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Aubrey speaks to Ms. Minki Mazibuko-Thulo, founder of Africa Growth Alliance, about her journey to building AGA, and lessons she learned and how she stays motivated.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this podcast series Jacob Kishere interviews key speakers on themes of education, metacrisis, transformation and the possibility of a Second Renaissance. On May 2-3rd the corresponsing conference 'Education For Flourishing: In a time of Metacrisis and Second Renaissance' will be held in partnership with Life Itself at Harvard Graduate School of Education. In this first dialogue with conference co-lead and co-founder Boaz Feldman, they lead a broad and deep exploration into these questions & introduce the conference itself. More information about the conference here: https://www.sfwhgse.com/About BoazBoaz Feldman is a researcher and clinical psychologist, ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, completed over 7 years of silent meditation retreats, led numerous war-zone humanitarian missions, and presented at over 30 international conferences. At Harvard University, he is a Research Scholar (at HGSE), an Education Ambassador (at HCCRC), and the European Director for the Harvard Alumni for Education. http://boazfeldman.com/home/ About JacobJacob Kishere is a professional dialogue facilitator, the rapper, philosopher and writer behind Culturepilgrim and The Resonant Man Initiative. In 2020 he founded SENSESPACE Podcast—a dialogos journey into the heart of wisdom bringing together leading philosophers, artists and practitioners to address a collective phase shift. www.jacobkishere.comWatch the episode here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit news.lifeitself.org

Have you ever wondered how to build a thriving online community for your business that not only grows but also generates income?  Or how leaders in the digital space are transforming the concept of community to create meaningful connections and impactful results?  Join me and Andrew, co-founder of Circle, in this episode where he shares his journey of success, challenges, and the magic behind creating paid membership communities that truly deliver value.  ⚉ From Teachable to Circle - Andrew's creator's journey  ⚉ Filling in a market gap and building a better tool for online communities  ⚉ What sets modern communities apart?  ⚉ Measures of personal and professional success  ⚉ Who can and should build a community for their business?  ⚉ Success, setbacks, and lessons learned from Teachable to Circle  ⚉ Handling rejection in career growth  ⚉ Know when to persist and when to pivot in entrepreneurship  ⚉ How to build a successful startup  ⚉ Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs    Andy Guttormsen is the Co-Founder and CRO at Circle. He was on the founding team at Teachable ($250m exit), and went on to co-founded Circle in 2020. Circle is now the world's leading community platform for creators and businesses with customers like Adobe, Webflow, Brendon Burchard, Pat Flynn, Modern Fertility, Harvard Alumni, and 9,500+ others.     MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:  ⚉ [Books] Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow - https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/1400077303     CONNECT WITH MIKE: 

Michael S. Chen graduated with a degree in investment banking. He worked at Hambrecht Quest, a smaller investment bank focusing on high tech and healthcare companies in New York City. After two years in investment banking, he decided to pursue medicine, inspired by his father's career as a cardiologist. He then went on to study internal medicine at UCSF, Cleveland Clinic, and then joined cardiac associates in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He has been with the practice for 18 years and is now the Chair of Cardiology at  Shady Grove Medical Center, and Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at White Oak Medical Center. Challenges Faced by Cardiac Catheterization Labs Michael discusses the challenges faced by cardiac catheterization labs in meeting performance measures and ensuring proper procedures. He highlights the need to balance equipment requests with limited budgets and prioritize patient care. He talks about the importance of cardiologist performance in heart attack patients, focusing on door to balloon time and other metrics like aspirin and blood thinners. He mentions the importance of assessing the overall performance of the hospital as a whole, focusing on reducing time spent on administrative tasks and ensuring patients are on the right medications.The conversation turns to steps patients can take to ensure they are prescribed the right medication. Interventional Cardiology Explained Michael goes on to explain what interventional cardiology is, what the new trends are, and he addresses common misconceptions. He discusses the learning process for new techniques and tools, such as fellowships and medical device reps. Michael notes that fellowships are the most effective method for learning new techniques, but it's important to stay updated and stay updated with medical device reps. Other methods include working with other doctors, attending training sessions, or learning online through YouTube videos. There are various ways to learn and improve in this field. Physicians and The Business of Healthcare Michael discusses the business of healthcare and the factors driving physicians to work with larger healthcare companies. He explains that larger practices have more bargaining power and can offer lower rates and financial security. However, there are drawbacks, such as the need to balance autonomy with financial security. Michael talks about the increasing trend of private equity investing in physician groups, such as anesthesia and cardiology. Private equity is seen as a way to ensure return on investment, which can sometimes be more expensive than providing the best care possible. Stressors for cardiologists include cash flow, meeting payroll, and meeting electronic medical records and government regulations. However, overall, the fit has been good and cardiologists have been happy with the situation.  Participating in the National Senior Games The conversation turns to fitness and sports. Michael keeps active in terms of exercise, running and working out. He recalls running a 5k five years ago and receiving a gift certificate from Panera for winning first place in his age division. He then qualified for the National Senior Games, (open to anybody 50 years and older) which features various events such as a 5k 10k, pickle ball, tennis, track and field, ping pong, basketball, and softball. Michael has competed in the National Senior Games in Fort Lauderdale and Pittsburgh. His mom competed in the 5K powerwalk and Michael competed in the 5K and 10 K road race. Michael came in 2nd in the 10K (and won a silver medal!) and 4th in the 5K in Pittsburgh in 2023, His mother placed 8th in the 5K Power walk in Fort Lauderdale in 2022. Michale mentions that he has a 5k coming up on Labor Day week, with his son running it with friends, and the National Senior Games.   Influential Harvard Professors and Courses Michael mentions Richard Taylor and TA Tom Roberts, and studying bipeds and quadruped to compare the energetics and mechanics. Part of the study included placing turkeys and chickens on a treadmill. They found that turkeys were quite stubborn and not smart, as they were not smart enough to run on a treadmill. They learned that turkeys were efficient at running and that their locomotion mechanics were efficient. They were fortunate to receive a Hoops Prize for their work, which ends up in the Lamont library. This experience was memorable, as the researchers' thesis is on display at the library.  Timestamps: 02:13: Transition to Medicine and Leadership Roles  07:56: Administrative Responsibilities and Performance Metrics  13:08 Advancements in Interventional Cardiology  20:56: Running a Medical Practice and Personal Interests  36:27: Connecting with Harvard Alumni and Future Plans  Links: Email: mchen2@adventisthealthcare.com Featured Non-profit: The featured non-profit of this episode is Cave Canem, recommended by Eisa Davis who reports: “Hi. I'm Eisa Davis, class of 1992 the featured nonprofit of this episode of The 92 report is Cave Canem. Cave Canem is an organization committed to the artistic and professional growth of black poets. And I have been a fellow and active member of the organization since 1999 Cave Canem is still going strong and has truly created the landscape in which poetry lives in the United States. You can learn more about their work@cavecanompoets.org that's spelled C, A, V, E, C, A, N, E, M, P, o, e, t, s.org, and now here is Will Bachmann with this week's episode. To learn more about their work visit: https://cavecanempoets.org/

Jennifer Hyman is the co-founder and CEO of Rent The Runway, a pioneering fashion technology company that has revolutionized the way women get dressed. Under her leadership, Rent The Runway has grown into a multi-million dollar business, offering clothing and accessory rentals from over 700 designer brands.Jennifer's vision for a more sustainable and accessible fashion industry has garnered her numerous accolades, including recognition on Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" list. With a background in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, she is a respected thought leader in entrepreneurship and innovation.***CHA-CHING! Customers are rushing to your store. Do you have a point-of-sale system you can trust or is it (ahem) a real P.O.S.? You need Shopify for retail.Shopify POS is your command center for your retail store. From accepting payments to managing inventory, Shopify has EVERYTHING you need to sell in person. Get hardware that fits your business. Take payments by smartphone, transform your tablet into a point-of-sale system, or use Shopify's POS Go mobile device for a battle-tested solution.Plus, Shopify's award-winning help is there to support your success every step of the way.Do retail right with Shopify. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at www.shopify.com/founderhour. Once again, go to www.shopify.com/founderhour to take your retail business to the next level today.***The Founder Hour is brought to you by Outer. Outer makes the world's most beautiful, comfortable, innovative, and high-quality outdoor furniture - ALL from sustainable materials - and is the ONLY outdoor furniture with a patented built-in cover to make protecting it effortless. From teak chairs to fire pit tables, everything Outer makes has the look and feel of what you'd expect at a 5-star resort, for less than you'd pay at a big box store for something that won't last.For a limited time, get 10% off at www.liveouter.com/thefounderhour. Terms and conditions apply. ***Follow The Founder Hour on:Instagram | www.instagram.com/thefounderhourTwitter/X | www.twitter.com/thefounderhourLinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/company/thefounderhourYouTube | www.youtube.com/@thefounderhour

Will Guillaume Foussier is Co-Founder & CEO at AceUp, part of MG 100, Forbes 30U30, Harvard Alumni and TechStars Alumni. TechStars  have successfully raised $2.2m throughout the accelerator.Will founded AceUp back in 2016, a human transformation platform that provides highly personalized leadership coaching at scale for individuals and teams.Will's journey from social-impact investment to pioneering in the coaching industry shows a commitment to doing well by doing good. With AceUp, he's not just reshaping how organizations align on purpose, values, and goals but also how individuals and teams can realize their utmost capabilities. Get ready to dive into the future of leadership, adaptability, and the power of positive impact. Will is also the founding member of the Human-Centered Leadership Research Consortium with the Institute of Coaching.Ross and Will talk about changing careers, meaning, coaching, getting out of comfort zones, public speaking, changing lives, empowerment, transformation, limiting beliefs, education, Harvard University, mentorship, impact, innovation, continuous disruption, adapting, crisis, evolution, showing the importance of mission, supporting team leaders.The pair also discuss common purpose, leadership upscaling, the new generation of leaders, leadership excellence,  driving sustainable change, common language,  dynamic leadership, scaling, alignment,  coaching without frame work, culture, growing together, 'me to we', improving teams, clear contracts, finding time to grow, helping team leaders and learning new skills. Timecodes:00:16 Intro to Will01:56 Starting AceUp08:39 Turning Will's realisation into a business15:18 Challenges and overcoming them22:29 Key challenges people go to Will for30:37 Core curriculum or bespoke principles when coaching at scale39:17 Team coaching49:11 The last time Will did something for the first timeConnect with Ross:WebsiteLinkedInMoonshot Innovation Connect with WillLinkedInWebsiteLinkedIn (Personal)

If you're aspiring to build a community for your business, join me and Andy Guttormsen, co-founder and CRO at Circle, as we delve into the latest trends in community building.  Andy sheds light on the shift from one-to-many experiences to connecting individuals within an audience, emphasizing the importance of fostering community alongside content creation. We discuss success metrics, signature gatherings, and the vital role of engagement in creating vibrant and supportive ecosystems. Listen to this conversation for strategies that can transform your approach to community building and shape the future of your business.   Andy Guttormsen is the Co-Founder and CRO at Circle. He was on the founding team at Teachable ($250m exit), and went on to co-founded Circle in 2020. Circle is now the world's leading community platform for creators and businesses with customers like Adobe, Webflow, Brendon Burchard, Pat Flynn, Modern Fertility, Harvard Alumni, and 9,500+ others.   And be sure to subscribe to The Self-Employed Life in Apple Podcasts or follow us on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss an episode.   Everything you need can all be found at jeffreyshaw.com.   Andy Guttormsen, thank you so much for being here! Remember, you might be in business FOR yourself but you are not in business BY yourself. Be your best self. Be proud and keep changing the world. Guest Contact – Circle.so Andy Guttormsen on LinkedIn (in/andrewguttormsen) Contact Jeffrey – SelfEmployedNewsletter.com Website Books Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!   Valuable complimentary resources to help you –   ·       The Self-Employed Business Institute- You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, and accountability. The Self-Employed Business Institute, a five-month online education is exactly what you need. Check it out! ·       Take The Self-Employed Assessment! Ever feel like you're all over the place? Or frustrated it seems like you have everything you need for your business success but it's somehow not coming together? Take this short quiz to discover the biggest hidden gap that's keeping you from having a thriving Self-Employed Ecosystem. You'll find out what part of your business needs attention and you'll also get a few laser-focused insights to help you start closing that gap. ·       Have Your Website Brand Message Reviewed! Is your website speaking the right LINGO of your ideal customers? Having reviewed hundreds of websites, I can tell you 98% of websites are not. Fill out the simple LINGO Review application and I'll take a look at your website. I'll email you a few suggestions to improve your brand message to attract more of your ideal customers. Fill out the application today and let's get your business speaking the right LINGO! Host Jeffrey Shaw is a Small Business Consultant, Brand Management Consultant, Business Coach for Entrepreneurs, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker and author of LINGO and The Self Employed Life (May 2021). Supporting self-employed business owners with business and personal development strategies they need to create sustainable success.

00:00 Trailer 01:02 Intro 01:38 Education 04:38 Harvard course after 10 years 06:08 Business side of things 09:46 Redevelopment in Mumbai 10:58 Cluster scheme 13:50 Where do you prefer to do projects 15:22 Which department should you focus on as a developer 16:50 Goa part of you business 19:00 Thoughts on second home market 20:38 Approvals and construction in Goa 22:02 Technology and prop tech 23:43 Any prop tech doing good 24:18 Sumit group being a listed company 27:09 Pre RERA vs Post RERA 30:51 Vision for next 5-10 years 32:52 Focus on upcoming projects 33:27 Mistakes along the way 36:49 Advice to a young person

On Wednesday, November 29, the Harvard Student Chapter held a conversation, produced in partnership with the Harvard Alumni for Free Speech, featuring Prof. Randall Kennedy and Prof. Nadine Strossen to commemorate the 164th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's "Plea for Free Speech in Boston."Featuring:Prof. Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolProf. Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union

It's that awkward Monday between the weekend and a holiday but the Auto Industry is showing up just the same! Today we're talking about COO of Bozard Ford Ed Roberts' perspective on only hiring entry level employees. We also cover the results of a new survey focusing on managers' sentiment toward Gen Z. Show Notes with links:Check out Ed Roberts talking about only hiring entry level employees during his interview on Auto CollabsAccording to a survey from ResumeBuilder.com, 74 percent of managers say Gen Z workers are more challenging to work with than previous generations. “What Gen Z wants is to do meaningful work with a sense of autonomy and flexibility and work-life balance and work with people who work collaboratively,” Julie Lee, director of technology and mental health at Harvard Alumni for Mental Health“Gen Z are digital natives and they've always communicated online, so their interpersonal skills, or soft skills, have suffered,” Tara Salinas, a business ethics professor at San Diego University, recently told CNBC. “They took an even bigger hit because of Covid-19, and it has shifted the way that we need to interact with them in the workplace.”The survey found Gen Z difficult to work with were lack of technological skills, cited by 39 percent; lack of motivation, 37 percent; poor communication skills, 36 percent; and being easily offended, 35 percent.The 2500-year history of adults blaming the younger generationGet the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/ JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/ Read our most recent email at: https://www.asotu.com/media/push-back-email ASOTU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/automotivestateoftheunion

From The Harvard Crimson: Massachusetts governors Mitt Romney, Deval L. Patrick '78, Charlie D. Baker '79, and Maura T. Healey '92 don't share a party, vision, or even home state. But the four most recent governors of Massachusetts do have one thing in common: a Harvard diploma. This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, Sally E. Edwards '26 and Jack R. Trapanick '26 join host Frank Zhou '26 to discuss the Harvard alumni who run Massachusetts. What happens when key decision-makers have to make complicated decisions between conflicting parties — and one of them is the school they once called home?

Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, and author of several books on freedom of speech and criminal justice. He is running for Harvard Board of Overseers on a platform of free speech. If you're a Harvard Alumni, please consider voting for him by Tue, May 16, 5pm ET: https://www.harvey4harvard.com/ballot Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Factor: https://factormeals.com/lex50 and use code lex50 to get 50% off first box - SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.com/lex - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil EPISODE LINKS: Vote for Harvey: https://www.harvey4harvard.com/ballot Harvey's Website: https://www.harveysilverglate.com/ FIRE's Website: https://www.thefire.org/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:23) - Freedom of speech (28:04) - Bureaucracy in Universities (44:18) - Clash of ideas (47:56) - Public education is broken (59:33) - Jeffrey Epstein (1:12:26) - Freedom of thought and liberal arts (1:23:30) - Interviewing controversial people (1:27:14) - Alan Dershowitz (1:30:28) - Donald Trump (1:37:27) - FBI (1:45:52) - Criminal justice system (1:48:20) - Advice

FULL EPISODE IS NOW LIVE! Innovation, design and work place! Our new @gemsofarabia podcast episode in partnership with @boucheron is out! I met Hélène Poulit-Duquesne, CEO of Maison Boucheron @helene.poulitduquesne, and HRH Princess Joharah Altalal, Harvard Alumni and entrepreneurial champion @joharahtalal, to discuss how they continuously strive for innovation in design and entrepreneurship. While we share enthusiasm about the incredible blossoming of Saudi Arabia both within society, workplace and beyond, Hélène Poulit-Duquesne enlightens us on the groundbreaking innovative steps that @boucheron is taking to keep pushing the boundaries of High Jewelry. She and HRH Princess Joharah Altalal also found out about their shared passion for Japanese culture and the importance of being true to one's self. #trendsetters #innovators #diamonds #gemsofarabia #podcast #japanesculture #entrepreneurs Special thanks to @justanne الابتكار والتصميم ومكان العمل! سنناقش هذه المواضيع وأكثر في حلقتنا الجديدة من بودكاست @gemsofarabia بالشراكة مع دار بوشرون! في هذه الحلقة التقيت بهيلين بوليت-دوكين، الرئيسة التنفيذية لدار بوشرون @helene.poulitduquesne وسمو الأميرة جوهرة طلال آل سعود، رائدة الأعمال وخريجة جامعة هارفارد @joharahtalal ومعاً ناقشنا سعيهما المستمر للابتكار في التصميم وريادة الأعمال. كما تحدثنا عن حماسنا المشترك حيال ازدهار المشهد الإبداعي في المملكة العربية السعودية سواء في المجتمع أو مكان العمل، ووضحت لنا هيلين بوليت-دوكين الخطوات المبتكرة الرائدة التي تقوم بها دار بوشرون لتطوير صناعة المجوهرات الفاخرة. وفي سياق الحوار، اكتشفت هيلين شغفها المشترك مع سمو الأميرة جوهرة بالثقافة اليابانية وأهمية الحفاظ على أصالة النفس. #ابتكار #بودكاست #ألماس #رواد #اليابان #حوار شكر خاص لـ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr3R3jDPgu2/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/MVuw2_C2aU0

Manik Suri is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health, and planet. Therma builds smart cooling technologies to reduce emissions and improve grid resilience of distributed energy resources through refrigeration to help power the grid across food and healthcare industries. Manik is an expert on climate and refrigeration and has been speaking at international climate events like The New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, GreenBiz VERGE Electrify, Techonomy Climate, and WEBIT Impact Forum. Previously, Manik co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab), an innovation center at NYU that develops technology solutions to improve government. He has been recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology, is a past Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and previously held positions at global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Company and the White House National Economic Council.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Season 5 Episode 9 of Think Like A Founder, SNP Communication's Co-Founder and CEO, Maureen Taylor, interviews Tony Shu. Tony Shu is the Co-Founder of companies Parker & Breaktime. Parker works to empower individuals to achieve financial freedom through fractional real estate investing. And Breaktime is a non-profit that breaks the cycle of young adult homelessness through purposeful transitional employment. Tony is a recent graduate from Harvard University, where he created his own major around housing and urban innovation. He has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, BostInno 25 Under 25, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Leaders for his work.  Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco, California. Visit the Think Like A Founder website to learn more about the podcast and curriculum or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Mike SullivanSound Design: Marc Ream Content and Scripting: Catherine Hardy and Jaselin DrownProduction Coordinator: Natasha ThomasThanks also to Róisín Hunt, Selena Persiani-Shell, Jordan Bailey, Matt Johnson, Eli Shell, John Hughes, and Renn Vara.

Kolmeo's Scott Bateman could quite rightly be described as among the smartest minds in any real estate room. He's Harvard educated, quick as a whip and a firm fan favourite when it comes to all things business and property management.

Manik is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health and planet. Therma builds safety and sustainability tools to eliminate food waste, improve energy efficiency and reduce refrigerant emissions — protecting consumers and combating climate change. Therma is deployed across restaurants, retailers, distributors and manufacturers worldwide, with leading brands including Mcdonald's, Starbucks, NOW Foods, 7-Eleven and Marriott Hotels. Previously, Manik co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab), an innovation center at NYU that develops technology solutions to improve government. He has been recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology, a past Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and previously held positions at global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Company and the White House National Economic Council.

Manik Suri, Founder & CEO, Therma (hellotherma.com), whose mission is to help protect our food, health and planet. He co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab) to develop government tech solutions and was recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Tech

Jacob Feldman is a Harvard Alumni with +10 years of experience writing for brands in sports such as the NFL, Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated.Today, Jacob is a sports business reporter at Sportico – a digital content and media company that brings high-quality data, information, news, and strategy from what's hot and relevant in the sports business.Besides being an expert in sports tech and media and having broad experiences as a content creator, Jacob also teaches sports journalism at Brandeis University.We discussed the evolution of content and media in sports, Jacob's process, style, and tactics for writing, sports journalism, Sportico, and what the industry needs in the future.Come snack with us!- This episode is available on Apple | Spotify | Google- Follow The Halftime Snacks Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to get all future updates on the show.- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts.- Learn more about the intersection between sports, business, and technology by subscribing to the Sports-Tech Biz newsletter.

Manik is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health, and planet. Previously, Manik co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab), an innovation center at NYU that develops technology solutions to improve government. He has been recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology, a past Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and previously held positions at global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Company and the White House National Economic Council. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

Dr. Eric Payne, Pediatrician and Harvard Alumni, joins the podcast to cover some of the things he's been calling out over the last two years. In spite of what our government, media and pharmaceutical industries tell us, the good news is we don't have to rely on their one and only answer. We can take our health back into our own hands with what we know now, and out of those who've proven themselves unfit and unreliable.

Today on the Take on Board podcast, I'm speaking with Zivit Inbar about leading organizational culture from the top and shielding from biases in the boardroom. Zivit is on the boards of rural Northwest Health and a member of Standards Australia AI trustworthiness and governance committees. She is also a member of the Harvard Alumni entrepreneurs leadership team in Australia.Zivit is also the founder and CEO of Different Thinking, a consulting practice that specializes in people culture, leadership and performance strategies for growth. It has over 20 years of experience at executive and board levels spanning private and listed local and global organizations. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Deakin University's MBA program, a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School executive program in leadership decision making and leadership in uncertain times, a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a fellow certified member of the Australian Human Resources Institute.She also has a Ph.D. focused on strategic thinking and strategy implementation by Western companies operating in China. Finally, Zivit is the author of the Ethical Kaleidoscope: Values, Ethics and Corporate Governance with co-author, Doug Long.Contact Zivit or find out more about herDifferenThinking - Zivit's consultancy for people, culture, leadership and performance strategies for growthResources mentioned in this episode:Book: The Ethical KaleidoscopeApolitical newsletter – Build the knowledge, skills, and connections you need to succeed in the public service.Edx – Online courses from leading universities.AICD Learning – Designed by expert educators with the input of experienced directors and subject matter experts, AICD courses offer contemporary content that is updated annually. Course materials include recent case studies and real-life examples to ensure relevancy for directors of today and tomorrow.http://aicd.companydirectors.com.au/educationYou might want to:Join the Take on Board Facebook communityJoin the Take on Board LinkedIn communityFollow along on TwitterWork with meJoin the Take on Board: Kickstarter group programJoin the Take on Board: Accelerator group programFind out more about meContact meAlso mentioned in this episode:On-air strategy session – application formTake on Board breakfast: climate governance in the boardroom (3 May 2022)Take on Board book club: Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown (10 May 2022)

Page One, produced and hosted by author Holly Lynn Payne, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. We interview the world's master storytellers on the struggles and stories behind the first page of their books.About the guest author:Mimi Winsberg, M.D., co-founded the behavioral health startup, Brightside, while serving as resident psychiatrist at Facebook's Wellness Center. She appears regularly on Good Morning America, and her work has been featured in GQ, Glamour, Fast Company, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Business Insider. Speaking in Thumbs is her first book.Visit her website:https://www.drwinsberg.comTwitter:   @mwinsberg      About the host:Holly Lynn Payne is an award-winning novelist and writing coach, and the former CEO and founder of Booxby, a startup built to help authors succeed. Her debut novel, The Virgin's Knot, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book. Her third novel, Kingdom of Simplicity, won a First Prize Benjamin Franklin Award and Grand Prize for Writer's Digest. Her books have been published in eleven countries and translated into nine languages. Her most recent novel, Damascena:The Tale of Roses and Rumi, has been optioned for a film series. She's currently at work on her first YA crossover novel inspired by her nephew with Down syndrome. She lives in Marin County with her daughter and enjoys mountain biking, surfing and hiking with her dog. To learn more about her writing coaching services, please visit hollylynnpayne.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @hollylynnpayne.          If you have a first page you'd like to submit to the Page One Podcast, please do so here.As an author and writing coach, I know that the first page of any book has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. So I thought to ask your favorite master storytellers how they do their magic to hook YOU. After the first few episodes, it occurred to me that maybe someone listening might be curious how their first page sits with an audience, so I'm opening up Page One to any writer who wants to submit the first page of a book they're currently writing. If your page is chosen, you'll be invited onto the show to read it and get live feedback from one of Page One's master storytellers. Page One exists to inspire, celebrate and promote the work of both well-known and unknown creative talent.  You can listen to Page One on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher and all your favorite podcast players. Hear past episodes.

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Michael & Phil tackle the subject of writer's rooms, how writer's staffs are organized, and the responsibilities of individual writers at each level. Learn more about the different jobs in a TV writer's room and some interesting ways to break-in.Michael's Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJim Serpico, EP of Maron - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785351/Tom Sellitti, EP of Maron - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783418/Javier Grillo-Marxuach Website - http://okbjgm.weebly.com/Netflix in Albuquerque - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-03/why-hollywood-is-moving-to-albuquerque“Shit My Dad Says” Twitter Show - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612578/Michael: (00:00)The next step below, that would be writer's PA and that stands for a production assistant. So the writer's PA usually, usually writers are veal. We are kept hostage in a, in a writer's room like for hours and hours and hours, you don't leave, but they bring you lunch. And when they bring you lunch, that person who is bringing you lunch is a hero because they're feeding you and you, you know, so that the writer's PAs is usually the one who goes out. On a running brings you lunch.Michael: (00:32)Welcome back everybody today. We're going to be talking about various creative jobs in Hollywood, and we're going to probably start, I think, with, with the writer's room. Cause there's a lot of myths that we're going to expose. I think it's a lot of people have misconceptions about how writer's rooms, um, you know, how they actually work. I fell.Phil: (00:48)Yeah. And, and, you know, to, to your point, I think there are a lot of people who don't even understand things like what a showrunner is or what the difference between a co-producer, producer, a story editor, all these different writer's terms. I once had a friend mentioned to me, she's a nurse. She wanted to be an actress. And she's just like, you know, when you watch a TV show and you see all the credits that they're getting that say producer, they're all just writers. And she said it like, it was condescending a little, this is like just writers, like, Okay.Michael: (01:13)She's right, unfortunately. Um, but yeah, so a showrunner is the boss and a TV show in a movie. Uh, the director is Boston. A TV show that the showrunner is the boss. The showrunner is the head writer. Usually the showrunners, the creator of the show, the person who sold it, but not always and often not always the case. So, um, a number of times my partner would have been showrunners and we didn't create that show where the hired hands, because we have experience and were brought on to run the writer's room and the writer's room can consist of, we've been on show, usually around eight writers, let's say, but we've been on shows where we've had as few as four writers. And when we were on King of the Hill, that was Maron. When we were on King of the Hill, uh, there were about 20, at least 20 writers it was a huge writing staff.Michael: (02:00)So there's, there's that. And then all the writers in the writer's room compose the writing staff, but there certainly there are different levels to, to writers. So the showrunner again is the boss, the showrunner decides what kind of stories to tell and how to tell them. And some people, I guess I can maybe I'll get to the misconceptions first. Some people think that well, so where do you get these ideas from? Does the network just tell you what stories they want to have? And no, cause there's no one at the network who knows how to do that. If they did, they'd be writers there, that's not their job. Right. They, you know, so we pitched them our ideas, but we come up with the ideas. We say, we're going to do an episode about X, blah, blah, blah. And then that works. Does that sounds good?Michael: (02:39)Go ahead and do it. And so we have to come up with the ideas and usually it's the writing staff that will pitch the ideas to the showrunner and the showrunner and say, okay, I like that one. Let's talk about that one. Let's turn that. Let's see if we can turn that into an episode or I like the beginning, but not the middle, you know? And so let's stretch it out. Is that that's how do we break that into a story? And another myth I heard all the time, well, years ago it was like, oh, what character? I was around. It came when I was on King of the Hill. They'd say, what character do you write for as if like every writer was responsible for one character's voice. And there are 20 of us and king of the hill. I don't know how many, there were like five characters or whatever, or maybe more there's cause there's periphery characters.Michael: (03:16)But so no. And I used to tell people, I used to write for the dog, the dog, obviously didn't talk or have any lines, but that's when I said, but you write for all the cat, your job is to you get an episode and you write all the characters and that episode. And that's how, that's how it works. And they're so the staff, the writing staff is composed of one or two showrunners usually. And then there's certain levels of writers. So the newest baby writer is called a staff writer. That's the person with no experience. They just broke into Hollywood. Usually, usually they're a staff writer then above them. They, they say they work for a year. They get a promotion. Now they're called a Story Editor. And you'll see that at the end of the credits off. And you see the story that, or it gets a credit.Phil: (03:57)Let me ask this question, because this is something that came up on another podcast. We did, you made a reference that all of these titles that you're probably going to go through right here, that the next year. So are you a staff writer, your first year writing and then you bump a story editor usually, or you're so bad that you could stay staff writer. Is that a chance or do you just lose your job at that point?Michael: (04:20)Sometimes? Yeah. You could lose your job if you're no good. Sometimes you'll be a staff writer on the on one year and then the show gets canceled and then you get another job in a different show and they make you repeat your staff writer. They say, yeah, you're not getting the bump because we don't have a budget.Phil: (04:34)The bump budget-based. I imagine usually.Michael: (04:37)Yeah. I don't know if too many people who had a repeat staff it's like repeating your first year of college, I guess. Right.Phil: (04:45)I got held back in preschool by the way. SoMichael: (04:47)Yeah. Well, I can tell it's obvious when I talk to you.Phil: (04:49)Yeah. The adults don't set your kids in preschool in the middle of the year, guys. They just look stupid when all their friends move on.Michael: (04:55)For the rest of the let's talk about it. Um, so then after a story editor to become Executive Story Editor back in the sixties, the Executive Story Editor, or was they, that was the boss I'm executive story editor mean that was basically being called the showrunner, but these titles have changed over the years. And so executive story at a restorator is at one point it was like the most important person. And now it's one of the least important people on the staff. Um, I remember when I, well, I remember when I had, I had a writing teacher and he was, he like, he wrote on, uh, uh, Get Smart and Andy Griffith Show and all those great shows and Twilight Zone, the original Twilight Zone and all that. And he used to say that you just need to, you got to impress the story. It, the story editors that want to makes all the decisions. And, and this is back in like, you know, the nineties, I was like my old man, what are you talking about? The Story Editors at title has long since changed.Phil: (05:47)Uh, so I was going to ask, so my understanding here is that this changed because cause you're about to get into the producer titles, right? Yeah. So my understanding is that this changed because the story, the writing credit positions pay specific portions of their money into the WGA funds, but the producorial fees you get do not.Michael: (06:10)Yeah separately.Phil: (06:10)And the benefit to the, to the network and the studios is they don't have to match percentages of those funds, to the Writers Guild stuff .Michael: (06:19)To your health and pension. Right. It's separate. Exactly.Phil: (06:23)Where it changes, like how do we get these people and entice them to do this thing with us without having all the other expensive paying percentages of their, their fees?Michael: (06:31)Yeah. We'll give them a fancy title. Yeah. That'll tide them over there. Stupid. Um, so yeah, so there's executives. So is it okay to repeat Staff Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor, then you get Co-Producer and then you become Producer and then you're like, wow, Producer, it's really just another level for a writer. Then you get, uh, after Producer becomes Supervising Producer, then Co-Executive Producer, which often means the number two, the number two writer, the like the number two in command and then Executive Producer. And so in sometimes there's also another title of Consulting Producer, which is just a fancy way of paying you even less money. Got it. So, but those are all just writers and there's very, you know, the producer aspect of those jobs are very limited. So when you're executive producer, you have, you do have many other Producer titles, like your responsibilities, you'll be responsible for casting or post-production... Supervising post production, or maybe editing stuff like that. The Co-Executive Producer doesn't often do those things, but is capable of doing those things.Phil: (07:33)And that's what you currently are on the show.Michael: (07:36)On Tacoma FD I'm a Co-Executive Producer. Right. But, but you know, in the past I've been Executive Producer on other shows. So, uh, you know, the difference in money there's a lot its not that much. Well, the Co-Exec... Co-Executive Producer that gets a good salary without all the stress of being executive producer. It's a good job to it's really the best job to have is a co-executive producer because he made good money, but you don't have all the stress of the boss.Phil: (07:59)Got it. So that's what to aspire to is not be the showrunner, but just be a co you'd be.Michael: (08:03)I remember years ago when I was, you know, thinking before I became a Showrunner, I was like, man, if I were a show runner, I'd do things different, do things better. And then, you know, cause you always think your bosses know what you're doing, they're they're doing. And then, then you become the boss and you're like, Ugh, I just wish I was a Co-Executive Producer.Phil: (08:21)Yeah. You always wish you had the less responsibility, the more, you know, the more, you know, you don't know. Right? Yeah.Michael: (08:26)So, but then, you know, those jobs basically at my level, like those, the two jobs I get, you need to be the boss or the second in command. So there's, I have to take whatever, whatever comes.Phil: (08:36)Now there is another executive producer on the show and that's typically the, basically the guy in charge of, or the woman, the person in charge of making sure that the show is happening from an actual producorial perspective. Right? So not always. So the production. So for example, to come at di we had a production company running things and the owner of that company had the title of EP as well. And that shows up in the credits and that person can be not a writer.Michael: (09:03)And I believe, I believe one of the, uh, managers, David Miner, I believe he's also executive toPhil: (09:09)Both of, both of the guys managers are on our show. They have EP credits because they brought the show to the network and said, we think you should buy this show.Michael: (09:19)Yeah. They help make it. They help sell it. They help make it possible. Yeah. But on other shows, I've worked on this. There's really only there aren't too many co uh, Executive Producers is their Showrunner and maybe no other executive producers, or maybe there's an actor who is so powerful to help got the show me, they might be Executive Producer or maybe often if the show is, is sold through a pod, you have a production company, then they'll get, you know, like you're saying, they'll have a Executive Producer title. Uh, yeah. So some actually that's not really no. And I say that now that I think about it. Yeah. I've always, I've been on other shows where there, there are other executive not they're called non-writing Executive Producers. So when I was on Maron, for example, uh, Jim Serpico, Tom Silletti, they were non-writing Executive Producers. They helps sell the show and their creative involvement in the show. It really depends on what their, what they have time for. Sometimes they're very involved in, sometimes they're not very involved at all.Phil: (10:12)Yeah. Okay. So that's an interesting note. I think, so those people have the same way now from an Office PA perspective. So during production, we still saved those people parking spots, and we understood who they were. And we made sure that they were included on every single email, every single notice that went out, anything that involved creative decisions, they were invited to all meetings. And it was always an understanding they could show up at any time, but also an expectation that they probably weren't going to show up. And so it's an interesting thing like, or, you know, one season of a show, I worked on the, one of these non writing Executive Producers showed up and our Office Production Coordinator didn't know who they were and it, but the secretary did luckily. So they were able to save that situation or it probably would have been a really, you know, egg on the face situation.Michael: (11:00)Yeah. Because sometimes they don't show up. Right. The homes that parking spot is empty all year. Yeah. But you know, sometimes they do show up cause they, yeah. So those are all, those are all creative jobs. So when you see at the front of a TV show, all those producers, like what are all these producers? Most of them are writers. And then some producers, there was always a couple of, there's a Line Producer, he'll get he, or she will get a producer title. And they're in charge of kind of, uh, they're in charge of the, the money and the budget. If, for example, the show runner says, Hey, I want to shoot a show, um, in a submarine. And like, I bet, you know, how do you make that happen? Well, the line producer, their job is to figure out how to make that happen to either rent a submarine or get a soundstage that looks like a submarine or tell you what, that's just too expensive. You can have to shoot it in a rowboat.Phil: (11:43)Right. Right. Yeah. And then, so there's a Line Producer and then a Unit Production Manager or UPM. Yeah. But there are different jobs or they are, or they're at the same job because I see it both ways I've seen it separated or they're the same person does both. Yeah,Michael: (11:57)Yeah. Yeah. And I, yeah, that's exactly right. And I don't, I don't really know what the difference is. Job responses, uh, job responsibilities are between the two, because on the shows that I've worked on, they've mostly been the same person. So.Phil: (12:09)Yeah. It's, I think it's just a level of authority and responsibility. So UPM is typically making the decisions to make sure everything happens in the line producer. My understanding is basically in charge of the budget and making sure you're not blowing the budget every episode and you can get to the end of the road and they're like your accountant almost, I guess you could say as the showrunner. Right.Michael: (12:27)Um, but we still have accountants.Phil: (12:28)We all see cameras like a CPA. Like they're like the CPA who says, we're a business manager, Hey, you need to cut your expenses here because yeah. This thing coming down the road.Michael: (12:36)Yeah. Often they'll negotiate, they'll, there'll be dealing with the unions and they, they, uh, they make sure that the show, they make sure that the physical production of the show actually happens. Yeah.Phil: (12:46)So, so, so this brings up what we're discussing here might be considered "above the line". Yeah. Goes right. Yeah. And, um, you know, we recently had an interesting conversation with someone who did not like the title above the line and alsoMichael: (12:59)A derogatoryPhil: (13:01)It's like, you know, the union negotiates those things. So your union is responsible for earning you those credits and signing what goes where yeah,Michael: (13:10)I think it's, I think actually it's just like where you appear on the call sheet. It's like, are you above this line or below this line? That was my understanding. It's like, and it's just, it's just the line, relax everybody you're on. It doesn't mean, you know, you deserve to die, you know? Right. It's just an, it's a, basically an accounting formality. Yeah. Right.Phil: (13:29)Yeah. Okay. But, but you do not have control over who does that? Just to clarify, because this person seemed to think that you, in your role as an Executive Producer, Showrunner have the ability to dictate through your use of language who gets called what? So people aren't offended.Michael: (13:44)Yeah, yeah. No, I, I walked into, you know, it's so strange. It's like I walk into these terminologies, these, these, the terminologies were decided before me. And, uh, and somebody has someone thought that they were just very offended by that. And I'm perpetuating some kind of, I don't know, egregious, uh, you know, offense in Hollywood.Phil: (14:01)And not to get like super into the weeds on this subject. But I do know, um, this season on Tacoma FD, either production company did require us to use gender neutral terminology for things. So this is like a term for like the Best Boy or Best Boy Grip or Best Boy Lighting. And now that's like Key Lighting Person and it's like a term, um, different things instead of form. And it was for a person. And so I understand those things, but when we're talking about literally anyone below the line is garbage and trash and we stop and use it, that's not exactly what's going on in this space.Michael: (14:31)No, those people are kind of important because they're writers the above the line. People like maybe we were the dreamers that, Hey, what if, and the other people, the ones who are doing it, so you can't just have dreamers on set. They don't that nothing will get done.Phil: (14:43)Yeah. Right. It's like, uh, I, I did hear an example on another show I worked on where they're like, they want us to have 50 people with the exact same haircut sitting in a restaurant. It's like, you don't understand the complexity of, of casting that the complexity of finding those people, the hair and makeup, the costs for extra pay. Like we got you 10 of those people not 50. Right, right. Yeah. So, so those are all the, so those are all the jobs that are just the ones that you've talked about. And those that basically to get into Hollywood, you have to start as a Staff Writer.Michael: (15:16)Hi guys, it's Michael Jamin. I wanted to take a break from talking and talk just a little bit more. I think a lot of you, people are getting bad advice on the internet. Many, you want to break into the industry as writers or directors or actors, and some of you are paying for this advice on the internet. It's just bad. And as a working TV writer and showrunner, this burns my butt. So my goal is to flush a lot of this bad stuff out of your head and replace it with stuff that's actually going to help you. So I post daily tips on social media, go follow me @MichaelJaminWriter. You can find me on Instagram and Facebook and TikToK. And let's be honest, if you don't have time, like just two minutes a day towards improving your craft, it's not going to happen. So go make it happen for you @MichaelJaminWriter. Okay. Now back to my previous rant.Michael: (16:02)And yes, then how do you start as a staff writer? There are entry-level jobs. So there's no assistant writers. People often say, well, I want to be an assistant writer on your show. It's like that doesn't exist. There are Writers Assistance. And those are the people who will sit in the writer's room and they sit at the keyboard and they literally, they usually either take notes or they type, as we, as the words go up on the, on a monitor, we're watching a screen. And so they actually type the script as we pitch lines. And so that's, um, it's, it's a kind of a high pressure job because you have to know the pro word processing program, like the back of your hand, but also you have to be a good speller because if you are not, people will make fun of you. And you know, everyone's staring at you while you do your job and like busting your balls.Michael: (16:46)Uh, you know, so it's a, it's a high pressure job. You have to have a good sense of humor about it. And so, but it's a great job to have because once you're in the writer's room and like, you will learn more as a Writer's Assistant than you would the tenures in film school because you're watching professional writers do their craft. So it's a wonderful, it's a great learning experience. And how do you get a Writer's Assistant job? Well, the next step below that would be Writers PA and essentially a production assistant. So the Writer's PA usually, usually writers are veal. We are kept hostage in a, in a writer's room like for hours and hours and hours. And you don't leave, but they bring you lunch. And when they bring you lunch, that person who's bringing you lunch is a hero because they're feeding you and you, you know, so that the Writer's PA is usually the one who goes out on a run and brings you lunch. This is before COVID of course, I don't know what goes, no one brings me food anymore. No one gives within six feet of me.Phil: (17:39)That's right. That's not in your family. Right.Michael: (17:43)Keep an arm, social distance kids. Um, so that's, Writer's PA and then kind of not, I wouldn't say below it, but Jason too, it would be regular PA or Set PA, which that PA works on the set. Another job would be Office PA. And that PA you know, the set PA might run errands, or it might block off the set when like, you know, when they're shooting an episode, the set PA will be on the perimeter. And you had, I'm telling you, you had this job for a while. And they're the ones who are, let's say you're shooting on New York City street. They're on the perimeter stopping traffic and people, you can't walk here. We're shooting.Phil: (18:14)Yeah, no. And let me point out here, the, our Locations Guy, when I said that I was locking down traffic interjecting and said, you are not allowed to do that. That is illegal. The police lock down traffic. You were there to wrangle pedestrians.Michael: (18:29)Whoa,Phil: (18:29)Interesting. Right. Because we do not have the legal authority to stop traffic, but on a closed set, that was my first day of PA work was literally standing in the hot sun out in the middle of Southern California telling cars when to drive into the scene. Yeah. But it was a closed set. And I was, I was literally doing that. And youMichael: (18:50)Had, you had your piece in a headsetsPhil: (18:54)[inaudible] or there, they literally call it background and you tell them to move. Yeah. Right. YouMichael: (18:58)Tell them that would be a set. That's one of the responsibilities of a set PA.Phil: (19:02)Yeah. They're responsible for getting information to everyone. Um, locking down, set for a sound. It's another very common thing where you literally post up in a doorway and you hold stop people from coming in and out because they're shooting that direction and you don't want to walk through set, like one of the first days of shooting of season two of Tacoma FD I walked onto a set and I looked right at the set PA and she didn't say anything. So I walked toward her and ended up walking right through the shot, like, yeah. And they showed it to me. They showed me a post me Sasquatching and through the background of the firehouse.Michael: (19:36)And that's the job of the PA supposed to stop. You I've walked on sets before to have my own show where I was Executive Producer. And I guess some PA was too nervous to tell me not to walk on set. And I walk into the shot and I ruined the shot. And I'm like, dude, you got to tell me not to walk into the shot. It's okay. You can tell, don't be afraid of me. Tell me I'm not, not tell me not to ruin the shot.Phil: (19:53)Didn't you tell me that there was a, uh, you had to spend like a significant amount of money and post cutting a PA out of the background and standing behind a tree or something.Michael: (20:01)Um, I'm sure that, yeah. I'm not sure if the PA, but I remember sometimes you have to do that we're or you cut a reflection. Sometimes you see a PA or something, or somebody is a reflection in a window. You have to take that out. Yeah. Yeah.Phil: (20:14)Um, so, so I've had most of these PA jobs, so that's a Set PA and then Office PA, you're the one making copies. You're the one making the signs. You're laminating things and go, go runs. You're coming on, runs and picking up stuff. You're going to Home Depot to buy specific daylight, luminescent, light bulbs for the Makeup Department, because they need specific lights in the trailer. You're getting water, you're moving things around set. You're going out on a run to Burbank to pick up Audio Equipment for the audio team. Cause they always need something. Yeah. You know,Michael: (20:48)It's interest. Cause I posted a little bit about that on social media. I do like these little clips and uh, and, and someone said, you have to, you, you know, I said, it's an entry-level job. It's not too hard to get. And someone said, you don't know what you're talking about. You have to have a Harvard Degree. You have to degree a degree from Harvard or an MBA. And like you already your mind, like, I can tell you need a car.Phil: (21:07)That's it. You need a car and you need to breathe. Right.Michael: (21:11)The pulse, if you, if you're dead, you're going to have, you're going to struggle. But if you have a pulse, you be okay. It's like, I don't really care. I don't need to know that you have a degree from Harvard from what do I care? I want to know. Can you go on a run?Phil: (21:23)Do you think that's people who just assume it's all an old boys club and you ha it's about who, you know, and it's not about like, like, oh, Harvard Alumni will hire Harvard alumni. Is it that kind of thing? Or do you think they actually think you have to be like a Rhode Scholar to be a PA?Michael: (21:38)No, I think there's, you know, breaking into Hollywood is hard and it's, you know, that first job, the hardest one is that first job to get in. And so you have to hustle and you really have to like, you know, send out flight. You kind of have to really be in contact with people. And you've got a nudge way in and I, and it takes a lot of work. And I think people would much rather say, well, they're not hiring people like me. Cause you know, there's an excuse as opposed to, that's not true at all. It's like, you just have to do your end to the part. You have to hustle to get the job. Yeah. You know, it's just, there's so many excuses. And like, I always say like, you can, you can have results or you can have excuses, uh, or you can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both. Right. And people like to have excuses. It just makes them feel better for not trying or not trying hard enough.Phil: (22:22)Now, now I've been on a other side of things. I think my first PA job, um, you gave my resume to a show that you were running and I didn't get that job. And I didn't get that job because your writing partner also referred someone and that person had experience. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And so I didn't get that job, but because I did so well in the interview when they needed a day player to come out and just lock down set for a day, they called me and said, Hey, it's one day job. You want to come up and sit? Absolutely. What time? Where should I be? I showed up early. I was there. I ran around set the whole day. And it just happened to be that that day, the Office PA was called back in to his Fox show and he had to leave. And so the UPM who was on set with me, watching me work said, you should consider this guy. He seems good. And I got offered a full-time position as the office PA because of that. And so it was thatMichael: (23:16)Is that luck. Was that, was that, did you get lucky or did you make your own luck?Phil: (23:20)I think that there's a, there's a level of luck, you know, there's this old saying that luck is where opportunity meets preparation. Right? Right. And so the opportunity came because I knew you and you were able to give them my resume, but I didn't get that job. Someone else got that job. And they had three other people who you and your running partner did not recommend who also got jobs because they had, and that's just the racket. But because I was willing to show up and I was prepared and I understood what was expected of me as a PA, I was able to prove myself on that, on that day, the chance I go, yeah.Michael: (23:57)We had a PA on Tacoma, FD, we talk about, I don't mention his name, but one day one of the writers asked him to get a, for like Tylenol or Advil or something to go to drugstore. And he kind of said, no, he was busy.Phil: (24:10)So we should talk about that too. So, so the Writer's PA job is not just lunch. Like you're responsible for whatever the writers need. Like the Showrunners asking you for binders, but not just not binders, but D clipped binders, full ring binders, because they don't like the way the dividers are. And it's my job to go get that for them. I'm also supposed to stock the fridge. I'm supposed to have first aid available. I'm supposed to clean up after them. And so to have a Writer's PA tell a Writer I'm busy. I can't get you medicine because you have a headache. But I think it was worse than that. I think it was. Do you know if we have any, I think they have some upstairs. Can you go get some, I don't think I can do that.Michael: (24:48)Yeah. And man and we all laugh when he said no and you know, like men just falls in this guy. Yeah. And then he didn't last much longer than that.Phil: (24:59)Well, he did some other stuff I heard too. I, I ended up replacing that guy that season. Um, but he did some other stuff too. Like you told me that he would just like stare through the glass at you guys while you were watching writing stuff.Michael: (25:12)Yeah. He just, I had a weird thing where like, he just didn't, he'd come into the room, the Writers' Room and he just wouldn't know when to leave. And he was like, you know, and it got awkward. It's like, Hey, did you got to leave? Now? We got to work. And he would just kind of stand there. I dunno, gabbing or, you know, watching and was just so uncomfortable. And the writer, we, we thought it was hilarious. Like this guy he's something else.Phil: (25:33)Well, he hit the nail in the coffin. And I think this is like a big note of what not to do is one of our Showrunners who is an actor on the show is like on Nutrisystem and like cutting weight to get camera ready, because he's going to be, you know, he's effectively starving himself to look good on camera. And he's entitled to lunch more than anybody else on the show. Cause it's his show. And one day he comes in, he's like today I want sushi. And he said, uh, we don't have the budget for that. Right. And he said, I don't care. I'll approve it. Cause he's show is responsible for the budget. And he goes, I've already put in the other lunch order.Michael: (26:11)Yeah. That's what it was about. And that, you know, and afterwards we were busting that actor's because you know, I, you're not in charge.Phil: (26:24)Yeah. You'll keep your job if you, uh, if you deny your showrunner on her food, the one time he asks for it and the whole season.Michael: (26:32)So that guy didn't, he didn't last very long. But, uh, yeah, your, your job is to say yes, not to say no as a PA. Right.Phil: (26:39)Well, yeah. Well, interesting stuff. And you know, ultimately like I got that job and I think to your note, one of the first things you told me forever ago is if, you know, if you want to make it in Hollywood, you have to be in LA because that's where the jobs are. And I think there's a caveat because this is a question I've seen in a lot of your social media people say, do you have to live in Hollywood to make it in film? And the answer is depends on what you want to do. Right? So for example, I went to film school in New Mexico and New Mexico is a smaller market that is expanding ridiculously right now. I think Netflix is investing a billion dollars in New Mexico and infrastructure expanding stages. And they bought the biggest stages there where they shoot Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and all that stuff.Phil: (27:17)And so if you want to work in camera or you want to work in, you know, an office position or a locations or a costume position, my opinion is those exterior markets, Utah, where you have Park City studios, you have, um, Santa Fe or Albuquerque where you have a fast growing film industry. You have Louisiana, you have Georgia. Those markets is really easy to progress and move up the ranks in those craftsmen positions. Right. Right. But when we talk about writing, I really think the answer is you do have to be an LA because this is where the writing happens.Michael: (27:52)Yeah. All the writing, they even Handmaids Tale. They shoot that. I think in Toronto, they sh they write it here. Um, I'm pretty sure Breaking Bad. They, they, theyPhil: (27:59)Wrote here in LA, in LA shot, in New Mexico.Michael: (28:02)Right. So if you want to be a writer, then you want to be a writer's assistant and you want to be a PA here in LA. So you can come up this way. But in someone, some of them had sent me, um, a question that maybe was on Tik TOK or something. And she was, she seemed very lovely. And by, so I still let her have it. She was, um, she was like, uh, I live in the UK and I would gladly, I really want to break into the business. And I would gladly come here to LA. If someone could guarantee me a job. And I was like, you know, there's no guarantee, you know, no, one's gonna guarantee you a job. Uh, first of all, there are no guarantees in Hollywood. Right. You know, you're not, um, you know, you're, you know, you're not Brad Pitt Brad Pitt.Michael: (28:42)He's guaranteed to get a dressing room and, and a driver. You're a PA you have no guarantees. If you came here and got a job, let's say the show would get canceled after 10, at 10 weeks, or you get fired or whatever, you're still out of a job. Now you're out of a job. And so you're still screwed. You have to come here first. And when they're hiring for those positions, that basically for any kind of PA position, the job is like you interviewed today to start tomorrow. And so you can't fly here. We're not going to get, I'm going to give you a week to fly here. And then a week to find a place then a week to get a car because you need a car. It's like, you know, no, you have to be here for those opportunities. There's no, there's no guarantees.Phil: (29:22)Yeah. That's what you told me. You said you have to be here because when they want to hire someone, they need you today. Right? Yeah.Michael: (29:27)And I, I called you. I remember when that opportunity came up on our current show, I said, Phil, can you, can you be here this afternoon? They're hiring you. You have to be here today.Phil: (29:35)Yeah. I think the exact text was, um, we need a PA the job sucks. It's low pay. Do you want it? And I said, I'll do that job for free. Right. And your response. Good answer. That's how I got my first paid job. Hold on. And they're like an hour or so later the Script Coordinator. Um, so basically shot me a text said, Hey, man, uh, it looks like, you know, we'd like to use you on the show. I said, do you want my resume? He's like, no, Michael Jamin's words. Good enough. And it's because you had proved yourself at that time. Right. So they took your recommendation. And I literally showed up the next dayMichael: (30:09)And I have a new gunPhil: (30:10)And I haven't been working on the show in two years. I'm still on the show.Michael: (30:13)And if you had 'em right. And if you had, uh, you know, said, well, yeah, I'll be there next week. They would have found somebody else. Right.Phil: (30:20)Because, um, literally cause they were, they were buying their own. You guys were buying your own lunch at that point, I think.Michael: (30:25)Yeah. Like we, like, we need lunch. Yeah.Phil: (30:29)Carrie Clifford's like, I want my tuna where, which tuna do I get. Yeah,Michael: (30:32)Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so yeah, having a good attitude and being ready to start tomorrow is, is really key. Unfortunately, that's how you, if you want to, like, if you want to work in Hollywood, you have to be in Hollywood, you know? And, and sure there are other jobs like in Atlanta and, and, uh, Albuquerque, but often, um, like it may be harder to have a career in those cities because there's just not as many opportunities. So I'm sure people, you know, piece together careers. I just think it'd be easier to piece together a career in Hollywood. There's just more options.Phil: (31:02)Yeah. There's constant. There shows constantly shooting, especially right now with streaming and cable. There's not like a development season. Like there used to be right. It'sMichael: (31:11)And you may have to move, you may, I know like costumers, they work here, but they have to take a job in some other state because that's where the show is shooting, but writers generally have to generally stay in LA. Yeah.Phil: (31:23)Yeah. So are there any other jobs or any other ways to break in to Hollywood at this point? I mean, is it, is it just, you have to work yourself way up as a PA or get lucky enough to, you know, be lucky enough and have the craft and skill to become a Screenwriter. Is there another option?Michael: (31:38)We talked about this in other episodes where if you have your own, if Hollywood is not going to come to you, unless you really make it worth Hollywood's while. So if you are blowing up on Twitter, if you have a giant Twitter feed or, uh, you know, Instagram or whatever, and, and you have a million followers, Hollywood will find you, you don't have to start at The Bahamas. Like, man, this person here, she's got it going on. Uh, let's give this person to show because they have a built-in marketing platform that often happens. Yeah. So there's a show on CBS, it'd be 10 years ago. Shit My Dad says, and that was based on a popular Twitter feed. Yeah. And so, you know, that guy just tweeted it from wherever he wanted and you know, just find stuff that his dad said.Phil: (32:19)Got it. So I, I do, you know, of other people who've broken in, so I'm another writer who is that a lot of stuff to put stuff out there as website he's got scripts and things. Javier Grillo-Marxuach who I think you might know. Yeah. He wrote lost. Yeah. Yeah. Lost. He was a showrunner on a bunch of stuff. So he, I believe was a development executive and he transitioned that position to being a writer. Yeah. So there are those other opportunities as well. Do you know anything about those?Michael: (32:45)I do know. I have a friend who we hired on a show, Glen Martin DDS years ago. And I didn't know him at the time we just hired him. We became friends. And I... I discovered after about a year that he was at one point a Development Executive at a studio and I was shocked. I was like, oh, I hadn't because it's a whole, whole different thing. Um, and he told me that most development executives from his they're, they're jealous of writers. They want to be writers. And so, because it's more creative and development executives or, you know, they, they tend to give notes, uh, but they don't do it themselves. And so, cause you know, it's one of those, like why would you want to become, uh, an executive at a studio or a network if you were not had that creative passion in you, you wanted to create. And so the closer I think they can get to creating the more fulfilled they would be, which is, you know, obviously writing is probably closer to... than giving notes toPhil: (33:35)Somebody. That makes sense. It makesMichael: (33:37)Sense, but I'm, I'm not gonna speak for all that. I'm sure there are many great development executives or creative executives who love exactly their job. But this is what he told me was that he felt that that many or most really wanted to be really wished they were writers. Right.Phil: (33:50)And I think that, you know, from my limited perspective, with the, the limited amount of work I've done, kind of the general vibe that I get from most people is that most people in most jobs in Hollywood dreamt of being a writer, director, producer, and they are now doing this other job, hoping to have the job that you're also trying to get.Michael: (34:13)I think many writers also want to be directors because it's not writing. It's like, Ooh, because writing is hard. You're like, well, directing it, that seems like something I could do. Was that, wasPhil: (34:20)That your experience when you directed on Maron?Michael: (34:23)Uh, no. That was just an opportunity that came our way. We didn't want to say no to it, but I know other writers who want to get into, or have gotten into directing because writing is really hard. Writing can be difficult even like, I, I used to say like, if you think writing is fun, you're kind of, you're probably doing it wrong. It's hard to do it. Right. It's hard. Yeah. And so I think a lot of writers that well, anything about writing, so.Phil: (34:47)Right, right. Well, awesome, man. I think it was incredibly helpful. You have any other thoughts or?Michael: (34:52)No, I think that's, I think we covered a lot. We have, we have more podcasts come and Phil. We got to save it for the next.Phil: (34:57)Oh, I love it. No. So again, you know, I think that if you want any more of this information, definitely check out Michael's course because he goes into this more detail kind of what's expected in some of those positions and what it takes. But yeah, I think the big note that I would like to give or leave people with is that you don't have to have won the lottery or be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. I sure wasn't. And I live in LA and I work full year round as a PA. And I'm actively working on progressing towards being a better writer so you can make it happen. You just have to get rid of the excuses and just take control and just make decisions with what can I do today to improve things. And we talked about this on another podcast, like I've always was raised with this prodigy syndrome.Phil: (35:41)I feel like I have to hit grand slams with everything I do. And there's this framework that I've transitioned to, which is, you know, it's Moneyball, it's singles singles win baseball games. If I can hit a single today, like which might just be writing something, I can hit a single today. It's not sexy. If I hit a single tomorrow, it's not sexy. If I hit a single one day three, it's not sexy, but they, for you score it run day five. You score a run. It's about chaining those singles together. And that's how you ultimately win.Michael: (36:08)I think so. That makes sense to me. Yeah. Like people say like, well, how do I become a writer is like, you're, if you write every day, you're a writer, right? If you want to be a paid writer, that's a little different, but you know, but if you were someone new who wrote a script last year, you're not a writer. You have someone you're someone who has written. So a writer you're constantly writing, it's active. And, and that will make, that will make you better at your craft and will increase your odds of actually becoming a professional writer.Phil: (36:35)Awesome. I love it. Here's a great way to end. Thank you, Michael. Thanks everybody for listening.Michael: (36:40)Thank you.Phil: (36:53)This has been an episode of Screenwriters Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin and Phil Hudson. 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On this episode of Think Like A Founder, SNP Co-Founder & CEO Maureen Taylor speaks with Amy Yin, Founder and CEO of OfficeTogether. They talk about being raised to start a business, using failure as a starting point, and making your career just one aspect of your life.OfficeTogether helps businesses realize the full potential of a flexible workplace by using software to bring employees together safely and effectively. Amy Yin has been a software engineer for ten years working at companies like Coinbase, Hired, Inc., and Facebook. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from Harvard where she also co-founded the Harvard Women in Computer Science community. Learn more about Office Together on their website. Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco, California. Learn more about the Think Like A Founder podcast and curriculum by visiting us at https://snpnet.com/tlaf/ or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Mike SullivanSound Design: Marc Ream Content and Scripting: Jaselin DrownProduction Coordinator: Natasha ThomasThanks also to Róisín Hunt, Selena Persiani-Shell, Jordan Bailey, Matt Johnson, Eli Shell, John Hughes, and Renn Vara.

John West, a serial entrepreneur across multiple businesses before getting into the exciting world of Sports content, influencers and social media platforms.  Started Team Whistle in 2009 after several years of figuring out his next move.  Recently partnered and merged with Eleven Sports.  Learn about his entrepreneurial journey and amazing stories of how he build a company that now has over 4 billion impressions per months across over 1,600 “Channels” of influencers and online personalities.     Key Highlights Early days as entrepreneur in environmental engineering business in his early 20s – company still around till today Getting a Harvard MBA while working and sold the business Next stop, New York City – Mitchell Madison, new Consulting group – fast growing business Silver Oak Solutions – 2nd entrepreneurial company in “spend management”, software to automate spending patterns of private equity firm's assets – sold successfully as well How he got “back” into sports and learning from his kids habits on how they consumed content (media). A group of people who made the difference in getting Team Whistle started (Geraldine Laybourne, Don Tapscott's book “Growing up Digital”  and Mark Lazor) Researched topic for four years, personal learning curve and getting the product right – GenZ focus – first few ideas didn't work well Focus on UGC (User generated content) across social media platforms – now managing over 1,600 channels and platforms Big hit with “Dude Perfect” , help them with wider distribution, content creation and bring advertisers to them Now over 500 “partners” (influencers) and over 200 Whistle owned channels Not going Negative – Content focused on being “positive, fun and entertaining”, focus on 13-15 year old's Raising Money for growth – total raise over US$ 110 mil by now Revenue share model with partners and influencers - don't need to own all the content, key is owning the data behind it and finding ways to monetize it “Brother”  big show on Snap – one great example with a social media platform 4 billion monthly views, 600 million followers globally across all channels. Currently focused on US and Europe. Expanding globally Further growth by acquisition, getting high profile investors into the business (lots of miles travelled) and partnership with Eleven Sports (Andrea Radizzani). Logic behind the deal with Eleven and the synergies between the companies – merged stock deal – combined US$ 300 mil in revenue Esports & Gaming – 25 Pro-Gamers as partners, lifestyle, etc Harvard Business School connections and his involvement as the President of the Harvard Alumni network   About John West John West is the Executive Chairman of Team Whistle, which he founded in 2008.  Prior to that, he was the CEO and Chairman of Silver Oak Solutions, which he founded in 1999, and sold to CGI in 2005.  Prior to that he was a Partner at Michell Management Group, and also Founder and CEO of Enstrat from 1989 until he sold it in 1996. John has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  He has served on several Boards at Harvard, and is currently the volunteer President of the Harvard Alumni Association.  John lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   Follow us on our social sites for the latest updates Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsentrepreneurs/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcusluerpodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sports-entrepreneurs Website: https://marcusluer.com Podcast: https://marcusluer.com/podcast To get in touch, please email us at podcast@marcusluer.com   Feel Good by MusicbyAden https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_feel-good Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/bvgIqqRStcQ

Michelle Zatlyn is the co-founder, president, and Chief Operating Officer of Cloudflare, an internet security, performance, and reliability company that is on a mission to help build a better internet. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Ravi Belani, Zatlyn discusses the intense challenges involved in scaling a high-growth business, and offers insights about how to find optimism and build a great team amid those challenges.

My guest is a hard working, educated and community driven professional. Fatima Jakoet has been a professional airline pilot for 18 years. She is soon going to be celebrating 10 years since she started Sakhikmava Foundation, a non-profit organisation involved in aviation and skills development for the aerospace industry. This STEM based NGO identifies and fosters talent, to assist in building a strong aerospace industry in South Africa.Fatima started her career as a Forensic Scientist in the South African Police Services. She later attended Stellenbosch University and completed her MBA. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education. All the while, flying around the world as an Airline Pilot with South African Airways.Get in touch with Alex  to improve the performance of your team: Email:  alex@alexmacphail.co.zaInstagram:  @alexmacphail99Twitter:  @AlexMacPhail1LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogulWebsite:  www.alexmacphail.co.za

After a career in management consulting, marketing and strategy, Jane was determined to apply her professional skills to make an impact in the local economy.  Jane saw both the need and the opportunity:  The need arose from small businesses with great ideas and passion but a lack of resources and expertise.  The opportunity existed in the enormous pool of professionals who had a strong desire to redeploy their business acumen.   She built TAP to harness the untapped potential of both small businesses and local professionals.Jane is mission-driven, seeking to mobilize women for economic impact, and merges her business acumen with her management, coaching, public sector and nonprofit work. Prior to TAP, Jane spent her career in strategy and marketing, working at Bain & Company, American Express, and as an independent consultant.  She also has experience in private equity and venture capital as an investor and board member.  Jane currently serves as a Scarsdale Village Trustee.  She has also held civic leadership positions as Chair of the Scarsdale Planning Board, President of the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale, Chair of SNAP, and President of the Fox Meadow Neighborhood Association.  In recognition of her sustained and significant impact on the community, she received the Mayor’s Award for Exceptional Leadership the Daily Point of Light Award granted by Points of Light, the organization founded by President George H.W. Bush to recognize volunteer service.Jane has been a member of numerous boards and currently serves on Harvard’s Women Leadership Board, the Harvard Business School Alumni Board, the Regional Plan Association, the Scarsdale Foundation, and the Yale Westchester Alumni Association.  She is also a member of Golden Seeds and Harvard Angels.  Jane earned a BA magna cum laude from Yale University and an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School.  Learn more about Jane and The acceleration project at:HOME (theaccelerationproject.org) 

Welcome dog lovers! Here to chat with us about a very important topic is Sam Huttenbauer. Ever the believer that we need to leave our world a better place than when we entered it, Sam has devoted the last 20 years of his life to developing a highly sustainable plant, Camelina, from which he has produced a number of game-changing products. His current passion: NatrixOne focuses on improving the lives and wellbeing of dogs via his novel CamOlive that provides powerful joint and skin/coat relief via an easy-to-use, affordable, and importantly- very sustainable plant-based supplement. Sam is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School and serves as the Vice President of the Board of Harvard Alumni in Animal Health. How do you think this demand for environmentally friendly products is impacting products specifically in the dog industry?Let’s talk about fish oil. Many people feed fish oil to their dogs because of the omega-3 fats that fish oil contains, specifically the DHA and EPA. But the impact of straining our already over-fished oceans is devastating. Can you speak to that?Besides the fatty acids, fish oil is relatively devoid of key nutrients right?And many fish oil products are heat processed, is that correct?What specifically are the health benefits of omega-3 fats?Ok, so instead of raping our oceans, you saw a better way of providing quality omega-3s to our dogs. Why don’t your share your story on how NatrixOne came to be.It contains Camelina. What is that?So, what is CamOlive?Besides, saving our oceans, why are plant-based supplements better?And NatrixOne doesn’t need to be refrigerated?What are your clients saying about the differences they see in their dogs after feeding NatrixOne?I have to ask…is there a human equivalent product to NatrixOne?So, as we wrap up, the main benefit of supplementing with NatrixOne is that it’s a super anti-inflammatory and we all know that inflammation is the #1 cause of dis-ease. What would you like to leave us with?OFFER: Go to https://natrixone.com/ and use the code WOL for 10% off of your first order (includes a 30-day guarantee). Sam, where can everyone find out more information about you and NatrixOne? https://natrixone.com/ Social Media: FB & IG: @natrixoneWe appreciate our sponsor: NatrixOneAs a Wag out Loud listener you can use code WOL at checkout to get 10% off your order!Thanks for Listening!Thanks so much for tuning in again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the Bark About it section. Or you can click on the social media buttons to share an episode.Special thanks to Sam Huttenbauer for being on the show. Catch you next time!Also, don’t forget to Subscribe for FREE and please leave a review: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify I Stitcher I iHeartRADIO“The Wag Out Loud pawdcast is supported by listeners like you! The show started as a passion project that would help all of us make well-informed decisions for our dogs’ health and well-being. After many amazing guests, intriguing topics and incredible feedback, the WOL pawdcast is hitting a nerve. If you are interested in having your dog live healthier and longer and are finding value in this podcast, why not contribute to the show’s success? It would not be possible to consistently produce a quality show without the listener support that is received. Thanks to all of the dog lovers out there!”The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. It is no substitute for professional care by a veterinarian, licensed nutritionist or other qualified professional. The host as well as guests who speak on this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and Wag Out Loud LLC neither endorses or opposes any particular views discussed here.

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder of SkyBridge Capital, a global investment firm based in New York City which also hosts the SALT Conference, one of the largest investment conferences in the world. In 2017, Anthony was appointed White House Communications Director by Donald Trump, a role that lasted only 11 days before he was fired. Since leaving the White House and the world of politics, Anthony has returned to SkyBridge and recently launched a $310M fund to invest in Bitcoin.During our conversation, we talked about everything from Anthony’s early days, his career on Wall Street and how he started SkyBridge, the story of how he became White House Communications Director and the crazy 11 days that ensued, why he’s so bullish on Bitcoin, and much more.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

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You may know Spencer Rascoff as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow, the online real estate marketplace which he launched in 2006, but before that he was one of the founders of Hotwire.com. Since stepping down as CEO of Zillow in 2019, Spencer has launched several other new companies including dot.LA, Pacaso Homes, and Supernova Partners which is a SPAC - an acronym for special purpose acquisition company - which has been immensely popular this year and something we talk more about towards the end of the episode. Enjoy!SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Today on the show I have Monty Bruell. Monty has a fascinating story as he guides me through his life during this podcast. He was raised in Alton Park by his single mother. He became the first African-American to graduate from Baylor high school. He graduated Harvard with a degree in Economics and came back to Chattanooga to work with the Lupton family in Coca-Cola. He started working in a manager training program and moved all the way up to being the Assistant to the vice-president of Marketing for Coca-Cola in Texas. From there he became the Consumer Marketing Manager for Florida Coke where he experienced racism and discrimination even as he was one of the most important people at the plant. His list of accomplishments do not end there as his resume and life experiences are staggering. Now he aims to become the next Mayor of Chattanooga. We talk about the shrinking middle class, the growth of our city, our schools and much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Monty Bruell.

Episode 57: Bill Keenan. Originally from Manhattan New York, Bill grew up dreaming of playing for the New York Rangers. He never made the NHL but laced up the skates for the IVY Leauge's Harvard Crimson Tide before getting injured and moving onto the minor pro leagues over seas. Kennan has captured his journey in a hit book that has now been released into a smash hit movie featuring Dylan Playfair from Letterkenny.Brady talks about mental health, concussions, addiction, hockey, and all of its challenges and benefits. Brady also shares stories of playing days as an addict and what it was like to be incarcerated.Buckle up...It's a hell of a ride!Follow us on Twitter @hockey2heroin @hockeypodnethockey2heroin.com thehockeypodcastnetwork.comPlease support Brady on Patreon: www.patreon.com/hockey2heroin Support The Puck Support Foundation www.pucksupport.comDonate to the Gratitude Crusade: www.gofundme.com/manage/PSFGratitudeCampaign

Interview with Adam Mahfouda, the founder and co-owner of Oxford Property Group, one of the ten largest real estate brokerages in New York City. He leads a company of expansion and acquired 2 brokerage companies amidst global pandemic. 

This is a special episode based on a webinar that we first presented on September 7th on the Fathering Together Facebook Page for another conversation on the ways fathers can empower and encourage their daughters to be community leaders! We had 3 amazing panelists doing great things in their community to forge a more equitable future. Barbara Barreno-Paschall is a Commissioner with the State of Illinois Human Rights Commission following her appointment by Governor JB Pritzker in 2019. Prior to her appointment, Barbara was a Senior Staff Attorney with Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. She also was an Associate at Sidley Austin LLP. At Sidley, Barbara twice received the firm’s Thomas H. Morsch Award for Pro Bono Achievement for her successful representation of immigrants seeking asylum. Barbara is a Board member of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Empowerment and is a member of the Harris Alumni Council. In 2018, Barbara was elected as a Community Representative on the Kenwood Academy High School Local School Council and is an Emerging Leader with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Barbara is a graduate of Harvard College, Vanderbilt Law School, and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Ruth Lopez-McCarthy is a managing attorney with the Legal Protection Fund Project. Ruth holds over 17 years of experience in the immigration movement both locally and nationally. After working as an organizer in Chicago, Ruth obtained her J.D. from Chicago- Kent College of Law. Ruth served as the deputy field director with the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign, the coalition coordinator for the Northern Borders Coalition, and as the deputy legislative associate/legislative liaison for Field for the Alliance for Citizenship campaign in Washington, D.C. She joined the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights as the comprehensive immigration reform implementation director in 2013 where she built the IL is READY Campaign in preparation for administrative relief. Ruth worked as a consultant for immigration advocacy organizations coordinating immigrant focused programs across the United States and Mexico. At NIJC, Ruth leads the City of Chicago funded initiative, the Legal Protection Fund, aimed at educating community and providing immediate legal information, screenings, consultations, and representation to individuals who may be at risk for deportation or in need of trustworthy immigration representation. Ruth speaks Spanish and is licensed to practice law in Illinois. Kady McFadden is Deputy Director of the Sierra Club Illinois Chapter. In this role, Kady manages organizing and conservation staff in order to build strong advocacy campaigns for clean energy, clean water, and open space protection. Kady also runs the Sierra Club Illinois PAC to elect environmental champions to state, local and federal office. She is an alumna of Washington University in St Louis and University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. If you've enjoyed today's episode of the Dads With Daughters podcast we invite you to check out the Fatherhood Insider. The Fatherhood Insider is the essential resource for any dad that wants to be the best dad that he can be. We know that no child comes with an instruction manual and most are figuring it out as they go along. The Fatherhood Insider is full of valuable resources and information that will up your game on fatherhood. Through our extensive course library, interactive forum, step-by-step roadmaps and more you will engage and learn with experts but more importantly with dads like you. So check it out today!

Vicky Tsai is the founder and Chief Treasure Hunter of Tatcha, a modern skincare brand rooted in timeless Japanese beauty rituals.In this super candid conversation, Vicky opens up about what she was like growing up and her early personal struggles and insecurities and why she never fit with her surroundings. We chat about how she got her start on Wall Street as a credit derivatives trader after college, how being at Ground Zero during 9/11 changed her life forever, getting her MBA from Harvard, and how a spontaneous trip to Kyoto, Japan while seeking treatment for her acute dermatitis led to her founding Tatcha in 2009.We also talk about the importance of her dual heritage as an Asian-American woman, the journey to finding meaning and purpose in her life, hitting rock bottom and choosing to follow her heart, Tatcha’s value system and what makes it different from other beauty brands, being over $500,000 in debt and not paying herself a salary for 10 years, why she ultimately decided to sell the company to Unilever in 2019 for a reported $500M, and much more!Stay tuned towards the end as the tables turn and Vicky asks Pat and Posh a question about the unifying trait amongst the founders who have been guests on the show!SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Maurice Gopikian is the Founder and President of Harvard Angels France, and he is also the owner and President of MG Ventures which specializes in fundraising and mergers and acquisitions. He also has a leadership role in The Alchemists, Advanced Retail, and other programs that seek to help companies grow and market their services. In 2008, Maurice founded the French Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association and co-founded HBS Alumni Angel Intel's Global, and it's 15 chapters worldwide. He has helped over 300 Startups acquire equity and presented as a keynote speaker at several Harvard Business conferences over the last decade. In this episode: When you think of asking for an investment for your company or idea, where do you go? The future of doing great business lies with connecting to investors that see and understand your vision. Maurice Gopikian, Founder and President of Harvard Angels France, is intent on helping startups find quality investors and connect growing businesses to opportunities where they can learn the fundamentals of marketing, scaling, and networking to build their company efficiently.    In this episode of HAE Invites, Philip Guarino interviews Maurice Gopikian, investor, serial entrepreneur, and founder and president of Harvard Angels France about how he helps startups connect with the right investor and what it takes to be a part of their Angel network. He also discusses why it's important to create connections that can help you change or start a new career and the things that founders need to consider when approaching a potential investor for his company. Stay tuned. 

A pioneer and thought leader on impact investing, Tami Kesselman is a Harvard-trained strategist & former Bain consultant working at the intersection of the highest levels of corporate, government, entrepreneurial & investor communities, and as a senior strategy advisor for multiple global SDG & sustainability initiatives. Skilled at facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue and creating alchemy through innovative partner alliances, Tami has led sessions for high net worth families, global corporations, the United Nations, and the U.S. government. Known for her ability to identify business model risk overlooked by others, she is often brought in to work with clients seeking improved diligence to ensure meaningful impact alignment while maintaining strong financial returns, pressure-testing investments, advising on diligence filter revisions for impact and for identification & mitigation of ESG risk. Tami also works directly with entrepreneurial management teams as they iterate from seed through Series C funding rounds. A sought after speaker, Tami lectures on improved impact diligence annually at Harvard Business School and at conferences for investor audiences around the world and keynotes sessions for some of the world’s highest net worth families & leading asset managers. One of her most popular talks, based on the proprietary SMARTimpact™ 10-point heuristic framework she developed, draws upon insights from analysis of dozens of business models that seemed successful on the surface but had systemic flaws which ultimately led to underperformance or worse. A book based on her work in this area will be coming out next year. Tami serves on the Steering Committee for the NEXUS Impact Investing Working Group, is worldwide president of Harvard Alumni in IMPACT, chairs Opal's Family Office Impact Investing Forum, and serves on IMI’s Emerging Managers Assn Advisory Council. In 2018, Tami was elected for a four-year term to the Harvard Kennedy School global alumni Board of Directors where she currently serves on the Governance Committee.

DON'T ENGAGE IN Harvard University GLUTTONY Strategy Number 20 For Dealing With “The Self Isolation” THIS TOTTALLY OUTRAGED ME TODAY!!!  There's a difference between gluttony and hoarding. Hoarding is fear-based and irrational. In some ways people can't control themselves. Gluttony is a whole other matter; it is a conscious consumption. Harvard University took 9 million dollars in PPP funds designed for small businesses to survive during the pandemic this is they have an endowment of over $40 billion. Taking money from small businesses that need it to survive they has ruined lives. Harvard has blood on their hands. There's no other way to say it.  This is immoral behavior at a so-called prestigious university. University president Laurence Bacow should immediately return that money. You can contact him here president@harvard.edu.  It's not the first time that they turned a deaf ear to Americans who are associated with Harvard. Just a few weeks ago they let go of dining hall workers.  This is about as callus of a behavior by an institution as I can ever remember. Where are the Harvard Alumni in this? Want the other 19 Strategies go here https://www.linkedin.com/in/orestkomarnyckyj?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BOGPO4o%2F1SUGvFVkjdT4YjA%3D%3D NOW IS THE TIME TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH AN ANTIOXIDANT OVER 170 MORE POWERFUL THAN Vit C         Use This Link https://www.myvitalc.com/oldguytalks/  With The Promo Code OldGuyTalks To Get $15 Off Your Initial Purchase Listen To My Podcast Interview with  Chris Burres The Creator of ESS60 here http://oldguytalks.libsyn.com/concerned-about-corona-virus   #HarvardUniversity # HarvardAlumni #HarvardUndergraduateCouncil #TheCrimson

    David Chan is the COO and Founding Team Member at Farm Together, a company that offers a simplified approach to US farmland investment. The company not only serves Americans, but also welcomes foreign investors who are interested in growing their assets or simply having a continuous source of income in their retirement. David has over five years of Fin-Tech experience in the ag industry. He describes himself as a meteorologist by background, but a financier and technologist by training. David earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and is also part of the Board of Directors at the Harvard Alumni for Agriculture.   David joins me today to share how their company, Farm Together, will make it easier for local and foreign investors to invest in US farmlands. He explains how their platform works, when their investors get paid, and the due diligence they conduct prior to putting a property for sale. He discusses several risks involved in investing in different states. David also describes how they plan to put regenerative agriculture in the limelight.       “You must consider what the environment may look like in the future when you are purchasing these properties today.” - David Chan       This Week on The Future of Agriculture Podcast:   Connecting insurance, farmlands, and current trends in institutional investments. The characteristics of the typical user and investor on their platform. How foreign investors can own farm lands in different locations. How their due diligence process works. Knowing the risks of investing in farmlands and how they calculate for them. Why water is always a risk in any irrigated agriculture. How they inform investors of earnings and how investors make money. The feedback they receive from their clients. The SIGMA legislation in California and what it is about. The steps they have taken to make regenerative agriculture mainstream.       Connect with David Chan   Farm Together Email: david@farmtogether.com         We Are a Part of a Bigger Family!    The Future of Agriculture Podcast is now part of the Farm and Rural Ag Network. Listen to more ag-related podcasts by subscribing on iTunes or on the Farm and Rural Ag Network Website today.      Join the Conversation! To get your most pressing ag questions answered and share your perspective on various topics we’ve discussed on the Future of Agriculture podcast, head over to SpeakPipe.com/FutureofAg and leave a recorded message!   Share the Ag-Love!    Thanks for joining us on the Future of Agriculture Podcast – your spot for valuable information, content, and interviews with industry leaders throughout the agricultural space! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, please subscribe on iTunes and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share it with your friends on your favorite social media spots!    Learn more about AgGrad by visiting:  Future of Agriculture Website AgGrad Website AgGrad on Twitter AgGrad on Facebook AgGrad on LinkedIn AgGrad on Instagram  

    David Chan is the COO and Founding Team Member at Farm Together, a company that offers a simplified approach to US farmland investment. The company not only serves Americans, but also welcomes foreign investors who are interested in growing their assets or simply having a continuous source of income in their retirement. David has over five years of Fin-Tech experience in the ag industry. He describes himself as a meteorologist by background, but a financier and technologist by training. David earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and is also part of the Board of Directors at the Harvard Alumni for Agriculture.   David joins me today to share how their company, Farm Together, will make it easier for local and foreign investors to invest in US farmlands. He explains how their platform works, when their investors get paid, and the due diligence they conduct prior to putting a property for sale. He discusses several risks involved in investing in different states. David also describes how they plan to put regenerative agriculture in the limelight.       “You must consider what the environment may look like in the future when you are purchasing these properties today.” - David Chan       This Week on The Future of Agriculture Podcast:   Connecting insurance, farmlands, and current trends in institutional investments. The characteristics of the typical user and investor on their platform. How foreign investors can own farm lands in different locations. How their due diligence process works. Knowing the risks of investing in farmlands and how they calculate for them. Why water is always a risk in any irrigated agriculture. How they inform investors of earnings and how investors make money. The feedback they receive from their clients. The SIGMA legislation in California and what it is about. The steps they have taken to make regenerative agriculture mainstream.       Connect with David Chan   Farm Together Email: david@farmtogether.com         We Are a Part of a Bigger Family!    The Future of Agriculture Podcast is now part of the Farm and Rural Ag Network. Listen to more ag-related podcasts by subscribing on iTunes or on the Farm and Rural Ag Network Website today.      Join the Conversation! To get your most pressing ag questions answered and share your perspective on various topics we’ve discussed on the Future of Agriculture podcast, head over to SpeakPipe.com/FutureofAg and leave a recorded message!   Share the Ag-Love!    Thanks for joining us on the Future of Agriculture Podcast – your spot for valuable information, content, and interviews with industry leaders throughout the agricultural space! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, please subscribe on iTunes and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share it with your friends on your favorite social media spots!    Learn more about AgGrad by visiting:  Future of Agriculture Website AgGrad Website AgGrad on Twitter AgGrad on Facebook AgGrad on LinkedIn AgGrad on Instagram  

For centuries, poets and philosophers have extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams set out to uncover the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. She made her way to Town Hall to uncover the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and ultimately strengthen our relationships. Williams was joined in conversation with Diane Regas, CEO of The Trust for Public Land. From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to groves of eucalyptus in California, Williams and Regas investigated the science at the confluence of environment, mood, health, and creativity. Together, Williams and Regas invited us to consider how, as our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, the insight and answers we receive from the natural world are more urgent than ever. Florence Williams is a journalist, author, podcaster, and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of two Gracie-Award-winning Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound and The Three-Day Effect, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast.  Diane Regas joined The Trust for Public Land in the spring of 2018 as president and CEO. Prior to The Trust for Public Land, Diane worked for more than a decade at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), most recently as executive director, where she helped EDF advance solutions that promote prosperity for all people and for the planet. Promotional Partners: Harvard Club of Seattle, Harvard Alumni for Education, Seattle University College of Science and Engineering. Recorded live in the Forum at Town Hall Seattle on October 3, 2019. 

Patreon subscriber and world traveler Katie Christofferson sent me some great questions on Harvard Alums, so here we are with an episode on some! Play along with eight quick ones, and check out Katie's trivia site at www.TrivialMinds.com next time you need content! Question of the Day brought to you by Funky Monkey Design of San Dimas, CA:  What's the name of the coffee shop from Friends? Tweet me your answer @ryanbudds or email ryanbudds@gmail.com to win a prize!  Yesterday's QotD answer:  The Hundred Acre Wood Trivia Team Name of the Day:  The Real Housewives of Transylvania Funky Monkey Designs:  http://fmdesignsinc.com/ Want to play trivia for real money? Check out this new app called SkilliWorld! Free to play the first game. www.SkilliWorld.com THE FIRST TRIVIA QUESTION STARTS AT 02:25 Theme song by www.soundcloud.com/Frawsty Bed Music:  "Welcome to Horrorland" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://TriviaWithBudds.comhttp://Facebook.com/TriviaWithBudds http://Twitter.com/ryanbudds http://Instagram.com/ryanbudds Book a party, corporate event, or fundraiser anytime by emailing ryanbudds@gmail.com or use the contact form here: https://www.triviawithbudds.com/contact SUPPORT THE SHOW: www.Patreon.com/TriviaWithBudds Send me your questions and I'll read them/answer them on the show. Also send me any topics you'd like me to cover on future episodes, anytime! Cheers.  SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL MY PATREON SUBSCRIBERS INCLUDING: Manny Majarian, Alex DeSmet, Sarah McKavetz, Simon Time, Jess Whitener, Jen Wojnar, Kyle Bonnin, Douglas French, Erika Cooper, Feana Nevel, Brenda Martinez, Russ Friedewald, Luke Mckay, Wreck My Podcast, Dan Papallo, Greg Heinz, Mo Martinez, Lauren Ward, Sarah Kay, Jim Fields, Mona Bray, Sweet Abby Cakes, Denise Leonard, Anna Evans, Megan Acuna, Katie Smith, Brian Salyer, Greg Bristow, Joe Jermolowicz, Joey Mucha, Myke Edwards, Matthew Frost, Melissa Chesser, Robert Casey, Rich Hyjack, Katie Christofferson, Willy Powell, Kyle Aumer, Amy Jeppesen, Kyle Hendrickson, Joan Bryce, Cody Welter, Marissa Cuthbertson, Casey O'Connor, Paul McLaughlin, Manny Cortez, Paul McLaughlin, Breanna Webb, Veronica Baker, and Casey Becker!  

Today we welcome on CEO and Founder of WHOOP Will Ahmed. Will, a Harvard Alumni, has spent a good part of the last decade working on creating the most powerful recovery and training wearable on the market.Born out of the desire to improve his own studies and performance on the squash court we dig into the incredible story of building this awesome tech wearable company.https://www.whoop.com/ - The Australian Launch is live, use our code: mindmuscle to save 15%Will's instagram - https://www.instagram.com/willahmed/WHOOPs instagram - https://www.instagram.com/whoop/

Pete Enns PhD, Harvard Alumni, joins us to talk about getting suspended from Westminster Theological Seminary, the divide between religious scholarship and religious laity, and about the types of literature in our Bibles!!!! Follow The Bible for Normal People: https://www.patreon.com/thebiblefornormalpeople Follow us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewholechurchpodcast The New Interpreter Study Bible: https://www.amazon.com/New-Interpreters-Study-Bible-Apocrypha/dp/0687278325/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AQ6JVVWNMXAC&keywords=the+new+interpreters+study+bible&qid=1565107587&s=gateway&sprefix=the+new+interpreter%2Caps%2C740&sr=8-1 The HarperCollins Study Bible: https://www.amazon.com/HarperCollins-Study-Bible-Revised-Updated/dp/006078685X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OACAXUMVF528&keywords=the+harper+collins+study+bible+new+revised+standard+version&qid=1565107619&s=gateway&sprefix=the+harper%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1 The New Oxford Annotated Bible: https://www.amazon.com/New-Oxford-Annotated-Bible-Apocrypha/dp/019027607X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GRTTZSHQGETV&keywords=the+new+oxford+annotated+bible+with+apocrypha+5th+edition&qid=1565107662&s=gateway&sprefix=the+new+oxford+%2Caps%2C674&sr=8-1 The Jewish Study Bible: https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Study-Bible-Second/dp/0199978468/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3RZHOCARPL64M&keywords=the+jewish+study+bible&qid=1565107705&s=gateway&sprefix=the+jewish+%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-2 The Jewish Annotated New Testament: https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Annotated-New-Testament/dp/0190461853/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FJNN8SSIFQGO&keywords=jewish+annotated+new+testament&qid=1565107771&s=gateway&sprefix=jewish+an%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-1 The New Jerusalem Bible: https://www.amazon.com/New-Jerusalem-Bible-Date-Introductions/dp/0385142641/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JAXEU1QKAYD8&keywords=the+new+jerusalem+bible&qid=1565107807&s=gateway&sprefix=the+new+jeru%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1 Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible Translation: https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Bible-Translation-Commentary-Three/dp/0393292495/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZI1B2UFSOYMK&keywords=robert+alter+bible&qid=1565107924&s=gateway&sprefix=robert+alter%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-1 Psalms by the Day: https://www.amazon.com/Psalms-Day-New-Devotional-Translation/dp/1781917167/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DOVTX61N86GG&keywords=motyer+psalms&qid=1565108202&s=gateway&sprefix=motyer+%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1

Tim Draper offers keynote address at Crypto Invest Summit. Tim Draper is a founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates and DFJ. He is an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, a Harvard Alumni, and is ranked seven on the Forbes Midas List. Tim's venture successes include Skype, Overture, Baidu, Tesla, Theranos, Parametric Technology, Hotmail, Digidesign, Twitch.tv, and many others.

Tom Goodwin picks up the innovation baton from Clayton Christensen and runs with it into the digital realm. Tom started his career doing marketing development on the 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' show and went on to work in key roles with marketing agencies TBWA, DeVries, and Havas. He has written for numerous top publications such as Forbes, Wired, and The Guardian on the subject of marketing and modernizing advertising. His new book Digital Darwinism leads readers into a better core understanding of the digital realm and digital innovation. Mark Brooks (www.MarkBrooks.info) interviews Tom Goodwin with the help of the Prolific Wisdom community of Harvard Alumni. Guest questions from Lisa Pode Hughes, the Portfolio Director of the PLD program at HBS, and Amit Manocha, a graduate of HBS PLD program. {31 minutes} See Tom's book at: https://smile.amazon.com/Digital-Darwinism-Survival-Business-Disruption-ebook/dp/B07BQ2FZ36 __ CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution - Prolific Wisdom & Mark Brooks - Use it Prolific Wisdom is Harvard Alumni's business book interview group. We interview authors of upcoming business, marketing and behavioral economics books. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Prolific Wisdom podcast at ProlificWisdom.com

  Tom Peters is best known for co-writing the hit business book In Search of Excellence in the mid-80s. Now he's back with a compendium of wisdom which brings together the best of his thoughts and his analysis of the wisdom in 100+ business mastery books that he read in the run up to writing The Excellence Dividend.  Mark Brooks (www.MarkBrooks.info)  interviews Tom Peters with the help of the Prolific Wisdom community of Harvard Alumni.  Guest questions from James Thomas, Boris Tsimerinov and Shiraz Javed.  {55 mins} See Tom’s book at https://smile.amazon.com/Excellence-Dividend-Meeting-Tech-Tide-ebook/dp/B074DHM8LH Prolific Wisdom is Harvard Alumni's business book interview group.  We interview authors of new and upcoming business, marketing and behavioral economics books.   CC BY - Creative Commons Attribution - Prolific Wisdom & Mark Brooks – Go ahead and use it and link to us Don’t forget to subscribe to the Prolific Wisdom podcast  

Vanessa E. Beary (Ed.D. 2014, Ed.M. 2011), President of Harvard Alumni for Education Shared Interest Group sat down with Gerard Robinson (Ed.M. 1995), Executive Director for the Center for Advancing Opportunity to discuss his career in Education, and his path since graduating from Harvard. Robinson draws on his many experiences, from founding a charter school in New Jersey to serving as Virginia's Secretary of Education, and shares practical advice on how to improve educational opportunities for children. Follow Gerard: http://twitter.com/gerard_924 Follow CAO: http://twitter.com/AdvancingOpps You can read more about the Center for Advancing Opportunity here: http://advancingopportunity.org/ Read more about the findings from The State of Opportunity Summit, a convening on education, criminal justice, and economic mobility. http://advancingopportunity.org/opportunity-survey/state-opportunity-america-summit/

#028 - Lazy Harvard AlumniThis is the twenty-eighth episode of GK&F - It’s a Working Title, featuring your two hosts from the darkest depths of space.Intro creditsDave Smith -  Voice artistStrangers - Heiress (from the album Persona Non-Grata)

Tim Draper is the founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates and DFJ. Some of his Venture successes include Skype, Baidu, Tesla, Hotmail, Twitch.tv, and hundreds of others. Fun fact about Tim, it was his original suggestion to use viral marketing in web-based email to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail, YahooMail, and Gmail and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by thousands of businesses. His prominence is evident through his being named 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and seven on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker. We would like to say a special thank you to Mattermark for providing all the data used in the show today and you can check out Mattermark Search here! In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Tim made his way into startups and the investing industry? 2.) Having founded Draper Associates in 1985, how has Tim seen the investing landscape develop over time? 3.) Draper obviously invests across a variety of stage, but what is Tim's preferred stage? Where does he see the most opportunity for venture returns? Why? 4.) Of all the companies Tim has seen, which was the best pitch? Why? Which founder inspired Tim the most? Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently? 5.) What is DraperU? What are the plans for the future? What is the vision? Why did Tim choose to do a reality show in StartupU? Has it been a very different experience being the lead in a TV show compared to investing in startups? 6.)Why is behind Tim's immense belief in Bitcoin. Why is this? When did Tim realize the potential? How long will adoption take? Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Tim's Fave Book: The Startup Game by William Draper, Michael Rothschild: Bionomics Tim's Most Recent Investment: Laurel and Wolf, Favor Delivery As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Tim on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!

Why you need to use video to dramatically increase your positioning on Google, and the 12 steps you need to take to make it really work for you; sensational new figures from Whatsapp and the world's 10 most powerful brands. How to add value to your retail store, increase traffic, increase profit and return on investment and reduce your marketing costs; the advantages of cloud computing. We have our very popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world. We also talk to Tim Draper, described as the Prince of Silicon Valley, the billionaire behind Hotmail, Skype, Baidu and a host of other major successes. He coined the phrase ‘Viral Marketing' and used it to drive Hotmail and others. He launched DFJ Global Network for early stage venture funds in 30 cities around the world. He was 52 on the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. Tim also set up the Draper University of Heroes in Silicon Valley, which is an unconventional world-class residential and online school for the brightest young entrepreneurs from around the world.