the Week! L.A. home of LeBron James was vandalized with racist graffiti and he responds with moving statement on being Black in America. BIAD team criticizes the “hot take” denial of sport media (11:29) Concussion lawsuit versus NHL, which has failed to take steps to promote concussion research and protect injured athletes. Discussion of broader implications and how concussions are treated in amateur sports, as well. (17:40) Lindsay interviewed Egyptian sportswriter Reem Abulleil of Sport360, covering the French Open in Paris. They discuss Ons Jabeur of Tunisia who became first Arab woman to reach the third round Grand Slam. Reem and Lindsay discuss her improvisational game, her importance in the Arab world, and the future of her career (31:00) Burn Pile – hosts set metaphorical fire to decision of University of Michigan football after accepting Grant Perry back, after he had been suspended indefinitely for sexual assault (32:35) Lindsay throws tennis player Maxime Hamou on the burn pile. Hamou was kicked out of the French Open for sexually assaulting reporter Maly Thomas. The Eurosport reporters laughed hysterically as Thomas tried to resist (34:16) Shireen double burns Serbian women’s volleyball team’s racist photographs caricaturing their Japanese hosts, as well as parade-goers at pre-Confederation Cup who used bananas and blackface to mimic Cameroon (37:31) Julie nominates Martina Navratilova for Bad Ass Woman of the Week for her response to tennis legend Margaret Court for violent homophobic remarks. Navratilova called for the Court stadium to be re-named (39:35) Lindsay nominates Diana Taurasi for honorable mention BAWOW for becoming WNBA’s all time three point scorer with eight three pointers in a recent game (39:49) Shireen’s is Ali Raisman for calling out TSA sexist body shaming (40:50) Links: Racist attack on LeBron James’s home: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-me-ln-lebron-james-brentwood-vandalism-slur-20170531-story.html Concussion lawsuit vs. NHL: https://www.si.com/nhl/2017/06/05/ap-hkn-boogard-lawsuit Reem Abulleil on Ons Jabeur: http://sport360.com/article/tennis/french_open/235736/ons-jabeur-beats-dominika-cibulkova-to-become-first-arab-woman-to-reach-the-third-round-of-a-grand-slam/ Grant Perry and the Wolverines: http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2017/06/03/michigan-wolverines-grant-perry-back/367678001/ Serbian Women’s Volleyball at Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/serbian-womens-volleyball-team-strikes-ill-advised-pose-1795654959 Martina Navratilova: https://www.si.com/tennis/2017/06/01/martina-navratilova-rips-margaret-court Diana Taurasi breaks WNBA 3 point record: https://arizonasports.com/story/1133911/diana-taurasi-breaks-wnba-three-point-record-mercury-sky/ Ali Raisman criticizes TSA body shaming: http://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/olympic-gymnast-aly-raisman-blasts-tsa-agent-for-body-shaming-at-airport/

Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh meets with the press after Michigan's 32-23 victory over MSU. Post Game Press Conference, 10-29-16. And don't ask why Grant Perry isn't traveling with the team :)

SBA Weekly Business Owner's Mastermind Call - Sales Process Series: “Closing the Sale"   This week's California Capital Women’s Business Center Business Owner's Mastermind call is: TUESDAY 04/21/2015 @ 10:30am Pacific Time   As always, no selling is allowed on this call; just great content for Small Business Owners brought to you by the Small Business Administration.  Invite as many friends as you wish, and don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast channel at: http://bit.ly/sbapodcast    Dial in Number: (518) 530-1840 Meeting ID: 875-080-865 Hosted By: Grant Perry​   TODAY'S TOPIC: Sales Process Series: “Closing the Sale”   WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ON THIS CALL: ✮ How get the prospect wanting to buy before the close ✮ How to use Trial Closes ✮ The A, B, C's of Closing the Sale ✮ The Components of a great close ✮ And much, much more.....   YOUR EXPERTS FOR TODAY’S CALL:   YOUR HOST:  GRANT PERRY, MASTER SALES TRAINER & COACH Grant comes from a family of Sales Professionals. Both his Grandfather and Father were lifetime sales professionals and they had a tremendous influence on his personal development, and appreciation of “doing the job right.” Grant started in sales at 17 years of age. He had a summer job working with WM Wrigley Chewing Gum Company, that lasted for 3 summers.   With over 45 years in sales, coaching, recruiting and managing-- Grant is a solutions based thinker. From 1986 – 2008, Grant had a 21-year run in the Title/Escrow Industry, Heading up 5 different organizations as CEO, with 3 separate Fortune 500 Entities.    Over the past 5 years, Grant has sold from the front of the room, doing sales training for the A/C & Heating industry. During this period of time, Grant has come face to face with the “hidden secret” of today’s economy: Most sales personnel have never received professional sales training. They are thrown to the wolves to see who might survive.

Monday, April 6 at 11:00am(518) 530-1840 Meeting ID: 499-016-303# TODAY’S TOPIC: “THE COACHING MODEL” On today’s call you will learn:✮ Are you a coach, or a student at present? Are you both?✮ Meet real world examples of effective and ineffective coaching✮ What does Hip Hop music reveal to you and I?✮ What type of attitudes may be “hard wired” in our psyches?✮ Is it possible to possess a “blind spot”?✮And Much, Much More… 11:00 am Pacific Time on Monday, 04/06/2015.Can't make the call? No Problem. Access the recording on the Podcast site once it's uploaded:http://bit.ly/10xMastermind Hosted By: John Pyron, International Business & Sales Expert “The Sales Doctor”Special Guest: Grant Perry, CEO of Grant A. Perry CoachingConference Line Info: (518) 530-1840 Meeting ID: 499-016-303#Join the 10x Mastermind Group at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/JPTrainerMastermind/