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Akiba Leisman, President and CEO of Mako Mining (TSX.V:MKO – OTCQX:MAKOF), joins me to review the key transaction news out today on December 31st,  where the Company announced entering into of a non-binding letter of intent to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of EG Acquisition LLC ("EGA"), a recently created private corporation controlled by Mako's controlling shareholder, Wexford Capital LP, established solely to acquire the Moss gold mine located in the historic Oatman District in Arizona.   EGA completed the acquisition of the Moss gold mine on December 31st, 2024 through its acquisition of 100% of the common shares of Golden Vertex Corp. ("GVC") which holds direct ownership of the Moss gold mine. Each of EGA and GVC will become wholly owned subsidiaries of Mako as a result of the Proposed Transaction. The purchase price for the Proposed Transaction is expected to be in the range of US$ 4.9 million up to US$ 6.4 million if certain royalties are extinguished, all payable in cash. The Proposed Transaction is expected to close by February 2025.   We review the Company strategy behind this acquisition, which will allow Mako to add another producing asset located in a top tier jurisdiction of Arizona, funded solely out of cash flow generated from the last quarter of Mako's current mining operations. Akiba points out that the Moss mine has been producing gold throughout the Bankruptcy Process through its beneficiation facilities, and that mining was temporarily suspended at the beginning of the Bankruptcy Process.   Mako Mining plans to restart mining operations upon completion of the Proposed Transaction, once it has had an opportunity to optimize the mine plan and debottleneck the crushing plant. This is expected to be achieved within a few months of closing of the Proposed Transaction.   Next, we focused on the economic efficiencies with the elimination of over US$ 60 million of existing liabilities associated with the mine,  the removal of the silver stream, and also discussed the status and 2 paths forward for the remaining royalties in place. Additionally, the base purchase price of US$ 4.9 million, can be further reduced by US$ 1.5 million through the release of certain collateral.   Akiba reiterates that this acquisition is a testament to the knowledge base of their management team, the distressed investing expertise of the controlling shareholder Wexford, and the powerful platform Mako has built to continue making accretive acquisitions.   Wrapping up Akiba highlights that the when the Moss Mine has been debottlenecked and is producing at the grade and rate they believe is possible that it could almost double their current production profile. Mako currently operates the high-grade San Albino Mine in northern Nicaragua and owns the Eagle Mountain project in Guyana. Akiba points out that with a producing mine in the United States that this should expand their future options for funding the development of the Eagle Mountain project. Over the last quarter, even after an extensive drill program at both properties, the cash and gold in sales receivables balance in Mako has increased by over US$ 6 million to nearly US$ 13 million at year end.   Click here to follow the latest news out of Mako Mining.

Neue Folge - neuer Fokus. In den nächsten drei Episoden drehen sich unsere Gespräche um die Frage, wie wir als Menschen und als Kirche einen positiven Beitrag in der Gesellschaft leisten können. Zum Start dieses Dreiklangs gehen wir gemeinsam auf Spurensuche. Unser erste «Special Guest» des Podcasts, Johannes Wirth, nimmt uns mit in die Geschichte der GvC und erzählt uns, was es mit dem Label «Gesellschaftliche Relevanz» auf sich hat.

Our guest this week, Shawn Smith, is a 20-year veteran in the financial services industry. In 2015 he founded and still is the chairman and CEO of Dedicated Financial GBC. As he will tell us, he founded the company on a new and innovative model that is designed to do a much better job of connecting with those who are in financial trouble. While many people say they have a new and different widget or model, Shawn proves his worth and will show all of us his successes and he gladly discusses his leadership strategies. Shawn never went to college and took a career path somewhat different than that of his parents and grandparents. However, as you will see, he made life and career choices that built him and his life philosophy to where he is today. I found my time with Shawn not only informative, but I found his philosophy and thoughts worth listening to more than once. I hope you will agree. About the Guest: Shawn Smith is chairman and CEO of Dedicated Financial GBC. When Shawn founded the company in 2015, his vision was to create a new kind of commercial loan portfolio management company, combining both a new model of connecting on a personal level with those in financial trouble and a new corporate philanthropy model. Shawn created a model of philanthropy that leverages the resources of Dedicated Financial GBC to improve communities around the world, donating both money and time to help nonprofits achieve their missions. Shawn and his wife, Stephanie, have focused their personal philanthropy on children's health and well-being, education, hunger, and other social issues. Shawn believes that businesses have the greatest opportunity to change the world and Dedicated is taking steps to prove that. He has embraced a multi-stakeholder approach to leadership, serving all stakeholders including clients, team members, business partners, and communities-to make the world a better place. Shawn also inspires fellow business leaders to do the same by sponsoring client service trips to underdeveloped countries and ensuring that, at Dedicated Financial GBC, men and women are paid equally for comparable work. Shawn is a 20-year veteran of the financial services industry. Prior to launching Dedicated Financial GBC, he worked at various companies where team members were devalued and unappreciated, thus fueling his passion for justice and equality in business as well as in life. Ways to connect with Shawn: www.DedicatedGBC.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-r-smith-a2439241/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/6383546/admin/feed/posts/ https://www.facebook.com/dedicatedgbc www.Twitter/DedicatedGBC.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. **Michael Hingson ** 01:21 You are listening to unstoppable mindset, the podcast where inclusion diversity and the unexpected me love to say that Anyway, welcome to another episode today we get to chat with Shawn Smith. Shawn is the Co well is the founder of financial dedicated financial GBC. He's the CEO and he founded it back in 2015 going to be interested to hear about that and get thoughts about how the world has changed in the last eight years with finances and all that money is still money though. But anyway. We'll we'll worry about that right now. But Shawn, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. And I really appreciate you being here. **Shawn Smith ** 02:05 Thank you, Mike, I appreciate you having me on the podcast. Well, **Michael Hingson ** 02:10 I hope it will be fun. And I think we'll we'll see what we can accomplish and what we can learn. Tell me a little bit about you kind of the early Shawn's you know, back when you when you started as a person and all that sort of stuff. **Shawn Smith ** 02:24 Yeah, I would have what I think the world would typically consider be the exact opposite of your typical track to, you know, running a successful small business. So I grew up in the welfare system and high school educated, pretty rough upbringing. And really, it wasn't till I was 22 when I was able to get some good mentors in my life and kind of turn things in a more positive direction. And even that now has been basically a 20 year, you know, process of learning and growing from that. So I was raised, born and raised in Minnesota spent a little time in Southern California and Oregon, but mostly all in Minnesota, and currently married with four children. And yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 03:21 So Minnesota you like the snow. **Shawn Smith ** 03:24 I love the winter. I don't love how long it is in Minnesota. But I'm blessed to have to travel for business pretty regularly. So, you know, I get out enough to where it doesn't bug me so much. **Michael Hingson ** 03:36 Yeah, I hear you. We live in Victorville California. So we get a lot of a call. We're up at about 20 150 feet above sea level. So it gets cold in the winter. It's the high desert, but below all the mountains where the ski resorts are and so on. So we get all the cold but we don't get the snow. So I'm not sure where the fun is that and this past year with all the snow that everyone had here in California and in the wonderful skiing that it was. We had two inches of snow one Saturday afternoon so the kids didn't even get a snow day from school. **Shawn Smith ** 04:13 Yeah, I actually got trapped out in in a snowstorm in Park City, this last year in Park City, Utah, and spent three days trapped that Park City and snowboarding and waist deep powder. It was one of the most epic times I've ever if that was the most epic time I've ever read writing my snowboard and 30 years of riding a snowboard. So it was it was pretty amazing. It was it started right as I was driving over the past to get into Park City. And it literally stopped snowing right as we were driving to the airport. So it was a pretty incredible time. **Michael Hingson ** 04:47 Wow. So they did it just for you. **Shawn Smith ** 04:52 I'll take an hour right get it but it was it was truly amazing. It was one that me and my friends will never forget that's for sure. **Michael Hingson ** 04:59 So Did you go off to college along the way, **Shawn Smith ** 05:03 did not graduated high school from St. Louis Park High School and really was trying to find I was supposed to go to college either to be a mechanic or I was supposed to go into the Marines, that was kind of the two options that were in front of me out of high school. And my dad is a marine, my uncle is a Marine, and several family member members were Marines or army. And at the time, I just didn't feel led to do that. And I was really into cars. So I was gonna go to UTI to be an auto mechanic. And after interviewing auto mechanics, and understanding their lifestyle, what they did for work and how much they enjoyed it, or lack thereof, I decided I wanted to keep that as a hobby in my life versus, you know, career, which I thought was great advice to go interview people before you go in a direction, and make sure that their life has kind of bearing the fruit that you want to have. And so I ended up kind of trying a different jobs. And so I landed in some sales roles, because I had friends that were making more money doing that figured out, I was okay at that. And then at 22, I started really focusing on my own small business and built between 22 and 32, I built two separate marketing companies, both into the black. And then for various reasons, I ended up walking away from that went back into corporate America, into the financial services community, and ultimately found that to be toxic as well. And really think corporate America has broken here, at least in the United States, because I can only speak from that experience, I haven't worked in, you know, Europe, or Asia or anything like that. But kind of hit me across the head that the only way I was going to be able to do this was to do it differently was to be an owner. And so I've been asking this, you know, had people for the last five years asked me to start dedicated. And so if I said, All right, I'm open to it. And then one thing led to another and next thing, you know, dedicated was born. **Michael Hingson ** 07:13 Tell me a little bit more about your thoughts regarding the the corporate America system being broken? I think that's true. I don't know whether it's for the same reasons as you but what do you mean bias broken, meaning think about? **Shawn Smith ** 07:27 Well, the two big points I typically touch on that from from a high macro level is one, I think that corporations, you know, really do treat people as a number, and they put profit before people, and they put their own success before being significant to others. And what happens in that, then is that you have a jaded management structure, with maybe a couple of good eggs in there who are fighting a losing battle of doing the right thing over the bottom line and making money. And when the shareholders and the owners profit become more, more important, then people being able to do well, not just financially, but between benefits and flexibility and the way they're treated and etc. So there's a whole equation there that's kind of broken. And so I think, you know, that's been my focus is the chase, change what I'm chasing focus on being significant to my team, here and then to my clients into into local and global community and then putting people before profit, which means you're dedicated any business has to be profitable to remain in business, right? By the system of greed, here, at least again, in the United States. And you see this play out in so many things like the Wells Fargo stuff, where they're coming up with fake things, or, you know, you've got I my last company I worked for, I was a senior manager. And I remember being told I had to cut people's bonus checks, you know, three days before the end of the month in their commission positions. And meanwhile, they got the owner walking around in the new vehicles, he's driving to the new this, I'll study by this stuff, and it's like that people are so fried on that. That environment, and you know, it's leading to such a lack of purpose and purpose, a purpose driven life and our culture today, and I think that's leading to a lot of mental health issues and relationship issues and health issues. And when you spend this much time at work, you know, if it's not healthy, it's toxic. And I I believe that so that's, that's kind of my thoughts on that. **Michael Hingson ** 09:59 Well, and that's kind of really what I'm thinking as well. So it turns out, we align a lot. I had a chance some time ago to talk with someone, he was the owner of a company. And we were talking about compensation, and specifically, what salespeople at the company made, as opposed to what the president of the company may. And I made the observation that when really good salespeople who outperform, if you will, may very well make more than the president of a company on any given year. And that should be okay. And he absolutely disagreed with that he could not see how anyone should make more money than the president of the company. And I, it wasn't a large company, but I was, was amazed at that. Because you would want your salespeople to be incented. To sell. And if they happen to make more than you Why should that be a problem. But nevertheless, that was the attitude that he portrayed. Yeah, **Shawn Smith ** 11:05 you know, I definitely know individuals that would share his perspective. And again, I feel like those people are the same folks that are complaining how hard it is to recruit new members to their team to retain people have HR issues, and things like that. And, you know, I, every single one of our commission folks, and we have several different platforms within our verticals within dedicated that there's commissionable team members, and every one of those is uncapped. I've had team members make multiple six figures on our team that are high school educated, but they're hard working and doing a great job. And so I absolutely aligned with what you're saying. You know, I, and trust me that that has been discussed that on the on the director level and above. You know, when we get into compensation and someone feels well, how's that person making more than me? Well, you, you wanted to be in management, you wanted to serve others, but for our size company and where we're at and how well they're doing. I'm not going to rob from Peter to pay Paul, you're you're in a market range for your salary. I just happen to choose to do no cap commissions on these people. So when they knock it out of the park, right, they get paid for doing that. And so yeah, I'm aligned with you on that. **Michael Hingson ** 12:39 Well, the other side of that is that, when you have that kind of a situation where you'd have an uncapped commission, and somebody really just blows everything away. In the long run, it's going to be a lot better for the company overall. And I would think in the long run people in management, while they may not necessarily make as much on any given year, in the long run, they're going to be viewed as performing better because they help their teams perform better. And I think that's the other part about the the whole team approach. What we also often don't do is recognize team performance nearly as well as we should. I know, there have been companies where when a team really succeeded at doing something who gets the recognition, the head of the team, even though the work may very well have mostly been done by other people on the team. And the the person who was the director of the team really wasn't the one that brought the team together, but they're still the director and they get a lot of recognition. It's just we do things in a very backward way sometimes. Yeah, **Shawn Smith ** 13:53 I was 100% agree with you that that is consistently off, I think, again, through all of corporate America, and hence why our youth, right, that sub 40 Group especially, is just flat out tired of it and getting jaded towards corporations Corporation's. So you know, they're not wanting to put in the extra time or extra effort or lift an extra finger to help their neighbor or anything like that, because why when the corporation is setting such a poor example of caring about them, right, why should they care? And then I hear all this dedicated as not having a recruitment issue. We in an industry, our industry averages of 50 to 100% turnover rate. It's a very tough job. we've averaged 22% year over year now for eight years. Why? So we're have less than half of the lower side average for our industry. So we're not struggling with those things. Right. So you know, that's that just becomes a competitive advantage. I believe just like purpose driven businesses against other businesses in your space. So let the people who don't want to figure that out, continue to struggle, and hopefully more businesses will, will grow and continue to dominate the landscape that actually put their team members first. **Michael Hingson ** 15:16 How do we get corporate America to change some of those things? I guess maybe another way to put it would be, in your view, what? What are the key things that one needs to have for success? In whatever they do when? How do we then also want you to answer that deal with getting corporate America to address it? In the context **Shawn Smith ** 15:40 of that question, I think I would kind of go in a couple of different directions. But the first thing I'd say is, your question reminds me of there was a there's a story about a gentleman who went out and sat and decided I'm gonna change the world. So when I'm trying to change the world and got disenfranchised, because he couldn't change anything. So he said, Well, I'm going to change my country, and try to change his country to go and change. Okay, well, I'm going to change my state, try to change his state couldn't change anything, since I would change my city can change things, okay, I'm gonna change my family, at least couldn't change his family. So then he finally decided to change work on changing himself. And when he could change himself, then all sudden, he started to be able to influence his family for the better. And once he could influence his family, he learned how to influence the city and state and his country, eventually he changed the world. But so that starts with is changing yourself. People I think, especially in a corporation, a large corporation, stronger with leading from within is what am I going to be able to do here? And the question isn't what you can do there? It's a question is Who can you become there, because the better leader you become the more compassionate leader, the more effective leader, the more lovingly and they're more graceful leader, the more patient leader, the better servant leader you can become, the more your ability to influence John Maxwell says, leadership is influence nothing more, nothing less. So if you want to influence corporations, if you want to influence corporate, corporate America, your first focus, focus on yourself, and how that's played on and dedicated as I spent 20 years of doing things in my industry, radically different and personal growth, and leading with love and servant leadership. And what that's led to now is, literally two days ago, I got back from the Dominican taking a week to serve the poor down there. And one of the people on the team that I brought down there was actually the CEO of one of my competitors, who now donates on metric giving to Feed My Starving Children and has joined me down in some of the impoverished areas of around the capital of the Dominican to serve the poor down there. Well, how did that happen? It didn't start by me going to him first, it started in me and working on me. And my approach to changing corporate America is I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. And I'm going to keep donating, I'm gonna keep doing metric giving, I'm going to keep increasing team member benefits, I'm going to keep shining that light. And I still believe that business is a competitive sport, right? So it has become our competitive advantage. Because when, when you're doing things in the right way, you're going to not only retain clients or retain team members, but you're going to attract the right clients, you're going to attract the right business, you're going to retain it much longer. So you're spending less of your time trying to refill that funnel, you're just adding to and that's why I dedicated on average has grown by over 50% year over year with some years in the 100 to 200% growth range. And that so that became a competitive advantage. So I think the first part of changing America's foes focuses on the leaders changing themselves to the point where they can start influencing those around them, because people see something in them and the way they lead in their team and, and what they do in their work product that they can respect and admire and want to duplicate. I that's that's my thoughts. Yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 19:22 I know that when I hired salespeople, and I learned this a little bit over time, but what I learned was that when I hired salespeople, the best thing that I could tell them is, I hired you, I hired you because I believe that you could do the job you sold me on the fact that you could do the job. So my job isn't to boss you around. Rather, you and I need to learn to work together to see how I can add value to you to make you more successful. In other words, how do we build a team together? In the end, the reality is, it was different with every single person based on what their talents were and what they A new and what they could do and what they wanted it when some people really got it, and we meld it well together in the synergy was wonderful. But the people who didn't get it and who weren't really willing to look beyond themselves to grow, didn't get it didn't succeed. **Shawn Smith ** 20:22 And the people that care more about the title over the ability to help others, I really, I think we have too much positional leadership and not enough servant leadership. And that's really deteriorating the teams within our corporations. That's when people aren't being taught that the stuff that I've been taught by Dementors I mean, I tell people all the time, the, the cornerstones of my success are God's plan in my life, great mentors, and a great work ethic and the ability to work on myself and become better, right? So, but we're not taught that we're not teaching them. We're not teaching them to be a servant leader, or to have mentorship that helps you with your blind spots, or significant work ethic or overcoming challenges, things like that, right? We're so you, unless you have a great mentor or family member or friend, you know, you start to listen to what the world tells you, which is, get a better title, get more pay, or whatever, and you'll be successful. And then people find themselves miserable in that position, and then thus make those around them miserable as well. **Michael Hingson ** 21:39 So you mentioned him, Where does God fit into all this? I mean, **Shawn Smith ** 21:43 that's the cornerstone of everything for me. I mean, I was someone who was very much a non believer my entire life, I really, quite frankly, to stained people of any form of religion, in particular, disdained Christians. So, I was definitely saw on the road to Damascus moment when I became one at 22. And, you know, someone who comes from that position of really feeling like they're such a loving God, why would he allow so much bad stuff to happen to me and those I love and things like that, to all sudden running a faith based company and having that be the cornerstone of my family and everything that I do. There's a lot of seeking, and I think finding comes to the seeker if, if your mind isn't open, and you're not willing to seek answers, you'll never find them. And if you're going into the information, with with a bias of looking for what you want to hear, to just affirm what you want to believe, you'll stay stuck in that way of thinking forever. And, you know, there was there was, it's a process, but ultimately, the foundational verse for my life is Ephesians 320, which I translate that versus it says, purpose, it's his plan, it says power working with me, and I'm gonna give him the credit for all of it and anything that I do. And in doing that, I've been able to make business decisions, I've been able to treat people with love, and grace, I've been able to give in a way that is very uncommon. And I think the world needs more uncommon men in leadership and uncommon women to to stand up and really serve and love others. In an in an uncommon way, in a world that's really challenging. So it's, he kind of fits into everything for me, there's nothing he doesn't fit in into for me, and there's anyone that knows me knows that I'm going to talk about, I'm gonna talk about him, and I'm gonna talk about helping those who are hurting. In every conversation I have no matter whether it's a barista at Starbucks, or the CEO at a conference or podcasts with you, Mike, I'm gonna be talking about the same time repeat the same drum everywhere I go. **Michael Hingson ** 24:01 And I absolutely endorse it. And I, I believe that, that doesn't really matter what religion and since because it's the same God. And we all if we go back and look at a lot of bases and basics from different religions, we see the same basic teachings. And again, it gets back to one of those things that we try to take ownership of something that we shouldn't. **Shawn Smith ** 24:28 Well, we also try to assert that we know for sure, something that none of us get to know until we get there. Right. And so, you know, I'm very passionate about what you're saying. I don't I have no idea whether there's several paths or one path. I just know a path that has worked has been an amazingly positive thing in my life. That has been the greatest gift anyone has ever given me up. And if you have a free gift that you can give away, I'm at least open to discussing when someone else is open minded enough to discuss it. And, you know, to, I was just talking to Dr. And had this conversation I brought several about an atheist, I brought two other people that believe they're agnostic. And I said, look at you look at Jesus, he let the murderer in heaven on the cross after living an entirely, you know a lot of his life in the wrong way. But he believed, scientists believe that we're not going to know till we get there, but I would rather one put my hope in something positive that there is a there that there is a heaven. And if I'm wrong, well, I was there's gonna be nothing anyway. So I'd rather live my life with hope one. And two, clearly, God has demonstrated that he is willing to expose you to the full truth, even if it's at the end, and allow you to make that decision where you want to be. So whether you're Buddhist or Muslim, or Christian or Jewish, I believe that when you when you get to a point when you're transitioning the full truth, which I kind of believe, in some ways, like, everybody's gonna kind of be wrong in some ways. And everybody's kind of guilty, right? In some ways, you know, I mean, who knows, right? But you get full truth and in that you can choose where to go. And that's where I choose to put my hope. And it really allows me to see the world in that way of which I have nothing but love for all people from any form of faith, or people don't like fate, but it gives me hope. It makes me feel loved. I feel like I have a real relationship with God. I feel like I try to glorify God that loves me and blesses me and my family and those around me and allows me to go and be a blessing to the world where there's some really challenging stuff. And that's like what I just came from last week in the Dr. So definitely, definitely a proponent of supporting people in any form of faith that they want. And that will be a positive thing for them, provided it's grounded in love and respect for others. **Michael Hingson ** 27:03 Just a couple of days ago, someone asked me, having known that I worked in the World Trade Center on September 11, and escaped with my guide dog was ill. They said, Well, do you feel guilty at all that you survived and other people didn't? Which goes back to the whole survivor's guilt thing? And my response was, No, I don't feel guilty. I don't know what the plan was, I don't know all the details of everyone who didn't survive. Did they get told don't go to the building that day? Did they not? Who knows? I know, for me, I never did feel that I got any message, not to go into work that day. We did have a thunderstorm that morning. And we usually have thunderstorms. That came right over our house at 1230 at night. And so I suppose one could say, well, that was an omen for you our message? Well, I didn't get the impression that it was. And frankly, I looked for those kinds of things. But But the bottom line is that I only know that I did survive. And the issue was and is what do I do with them. And I think that's the more important issue, which goes to what you're saying. The fact of the matter is that we all have some things we can control and a lot of things that we can't. And so I didn't have a lot of control over what was happening on September 11, a wife could have decided not to evacuate as soon. But I felt this is the time to start down the stairs and did and made it out. But the other part of it is, okay, so I made some choices, and then did survive. But, you know, ultimately, most of that day, I didn't have necessarily a lot of control over had no control over those airplanes sitting in the building, and any number of other things. And all I can do is worry about the things that I can worry about. And then I can actually have some control over. We spend so much time worrying about so many things that we don't necessarily have control of right. And you know, people are always going well. And you you mentioned that meeting we talked about you with Why does God let so many bad things happen? Now you if you look back on what did you learn from all those bad things? Maybe they weren't quite so bad, but also we maybe you'll learn better to listen. And you won't make those same kinds of judgments in the future. So it's all a question of where you go and how you deal with **Shawn Smith ** 29:48 it. I think. Yeah, maybe outside bias to how you look at stuff and that Yeah, sure. Mine is still crazy for me to have met another person who was there as my car Follow was there, as we discussed. So I think that's one thing where I think it'd be very interested, if you two did one together on your podcast from the standpoint of the timeframe and the two different perspectives and where you were at, I think that'd be really interesting to see, you know, between the two of you, but he's got to he has a wild story, just the same as you do. For that day, and, you know, just anyone in my age bracket remembers exactly where they were that day. And what's crazy about it is, I made the decision to not go into the Marines. And because of that, I literally would, I graduated in. So when did change 2000? So right, so I graduated out of high school, in June of 2008, after boot had just come out of boot basically, better my, you know, first year and a half a service in the Marines. When that happened, and I went through a little bit of a form of guilt and not serving my country, I had several friends who did and you know, in that in that fashion, and I decided to believe that God had a plan for me. And we'll go from there. Apologize if there's any background noise, we were wherever big tournament the office, I think they just celebrated the, the winner of the tournament. So what's, **Michael Hingson ** 31:26 what's the tournament? **Shawn Smith ** 31:27 Let's take a bags tournament, you're throwing the bags in the hole. We did a whole bracket tournament through the whole day, once a year and do some prizes, and everything. So I was out in the second round. So I was happy maybe the second or last year I was out in the first round. So I was like, hey, all these I made for the **Michael Hingson ** 31:50 second round, but improvement see next year, and next year will be better. **Shawn Smith ** 31:55 Or third round? Yeah. **Michael Hingson ** 31:58 I actually, maybe I missed it. But I didn't hear anything. So I think we're good. But, you know, I think that it all comes down to choices. So after September 11, and I'd love to meet your CFO, and it'd be fun to have a discussion. So if you want to set that up, I think it would be great for us to, to actually do something like that. But for me, I've always believed in it become clear since September 11. That, of course, we are the product of our choices, and I can trace my life back really far. And I can certainly trace how I got to the World Trade Center. And the things that that brought me there. And very frankly, I can say that I don't regret any of the choices I've made, some were tough. But I learned from them and was able to move on. And all of them eventually brought me to the World Trade Center. And after September 11. The very next day, actually my wife Karen, said, You know, you want to call Guide Dogs for the Blind, the the organization are always getting a guide on spring. And I said, Okay, why do you think I should? And she pointed out that there had been people from the school out here in California, who had visited us in the World Trade Center, and they're eventually going to remember that you were there. So I did call in among other people, I spoke with the director of public information. And Joanne Ritter, and she said, Gee, do you mind if I write a little story about you? And I wasn't really thinking, so I said, Sure. Go ahead. And then she said, you know, I'll bet it's gonna be pretty visible. What TV show do you want to be on first, and I wasn't anywhere near where she was in terms of this mindset. So I just, oh, Larry King Live. And two days later, on the 13th, I was invited to appear on Larry King Live the next day. And that led to a lot of visibility that led to a lot of people wanting to interview less about, it'll be about the World Trade Center. But a lot of people that started calling and saying, We want you to come and talk to us and tell us what we should learn about September 11, and so on. And there I was confronted with a choice. And in reality, it ended up not being a hard choice, because the company wasn't necessarily approaching what happened in the World Trade Center very well, they they were just taking the mindset and taking the position. You got to get back to selling you can't, you can't wait you got to get back to selling. People weren't buying. They were attending five, six and seven funerals a day. But the pressure from management was you got to get back to selling and that just didn't sit right. So as I tell people, I made the choice along the way to start selling life and philosophy rather than selling computer hardware. Because I also knew it would be a very rewarding thing to do. And then all the interviews with the media, as anybody in psychology will tell you, when you have an issue regarding yourself talking about it always helps answering all the questions that people have some of the most inane questions to the most sophisticated, thought provoking questions really helped me move on from September 11, which will spring move on, psychologically from you know what happened. I never did feel guilty. But still, you got to move on from something where your life was literally threatened, **Shawn Smith ** 35:31 forced you to process it and work through it. Right. **Michael Hingson ** 35:36 And so, again, it's all choices. And God was was for me, certainly a part of **Shawn Smith ** 35:44 that with you on that. Yeah, I felt so out of the back. And, you know, it felt like those steps were directed for sure. And at the time, they shouldn't feel that way sometimes, but I am with you, I don't, I don't regret it. And actually, the pain that I've been through and the trauma that had been through my life has become, in my opinion, my superpower. And it drives my love for others, my empathy, my compassion, and my desire to help those who are in challenging circumstances like I was when I was younger, so that without that, I don't know where I'd be without have that, right. So it's interesting when you become older and wiser in a place where you literally start being thankful for your pain. Sure, doesn't feel that way in the moment. But as you get past and high inside, you see the fruit that it ends up bearing in your life. That's weird. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. But I feel like I'd used it for the that which was meant to kill and destroy me use that for the good to help others. And sidenote, regret that little bit worse, **Michael Hingson ** 36:53 what you need to do is to have a conversation with God to see if you can get around three minutes to **Shawn Smith ** 36:59 get your own butt. **Michael Hingson ** 37:00 Get you to round three next year in the tournament. Yeah, how am I gonna have the serious discussions here? **Shawn Smith ** 37:07 I'm probably more likely to play him pray over my golf game getting better at me shaving off a few strokes than I am. begs tournament. **Michael Hingson ** 37:15 Well, there you go. Yeah, you gotta gotta do what works? Well, you know. But I, but I do think that a lot of it is all about choice. And a lot of self analysis. And, you know, going back to corporate America, when we talked about the whole issue of profit, and making money, and so on, I wonder how many people who are just so fixated on the amount of money they earn in selling, that the company just has to be the end, all from a profit standpoint. I wonder how many of those people really take time every day and think about what they're doing, think about their lives? Just go back then, to self examinations, and see what's really going on with them. You know, people are always saying, I want to be happier, and I'm not happy when and you know, the question always comes back down to what's happening, right. And I think that becomes an issue that we also don't deal with very well, and understanding what happiness really is. But when we were talking about this making money, and so on, I wonder how much self analysis and real introspection a lot of people do. **Shawn Smith ** 38:29 I think next to none, I think the world is teaching them to just continue to stay busy so that they're actually thinking about those things. And that's how I think time and prayer and meditation daily is in to really look at your life and what's going on in it and reflect on it and is critical. And instead we fill it with as much noise as possible drowns out that inner voice, let alone the voice of God in your life. So that's unfortunately with social media and, and just technology these days, especially it's, it's become really hard to get quiet and grow in that way. And that's a lost art for sure. Yeah, **Michael Hingson ** 39:15 we don't listen to ourselves. We don't listen to our heart. And that's a serious problem, because we don't learn that our instincts and our subconscious mind which is, which is really part of and talking with God can communicate so much to us. My favorite example of that is playing Trivial Pursuit. How often when you're playing Trivial Pursuit, do you get a question? And an answer immediately pops into your head and you go, No, that can't be the answer. And you think about it, and you give a different answer. But it turns out that the first initial thought it was the right answer. And it is just something we don't we don't listen to ourselves very well, not nearly as much collectively as we should do. Also making me realize I haven't played trivial pursuits haven't either. Expanded, grew up playing that game. And yeah, it's a fun game. I still love Trivial Pursuit. And I love watching Jeopardy, it's as close as I get to it. But still Trivial Pursuit is a fun game. **Shawn Smith ** 40:20 I kept trying to get I kept trying to sign my father in law. He's a very, very wise man and the key mentor in my life. And just the guy who knows every fun fact about everything. So I signed him up several times over the years trying to get him on Jeopardy, because I thought he crushed it. He never, never made it. But wicked smart guy is a professor at University of Minnesota for 40 years and had a law and finance degree from the EU and from Purdue. So that's a prime example. I didn't grow up with that, you know, my dad was a postal worker, and, and marine. And my stepmom was a postal worker, and my mother grew up on government assistance and child support. And so that was what I had mentored me on how to be successful in any area of my life, not just financially, but emotionally, mentally, spiritually relationally, right. And unfortunately, there was a big deficit in all those areas for the mentors I had growing up. So it really, really helpful and you change, who you're listening to, and who you surround yourself with, when it comes to taking advice. You **Michael Hingson ** 41:33 strike me as someone who values mentors and having mentors in your life very much, how do you find good mentors? And what kind of a difference to they make? Or do you think that they make them could make for other people in their lives? Outside **Shawn Smith ** 41:47 of God, I honestly believe that mentorship and who you surround yourself will be the number one reason for being successful in anything. I actually started a story recently where it was a couple of talking, and they were deciding whether they're going to get married. And they said say we get in a fight and you want and you want to invent the suit the man male asking the female, what you know, who are your three friends, you would call, she listed three friends. So who are you three friends and he listed three friends. He said, here's the difference. Your three friends, two of them are divorce one is single and living going to the club lifestyle. And that's where you're going to call for advice when your marriage isn't going right. All three of of the people I said I would call our people are, we've been married for over 15 years and show fruit in the tree when it comes to their marriage. And so, you know, what do you think is more likely to give you advice because in that situation, my friends are actually going to defend you to whereas in your friends are going to defend you and pay me to be the bad guy, right? So I think it's that way with mentorship is that you have to find the right mentors. And that takes a lot of work over a long period of time. Now I said that the most wealthiest man in the world was with Solomon and not because he had money and riches handed to me because he had wisdom, right. And someone who's in their 50s or 60s or 70s, who has fruit on the tree fruitful marriage relationships, fruitful career, fruitful finances is going to be able to give you much better advice and be a much more positive sounding board for your ideas than your friend who is not in any shape form way in the position of life you want to be at. And so you know how I my mentors are so key mentors, my father in law, that was lucky before that I had other business mentors that I went to, I had to seek them out a to see their time. Mentors are not going to chase you down for mentors chasing you down. That's probably because they have something to gain by working with you they have some angle right? But a true mentor does not. There's there's no benefit for them whether you succeed or fail, and they have fruit on the tree in the area in which you're asking advice for them or sounding your ideas to them. And another mentor minds a spiritual mentor is a grandmother who I went on my first trip to Haiti to serve the poor there a decade ago. And over the last 10 years I've cultivated a relationship where she's become like a bond to the introduction, one of the first people in this room have ever felt unconditional love. And that took years to cultivate that relationship. You know, I'm really big on therapy, dedicated pays for all co pays, any mental health co pays so that there's zero barrier to entry. So not only covers 75% of our medical dental vision, but we cover any codebase and we're trying To move the company to 100%, Mental, medical, dental and vision here, either this next cycle or the one after No, I think that would put a kink in that as we're doubling the size of the office again, so we got to factor that in as well. But yeah, so you know, hit that's like my head coach. Right. So now I've got a woman who is spiritually and relationally, with her husband. As an amazing coach there. I've got a great business coach, my father has also been married to my wife's mother for a long time, and it's a great coach there. I've got business coaching, I've got financial coaches, right. And so those were all called to be over the years, and I had to pursue those relationships, not think they're gonna come to me, and I never took them for granted, I held them with great respect. And I've never the other thing I see is when people get great mentorship, at some point, they reach a certain level of success, they also start to think they've made it. And that was easy. For me with my background, I think it's a little harder for some people, is to realize that I always put myself at last, I always put myself to realize I can always grow and become better than that. Man, I'm okay. I'm like a couple of things. The rest of it, I got a lot of work to do. And to think that my temporal worldly success is all on me is absolutely lunacy to me. Yeah, so surround yourself with great people, great friends. And I would go as far as to say is great family. You know, I attack toxic parts of my family that are not part of my life, and I love my family. And if that can ever change, I'm very open to mending that. But I I'm very, very cautious with who I allow in my inner circle and with my time, and are the people who are building me up and or tearing tearing me down? And are the people who are bearing the fruit in this world in their life that I'm looking for are the people who are doing the exact opposite. **Michael Hingson ** 47:13 Tell me a little about your company, how it got named the way it did and exactly what you all do. **Shawn Smith ** 47:22 So dedicated service, dedicated commercial recovery. So it was basically a commercial loan portfolio management company so that we would do collections repossessions, remarking we do that as a faith based company with a focus on treating people well both internally on our team and then externally, at some point, we decided to change the name to better reflect both an expanded scope of services in the in the commercial world, really commercial, any formal commercial, that commercial portfolio management, things like that, but also that we changed to being a general benefit corporation and the state of Minnesota that basically, that your mission statement on down in every charter within your organization is set up for the benefit of others, in essence, putting others before the corporation's success. And so we changed suggested dedicated financial GVC really to signify that we have an expanded offering as far as services go. So we do commercial loan portfolio management of working capital, FinTech, a lot of FinTech in the route in the commercial realm of, of revenue based finance. And we literally handle all the customer service and internal workout challenges. And then we transition that into a third party, commercial Collection model and then repossession remarketing nationwide legal services, and then we can prep portfolios for debt sale. So kind of cradle to grave servicing of that back end, again, with a focus on having an amazing culture within our team where people are put first and taken care of, and then really protecting our clients brand. And we've been able to do what no no one in our industry in the world has ever done. And I can say that with complete authority. We have over 1000 Extra over 11 105 Star Google reviews that are all from small business that we serve, that have given us a five star rating and we hold a five star rating overall average as well. And all of those are organic. All of those are ones that we've asked for from small business and serving them in such a way that they felt compelled enough to give us a five star review. And what the reward that is bad is that we continue to see larger and larger clients who care a lot more than anything about protecting their brand and the small businesses they've served that they're being treated right and no one out In our industry, they're all talking about how they're the hammer, they're going to do this, or they're going to do that and their work, you know, we work in a very dark industry. So we're really trying to bring some light to that and prove to the world that it can be done in a very positive way. **Michael Hingson ** 50:15 Do you get attacked and picked on from some of the other folks in the industry? **Shawn Smith ** 50:23 You know, I definitely think there's times when people try to slide some, some fake things in about us that get get deleted off the internet, because they're absolutely not true. And I think that, because we're a faith based company that that and we're not pushing that on anyone, you know, we have everyone under the sun, we're gonna dedicate it cannot be more proud of the folks on our team that are from the LGBTQ community, that are Muslim that are atheists, they are everyone has a seat at the table dedicated their love their care about their important, they're highly valued. And I would never tolerate anything less than that. But I would say that the other angle that people take are dedicated is that we're too soft on small businesses that have borrowed funds that are having a problem repaying back. Because a lot of the funding sources in the world and the people running that take it as a personal frontman, someone doesn't pay them back. And they want to crush that person, that business owner or something like that. I just had this conversation about three weeks ago with an owner of a funding company, I said, Hey, do you want to be rich? Or do you want to be right? Because yes, the person took out the money. Yes, they do owe you, but they're in a challenging circumstance, they're willing to work with us and do the right thing. Simply going and moving it to legal and suing them is only make you feel better. And the likelihood of you making any additional money is lower. In fact, you're gonna have to give me more money for doing that. Right. So I think sometimes that's another shot that you all were there a faith based company, there are two soft on people, we're going to be the hammer, we're going to be aggressive. And anyone in my industry that's holding that they're aggressive. First of all, those days are long gone. Second of all, you should care much more about being effective than aggressive because effective gets your money back and treats people and a human in a good humane way. Aggressive, just makes you a jerk makes people block your number and not deal with you anyways. So you know, it's an outdated, antiquated practice. So, you know, we take a little bit of heat for different things, but the proof is in the pudding. We're the we're the largest in our space. And we've done that. And in eight years, we have a 41 year old owner, with with, you know, I mean, with no college education, but a heart for helping people in Hartford doing business the right way. And I look at God's bless the business that way. You know, and I have competitors that we've flown past because of that, right? So clearly, we're doing something right. And we're doing it in a way that feels good about the way we've succeeded. So yeah, it's that how that answers that question. It does. **Michael Hingson ** 53:21 I, a lot of thoughts come when I'm listening to your talks about all this. I remember years ago, I had a business that we were going through a really tough time. And we had put a lot of things in credit card bills in one day, I get a call from this guy at a bank. And he said, you know, you're way past due, I called you last week, and I said, we're working on it, we're gonna get it, but we're working on it. And then he comes out with this thing. He said, You know, you really ought to be sensitive to those handicap people who really have a problem and you need our services, rather than just being a guy that sits down there. And it's just talking your money and not paying us back when you can. And I just laughed at him. And I said, Why don't you come down here and sit with me and my guide dog? And then tell me that same story. You know, it's just crazy. People. **Shawn Smith ** 54:10 Crazy. And I think the industry needs to be regulated more. I think it's absolutely atrocious. I actually would go as far to say that it's evil, the way I mean, it's just using a small business owner as an example. This really extends that role. But I want you and you know this when when you're in a small business, and you're struggling financially, that bleeds into every other aspect of your life. Yep. into your marriage. It bleeds into your interaction with your kids your energy level, maybe how much you're giving to your church or to nonprofits or except for right and bleeds into every Sunday. And you're down and you're struggling and you're fighting to call somebody up and basically start kicking them while they're down threatening them being overly aggressive. is evil to me. Thank you You would never do that if you came across someone on a side issue or just tripped and fell and broken their arm, hopefully be the Good Samaritan that would help them out to help them get to the ambulance or get help or call 911. Right. And yet, we have an entire industry that is allowed to just call people up and berate them and talk down to them and treat them as they are somehow less than us because they're going through a tough patch. I absolutely despise the way the industry is allowed to treat people. People often say, you know, we pay for Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University for anyone on our team that would like it was a stepping stone when I was younger. I'm a big advocate, but Dave Ramsey hates any form of collector talks very doubt about the industry do it. Well, how have you do that and why this guy vehemently hates everything that you do. So now he didn't really hates my industry, and what they do not need, because if he knew, and he knew the way to do it, he would he would hold us up as someone who's the industry shining alive. And I've actually I've messaged him several times on their show trying to get on their show to kind of be a contrarian for our industry, and also be willing to completely agree with them. So yeah, it's it's unfortunate, and it's sad. The beautiful thing, and that Michael is that AI is going to change everything you're gonna watch. Over the next five years, I wouldn't even say 10, I was over the next five years 80% of consumer collections is gone and done by AI. And over the next 10 years, it'll be all but gone except for, you know, your handfuls of specialty reps for a very specialized situation. But it's on the horizon. And that will, that will eliminate a lot of that over aggressive, unfortunate human behavior. And it will be part of it will be technology a part of the vehicle, the industry will be reading what it's selling for the last 50 years, 60 years, seven years. So that's, **Michael Hingson ** 57:06 I do hope it will make make for improvements. That certainly is part of what needs to happen. How do you mix God with business in a way that you can still deal with people who may have different beliefs than you? **Shawn Smith ** 57:21 So I love that. I love that question. Because I believe that is being done so poorly in the world today. And you see the Chick Fil A's and hobby lobbies and these companies that hear that God has blessed them with a big business. And then you hear like the founder of Hobby Lobby saying that the number one thing that he learned is to never compromise. And like we live in a world with an extremely diverse way of thinking and believing a while I don't believe in compromising on my values. I know that 100% of my team, not one of us are going to agree on every single issue. So how can I? How can I run a business where there isn't a seat at the table for everyone? Right? And that everyone that the firt and here's why I'll just speak for a Christian standpoint is the hardest part about being a Christian, quite frankly, is other Christians in my opinion. Here you have it, and God grew up massive group of people that follow of faith as a system of faith in which when their Savior was asked what is the most important thing, he said, to love God with all your heart and to love others, you know, really simple message. And yet, I would go out on a limb and say eight out of 10 Christians that I know when I look at their life and I look at their interactions, I look at the way they do business or look at the way they go corporate America, whatever. And I would look for that being one of the most evident things in their life. I can't tell you that's what I would see. Right? I may see a hard worker, I may see someone who cares about being a good dad, they see someone as you know, very respectable career are nice things are great travel. But when people know me and around me, I want them to know that first and foremost, I love God with every square inch of me and I love them the same. And that's and that's when you have a foundation of that, that kind of love. And that's the most important thing not pushing a religion on anyone not pushing a belief system on anyone. Because not everyone can get down with, you know, God or Jesus or Mohammed or whatever it is right. But every face that kind of your point earlier in our conversation, it has a strong rooting in love for others. And when you create a corporation where that and you truly equip People before profit, then everyone's welcome at the table, then a diverse group. When you talk about these things we talk about all the time I talk to my team all the time, we do a monthly Scrum. And I just say, Listen, we all know we don't agree on everything. Right? But the one thing we can all agree is that we want to feel like we're loved. We're cared about were important. We're respected. We're treated with respect. So that's the foundation of dedicated the foundation isn't Christianity, the foundation is the actual doing of Christianity without having to stuff the actual title down folks through us. Right. And it just it works. I mean, I'm, is it perfect? No, you're from a Christian perspective, we're all broken in some way, right? People are people, we all come in with our baggage and our challenges, and, and we all have to go through this human experiences, then. And often they're extremely hard. That's why as a corporation, I love to lean into those things that truly put people first and you I think that it's more about less talking and more doing of what you profess to do your faith. And living that out in a in a in a corporate way, by actually exemplifying the values that you allegedly hold so dear in the book that you read? Yeah, **Michael Hingson ** 1:01:31 the proof is really in the pudding of what you do, not what you say. I think it was Tolstoy who once said that the biggest problem with Christianity is that most people don't practice it. Most Christians don't practice it, which is so very true. **Shawn Smith ** 1:01:46 Yeah, I mean, I was I was watching a debate between two well known media figures, and they were talking about how when this person had created a converted for Christianity being a Muslim and how, when they went to a Muslim country, they actually felt God and they felt a presence there. Where is it? When they're in America, they did and the other person? Well, I don't think America is really a Christian nation anymore. And I hate to say it, but when you look at who's running the country, and you look at what the media is propping up and who Hollywood's propping up and who we're being told you to make role models for our kids these days. It sure makes a strong case. And that's why again, it comes back to if we're going to change your world. It starts with us. It starts with less talking and more daily and loving others, especially when you disagree with them, especially when you know and I'll say one other thing in regards to your question is that I tell people look, is what you're doing bearing fruit in your life because anyone can profess that their way of doing things is great. Or this way you should be doing or this is the way it should be great. Show me the fruit. Surely strong relationships show me hope and faith show me joy show me peace. Contentment, right, show me strong finances right? If it's not bearing fruit, then I would challenge that maybe you got a little bit of insanity go on where we're doing the same thing over and over again expecting someday it's going to provide a different result. Right? And maybe you should check the fruit. A lot of wisdom that's not taught these days. **Michael Hingson ** 1:03:31 Definitely. So what are your plans for the future? That's an interesting question. **Shawn Smith ** 1:03:36 Because we all want to make plans right? We all want to have goals and things we want to accomplish and I find so much that we're always to be tackle What's your five year plan? You know, and what are the what are the next five moves you're gonna do? And there's like a million Instagram, Facebook, they know all this stuff out there. And meanwhile, it's such again, coming back to as a Christian, you know, be told don't worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will have its own troubles Don't worry about yesterday, because yesterday is already gone, right? My plans for the future are really to continue to stay focused on what God wants you to do in my life. Right now. What I'm trying to do is hone in my focus on dedicated and both the company that we're building, the AI that we're building, the team that we're building, and the amount of giving that we're doing, and simplify my life. I heard the best quote just out on this trip was down the Dr. Were in every person that you interact with. Make it a goal imagine that they have written on their forehead. Make me feel important. And I don't know what you've met like, I love it when someone makes me feel like I'm actually important to them like a matter. Sure. And what a life to live where you can live in a way where every person you came in contact with. You made them feel loved and important. Then like they mattered. And that's my plans for the future is Continue to weave that into business, continue to weave that into actually building an AI that takes all the data from dedicated, and how we interact with people and how we treat people and puts it into a computer that actually leads with empathy and sympathy for people who are going through challenges. And watch my kids go off to coach baseball games and see, you know, gymnastic meets, then we'll go to golf matches, and to go and serve locally, you know, and nationally, and globally to those that are hurting, those are in need. And just to live to shine my light, and whatever I do, and whatever God chooses to deal with that, I'm gonna let him figure that out, you know, I am honored, they asked me to be on the podcast, I didn't see the salad I did, you know, and it's just like, I'm on the board of a college even though a D two college, even though I've never went to college, it at the end of my four year term will be honored with being given an honorary degree, right, I didn't seek any of it out, that came to me. Not because I want that, or that was a goal. I mean, it wasn't even on my radar to be a goal or something I want, you know, right. So, you know, I want to create the best for my kids, I want to create the best for my team and dedicated and I want to glorify God doing it, but I, you know, I feel led to move in this direction, and allow God to kind of fill in what happens next, and to be thankful to have joy in the sun and to have joy in the rain. And that's, that's really brought me a l

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In this episode of “Waterways to Airwaves” series, we spotlight Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, (GVC) a Baltimore County-based land trust and watershed restoration non-profit organization. Formed in 1989. GVC is committed to clean water for the two million people who live in, visit or benefit from the Gunpowder Watershed by preserving land, restoring ecosystems, and encouraging people to become environmental stewards. Why do generations of volunteers keep showing up for GVC? How can a golf course better serve the enviroment? Listen to eagles fly at Loch Raven Resevior! Hear from the people who make it happen. All Music and Lyrics by James Harrell and Ilyana Kadushin.

Mar Barrero, directora de análisis de Arquia Banca Privada ha pasado por el Consultorio de Fondos Capital para resolver las dudas de los oyentes. Con los mercados recuperando el optimismo impulsados por los sólidos resultados empresariales a ambos lados del Atlántico y unos datos PMI mejores de lo esperado, los inversores esperan que el BCE mantenga los tipos de interés sin cambios tras su reunión del jueves aunque esperan obtener pistas sobre el posible momento de los recortes de tipos de interés este año. En Paralelo en nuestro país, comienza la Feria Internacional de Turismo FITUR 2024, la referencia para el sector que cada año se celebra en Madrid. En ese sentido, Mar Barrero, ha puesto el foco sobre el sector, reconociendo que cuenta con “mucho potencial” de revalorización, con la mayor parte de las compañías prácticamente en niveles prepandemia y con fondos específicos como el GVC 300 Places Worldwide, para aquellos que quieran exposición hacia compañías turísticas. Mar Barrero ha analizado fondos con rendimiento en euros como el Vontobel Euro Corporate Bond A, monetarios como el DWS Floating Rate Notes o el DWS Invest Euro Bonds Short

In the 3rd episode of "Waterways to Airwaves" series, we spotlight Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, (GVC) a Baltimore County-based land trust and watershed restoration non-profit organization. Formed in 1989. GVC is committed to clean water for the two million people who live in, visit or benefit from the Gunpowder Watershed by preserving land, restoring ecosystems, and encouraging people to become environmental stewards. Why do generations of volunteers keep showing up for GVC? How can a golf course better serve the enviroment? Listen to eagles fly at Loch Raven Resevior! Hear from the people who make it happen. All Music and Lyrics by James Harrell and Ilyana Kadushin.

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of Motion，最早出现在马自达的概念车SHINARI上，这也是阿特兹的原型车，那时候是2010年9月。到了2013年，首款采用马自达魂动设计的车型CX-5正式亮相，这个设计诞生了13年，用在量产车上也已经长达十年之久。所以马自达的魂动设计经过了十年的考验，颜值确实很高。但是再好看的设计也抵不过时间的侵蚀，大众总有审美疲劳的一天，更何况这都已经十年了。但是我猜马自达迟迟不出新设计理念大概率也是因为现在的魂动设计真的太成功了，它不仅仅是设计了，它已经成为马自达的另一个标志，和马自达已经融为一体了。如果轻易地把这么经典的设计给推翻掉，不仅仅损失的是一款车型的销量，可能面临的是品牌上决策的失败。所以估计是为了保险起见，官方只敢在原有的魂动设计基础上又推出了2.0版本，估计后期在此基础上再推出3.0甚至4.0版本。至于创驰蓝天技术，我觉得消费者的感知力就更弱了。这都什么年代了，涡轮车都已经普遍了这么多年，你马自达还在坚持自然吸气，为什么要这么固执呢？说好听点，叫做纯粹，说不好听就是小厂，控制成本。不过马自达其实也有自己的涡轮发动机，但是这款引擎也是基于之前的自吸开发而来的，看排量就知道了，2.5T四缸涡轮增压发动机，完全可以简单粗暴的理解成把之前2.5L自吸引擎加个涡轮，其他地方再改改，就这么简单。但是这款引擎直到现在都没有引入国内。之前还有采用SKYACTIV-G压燃技术的昂克赛拉虽然科技含量满分，但是售价去到了18.99万，落地妥妥的超过了21万。谁花20万就买个昂克赛拉啊？关键是它的最大马力也只比普通版的多了20多匹罢了，售价却贵了10万。图什么呢？还有像GVC加速度矢量控制系统也是同理，有多少人能说清有没有这个技术，驾乘的感知差别能有多少？第二，周围竞品的竞争非常激烈。十万级合资轿车一直都是很多消费的购车选择，作为家用而言，在价格、空间、配置、燃油经济性、品质方面都有着非常强的保障，轻轻松松开个十年甚至更长的时间，这也铸成了国内汽车市场最大的一个体量，以往轿车销量前十的车型几乎被十万级合资轿车占据了十之八九。也正是因为销量好，不愁卖，很多十万级合资轿车只愿意给出少量优惠，诸如思域等热门车型甚至一度需要加价购买。时过境迁，仅仅数年的时间，曾经面对消费者进店看车都爱答不理的合资品牌，如今不得不放下高姿态，出现了前所未有的市场优惠，价格早已经跌破了十万元。以几款热门车型为例，目前轩逸的官方指导价为10.86-17.49万元，但是十四代轩逸有着2-3万元的市场优惠，经典轩逸的落地价格则是在9万元以内。一汽丰田卡罗拉也是一款十分热门的车型，目前1.2T和1.5L车型的市场优惠为3万元左右，低配车型的落地价格能够控制在10万元内。如果说日系轿车价格这两年才崩盘，德系轿车的价格反而更加实诚，一直都有着非常大的优惠。以上汽大众朗逸为例，抛开近期上市的朗逸新锐，朗逸的起售价为13.09万元，是同级合资里起售价最高的之一。但是朗逸一直能够给到消费者3万元左右的优惠，低配车型的落地价格在十万元出头，是摆明了的定高价再给优惠，让消费者觉得买到就是赚到的感觉。其中衰落最为明显的，应该是本田思域了。曾经十代思域在国内的高光时刻依然历历在目，帅气的造型、充沛的动力加不错的操控吸引了一大堆精神小伙，上市初的加价局面有目共睹。年销量能够一度达到20万台的十代思域，为东风本田的发展立下了汗马功劳。到十一代思域上市前，十代思域也就只有三五千的市场优惠。如今，十一代思域的市场优惠已经达到了3万元，以目前热销的2023款 240TURBO CVT劲势版为例，官方指导价14.19万元，现如今的落地报价在13万元内，这是以前难以想象的价格了。纵观十万级合资轿车市场，3万元的市场优惠屡见不鲜，所以马自达3昂克赛拉降价3万元只是官方直接摆上了台面，其它同级竞品没有在指导价上妥协而已。这个曾经红极一时的细分市场，如今只能用大优惠去维系曾经的辉煌，背后的原因自然值得深究。其实，昂克赛拉不宣布官降，经销商优惠也常年在2.5-3万。在合资市场中，朗逸、宝来、轩逸是昂克赛拉绕不过去的三个竞争对手。相比之下，新款昂克赛拉降价后，在同级别合资紧凑型车中性价比确实得到了一定的提升，但昂克赛拉仍很难从中抢占市场份额。其一，要知道大众、丰田等合资车企会给出大几万的终端优惠价。如此一来，昂克赛拉官降3万元的优惠力度并不大。其二，马自达在中国是一个“小众”的牌子，相较于大众、丰田、日产等合资品牌而言，无论是品牌号召力，还是产品质量方面都不占据优势。此外国产运动A级轿车也在持续发力中。常规家用轿车，帝豪、星瑞、艾瑞泽8销量都不差。动力强的还有影豹R，要颜值有MG7，要性价比有长安UNI-V，要便宜还有吉利缤瑞COOL，要操控和质感还有领克03。所以这个价位的运动型车很多，年轻消费者肯定能找到适合自己的。但是昂克赛拉在他们面前，既没有更强的动力，也没有更帅的外观，更没有更大的空间，配置也很一般，所以如果再不降价促销，那它离停产只会越来越近。第三，现如今新能源已经成了大趋势。现在消费者总有种感觉，买燃油车早晚要被淘汰，还是首选新能源吧。不信的话你可以看看销量排行榜，目前10-15万销量最好的都有什么车？除了轩逸排在第一位以外，其次就是比亚迪秦PLUS DM-i，五月份单车销量高达3.2万多台。要知道，比亚迪秦PLUS DM-i冠军版在年初把价格定到9.98万元的时候，很多合资车就已经完全坐不住了，所以现如今轩逸反超完全是因为优惠放开。此外，目前秦的销量只比轩逸差了三千多台，但轩逸可是两台车加在一起的销量。如果秦PLUS再把EV一万多台的销量算进去，那其实它才是真正的销量冠军，而且这个冠军是全品类的，毕竟加在一起的话4.2万多台，就是轩逸鼎盛时期的销量。所以比亚迪秦销量的增长，自然是抢占了其它合资轿车的市场份额。究其原因，还是因为价格实惠、能上绿牌，且动力强劲还省油，配置也很高，在这个价位中很难不让人心动。其次还有比亚迪海豚，5月份销量也是接近3万台，元PLUS和埃安S也都超过了2.5万台。除了轩逸朗逸能和这几个稍微拼一拼，其他的卡罗拉、雷凌、宝来等，甚至前十名都没进。如今的昂克赛拉还是原来的昂克赛拉，但是时代早已不是当时那个时代了。所以如果再不降价，恐怕真的要被新能源时代所遗弃。它和竞品该怎么选，适合什么人买？打开销量排行榜，查看近半年的紧凑型A级车的销量，当你在找昂克赛拉的时候会不断地惊讶，因为它不在前十名那是肯定。但是它连前20都没有。当你继续翻，竟然发现前30名都没有它的身影，前40都没有。直到第42名它才出现。最近半年（2022年12月-2023年5月），昂克赛拉只卖出了1.46万台，这个数据秦PLUS两周不到就能搞定。但即便销量不尽人意，但是昂克赛拉依然是马自达的销量支柱。今年前5个月累计销量为1.04万辆，月均销量仅有2087辆，占据长安马自达42.11%的厂商份额。相比2022年5月长安马自达6902辆的数据，同比减少了20.79%。2023年1-5月累计共销售2.48万辆，同比减少53.47%。细心的网友会发现，马自达3昂克赛拉销量下降程度与长安马自达销量下滑程度基本一致，昂克赛拉是长安马自达销量命脉。照此趋势，2023年长安马自达的销量总数或只有去年的一半。不过，即便新款马自达3昂克赛拉在价格上给出了3万元的诚意，但是不管是昂克赛拉还是长安马自达的未来都依然令人担忧。且目前新能源带来的冲击，绝对打破了所有合资车企的认知。因此昂克赛拉的指导价即便降到了10万以下，但是大趋势已经不可逆，不会因为一台昂克赛拉的降价，能让合资10万级市场再卷起什么风浪。这个落地价和老款比，其实也没太多变化。官降后的新车目前没有任何的优惠，加上购置税、保险和上牌费等即便是9.99万的版本落地也要11万多了，而最入门车型的配置很低。按照老款走量的版本来看，新款真的能走量的是11.29万的质炫版，落地也要接近13万。所以即便是降价后，昂克赛拉的主流落地价也在13万左右。但是买昂克赛拉的消费者一定是追求运动的那群人，所以像朗逸、轩逸、卡罗拉、雷凌、速腾、宝来等他们绝对看都不会看。同样，买朗逸轩逸卡罗拉的消费者也会觉得马自达的品牌力不够。真正会买昂克赛拉的用户会去对比的基本也都是偏运动的车，比如本田思域、型格、UNI-V等。尤其是思域和型格，现在普遍优惠都达到了3万，也就是说走量的14.99万的240TURBO燃动版落地在13.5万左右。甚至有的地方能达到4万优惠，所以和2.0L的昂克赛拉价格几乎一样。看起来2.0L的昂克赛拉排量更大，但是它的动力和1.5T的思域和型格比还是差了不少，最大马力相差24匹，最大扭矩相差38牛·米。更关键是涡轮机的最大扭矩平台更宽泛，自吸只有高转的时候才能爆发出来，所以不管是城市还是高速，明显是1.5T的思域要比昂克赛拉动力更强。所以当价格一样的时候，我相信很多人都会选择思域和型格，而且本田还有信仰，品牌力也要比马自达高不少。其次便是像UNI-V和影豹这种类型的国产车了，尤其是UNI-V，不仅大溜背加掀背尾门的造型非常帅，关键是还有电动尾翼，目前来看，它绝对是这个价位中颜值非常高的。再加上1.5T和2.0T的动力都很强，所以很多想要颜值和动力的年轻人都去买了UNI-V。从销量上来看,UNI-V的表现也是很不错，最近半年（2022年12月-2023年5月）卖了6.3万多台，平均一个月也有1万多台。所以反观这些同价位的对手，昂克赛拉的动力不强，空间不大，配置也不高，后悬挂还是板簧。唯一能上得了台面只剩它2.0L的排量和反应极其迅速的6AT变速箱了，这个确实很强，10多万的车，几十万的降档反应。但是看来看去，好像也只剩这个点了。所以买之前一定要清楚，虽然它的驾驶体验很好，但是动力并不强，可能很多人认为操控好就等于动力强，这点在马自达上并不成立。除此之外还要忍受它的空间小、配置低以及内饰设计廉价等缺点。如果以小众车的眼光去看它，它这个售价没有任何问题。但是10-15万基本都是刚需车型，再以这个价格去看它，又觉得不值。所以如果有更好的选择，我建议你还是选别的车吧。配置怎么选？目前新款昂克赛拉一共有8款配置，1.5L有两款，2.0L有6款。但是从定价上来看，厂家也是在引导消费者去买2.0L的版本。因为最低配的1.5L手动就不用看。往上，质悦版和质擎版售价相同，但是发动机一个是1.5L，一个是2.0L，且质悦版和质擎版在配置上只差了一个电动天窗。所以如果想花很低的价格就能体验到马自达的驾驶乐趣，那9.99万的2.0L质擎版是很划算的。但是作为一个家用车来看，质擎的配置却非常的低。连天窗、定速巡航等都没有，方向盘还是塑料的，座椅也是织物的，空调也是手动的，所以这个配置水平及格都算不上。所以最划算的配置我觉得应该是11.29万的2.0L质炫版，也就是2.0L的入门版。配置上多了215毫米的18英寸圈胎、定速巡航、无钥匙进入、真皮方向盘、换挡拨片、双区自动空调等，有了这些配置的昂克赛拉，家用才勉强够。但是这个版本落地也已经要13万了，所以再往上的配置落地也都要奔着15万去了。如果预算有15万，你真的还会看昂克赛拉吗？你再加两三万都能买天籁和凯美瑞了。刚刚上市的1.5T蒙迪欧起售价才14.98万，你确定不看看吗？写在最后虽然昂克赛拉官降了3万，但是此次真正官降的目的不是为了降价促销，而是为了缓解经销商的库存压力，这样他们压力减少，自然退网的概率也会较少。如果你真的想买，那我劝你再等等。目前4S店一分优惠都没有，只会送一两次的保养而已。所以等到后期优惠放开，能有一万元的时候，那时候才是昂克赛拉真正有性价比的开始。其实，曾经ZOOMZOOM的马自达要颜值有颜值，要操控有操控，比如早期阿特兹、CX-4。但那时的我们要钱没钱，看着高不可攀的售价，少年也难为无米之炊。现如今新能源车成了大势所趋，虽然少年已成家立业，兜里也越来越富裕，但是马自达还停留在自然吸气，当年前卫的造型现在看起来也是平平无奇。马自达直到今天才幡然醒悟，官降了3万。但是只能说姗姗来迟，尤其是对于一二线限牌限行的城市来说，绿牌才是当下出行的利器。你上不了绿牌，再便宜也没用。别说塞车了，连上路的资格都没有。所以降价对于马自达来说只能解决燃眉之急，但是这对于品牌来说，肯定是百害而无一利。要我说，与其官降，不如把优惠放的多一些，同时推出能上绿牌的混动车型，这样才是长远之道。作者：三刀、新一编辑：新一可以添加微信46415254加入我们的社群音频图文更新在订阅号： 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Episode 312, featuring a great interview with Chris & MJ of Wake of Humanity. Also, including tracks from Buggin, Pink Snot, Mad Mulligans, The Wildthroats, Run into the Sun, Fashion Kill, Wake of Humanity, and Slayer. We play a lot of new music, discuss live shows, discuss GVC and all things happening with Wake of Humanity, and wrap up the show with some metal.

Episode 310, featuring a great interview with Spencer & Tyler of General Violence Conference. Also, including tracks from Street Power, Single Ladies, Mira Calls, Spirit of Hamlet, DRAIN, Bad Year, Choke, Rank and Vile, The Foilies, Cancer Christ, AC/DC, and Franz Ferdinand. We play a lot of new music, discuss live shows, play the bands who will be playing at GVC, discuss all the details of General Violence Conference with Spencer & Tyler, and wrap up the show with some bluesy rock and an alternative track.

Join as this week as we welcome Pastor Jeremy Carmichael and his family into Garden Valley Church with Pastors Craig Schlesinger, Matthew Schlesinger, John Zumwalt and Ed Staton as we install Pastor Jeremy to GVC.

Join as this week as we welcome Pastor Jeremy Carmichael and his family into Garden Valley Church with Pastors Craig Schlesinger, Matthew Schlesinger, John Zumwalt and Ed Staton as we install Pastor Jeremy to GVC.

In this episode of Talking Gippsland Ed Cowlishaw takes a trip down memory lane at the Gippsland Vehicle Collection. The GVC prides itself on its quality displays of vehicle's past and present and unique automotive collectables. Ed wanders the Rarities and Replica exhibition with Andrew Gallagher the Display Manager of the GVC. Enjoy another wonderful local story on Talking Gippsland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Think about your favorite teacher. What were they like? What made them your favorite? Now, imagine if your favorite teacher quit their job before you had them in your life. What would you have lost? Think about what future generations of students will lose if more teachers leave because teachers don't feel valued or trusted or fairly compensated. If things don't change, more teachers will leave because they are realizing that they can. In this episode, we hear from former teachers who left education and are happier for it.   Music:  Theme Song By Julian Saporiti  “Don't You Leave” by Crowander is licensed under a CC BY-NC license. “Happening for Lulu” by Kraus   is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA license. “Soldier's Story” by Blanket Music  is licensed under a CC BY-NC license. “Be Nice” by Jahzzar is licensed under a CC BY-SA license. “Fireworks” by Jahzzar is licensed under a CC BY-SA license. “Faster, Sons of Vengeance, Faster!” by Doctor Turtle is licensed under a CC BY-NC license. “Changing Moment (ID 1651)” by Lobo Loco is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Transcript: A quick warning, this episode discusses sexual abuse. During the quarantine, I received an anonymous letter from a former student that had since graduated. After pleasantries, the note says “I'm writing you now to thank you for things that you never knew you did when I was your student.”  And then they go on to explain that though I would not have known this, they had been sexually abused by their father, and they had just found the strength to tell someone, cut ties, and start the healing process. They said that my class was a space that made them feel safe, heard, and respected. They wrote that I helped them quote “understand that there are good men, ones that deserve to be fathers.” end quote They were intentional in saying that they didn't know if I would figure out who they were, but regardless, they wanted to thank me and let me know that I played a part in helping them get through the abuse.  Every time I read this letter, it breaks me. I hate that this student had to go through this. I hate their father. I am humbled by the fact that I could be a source of support for this student, and I hope so badly that they can heal.  No kid should ever have to experience this, but they do, and because they do, they need adults, teachers, in their lives that can support them, even if those adults are unaware of that support. We need teachers who are themselves supported and happy and in a space that values them, so that they can be as wholly present as possible for students. But at this moment in time, many teachers, so of the people that students need most, don't want to teach anymore. And that fact is devastating. We're at the end of this series. We've explored a variety of things contributing to teachers leaving the profession - feelings of being devalued, a lack of autonomy, struggles with mental health. We've looked at why teachers might be treated the way they have been, from pop-cultural stereotypes to an odd historical inheritance …to having unclear expectations of what education is for. And we've even looked at some solutions and where they come from. All of this to make sense of why teachers might be leaving, and to draw attention to the fact that without authentic and relevant change that is not the burden of teachers, teachers will keep leaving.  Today, we will hear teachers who left education explain how their lives are now, and  we will explore some resources available to teachers who are looking to leave education. And from what I've heard through interviews and people reaching out to me because of this podcast, a vast majority of teachers that have left the classroom are much happier. So, if nothing from this season has convinced you that we need to do something to keep teachers in education and something real, maybe this episode will. I am not saying this as a threat, but from the perspective of a realist. Think of it as a natural consequence. Refuse to address and take genuine action to keep teachers, or they will find their way out of education because they can. And in this present moment, they will likely be happier for it.  This is the finale to Those Who Can't Teach Anymore, a 7-part podcast series exploring why teachers are leaving education and what can be done to stop the exodus. I'm Charles Fournier. Here is part 7: “Those Who Can't Teach Anymore” Camile Lofters reached out to me in the early stages of this project. Camile was a high school English and journalism teacher in south Florida. She left teaching after 15 years in the classroom , and she was one of those people that felt destined to be in the classroom. Camile Lofters: I feel like teaching was in my blood.  My mom was an early childhood education major and taught preschool, and, you know, lower elementary school. So I mean, I grew up watching her, and wanting to emulate her. So I would line up my stuffed animals and like, I had a little pointer, and I would teach them things. And when I graduated, I was so excited to start teaching that it was like everything to me. But like most of the people that shared their stories throughout this podcast, Camile left. And even though she is from Florida and most of the other folks I've spoken with are from Wyoming and the west, Camile's reasons for leaving were the same. She pointed to not being trusted or seen as an expert, to politicians that oversteps their role in education, to low pay, to being undervalued, and the list goes on. And like the other teachers, Camile still values education. Camile Lofters: Even though I did leave the profession, I still love teaching, and I still think it's one of the greatest professions. But as we all know, in our country, education system is a little broken, maybe it's a lot broken is a better way to say it. So, I feel like when the pandemic happened, it sort of broke everything wide open forever for a lot of people. I mean, it's not like it's just me.  We haven't addressed the pandemic much throughout this series. Not because the pandemic didn't have a significant impact on teachers deciding to leave, but because the reasons teachers are leaving didn't start with the pandemic.The pandemic forced teachers to reflect on what they're willing or not willing to accept. Camile reflected on whether she could teach for another two decades. Camile Lofters: And the answer used to be yes, I'm going to teach until I'm 60. And when it started to become like I don't know, and then it was like, definitely not. And I was like, this means I need to do something else. You know, if I'm feeling that way, it's not fair to myself, my family, but also I think to the students. They deserve to have teachers that are really excited to be there. And yes, I am a good teacher and I could go back and still I think do a good job, but I just feel like mentally I would be falling apart and that's not that's not really fair to anybody. You've heard this throughout the series. Many teachers are leaving because they know that they aren't doing their job as well as they want to, so they leave. The pandemic contributed to this. More teachers thought about what they could and couldn't do anymore. The pandemic made the job more difficult. Skepticism of teachers rose, student and parent behaviors became worse, everyone's mental health seemed to get worse, and more expectations were placed on teachers. Teachers know this, but when more is put on a teacher's plate, it's usually not taken off.  Camile felt this, and she also had a daughter in the middle of it all.  Camile Lofters: That 2020-2021 school year was just really, really difficult. And so then by the time my daughter was born, you know, in June 2021, I was like, No, this is this, I gotta find something else. So she started the process of looking for something that she could transition into. And she was looking for something that  would allow for more financial opportunities. On top of having a daughter, feeling all of the frustrations and stressors of teaching and the impact of the pandemic, Camile wanted to be paid better. Camile Lofters: Pay was a big part of it. It's really disheartening to work so hard for so long and never see an increase in your salary. I graduated from college with all my friends, we were all making about the same amount of money. And now most of them are making double, if not triple you. You know what I'm making. I worked really hard to be a good teacher and constantly doing professional development and looking for new strategies. And so I think it's disheartening to not have that come with any sort of raise and compensation. So I will say that that was definitely a factor when I realized that if you account for inflation, I had basically never gotten a raise, like ever. And her only prospect for a raise was to become an administrator, despite all of the extra work she'd done like designing curriculums.  Camile Lofters: And I hate when people say, “Well, you didn't go into teaching for the money.” Well, of course I didn't, but I'm a human being that needs to survive, I have a family and I would like to be able to provide for them. Pay matters, so Camile left teaching and transitioned into a new career where she feels better about the pay.  Camile Lofters: So, I've been making a little bit more money, not a ton, but a little bit, and it does matter to me, because there is the potential for me to make more money. In my job, I have the potential to earn more, And there's a lot of room for growth. And so that was very appealing to me, to actually be in a position where there could be more upward movement in my salary.  Camile acknowledges that she now has to pay her own health insurance which means her take home pay is about equal to what she was making as a teacher, but that doesn't matter to her.  Camile Lofters: I'm so much happier that it feels different. It feels like I'm making more money. And her transition out of education allows her to continue working with kids, which is something many teachers point to when deciding whether or not they will leave.  Camile Lofters:  I am the photography manager and sales representative for a school photography company, I was a yearbook teacher for eight years. So the company I work for, actually, I used to be like, a customer of theirs, like I was the teacher, and they were my photography company. And her transition to her new job has been pretty smooth.  Camile Lofters: And I love it. It's a great job for me. I use a lot of skills that I already had as a teacher. I already knew part of the business because I was a customer, so I already know the customers want, what they need, that sort of thing. Part of what made her transition smooth was her willingness to learn. The people that I have talked with that successfully left education did so with humility, knowing that they had a lot of great skills, but that they also had a lot to learn.  Camile Lofters: So learning the business side of things, I am literally always just sitting in my boss's office whenever possible, just like listening to him talk about the business, because it's just mind blowing to learn. Camile Lofters: And I'm still learning because obviously our company's since it's a school photography company, we follow the school year, and each phase of the school year brings something different. But yeah, I'm really excited about it. I think it's cool to always be learning something new.  So Camile left teaching, but she still gets to take part in the things that she enjoyed about teaching.  Camile Lofters: And I get to work with teenagers all day long at a really exciting time in their lives. They're doing, you know, they're seeing your pictures and their, or their school pictures. And they're usually pretty excited about that. So just making them feel good. You know, like, establishing a rapport with a teenager is hard for a lot of people. It's not hard for me. It's something I did all day long. So it's been really cool to use my teaching skills in a new way. But the things that are different about education are well worth it.  Camile Lofters: I have just a lot better work life balance, now. So my schedule is flexible. If I need to leave early one day, I can just schedule to have an early day or come later or you know, be closer or farther away from home. So that's really nice. I also get to actually speak to adults during the day, which is great. That's always nice. You know, really silly things like I can use the bathroom whenever I want to.    And the common rebuttal for why teachers shouldn't complain about their jobs, you know, summers off, Camile doesn't mind not having her summers off. Camile Lofters: There have been several people still to this day, who are like, “Oh, well, don't you miss having the summer off?” and different kinds of things like that. And I think at the end of the day, having a summer off is great, but if you feel like you're only living your life in those two months of summer vacation, and then the rest of the year, you're miserable, then like, what good is that? She has more financial opportunities and she feels happier. And contrary to any stereotypes, her leaving education doesn't mean that she hates kids or that she is anti-education. She has this to say to teachers who are struggling with that aspect of leaving education.  Camile Lofters: So I would just say that and that, if you are thinking about leaving the classroom, that doesn't make you a bad teacher. That it's normal to have those thoughts, and that's okay. Camile advocates for teachers as much as she can, and she feels like being outside of the classroom gives her some opportunities to be a little more vocal - especially in Florida where teachers have been egregiously attacked through politically charged legislation like the don't say gay bill, the stop woke act, the overall rejection of AP African American history, and sadly the list goes on.  She uses her social media platform to share her voice. Camile's sense of relief and happiness upon leaving education is not unique. This shouldn't be the case. And teachers aren't quitting to sit around, they are going into other careers, which may make it very difficult to lure them back to the classroom. If we want teachers to stay in education, education needs to be more appealing than the other options available to them. Jaye Wacker, who we heard from in the first episode, left teaching after being in the classroom for three decades. He is now a Senior Public Information Officer at the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information. Like Camile, Wacker feels like life is better.  Jaye Wacker: I work for a director, who is one of the themes in Administration and Information that she keeps hammering is work life balance. And I don't feel like teachers have work-life balance in the slightest. Well, yeah, it's balanced, but it's balanced one way you know it. And that's tragic. That's no way to live. It's no way to draw great people into the profession. There has to be a balance. There has to be a…there's something more than the paycheck. Wacker uses the portrait of a single day to explain how his life is different since he left teaching.  Jaye Wacker: Sundays, I was the worst person to be around, hard to be around. And whether I was working on my lesson plans for the week or trying to devise something, or even just putting it off, because I didn't want to deal with it. Waiting until Hannah was in bed Sunday night, and then sitting right there at the end of that dining room table, with my books, holding back the curtains and trying to figure out what's the best way to reach and meet the GVC.  As a reminder, the GVC, or Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum, is the effort to standardize education, and acts like a middle-man to the Common Core Standards. So, for Jaye, his quality of life on Sundays is better because he isn't having to use Sundays to prepare for the week. He doesn't get those Sunday Scaries anymore.  Jaye Wacker: I can do whatever, and then just go to work the next day. I go to work, and the sun's up. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've sat in the room and watch the sunrise.  And like Camile, losing out on summers wasn't a big deal, contrary to the cultural stereotype that teachers only work for the summer.  Jaye Wacker: I'm a firm believer that June, July and August are not the three best reasons to be a teacher. In fact, they're probably the three worst because people who think they're the three best, they're miserable nine months out of the year. And so I really kind of stressed about how am I going to deal with summer. And last year, I didn't even notice. I didn't even notice. And this year, the only thing I know is that, oh, my daughter's not in school anymore. And I just go to work and it's chill, and I work with good people. And I used to say teachers worked 12 months and nine. It's more.  Wacker misses some of the people, he misses the kids, he misses the conversations, he misses the books, but he doesn't miss how he felt. He still has some leftover traces of being a teacher ingrained in him. Jaye Wacker: If somebody's in my office, and we're just having a conversation. I feel a little bit of panic. I literally do. Because I have that feeling like I need to be doing something else. I don't miss the pressure. It is and it's gotten geometrically more pressurized in the last few years. I don't miss that a bit. I and that's part of what I couldn't take any more. I couldn't take the pressure anymore The pressure and stress Wacker was feeling was keeping him from the people that matter most to him. Now he gets to spend more quality time with them. Another aspect of why teachers left teaching was being trusted. For Stephanie Reese, the opportunity to make more money and  to feel  respected was huge in why she changed careers. We've heard from Stephanie several times over the course of this podcast. She was a PE teacher and she left teaching after eight years. She is now the general manager at Black Tooth Brewing Company in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Stephanie Reese: I have a fantastic boss, but I'm basically my own boss, because I'm here in Cheyenne. And they're up in Sheridan. So I'm trusted to make decisions. And I don't have anybody breathing down my back. And, you know, I think the trust is the biggest thing.   With that trust, comes a feeling of being valued, which equates to getting paid better.  Stephanie Reese: When my boss offered me stock in the company, like having a part of something, being a part of something because you earned it, and being promoted like that was definitely like, Oh, this is not education. And yeah, I mean, I'm definitely surprised each day. I'm like, wow, this is so much better than each day because you're just not enduring the shit that goes along with everything, like you can actually do your job. Right? So many more distractions when you teach or, like expectations, or having to juggle this, this and this, or do all of this without any support. And you're expected to do this. And so with this job, like, I can just do my job. It's a really good feeling. And if this isn't clear, Stephanie's quality of life is much better. Not only does she feel satisfied in her work, she is making more money than she did as a teacher. This has been a theme, many of the people that talk about a pay increase also express a feeling of being valued more in their new jobs. Stephanie explains that her job is not without stress, but it feels different.  Stephanie Reese:  I can tell, okay, all this work I'm putting in the stress is worth it, because we're making money. And so I love that aspect of it. Teaching in a lot of ways is you give and give and give and give and give and give a whole lot more. And then, oh, here's a $5 gift card to Starbucks. Thank you so much for all of what you do. Like that, to me in a nutshell is teaching.  There's no appreciation for it. Really, maybe superficial, but not individualized. Stephanie was adamant that teachers that are suffering and not enjoying their work need to reflect on what they want out of their life because change is possible, and it might not be worth waiting for the system to change around them.  Stephanie Reese: Life is too short, to waste time or thinking about, well, if this happens, then I'll be happy. You've had to figure that out now, because it's just way more important. The positive is driving it, especially me quitting it, it definitely was driven by wanting more positive in my life rather than negative, and it is worth it to change. So if you're scared, or if you feel like you need more help, there's so much out there so many people, especially nowadays who have been through the same thing. And as you've heard, people are transitioning into a variety of different careers - all resulting in better qualities of life. They transitioned into careers that fit them best. Stephanie manages a bar, Wacker works for the state, Camile works for an education adjacent company, and Ron Ruckman, who we heard from a few episodes back left teaching after 23 years to work in construction.  Ron Ruckman: My mental state has always been that way in the summer, like any mental state is so much better. I'm so much happier and so much less stressed. Because I go to work and we have fun and we joke around and we do our thing and we all we kind of work together and everybody respects each other and we know that each other can do the job, but I go to school and I always kind of feel like, there's always somebody watching me thinking like somebody is constantly evaluating every second of everything I do, which they're probably doing construction, but it doesn't feel like that for some reason. Why, I don't know?  Ron is happy not to have to manage the emotional baggage of teaching. He doesn't have to manage other people's emotional wellbeing in construction.  Ron Ruckman: It just builds. I don't have that with construction. You know? If so and so wacks their thumb, you're like, Well, that was dumb, move on, you know, or whatever. Or they got a rough family life, that's your deal, dude. We're gonna get back to work. Yeah, we got things to do. It's hard to make non-educators understand the level of relief people feel when they leave the profession. For Ron, it was the ability to not feel so emotionally overdrawn.  For my wife Jennie, who left teaching after 7 years to pursue her MBA and Pharmacy degrees, it's a matter of feeling valued and being fairly compensated for the work she does.  Jennica Fournier: When I told people, I just I can't do education anymore. I can't do the parents. I can't do the administrators and everything. People said, well, you know, patients can be really rude to pharmacists. And pharmacists don't have it easy either. And they work really long hours, and they're on their feet all day. And I just thought, yeah, that is all the same things that I'm going through, but I will get paid two to three times more than I would as a teacher. And that's significantly different. And I feel compensated, but not just like a monetary compensation. I would also get respect in the community. People would respect my opinions more. You know, if I ran for office as a pharmacist, I think that I would get respected more than running for office as a teacher. So I think you get more reward than you do. I guess you get more benefit compared to your risk. This goes back to the need to value educators. That means seeing them as human beings, not martyrs, not saints, not slobs. It's not allowing stereotypes to dictate how teachers are treated or viewed. For Jennie, she felt a clear difference in how she was treated outside of education.   Jennica Fournier: So some of the MBA events, just the networking that happened and the high level conversations that you were able to have with other people that didn't focus around children. I suppose the first time that I was at a networking event. I felt very much like respected and I felt interesting. That was kind of the moment where I was like, Wow, I'm outside of this upstanding member of society realm. I mean, as of as a pharmacist, do I still have to be a professional and live my life? In a, in a good way? Yes.  Jennie is happy to be away from the unrealistic expectations of being a teacher. These are the stereotypes that we discussed in an earlier episode.  Jennica Fournier: To be a good teacher, it means that like, I'm pure, and I'm thoughtful, and I'm helping and I'm a martyr. It's not like she's teaching to the highest level of her degree, and she has all the best training to be a teacher. I don't really feel like that's what people think of when they think of a teacher. Like she's teaching the top notch science, the highest level science that she can and the newest things. That's not what people remark about with their high school teachers. They remark about how friendly are they? And this shift out of education has done wonders for how she feels about herself.  Jennica Fournier: My self-esteem is incredibly higher than it was before. I get a lot of positive affirmation, and I get it from my peers and my teachers in this setting, and I feel very accomplished here.  I want to pause here for a moment. You might be thinking, Charles, this is starting to sound kind of repetitive. Well that's because it is, because I cannot stress enough that teachers are leaving their jobs, and when they leave, many of them are happier. When I asked former teachers what it would take for them to return to education, a few said they would consider returning if their new career didn't work out and education had tremendous reform. One said a quarter of a million dollar salary. And most said they would NEVER consider returning.  Shane Atkinson is one of the people who is much happier after quitting teaching. He is now working in government and he feels like he's valued and trusted. Shane is the person in the first episode that explained how education was like an abusive relationship. Being in a new career only highlights how glad he is to be out of teaching.  Shane Atkinson: Every morning, I start work at 9am. If I drive to work, it takes me three minutes. I ride my bike almost every single day. Takes me 20 minutes to ride my bike. So quality of life wise, I've been sleeping better than I have, in my entire adult life. I sleep so well, I wake up feeling refreshed, I wake up at the time that I would have had to be at work before. And I sit around, I read the news, I listen to some music, I drink coffee, just have these nice, leisurely mornings. For example, Shane compares what it's like being late at his new job versus what it was like to be late as a teacher.  Shane Atkinson: I was five minutes late, one day, probably two weeks into starting at this office. And I did not have a sense of doom. I didn't feel like my boss was there and you know, walk in and she's like, Hey, how's it going? No, no big deal whatsoever. I remember multiple times administration would be sitting by the door where teachers come in, basically keeping notes who's here two minutes late.  And in this new career, he feels like he is receiving what he needs to feel sustained and supported.  Shane Atkinson: The other thing where I work now is just incredibly supportive. My boss, my immediate supervisor, my head boss, they actually seem to value you as a human being. It's crazy, I didn't even realize that was a thing. And I'm sure it's probably not everywhere. But I just feel absolutely valued.  If I said, I had a really hard day today, and we have those hard days. And I just need some time. Great Take, take tomorrow, take a mental health day you've earned it, you know, would be the narrative. If I get off a very tough call, or a rough meeting, right, we deal with some pretty sensitive things, sometimes people even more so than education, but I can hang up for that call. And I can go for a while. I'm not ruled by the bell schedule. So, all of these former teachers left education, and are happy with their new careers. And I know this is a small sample of teachers - 5 teachers don't represent all teachers, but their stories and their experiences cover the gamut of what I've heard from teachers across the country. Based on my experience, a majority of teachers that have left education are happier. If we want to keep good teachers in education, teaching has to be more appealing than alternatives. Because right now, folks are willing to go back to school, jump into completely different fields, work in the service industry, work constructions, lose out on the retirement plans and insurance plans, in order to get away from being a teacher.  And those that don't like their work but remain in education, may have a variety of reasons for doing so. Shane speculates on why folks stay when they don't want to be there. Shane Atkinson:  I'm here because I have to be here because I need my health insurance. I'm here because I need a steady paycheck. I'm here because this is a big one. What else am I going to do? Who else? What experience? Do I have to go out and do something else? Right? And it's, it's actually really difficult. I read a lot about this when I left, because I had no clue what I was going to do.  That last piece of what Shane is getting at, the “I don't know what else I can do” is a big hurdle for lots of people. Many teachers have spent every year of their lives in school either as a student or as a teacher. Many don't know anything else, so transitioning might be terrifying. They may have also bought into the rhetoric that teachers aren't able to do anything else, “Those who can't do, teach,” which I think we've established is a ridiculous saying that should go the way of the dodo. And if you are among the folks that think teachers are only able to teach, and nothing else, you are gravely mistaken. And that assumption is tied to why teachers are treated poorly. The assumption that teachers are stuck could be contributing to why teachers aren't being valued. To make sense of this, here is a quick example. One of my favorite poems by Wallace Stevens has this line, “Death is the mother of beauty.” So without death, we might not recognize beauty. Now, when thinking about teachers, without the threat of teachers leaving, teachers might not be valued like they should be. It's a catch-22. When teachers quit, they are valued, but teachers are quitting because they aren't valued.  So, in order for teachers to be valued, it might require more teachers to leave the profession. And for folks who want to leave, but don't know how to make the transition, there are people who help teachers figure out how to transition out of education. Meet Daphne Gomez. Daphne is the Founder and CEO of the Teacher Career Coach, a company that helps teachers transition out of the classroom. Daphne Gomez: So if they don't make changes to how much we ask of teachers, how much we pay teachers, it's gonna continue to get worse. It's not worth it for people to be in a position where they're being beaten up. Daphne helps teachers leave education. She is not the reason teachers want to leave education. She is not responsible for teachers that are overworked, payed poorly, treated poorly, and devalued. She is someone who tells teachers that it's okay if they want better for themselves. Teachers are not limited with what they can do. And from what Daphne has seen, folks that are leaving are doing well.  Daphne Gomez: We have to lower class sizes, we have to be able to improve our funding for teachers salary, we have to make changes as far as that goes, because right now teachers are hearing stories of people who are leaving. I can say 85% of over 300 teachers that I surveyed just last week, have either matched their salary or increased their salary with whatever position they took after leaving the classroom following my resources.  Teachers have a lot of skills that can translate into new careers. This is a reality that non-educators need to be aware of. And teacher attrition will only get worse because teachers are seeing their former colleagues leave, make more money, and feel happier in their lives.  Teachers are tired of being beaten up, so they are leaving teaching because they are realizing that they can. I don't blame them. And there are times when I envy them - when I hear how happy they are or when another bad piece of legislation or policy is voted in, I think, “I could do something else” and feel pretty good about it.  As a former teacher, Daphne is well aware of the difficulty of being a teacher and the struggles of trying to leave the profession. Daphne Gomez: For me, when I started thinking about leaving the classroom, I was breaking down, sobbing on the way to work. I was going into the hospital, not every day or anything. But there are about three different times that I went to the doctor and he said, these are weird, stress related illnesses, it does something to your body.   But something about it did not work for me anymore. And when I started to tell my coworkers I am not going to a different school district, I'm just gonna find a different job and see if that helps me heal, everybody's first sentence out of their mouth was, “You can't leave. You're a good teacher. Children need good teachers.”  The people that said this to Daphne were not bad people.  I heard this when I stopped coaching. It's not that people are trying to guilt teachers into staying - it's that they want good teachers to stay, but they have nothing to offer except “you're good at this.” It goes back to that stereotype that a teacher should just continue the job because they are doing a good thing, but again, teachers should be treated like martyrs. And being good at something isn't enough of a reason to continue doing it. Daphne wants to change this view of leaving education.  Daphne Gomez: There's really never been that discussion of it's okay to walk away from it. Even if you're good. Even if you're happy. You can be the best teacher in the world and very, very happy. And then someone offers you something that's $10,000 more, and you absolutely can leave for it. But we've never had those discussions.  Daphne Gomez: I think that there is a system of emotional blackmail and gaslighting that's been going on in the education system for a really long time. And I think that they know that they can hold children above teachers' heads. They can use that year over year over year.  But as we heard from the teachers earlier in the episode, many of them left even though they liked to teach or they enjoyed the kids. None of them left and said, “I hate kids.” This is an easy way for people to demonize anyone that thinks of leaving and to guilt teachers into staying. This isn't a healthy way to keep teachers in education. This is that abusive relationship that Shane pointed out at the start of the series. Part of what has allowed this rhetoric and guilt to work for so long is the fact that teachers didn't think they had a choice. But they do have a choice. Part of what set Daphne on the path to create The Teacher Career Coach was to address the problems she had with leaving education. She reflected on her own experience in order to help others. She started by asking questions about her experience.  Daphne Gomez: Why was that so hard on me? Why did I feel this need to stay in a career where I was truly breaking down? And why was it such a hard decision for me to actually leave? And how can I help other people who are struggling with that? For Daphne, some of this starts with addressing the guilt teachers have when trying to decide to walk away.  Daphne Gomez: I've seen the guilt, where people are offered positions, and they've said, I can't do it. I want to stay one more year because my grade level team and I have a lot of work. And I think where a lot of this comes from is because we went into this position because we want to help others. Every single thing that you do in teaching impacts children that impact students, it is something that you're super passionate about. So every time that you sacrifice three hours of your own personal life after you're done working, that students leave, you're done working, quote unquote, done working, and then you sit down and you do something for three more hours.  Teachers care about their students, and so much is put on teachers' shoulders that it can be hard for them to make self-serving decisions. But being selfless is not often sustainable nor healthy.   Daphne Gomez: But then at some point, you reach this breaking point of I have to put myself first and that is not something that you have done in this position. I've heard of teachers, you know, staying in very extreme situations or the guilt getting so bad that they talked to therapists for five years and the therapists really were begging them you are not doing well mentally in this role. You have to leave and they would just push back and push back and say I can't leave. The students need me. I can't leave.  But they can, and they are, and for many of them, the decision is better for their mental health. Still, that doesn't make leaving easy.  Daphne Gomez: We're going to hurt our coworkers, we're going to potentially hurt students. And for people with huge hearts that go into this, to help other people that is, you know, the biggest hurdle to get over is knowing that your ACT may be selfish people may think of you differently, everything that you've done as a teacher for, let's say, you were in the classroom for 10 years, the second you decide you want to leave and become a project manager, everybody's gonna say, Oh, she's selfish. And that's hard for us to really deal with mentally. The ability to leave education might be getting easier though. The rhetoric around leaving this “forever career” is being challenged and teachers are calling out the stereotypes. More teachers are leaving because more teachers are realizing that they can leave. This means that the guilt of ‘doing it for the kids' isn't enough to keep teachers in. Culturally, we need to recognize that guilt is not a good teacher retention plan. Teachers are seeing successful examples of people leaving education all around them.  Daphne Gomez: The correlation between how people are talking about teaching, and that it's okay to leave teaching, and people actually leaving teaching in mass quantities cannot be ignored. I think that it was something that was supposed to be your forever career. The second you go into teaching, you are there for 30 years, there's not a career trajectory. And besides becoming an admin, This is going to be like what you do until you are retired. With the language around leaving education changing, mass amounts of teachers are hearing that it's okay to leave an unhealthy work environment and find work that will better serve their well-being. So there will be more openings and less teachers to fill those openings, which means that education will suffer. And hopefully nobody wants that, but that's where we are headed. Teachers are realizing that the burden of staying in education isn't theirs alone, and if education suffers, it is because of a larger failing of the community and government to value education and the those who work in education  So until the burden of keeping teachers in education gets picked up by non-educators, this will continue. And Daphne is trying to make it easier for folks to see their options, not by just challenging the rhetoric around leaving education, but by providing resources and services to help teachers leave. Daphne's company has created a variety of resources to help teachers adjust and market their skills for outside of education. They have developed a Podcast, Courses, and even a jobs board to help teachers find a good fit for a new career.  There is so much her company does to support teachers, and I asked her, based on her experience helping teachers transition out of education, what she has noticed teachers struggling with.  Daphne Gomez: It's not a valid one, but the self doubt, and even the lack of career preparedness isn't the right word for it. But I would say, the lack of experience with writing resumes and interviewing this is somewhat unique to teachers. They don't have the experience of working in corporations. So there's a lot of upskilling that needs to happen. Daphne wants teachers to have a growth mindset. There will be a learning curve in this transition, and she encourages teachers to remain humble. Yes, teaching is a difficult job, and teachers have a lot of skills that will translate well into other careers, but there will still need to be some learning, as Camile pointed out earlier in the episode. Daphne doesn't sugarcoat the reality that leaving education can be stressful but it's important to be honest and express a willingness to learn while highlighting how teaching translates into the role they're interviewing for.  The voices from earlier in this episode all had pretty clear paths to new careers. But there are teachers that just want out. Daphne warns against flailing and reaching for any opportunity, but she does emphasize that  this transition doesn't have to be a forever career.  Daphne Gomez: And then once you get your foot in the door at a company, if it's a large enough company, or something that you're really passionate about, after a few years, you can always use that as a stepping stone to pivot into a different department and get an internal promotion. It's so much more common outside of the classroom than people realize. They think that whatever this next career is, is going to be, you know, the end for them. But you're not picking your next forever career. You're picking your next starting point. When thinking about the former teachers we heard from at the start of this episode, many of them relied on some of the skills they had as teachers, but some of them leaned into the skills and interests that they had outside of education because they are dynamic human beings. Ron went into construction. Jennie leaned into her love of science, but the soft skills she developed as an educator has helped her tremendously with interacting with and explaining things to patients.  Like Daphne pointed out, the thought of leaving education leaves me with a sense of guilt. The thought of working in a different career feels a little intimidating, but I know that what I'm doing now is not sustainable.  It's been close to a year since I wrote the grant to start on this podcast, and in the development of the series people suggested that my conclusion should include a big reveal, like my declaration to leave education. That sounds cinematic, and if we've learned anything, it's that education is not a movie. I don't have any insight into what my future of teaching will look like. All I know is that I am hopeful that education can get better, but I know that unless something changes, what I'm doing now can't last.  So instead of a reveal or a declaration, I'll leave you with my advice if you want to keep people like me in the teaching profession. We need good teachers to want to stay in education, and it is not their sole responsibility to make education a place they want to stay. We need a cultural shift that values education and values educators. So, talk to teachers. Let them know you appreciate them. Listen to their stories and experiences, and don't rely on unrealistic stereotypes.  Push back on the anti-intellectualism that Ray Bradbury warned us of 75 years ago. Listen to experts. Make informed decisions based on facts and evidence. Come to terms with the fact that education should serve a diverse population of people, and if you are not okay with that, find an alternative to public education. And lastly, Vote for people who value education. Speak out against legislation that does not serve all students. And if that sounds too difficult, then know that more teachers will quit. Teaching vacancies will mount, class sizes will grow, the teachers that remain will get stretched even thinner, and rushed solutions will put unqualified people in front of your children. The diverse population of students in our country will lose out on opportunities and the education they deserve. And public education, as it was established in the US, to create a well informed populace so that we may have a thriving democracy, will suffer, which means democracy will suffer because it's far easier to take advantage of an uninformed, poorly educated populace than one that is well informed and willing to challenge and question and speak up. And it will happen not out of spite or teachers trying to prove a point. It will happen because it's a natural consequence of the current conditions people are in. So be an active part of the solution, not the problem. If need be, start small. Think about my motto from the road trip class from a few episodes back: Just try to not be an asshole. As always, thank you so much for listening. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share episodes with everyone you can think of. Word of mouth has done wonders for getting this podcast to people who need to hear it. You can also follow us on instagram at those who cant teach anymore.  This episode was produced by me, Charles Fournier. It was edited by Melodie Edwards. Other editing help came from Noa Greenspan, Sarah-Ann Leverette, and Jennica Fournier. Our theme song is by Julian Saporiti. All other music can be found on our website. A special thanks to Camile Lofters, Jaye Wacker, Shane Atkinson, Jennica Fournier, Stephanie Reese, Ron Ruckman, and Daphne Gomez for sitting down to chat with me. If you want to follow Camile Lofters on instagram, you can find her at in literal color. If you are interested in Daphne Gomez's podcast or any of her resources, check out teacher career coach dot com. And As the season is coming to a close, I want to give a special thanks to my brother Cody and my nephews Finn and Ollie for traveling around Wyoming with me to collect interviews. To the Josie family for letting Jennie and I stay with them for a month and for setting up an office for me in their basement. To my Uncle Richard and Aunt Pattie who let me set up a workspace to produce the 4th episode while we stayed with them over the holidays. To Jennie for coming up with the name and logo for the podcast and for always being my sounding board. And to Fund for Teachers for providing me with the fellowship that got this project rolling.  Again - thank you for listening, and don't be afraid to advocate for teachers so that we can keep brilliant teachers in education.  

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In this episode I speak with Prof. Wim Naudé. Wim is an economist active in academia, business and public policy making.  His focus is on innovation, technology and trade, and their consequences for human well-being, security, and prosperity. According to the Stanford and Elsevier rankings (version 5) Wim is among the top 2% of scientists in the world. We discussed his recent research paper on late industrialisation and global value chains (GVCs)* under platform capitalism. Keywords: Digitisation · Digital platforms · GVCs · Industrialisation · Competition policy. * A global value chain (GVC) is the series of stages in the production of a product or service for sale to consumers. Each stage adds value, and at least two stages are in different countries.” (World Bank, 2020:17) Further reading: Naudé, W. Late industrialisation and global value chains under platform capitalism. J. Ind. Bus. Econ. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-022-00240-2 World Bank: World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

What are Global Value Chains and why have they become important in global trade? What are the factors impending India's integration into GVCs? This week in Puliyabaazi, we try to understand policies for improving India's integration into global supply chains with economist and Visiting Professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Dr. Saon Ray.  इस हफ्ते हमने बात की ICRIER की प्रोफ़ेसर शावन रे के साथ ये समझने की लिए कि आखिर ये Global Value Chains है क्या और भारत की इन में हिस्सेदारी कैसे बढ़ाई जाए? If you like our conversations, please like, subscribe and share them with others. For more: Global value chains and the missing links, book by Saon Ray and Smita Miglani https://amzn.eu/d/bNVQMTV Global supply chains: why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going - a paper by Richard Baldwin Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know - paper by Richard Baldwin and Rebecca FreemanWrite to us at puliyabaazi@gmail.com Hosts: @saurabhchandra @pranaykotas @thescribblebee Puliyabaazi is on these platforms: Twitter: @puliyabaazi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app.Related episodes: सरकारी काबिलियत लोकनीति को कैसे प्रभावित करती है? Public Policy in India ft. Ajay Shahhttps://youtu.be/mvotEDOOdeA श्रम कानून में सुधार कैसे लाया जाए? Reforming India's Labour Laws ft. Bhuvana Anand https://youtu.be/WlSLs_DjcfY Jairam Ramesh on the 1991 Reforms, Narratives in Economic Policy Making, and more https://youtu.be/zplBxm9fWlASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are witnessing a mass exodus of teachers from education. My wife, Jennie, is one of those teachers that left. She, like many educators, was tired of not being treated like a professional. Even for me, a high school English teacher, the job is getting harder. So I go in search of answers. In this episode, we hear from Jennie and two other former teachers about why they left teaching. From struggles with mental health, to low pay, to a lack of autonomy in the classroom - they give insight into why we are losing good teachers across the country. Music:  Theme Song By Julian Saporiti “Worky Work” by Andy G. Cohen is licensed under a CC BY license. “Roost” by Andy G. Cohen is licensed under a CC BY license. “Take it Back” by Crowander is licensed under a  CC BY-NC license “Machinery” by eddy is licensed under a CC BY-NC license “So Far So Close” by Jahzzar is licensed under a CC BY-SA license. “Patriotic Songs of America” by the New York Military Band and the American Quartet is licensed under a CC BY-NC license “Another Rainy Day” by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a CC  BY license. “Everest” by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a CC  BY license   Transcript: I was a Junior in high school when my English teacher, Ms. Dianne Panazzo assigned us to write a paper that explored our backgrounds. I wrote about a neighborhood game of capture the flag. In the middle of our game, we came across a soft-top, convertible. It was parked in the lumber yard of the hardware store at the end of our block. Our pursuit of the flag came to a standstill to look at this car. We lived in a small town in western New York – a place of rusted trucks and economy vehicles. One of the boys that lived across the street from us always wore camo and did reconnaissance missions into his neighbor's house. He was pretty sure the car belonged to a guy who was trying to shut down his dad's business. With the logic of 10-year-olds, we felt a sense of duty to retaliate against any encroachment on locally owned, businesses so we stacked lumber and bags of concrete on the car. Then, my camo-wearing neighbor climbed onto the hood of the car and threw a cinderblock into the windshield. There was this cinematic pause, as we gathered our senses, and then we destroyed that car. Lumber and tree branches went through the windows, the soft top was punctured – more cinderblocks made pieces of the car – it was a mess. When we were done, we finished our game of capture the flag and went home at curfew. Later, 2 police officers visited our door, looking for the vandals. Lawlessness that my oldest brother assured them that we had nothing to do with. My essay explored how this story was a metaphor for rock and roll. I know, but it was high school – I was trying to be edgy and profound. My teacher, Ms. Panazzo, applauded my writing and had me walk across the hall to Mr. Wacker's room. This was not because Wacker was more or less of an expert on writing or deviance. Panazzo sent students to Wacker as a way to celebrate and share writing. These were teachers who collaborated often, believed in the writing process, and took efforts to teach students how valuable their writing was. Sending a student to Wacker was a novel way to give kids a feeling of getting published. Wacker was on plan, crouched over a stack of papers, pen in hand, at his desk in the back of an empty, dimly-lit classroom. I had never interacted with him before. He had a reputation of being dynamic, kind, and willing to be outrageous – he's the guy that put on a foam ten-gallon hat and had a stick horse race in front of the school at a pep-rally. To Wacker, shame was for suckers. I told him that Panazzo had sent me. He had me sit in a chair to the side of his desk so he could listen to me read my essay. I read and Wacker nodded, gasped, said, “uh-huh,” now and again – all of the things that I wanted to hear as a young writer. He handed me praise balanced with some advice and sent me back to class. I was impressed by how willing he was to listen to me, to inspire and encourage me. A kid that wasn't his student, interrupting his planning time, to read an essay about young stupidity. That moment was pivotal in my desire to be a writer. And I'm not the only student that Panazzo sent to read to Wacker. My wife, Jennica – she goes by Jennie – had a similar experience. This is what made Wacker a great teacher and what inspires me in my teaching practice still. His willingness to take time for others, whether he knew them or not. But Wacker isn't a teacher anymore. 15 years and over a thousand students after our first meeting, Wacker quit. He told me it was a  matter of life or death. This is Those Who Can't Teach Anymore, a 7-part podcast series exploring why teachers are leaving education and what can be done to stop the exodus. My name is Charles Fournier. I am a high school English teacher. In the 10 years that I've been teaching, brilliant teachers have been leaving the profession, my wife included. And those numbers have only increased with Covid. So in order to root out why teachers are leaving and reflect on my own ambivalence towards teaching, I spent this summer traveling, researching, and interviewing teachers, parents, students, legislators, professors, and administrators to try to find out why good people are leaving education. This is a national problem. In February of 2022, the  National Education Association (NEA) reported that 55% of teachers are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. And last spring, in my state of Wyoming, a University of Wyoming survey showed that 65% of surveyed Wyoming teachers would quit teaching if they could. Think of that…about two thirds of the teachers in your kids' school right now want to leave. That's an astonishing number. So I figured Wyoming would be a good place to start. If it's bad here, a state that is seen as a haven for having some of the highest teacher salaries in the past decade, we know it's bad. Maybe salaries aren't the only thing causing teachers to leave. This podcast will explore the reasons teachers leave. We will look at how low pay, ignored mental health, lack of respect and autonomy, and mandated education policy influence teachers' decisions to go. And how these things are not new…take a look at our education system's history. We've talked about reforms for generations. Or think about how teachers are depicted in movies or in political debates. The images of martyrs or slobs also make an impact. Things have been accumulating for a while. And we could see this crisis a long way off. I have wanted to write this podcast since my wife left teaching. And then two more of my favorite colleagues left education just one after the other. So today, I will be starting close to home to find out why teachers are leaving. But before we begin, a quick warning, this episode discusses miscarriage, abuse, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call the national suicide hotline at 988. Here is part 1: “Fight, Flight, or Apathy” Jennica:   My first year was with you was a ton of fun. Jennie and I started teaching at the same school in a small agricultural town on the eastern border of Wyoming.  I taught English and she taught Chemistry and Biology. Jennica: Then you wanted to kind of get out of education for a little bit. So you went and got your Masters. I returned to school to get a Masters degree in Literature, and Jennie started teaching in a new district. She collaborated with the University in town, took kids on field trips into the community and had a wonderful time teaching. But after I earned my Masters, we moved again, and we got to teach together again in a new district.  This was what we'd talked about since our Freshman year in college – to teach in the same building together for the rest of our careers. And working together was amazing, but we didn't realize the toll teaching was taking. Jennica: We had gotten pregnant. And we felt like, oh, gosh, like, we're gonna double down on this career. And we're going to be teachers till we retire. And that felt awful. I felt defeated. Thinking of teaching for another 25-30 years made us very aware that we were more dissatisfied with teaching than we thought. We liked the idea of having kids but now it felt like we were stuck in this career. Then in October, we had a miscarriage. Jennie told me that she felt something wrong in class while she was teaching. She eyed the door and waited for someone to pass her room, so she didn't leave her students unattended. When a principal walked past, she asked him to cover her class, and she ran to the bathroom. Jennie said it was all so fast for her – it was almost a blur. And then she went back to teaching during the same class period in a fog. In another profession, it would have been easy to take the afternoon off, but here she would have had to plan for a sub, which included potentially explaining why she needed coverage on such short notice. She wasn't prepared at that time to do this for such a personal and confusing experience. She said it was surreal for her to brush herself off, put on a smile, and keep on with her lesson. She wasn't even completely sure if she had miscarried until it was confirmed that afternoon at the doctor's office. There are no standard ways to grieve. We went to the mountains and talked and thought and cried and we tried to answer why such things happen. Jennie's mom always tells us, “You know, everything happens for a reason.” So we were trying to find one. Jennica: It was sad to have our miscarriage but at the same time, it was like, well, the door's open again, and leaving this career, is something that I've been thinking about for a little bit. And so it just solidified that I should take advantage of this moment to do something that I wanted to do. When Jennie was still pregnant, our lives seemed laid out in front of us, and we had accepted that.  But our miscarriage gave us a moment to reflect, and we realized that the life we almost had – a life that included teaching for the rest of our careers – was not the life we wanted. We felt like if it wasn't our time to become parents, maybe we were supposed to be doing something else or taking another path. I had just gotten my Masters, so it was Jennie's turn to decide what she wanted her life to look like. Many of the reasons Jennie wanted to leave education had a lot to do with not feeling valued and trusted as a professional – all things that contributed to her own self-worth: Jennica: I didn't feel like I had a lot of autonomy. It was all guaranteed and viable curriculum. And I didn't have a lot of wiggle room. For those of you who don't know, a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum or GVC is an effort to ensure the same quality of curriculum is presented to all students. They are the culmination of efforts to standardize education, and they act like a middle-man to the Common Core Standards. Most states adopted the Common Core Standards, which if followed should already guarantee an equitable education, but the GVCs are used to map how those standards are reached. Jennica:  I felt like I was getting critiqued by people that should have been showing me what to do or helping me to grow. And I just didn't get a lot of affirmation that I needed. I got it in my reviews. I always got really great reviews from administrators, but I just didn't get it from my department. I didn't feel like I was an intelligent person. And I didn't feel like I was doing enough at any given time. Part of this feeling came from having to play the role of a disciplinarian, to uphold rules that she didn't see value in. Jennica: I would have appreciated the administrators focusing more on what the students were learning in my class versus how students were behaving.  And it's strange that I was expected to be a disciplinarian with absolutely no teeth. I don't even think I had the option of having kids have detention after school with me. I think I would have gotten in trouble for making them clean desks after they drew little wieners on the desks. I just felt like I had no control. If I were to send students to the office because of their behavior. It's like a mark against you. You know, you have teachers bragging that they've never sent students to the office. You can hear administrators talking about, “Well that teacher always sends me that student, they need to handle it on their own.” But there's really no way to handle it in your classroom.You know, you call home and the parents just as much of a jerk to you as the child is. And there's just, there's no respect for the teacher from any end. As I did interviews, I kept coming back to these questions: What is the role of teachers in education? How many hats do teachers really need to wear? Teachers are expected to do a lot and sometimes it feels like that includes being a parent. Most teachers have probably had this similar conversation with a parent. The parent says something like, “I don't know what to do with (insert student name). What should I do?”    This is a tough question. When I've tried to answer it, it's from the lens of a teacher, not a parent. Because if my answer was from what I would do as a parent, it might seem like I'm criticizing their parenting.   Jennica: I don't want to have to be the parent, I want to be the teacher. And I think that parents should let teachers be teachers, and that they should play the parent role. I'm an expert in my field. I have a degree in both chemistry and education, and I understand how people learn and I understand what needs to be taught. And parents aren't experts in that field. And I don't think that they need to think that they are experts or control that. Do I think that teachers should just go in without like it's the Wild West and just do whatever they want? No, but I think the oversight should not be parent driven. I think it needs to be expert driven. This would mean trusting teachers as experts in both their content and in the delivery of that content. That trust might start with getting rid of phrases like, Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.” Trusting  teachers to do their jobs recognizes that teachers “Can Do” that's why they “Can Teach.” If we continue to distrust teachers' capabilities to do their jobs, we might have to rely on a new phrase as teachers continue to leave, a phrase that Jennie came up with - Those who can't, teach…anymore.  Outside of education, most advisory boards of any field are typically made up of experts in those fields. Education boards and even education legislation aren't often like that. School boards are made up of non or former educators, and education legislation, at least in Wyoming, is rarely developed by educators. Questioning teacher expertise is a national issue. And the national issues are contributing to why teachers are leaving. Jennica: So the the micro environment that I was in played a part, but then when you went home and read the news, or you, you thought about the bigger picture when it comes to how teachers are viewed, that didn't help it didn't soothe me when I got home.  Hearing about school shootings is devastating and terrifying. Every story makes me think about what if it happened here? When Jennie taught with me, my first thought when going through my imaginary scenario was always, “Will she be safe? Could I prevent a shooter from making their way towards her end of the building?”  Jennica: Thinking about teachers having guns in the classroom, thinking about how I should protect students that weren't mine, they weren't my children, and how it was my job to sort of be selfless, you know, throw my body in front of them. I didn't really feel like that was my role. I'm really good at teaching people how to balance an equation. And I'm really good at inspiring kids and coaching them on what they're good at and encouraging them to keep going through hard problems. But I don't really think that my role as a teacher was to be a martyr for other people's children. So we had had a lockdown. That was a real lockdown. There was a shooting in the neighborhood near the school, and the shooter was still on the loose, so this is what caused the lockdown.  A lockdown requires classes to be buttoned down – doors shut, blinds down, students out of sight of any windows and silent. We practice these often. Once, during a teacher development day, we practiced with fake active shooters to hear what guns would sound like going off in the hallways. I remember sitting in a classroom with my brother – we also teach together – and thinking about the absurdity of having to have officers fire blanks from automatic rifles to prepare us for what could happen. So Jennie was caught in a real lockdown, meaning she had to get students behind a locked door.   Jennica: And I was just panicking about the students and they weren't really like on my side. They weren't coming into the classroom, they weren't staying quiet. And it was just a terrible experience. And I just didn't want to be trapped in that. That's not what I signed up for. I signed up to teach people things, not to save their lives. So after 7 years of teaching, she left. Jennica: When I got accepted into pharmacy school, I was expecting to wait like two weeks after my interview to find out but they pulled me into the dean's office. And they told me that I was accepted, and I just started crying right away because I knew I could quit teaching. I knew that I was going to escape an environment that I was very sad to be in every day. They cried because they thought I cried because I was getting into pharmacy school, but really I was crying because I was getting out of education. This transition out of teaching had a massive impact on her well-being. Jennica: My self-esteem is incredibly higher than it was before. You know, I used to be very depressed, and I was overweight when I was a teacher. And I just didn't really feel good about myself. And I wasn't getting a lot of  positive affirmation from my peers and other teachers. I really thought, like, maybe I'm just not very smart or capable. I'm sure that you remember the first time that I came home from that anatomy class and I came home with a list of anatomy, and I just bawled.   She worried that she wasn't smart enough. But, she studied, sometimes over the phone with me as she commuted to her classes, and she finished at the top of that class. And she's continued to be at the top of her pharmacy classes since. Jennica: I have a 4.0, in pharmacy school, and I have a lot of achievements. And it's something that I wasn't made to believe that I could do before. Of course, Jennie's decision to leave education makes me think more about my own longevity in this career. I know why Jennie quit, and I get it. I can't say that I haven't thought about leaving either – I have and I do. And I think about it more and more when the people that I admire and love leave or when the woes of America's problems are traced back to the education system – a system that is ironically hobbled then blamed for not meeting all of the expectations placed on it. Shane Atkinson taught in the same building Jennie and I taught in, and when he left teaching, he told me that he found a career that allowed him to merge his morals and values with his work.. He actually started his career teaching with one of the most noble reasons I've ever heard.  Shane met me for a drink in Fort Collins. I set up mics at a picnic bench, shaded by a low hanging tree – Shane rode up on his bike, ordered a beer, and told me about when he decided to become a teacher. Atkinson: It's gonna sound almost untrue how crazy it was.  Shane went to college for journalism – he thought of it as the 4th branch of government. While Shane was in college, his cousin, James, who was more like an older brother, taught middle school in the same town. During this time, James was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma after having battled colon cancer and liver cancer since he was 18. The Hodgkin's Lymphoma was fatal. Atkinson: When he passed away, we were just floored by the support from the school from the students. Students were coming into hospice. We had stacks and stacks of letters and cards that kids had written. A kid came in and played guitar when he was in his last days, played a song for him. We went to his classroom, saw where he taught, all of us together. His coworkers were telling us how he would schedule his chemo appointments super early in the morning, so he couldn't make it to his first class. So he was teaching just extremely ill, and I was honestly, you know, losing my brother. But one of the final thoughts that I had throughout all of that was that he made an impact, right? On all these kids. It was very clear looking at all the cards and going through all of that. He made an impact and he was taken too early. And you know, 25 years old, go forward in your life and think how many other kids might have impacted? So the last words I told him was I'm changing my major. I'm going to try to impact some of these kids that you didn't get the opportunity to.   And things went well in the beginning. Shane felt like he was reaching kids with important conversations – he even developed a new course called Human Genocide and Behavior. Then cultural shifts started to affect Shane's classroom in the 13 years between when he started teaching and when he left. Atkinson: And in that time period, there were immense changes in education, in our society, and politics in the way that people thought about each other and treated each other, and it started to come into my classroom. And it happened slowly. It's the frog in boiling water analogy. Because had my first year of teaching then even remotely close to my last, I would have been gone after a year. When I asked Shane about shifting cultural views about education, we started to talk about the purpose of education -  Why are we here? For Shane, he turns to the founding fathers: Atkinson: I think many of our founding fathers have been attributed to this quote, that a democracy is only as strong as its citizens are educated.  This idea can be seen in a 1786 letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to George Wythe. Jefferson wrote:  “I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness.” Jefferson and other founders made efforts to prioritize and secure educational opportunities for the general public. In so many words, they emphasized that a public needs to be educated so they can recognize their own rights and privileges and make sure the government is working for them. Of course, this so-called generalized public that the founding fathers were referencing was exclusive to white men but over the decades we've expanded that to all Americans. Shane held onto the idea that education was for helping develop good and active citizenry. Shane: So, I really do think that in the social sciences, it should be about creating good citizens, people who are informed people who can work together, even a spirit of bipartisanship, that you can have different viewpoints. We need to start with a certain set of facts that we can all agree on. But ultimately, there's a lot of room for differing opinions. I mean, we're all a product of the experiences that we have lived and those around us that influence us to think about certain things the way we do. And that's great, I think it's important to understand and notice and realize that, and then also realize that it's not necessarily always right. That there isn't always a right answer. But sometimes there are wrong answers. Part of creating good citizens in Shane's mind was to build quality relationships with students, which required some authenticity on his part. So if a student asked Shane his opinion on an issue, he felt like this opened up an opportunity to have an authentic, civilized conversation with his class. Shane: I almost felt like I had to be honest with them, but also demonstrate here's how I view this issue. But I'm just one person. And here's why I view it that way. And here are some of my experiences and biases. Identify your biases. Then you can also show that, “Look, I respect you. And I can earn your respect, although we disagree a lot with one another.”  And that's really what our country is lacking right now. I used to be able to have a conversation with kids about a current issue. And 100% explore both sides of that issue. If overwhelmingly, the class is on one side, the teacher's role at that point is not to reaffirm what they believe. It's to say there is another side to this issue.  This is part of the joy of teaching. Challenging students to have a metacognitive moment or a moment when they can reflect on why they think the way that they do. This level of critical thinking and conversation is where learning occurs. That used not be problematic in the first five years that I taught. It started becoming…and it happened like that…where if I said, even just in through the Socratic method or just getting kids to, to consider the other prospective, parents were coming in parent meetings, administration meetings where it was like, “Eid you say this to your class?” Yeah, we're talking about current issues that are happening in the world right now. How can you really teach kids to think of the world in which they live if you can't broach these subjects. Shane points out that censuring what teachers can broach in an academic arena is making everyone suffer. I know that feeling. I used to teach the President's State of the Union address every year to look at rhetoric in the speech, but I stopped because of constantly rising political tensions and recommendations from administrators to avoid politics.  For Shane, when he couldn't have important conversations in his classroom, that was suffering. Those limits hinder the effectiveness of a classroom, and they can take away from a teacher's joy of having an impact. This inevitably hurts kids..  Atkinson: I feel like you have three options. Fight, flight, or apathy. So you always hear about these teachers who are just like, I don't care, “Whatever. Here's a worksheet. Sure you want an A, I'll give you an A. You don't have to learn a dang thing.” I feel like those are your choices. One of those three paths.  And I was 37 at the time, and, if there's going to be a career change… Can I find something else to do that more aligns my beliefs, and at the very least, doesn't emotionally scar me? Everyone knows about the Sunday scaries. Or you come back from winter break, and you can't sleep the night before summer break. And there's just a sense of impending dread and doom. And I think that's because you're constantly in that, what do I do? Do I fight? Do I flight? Or do I become apathetic? Because what I'm doing is not aligning with what's best practice and what's best for students, what's best for society. They tell you all the time, this isn't just a job. This is more than a job. Which, to me, says that there's some sort of moral benefit. I mean, they're not paying you, that's for sure. So what do you gain from that? Well, it's the belief that you're making a difference.. And the administration will tell you that all the time. If you don't think you are, you don't think you can. Then what do you do? I am very familiar with the feeling of dread - once the theme for Sunday night football plays out, my gut drops. This cycle of feeling dread or feeling like you're making a difference all while deciding if you should be fighting the system, fleeing the system, or becoming apathetic to the system is one that several teachers brought up in their interviews. And it's a trend that Shane's wife noticed and was concerned about.    You get home from work, and you talk about what's going on in your life, how you're doing, how your day went. And I would just come home, just fuming, fuming. And she would say, she told me for years, “Leave or do something else. This is not good for you. This is not good for your mental state.” And then I would get an email from a kid that I had five years ago, checking in saying, “Hey, I just wanted to give you an update. You know, I'm on my way to grad school. I'm studying this thing. I still think about stuff I learned in your class.” And it's like, wow, and it brings you right back. And my wife said it's an abusive relationship. It's a domestic violence relationship. He can beat the crap out of you. And you are beaten down, emotionally scarred, and then it's a hug, an I love you, a nice gesture, and it sucks you right back in, just to get abused again. And my wife was in an abusive relationship when she was younger. And that's how she described it.  Shane left teaching after 13 years, and he now works in government. He rides his bike to work, and he said that he's excited to go to work, that he's never actually worked harder than he is at this moment.  Every Time I talk with Shane, I walk away feeling like it was time well spent. I end up being a little fired up about something. This is a big reason students loved him – even students who didn't see eye to eye with him. Shane made them think and talk and explore their ideas, and he wasn't willing to sacrifice his values for the letters of appreciation, though I'm pretty sure that those letters will still be finding their way to Shane. And this is what makes me worried for education. Good teachers are leaving. Teachers that make impacts on kids. Teachers that a person will write to years after graduation to catch up, to say thank you, or to invite them to a wedding. When these teachers, the ones reaching kids and making a lasting healthy impact are not willing to stay, we should worry. This is not something to dismiss. And it bothers me that when teacher concerns are brought forward, I've heard people  respond with statements like “Good Riddance,” “It could be worse,” or “At least you get the summers off.” This goes back to the idea of abuse that Shane spoke about earlier and even the martyrdom that Jennie talks about. When teachers speak out about the stress, burn out, or even threats and intimidation, it seems like they shouldn't complain because it could be worse. Just because I'm not dead doesn't mean a knife in the thigh is any better – just ask Portia. And if you didn't get that last reference to Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar, that's okay, We're not here for great Shakespeare jokes, we're here because Wacker, the teacher from the start of this episode and a man who would have chuckled and spit water out about that really lame joke, quit teaching. And he's adamant about saying that he quit – he took it very personally.  Jaye Wacker taught for a total of 31 years, 29 in one district, and he quit 2 months before he could retire. Wacker loved, and I mean LOVED teaching – especially when he felt like he had freedom in his classroom. Freedom to listen to stories from other students or to create lessons that he knew were effective.  Wacker: When you're not limited, you can teach. When you're not limited, you can push kids to reach a potential. There's things about what drove me out - limits. We had the best book room, and part of it came from IB. But we had an absolutely unbelievable book room. And little by little, we lost books. Wacker pointed to a few examples where books were removed from classes and the book room. The book that hurt the most was Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison is one of 3 Americans to have won the Nobel prize for literature. She is the only woman and the only person of color of those 3 winners. And, she is the only one of the three to have had her book removed from Wacker's shelves. And I'm incredibly bitter because kids desperately need The Bluest Eye. Yeah, it's a tough book. It has really tough content. And guess what, these are important issues in our contemporary society. And so we address them, we face them. And so it was just little by little, our, I hesitate to say freedoms, but in some ways, not freedom, the breadth of what we could teach became more and more limited. And that restriction, I guess, I've always chafed against restrictions like that. And I just hated that.  On top of the restrictions of books were the restrictions set in place by standardized inspired curriculum or the tests associated with that curriculum, which started to take precedence over things that Wacker knew allowed for engaging and authentic learning.   Wacker was working on sentence modeling with his students. It was an effective approach from a pivotal figure in grammar instruction named Constance Weaver -  not a standardized assessment company .  And suddenly, we were having these incredibly complex, beautiful sentences. And so then, when I have these students that are creating these things that…friggin art. I took what Weaver had, and then I Wackered it and ran with that. And what I was seeing out of that was amazing. And none of it worked on the GVC. I was teaching students to write brilliantly, and it wasn't going to work on the GVC. It was so frustrating because I think the sentences were the building block of thinking, not of writing, of thinking. And so then when they had those tools, and then that thinking and writing…everything exploded from there, but I dropped it because it didn't work on the GVC.  And then Wacker narrated this: He motioned to shooting himself in the chin. Wacker said this in jest, but the threat of suicide is present for teachers and it came up again and again in interviews. Several teachers mentioned having suicidal ideation when they woke up or when they were sitting in their cars before going into school. Many said they had to go to therapy or be placed on anti-depressants. This was also serious for Wacker and his wife Jenny - we both married a Jennie. He pointed to a spot just outside of his dining room, right behind where I was sitting, near a lazy boy recliner and the glass door entrance to his house before he said, Wacker: And I was standing right there when I told Jenny that, and I confessed that I was ready to kill myself. Because there's no way out. We need the salary. But I hate myself, and I hate what I'm doing. And I think that's when she took very seriously I needed to do something different. And she was a motivating force because I lacked the confidence in myself to believe I can do something different. But my identity was being a teacher. My whole sense of self was being a teacher, even more so than being a dad. And I suddenly was a complete and utter failure at who I thought I was, and you talk about crashing. Jeez-Oh. Tthat was a that was a rough night. Wacker is a good friend of mine. Hearing this breaks my heart. It's important to ask why teachers get to this point, and it's important to listen. For many, it had to do with not feeling valued or feeling smart in their roles. For Wacker, it had to do with what was lost over the years of teaching – over the shifts in policy and resources and ability to make an impact. When teaching is associated with terms like a calling or a vocation, it isn't a surprise that people attach their identity with the work. And separating from the work can be devastating.  Wacker: I left because I wasn't making a difference anymore. My last year in the classroom, I did a worksheet packet for To Kill a Mockingbird. And I've yet to forgive myself.  I was trying to find something in there, because this is what people do. They do these things. So it must be good teaching. And little by little, those packets just started sitting on the back window sill because I just couldn't bring myself to face them. They were the sort of thing I hated. But then I couldn't seem to address these other things that needed to be on these tests. And I just felt like a failure. I just I felt like a failure. I wasn't keeping up. I wasn't exciting. I wasn't…it just I wasn't turning kids on to English. I felt if anything, I was turning them off. So it's time to do something different.  I literally was becoming the teacher I despised. I hate myself for that. But I needed a job. I've had to come to grips with the fact that I love teaching. And by the time I quit, I didn't love myself as a teacher. Again, look in the mirror. I became what I didn't like, what I despised. I became that to a certain degree. And that that hurts.  I used to think ideally, my ideal retirement would be teach half time, where I could still get that fix of working with kids and literature and writing. I never thought I'd quit early.  When thinking about why teachers are leaving Wacker puts it simply – Teachers teach for the love of it, and many teachers are leaving because they don't love it anymore.  Wacker: And it's got to be love of kids first. For me with English, then its love of literature and writing, second. It's not love of curriculum. It's not love of administration. It's not love of standardized tests, it's not love of the almighty ACT. It's the love of learning and making a difference. But the love of learning and making a difference are hard to measure. Almost every teacher I spoke with, and even folks I still work with, know that we're teachers because of the kids. We love the kids – they're usually the best part of the job. It's the other stuff that weighs teachers down, that impacts their mental health, their willingness to fight rather than flee or become apathetic.  Note that Wacker said teachers teach for the love of it. Pay matters, without a doubt, but Wacker knew the pay wasn't his priority when he started teaching.  My cooperating teacher, Jeff Fong, the very first at the end of September. I'll never forget, because we went into the teachers lounge and his paycheck was in his mailbox. And he said, if you learn one thing, learn this. When you look at this check, the word that should come out of your mouth is suckers. Because I'd do it for free. The day you look at the check, and you say, it's not enough, it's time to go. The negativity that Wacker expresses is present across education, and as his co-teacher said, for many folks, that paycheck just isn't enough anymore.  Wacker said that teaching is the best profession when the conditions are right, but they weren't for him anymore. So after 3 decades, Wacker quit teaching. He has spent the last year working with the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information.  Before we finished the night with pizza and watching a tv show with his wife and daughter, Wacker left me with this as a final thought.  We gotta change things. We got to fix this. This is insane. This is utterly insane.  And I agree. Things need to change. They need to change in order to keep teachers, and they need to change in order to ensure that we have the best education we can have for students. What Jennie, Shane, and Wacker talk about isn't unique to our school, district, or state. These are the same concerns teachers across the country are having, and like Wacker said, We gotta fix this.  But to figure out where we need to go in education, we need to remember where we've been (from the good to the bad) and why a system to educate the public was built in the first place.  That will be next time on Those Who Can't Teach Anymore. Thank you for listening. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and share episodes with everyone you can think of.  This episode was produced by me, Charles Fournier. It was edited by Melodie Edwards. Other editing help came from Noa Greenspan, Sarah-Ann Leverette, and Cody Fournier. Our theme song is by Julian Saporiti. All other music can be found on our website – create and name website. A special thanks to Jennica Fournier, Shane Atkinson, and Jaye Wacker for being inspiring teachers and taking time to sit down and chat with me. This podcast is funded in part by the Fund for Teachers Fellowship.

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※ 投稿邮箱：418150505@qq.com※ 本文章发布于订阅号：百车全说，订阅号阅读更加方便，欢迎关注前40分钟聊比亚迪海豹，后面聊聊自己差点住院的事情。最近，比亚迪有一款重磅新车上市了，海洋系列的海豹。目前推出了四款车型，分别是CLTC续航550公里的低配和高配、还有长续航700公里和四驱高性能650公里，售价区间20.98-28.68万元。有趣的是，在比亚迪海豹上市前几天，长安的一款关注度颇高的新能源也上市了，深蓝SL03，定价16.89-69.99万。很多粉丝看到价格，都惊呆了，怎么价格跨度这么大，顶配要69万多？其实，顶配69.99万那个是氢能源版，只有那一款，就是长安用来秀肌肉的，基本没人买的，正常应该是16.89-21.59万。但是这个价位区间，也比海豹整体便宜了4-7万。一会儿两台车对比，我们后面再说。在海豹上市的当天，长安深蓝还发微博说今天不发海报，只发海豹。比亚迪还回应说谢谢我的“蓝”朋友，蓝色的蓝。前有华为理想互吹增程式，现有长安比亚迪互捧新车，这也是只有新能源车企才会做的。换作是老牌的车企，哪可能像这般和谐。就像BBA，能不相互诋毁就算不错了。比如国外有一个宝马X1的广告，里面一个年轻的阳光男孩开着宝马X1又是冲浪又是野营，给人感觉很热爱运动和生活。他家隔壁却是个秃头宅男大叔，隔着厕所的窗帘看他开着X1回来，露出羡慕的目光，转头跳入自家的浴缸中就当冲浪了。但是镜头一转，这个宅男开的就是奥迪。你说奥迪看了之后气不气？说回正题，那么今天我们就来一起聊聊比亚迪海豹这款车，它的定价到底贵不贵，竞争对手有哪些？该怎么选？比亚迪海豹的定价到底贵不贵？目前海豹售价20.98-28.68万元，分别是CLTC续航550公里的两款售价20.98和22.28万，续航700公里的25.98万元，四驱性能版28.68万元。相比之前的预售价，海豹的正式售价低了3000元。所以很多网友觉得海豹的定价太贵了，并没有达到传闻中的18万起步来。要说海豹的定价到底贵不贵，这还得从两个角度去讨论。因为一部分人光从外表看上去，觉得海豹根本不值这个价，因为光是自家的比亚迪，其中就有汉在这里，就会觉得海豹（4,800×1,875×1,460 mm）不仅尺寸上比汉差这么多（长度短了180毫米，宽度少了35毫米），而且海豹的尺寸只比秦PLUS大了一点（长了35毫米，宽了28毫米）。同时价格上，秦PLUS EV售价13.88-17.58万，比海豹便宜了将近10万，续航400km/500km/600KM。而最畅销的汉EV次低配，定价23.48万CLTC续航700公里（NEDC 605KM），CLTC续航550公里的海豹22.28万元，所以贵了1万多，但是车子更大续航更长，内饰两车也差不多，外观也没有汉那么大气。而CLTC续航700km的海豹长续航版，定价25.98万，比汉EV还贵。说实话，真不如买汉。其次，21-28这个区间可选的电动车也很多，就像比海豹早三天上市的深蓝SL03，除了那个做样子的氢电版，顶配的纯电版也不过才21.59万，CLTC续航705公里，单电机160kw，320N·m，而海豹22.28万的550km标准续航后驱版，单电机150kw，310N·m，续航更短，动力更弱，售价却反而更贵。其实真的要入手一台20多万的电动车，对于大部分消费者来说还是比较难的。如果家里目前开的是10多万的燃油车，大部分家庭换购的首选，还是20多万的B级车或者紧凑型、中型SUV。如果能够到豪华品牌，也会尽力去买豪华品牌，比如像凯迪拉克CT4、CT5，宝马X1，奔驰GLA，奥迪Q3这些车型。电动车定价在10几万，可能消费者图个实惠，也就买了。但是定价在20多万，就一定要有很多新鲜的东西，去坚定想尝鲜的消费者信心，否则他们是不会刷卡买单的。因此，售价20.98-28.68万的海豹，我真的为他销量捏一把汗。但肯定会有很多反驳的人，说不要光看一台车的表面，光盯着能看得见的地方，海豹看不见的地方可是比亚迪下了不少血本的。我们先来说说比亚迪海豹，到底有哪些新出的亮点。此次新车上市，官方说了海豹的四大亮点，分别是CTB电池车身一体化技术、iTAC智能扭矩控制技术、后驱/四驱动力架构、前双叉臂+后五连杆悬架。有些听不太懂，没关系，我们一个一个解释。CTB车身电池一体化就是把电池包上盖与车身地板合二为一，这样电池成为整车能量体的同时，又能作为结构件。最直观的好处就是让后排地台不会有隆起，能提高车身刚性和减重。而iTAC智能扭矩控制技术呢，其实是通过控制汽车扭矩来达到安全驾驶的技术。这个技术，听起来有点像是的燃油车中，马自达的GVC加速度矢量控制系统。在GVC系统的帮助下，马自达的车入弯时，系统会以每秒200次的频率持续监测我们的转向动作，当发现方向盘有微小的转动时，通过软件非常细微的控制扭矩输出（日方的工程师给出的数据是0-30N·m），让车辆重心前移（幅度大概1.25%），增加前轮的触地负重（大约5kg）。在出弯时，恢复扭矩，让车辆重心后移，增加后轮的触地负重，让车尾更稳定。其实说白了，我们不是专业车手，在入弯和出弯时并不能掌握最佳的油门控制和转向角度，所以GVC在暗中帮我们的忙，让我们更加顺畅衔接横向&前后方的加速度，从而获得更理想的过弯线路。而比亚迪海豹的iTAC智能扭矩控制技术，就是在轮端传感器的基础上加入电机传感器，通过检测电机的转速变化，在轮端出现异常但还未出现打滑时，提前50ms识别到了轮端的抓地力异常，并利用这短短的时间对各个系统进行迅速调整，赶在轮子打滑前让车辆恢复稳定的状态。简单总结，就是利用电机的快速反应，提前识别风险，提前分配动力，及时进行能量转移，从而达到车身稳定，在保证车辆安全性能的前提下，顺便提升驾乘舒适和驾驶极限。如果你经常走盘山公路，雪地，泥泞路面的话，iTAC能提前识别车辆打滑风险并及时恢复车身稳定，有这个技术做保障，还是非常香的。因为海豹是比亚迪新的E 3.0纯电平台，所以全系都是后驱和四驱，后驱版续航550公里版的电机最大马力204匹，你会发现动力其实和比亚迪元PLUS上的一模一样，只不过一个后驱一个前驱。所以就像我之前说的，元PLUS应该直接把它拉到海洋系列里来，命名为海马、海狮等。可能这也是很多人觉得海豹卖得贵的原因之一，20多万的车和十几万的车电机用的是一样的。同时海豹的底盘悬挂的用料也是很足的，前双叉臂+后多连杆悬架的结构和特斯拉Model 3是一样的。所以很多人会觉得海豹是最好的特斯拉MODEL3的平替产品。尤其是海豹的四驱性能版售价28万多，双电机四驱，最大马力530匹，续航650公里，百公里加速3.8秒，价格只比特斯拉MODEL3的标准续航贵了一万多，比MODEL3性能版又便宜了8万多。更别说海豹的长续航版续航700多公里，售价25万多的版本了，看着确实要比特斯拉MODEL3香。而且内饰也要更精致一点。因此买特斯拉MODEL3不如买比亚迪海豹了。这么一看，比亚迪海豹的价格确实不贵。这两部分人群各自说的都有理，也不存在谁说的绝对是正确的，只不过他们的选车角度和需求不同，有的人就喜欢性价比高的车，喜欢空间大的车。也有的人更在乎一台车好不好开，动力和底盘素质怎么样。当然，也有人纯粹地认品牌，看颜值。所以今后粉丝们不管看到有人说一款车的价格贵不贵，不用与其争执，只是各自站的角度不同罢了。比亚迪海豹的竞争对手有哪些？其实我有些看不懂，几乎在同一时间上市的长安深蓝SL03，为何还要捧比亚迪海豹的场？同行真的可以是朋友，不是冤家吗？明显深蓝SL03的性价比要比比亚迪海豹高出不少，难道就因为品牌力不如比亚迪，客户真的就不会拿这两台车对比吗？还是说，深蓝SL03真正想卖的其实不是纯电版本，而是增程式？推出氢能源版，也只是做个噱头，让大家印象深刻而已。纯电不是主推？可是这车定位5门5座掀背，各方面看起来，也不比海豹差到哪里去。只不过深蓝SL03并没有推出性能版，去争抢运动电动车的那块领地，看起来不是很激进而已。我觉得消费者如果不买这台车，主要还是对这个品牌缺乏信心，毕竟长安新能源在这个时代，已经落后对手不止一个身位了。其次还有小鹏P7，不过小鹏它玩的是智能化，整车的OTA升级，还有新造车势力的服务都是卖点。包括它的NGP智能驾驶辅助口碑也不错。包括P7很早就推出了搭载81度，NEDC续航706公里的版本。再加上P7不错的外观和内饰设计，所以20多万买三厢纯电轿车，P7也会是很多人的首选。不过，海豹最直接的竞争对手还要属特斯拉MODEL 3了。首先是外观，从侧面看，海豹的轮廓和MODEL 3真的很相似。不过车身尺寸海豹要比MODEL 3大一圈。就像我前面说的，前后悬架结构都是前双叉臂、后多连杆结构。而且顶配都是四驱高性能版，百公加速都在3秒多。所以说它是国产版的特斯拉MODEL 3也很贴切。除了别的品牌，也别忘了自家的比亚迪，尤其是比亚迪汉。价格基本也是非常相近，不过海豹产品定位更偏向于空间够用，更好操控的路线，而汉的空间和尺寸相比海豹又是它最大的优势。如果同样20万小几的预算，比亚迪海豹的配置也比汉更高，比如22.28的海豹和23.48万的汉EV，海豹是后置后驱，汉EV是前置前驱。海豹在配置上也多了前后方碰撞预警、540度透明底盘、L2级驾驶辅助、遥控泊车、12个喇叭的丹拿音响、手机APP远程控制等。所以想要空间大就选汉EV，想要好开、更智能和新平台就选海豹。比亚迪海豹四款配置怎么选？目前海豹一共推出了四款配置，两款CLTC续航550公里、一款续航700公里和一款续航650公里的四驱高性能版，搭载的都是比亚迪的磷酸铁锂刀片电池。我看有媒体同行报道，比亚迪海豹的客户基本都是增购。对比车型40%是特斯拉，20%是汉、20%是深蓝SL03和C01、20%是传统燃油B级车。而购买550高配尊贵的客户居多，其次是700长续航后驱，这两个版本的客户能占7成以上。比亚迪这两年全面转型新能源，客户对这个品牌的定价20-25万区间，虽然嘴上喊着有点贵，心里貌似还是比较能接受的。唯一担心的，就是提车时间。不过海豹的配置不低，比如标配7个安全气囊（包括驾驶位膝部气囊）、L2驾驶辅助、碰撞预警、遥控泊车、远程启动、10.25液晶仪表+15.6英寸中控屏、3D全息投影、手机APP控制等。从我角度看，700km长续航版本是比较香的，除了续航多出150km，还增加了19寸大轮毂，电动感应后备厢、真皮座椅、真皮方向盘、后排隐私玻璃等等。但是客户好像不这么认为，大家可能还是缺这3万来块钱，我看买550km高配的客户居多，他们可能觉得，基础配置本就不低，还有丹拿音响，座椅通风加热、氛围灯，足够了。而海豹的四驱高性能版的性价，网友分歧比较大。其实从我角度看，买高性能版就不能谈性价比，真的要对比，也是对比同级高性能版车型。那这么看，海豹性价比还是比很高。为什么这么说？目前来看，比亚迪海豹应该是30万以内加速数一数二快的车型，3.8秒的百公里加速，虽然是电车，但是你看看市面上，在四秒以内的车，有几台卖到了30万以内？特斯拉MODEL 3性能版36万多，MODEL Y性能版40多万。也就自家的汉EV和它差不多，百公里加速3.9秒。当然，大家也不能忘了隔壁的极氪001，双电机版加速3.8秒，最低也要29.9万，不过买这车的客户多少有些选配，还是超了30万。所以，买这种车的人群肯定更看重操控，差价1-2万，还是3-5万，其实只要他们喜欢，都不会是难以克服的困难。所以如果是你，20-30万买纯电轿车，你会怎么选？可以添加微信46415254加入我们的社群音频图文更新在订阅号： 百车全说每期抽三条留言，每人赠168元的“芥末绿”燃油添加剂一瓶点击订阅，每周三，周六更新会有提醒新听友可以搜索：百车全说2014，百车全说2015，百车全说2016，往期300多个小时的节目可供收听

With the healthcare industry what it is today and health care being at an all-time high. GVC is a non-insurance solution to fill gaps that today's industries are missing. It also provides another option for businesses. CEO Tim is desperate for this change to happen after a life-changing incident made him realize he had to do something big to help. Take a listen to this whole story and tell us what you think. WEBSITE: https://www.gvchealthtech.com LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gvc-health-tech APP: https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/gvc-health-tech/id1572011729 SUPPORT: If you love this episode, please share it with someone you know will also enjoy it! Not for us, but for our guests, leave a review on iTunes. While you are listening, post a screenshot on social media and make sure to tag @FindingArizonaPodcast so we can thank you! Want to be a guest or a sponsor of the show? Send us a message on the https://www.findingarizonapodcast.com/contact SPONSORS: Join the KNOW Women's Global Membership: all new members receive a bonus gift! https://theknowwomen.com/membership/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/finding-arizona-podcast/message

What is global value chain and why is it important? How does GVC help retailers cope with supply chain challenges? What are the consequences of getting it wrong? In this episode we're joined by Peter Terilli, Managing Director in the Global Value Chain & International Tax group at BDO USA, to help us answer these important questions and more.

Die neueste Folge "3. Halbzeit - Euer ProLeague Talk" ist da. Wir freuen uns euch wieder begrüßen zu dürfen zum Auftakt der Saison 26 und zu einer Community Überraschung. Also unbedingt reinhören! Der Meister Equality 05 bittet zum Tanz - Wer wird sich die League ONE Krone krallen? Equality 05 hat gezeigt, das man an ihnen Vorbei muss wenn man Meisterschafts Ansprüche hat. Doch wie wird es in der Saison 26? Genau diese Frage stellen sich unsere drei Podcast Hosts. Wird Equality 05 wieder das Maß aller Dinge? Werden sich die direkten Verfolger wie All4TheGame, Core Gaming, Knallgas oder auch Awanta eSports (ehem. Death Row Army) dieses Mal nicht die Butter vom Brot nehmen lassen? Wie wird der Kampf um das Internationale Geschäft? Und wie sieht der Kampf im Tabellenkeller aus? Die League TWO empfängt glücklose Raiders - Schaffen sie den direkten Turnaround zurück in Liga 1? Mit den Raiders empfängt die zweite Liga einen Absteiger der, anhand einer sehr ausgeglichen TD, zwar den großen Teams Gegenwehr zeigten und doch unglücklich die Spiele verloren in Saison 25. Können sie den negative Flow abwerfen und direkt wieder aufsteigen? Kann Easy die hohe Qualität wiederholen? Welches Team wird uns überraschen können, dank einer guten Transferphase? Und auch hier natürlich die spannenden Fragen, wie sich Vortex als Liga 2 Neuling eingrooven kann und wen wir im Tabellenkeller wiederfinden werden. Malte, aLFr3d und Merlin klären auf, wie sie die Liga gewappnet sehen für die Saison 26. Die Spannung in League THREE bleibt weiterhin hoch - Wer kann sich im Aufstiegskampf durchsetzen? Die League THREE startet in Saison 26 diesmal ohne neues Team in den Ligabetrieb. Grund hierfür ist ein Mini Skandal im Newcomer Spiel zwischen Iconiq und Vortex. Dazu gab es einen ProLeague Artikel, gerne klären Malte und aLFr3d euch dennoch auf. Doch auch abseits dessen wird es in der Saison 26 der League THREE nicht ruhig her gehen. Die Mannschaften scharren mit den Hufen. Schaffen Ballers und die Sportfreunde es erneut mit starken Leistungen oben mitzuspielen? Kann Hackelberry mit seinem Torriecher erneut dafür sorgen, dass die Seahawks mit den eben beiden genannten Teams mithalten und vielleicht auch Aufsteigen kann? Können die beiden verbliebenen Absteiger Beerwars und Invincible Club den Abstieg verarbeiten und vielleicht direkt wieder im Aufstiegskampf ein Wörtchen mitreden? Welche Teams werden uns diesmal überraschen können? Seid bereit, für eine spannende League THREE! Das alles erfahrt ihr nur hier - Euer 3. Halbzeit - ProLeague Talk! Also viel Spass beim anhören :) Achtung, Achtung, eine wichtige Mitteilung an die Community, Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer: Ihr wollt an unserem Community Tippspiel mitmachen und besser sein als unsere 3te Halbzeit Moderatoren? Die Umfrage ist seit heute um 20:00 Uhr geöffnet und geht noch bis zum 26.02.2022 23:59 Uhr (GMT+1) Dann schnell zum Tippspiel: https://www.survio.com/survey/d/A9W5J9I7I4S2A4D1P Timestamps: 00:00:00 Countdown 00:03:50 Intro Prognose League ONE: 00:08:31 EQ05, A4TG, CG, H2, AW 00:33:20 AB, ViB, B2R, NYCE, BAC 00:49:55 BP, TSV, exeQt, FCP, DMK, ANOMALY Prognose League TWO: 01:13:09 RS, DIV, KFC, EZ, FCN 01:27:53 UU, ERA, DARK, LSR, LA 01:42:16 LKH, PGP, GVC, PXG, AMG, VTX Prognose League THREE: 02:03:42 BWU, INC, BAL, SF, SG 02:22:22 LD, SH, UPC, DC, BF 02:34:50 RR, TAB, EW, BLUE 02:51:20 Outro

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:45:18 +0000 https://jungeanleger.podigee.io/107-wiener-borse-plausch-56 73abfa3de1294befa1ec0871b38cc6e2 Team drajc, das sind die Börse Social Network Eigentümer Christian Drastil und Josef Chladek, quatscht in Wiener Börse Plausch #56 wieder über das aktuelle Geschehen in Wien. Heute reden wir über eine neue Valneva-Präsentation, einen neuen bwin-Namen, einen vergessenen Eduard, KTM in Marokko, Frequentis in Mexiko, Flughafen-Ausblick, belohnte S&T-Kauflaune, VIG-Volumen. _Erwähnt werden: Valneva in der Austrian Visual Worldwide Roadshow: https://boerse-social.com/austrianworldwideroadshow Marokko Wirtschaftsdelegierte Eva Frei erwähnt KTM https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u9ifgeTmejw9lnHCdcl6u Mexiko Wirtschaftsdelegierte Nella Hengstler erwähnt Frequentis https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TSPb4ulWKNtCiHzrqeknQ _ Die Jänner-Folgen vom Wiener Börse Plausch sind präsentiert von Wienerberger, CEO Heimo Scheuch hat sich im Q4 ebenfalls unter die Podcaster gemischt: https://open.spotify.com/show/5D4Gz8bpAYNAI6tg7H695E . Risikohinweis: Die hier veröffentlichten Gedanken sind weder als Empfehlung noch als ein Angebot oder eine Aufforderung zum An- oder Verkauf von Finanzinstrumenten zu verstehen und sollen auch nicht so verstanden werden. Sie stellen lediglich die persönliche Meinung der Podcastmacher dar. Der Handel mit Finanzprod ukten unterliegt einem Risiko. Sie können Ihr eingesetztes Kapital verlieren. 107 full no Wiener Börse,S&T,VIG,Flughafen Wien,Valneva,GVC,Eva Frei,Nella Hengstler Christian Drastil & Josef Chladek, Börse Social Network

Lanzado por primera vez en 1997 como Starluck Casino, PartyCasino fue relanzado en 2006 con su título actual como una plataforma totalmente integrada que ofrecía más de 500 juegos de casino. En 2011, Party Gaming PLC y bwin Interactive Entertainment AG se fusionaron y PartyCasino se convirtió entonces en una de las principales marcas de Gaming VC Holdings PLC. GVC tiene otras marcas junto a PartyCasino, como Casino Club, Betboo, Sportingbet, Bwin, Partypoker, Foxy Bingo y Gioco Digitale. Es una empresa que sabe lo que hace. Tras su cambio de nombre como PartyCasino, se convirtió en uno de los principales http://www.online-casino.org.es/party/ casinos en línea y tiene un valor de miles de millones. Ahora forma parte de una de las mayores empresas de juego online del mundo que cotizan en bolsa.PartyCasino es precisamente eso, un casino con un verdadero ambiente de fiesta. El ambiente es atrevido pero sencillo y con mucha clase. Puede que sea una fiesta, pero no es una fiesta casera, es una fiesta con estilo. Los juegos son principalmente de NetEnt y Microgaming y hay más de 500 para jugar. Esto incluye una gama de tragaperras, juegos de mesa y juegos con crupier en vivo para que puedas jugar a lo que quieras. No importa quién sea o qué le guste, encontrará algo para su gusto, como Starburst, Winterberries y Sunny Shores. Por qué no olvidarse de las tragaperras y probar los juegos de mesa como el blackjack, la ruleta, el bacará y los dados. Hay unas cuantas variaciones de las mesas en el sitio virtual, pero hay muchas más disponibles en los juegos con crupier en vivo, para que pueda probar la autenticidad.PartyCasino tiene una gran cantidad de juegos para satisfacer a cualquier persona que esté remotamente interesada en los juegos en línea. Este casino es un casino para la gente, es un casino variado y original que pretende ofrecer a todo el mundo. Tiene juegos clásicos de NetEnt como Gonzo's Quest, así como nuevos y divertidos juegos como Emoticoins y The Weather Man. También cuenta con una emocionante variedad de juegos de mesa para todos, como el Blackjack Vegas Downtown, la ruleta americana 3D y los dados, por nombrar algunos.Como ya hemos dicho, PartyCasino tiene mucho que ofrecer. Tiene más de 400 tragaperras en línea de NetEnt, Microgaming, Yggdrasil, NextGen, Williams, IGT - y aún más. Cuando elijas visitar sus video tragamonedas, podrás disfrutar de los juegos más clásicos de la industria como Starburst y Bars & Bells. También cuenta con algunos de los juegos de marca más emocionantes, como Jurassic Park, Kiss y Jimi Hendrix. Además de sus numerosos juegos de tragaperras, también tiene una oferta única de juegos de mesa virtuales que incluyen: Ruleta Europea y Ruleta Americana, así como Clubhouse Blackjack, Blackjack Party 7 y Multi-Hand Blackjack. Además, tiene juegos como el baccarat, los dados y el Texas Hold'em. También hay 12 juegos de video póker para elegir, como el 10s or Better y el Double Bonus Poker.

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Bryan Adams is the CEO and founder of Ph.Creative. His company handles employer branding for companies including Apple, American Airlines, and GVC.Bryan is also a podcaster, creative strategist, specialist speaker, and the author of “Give and Get Employer Branding.”During the interview we discuss…the #1 mistake organizations make when pitching themselves to potential employeeswhy it can be better to focus on repelling potential candidates rather than attracting themdownsides to weeding out weaker candidateshow to be sure a great candidate won't fall through the crackshow a company can start repelling the many to attract the fewcreating a meaningful employee value proposition (EVP)how companies can base their EVP on a “Give & Get” exchangecreating personas to communicate brand identityAfter the interview…Connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanadams1Follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/Bryan_phcVisit Ph.Creative http://www.ph-creative.comRead “Give and Get Employer Branding: Repel The Many And Compel The Few With Impact, Purpose and Belonging” https://www.amazon.com/Give-Get-Employer-Branding-Belonging/dp/1544507062Claim Your Free Gift!We're giving away a one-year membership to the world's #1 business book summary service for leaders! Our gift will help you stay on top of the latest ideas, decide which books to read next, and engage your teams.To get your gift:Leave a rating or review on your favorite listening channel.Take a screenshot of your review.Share the screenshot on LinkedIn, and mention either “Allison Dunn” or “Deliberate Directions” and the “Deliberate Leaders Podcast”.=============Allison DunnExecutive Business CoachDeliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702(208) 350-6551Website https://www.deliberatedirections.comLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunnPodcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

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Professor Marina Papanastassiou speaks to Professor Peter Buckley about Global Value Chains (GVC) and the role of emerging market multinationals. They discuss how recent phenomena – Brexit, the pandemic, and the semiconductor chip shortage – have affected Global Value Chains. Professors Papanastassiou and Buckley also talk about the role the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL) plays in International Business (IB) theory development.  This podcast episode was recorded remotely in October 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/243/podcast_episode_36_-_transcript (transcript of this episode) is available.   Visit the https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cibul (CIBUL website) for further information.  About the speakers: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1106/professor-marina-papanastassiou (Marina Papanastassiou) is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is a member of the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL). Marina's research interests include the global innovation strategies in multinationals (MNEs) and their network of overseas subsidiaries and R&D laboratories; the decision making process in MNEs and in particular the dynamics between HQs and subsidiaries; global value chains and the role of MNEs in SDGs such as food security; impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth and development; the internationalisation of start-ups, and the role of incubators in local systems of innovation.  https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions-international-business/staff/248/peter-j-buckley- (Peter Buckley) OBE is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School, and is the Founder/Director of CIBUL. His current research interests centre on the theory of the multinational firm; knowledge management in multinational firms; the international transfer of technology; the impact of foreign direct investment particularly in China; and outward direct investment from emerging countries: China and India. 

O nosso convidado de hoje é o Daniel Antico. Daniel é Bacharel em Administração pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo; MBA em Finanças, Controladoria e Auditoria pela Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). Iniciou sua carreira na área financeira chegando até o nível de diretor, e desde 2007 atua na área de vendas, especializado em B2B e B2C, atuando com empresas de produtos, serviços e soluções, focado em política de canais e gestão de times de vendas. É sócio na Actavox, GVC na BHC Sistemas e apresentador do programa B2B 4.0 no canal do CT Segurança. Envie o seu áudio para o Whatsapp:(11) 9 8987-7715 e participe conosco, falando sobre o que mais gostou nesse episódio, sugerindo temas e mandando seu recado para o maior podcast de segurança do país. Esse conteúdo é gratuito. E você pode contribuir, para que chegue a mais pessoas, tornando-se membro do CT por menos de 1 real por dia: https://ctseguranca.com.br/seja-membro

On this episode of The RecruitingDaily Podcast, we have guest Bryan Adams on to discuss employer brand reputation by design.  Bryan is CEO and founder of Ph.Creative, a full-service employer brand communications agency that specializes in building world-class employer brand, EVP and talent engagement strategies for companies such as Apple, American Airlines, GVC and Blizzard Entertainment.Bryan did not write the song, "Everything I Do," but he does employ "Give and Get" thinking.  He's also a two-times best-selling author, podcaster and specialist speaker and has brilliant taste in button-up shirts.Today we answer these questions: How have you seen people approach reputation during the COVID era? How does an organization intellectually and emotionally find the space to build branding in a lucrative way? How do you avoid the trap of creating a utopian illusion of your company while building its forward-facing brand? And more, of course.  Tune in to find out. 

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本文章发布于订阅号：百车全说，订阅号阅读更加方便，欢迎关注今天，我们聊一聊3月12日刚刚上市的2021款马自达阿特兹。2020年是一个很神奇的年份，只要是姓马的，好像都会遇到点事儿，比如马云、马化腾、马斯克、马保国……以及马自达，很多男同胞也会感慨，他们最讨厌的其实是马赛克，因为阻碍了他们探索人类的奥秘。马自达在2020年上半年遇到的“异响门”，导致销量下滑严重，本来月销还能有4000多台，后来最差的一个月销量只有600多台。那么，到了今天这个时间点，我们买到的2021款阿特兹，还会异响吗？这个异响问题到底是什么原因导致的？2021款阿特兹到底是否值得入手？今天就和大家一起来讨论一下。2021款与之前有什么区别？我相信，很多想买阿特兹的朋友，肯定很纠结阿特兹的异响问题。咱们先明确一点，2021款的阿特兹，已经换到了一汽马自达的新工厂生产，采用全新的生产工艺和制造装备，而且，因为之前异响门事件对于马自达品牌影响极大，所以马自达内部从上到下都很重视，一汽马自达后来联合日本马自达蔚山工厂，对2021款阿特兹进行联合测试，一汽马自达用盲选、抽检的方式随机检验从生产线上下来的新车，对整车静音效果进行评测。之前有网友看到，已经有4S店承诺，只要2021年8月31日前出现异响，就全额退换，这个条款还是挺让我震撼的，如果当年奔驰如果也有这个条款的换，我肯定义无反顾的退了它。中国有句古话，叫做“祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏”，也正式由于这次异响门，曾经主打价值营销的马自达，一直守着高价不给优惠，现如今也开始大幅优惠来换取销量，目前阿特兹终端优惠都在4万上下，2.5排量落地都不到20万，还是那句话：只有卖不出去的价格，没有卖不出去的车。现在的2021款，相比于之前的2020款阿特兹，其实只是一次年度小改款，或者换句话说，只是一次增配，官方指导价17.58-23.98万，一分钱都没有变，其中，2.0L车型有三款配置：蓝天时尚版（17.58万）、蓝天豪华版（18.98万）、蓝天尊贵版（19.88万）；2.5L车型也有三款配置：蓝天运动版（19.98万）、蓝天尊崇版（21.88万）、蓝天至尊版（23.98万）。最畅销的版本，一直是19.98万的2.5L蓝天运动版，也就是2.5L的入门版，这次标配的配置增加，就更加能成为热销配置；其次，2.0L蓝天豪华版也很受欢迎，不追求动力，但追求配置丰富的，可以选这个配置；如果动力和配置都要合适，那就选择21.88万的蓝天尊崇版……阿特兹，基本上就看这三个版本。由于是小改款，所以整台车在外观、内饰、三大件也没有什么太大的变化，动力总成依然是2.0L和2.5L的自然吸气发动机，匹配6挡手自一体变速箱。这次最肉眼可见的改变还是在配置上，尤其是中高配的主动安全配置：360°全景影像在2021款上，除了最低配的蓝天时尚版以外全系标配，而同样的配置在之前的2020款上，只有次顶配、顶配和纪念款才有。在此基础上，2.0L蓝天豪华版和2.5L蓝天运动版增配了并线辅助、倒车车侧预警；2.0L蓝天尊贵版和2.5L蓝天尊崇版增配了车道偏离预警、主动刹车、自适应巡航，同时2.0L蓝天尊贵版还另增配了一个HUD抬头显示。总之，阿特兹还是那个阿特兹。创驰蓝天真的厉害吗？既然聊到了马自达，那自然不得不提一个关键性的名词“创驰蓝天”，很多人都以为创驰蓝天是那套发动机的名字，如果这么去理解，那就只能说“小了，格局小了”。在我看来，马自达创驰蓝天的优势主要有三个地方：第一，是创驰蓝天发动机。我们都知道，创驰蓝天发动机是业内效率最高的民用四缸自然吸气发动机之一，诸如“4-2-1排气”，“高压缸内直喷技术”、“凹孔活塞”……这些专业名词，我们暂且不提，因为解释起来有点枯燥，主要特点和效果就是，在运用了这些技术和设计之后，能够在兼顾油耗、动力、低扭表现的同时，还保留了自然吸气发动机的动力线性输出。第二，是这套6AT变速箱。这套创驰蓝天6AT变速箱，依靠小型液力变矩器加上多片式大范围锁止离合器，再配上马自达一贯的优秀调教，使得这套变速箱的换挡逻辑很聪明，这也得益于马自达这么多年的调教经验，最终得到的效果，就是有超快的换挡速度、超越手动挡的传动效率、在一定范围内尽可能的省油，以及较低的顿挫感。我之前看网上有人说这套6AT是爱信的特供版本，因为很多人觉得这套变速箱在整体结构布局上，跟爱信的纵置6AT（代号A761E）有很多相似之处，在这里也是要解释一下，马自达这颗横置6AT变速箱，其实和爱信的那颗纵置6AT（代号A761E）是两回事儿，因为在整体机构设计上就不是一个路子，并且在变速箱的生产方面，也不是马自达去找爱信做代工的，因为马自达在泰国春武里和日本防府拥有两个变速器工厂，专门就用来干这事儿。当然，这不是说马自达没有用爱信6AT的车，比如马自达旗下的MX5，由于是纵置后驱的小跑车，马自达自己也没有能力去单独为这一款车进行变速箱的开发，所以用的是爱信纵置6AT变速箱，但是马自达针对这台车进行了一些调教，所以你会发现，MX5这台车虽然动力不强，但是非常的好开。第三，是创驰蓝天的车身。关于“轻量化设计”、“安全结构设计”、“高强度钢的应用”……这些都不用多提，很多人已经很熟悉了，这些带来的结果，就是所有采用创驰蓝天技术的马自达车辆，包括昂克赛拉、阿特兹、CX-5……全都拿到了美国高速公路安全保险协会(IIHS)最顶级的安全评级“TSP+”，而且这三款车是从2013年开始连续获得好评，只有2013款的CX-5，因为小角度偏置碰撞得到M级评价，整体评分是“TSP”，没有拿到“TSP+”，此后的新款解决了这个问题。但是，国产的阿特兹在之前中保研所公布的新一轮碰撞测试成绩中，在正面25%偏置碰撞测试的时候，阿特兹方向盘横移过度，使得正面气囊没有起到绝对保护作用，侧气囊的有限保护作用不大，安全带也没有起到足够的约束作用，使得假人前倾过度，并且阿特兹的A柱发生了弯折，车身形变甚至传递到了车尾……所以，如果2021款阿特兹不能拿出足够的证据或者测试成绩来表明自己在安全性上进行了改善、提升，那么所谓的“安全性”在消费者眼里似乎更像是吹牛X。归根结底，创驰蓝天是马自达对他们最新一代技术的总称，马自达在当年对车辆的发动机、变速箱、车身、底盘进行了全面革新，似乎一切比之前的马自达都要好，但是，也只是比之前的马自达更好。现在已经是2021年了，汽车市场一直处于不断的变化之中，其他厂家也会随着时代的发展，不断推出新的技术和新的概念，而马自达的创驰蓝天技术摆在几年以前，还有人会去买账，而现在这套技术给我感觉更像是一块遮羞布，遮住了这套老旧的技术，还有羸弱的动力总成，并且这套技术马自达还会继续用多久，这一点其实是要打个问号的。而且，马自达一直在强调自己车辆的运动性，但是，在没有足够的发动机功率的前提下，一味突出车辆的操控性，总有一种“顾左右而言他”的味道在里面，并且现在的涡轮车越来越好开，动力调的越来越高，变速箱越来越聪明，以至于在同样的动力级别下，涡轮车的爆发力就跟打了鸡血一样，而阿特兹即使是2.5L版本的车型，192马力/252牛米的机头数据也只是堪堪够用，更不用说后期难以进行发动机动力升级这个老问题了。而针对阿特兹的动力提升，目前比较主流的方法也只是加装机械增压套件，升级后的机头数据大约在260马力/326牛米，配合其它的硬件升级，百公里加速成绩实测下来基本上就在6.2s左右……相比于同价位涡轮车的升级潜力和升级后的成绩，阿特兹的表现实在是有些一言难尽。可能有人会觉得，马自达这套自然吸气发动机配上6AT变速箱的平顺性很好，日常驾驶很得心应手，这一点我也承认，可是这并不能掩盖这台车跑的不算快的事实。什么是GVC技术？说到这次新款的阿特兹，我相信很多人都看到了一个叫“GVC系统”的名词，其实这个东西已经不是什么新鲜玩意儿了，在之前的阿特兹上面都有搭载，只不过这次配备的“GVC系统”又一次升级，变成了“GVC PLUS系统”。简单来说，过去的“GVC系统”是一种依据驾驶员对方向盘的操控，通过改变车辆自身的前后加速度抑制车辆侧倾的控制系统，也是马自达提出的、世界上首次量产化的加速度矢量控制系统。在一般常用的工况下，“GVC系统”依靠对发动机扭矩的控制，使车身侧倾和前倾得到抑制，车身姿态更加稳定，并且“GVC系统”能够在各种各样的常用工况下，减少无效的方向盘操作，让驾驶员对车辆的控制更有信心。当然，这套“GVC系统”的本质，还是为了提升车辆的极限操控性能，目前新款车型配备的“GVC PLUS系统”，是针对过去的“GVC系统”，在性能上又进行了一些提升，但是由于这套系统属于无感系统，只有在高速过弯、绕桩（麋鹿测试）等工况下才能体会到，正常驾驶是感觉不到它的存在的。综合而言，马自达的“GVC系统”是一个很良心的产品，技术含量也比较高，同级别几乎没有车型有类似的技术，和这套系统相类似的，我认为是保时捷的PDCC系统（动态底盘控制），只不过保时捷由于定位和价格摆在这儿，所以会比马自达多出一套主动横向稳定杆。阿特兹的竞争对手们我们都知道，马自达一直走的都是“小而美”的路线，这次参加活动时，厂家的一句话还是挺有意思的：“大企业需要面面俱到，马自达这样的小企业，需要特点鲜明。”所以，包括阿特兹在内所有马自达的车，其实都在走运动路线。那么，同样走运动路线的B级车还有哪些？首先我们可以排除雅阁、凯美瑞、迈腾这些永远是属于“主流消费者”的车，剩下运动气质鲜明的，我第一个想到的是别克君威（18.88-24.98万）。别克君威一直通过“小一号”的尺寸和更加运动的定位，来与自家同是B级车阵营的君越区分，对于别克来说，君越是为了满足主流消费者，而君威则是明目张胆去玩运动。而反观现在2.0T的君威，虽然发动机从原先261马力/350牛米的LTG机头，换成了现在237马力/350牛米的LSY机头，但是破百成绩几乎没变，依然是7秒出头的水平，甚至有实测跑到了6.5秒，比实测8秒开外的2.5L阿特兹要快整整一个量级还不止，而动力对于喜欢运动的人来说，零百加速是最肉眼可见，也是最容易感知的东西，所以君威同级别绝对领先的动力，也帮助这台车吸了不少粉丝。同时，君威还有运动更加彻底化的两款GS版本，尤其是24.98万的尊贵型，直接配上了Brembo四活塞卡钳、一体式运动座椅、CDC可调软硬悬架……花样很多，配置也很厚道，结合市场终端4-5万的优惠，落地价其实并没有和2.5L的阿特兹相差多少。所以，2.0T的君威和君威GS，可以说是2.5L阿特兹的强劲对手，在动力上，君威几乎做到了完胜，而且实际上的操控性，也没有输给阿特兹太多，至于1.5T的君威和2.0L的阿特兹，那就看心情去选吧，君威的动力优势已经不在，但阿特兹的操控还是不变的。再一个，就是采用同样动力总成、但价格更加便宜的雪佛兰迈锐宝XL（16.49-21.99万）。迈锐宝的动力可以参考同根同源的君威，无论是1.5T还是2.0T的车型，用的都是一样的东西，并且和君威出了GS版本一样，迈锐宝XL也出了Redline版本，三款2.0T的配置全部属于这个版本，只是Redline的花样可没有君威GS那么多，什么卡钳、座椅、CDC悬架都没有，更多的是外观和内饰看起来更加运动。这几年，雪佛兰这个牌子不断的被边缘化，但好处就是优惠不断加大。以次顶配的2.0T自动锐联版为例，指导价20.49万，优惠行情5万左右，实际落地也不过17万多，这价格几乎只能买到2.0L的阿特兹，简直是年轻人的第一台运动型车。最后，可能也就剩下一台车了，凯迪拉克的CT4（23.97-25.97万）。凯迪拉克作为豪华品牌，这几年一手“价格下沉”加“越级下探”，抢了不少非豪华品牌的蛋糕。单就运动性这点来说，CT4光是纵置后驱的布局，就比刚才所有车的底子都要好，虽然2.0T的发动机是把君威和迈锐宝XL上的那台LSY竖过来放，但想想自家的老大哥CT5和CT6，同样也是这台发动机，似乎也就释怀了。但是，CT4的变速箱可不像老大哥们那样换成了10AT，而是继续沿用了“神车”ATS-L和老款CT6上的那台8AT，虽然总体表现也还可以，但有一种清库存的嫌疑在里面。相比之下，其实CT4与阿特兹、君威、迈锐宝等车型并没有可比性，因为不论是后驱车的属性，还是这台车本身的性能和改装潜力，都遥遥领先一众前驱车，唯一的问题，就是CT4的定价更高、空间更小，但是在绝对动力的面前，似乎也不是什么太大的问题，毕竟是最入门的凯迪拉克，而且CT4的主要目的，其实是去打BBA的入门级车型，所以这台车不能用普通家用车的眼光去看待。除了这些车以外，标致508L（15.97-22.47万）、日产天籁（仅限2.0T车型，21.68-26.98万），也许也能给你点运动的感觉，尤其是天籁6.9秒破百的数据，看上去也是相当到位，但是天籁的CVT变速箱，拖累了这台发动机的表现，加上天籁目前尴尬的定位，想舒舒服服的当个“沙发暴徒”都有难度。顺便说个题外话，最近日产在杭州举办了一次100米的加速比赛，能赢过2.0T天籁的车主，奖励1000元油卡一张，其实2.0T天籁的动力碾压多数买菜车不成问题，但问题出在这次活动挑战的竟然是“所有量产车型”，于是比赛被比亚迪的电动和插混车主包场，就连3.9秒破百的汉EV四驱高性能版也来了，双电机+四驱的配置，在起步阶段就让天籁吃灰……那么问题来了，这位汉EV的车主打算这么使用这张油卡呢？阿特兹的卖点是啥？那么，现在的阿特兹有什么特点或者是卖点，除了老生常谈的“创驰蓝天”、“魂动设计”、“操控性较好”之外，似乎很难有特别亮眼的配置，甚至可以毫不避讳的说，现在阿特兹的产品力已经远远落后于竞品。首先，阿特兹这台车自身定位是在运动型中级轿车这个分类中，但是相比于其他同样定位在这个范畴里的竞品车辆，阿特兹的动力确实有点惨不忍睹，以至于就会出现这种画面：阿特兹：我操控好。竞品：我崩哭你。阿特兹：我配置高。竞品：我崩哭你。阿特兹：咱们能不能不要说崩来崩去的事儿？竞品：你异响。阿特兹：你还是崩我吧。在老车主那里，阿特兹的口碑已经崩塌过一次，并且早期上市销售的时候，阿特兹也没啥优惠，虽然可以保持自己的调性，但这种调性放在刀兵相见、贴身肉搏的B级车市场里，结局一般都不太好，即便后期经销商放出足够的优惠，或者厂家给出极具诚意的价格政策，在错过了好的时机之后，只会让人觉得自己是举了白旗，同时也会给新车型的销售带来一定的影响。至于很多人吐槽的，说马自达的空间小和内饰不够豪华，我觉得有必要给马自达来证明一下。其实，这里有个冷知识，可以跟大家分享一下，阿特兹其实比迈腾还要长5mm，轴距跟雅阁一模一样，但是阿特兹的后排空间好像跟同级车型谁都比不过，这是为什么呢？其实，这是产品设计的问题，或者说根本不是什么问题，因为阿特兹要追求操控性这一个指标，所以发动机放置在前轴靠后的位置，引擎舱加长，驾驶位置靠近车辆中心点，可以让你在快速变线、劈弯过程中，感受到驾驶乐趣，可是，随之带来的就是肉眼可见的后排空间小，但凡阿特兹愿意牺牲一点操控性，后排就可以立刻宽敞许多。再一个就是马自达的内饰，其实阿特兹在内饰上的用料是很不错的，不管是意大利进口头层牛皮包覆的方向盘、NAPPA真皮座椅、进口北海道栓木的饰板、进口奥司维nu材料的内饰包覆……这些其实都已经超越了车辆本身的定位，所以马自达内饰上的问题并不是材料不好，而是这些好东西没有那种“看着豪华”的感觉，相反是一种内敛的、类似于侘寂美学的设计，所以这也是为什么很多人觉得阿特兹的内饰不够豪华。阿特兹现在还响不响？关于阿特兹异响的问题，也是很多车主和持币待购的朋友所关心的重点问题。从去年开始，阿特兹的“异响门”开始大规模爆发，以至于现在翻开“车质网”的排行榜，时间限定在最近一年，阿特兹还能以1524起投诉排名第一，远远甩开第二名大众速腾的400起投诉，并且阿特兹的投诉主要集中在2020款的异响上，包括但不限于车内异响、车身异响、天窗异响、中控台异响……而关于之前2020款的异响问题，官方的解释是“电泳漆”的工艺问题：在涂装过程的电泳程序中，多余的电泳漆液进入钢板夹缝并形成残渣，之后由于温度升高造成残渣软化，在颠簸路面于钢板间产生反复的粘粘和断开并发出异响，这与使用环境的温度有直接关系，所有异响多发于南方高温地区。当然，除了电泳漆的说法之外，还有车身钣金存在偏差导致异响的说法，但是不论如何，我觉得都不是由于自身设计缺陷引发的，否则国外的阿特兹也会大规模曝光出类似问题，所以问题更多是出在生产环节上。那么，2021款的阿特兹还有这个问题吗？有传闻说，一汽马自达也是想尽了办法，网传的一汽马自达内部资料显示，2021款阿特兹对A柱、B柱、大灯、天窗、翼子板等异响高发区域，进行了加工精度的升级，据说还将2021款车型搬到了新的生产线上生产，同时找到日本那里进行联合测试，据说测到现在还没发生什么问题。所以，综合现有的信息来判断，2021款应该是在一定程度上缓解了异响的问题，但是如果你真的想买阿特兹，我觉得还是再等一等，至少等个半年以上，再根据到时候的实际情况来考虑。下一代阿特兹会是什么样的车？之前我在网上看到一些关于下一代阿特兹的讯息，据说要采用新平台、纵置后驱、直列六缸、48V轻混……虽然目前还都是猜测，但是我还是抱有一定的期待，毕竟在各家车型趋于同质化的今天，马自达如果真的能像猜测的那样造车，甚至把下一代转子也给弄出来，那就非常有意思了。不得不说，马自达非常倔强，在这个燃油转向电动的时代拐点，特斯拉与众多新造车势力大行其道，许多传统品牌都加快了电动化的进程，而马自达不仅涡轮化的步伐十分缓慢，他们甚至希望榨干内燃机的最后一丝潜能，尽管先前成功量产了压燃发动机，但整体发动机的动力表现却差了点意思。在这次活动期间，厂家表示之前阿特兹的定位只是“运动”，而未来要向“运动+豪华”靠拢，而这再一次让我想到马自达的愿景：成为一个豪华品牌。只是在目前看来，这种“向上突破”也许只是马自达的一厢情愿，毕竟马自达现在的品牌力、规模和产品摆在这里，想成为豪华品牌的难度还是挺大的。反观马自达本身，这个品牌虽然一直以来都不是靠性价比卖车，但是它和豪华两个字的距离其实更远，马自达在这个时间点主动提出豪华品牌战略，我只能看作是马自达没有办法的办法，毕竟作为一个小厂，活下去才是首要任务。音频图文更新在订阅号： 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In this episode I chat with Richard Gordon, Employer Brand Manager at Entain, formerly known as GVC. Entain is one of the world's largest sports-betting and gaming groups, operating both online and in the retail sector. The Group employs a workforce of more than 24,000, in 20 offices across five continents. Rich leads the employer brand at Entain. Rich and his team are responsible for employer brand content across their employer marketing channels and work closely to employee engagement. We chat about what it's like managing an employer brand during a pandemic and also during a global rebrand from GVC to Entain. We talk about how they ensure they live the employer brand through actions, not just marketing messages. And we look at what content plans are in-store at Entain in 2021. Rich has been busy in the 12+ months he's been at Entain. Amongst all of the content he and the team have produced, what puts a smile on Rich's face? It's this video that shows what the people of Entain did during the pandemic. Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eTtFkbtjPk Thanks for listening. Chris Host of the Employer Content Marketing Pod www.lch.social --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/employercontentmarketing/message

Head of Political Betting at GVC, which includes the Ladbrokes, Coral and Bwin brands. With particular expertise in US and UK politics, this will be the fourth Presidential election that he has headed up for Ladbrokes.

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On the Vox Markets Podcast Today: 13th August 2020 Graham Swindells, CEO of Deltic Energy #DELT discusses the enhanced prospectivity at their Selene prospect and the processed 3D seismic data over their Pensacola prospect. Colin Bird, Executive Chairman of Xtract Resources #XTR provides a general update on their copper / gold production and exploration projects. (Interview starts at 7 minutes 52 seconds) Chris Bailey founder of Financial Orbit covers news from the following companies: GVC Holdings #GVC Tui #TUI & Dignity #DTY (Interview starts at 20 minutes 48 seconds) Glen Goodman, former ITV News Business correspondent and now author of, "The Crypto Trader", covers this week's Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency news. (Interview starts at 41 minutes 7 seconds) Vox Markets is revolutionising the way companies engage with shareholders and the stock market at large. By aggregating IR and digital content onto one secure and compliant platform, Vox Markets has established itself as the go-to resource for the investment community. #VoxMarkets #StockMarket #LivePrices #StockMarketNews #Money #Investing #Investments #Finance #Business #Podcast https://www.voxmarkets.co.uk/