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Send us Fan MailThis week on the podcast, the fashion designer who is known as the “King of Pants,” Alvin Valley, stops by the show. We talk about where he picked up the moniker, how his first runway show came with a little help from Kathy Hilton, and so much more.*****Named the “King of Pants” by The New York Times, designer Alvin Valley's journey revolves around Miami and, of course, pants. Born in New York City, and educated at the University of Miami, where he studied architecture, Valley's designer roots are firmly planted with Miami fashionistas. Back in 1995, Valley dressed Miami's social scene with his eponymous label, which was sold at his Coconut Grove boutique nestled on Commodore Plaza. Best-known for crafting the best-fitting pants for women, New York socialites beckoned him to the Big Apple to open a SoHo atelier. “In 2000, I packed my bags and left for New York to pursue a wider audience,” Valley says of his move. And a great decision. Valley showed regularly during New York Fashion Week with a presence in over 250 stores worldwide. His doors included well-established retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Intermix, and Fred Segal.Hollywood embraced him, too. “I've always interacted directly with consumers,” Valley says of his business technique. He forged close relationships with his clients, including Kate Winslet, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Saldana, Penelope Cruz, Eva Longoria, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, Cher, Cameron Diaz, Celine Dion, Jennifer Garner, and more.In 2007, the Moret Group acquired the Alvin Valley brand, expanding its distribution to Nordstroms, Macy's, Bloomingdale's and even QVC. “I'm going back to the basics and bringing back my amazing pants. I'll be making visits around the U.S. to reconnect with my customers and I can't wait to visit Miami — because my career started there,” Valley says. “I feel like my life is coming full circle.”Check out his designs here: https://alvinvalley.com/Follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alvinvalley/*****If you would like to contact the show Dauna@betertopodcast.comFollow us on Social MediaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0ETs2wpOHbCuhUNr0XFTw?view_as=subscriberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_d.m.needom/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettertopodcastwithdmneedomSupport the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/bettertopodcastwithdmneedom©2026 Better To...Podcast with D. M.NeedomSupport the show
Rich comes through with an artifact from a post-9/11 episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show while Tracie shares celebrity anecdotes about that day, from the likes of Andy Cohen, David Duchovny, Michael Jackson, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Also, Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton died. And Tracie highlights a TikTok-er whom she believes has exploited Lindsay Clancy's murder child.To access video episodes, bonus episodes and our premium series WAWU check out our Patreon.Tracie's SubstackInstagramTikTok ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Tom and Bert cover and discuss some great SONGS with the "ORIGINAL" Artist vs "REMAKE" Artist.Some amazing songs were recorded thru the decades and the guys go through the songs that they enjoyed with multiple Artists singing the same tunes.Listen in as we discuss the merits of these songs and give our straight up opinions on who we believe is the Winner of each of these versions/"bouts". There are really no losers. Do you all have a favorite version? Let us know.CHAPTERS:(:30) INTRO(1:37) Match #1--- "I'm a Man"- The Spencer Davis Group vs Chicago(5:00) Match #2--- "I will always Love You"- Dolly Parton vs Whitney Houston(7:55) Match #3--- "Cruisin'"- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles vs Huey Lewis with Gwyneth Paltrow(10:45) Match #4--- "Rocket Man & Cold Heart"- Elton John vs Dua Lipa with Elton John(16:45) Match #5--- "What a Wonderful World" & "Somewhere over the Rainbow"/"Wonderful World" mix- Louie Armstrong vs Israel Kamakawiwo'ole(23:30) Match #6--- "The Locomotion"- Little Eva vs Grand Funk Railroad(26:45) Match #7--- "If You don't know me by Now" - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes vs Simply Red(30:50) Match #8--- "Everlasting Love"- Robert Knight vs Carl Carlton(35:12) Match #9--- "Fast Car"- Tracy Chapman vs Luke CombsAnd it's a wrap! See y'all next week with our Part 2 of Originals vs Remakes!Enjoy the show!You can email us at reeldealzmoviesandmusic@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page, Reel Dealz Podcast: Movies & Music Thru The Decades to leave comments and/or TEXT us at 843-855-1704 as well.
Brittany's Kiddo is ready for Christmas and Kendall's took a big ol' bite of her. The Hollywood Rivalry we never knew we needed... Tom Hanks vs Henry Winkler. Trouble in paradise for Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz, Stella Parton might not have been the normal one and the Quote of the Week from Gwyneth Paltrow. Why Gen Z'ers are NOT showering before dates anymore. Both Gigi Hadid and Sandra Bullock talk navigating Hollywood with kids. RealiTEA with Todd Tucker getting ahead of divorce and Next Gen NYC as Arianna juggles 3 men. Princess Diana's Revenge Dress is hitting the market soon. Hot To Go with Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, Henry Winkler vs Tom Hanks and more Invictus Games drama. We play Family Feud and it's GARBAGE DAY!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Pop Culture Thursday: Jared reads the latest celebrity headlines from Page Six and gives his unfiltered takes!Peter Weber's Secret Romance With Bachelor Producer RevealedBilly Baldwin Names Sharon Stone in Explosive FeudGwyneth Paltrow Reveals Vagina Candle Backstory!!Diana Rossini's Comeback After Mike Vrabel ScandalLori Loughlin's Hollywood Comeback After DivorceGiada De Laurentiis Injured Before Dancing With the StarsTyler Cameron Joins Dancing With the StarsHannah Brown's Tension With Bachelor Producer Julie LaPlacaCheck Jared's New NETFLIX Special
E News: Nicolas Cage's house has a giant sinkhole, Chris Rock is not as rich as you think, Celebs that were in beauty pageants, The Royals were not expecting that letter from King Charles, Sandra Bullock is talking about her friends, Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about Brad Pitt, and more... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Good Morning, E News: Nicolas Cage's house has a giant sinkhole, Chris Rock is not as rich as you think, Celebs that were in beauty pageants, The Royals were not expecting that letter from King Charles, Sandra Bullock is talking about her friends, Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about Brad Pitt, Fake or For Real, Jeff's Italian Word of the Day: I took a huge hit, News That Didn't Make the News: Stud or dud dating, Every day inconveniences, Ice cream that looks like food, Girl Scouts are now making dog cookies, Working close to open, Second Date Update: Just a little something extra for you, 1K Letter of the Day, Where is Fun Robby?, and more… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week, we're looking back at our youth. Rob has curated some of his favorite conversations about youthful antics from the seven years of Literally! for this special episode. This episode features moments from interviews with Jo Koy, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Chernin brothers, Ralph Macchio, Penn Badgley, and Michael Cera. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
This week on Forgotten Cinema, the Mikes take a look at "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", the ambitious 2004 sci-fi adventure starring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie.Butler remembered enjoying the visual style of the film more than the movie itself. On this revisit, even that appreciation has faded. The film seems caught between two aesthetics. It never fully embraces the bold color of a pulp comic brought to life, but it also cannot commit to the stark, high-contrast black-and-white look that might have better suited the material. Instead, much of the movie is intentionally washed out and soft; leaving its once-groundbreaking visual approach feeling surprisingly muted.The bigger problem for both Mikes is the story. "Sky Captain" drops the audience into an alternate world without giving us much opportunity to understand it, follows a hero we barely get to know, and introduces a collection of characters who rarely receive enough screen time to become emotionally involving. For an adventure movie, there are also surprisingly long stretches where the adventure itself feels missing.At roughly an hour and forty-five minutes, the film feels considerably longer than it is. Field even fell asleep during his first viewing and had to go back and finish it. He ultimately feels the material might have worked better as interactive media or even as a short film, which is fitting considering the feature grew out of a short inspired by the old serials that once played before movies.There are still things to appreciate. The performances are solid, the effects remain impressive in places, and the amount of post-production accomplished with tools similar to the Adobe software available to home users in the early 2000s is genuinely fascinating. Most importantly, the studio took a real creative swing on something visually unusual, and both Mikes would rather see Hollywood continue taking those kinds of risks than avoid them entirely.Unfortunately, ambition alone does not make the finished film work. "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is an interesting experiment, a technically impressive production, and ultimately a bit of a miss.What are some other pulp serial homage films? Let us know in the comments below!
Welcome to Steam Powered Movies! The podcast hosted by Dana & Mike Fraedrich where we watch a steampunk film and then talk about it. This month's movie was "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" starring Gwyneth Paltrow & Jude Law. Does this movie look cool? Is the writing any good? Do we get sports-y? Tune in to find out!If you enjoy this podcast, please leave us a review!Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/7St3aZ2cxSOn Bluesky @steampoweredmovies.bsky.socialInstagram & Threads @SteamPoweredMovieswww.SteamPoweredMovies.comFor more info on Dana's books & events visit www.WordsByDana.comAll music by Mike Fraedrich (c) 2022Produced by Mike Fraedrich
It's the last week of Scott-Free August, and Kara is joined by Jennifer Welch, co-host of the "I've Had It" podcast. They unpack Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario, Milo Yiannopoulos' deportation, and Gwyneth Paltrow's postponed soiree for Sam Altman. Plus, journalist Karen Attiah stops by to discuss winning her job back at The Washington Post, after getting fired in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.Watch this episode on the Pivot YouTube channel.Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial.Follow us on Bluesky at @pivotpod.bsky.socialFollow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast.Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email Pivot@voxmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Det er endnu engang tid til en lidt forsinket nyhedsepisode - denne gang uden Eva Jørgensen i studiet, ære være hendes minde. Til gengæld er alle tre værter klar foran mikrofonen med en flok semi-aktuelle nyheder direkte til dine øregange. Enjoy! Af Streamingnyheder kan du se frem til: Spotify giver den AI-gas // Spotify indgår samarbejde med Universal Music // Netflix siger 'nej tak' til instruktører, som vil have film i biografen // Spotify reserverer koncertbilletter til superfans // + Tobys Kendissladder feat. Ne-Yo, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Cristo Fernandez, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Dennis Knudsen (of course) og Signe Marie Frost // samt Contentkassen starring Fourth Wing, The Stormlight Archive, Love is Blind, Reacher, Ghostbusters, Ahsoka og Mr. Rogers. Vi høres på åen. Forresten... Vi er på Twitter- og Instagram-mediet: @streamaaen. Og også Facebook: www.facebook.com/streamaaen. Kontakt os gerne: streamaaen@gmail.com. Bag podcasten står Peter Vistisen, Tobias Iskov Thomsen og Anders Zimmer Hansen - alle tidligere danseglade Anderser i Gaden. Yderligere noter: Musik: News Theme 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Artist: http://audionautix.com/.
Eddie and Emily both were kinda going at each other's throats the other day making fun of each other's interests and hobbies. Well it seems like they both owe each other an apology when we go down the list of the trendiest hobbies and both of theirs seem to make it on! It was a Free Comedy Friday with Taylor Williamson who stayed with us for a whole hour! See him this weekend at the Comedy Store in La Jolla! We all know how much Eddie hates Gwyneth Paltrow. Well it seems like her business "GOOP" is coming to San Diego and Eddie is not happy about it...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eddie and Emily both were kinda going at each other's throats the other day making fun of each other's interests and hobbies. Well it seems like they both owe each other an apology when we go down the list of the trendiest hobbies and both of theirs seem to make it on! It was a Free Comedy Friday with Taylor Williamson who stayed with us for a whole hour! See him this weekend at the Comedy Store in La Jolla! We all know how much Eddie hates Gwyneth Paltrow. Well it seems like her business "GOOP" is coming to San Diego and Eddie is not happy about it...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erin Ryan and Melissa Murray (Strict Scrutiny) dive into the multi-state legal battle over custody of a child born via surrogacy and the firestorm of politics swirling around it, and Natalie Harp's creepy relationship with Donald Trump. Then Kate Glavan (Seamossgirlies) stops by to talk about Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop's partnership with Big Tech. They wrap up in the sanity corner with a toast to the late great Dolly Parton and rant about Oreogate.Inside the McKenna West Case (Katie Couric Media 8/18)One Woman Conceived a Baby. One Carried Him. Who's the Mother? (NYT 8/25)The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp (The Atlantic 8/20)Sean Duffy in the Real World (The New Yorker 8/23)The Goop Emoji (Puck 8/25)Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.You can request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.
With Avengers: Endgame returning to theaters in late September and with the debut of Avengers: Doomsday just under four months away, Earth's Mightiest Heroes are SO back! Join The Watchers as we break down all the latest news from the Marvel Cinematic Universe – from the Endgame Encore trailer and a Special Look at Doomsday to the new X-Men cast and the first teaser for VisionQuest! #AvengersEndgameEncore #avengersdoomsday #avengers #marvel #mcu #doctordoom #xmen #visionquestAvengers Endgame Encore (2026) is the re-release of Avengers: Endgame (2019), a a superhero epic directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Brolin. Avengers: Doomsday (2026) is a superhero movie directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Channing Tatum and Pedro Pascal.Avengers: Doomsday Special Look trailer: https://youtu.be/X1aFkAkFASk?si=AnpCxYRsWv9HuT7AAvengers: Doomsday official trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGkAvengers: Doomsday Clockhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17J3AXVK5wAvengers: Doomsday teaser trailersSteve Rogers: https://youtu.be/UiMg566PREA?si=Dw9AvoSav0PuheI0Thor: https://youtu.be/1clWprLC5Ak?si=d9r-ixmgy-05nUwwX-Men: https://youtu.be/kH1XlwHQv9o?si=mux29uqXG4ew_LkoWakandans & Fantastic Four: https://youtu.be/399Ez7WHK5s?si=sUFwF4_E97hlpSyOAvengers Endgame: Encore trailer: https://youtu.be/L2NAh3CIdig?si=BG_CnkwYvtGN9jVDWatchers Assemble! Check out our previous coverage of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!Avengers: Endgame May 2019 review: https://youtu.be/UFAG19oNCyITop 5 moments from Avengers: Endgame: https://youtube.com/live/iGVy42mKzNEAvengers: Age of Ultron 10-year anniversary celebration: https://youtube.com/live/GWmvIjh20Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement #avengers #avengersendgame #avengersendgameencore #avengersdoomsday #avengers #rdj #doctordoom #ironman #tonystark #victorvondoom #robertdowneyjr #chrisevans #steverogers #captainamericamovie #avengersendgame #peggycarter #hayleyatwell #thor #chrishemsworth #loki #mcu #marvel #marvelcinematicuniverse #marvelstudios #xmen #fantasticfour #thunderbolts #newavengers #avengersassemble #antman #falcon #blackpanther #shangchi #spiderman #spidermanbrandnewday #watchersbasement #avengersdoomsdaytrailer #professorxavier #professorxavier #magneto #charlesxavier #eriklehnsherr #patrickstewart #ianmckellen #cyclops #jamesmarsden #scottsummers #blackpanther #shuri #thanos #joshbrolin #blackwidow #scarlettjohansson #hawkeye #jeremyrenner #markruffalo #hulk #hulksmash #incrediblehulk #therussobrothers
Lauren's guest is Sophia Rivka Rossi, author of Between Friends. They discuss summer 2026 fitness trends, the Foster sisters, why they don't shop at J.Crew, Gwyneth Paltrow's upcoming Amagansett dinner for Sam Altman, Charles Porch, Emily Oberg, kitten heels, 501s versus 505s, and plenty more.
In episode 2113, Jack and guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra are joined by co-host of Pod Yourself A Gun & Mad Yourself A Man, Vince Mancini, to discuss… Gwyneth Paltrow Allegedly Hosting “Off-The-Record” Sam Altman Dinner, GTA VI Incentive Being Used to Get Soldiers to Reenlist, Dirtbike Hero, Wait Turtles Is Birds? A Janky Cartoon About A Cow Is A Surprise Box Office Hit In China and more! Gwyneth Paltrow is rumored to be throwing a party for AI mogul Sam Altman. People don’t love the optics Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Has Embraced Tech for Years. Now She’s Hosting Sam Altman at Her Hamptons Home Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare If Your Business Doesn’t Offer Workers a 401(k) Plan, Maybe Now Is the Time Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance U.S. Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Protect U.S. and Allied Forces Anduril eyes major Israeli defense deals, expanding partnership talks during CEO's visit From Goop to ‘Gwynocide’: why is Gwyneth Paltrow starring in a luxury Israeli real estate ad? Army unit offers 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as reenlistment incentive Dirt bike rider leads police on erratic chase through Los Angeles County What, Exactly, Is a Turtle? Niu Lai full movie (Bootleg) ‘Bad in every aspect’: derided low-tech animation Niu Lai rivals blockbusters at Chinese box office Movie that went viral for terrible animation becomes China box office hit Chinese Animated Feature ‘Niu Lai’ Turns Online Mockery Into Big Box Office Bucks Low-Budget Animated Movie About A Cow Gets So Popular Theaters Are Using Ridiculous Hand-Drawn Posters Niu Lai (lit. Cow Come) was released without a press kit. Movie theaters in China have begun making their own posters. Director of ‘bizarre’ Chinese film Niu Lai says creators didn’t want to let precision get in way of story 'Niu Lai': Chinese Animated Movie Mocked Online Turns Into Box-Office Sensation How ‘disaster’ film Niu Lai became a hit in China—hand-drawn posters, $47 budget China’s Ugliest Movie Is a Gen Z Masterpiece China’s most ridiculed animation ‘Niu Lai’ is the resistance against AI slop that we need China Lands in Cannes With Robots, AI Films and a Very Clear Message 'Morbius' memes helped give the movie more buzz. But it bombed in theaters after re-release. LISTEN: Vibe (If I Back It Up) by Cookiee KawaiiSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kat Perkins fills in for Brittany, who is out of town, and producer Julia fills in for Mike, who loves to golf. However, Kendall did stick around.This Friday the BK Show talks all types of unhinged goodness! We discuss Kat's time in Sturgis, another Jolie-Pitt kid dumping Brad's surname and a co-worker Rachel's haunted car.Apparently Julia hates shoes, and Kat can't live with out them. Kat is also having some difficulties with her pickling operation. Because we have representation for three generations, the show talks airport etiquette (spoiler alert: Kendall and Kat are way more prepared for flights than Julia).Gwyneth Paltrow makes some bad PR moves, while Harry and Meghan try and recover her acting career. Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi might be the real deal, though Slipknot has broken up. Garbage day gets personal!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week we visit the age old topic: Are nepo babies worthy of the positions they get to or is it just the raw power of the parents that are behind them? Also, is Shelby starting a poop candle company to compete with Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP? Find out!
Mindy Diamond on Independence: A Podcast for Financial Advisors Considering Change
Shannon Spotswood – CEO, RFG Advisory Choosing a platform isn't just about technology or economics. It's about finding a partner that helps you build the business you actually want to own. Shannon Spotswood explains why growth without compromise starts with choosing the right partner. In Summary What should advisors really look for in a platform partner? Jason Diamond sits down with Shannon Spotswood, CEO of RFG Advisory, to discuss why the best platforms do more than provide technology and operational support—they help advisors build stronger businesses. Shannon shares lessons from helping grow RFG into one of the industry's leading supportive independence firms, covering everything from private equity partnerships and advisor experience to enterprise value, branding, and overcoming the fear that keeps many advisors from pursuing the business they truly want. The Storyline Most advisors evaluating independence compare technology, payouts, and service offerings. Shannon Spotswood believes they're asking the wrong first question. After spending two decades in institutional investing and later helping to rebuild RFG Advisory from the ground up, Shannon has developed a philosophy centered on partnership. She argues that the best platforms function less like vendors and more like long-term business partners, helping advisors spend more time with clients, build enterprise value, and create businesses aligned with their vision rather than forcing compromises. Jason and Shannon discuss what meaningful support actually looks like, why the right private equity partner can accelerate growth rather than restrict it, and why advisors should demand evidence – not marketing promises – when evaluating a platform. The conversation also explores one of the industry's biggest obstacles to change: fear. Shannon explains why outdated assumptions about transitioning firms continue to prevent advisors from building businesses they enjoy, even though data suggests the experience is often far less disruptive than many believe. Ultimately, the discussion reframes independence itself—not as the destination, but as the beginning of choosing the right long-term partners. Topics Covered Evaluating advisor platforms as long-term business partners Building an independent business without compromise Enterprise value and organic growth Private equity as a strategic growth partner Advisor experience and client experience Branding and authenticity in wealth management Overcoming fear and transition myths Technology, outsourcing, and operational leverage Leadership, succession, and organizational growth The future of supportive independence > Download a transcript of this episode… Listen and Learn Highlights for Advisors Why should advisors think of a platform as a business partner? (10:00) Shannon explains why technology and service alone aren't enough—and why the right partner should help advisors build the business they ultimately want to own. What does “growth without compromise” actually mean? (10:00–17:30) RFG's philosophy centers on helping advisors focus on their highest-value work while surrounding them with integrated support designed to drive enterprise value. Can private equity make a firm better? (25:00) Rather than debating whether private equity is good or bad, Shannon explains why success depends on choosing a partner whose values and long-term vision align with yours. How should advisors evaluate competing platforms? (43:00) Her advice is simple: don't rely on marketing. Speak with advisors already using the platform and ask firms to demonstrate – not simply promise – how they solve problems. Why does fear keep so many advisors from making a change? (48:30) Shannon discusses the “PTSD” many advisors carry from outdated transition stories and why today's reality often looks very different. What does the future of advisor platforms look like? (34:00–42:00) The conversation explores advisor demand for greater personalization, stronger brands, AI-enabled efficiency, and partners that help advisors grow without sacrificing independence. Key Takeaways The best advisor platforms function as long-term strategic partners—not simply service providers. Enterprise value grows when advisors spend more time serving clients and less time managing operations. Private equity can be highly beneficial when partners share a common vision and respect management autonomy. Advisors should evaluate firms based on demonstrated execution rather than marketing claims. Fear remains one of the biggest barriers to advisor movement despite significant improvements in transition support. Authentic branding and deeper client relationships will become increasingly important as AI reshapes wealth management. https://youtu.be/jaSt3-mO0so Quotable Moments “The right partners make you better. The wrong ones can quietly hold you back.” “Don't tell me. Show me.” “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” “Your team deserves to be happy. You deserve to be happy.” FAQs What should advisors look for when evaluating an advisor platform? Shannon believes advisors should look beyond technology and economics and evaluate whether a platform acts like a true long-term business partner that helps them grow and build enterprise value. How does RFG define “growth without compromise”? By providing integrated support – from technology and compliance to marketing and coaching – that allows advisors to spend more time with clients while maintaining control of their businesses. Is private equity always good or bad for advisor firms? No. Shannon argues that success depends less on private equity itself and more on choosing partners who share the firm's long-term vision and values. Why do advisors hesitate to make a move? Fear and outdated perceptions about transitions still influence decision-making, even though today's transition experience is often much smoother than advisors expect. How should advisors compare competing platforms? Talk directly with affiliated advisors, ask for measurable evidence of results, and focus on how a platform responds to advisor feedback rather than marketing claims. How is AI changing advisor businesses? AI should enhance – not replace – the advisor relationship by creating operational efficiencies that allow advisors to spend more time delivering personalized advice. Shannon believes advisors should look beyond technology and economics and evaluate whether a platform acts like a true long-term business partner that helps them grow and build enterprise value. By providing integrated support – from technology and compliance to marketing and coaching – that allows advisors to spend more time with clients while maintaining control of their businesses. No. Shannon argues that success depends less on private equity itself and more on choosing partners who share the firm's long-term vision and values. Fear and outdated perceptions about transitions still influence decision-making, even though today's transition experience is often much smoother than advisors expect. Talk directly with affiliated advisors, ask for measurable evidence of results, and focus on how a platform responds to advisor feedback rather than marketing claims. AI should enhance – not replace – the advisor relationship by creating operational efficiencies that allow advisors to spend more time delivering personalized advice. Related Resources How to Evaluate a Firm Beyond the Obvious: A Framework for Advisors Why You Should Stay at Your Current Firm Shannon SpotswoodCEO Shannon Spotswood is a 25+ year industry veteran with a tremendous amount of experience across both retail and institutional finance and an outstanding reputation built on her passionate leadership and ongoing success in investment banking, hedge fund portfolio management, business development and retail wealth management. Joining RFG in 2015, Shannon recognized the opportunity to channel her entrepreneurial experience and passion for service into leading a mission to create an Advisor-focused RIA of the Future delivering a supported independence platform that empowers Financial Advisors to build the businesses they want to have, without compromise. Shannon's career has been characterized by her determination to build something bigger than herself. Having fallen in love with finance at only age 14, she was focused on making an impact in a male-dominated industry. After graduating from college, Shannon spent 20 years in San Francisco working in institutional finance. She began her career in investment banking and eventually achieved her dream job as a Portfolio Manager of a long- short equity fund at Symphony Asset Management. The company was acquired by Nuveen in 2001. After a decade at that firm and now a mother of 3 young children, Shannon turned her entrepreneurial passion in a new direction with a drastic pivot to start a luxury children's clothing brand, Busy Bees. Taking her years of experience in qualitative analysis of retail companies, Shannon and her business partner built the brand from the ground up, ushering its' growth from a garage to “Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop” over the course of a few years. Shannon and her family made the decision to move from the Bay Area to Birmingham, Alabama to be closer to family. And shortly after, the call to return to her first love, finance, grew to great to ignore. In 2015, Shannon joined RFG Advisory as President, leading RFG as the firm has grown from $1.8B to over $5B. In July of 2024, Shannon was named CEO of RFG Advisory and currently serves in that role. NOTE: The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Diamond Consultants. Neither Diamond Consultants nor the guests on this podcast are compensated in any way for their participation. View the transcript of this episode… Growth Without Compromise: Building Around the Advisor Experience A conversation with Jason Diamond and Shannon Spotswood, CEO of RFG Advisory. Jason Diamond: Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series for Financial Advisors. Today’s episode is Growth Without Compromise: Building Around the Advisor Experience. It’s a conversation with Shannon Spotswood, the CEO of RFG Advisory. I’m Jason Diamond, and this is the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors. Mindy Diamond: At Diamond Consultants, we help elite advisors identify the right environment for their businesses to thrive, whether that’s at a wirehouse, boutique, or independent firm. With nearly three decades of experience, we’ve guided thousands of advisors and represented more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets transitioned. And each year, one in four advisors managing a billion dollars or more who change firms are our clients. Our process is education-driven and based on building relationships, starting as your strategic partner well before you’re even thinking of a move. To schedule a confidential conversation, call us at 908-879-1002. Wondering why advisors change firms and where they’re headed? Are transition deals going up or down? Those very questions and more inspired us to create our annual advisor transition report. It’s the award-winning data-driven resource designed for advisors that connects the dots between the motivations around movement and the firm’s appetite for top talent. Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to make smart decisions. Download your copy at diamond-consultants.com/transitionreport. Jason Diamond: The right partners make you better. The wrong ones can quietly hold you back. Most conversations about independence focus on platforms as providers of technology, service, or infrastructure. Shannon Spotswood sees them differently. She believes advisors should evaluate a platform the same way they’d evaluate any long-term business partner, by asking whether it will help them build the kind of firm they ultimately want to own. That’s exactly what we explore in this episode. Shannon is the CEO of RFG Advisory, a firm that has grown from a startup into one of the industry’s leading supportive independence platforms. Along the way, she’s developed a unique perspective on what advisors should be looking for beyond economics and technology, and why the right partner can accelerate growth, strengthen culture, and help create a business that’s built to last. It’s a conversation that goes well beyond advisor platforms. We explore why Shannon believes so strongly in growth without compromise, what private equity can look like when the partnership is aligned, why firms shouldn’t try to be everything to everyone, and how advisors can separate marketing promises from meaningful support. We also spend time on a topic that comes up in nearly every transition conversation my team has with advisors, fear. Shannon shares her perspective on why outdated assumptions about making a move continue to hold advisors back and why asking better questions and demanding evidence instead of promises can fundamentally change the way advisors evaluate every opportunity in front of them. Whether you’re considering independence, evaluating your current platform, or simply thinking about what comes next for your business, I think you’ll find Shannon’s perspective both practical and though-provoking, especially the sage advice in her words, “Don’t tell me, show me.” There’s a lot to take away from this conversation, so let’s get to it. Shannon, thanks so much for joining me. Thrilled to have you here. Shannon Spotswood: It’s excellent to be here. I’m really looking forward to it. Jason Diamond: Me too. Let’s dive right in. I want to start with your background. You spent 20 years in San Fran as an investment banker, then as a portfolio manager at Symphony Asset Management before even touching the world of wealth management. So what made you walk away from, we’ll call it the institutional world and enter the world of wealth management? Shannon Spotswood: It’s a little bit of a circuitous story, but I’m going to take us on the short route. I fell in love with Wall Street as a teenager, so I knew I wanted to work on Wall Street. My dream job was actually the time that I spent at Symphony Asset Management. I was a hedge fund manager for them for six years running a long/short equity fund. I then had three children in three and a half years. The firm was acquired by Nuveen Investments, and we grew very large, and I was on this really interesting trajectory within the institutional investment management world. And somewhat of the unexpected happened to me in 2010, we’d come through the financial crisis. I looked around the room, I had these three young children, and having loved finance since a very early age, I couldn’t crawl on an airplane anymore. I fell out of love with what was honestly my first love. And I made a pretty radical pivot. I left Symphony, the tallest building at the time in San Francisco, and I partnered with a woman, and we built a luxury children’s clothing company for the next three years. So about as radical of a move as you can make, a $30 billion firm, big team, a tremendous growth ahead of us to upside down boxes of infant cashmere in a garage that flooded when it rained. So I had my startup in a garage moment. And while I was running the children’s clothing company, my husband and I took a big leap of faith and decided to move from San Francisco to Birmingham, Alabama to get closer to family, to raise our kids in the South, and just manifest the life that we wanted. In the third year of running the kids’ clothing business, we checked every box of our initial business plan, and I turned to my business partner and I was like, “Now what? Should we raise capital? Should we open stores? Should we diversify manufacturing?” And we realized this beautiful little luxury brand that we had created was exactly what it needed to be. And so we restructured the company and I punched out of that. And I spent, really for the first time in my life, about five months in deep contemplation. What was the first hedge fund that I was a part of in San Francisco, my tour of duty through investment banking as an analyst associate and helping them start an M&A group. This incredible decade that I’d spent at Symphony, and then this wild out of left field moment of building a luxury children’s clothing brand. And it had such an epiphany, Jason. And it was this, that I was on the ground floor of all of those businesses. And my aha moment was, oh my gosh, I’m a builder. What I love more than anything is sitting at the intersection of talent and opportunity and what I think is truly one of life’s greatest gifts, and certainly I think the most fun way to live your professional life, which is building something. So I put my resume together and I titled… It wasn’t even really a job search. It was more, I was new to Birmingham. I wondered if there was anything I could be of service in being a part of building something. So I put that resume together and I titled it Seeking the Intangible. And I was looking for that opportunity of talent and building something bigger than myself. And it was through some networking with my across the street neighbor who went on to become a board member of RFG who thought all I did was sell his wife incredibly expensive clothing who networked me to Bobby White, who’s the founder of RFG. And in the first 10 minutes of my conversation with Bobby, and I’ll tell you, both of us went into that meeting thinking it was going to be a filler meeting. He was doing a favor for a friend, and I had seen a little bit of the wealth management industry after Nuveen had acquired Symphony and was like, “That’s not really my bag. My jam is more on the institutional side of things.” And 10 minutes into our very first meeting, we both canceled the rest of our day, and we spent the next two and a half hours in his office having a conversation that really started with what if. What if we took RFG, which had been founded in 2003, and at the time was an OSJ with LPL, what if we took that business and we tore it all the way down to the ground? And we rebuilt it from the ground floor up to be a platform that is designed, that is intentionally engineered, to serve independent advisors? What would it look like to be a client experience company first, a technology company second, and a corporate RIA third? And I’ll tell you, walking out of that meeting, I was like, “This is it. This is it. This is the intangible. This is an opportunity to really build something very special.” And that’s how I found myself sitting in this talking to you today. Jason Diamond: Wow. So there’s a lot to unpack there. Thank you for sharing. And you shared it with a degree of vulnerability that I personally, I have a two-year-old and a three-week-old as of this recording. So it resonates with me. I think it resonates with a lot of advisors, people in our, and honestly, probably most industries, the constant pull in multiple different directions. And I love what you called it, seeking the intangible. And it sounds like you didn’t go in with any preconceived notion about… Many of our guests, by the way, that is the case. They walk in saying, “I knew since I was two years old I wanted to be in wealth management. I wanted to help be a steward of client…” And I love that your circuitous route took you a different direction. I want to talk more about the firm, and we’ll dive in on some of these elements of your background also. But before we do, you mentioned a little bit of, at a high level, what RFG is. Give me a little more context, types of advisors you serve, types of clients you serve. And if you don’t mind, provide some stats around size as well. Shannon Spotswood: Absolutely. So we are on a mission to help independent advisors build their business without compromise by driving organic growth to create enterprise value. And I share that because in our mission statement is the passion that links us all together, which is helping independent advisors build what they want to envision for their clients, what they believe is the best representation of their vision and their values. So we are a platform, a full turnkey platform for independent advisors. We talk about our services as a flywheel. There’s a very intentional interdependency from technology to marketing to compliance to talent to investment management to coaching, operations, transition services, and capital solutions. All of it is knit together very thoughtfully in order to be able to deliver to the advisors on our promise to help them operationalize and professionalize their business, to serve their clients and to generate that organic growth, which is what translates into enterprise value. What is so cool about the RFG advisor community, and I think is really the thread that binds between our teams and our advisors team is this servant heart growth mindset that you find it in every nook and cranny of RFG and certainly within all of our advisor partners. So the advisor profile for us, we do tend to skew a little bit younger. Average age is 45 years old. Organic growth across all of our advisors is north of 10%. So we’re very focused and leaned in on growth. We do have advisors that are lifestyle. We talk about them as lifestyle scaling and enterprise, and they run all along that growth at growth spectrum, depending on what do they want to build in their lives, what is going to help them really realize their dreams? And we’ll talk about this a little bit and just the growth of the firm and what we’ve been building, but we are at $9 billion. So it’s been a big run in 2026, as I say, 10 years of pre-game warmup to be able to really talk about that level of growth. So just knocking on the door of $10 billion and truly, Jason, I can tell you, I feel like we’re just getting started. I feel like we are just at the beginning of the J-curve as advisors are really realizing that their most valuable asset is their time and the amount of enterprise value that they can create being independent. There’s a lot of different flavors of that. We’ve got some incredibly well-capitalized and very strong competitors, but the collective awareness around this bull market for advice that we’re sitting at the very beginning of is shining such a bright light on what does it mean to be independent? What does it mean to be really supported by a partner who’s all in to help them win? And that’s where we find ourselves. And by design, that’s where we find ourselves. Jason Diamond: Yeah, and it’s an exciting time. I completely agree. The space, the vertical you’re in, probably as much or more than any other pocket of the industry. You took the words out of my mouth, the J-curve. I completely agree with the story you’re telling. There’s one component of your background that I do want to ask about, which is many RIAs, platforms, and the like, the leadership team is intentionally ex-advisors in their own right. So I’m curious, do you think of it as a benefit or maybe to what degree is it not a benefit that you have never been an advisor and served clients? I do love the idea that you’re a business builder and you’re helping advisors to build a business. That’s not lost on me, but I’m curious specifically about never having been an advisor. Shannon Spotswood: I think it is so critical that we were advisor-founded. What we like to say is we’re advisor-founded and professionally-led. Bobby founded the firm in 2003. We partnered in 2015. Our third partner, Rick Wedell, who’s our chief investment officer, managing partner, joined in 2016. So the three of us really co-founded the version of RFG that is- Jason Diamond: The right version. Shannon Spotswood: … expressed in the market today. But you’re a hundred percent right to double click on this. And I think it is such an important area for reflection for advisors in terms of where are their greatest skills? Where does their passion lie? And what are they interested in building? That very first day that I met Bobby, his telling of the story is he looked at my resume the morning that we were meant to meet, and he is like, “Well, why would I hire her? She could do my job.” And he often talked about that where you get to this point as an advisor where the business is scaling and growing. And we certainly are seeing this in a lot of the larger teams that we’re talking to and the relationships that we’re beginning to build within the pipeline of these advisors who were attracted to the industry because they wanted to serve clients and find themselves as accidental CEOs, COOs, their chief cook and bottle washer to advisor to all of these C-suite titles. And it’s not amplifying their natural skillset and it’s not aligned with what is actually their passion for the business. So I give a tremendous amount of credit to Bobby for recognizing more than 10 years ago really what it would take and how he could align team around him and build partnerships around him to be able to maximize the impact that we can have for advisors. So that north star of keeping advisors front and center is truly our, it is woven into our DNA and it is our north star. So we are a client experience company by design. We talk about it all the time, whether it’s how we’re building our team, how we’re thinking about investing in technology, how we’re soliciting feedback for advisors. I always say one of our greatest strengths as an organization is we’re active listeners and then we actually execute on it. Our best ideas come from our advisors, but you’ve got to have that posture as a firm that everything you do is orienting around how do we help advisors operationalize, professionalize, drive organic growth, and create enterprise value? And you can’t do it sometimes. You’re either all in, chips all in, only winning when your advisors win, and only having that lens of will this benefit the advisor and their team or not. It’s not something that you can just dip your toe in and out of. And I think RFG, having that foundation from which to always build is absolutely critical. Jason Diamond: Can I try and paraphrase or synthesize, and you tell me if I get this right? The pitch is something to the effect of, “We are really good at what we do. Let us take all the BS off of your plate so that you can go out and be an advisor. Service your client and prospect.” Do you find that story is resonating more over time? I mean, you’ve been with the firm now long enough to see this kind of cycle of movement towards independence. How has that story evolved over time? Do you find it easier to tell? Shannon Spotswood: Oh my gosh, without question. And I would even put a shorter term window on it. I would say in the last 12 to 15 months- Jason Diamond: Oh wow. Shannon Spotswood: … there has been a collective awakening by advisors, and I think there’s a lot of contributing factors to that. One is obviously as we are all aware, the majority of the industry is now private equity backed. There has been a real focus on the aggregator model, transitioning advisors into a W-2 model. And as that has played out and that financial engineering has translated into some incredible valuations and returns, there has also been simultaneously advisors picking their head up and like, wait a minute, I wanted to get independent so I could serve my clients in a way that I felt best represented my vision and my values. And I’m finding myself increasingly in a captive environment. All the while the technology is getting better, the valuations are getting larger, the ability to control both your branding and what that means for your family legacy is increasing. So over the course of the last 15 to 18 months, that story has just, while it’s been there for a long time, the independent movement was obviously sparked more than, gosh, now 16, 20 years ago in earnest. Now it’s just the passion and the knowledge that advisors are showing up to conversations in recognizing I want more. I want to spend my time where I want to spend it. I want to serve more families. I want to be well-positioned for generational wealth transition. I want to own the enterprise value. I want to build my team and I want the best tech. And that to me is exactly why we’re at the beginning of this J-curve. Jason Diamond: Yeah, I think you nailed it. And I agree with you that this notion of independence is not a destination in and of… It’s too broad of a term I think to use. And there are plenty of advisors who either started at one version of independence and need something different now, or to your point, thought they were going independent only to realize perhaps there’s elements of the business that aren’t as independent as they realized. And that’s where I think a firm like RFG to me, it’s not an accident that your firm fills this niche. This was advisor demand driven. Advisors said explicitly and implicitly, “We want to be independent. We want to own our equity. We want to have control over the things we like, but we want a support partner that helps us with all the back office, the middle office, investment management, the flywheel,” as you call it. Shannon Spotswood: That’s right. Jason Diamond: One other element of your journey to this point that I want to ask about, the succession journey or the journey to CEO, and I’m only asking because it’s somewhat recent, I think it was 2024, so we’re about two years in CEO. For the eight years prior to that, you were president. Shannon Spotswood: Yes. Jason Diamond: And this dynamic is near and dear for a lot of advisors. This idea you’re the heir apparent, but the date hasn’t happened until it happened. Was that a smooth transition date or did you find yourself, and I hope you can be honest about it, and if not, I understand, but I think this is something that a lot of advisors in their own businesses struggle with. So as somebody who’s gone through a major succession journey in the last two years, I’m curious what your thoughts are. Shannon Spotswood: The timing coincided with us bringing on a growth capital partner. So we closed on that partnership with Long Ridge in the fall of 2023, and we really set our sights on how do we bring this capital into the business and invest in our team, invest in our technology, invest in this desire to help independent advisors build their business. And Long Ridge really shares that long-term strategic belief that independence and the corporate RIA model is the ultimate winning model. So we have a lot of room to run there. So entering into that growth partnership with Long Ridge really provided a natural opportunity for that succession conversation to take place and to be able to take the company to the next leg. So we’ve tripled the size of the company over the course of the last two and a half years. Jason Diamond: Good for you. Shannon Spotswood: And as I said, I feel like we’re just getting started. I always joke we’ve had the longest pre-game warmup in history. In a lot of ways that’s by design. For me, the way that I can sleep at night is knowing that we are waking up as a team in this unified front to walk the walk for our advisors. It is incredibly important to us to honor the promise that we’ve made, whether it’s on tech or talent or transition services or marketing growth. So being able to lean in and deliver that, it takes a long time to build that institutional know-how and to be uncompromising in consistently making hard decisions, whether it’s around talent or the investments that you’re making or how you’re running and growing and building the firm. And so Bobby reached and Long Ridge and all of us reached this point where it was just a very natural way. And I think it was such a gift that I had such a long warmup, if you will, in the bullpen, running the day-to-day of the business as president, being so close to sweating the details of how we built the foundation, how we run the firm. And then obviously Ed Swenson joined us as president in last fall in October of 2025, having joined our board when we partnered with Long Ridge. So he joined our board in September of ’23, and he and I set up a call every other week. So we just became this incredibly trusted confidant of mine as we made a lot of strategic investments and key strategic decisions in that first 15 to 18 months of our partnership with Long Ridge. So to be able to build and attract the caliber of talent that we have to RFG, I mean, I’m totally biased and talking my own book, but I think we have the best leadership team. Doug Nelson joined us from Long Ridge as our CFO in November of last year, just bringing that rigor, particularly around capital strategies into our C-suite. So it was the right time to make that transition. And what I would say for founder advisor-led firms, it’s all about what are your growth ambitions? It’s what are your growth ambitions? Without question, when I joined and Bobby and Rick and I set upon this journey to tear the entire company down and build this robust tech stack and be at the forefront as an innovator in that space, that was experience that I had from my 20 years in San Francisco. And Rick had this incredible institutional pedigree having spent 12 years at Bain Capital plus two years at Stanford Business School, complimenting this authenticity that Bobby brought as an advisor, bringing that together. So recognizing as a founder advisor, if you have growth ambitions to 10X your business, it’s going to require that you bring high caliber talent to the table and allow for that room both from an equity participation perspective, but also just from what does the business need as it continues to scale up? Jason Diamond: That’s exactly right. And part of this gets back to private equity sometimes gets a bad rep in our space, but the reality is capital from private equity enables a lot of what you’re talking about. And I give you a lot of credit. I mean, you make the half joke about the longest pregame warmup ever, but I think of it as you learned on your own dime and you built all the kinks and ironed out all the kinks prior to having this critical mass of advisors on your platform. And we’ve seen certainly plenty of firms go that route too. So I give you credit for that. I think because we’re on the topic, let’s talk about it, private equity. Positive experience, negative experience, neutral, neither good nor bad. Just give me your… I don’t want to make the episode about the perils- Shannon Spotswood: Right. Jason Diamond: … and benefits of private equity capital, but just curious what your experience has been. Shannon Spotswood: I think this is one of those life lessons. Choose your partners wisely and great things can happen, whether it’s in your marriage or your friendships- Jason Diamond: Spouse. Yep. Shannon Spotswood: … or your business partners. And Long Ridge found us very serendipitously. I mean, we were probably two years from even contemplating bringing in a growth capital partner. They were introduced to us by a former board member and they were in our offices in January of 2023. And the most important things for us were twofold. Number one, they shared our vision and belief that the corporate RIA independent is the winning model for the industry and for advisors and clients. And number two, who they are as people is very much who we are as people. They’re builders. Jason Diamond: Culturally. Shannon Spotswood: They have this servant heart growth mindset that they share with us. So I feel incredibly blessed to say they’re amazing partners. And what’s interesting, and I’ll share this very openly, they’re the majority owners of RFG. We were very early in that time of bringing them on. They have always honored the promise that they made to us, which is we run the business. They are a strategic partner. They’re a great thought partner. They are the capital provider, but there has been multiple examples where we have made business decisions where there’s been some heat in the kitchen, in the boardroom, and we’ve felt very strongly about it. So I just couldn’t say enough great things about them. And one thing that I will just share, and I say this because they’ve shared this with me, I have had this incredible personal journey of growth bringing such a deep bench in Long Ridge into the firm. And that has been certainly challenging at times. Do hard things, get comfortable being uncomfortable. It’s the ultimate definition. But I really think that is something that never gets talked about is what it means in upskilling the caliber of your talent, yourself, how you have to grow and evolve as an individual has been really, I won’t say it’s been easy, but I look back on what I’ve learned over these two years and just feel prepared as a leadership team, how we operate as a team, what is expected of us to be able to deliver and execute for our advisors in this next leg of growth. Jason Diamond: I think your marriage analogy is the perfect one, and I’m going to use it. And honestly, in a lot of ways. First of all, marriage is hard, good or bad. It’s hard. Second of all, it’s the ultimate… The institution of marriage is not good or bad. Private equity capital is not good or bad, but your answer is the right one. Pick your partner very wisely. My favorite part of your answer, because it’s the most original, was around a good capital backer, a good partner, whatever you want to call it, pushes you to be better. And I think that you’re surrounding yourself with, by definition, some of the smartest people in the industry, and that can’t be a bad thing. And the proof is in the pudding. The growth trajectory you’ve seen, it’s certainly no accident. I think part of it is tied to your incredible stewardship. You don’t have to answer that. You don’t have to be humble, but I’ll attribute it to you. That brings me to my next question. Shannon Spotswood: I do have to say really quickly. Jason Diamond: Please do. Shannon Spotswood: I will be celebrating my 27th wedding anniversary in October. So yeah, pick your partners. Jason Diamond: Congrats. And I feel equally blessed, I assume as you do. I have a great partner, I’ll say. I don’t know if she’s listening right now, but she’s a great spouse. What I was going to say though, good segue, I think there’s been more in recent years, but not a ton certainly of female C-suite wealth management executives. How do you feel about your role? Do you feel an increased burden? Is it an honor to you? Is it something that you don’t think much about at all? I’m curious what your thoughts are. Shannon Spotswood: I feel immense gratitude. I mean, just in general, leading RFG and locking arms with our team and our advisors is, I mean, a gift of a lifetime. I was incredibly fortunate to not just have mentors during my 20 years in San Francisco, but to have true sponsors. Whether it was the first hedge fund I worked at, I took that job because it was a female portfolio manager and at the time one of the only in the country. And she really opened up her heart to me and poured into me. And then 10 years at Symphony, the founding partners of Symphony, they dropped me into the deep end of the pool and gave me a lot of rope to make a lot of mistakes and continued to invest. So I have this foundation from which to build and to lead and to be ready for this role. I couldn’t do any of this without my partners. Rick and I have been partners for more than 10 years. It really does take a village in the same way that it takes a village to raise your family. It takes a village to find the courage and the strength to lead in a way that really honors the gravity of the mission. But I’ll tell you this. One, I knew I wanted to work on Wall Street from a very young age, so I chose this. I knew what I was getting into, that it was a male-dominated industry. I have made particularly, this is one of the unique facets of the wealth management business, we have phenomenal both male and female talent, and I have made the strongest female relationships on this side of the business as compared to the institutional side of the business. So I think there is a richness to our side of the industry that doesn’t get enough air cover. There are just phenomenal leaders, and I think increasingly so, we’re seeing more women stay in the game and raise into positions within the C-suite and leading these firms. I will tell you one thing in 2019, and I really give a lot of credit to Bobby for this in coaching me, is I was raised by wolves on Wall Street without question. I sat on a trade desk, I was completely comfortable with compartmentalizing emotion, and I made it a mission to develop intentionally my emotional intelligence. And that truly unlocked everything for me, and I think plays such a huge part of who I want to be and who I challenge myself to be as a leader. And so it’s funny when I get the question asked of me about being a female CEO, because I think that’s what people feel must be like came very intuitively to me, but I had to learn it. I had 20 plus years of being able to run with boys and I needed to develop that skill. And it is a skill that I challenge myself on a daily to continue to lean into. And I think it is increasingly important both for men and women who aspire to leadership to hone the strategic and execution alongside that emotional intelligence. Jason Diamond: Great answer. And I think you know I admire a lot about you, but it’s certainly one of the things I admire most about you is over the last couple years in particular you’ve been a real beacon of positivity, of empowerment in that regard. You’re active on socials, you’re active at industry events, you’re always willing to talk to people. And honestly, that to me is the answer. A lot of people complain about this as a problem, and I want to just take a second to applaud you because I think you and your firm actually do something to at least try and actively solve some of this. And also you mentioned it earlier, but same thing with some of the next gen dynamics. You skew much younger than the average firm on the industry. And I think that too is to your credit around, okay, we’ve identified that we have a major succession problem in our industry. What are we doing to solve that? Shannon Spotswood: Absolutely. Jason Diamond: Let’s talk about growth a little bit. I agree with your thesis. This space you occupy, no better time to be in it. We’re at the perfect spot on the J-curve. Unfortunately, we are not the only two people to think that. There are also, I think, some other firms. This space has become crowded. What do you think about that? Just the fact that there’s more competition than ever. I mean, my view of it is there are enough quality advisors to go around, but curious what you think. Shannon Spotswood: Anytime I find myself wading into the waters of fear and scarcity around this topic, I’m reminded that 67% of the assets still remain within the wirehouse and IBD space. We got lots of room to run. I believe in a mindset of abundance. The data will tell us that the demand for advice is increasing by 30% over the next decade while the number of advisors is decreasing by 1%. So we’ve got, find me another industry where you see a graph that looks like that. On top of that, next gen, which I think this is so fascinating, next gen actually wants more advice when compared to the baby boomers. So baby boomers created our industry, and here we are sitting on $87 trillion worth of generational wealth that’s going to begin to transition. That doesn’t even include all of the wealth that will be monetized through real estate and family-owned businesses. It is a tsunami. And what is, I think, really interesting is that next gen recognizes the value of their time. I’m sure if I had a conversation, Jason, with you and my husband about how intentional you want to be in terms of showing up for your children and the equal nature of parenting, that alone is changing the way the next gen thinks about both their professions as well as their family life, which means you by default have to hire professionals to do the things that you don’t want to spend the time doing. Jason Diamond: Really good point. Shannon Spotswood: So we have this incredible convergence that’s happening right now, and it’s coming at a time that technology is finally going to allow us to serve more families more intentionally along that wealth spectrum. So it is like, bring it on. There is more than enough to go around. We are in an era of abundance. And what I worry the most about, and this, it’s like climb up on the soapbox and let’s roll, about independence because I see and have so many conversations with advisors where they have been willing to accept such a compromised service experience that they would never allow to be delivered to their clients. So advisors are delivering this 24-hour concierge, high-touch, deeply thoughtful experience, estate planning, tax planning, financial planning, multi-generational conversations. They’re in it. They’re in the trench. And then they turn around and their service partner is so subpar. They’re compromising their growth. They’re burying them in compliance and ops and clicks and swivel chair and tech that doesn’t work. So we’re at the very beginning of this bull run for advice. And I think advisors who recognize, I want to serve more families, I want more control over my time, I want to be able to build enterprise value on my personal balance sheet, have room to do it. So I welcome the competition. I think the best way to talk about it is iron sharpens iron. I learn so much from our peers and like, ah, they did this or they did that. How do we think more disruptively, more innovatively? How do we do it differently? So I think there’s a lot of room for all of us. You’re going to be busy, my friend. You’re already sitting there advising the lion’s share of the big deals, and I think you guys are just getting started as well. Jason Diamond: Yeah, it certainly feels like a bull market for advice and also I think a bull market for some of the… You allude to an interesting paradox, which is some of the biggest and most sophisticated advisors in the industry have really high-touch impressive service models, but they don’t seem to demand the same in return. I have some thoughts as to why. I think one could just be Kool-Aid drinking, like you don’t know any better and you’ve been there for so long. There’s just so much friction associated with moving a business and fear associated that it’s unless things get really dire or unless I find something that’s better enough or meaningfully better enough, I can gut it out. But the third one that comes to mind is these firms we’re talking about have unequivocally, they do a lot of good, a lot of bad, but unequivocally one of the things they do really well is brand. Shannon Spotswood: Yeah. Jason Diamond: How do you reconcile that question with a firm that obviously doesn’t have a brand that the average American consumer would know? Shannon Spotswood: We take a posture on this that is rooted in an Accenture study that was conducted several years ago, but I think still remains so true today, is that advisors think that the value proposition that their clients are looking for, either it’s that big monobrand that’s advertising at the Super Bowl or the alpha they’re ever able to generate or the portfolio investments. But the clients tell us that what they’re looking for in an advisor is, do you get me? Do you share my values? And do I want to spend time with you outside the office? And that is basically distilled down the way we talk about it is people connect with people. So now more than ever, particularly if you take a big step back and you think about the influencer economy and how brands, big brands, Nike or big consumer brands have really leaned into niche branding. How do I get my brand into the hands of someone who’s very passionate about it? So advisors who develop their own brand, who have a presence on social, who have a presence in AEO and SEO, who are leaning in and expressing not only their client experience, but their vision and their values through their brand, I actually think as this generational wealth unfolds, that authenticity carries so much more weight than is my name on a football stadium. So it is those three factors. It’s just I’m comfortable. I don’t want ripple. It is friction and fear for sure. And then it’s like that branding is up for grabs because we certainly see one of the most fun parts of advisors joining RFG, this is a big part of what we do is helping them design and develop or reimagine their brand name, their logo, all the rest of it. Once that creative energy is unlocked and you get to tell your story, your my why, that connective tissue is so powerful with the clients and with the growth that comes from that because I mean, I truly believe people connect with people. They’re looking for that. And I think more so now than ever with AI. Jason Diamond: You just took the words out of my mouth. Do you think AI perpetuates that? Shannon Spotswood: I think people are craving that. And this is why advisors who are powered by AI without question are going to win. Advisors are not going to be disrupted by AI unless they haven’t made the move to get themselves in a position to be able to leverage the technology, the brand, the talent, the maximizing of their time. But especially with something as important and as personal as money, as you walk through life, I mean, you are at the very beginning. I’m sending, I’ll have all three kids in college. But as you make these critical decisions in your life, whether it’s getting married or starting a business or changing jobs or buying your first house, buying your vacation house, all of these things, you can go right or you can go wrong. And having a trusted partner who really understands you, I actually think that we’re going to see the fees paid for advisors increasing as there is a greater premium placed on, I want deeply personal relationships that are tailor-made for me. Jason Diamond: But I assume the flip side of that is you have to do more. You as a firm and you as an advisor have to do more, and you can’t just raise fees with the same service model. So I think what is the corollary of that? What are some of the ancillary growth areas that you do beyond the financial planning and asset management that says, “We’re worth that money you’re going to pay us”? Shannon Spotswood: It is, and I love the work that wealth.com is doing here. I mean, the estate planning and tax planning, making that more accessible along that continuum of wealth spectrum, the blurring of the lines between ultra high net worth and high net worth, and then mass affluent is so exciting. Better, more robust planning is good for our industry overall. Obviously there’s a huge amount of demand on the tax side of things, particularly the 1040. It’s easy to find a CPA to do the cool complex stuff. It’s increasingly more challenging for advisors. That’s an area that I know a lot of firms have leaned into. We’re certainly doing a lot of work. But so much of this, Jason, is showing up at the right time for clients with the resources. It’s a really interesting conversation about, yes, you have to do more for your clients, but you don’t have to do more for all your clients at exactly the same time. Jason Diamond: That’s well said. The flip side of that is as an advisor, because ultimately the advisors are the ones making this decision. There are a lot of firms, and not even just firms that you would be competitors with, because the reality is you and I understand the industry landscape and where various firms fit in. For many advisors, it’s a long list of various firm names that they’ve heard. So what are some things that you think advisors should be asking a firm like you or a business development person at your firm to suss this out? How does an advisor go about understanding if a platform is empty or is really going to be able to deliver in all these areas? Shannon Spotswood: Remember back in the day when the Wall Street Journal used to run have a monkey throw a dart and see if you can beat the pros on stock picking? I love to do that with regards to our advisors. We always tell our prospects, “Throw a dart at any advisor that’s affiliated with RFG and call them. Certainly we can provide a list of advisors who we think you’re going to most align with in terms of what your growth ambitions are or the way you want to run your business or who you are, life stage, all the rest of it.” But I do think that getting that unfiltered experience, the good, the bad, the ugly. We always are like, “Are we perfect? Absolutely not. Do we though immediately want the feedback so that we can iterate to excellence to get better? Absolutely. Get that firsthand testimony.” So that’s number one. Number two is don’t tell me, show me. There are so many, and it always pulls at my heart because as much as I love to win business and transition advisors, and I think that we’re working certainly at RFG on some really interesting technology that is anchored around removing that friction and fear by speeding up the time that you can make that transition in. And the tech is finally there to allow for this. So I think we’re going to be able to take variable number two and at least make that box a little bit smaller. But if I’m sitting as an advisor, I would want to see the evidence. Show me how you’ve solved the problems that advisors have brought to you. How have you refined your tech stack? How have you invested in your team? How have you made the decisions where the ROI can be measurable and tangible? And I think too often I’m surprised that advisors get, it’s almost as if they get overwhelmed by the amount of information that they’re taking in trying to compare all these different firms. If I’m ever asked, I’m like, please work with a third-party recruiter. You need someone not only to act as an interpreter, but you need someone to help really keep your top three priorities at the front of your decision-making matrix, because it really is apples to oranges to orangutans and you get decision fatigue. And then advisors end up making this decision that is anchored in like, well, this is the highest payout, and I’m willing to take all of these sacrifices and paper cuts for this highest payout. And that is just such a travesty. So it’s like, know what you want. What are your top three problems that you’re trying to solve? Talk to advisors that you get to pick just so you can do some secret shopping, and then demand evidence of how the firm, the platform has responded to feedback and gotten better as a result because that will tell you, are they really going to walk the walk or are they just going to talk the talk? Jason Diamond: I’m super grateful that you gave specifics there because it’s an easy question to dodge and talk around. So I completely agree. Your first answer, actually all three of those points you just made, but certainly doing name-blind calls, and I say name-blind because advisors worry about confidentiality. I think that’s one of the best and most underrated tools to learn about a firm is advisors now have so many colleagues. There’s been this diaspora of advisors where advisors know advisors everywhere. And that’s a benefit if you wanted to go and just network and have conversations with other advisors on your own. But if you’re worried about confidentiality, there’s certainly the mechanisms, and we do this all the time for advisors to set up name-blind calls. You dial into a conference line, it’s John Smith, and you pick an advisor’s brain and say, “Hey, you moved your book from LPL to RFG, and tell me what that experience was like and what were the positives? Give me all the negatives.” To your point, you want advisors to ask those questions in advance. It’s better to ask those questions than to end up in the wrong marriage with the advisor. Shannon Spotswood: Absolutely. And the other thing is what an easy answer to BS around is tell me who’s a good fit for your firm. And it’s like, “Everyone’s welcome here.” Jason Diamond: Everybody. Yeah. Shannon Spotswood: It’s just not true. RFG is not a good fit for an advisor who is not open to using technology, who is not interested in outsourcing investment management, who doesn’t want to have a conversation about how are you spending your time and do you want to create enterprise value? Do you want to grow? So it really is important to have that vulnerability and that honesty and the answer to that question. Jason Diamond: I love it. We have time for one more. I can’t believe it’s been almost an hour. Shannon Spotswood: I know, it flies by. Jason Diamond: We speak with plenty of advisors who aren’t considering a move, but I’m interested. I think you have a really nice lens into the industry. What is one thing you wish advisors knew? You have a megaphone to just talk to advisors who maybe are considering change, but maybe aren’t. What’s the questions they should be thinking about? What keeps you up at night? Just what would be your public service announcement? Shannon Spotswood: I’m going to focus on the friction and fear because that’s the number one barrier to making a move is PTSD, either first person PTSD or the collective negative experience that the industry has had. It took me 90 days to transition. I got sued by my former firm. I lost all these clients. I didn’t have income. The wise tales of fear are very widely trafficked and widespread. And what I would say to an advisor is everything you want is on the other side of fear. And I look at all of this data that suggests exactly the opposite, which is you have the relationship with the client. You have the trust with the client. You are the one who they call on Sunday night when they need a shoulder to cry on or sage advice for making a decision. Just believe it with the core of your being because what we see is 99% of assets transition, whether it’s a restrictive transition or you’re taking full data, that the majority of assets are transitioning within 30 days, that this is still a free country, and you can make a move while honoring your contract around non-solicitation, non-competes, and non-associations. So it is like this fear of holding advisors back is preventing them from realizing and monetizing this enterprise value, but equally as importantly, loving their business. Have fun. This should be fun. We spend the majority of our life at work. And so being able to surround yourself with people who win when you win, with a team who’s aligned and isn’t just drudgery with all their operations compliance headaches that they’re dealing with. Your team deserves to be happy. You deserve to be happy. And that fear factor is holding so many advisors back. So that’s my advice is that it just doesn’t have to play out that way. And I think not just at RFG, collectively where we are as an independent industry with technology, with the way that AI is changing and our ability to harness data and business intelligence, getting to that point of next best action, how am I spending my time, how am I realizing, what is the blueprint for realizing my growth goals is more tangible now than ever. That’s immediately where I go. Jason Diamond: I’ve never been an advisor. I’ve never had a book of business, so I don’t want to minimize the fear, but I will say this. If we speak to advisors, let’s say a year post-transition, by far the number one thing we hear from them is, “I wish I did this sooner.” Shannon Spotswood: Wish I did it sooner. Jason Diamond: And that to me is the most telling data point there is to your point about fear and getting over it. Shannon Spotswood: So I do this exercise all the time with our team as we’re onboarding advisors is I want you to go home and look at your spouse and tell them, “I’m going to leave my job. I have no certainty that everything is going to work out. We might not receive any kind of compensation. Are you cool with that?” Walk that emotional journey. And while there’s plenty obviously that we can do with Capital Solutions to ease the financial fear associated with it, I still think at the baseline, it’s a great exercise to keep everyone very humble. You are asking an advisor to take their life’s work. And someone was sharing this analogy with me the other day and I was like, “Oh my gosh, that’s so good,” which is imagine moving houses. It’s such a hassle packing up moving one house. Now imagine moving 400 households or 1,200 households. It’s a lot, but I always hear the same thing, “I wish I’d done it sooner.” Jason Diamond: Thank you for sharing. You had some really sage wisdom that you shared with our audience. I can’t wait to see the next chapter, the continuation of the J-curve. This has been a fantastic episode, Shannon. Thank you. Shannon Spotswood: I love being with you, Jason. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Mindy Diamond: As a financial advisor, you hold yourself to the highest standards of integrity, honesty, and credibility. You are successful because you take your professional responsibilities seriously and are dedicated to your clients. But are you living your best business life? Are your goals aligned with your firms or could a better option exist? Should I Stay or Should I Go? is a book written with you in mind. It’s a self-guided journey that walks you through the key steps that we take with our advisor clients. This strategic thought process and roadmap to professional self-discovery is designed to help you ask the right questions and think critically and objectively, whether you’re considering change or not. Learn how to get your copy at diamond-consultants.com/thebook. Growth Without Compromise: Building Around the Advisor Experience A conversation with Jason Diamond and Shannon Spotswood, CEO of RFG Advisory. Jason Diamond: Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series for Financial Advisors. Today’s episode is Growth Without Compromise: Building Around the Advisor Experience. It’s a conversation with Shannon Spotswood, the CEO of RFG Advisory. I’m Jason Diamond, and this is the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors. Mindy Diamond: At Diamond Consultants, we help elite advisors identify the right environment for their businesses to thrive, whether that’s at a wirehouse, boutique, or independent firm. With nearly three decades of experience, we’ve guided thousands of advisors and represented more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets transitioned. And each year, one in four advisors managing a billion dollars or more who change firms are our clients. Our process is education-driven and based on building relationships, starting as your strategic partner well before you’re even thinking of a move. To schedule a confidential conversation, call us at 908-879-1002. Wondering why advisors change firms and where they’re headed? Are transition deals going up or down? Those very questions and more inspired us to create our annual advisor transition re
Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton take us to 2008 for the true birth of the MCU with Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges! Then we travel to 1985 for Disney’s weird abridgement of The Black Cauldron! It starred Grant […] The post 020 GENZ/X | Pen Wen vs. Stark appeared first on The LEFT Show.
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we review Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein's A24 sports-hustle drama starring Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a table-tennis prodigy with Olympic-level confidence and almost no visible concern for anyone else.Only Dan and Chris have done the homework this week, leaving Sidey and Reegs to interrogate them on the plot, the tone, the ping-pong, the Gwyneth Paltrow of it all, and whether Chalamet can truly carry a film when he still looks like a haunted Victorian child who has discovered hair product.Along the way we discuss:Chris failing to return from Romania with the promised contrabandparents discovering IMAX and immediately wanting a monthly cinema clubthe Safdie brothers going their separate ways, with Josh Safdie on this and Benny Safdie off with The RockMarty working in a shoe shop but dreaming of table-tennis glorya sperm-and-egg title sequence that nobody had quite expectedMarty robbing the family business while trying to frame it as sensible career planningLondon tournaments, The Ritz and the ping-pong federationGwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone, a famous actress in a loveless marriageEndo, the terrifying Japanese player with the modern grip and superior paddlewhether the table-tennis sequences are CGI, doubles or just very committed editingorange ping-pong balls, champagne bills and Marty's endless self-mythologisinga hotel bath falling through the ceilingMoses the gangster dogHarlem Globetrotters-style ping-pong tricksMarty getting to Japan, losing an exhibition match, refusing to kiss a pig, and demanding one more gamewhether achieving your dream means anything if you have used everyone around you to get thereThe big question: is Marty a brilliant, driven outsider, or just a selfish arsehole with a paddle?Dan finds the character so unpleasant that it limits his enjoyment, even while acknowledging the film is very well made. Chris is more taken with the craft, the period detail, the tension and the way the film keeps moving despite its hefty runtime. Reegs hears shades of The Karate Kid, White Men Can't Jump and Uncut Gems, while Sidey remains deeply suspicious of Timothée Chalamet's pixie leading-man energy.Verdicts: Chris is on a strong recommend, Dan is somewhere between mid and strong recommend, and Sidey and Reegs are officially TBC.You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at baddadsjsy@gmail.com or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads
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What's in the box: Martin and Dan get into some real estate horror stories (hoarder houses, a body left for three months... yikes) before diving into the good stuff: they're both obsessed with Amy Poehler's Good Hang (that Rosie O'Donnell episode! the surprising Gwyneth Paltrow one!) and Kiki Palmer's Baby, This Is Kiki Palmer podcast. Then it's advice time, Benjamin from Pennsylvania needs help reading the room with a maybe into him friend, and Elizabeth from Austin pitches a new segment idea: embarrassing albums the guys were too ashamed to admit they loved as teens. The box is open, the mics are on. Let's get into it.
In this episode Lena and Alissa tackle Winona Ryder's infamous shoplifting incident and the very public trial that followed. They also discuss her friendships with Gwyneth Paltrow and former C-Word subject Brittany Murphy, the tabloid rumors about Winona's romantic relationships, her career hiatus, and her eventual comeback, with the show Stranger Things.This episode was first published on 02/17/2022.
Celebrity stylist Elizabeth Saltzman joins Tanya Rose to share her Travel Secrets. Having dressed some of the world's most celebrated women, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Julia Garner and Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth has travelled the world for decades. Along the way, she's come to believe that travel is the greatest education of all. In this episode, Elizabeth shares: why she believes everyone should visit the place their family comes from the trip to India that gave her the greatest culture shock of her life the destination that disappointed her more than anywhere else the one packing rule she swears by after decades of travelling why she wore exactly the same outfit to Fashion Week every day for two years — and nobody noticed why she is building a family home in Costa Rica the terrifying hike in Maui that helped her understand the power of nature her favourite restaurants, bars and hidden local spots around the world the legendary Paris bar where she started one of her favourite travel traditions Chapters 02:00 How travel became Elizabeth's greatest education 10:04 Secret #1: The one place everyone should visit 12:58 Secret #2: Her most unexpected travel experience 16:36 Secret #3: Most overrated (and underrated) destinations 21:40 Secret #4: Favourite food, restaurants and hotel bars around the world 29:13 Secret #5: Elizabeth's best travel tip 41:54 Secret #6: Her most poignant travel memory Places mentioned New York City The Carlyle Hotel, New York London Russia Poland India Las Vegas Grand Canyon Costa Rica Maui, Hawaii Palm Beach Los Angeles Wisconsin Mexico Venice Paris Hemingway Bar, Paris Harry's Bar, Venice River Cafe, London Croatia Kenya Hydra, Greece St Barths East Hampton The Hamptons California Shanghai London Hampstead Ponds Serpentine, London
From Olivia's Hawaiian adventure to Shauna's obsession with social media mascot Jimothy the raccoon, the Junkies cover it all in this pop culture-themed gabfest. Find out about Gwyneth Paltrow's perfect salad, the latest in romantasy and 'Bromantasy', and an obsession with 'Obsession' in this fun conversational episode. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W Website: www.popculturejunkie.com Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie Threads:@pop.culturejunkie Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social Email: junkies@popculturejunkie.com Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez
Iron Man...The movie that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe also happens to be the first film the guys ever attempted to review. Don, Jon, and Ken return to early MCU to see how well Tony Stark's original adventure holds up nearly two decades later. The hosts break down Robert Downey Jr.'s career-defining performance, Jon Favreau's direction, the film's faithful comic-book roots, its practical suit effects, memorable soundtrack, and the casting choices that helped shape the MCU. They also discuss Gwyneth Paltrow's chemistry with Downey, Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane, Terrence Howard's one-time appearance as Rhodey, and the movie's lasting influence on superhero films. Along the way, expect behind-the-scenes trivia, a competitive Iron Man quiz, plenty of laughs, and the official 3 Guys and a Flick ratings. Grab your arc reactor, cue up “Back in Black,” and join us for the movie that proved one unforgettable truth: “I am Iron Man.”
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Laura Day — intuitive, author of seven books including The Prism, and the woman Demi Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow credit with changing their lives — joins Dr. Will Cole in New York for one of the most intellectually surprising conversations the podcast has had. Laura explains how intuition is not a gift reserved for special people but a mechanical system anyone can develop, and why the key is boundaries rather than access. She walks through the Prism framework — seven ego centers that correspond to the endocrine system and reflect both your internal and external world — and explains why picking the change you most resist is always the right one. She also shares what it means to be the sole survivor of a family where every other member suicided, and why she's grateful that system became the tool she could give others. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit http://www.drwillcole.com/podcastPlease note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Sponsors:Right now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at buylarine.com/willcole!Go to CLEARSTEM.com/WILLCOLE and use code WILLCOLE at checkout for 15% off your entire order.Text ABW to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.Use the links in my show notes to check your registration, get registered, or receive election reminders. You can also visit vote.online or @vote on Instagram for more information.Check Your Registration - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/check-your-registration?partnerId=cbc1e590 Get Election Reminders - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/get-election-reminders?partnerId=cbc1e590 Register To Vote - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/register-to-vote?partnerId=cbc1e590 Pledge To Register - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/pledge-to-register?partnerId=cbc1e590Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ariana Grande is hitting pause after months of intense scrutiny over her appearance, stepping away from the spotlight following her Eternal Sunshine tour and shelving her planned West End debut. Meanwhile, Jared Leto is facing renewed scrutiny after a Michigan bartender accused the Oscar winner of unwanted advances following a 2011 concert. And Gwyneth Paltrow is making headlines for a very different reason, launching her TikTok account with a playful European travel video featuring a blink-and-you'll-miss-it topless moment that has fans buzzing. Rob’s latest exclusives and insider reporting can be found at robshuter.substack.com My novel, It Started With A Whisper, is available nowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us Fan MailWith the latest Spider-Man swinging into theaters, there's no better time to revisit the film that started it all. This week, the hosts return to Iron Man, the movie that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and introduced the world to Tony Stark. Directed by Jon Favreau and starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, and Jeff Bridges, Iron Man delivers explosive action, great performances, and the origin story that changed superhero movies forever. The hosts pair the film with the Iron Man cocktail. So fire up the repulsors, and join the hosts as they revisit the movie that built the foundation of the MCU.Be sure to listen, subscribe, and follow the hosts on Instagram and YouTube @the.gentlemenpodcast
What if one of the biggest threats to your health isn't on your plate, but in the air you breathe? In this episode, I sit down with Michael Rubino, environmental wellness advocate and founder of HomeCleanse, to explore why indoor air quality may be one of the most overlooked factors influencing chronic illness, inflammation, and long-term health. Together, we discuss how modern homes can trap mold, mycotoxins, allergens, and other microscopic particles that impact the body's ability to function optimally. Michael explains why "clean breathing" should be considered just as important as clean eating, shares how dust testing can provide a clearer picture of long-term environmental exposure, and offers practical strategies for creating a healthier indoor environment. If you've ever wondered how your home environment influences your health, why mold exposure is often missed, or how cleaner indoor air can support long-term wellness, this conversation is a must-listen. Key takeaways: Importance of Indoor Air Quality: The air quality inside our homes greatly affects our health, often more than diet or exercise. Dust vs. Air Testing: Dust tests give a better picture of long-term exposure to mold and pollutants compared to momentary air tests. Clean Breathing Concept: Prioritizing clean air is essential, given that we breathe thousands of liters daily, which can impact our cognitive and physical health. Innovations in Monitoring: Devices like Home Cleanse Guardian provide continuous air quality monitoring, helping to maintain healthy indoor environments. Health Risks of Mold: Failure to address mold can lead to various health issues including brain fog, chronic fatigue, and possibly contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. More About Michael Rubino: Michael Rubino is an air quality expert, environmental wellness advocate, founder, speaker, podcaster, author, father and husband. On a mission to bridge the gap between our homes and our health, Michael put his background in construction and remediation to good use and founded All American Restoration in 2017 which ultimately became HomeCleanse, a revolutionary company with the vision to end the worldwide health epidemic caused by poor air quality and toxic indoor environments (Gwyneth Paltrow and Deepak Chopra are on the advisory board). HomeCleanse has become America's go-to source for information, services and products to create healthier living through cleaner indoor air. He's also the co-founder and Chair of Change the Air Foundation, a nonprofit organization giving every person the knowledge, resources, and support to achieve better health by breathing safe indoor air, through education, impacting public policy and funding research. A specialist in working with people who are immunocompromised or have acute and sustained reactions to mold exposure, Michael's scientific understanding has enabled him to create change, via alternative remediation protocols and treatments that provide solutions that lead to a healthy home long into the future. All through using his proprietary tried and tested "HomeCleanse" method. In his decade-long career at the top of his game, he's helped thousands of families each year to identify, eradicate and detoxify their homes. Potentially saving hundreds of lives in the process. So successful are Michael's methods that he's the trusted advisor to multiple Hollywood A-list celebrities, athletes, doctors, Fortune 100 CEOs and medical experts across the country. He's an accomplished podcaster with his show Never Been Sicker, educating and entertaining thousands of monthly listeners, where he hosts guests including celebrities, CEOs, doctors, entrepreneurs and mold survivors. As a result, Michael has become one of the most in-demand subject matter experts and keynote speakers, appearing on countless television, radio, newspaper, magazine and podcast interviews around the world. Through HomeCleanse and Change the Air Foundation, Michael is concentrated on ensuring people are healthier through improving air quality. Website Home Cleanse Instagram Facebook Connect with me! Website Instagram Facebook YouTube
Amy Odell, the journalist behind the biographies Anna, and the newly released Gwyneth, joins the show to trace how a $6.8 trillion wellness industry has learned to monetize our fear of aging. She explains why Gwyneth Paltrow's most outrageous claims may not be cynical marketing at all, connecting research on conspiracy belief and narcissistic traits to how someone builds and defends a brand.Later, The conversation turns to plastic surgery's shift from private secret to public status symbol. A facelift can change a face without changing how old people perceive it. Odell and host David Stewart also dig into the harder distinction beneath all of it: aging as a matter of physical capacity versus a matter of appearance, and why culture keeps confusing the two.Join Us at the 2026 Super Age Games! Visit games.superage.com to learn more.Special Thanks to Our SponsorsTrue Nutrition: Stop settling for what's on the shelf and build the protein blend that fits your lifestyle at truenutrition.com/AGEIST and use code AGEIST for 20% off your first custom blend.Timeline Nutrition: Our favorite supplement for cell support and mitochondrial function. Listeners can now get 20% off their first Timeline purchase by using the code “AGEIST” at checkout at TimelineNutrition.com/ageist.LMNT Electrolytes: Try the all-new Lemonade Iced Tea! Our #1 electrolyte mix for optimal hydration. Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase by using our link here. Find your favorite LMNT flavor, or share with a friend.Key Moments"The wellness industry is valued, according to the Global Wellness Institute, I believe at $6.8 trillion globally... It's bigger than big ag. It's bigger than big pharma.""I do think that [Gwyneth] believes the things that she promotes, even if they seem crazy to us... there's some research that people who believe conspiracy theories have traits of narcissism.""I think we live in an ageist society... there's so much money made in selling people this idea of eternal youth."Connect with Amy OdellWebsiteNewsletter (Back Row)Instagram XLinkedInGwyneth: The BiographyAnna: The BiographyConnect with AGEISTNewsletterInstagramWebsiteLinkedInClick Here for the full interview transcript.Say hi to the AGEIST team!
Author, podcaster, influencer! Jo Piazza returns to Parenting Is a Joke in the middle of a whirlwind tour for The Parisian Heist, discovering that the greatest luxury of author life isn't glamorous hotels but eating alone at Cracker Barrel, ordering room-service ice cream in a robe, and having nobody ask for a snack or an iPad charger. As Ophira Eisenberg and Jo compare life with a 10-year-old versus a nine-, six-, and three-year-old, they swap stories about a preschooler refusing to wear clothes to a fancy family dinner, settling for "parenting at 60%," and why every ambitious parent needs to stop whispering about having help and start saying it out loud. Their conversation moves easily from raising creative kids—who remake Jurassic Park, shoot stop-motion LEGO dinosaur films, and critique outdated '80s movie jokes—to Jo's meticulous writing process, explaining how she drafts dual timelines straight through before separating and rebuilding them, researches museums across Paris and Amsterdam, and even listens to Gwyneth Paltrow read her manuscript aloud. Along the way they explore the overlooked brilliance of Jo van Gogh, the real mechanics of art heists, why moms might make the best thieves because heists require planning and patience more than action-movie stunts, and how Jo's marriage began with spotting a promising "project" on a reporting trip to the Galápagos. The episode circles back to the small freedoms working parents crave, ending on Jo's perfect solo-tour ritual: eating a chocolate sundae in a hotel robe while watching The Silence of the Lambs instead of discussing tomorrow's family schedule.
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Follow Ryan @sobaditsgoodwithryanbailey on IG, Tiktok, & Threads! Check out the video episode with full RHONY trailer live react avail Saturday 7/25 on our YT- www.youtube.com/bravobreakdowns Like, subscribe and rate 5 stars! Timestamps: 00:00 — Ryan Bailey joins the show 01:05 — Jax's Reiki healer and Jason 02:08 — New RONY trailer first impressions 03:09 — Salt Lake separation news 04:40 — Meredith, Brooks, and Next Gen 05:44 — Summer House crossover speculation 06:45 — Trailer playback and screen-share hiccups 08:36 — RONY trailer live reaction 09:09 — Orange County's familiar storylines 11:43 — Vicki's unseen reality-TV gold 13:26 — Carmela and Tamra's season 14:44 — Producer relationships and protected casts 16:55 — Reality-TV expectations and repetition 19:34 — OC legacy versus fresh content 22:21 — Bethenny's evolution and celebrity sadness 24:56 — Judy Garland, fame, and Bethenny 27:05 — Martha Stewart and The Apprentice 28:20 — Martha's trailer cameo and prison 30:36 — RONY reboot cast and connections 32:50 — OG RONY's possible network move 34:27 — Luann's enduring star power 37:05 — Why reality stars need charisma 39:49 — The Valley's dark second season 42:00 — Jax, sobriety, and mental health 44:13 — The Valley's chaotic first season 46:16 — Reality TV and children 48:01 — Postpartum depression on The Valley 49:46 — Parenthood's joy versus reality television 52:24 — Trailer finale and Epstein questions 54:11 — Carol Radziwill and conspiracy culture 56:37 — Carol's public-image dilemma 59:24 — Why Carol returned to RONY 62:06 — Reality TV's addictive attention 63:40 — Bravo reconciliations and parasocial hope 66:48 — Time-traveling through iconic Bravo moments 69:27 — Shark Tank jokes and Gwyneth 71:01 — Gwyneth Paltrow's private mystique 72:05 — Ryan's new-parent creative exhaustion 73:39 — Actors, auteurs, and privacy 76:16 — Zendaya and Tom Holland admiration Follow us on IG, Tiktok and Threads @bravo_breakdowns For inquiries, contact bravobreakdowns@gmail.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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There's a book every woman I know is reading right now. It's called Strangers, Belle Burden's memoir, and Gwyneth Paltrow just bought the rights to turn it into a film. I picked it up expecting to join the bandwagon. I did not expect it to hold up a mirror. It's about a woman whose husband leaves, and in the rubble of that she realizes she doesn't know a single real thing about her own financial life. What they own, whether her name is on anything, where she stands. He walks out the door and takes the whole map of her life with him, because she never once looked at it herself. Here's the part I couldn't shake. Her marriage looked exactly like mine. Fifteen years in, three boys, my name on everything we've built, my own money since I was a teenager. I always thought that was what independence meant, making your own money. It took me fifteen years to realize independence is actually knowing what your own money is doing, and I closed that book and realized I didn't. Her husband had to leave for her to find out. Mine is sitting right here with me, and I still didn't know So I brought it to Gary, in the least graceful way possible, in the car on the way to dinner, and it did not go how I planned. We get into the prenup I signed at 21 and why the math has since flipped to protect me, the fight that followed, why he heard my questions and thought I was about to end our marriage, and the difference between trusting someone and actually knowing your own life. We only ever teach women this after a marriage is already over. I think that's backwards. I think a good marriage is the best place in the world to have this conversation, so I brought him here to have the rest of it with you. New episodes of Not Alone every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Follow Gary: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garylipovetsky Follow Valeria: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valerialipovetsky TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@valeria.lipovetsky Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valerialipovetskyblog Follow Not Alone: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notalonepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@notalone.pod Podcast: https://www.notalonepod.com/ Shop my look from this episode: https://shopmy.us/collections/6367477 Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/valerialipovetsky What we talked about: 0:00 The book that scared me 1:02 How I brought it to Gary 2:23 My money, and watching my mom 5:09 Gary's parents and the scarcity mindset 7:12 The day you said yes, everything became ours 10:50 Beyond the prenup 11:56 Signing it 15 years ago 13:54 The prenup was protecting me too 14:44 Re-examining it now that the math has flipped 16:05 If a friend asked for a prenup and she said no 17:19 Bringing it to the present 28:42 I keep myself in the dark 35:01 You thought I wanted a divorce 35:21 Not in the car on the way to dinner 43:21 I trusted him, so I thought I didn't need to know 45:32 Knowing the balance now, and estate planning 47:50 The way I think finances should work in a marriage 52:12 Making money and raising kids is not the whole marriage 55:16 What I'd tell other women 58:25 Did you learn anything about yourself? Disclaimer: The links in this description are sponsor or affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I may earn a credit or commission at no additional cost to you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rich Boerner is an award-winning audio creator, producer, voice talent, and best-selling author whose career has taken him from a pirate radio station on Long Island to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more. Along the way, he's worked alongside A-list talent and with major networks including Spotify, Audacy, FOX, and CBS. From 2001 to 2007, he worked with Tod at 97.1 KLSX Los Angeles, the home of "The Howard Stern Show" and "The Adam Carolla Show." These days, he's the co-founder of The Sandbox, a private podcast network and curriculum program designed to help middle school students find their voices and build self-confidence. In this episode, Rich shares how The Sandbox is teaching middle schoolers important communication skills and giving teachers new creative options for the classroom. He also recalls a wonderful story about having lunch with Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow.Key Takeaways:- Why podcasting is an incredible educational tool- How teachers are using podcasting in their classrooms- What it's like to eat Oprah Winfrey's barley soupEpisode Timeline:0:00 Introduction to Rich Boerner3:00 The impact Rich had on Tod's Career4:10 Coaching Gwyneth Paltrow to interview Oprah Winfrey8:45 Eating lunch with Oprah12:30Tod's dog hung out at Gwyneth Paltrow's house13:22The Sandbox: Empowering middle schoolers through podcasting16:00Learning how to podcast builds kids' confidence17:00The private podcast network explained19:50Building communication skills through podcasting22:40Overcoming barriers in education24:45The Sandbox gives teachers new options26:45Kids use podcasting to get things off their chests27:30Innovative uses of podcasting in educationThis episode's guest:• Rich Boerner's LinkTree• Rich Boerner on LinkedIn• The Sandbox from Dump Truck MediaSubscribe and leave a 5-star review: https://pod.link/1496390646Contact Us!•Join the conversation by leaving a comment!•Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn!Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Send us Fan Mail没有餐厅、没有服务员、没有堂食,却成为纽约最受关注的新餐饮品牌。Goop Kitchen究竟做对了什么?在最新一期《柠檬变成柠檬水》播客中,主持人俞骅和 Poy Zhong 从好莱坞明星 Gwyneth Paltrow 创立的 Goop 品牌谈起,深入解析 Goop Kitchen 如何借助 Ghost Kitchen模式,重新定义现代外卖体验。从品牌影响力、产品设计、运营体系到商业模式,我们一起探讨一家没有传统餐厅的餐饮品牌,如何在竞争激烈的纽约市场脱颖而出,并打造出一个真正具备长期盈利能力和品牌价值的现代餐饮企业。欢迎收听!请您在Apple Podcasts, 小宇宙APP, Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube, Amazon Music等,搜寻”柠檬变成柠檬水“。Support the showThank you for listening to our podcasts. We also welcome you to join the "Turn Lemons Into Lemonade" LinkedIn page! Join our very popular WeChat community, please use WeChat ID "reelstone" to contact us.
This week on The goop Podcast, Gwyneth Paltrow sits down with Gregg Renfrew, founder and former CEO of cult-favorite clean beauty brand Beautycounter. Renfrew shares her story of building—and selling—a billion-dollar business, being unexpectedly sidelined, and ultimately pulled back in when things began to unravel. She opens up about letting go of ego, redefining success, and beginning again with clarity and purpose. Now, through her new venture, Counter, she's rewriting the rules—focusing on product, transparency, and building with integrity. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on Second Helpings, Jackie is talkin' to Mr. Knick MJ as they got that BBAL FEVER, just like everyone in NYC also, Mariska Hargitay was at the game, and so was Swift with the Haim sistas! Jackie has started the new season of "Love Island" and its even more insane than past seasons, there's a new show out called "Alice and Steve" that's got Jackie up in her feels, and Jackie watched the trailer for the "scientifically accurate" upcoming film "Whalefall." Jackie's all caught up on RHORI! and she can FINALLY tell them apart by their craziness, MJ's still busy with "Spider Noir" and "Widow's Bay", but they DID watch Gwyneth Paltrow's new ad for luxury real estate in Tel Aviv, and also in GOOP news, she had an AI dweeb on her podcast. The new T Swift Toy Story song is BOOOOOOOOORE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOO SNOOOOOOOOOOOOORE-OOOOOOOOOOOOO, a school Principal got suspended for "Trap Queen" yearbook quote, Fetty Wap sent her flowers and a note! In a recent "Actors on Actors" Tracy Morgan seemingly proved he's never played a character in his life, he's just that insane, Evil Skinny Lizzo squirted out a new album, and MJ's got a shout out to all the bright eyes heads, but sadly the NYC show got rained out! Adam however, got to experience both albums, and Mary Steenburgen called Ted Danson while he was on John C Riley's podcast and they all chatted, plus even more on this weeks Second Helpings! Want even more Page 7? Support us on Patreon! Patreon.com/Page7Podcast Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Page 7 ad-free.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
First Partner of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, joins Hysteria for a conversation about her status as a right-wing media target and her new film, Miss Representation: Rise Up. Erin and Alyssa also recap Graham Platner's slew of scandals that led up to him winning the Democratic nomination for Maine's Senate seat, discuss Bari Weiss' next media move, and check in on the latest news from the Epstein files. Then they wrap up with a petty conversation about Gwyneth Paltrow's politics.Check out Alyssa's local library cookbook sale: https://claveracklibrary.org/friends/cookbook-sale-festival/ To learn more about Miss Representation: Rise Up and how to get involved, visit missrepresentationriseup.orgSeveral Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling' Behavior (NYT 6/4)Platner says he won't be an ‘a–hole' like Fetterman in Senate (The Hill 6/8)I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn't be a U.S. senator (WaPo 6/8)Pam Bondi claims Todd Blanche was ‘in charge' of ‘entire release' of Epstein files (The Guardian 6/4)This agent sent models to meet Jeffrey Epstein. Now he's trying to explain why. (WaPo 6/8)Epstein abused them. The Justice Department exposed them. Now they're under attack by haters (Reuters 6/8)As 2028 looms, Jennifer Siebel Newsom faces increased conservative attacks (Politico 5/6)
In this edition of SteveTrend Spielberg, Jack and Miles discuss Trump's upcoming birthday celebrations, Gwyneth Paltrow's weird ahh Israel ads, Maggie Haberman's new book about Trump's 2025-26 season, the long awaited sequel to 'The Social Network', Greg Bovino not ruling out a presidential run and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we're talking about: Noah Kahan's new album and Netflix documentary Gwyneth Paltrow's unhinged arugula suggestion The viral Dot Cake craze The Songs of the Summer are here...but what's The One? Were Taylor and Travis in Dewey Beach? Rayna reviews the Euphoria finale Ashley reviews the movie Obsession Amanda Batula's f*ck ass bun Headlines: UFC Fight on the White House lawn, Freedom 250 concert is a bust, One-armed woman dunks on shitty cop, new fish discovery may be a hoax Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Better Help: Get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/gge. Rocket Money: Reach your financial goals faster at https://rocketmoney.com/gge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"30-foot three to tie... is in there." Victor Wembanyama led the San Antonio Spurs to a victory over the Thunder in Oklahoma City with a truly epic performance. How did he do it? Are we hyperventilating to make him one of the greats after one great night? And how did Gwyneth Paltrow's head end up in a box? Today's cast: Dan, Greg, Chris, Jeremy, Roy, Tony, and Zaslow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
1. Ella Enchanted TV Series Is in the Works at Disney+ with Anne Hathaway Producing (PEOPLE) (19:23) 2. Jonas Brothers Launch ‘Hey Jonas!' Podcast (Instagram) (25:03) 3. Spotify Says Disco-Ball Icon, Which Prompted Massive User Backlash, Will Go Away Next Week as Planned (Variety) (36:14) 4. Ryan Gosling Was Fired From ‘Lovely Bones' After Gaining 60 Pounds. Peter Jackson Now Speaks Out (Variety) (40:05) 5. Gwyneth Paltrow's Daughter Apple Martin Making Movie Debut in Nancy Meyers Film (E! Online) (51:20) - Dear Toasters Advice Segment (55:54) The Toast with Jackie (@JackieOshry) and Claudia Oshry (@girlwithnojob) Go to https://www.spritzsociety.com/products/skinnyspritz to find SKINNY SPRITZ™ at a Target near you! The Toast Patreon Toast Merch Girl With No Job by Claudia Oshry The Camper & The Counselor Lean In Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices