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Is your ego quietly running the show—and ruining your progress? This week on The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius dive deep into the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways your ego might be holding you back, and what you can do to stop the sabotage. Joining the conversation is the insightful and inspiring Sarah Spark Malone—a nationally recognized clinical hypnotherapist, transformational healer, and spiritual teacher known for her work on TLC's 90 Day: The Last Resort, as well as her bestselling book Affirmations for a Peaceful Life and her podcast Ignite the Spark Within. With over a decade of experience helping people break free of subconscious patterns and heal emotional wounds, Sarah helps unpack how the ego disguises itself as protection while actually blocking growth, love, and success. As always, the hosts bring their top five takes on the topic—and with Sarah as the judge, only one can be crowned this week's ego-aware champion. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarah_sparkmalone

You've heard the saying “It's not what you say, it's how you say it”—but what if your voice is the secret weapon to unlocking your next level of professional success? In this powerful episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius explore the impact of vocal presence, tone, and communication style with special guest Tina Deitz—award-winning speaker, acclaimed performer, vocal leadership expert, and founder of Twin Flames Studios and Alembic Press. Join us for part 2 of this episode as Tina breaks down how your voice can influence credibility, leadership, and personal branding—whether you're in the boardroom, on stage, or behind a mic. With features in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ABC, and Inc.com, Tina brings a wealth of insight and charisma to the conversation. As always, the hosts present their top five takes on the topic—and with Tina as judge, we'll see who has the most influential perspective this week. Expect laughs, learning, and a few mic drops in an episode that proves your voice might just be your most powerful professional tool.

You've heard the saying “It's not what you say, it's how you say it”—but what if your voice is the secret weapon to unlocking your next level of professional success? In this powerful episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius explore the impact of vocal presence, tone, and communication style with special guest Tina Deitz—award-winning speaker, acclaimed performer, vocal leadership expert, and founder of Twin Flames Studios and Alembic Press. Tina breaks down how your voice can influence credibility, leadership, and personal branding—whether you're in the boardroom, on stage, or behind a mic. With features in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ABC, and Inc.com, Tina brings a wealth of insight and charisma to the conversation. As always, the hosts present their top five takes on the topic—and with Tina as judge, we'll see who has the most influential perspective this week. Expect laughs, learning, and a few mic drops in an episode that proves your voice might just be your most powerful professional tool.

From Minority Report to Her, Hollywood has a way of turning fiction into uncanny reality. In this mind-bending episode of My Five Cents, SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius are joined by futurist, hacker-turned-farmer, and former broadcaster Jesse Hirsch to unpack how movies have eerily predicted the world we're living in now. Jesse brings his unique lens—sharpened by decades of exploring tech, society, and the strange dance between innovation and control—to explore how science fiction has forecasted surveillance, artificial intelligence, virtual relationships, and even the collapse of societal norms. Is Hollywood psychic, or are we just living in someone else's screenplay? What role do these films play in shaping the very future they claim to predict? And how does a life spent farming tie back to humanity's most radical dreams? Tune in as we blend nostalgia, critical thinking, and a dash of dystopia—because sometimes, the truth is stranger (and better produced) than fiction.

Lo streaming, che meraviglia! È quella cosa che tutti amiamo e che ci fa impazzire. Ma come funziona davvero? Come fa un film ad apparire sullo schermo senza che lo dobbiamo scaricare completamente? Certo, il browser scarica i dati, ma il vero mistero è come riusciamo a vedere tutto in full HD anche sul computer più modesto. È proprio questa la magia dello streaming.Tutti i miei link: https://linktr.ee/br1brownCos'è MPEG-DASH? | HLS e DASH | CloudflareHLS vs. MPEG-DASH: un confronto tra i protocolli di streaming live per il 2022Guida allo Streaming Video: formati, mercato e piattaformeTELEGRAM - INSTAGRAMSe ti va supportami https://it.tipeee.com/br1brown

From sci-fi classics to eerie thrillers—some movies didn't just entertain us, they predicted what was to come. In this futuristic (and funny) episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius are joined by special guest Jesse Hirsh—a futurist, recovering broadcaster, and master of smart conversations—for a deep dive into the films that saw the future before it happened. Which movies got it weirdly right? Which ones were way off? And which host picked the most prophetic flicks? With Jesse's expansive knowledge, quick wit, and love of improvisation, the conversation flows from AI to surveillance to societal shifts—all through the lens of film. Tune in as each host presents their top five “future-predicting” movies, debates heat up, and we find out who takes the crown in this week's challenge. It's insight, entertainment, and plenty of laughs—because here at My Five Cents, it's always a little bit smart and a whole lot of fun.

Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:Broadcaster: Maritime radio HLS Seoul KoreaDate of recording: October 31, 1998Frequency: 8.725 MHzReception location: Coe Hill, Ontario, CanadaReceiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antennaMode: Single Side BandNotes: Maritime radiotelephone station HLS in Seoul, Korea continued to operate in the late 1990's on shortwave. Instead of a repeating voice mirror, this station played Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" over and over so that the receiving station could tune them in. This recording is from October 31, 1998 at Coe Hill, Ontario, Canada, and the frequency they were using was 8725 kHz upper sideband. My receiver was a Panasonic RF-3100 hooked up to a long wire antenna.The station was identified by Richard "RD" Baker, editor of Communications Confidential, in the January 1999 issue of Popular Communications magazine. In his Reader Mailbag section, he wrote:"Dan Greenall in Ontario, Canada, has been hearing a new (at least to folks in North America) maritime marker on 8725.0 USB: Beethoven's 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy" is repeated. In trying to track this marker down, we sent the call out over the WUN Club's listserver. Costas Krallis in Greece, Fabrizio Magrone in Italy. Alex Wellner and Robin Harwood. both in Australia. all became involved. They soon began logging the marker on other maritime frequencies. Eventually, it was noted on 6513, 8725, 8797, 13161, and 17341. Only one station has those frequencies in common: HLS, Seoul Radio. South Korea. The marker was completely IDed within 32 hours!"

This week on The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Carl King dive into the hilariously awkward and cringe-worthy topic of the worst things to say right after sex. Joined by the quick-witted and unfiltered guest Amy Taylor, the crew shares their most outrageous, embarrassing, and downright terrible post-intimacy moments. From accidental honesty to downright bizarre comments, no story is off-limits.   As the laughs flow, the hosts compete to see who can come up with the most cringe-inducing line—and who will be crowned the ultimate victor of the week. Will it be SoSo Juv's brutal honesty, HLS's awkward charm, or Carl King's unexpected zingers? Tune in to find out and prepare to laugh, gasp, and maybe even cringe at this unforgettable episode!   Disclaimer: This episode may cause secondhand embarrassment. Proceed with caution.    

Brace yourselves! This episode of The My Five Cents Podcast is about to take you on a hilarious and slightly awkward journey as Soso Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius dive into the absolute worst things you can say immediately after getting down and dirty. From cringe-worthy confessions to mood-killing missteps, we're breaking it all down with the perfect guest to weigh in—Amy Taylor! Amy is not only super smart and wickedly sexy, but her class, exclusivity, and razor-sharp sense of humor make her the ultimate expert for this conversation. She's a real-life model (unlike the inflatable one in HLS's closet), and her presence alone will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about post-coital communication. Can you recover from a bad post-sex remark? What's the biggest turn-off you can utter in the heat of the moment? And what words will get you permanently banned from the bedroom? Tune in as Amy shares her insight, the guys go head-to-head with their wildest picks, and we all learn a thing or two about what not to say when the deed is done. Get ready for laughs, lessons, and maybe a little secondhand embarrassment.

Show Notes: Jacinda Townsend shares her journey of living in 10 different states and two foreign countries, having four careers, including being an elected official, having a couple of kids, and doing various weird things.  Working in Law, Journalism, and Fiction When Jacinda graduated at 20, she went to law school, which was part of a straight trajectory she had imagined since childhood, and while she initially believed she would go into politics and return to Kentucky, she realized she did not want to pursue a career in law. After finishing her degree, she worked as a news commentator for the Christian Science Monitor network, which led to her being hired as a professional journalist to cover international and national politics. Jacinda was passionate about the news and TV news. Writing for the sound byte was a challenge for her, but she loved it because it allowed her to express herself politically and learn a lot about the English language. She decided she wanted to pursue writing seriously and is now a novelist. She also teaches at Brown University in the MFA program. Throughout her career, Jacinda explains, it has been random events and circumstances that led her to each position.  Motivated by Anger and Moving into Politics Jacinda talks about her career in politics and how it transpired fueled by her anger at issues she could not ignore. She shares her experiences as a sitting school board member in Bloomington, Indiana. She served in a progressive town with a lot of socio-economic segregation and disciplinary disparities by race and ethnicity which she could not ignore. Jacinda ran for re-election and was elected again, and this time, it was a landslide.  She moved to Michigan and was asked to run for the school board there. Jacinda talks about the issues tackled, changes made, and how integration has changed. Jacinda believes that the ideal of integration is not happening. She explains that segregation has increased with 80 percent of white kids going to a school where the percentage of white children is above 75 percent, and minority children and still 90 percent more likely to be in a minority school. She mentions that peak integration happened in 1987 and goes on to explain the driving factors behind the segregation.  Working as a Writer The conversation turns to her writing career, which includes the award-winning novel Mother Country and the forthcoming novel Trigger Warning. Jacinda talks about her routine, which includes a 500-word word count daily.  She also shares a story of working with a student who felt unsure about her writing, and how she copes with the uncertainty of working in the arts. She also shares her approach to keeping up with her characters, and uses random texts to remember what was going through the character's head and keeps up with them. This helps her keep up with the story and remember the characters' reactions to things. When writing a novel, Jacinda immerses herself in the character's world, trying to experience it through their eyes. She doesn't take breaks during the writing process, as she believes that the imagination begets the imagination, and when living with her characters every day, it becomes like a muscle memory. When she returns to the story, she can remember every bit of why she did something, making her work more enjoyable and fulfilling. Living in Foreign Countries Jacinda was a Fulbright student in Cote d'Ivoire, and she has lived in two foreign countries, including Mali and Morocco. While in Mali, she encountered modern-day slavery. She also went to Morocco and visited Mauritania, where 20% of the population is enslaved. She explains that Mauritania is a remote country where it is like stepping back 500 years. It is difficult to escape slavery, as employment is caste-based, so if they escape slavery, there is no work. She met an escaped slave and her family, who gave birth to her last of eight children while escaping slavery. Jacinda shares that holding this baby was a profound moment in her life, and it was this experience that led to her novel, Mother Country. Jacinda explains that the reason no-one knows about the slavery issues in Mauritania is because it is not often mentioned in the news. The media is state-run, and the slavery system is brutally enforced. It is also difficult to get to due to its remoteness so there are very few Western visitors. People there often believe they should be slaves, that it is divinely ordained.   Influential Classes and Professors at Harvard Jacinda mentions Martin Kilson, a brilliant political scholar. She was initially shy in his class, but after her campus activism went viral, he hugged her and said, "You're brilliant." This was a moment that made her feel like she belonged there for the first time. Jacinda appreciates the gift of Martin Kilson's support and tries to make her students feel seen when they are quiet and nervous. She believes that making people feel heard is important and that she will never forget the gift of his presence. Jacinda Townsend shares her campus activism story. At the time she had no idea of the impact this would have. One night, the Boston Police came to her room. She was alone, but before she knew it, seven girls showed up who had come to support her. This experience taught her to speak on television and that even in difficult times, it's important to be there for others, and that others will be there for you, if you share a common belief.  Timestamps: 01:59: Early Career and Education  07:51: Public Office and School Board Experience  22:11: Writing Career and Novels  30:22: Experiences in Foreign Countries  36:39: Personal Reflections and Life Philosophy 40:15: Campus Activism and Media Experience  48:10: Impact of Media and Public Perception  48:27: Final Thoughts and Future Plans  Links: Website:   https://jacindatownsend.com/about-me/ Featured Non-profit "Hi, I'm Khedrub, Class of 1992. The featured non-profit of this episode of The 92 Report is Kadampa Meditation Center Boston. I've been privileged to work for this budding organization since I moved back to Cambridge in 2020. In addition to our regular programming, I speak at Lehman Hall in the Yard for GSAS now every month and at HLS once a semester, paying back a bit to Havard." You can learn more about our work at www.meditationinboston.org  

Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and original short fiction. Liu's short story "The Paper Menagerie" is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win all of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. Besides his original work, Liu's translation of Liu Cixin's Chinese language novel The Three-Body Problem (the first in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, making it the first translated novel to have won the award. He studied English Literature and Computer Science at Harvard College, and graduated from Harvard Law School. https://kenliu.name/ Steve and Ken discuss:  00:00 Meet Ken Liu: Acclaimed Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writer04:25 The Immigrant Experience and Cultural Perspectives09:22 Harvard, MSFT, HLS, Litigation15:01 The Art of Storytelling and Technology34:03 Controversy in AI Reasoning34:31 Technology Outstripping Science35:22 AI and the Arts38:30 The Future of AI in Art42:44 AI's Role in Creative Processes50:04 Art, Automation, and Society57:31 Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy01:03:06 The Genius of Philip K. DickMusic used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.  – Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU. Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on X @hsu_steve.

In this captivating episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, the third-place host, HLS, reaches out to some loyal listeners as they get raw and uncut in their thoughts about toxic relationships.  Who's to blame for em, and how to avoid em!

In this captivating episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius dive into the fascinating and often misunderstood world of toxic relationships. Why do some men repeatedly attract toxic partners, and how can they break free from this cycle? To help unravel the mystery, the trio welcomes special guest judge Stefania Puleo, a renowned Dating and Relationship Coach for Successful Men. Stefania shares her expert insights on recognizing red flags, understanding the psychology behind toxic attractions, and cultivating healthier relationship dynamics. Tune in for "Cross Examination" as the hosts try to persuade to judge to earn her favor. This episode has, eye-opening perspectives, and practical tips that could change your approach to relationships forever. Whether you're in the dating game or looking to level up your self-awareness, this is one episode you won't want to miss!

In this captivating episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius dive into the fascinating and often misunderstood world of toxic relationships. Why do some men repeatedly attract toxic partners, and how can they break free from this cycle? To help unravel the mystery, the trio welcomes special guest judge Stefania Puleo, a renowned Dating and Relationship Coach for Successful Men. Stefania shares her expert insights on recognizing red flags, understanding the psychology behind toxic attractions, and cultivating healthier relationship dynamics. Tune in for honest conversations, eye-opening perspectives, and practical tips that could change your approach to relationships forever. Whether you're in the dating game or looking to level up your self-awareness, this is one episode you won't want to miss!

WARNING: Adult Content!  First, does getting hit on by a teenager count as a compliment? Then, come join Jayna and 2 Besties of the male variety for a cheeky convo at the adult table. This one's informative and good for a laugh- Soso Juv (Team Loverboy) and H.L.S.(Team F*boy) from the "My 5 Cents Podcast" never hold back!  To hear more from Soso and HLS, check them out on spotify THE MY FIVE CENTS PODCAST   IN THIS EPISODE -How to incorporate sexy talk in the bedroom -How much is TOO much when it comes to talking nasty? -Is baby talk sexy? -Do cellulite and stretchmarks give men the ick? -Who's locker room talk is worse? Women or Men?   If you loved this episode and would like to support Big Lash Energy please click here: Buymeacoffee.com/BigLashEnergy   Our not-so-secret goal is to create a tribe of badass women who find beauty in the messiest parts of life. We're learning and laughing as we go! If you know someone who could use a little BLE in their life? If so, could you pretty please share this show with them! ...let's grow this tribe together!    HOW TO CONNECT:  Find us on INSTAGRAM!  BigLashPodcast   Jaynas makeup and personal IG: JaynaMarieMakeup   We're official! Here's our website: www.biglashpodcast.com   

This week on The My Five Cents Podcast, it should be no surprise that the self-proclaimed most favorite host, HLS, tries to plead his case as to why he doesn't deserve the losing spot against Soso Juv and guest host Carl King. Was the vibrant Andy Paige, known for her work as an actress on General Hospital, QVC guest host, bestselling author, and internationally recognized beauty and lifestyle expert, correct?  Listen and decide for yourself.  

This week on The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Carl King tackle the behaviors of insecure men with the always vibrant Andy Paige. Known for her work as an actress on General Hospital, QVC guest host, bestselling author, and internationally recognized beauty and lifestyle expert, Andy brings her unique blend of humor, wisdom, and storytelling to the conversation. Together, they unpack the behaviors, habits, and mindsets that scream insecurity—and how these traits affect relationships, self-worth, and personal growth. With her expertise in image transformation and self-confidence, Andy offers practical advice on navigating these dynamics, whether you're the one feeling insecure or trying to support someone who is. Tune in for a candid, insightful, and often hilarious discussion with Andy Paige and your favorite trio of podcast hosts! Don't miss this enlightening episode of The My Five Cents Podcast!

This week on The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Carl King tackle the behaviors of insecure men with the always vibrant Andy Paige. Known for her work as an actress on General Hospital, QVC guest host, bestselling author, and internationally recognized beauty and lifestyle expert, Andy brings her unique blend of humor, wisdom, and storytelling to the conversation. Together, they unpack the behaviors, habits, and mindsets that scream insecurity—and how these traits affect relationships, self-worth, and personal growth. With her expertise in image transformation and self-confidence, Andy offers practical advice on navigating these dynamics, whether you're the one feeling insecure or trying to support someone who is. Tune in for a candid, insightful, and often hilarious discussion with Andy Paige and your favorite trio of podcast hosts! Don't miss this enlightening episode of The My Five Cents Podcast!

SoSo Juv, and HLS breakdown this episode and delve into the costly mistakes made by special guest host Mizchitchat, sealing her fate as the 3rd place host of this comically musical episode. 

Every show needs a musical. Join us for My Five Cents singalong as SoSo Juv, HLS, and Mizchitchat create My Five Cents the musical. Listen in as SoSo Juv sings reggaeton, HLS sings the classics, and Mizchitchat shakes her head in disbelief. We will find out who our guest Aunt Nae Nae chooses as the victor for this episode on childhood movies. 

The My Five Cents Podcast is back with another episode as SoSo Juv, HLS, and MizChitChat review the best childhood movies. A movie review turns into a sing off as we see whose list impresses our guest Aunt Nae Nae of the Aunt Nae Nae show. Who's right who's wrong you decide!

Get ready to dive deep into mind of HLS, 1/3 Host of the My Five Cents podcast.  The self-proclaimed most exciting, groundbreaking, innovative visionary of podcasting.  In this episode, he brings into his world of rites of passage.  Do you agree with his list or think it belongs in the trash?   Don't miss out—subscribe now to hear all of our episodes. 

In this persuasive episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Mizchitchat welcome Carl King, an esteemed change consultant, to delve into the fascinating world of rites of passage. Join us as the hosts try to persuade Carl to pick the champion for the week. He also shares his top 5 essential rites of passage activities that can transform lives and foster personal growth. From ancient traditions to modern practices, we explore the significance and impact of these pivotal experiences. Tune in for an engaging discussion filled with wisdom, personal stories, and practical insights that will leave you inspired and informed. Don't miss out on this transformative conversation on The My Five Cents Podcast!

On June 27, 2024 we discussed AI in Life Sciences with Jot Chahal, Johnson & Johnson, Patricia Leuchten, Diligent Pharma and V. "Bala" Balasubramanian, PhD, MBA, Orion InnovationJot Chahal is Vice President, Global Digital Health at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, where he is accelerating the commercialization of digital health assets across the pharmaceutical business.Partnering with our regions, technology, and R&D leaders across the globe to build digital health (SaMD, DTx) capabilities and drive business growth across all therapy areas.He is an entrepreneurial and results-driven health technology executive with twenty years of experience in driving top-line profitable growth through innovation, and data-driven strategies across industries, services, and markets globally.Patti Leuchten is a pharma industry leader and entrepreneur with a focus on driving improvements in clinical trial execution, at scale, through innovative solutions.In 1999, she founded The Avoca Group, whose Avoca Quality Consortium paved the way for Diligent Pharma and the Diligent Qualification Platform.Dr. V. “Bala” Balasubramanian is currently SVP and Global Head of Industry Solutions Group for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Orion Innovation.He is responsible for defining the GTM strategy, solution and service offerings for the HLS division, exploring digital transformation initiatives to further the needs of clients, and providing thought leadership to the industry.It has resulted in Orion being featured in Gartner and Everest Peak Matrix Benchmark Reports in 2022 and 2023. He has recently written about opportunities and challenges with respect to GenAI in Life Sciences.Prior to Orion, Bala was the Co-Founder and CEO of Cabeus where he was responsible for strategy, leadership and vision for both service offerings and a cloud platform to transform the regulatory value chain for Life Sciences.#ai #drugdiscovery #clinicaltrials#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast

In this enlightening episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Mizchitchat welcome Carl King, an esteemed change consultant, to delve into the fascinating world of rites of passage. Join us as Carl shares his top 5 essential rites of passage activities that can transform lives and foster personal growth. From ancient traditions to modern practices, we explore the significance and impact of these pivotal experiences. Tune in for an engaging discussion filled with wisdom, personal stories, and practical insights that will leave you inspired and informed. Don't miss out on this transformative conversation on The My Five Cents Podcast!

In this episode, HLS, the third-place host tries to defend his list on the harsh realities everyone needs to hear.  Can he handle the bitter truth or did HLS refuse to accept his third place fate.

Welcome to part 2 of this episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosted by the dynamic trio SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius. In this thought-provoking installment, the hosts dive deep into the "Top 5 Harsh Realities" we all face in life. Joining them for this insightful discussion is the charismatic Cheri Hagan, the voice behind the popular podcast Life with a Cheri On Top. Together, they explore life's toughest truths, sharing personal anecdotes, expert insights, and practical advice to help listeners navigate these challenging realities. Don't miss this compelling episode filled with wisdom, humor, and valuable life lessons!

Welcome to another engaging episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosted by the dynamic trio SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius. In this thought-provoking installment, the hosts dive deep into the "Top 5 Harsh Realities" we all face in life. Joining them for this insightful discussion is the charismatic Cheri Hagan, the voice behind the popular podcast Life with a Cheri On Top. Together, they explore life's toughest truths, sharing personal anecdotes, expert insights, and practical advice to help listeners navigate these challenging realities. Don't miss this compelling episode filled with wisdom, humor, and valuable life lessons!   Follow Cheri on Instagram @Lifewithacheriontop

Soso Juv, HLS and guest Host Meeshe Meesh brace themselves as they wait to find out which host has the most compelling list of best marketing campaigns of the last decade.  From viral sensations to timeless classics, marketing guru Keenya Kelly @keenyakelly reveals which host rose to the top! Tune in and discover what it takes to create campaigns that captivate.

Get ready to dive into the world of unforgettable marketing! Soso Juv, HLS and guest Host Meeshe Meesh unpack the secrets behind the most compelling campaigns of th last decade.  Some captured hearts, turned heads, and made brands unforgettable. From viral sensations to timeless classics, join us as we chat with marketing guru Keenya Kelly (keenyakelly @ TheLeap) about all the creative minds who turned ideas into iconic moments. Whether you're a marketing pro or just love a good story, this podcast is your backstage pass to the magic of marketing. Tune in and discover what it takes to create campaigns that captivate.

In this episode, HLS, the third-place host tries to defend his list on what skills are needed for Love Everlasting.  Did he deserve the bottom spot or was it a well deserved loss?

In this heartfelt episode of The My Five Cents Podcast, hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius are joined by Narcissistic Abuse Healing Coach Alex Scot.  Alex shares her expertise on how to nurture and sustain a loving, long-term partnership. Tune in as we explore: Effective communication techniques to strengthen your bond The importance of trust and how to build it Strategies for maintaining intimacy and connection over the years Conflict resolution methods that bring you closer Narcissism and its effects on relationship Alex provides practical tips and real-life examples, making this episode a must-listen for anyone looking to deepen their relationship and foster lasting love. Whether you're in a new relationship or have been together for decades, you'll find valuable advice to enrich your journey together. Don't miss this engaging and informative discussion!

Show Notes: Title: Media Entrepreneur and Filmmaker   Show notes: Natalia Tsarkova, a transfer student from Latvia, was the first student from the former Soviet bloc to apply to an American college. She was thrown into a completely different world and roles, but knew she wanted to create more contexts for others to transform their lives like she didher life. Growing up in Latvia, she watched pirated MTV videos and credits seeing Billy Jean for the first time for inspiring her to work in the media space. In 1993, she met a professor at the MIT Media Lab, who recognized her mixed background of mathematics, social studies, and filmmaking. She fell into the master's program at the MIT Media Lab, where she was educated on the new way of thinking about media and how to create more meaningful experiences through on-demand interactive media platforms.   Working in Video on Demand and Interactive Experiences Natalia was eager to move to New York City and found a job with a startup in Soho. She was driven to explore the world of startups and entrepreneurs, which she didn't know much about before. She created projects Barry Diller, Sony Music and was hired by the Beatles estate to create the first Beatles digital experience. She had the luxury of diving deep into the Beatles archives and creating unique digital content. Natalia worked with IMG, fashion, and sports, and was tasked with explaining the digital transformation to CEOs in management, helping them imagine new types of media experiences that were digital and on demand. Her journey from MIT to New York City was filled with excitement, partying, and meeting people from all walks of life. She was able to stay afloat as a consultant, working on projects that fascinated her and helped shape the future of digital media.  The Development of Transmedia  In 2001, Natalia met her husband, a French television music television producer, who was looking for a digital media expert. In 2003, they set up the first European video on demand platform, called Transmedia.  Natalia convinced television producers that linear television was dead and that video on demand was the future. They built a business by packaging content from France television and other European producers and selling it to telcos in Belgium, Switzerland, and even France. With their large library of live musical content, they launched a video on demand platform called iConcerts, similar to Netflix but with only live music. This platform evolved into a hybrid high-definition TV/Video on Demand channel, licensed by operators in 128 countries between 2007 and 2010. The platform was successful, with collaborations with CCTV, an office in Singapore, Paris and Tokyo and partnerships with Senegalese musicians and Africa. Natalia explains how she became disillusioned a few years before it was sold.     Making a TV Documentary  Ever since Harvard, Natalia always did some form of documentary filmmaking. During summers, she rented a house in France and started filming the Gypsy Kings, a group that were popular in the 90s. Natalia showed the excerpts to a head of a European arts channel called Arte, who suggested she submit a the proposal for a full length film. The film was released in 2016 and received triple primetime ratings on the channel, and the Gypsy Kings loved it. This experience of original content storytelling and the idea of tribes, such as the Gypsy tribe, inspired her. She moved on to create a project called Tribo, designed to be a storytelling platform for groups to share their stories. Tribo has become more about digital storytelling and dynamic storytelling.  The Evolution of the Tribo Platform  Natalia discusses the concept of Tribo as a media platform for storytelling. Tribo was initially designed as an extension of live music festivals, but after two years of testing, it has been found to be particularly effective in private communities during COVID-19. Tribo aims to create a platform where stories that matter over time are told, such as collective storytelling. This can involve recording portraits of different people who are part of the organization, allowing everyone to post photos and videos during an event, and giving CEOs a space to motivate everyone. Natalia emphasizes the importance of engagement from employees, as most companies struggle with sharing their stories due to busy work and reluctance to share. By providing equal opportunities for sharing and having leaders interviewing people, Tribo can capture the heritage and legacy of the community.  Influential Harvard Professors and Courses Natalia was particularly fond of the VES department, where she watched two movies a day, and had a close friendship with Robert Gardner, Director of the Film Study Center and Svetlana Boym, an expert on Soviet art and modern art. She mentions Liah Greenfield, her thesis advisor. She also worked for the Harvard Negotiation Project, created by Roger Fisher, a professor at HLS known as the ultimate expert on negotiation.. Her first job at Harvard was working at the Russian research center, where she was hired by Marshall Goldman, a big Soviet studies professor.   Timestamps: 05:12 How a Latvian student applied to Harvard despite obstacles 11:30 Moving to NYC, starting a business, and networking 14:00 Digital media, video on demand, and startup experience 21:03 Entrepreneurship, media, and filmmaking 24:15 Filmmaking, loss, and entrepreneurship 31:27 Using tech for collective storytelling in organizations 41:17 Grief, trauma, and resilience after loss 44:42 Filmmaking, Harvard experiences, and connections Links: LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-tsarkova  Website: Tribo.Live Kings of the World: https://vimeo.com/197952008/d444b20c11 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nataliatsar/  

Get ready for the big reveal in this hilarious episode as Soso Juv, HLS and The Logical Genius find out who the talented Tam Taylor @thetamtaylor picks which host has the best list of comedians turned actors!  #comedy #actor #funny

Get ready to laugh till your sides hurt as Soso Juv, HLS and The Logical Genius enlist the help of the talented Tam Taylor @thetamtaylor as they share their five cents on the best comedian turned actors! These hilarious talents have transitioned seamlessly from stand-up stages to the silver screen, bringing their wit, charm, and comedic genius to every role they tackle. From side-splitting comedies to heartfelt dramas, these performers prove that laughter truly is the best medicine.

Ready to continue your journey towards financial freedom? Welcome back to Part 2 of our exploration into side hustles, entrepreneurship, and unlocking multiple streams of income. In this episode, industry expert @edwinjoseph82 takes the hot seat as he sifts through the top 5 side hustle lists presented by hosts Soso Juv, HLS, and The Logical Genius. Join us as we dive deeper into the strategies, insights, and debates that will help you chart your course to success on your own terms.

Are you ready to unlock the secrets to financial freedom and success on your own terms? Look no further! Join Soso Juv, HLS, and The Logical Genius as we delve into the world of side hustles, entrepreneurship, and creating multiple streams of income. Joining the conversation is none other than industry expert @edwinjoseph82 as we dig deep into his mind as he's mentored some of the top successful entrepreneurs who have mastered the art of side hustling.   

The Logical Genius, Soso Juv and HLS are talking about the dark side of fame - those jaw-dropping scandals that have rocked the entertainment world and left careers shattered.

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As part of NASA's Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is working with SpaceX to develop the company's Starship human landing system (HLS), which will land astronauts near the Moon's South Pole during the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions. On March 14, SpaceX launched the third integrated flight test of its Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage, an important milestone toward providing NASA with a Starship HLS for its Artemis missions.

The Logical Genius, Soso Juv and HLS are talking about the dark side of fame - those jaw-dropping scandals that have rocked the entertainment world and left careers shattered.

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Set top boxes have long been looked at, theoretically at least, as single-purpose devices that would do nicely as digital signage media players, but it's fair to say a lot of software company developer and support teams have painful memories of trying to use consumer devices from China as Android-based players. They weren't reliable in terms of performance, or even in terms of what showed up from shipment to shipment. So what if a company that was expressly in the business of commercial-grade set top boxes for the pay TV and cable markets got into digital signage? That's the deal with a UK company called Amino, which now has two lines of business - pay TV and pro AV applications like digital signage. These are devices that are engineered to last for five or six years, and in a lot of cases, they are happily ticking away for a decade and longer. High reliability and remote management are inherent in the product design, so meeting that common pro AV demand was largely automatic. I had a good chat with Rowan Brunger, Amino's UK-based Sales Director, about the hardware, how the company goes to market, and what's involved if software companies and solutions providers want to add Amino devices as a hardware option. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT David: Rowan, thank you for joining me. I bumped into you last year and basically said, what do you guys do? Cause I'd never heard of you and we'd intended to do a podcast and finally got around to it. So for those people who don't know the company, what are you all about?  Rowan Brunger: Thanks, David. Thanks for having me on. So yeah, great to be here. We are a company called Amino and we've been around for about 25 years. So we have two sides to our business. Primarily, we've been a set top box manufacturer within the pay TV world and in the last few years, we've made a move to expand our enterprise TV and digital signage side of the business which is rapidly growing some momentum in terms of those 25 years we've been around, we've probably got 25 million devices in circulation and we've got quite a compelling device management system that we've tweaked from our experience in the pay TV world brought over to the pro AV arena for managing the states of media devices.  David: So when you say pay TV, you basically in the context of what North Americans would understand that basically means cable TV.   Rowan Brunger: Yeah, cable TV. So tier one, tier two, satellite providers where we would typically either have an Amino box or we'd OEM a box for the actual operator. So we're used to selling in big numbers to operators and what really differentiated us in that market which we're using in this one is the remote device management. So as you can imagine, if we're sending hundreds of thousands of boxes out, we want it to be relatively zero touch from the consumer's environment. We want them to plug the cables in and we do the rest remotely. So that's really what spawn orchestrate products, which is our device management platform that we've tweaked and made more applicable to the pro IV market to manage our media players. David: When you opened up the digital signage/enterprise TV market, was that based on inbound requests, Hey, we would really like to use a set top box. Do you support this market or there may be multiple answers but I'm curious if you kind of looked at where linear TV or cable TV was going, given streaming and the way that was bubbling up and realized, okay, we needed to, we need to open up a new market.  Rowan Brunger: I guess a combination of the various different scenarios you've given there. I mean, it's key to say we've always had a foot within the digital signage and enterprise video world. There's amino products that have been out there for sort of 10 years plus. I guess one of the main alliances partners we had in the past was Triple Play. So we manufactured a lot of the endpoints for Triple Play, Vitech and some of the IPTV streaming guys. So we've got loads of boxes out there in circulation and they're coming up for renewal or people wanting to upgrade to 4k, et cetera.  So that gives us a natural pull off. Okay, let's look at this market in isolation rather than just bolting onto our existing business. And then there's actually looking at the experience that we've gained in the pay TV world which has become a very competitive environment to be in. We can take a lot of that experience and truly add some value within the pro AV space with the gravitas of products and devices that we've managed previously and importantly, bringing over our video expertise onto the media player, rather than just looking at signage. We've done well where we integrate the two and we're finding a lot of customers are wanting both of them to run side by side on one device. So we can pull the huge expertise we have in enterprise video and actually put it on the same device next to, for instance, the CMS platform,  David: The markets and the use cases are, in some respects, very similar in terms of both needing very high quality of service. Like the stuff can't go down, right? Rowan Brunger: Sure. Yeah. We look at that from a number of different angles in terms of the physical player itself is truly enterprise grade, steel case designed to work in all environments 24 seven and some would argue we've even over engineered it. I mean, we've literally got boxes that have been running 24 seven in the field for 10 or 12 years solid and they're still displaying every single hour of the day.  But then there's the actual total robustness of the system and that's the inevitably when something does go wrong and things obviously do go wrong, the ability to fix that very quickly and also the ability to make sure the ongoing security and updates of that device are easy to get onto it, is as important as it running really. David: Yeah, I would say any number of CMS software companies in the industry have only in the last few years sort of realized the importance of remote device management, whereas it would have been inherent in what you do right from the start, right?  Rowan Brunger: Yeah, it's absolutely an upfront thought in where we've come from. And inevitably like a lot of things, you only realize how much you need something when you don't have it and when there's a problem. So certainly a lot of the signage projects that were involved with it, it's not their first signage project at all. They're learning from the deployments they've already made and what the pinch points were and what the really painful bits about it. And I think we're in a world now where people are taking their signage a lot more seriously with a big emphasis and cost push to get people back to the high street. For instance, when we're looking at retail, it's not just a tick box, we have a signage system in place. It's got to be absolutely robust. You've got to be able to rely on it and certainly, in times where people are paying to have their content advertised within the stores or the settings, they want to know it's actually been on the screen.  David: So you're competing in a few ways with different kinds of companies. You've got the consumer/prosumer android set top boxes that have come over from Shenzhen or whatever. You've got special purpose media play out boxes like a bright sign box and then you've got companies like SPINX who have their own box and other companies that have their own boxes and then you have PCs. So how do you kind of position yourself?  Rowan Brunger: It's a really good question. So, if I cover the first section early on, I'll probably include system on chip in that as well. So we've got a system on chip users, people have realized that there's value in having a player but maybe not as necessarily selected. One that hits all their objectives, I'm sure we say and then we've got the likes of the guys that do really high end boxes with multiple outputs. We've liked to keep this really simple, we have two products in our portfolio, for instance, we have a POE model and we have a Wifi model. So we keep it really simple. It's at a price point where we're stretching the people from the cheap consumer devices and the system on chip operators but add enough value to make that extra investment to move towards an enterprise grade player but we're underneath a lot of our true competitors that you know do fit for purpose signage players because we don't try and do everything. So I'll give you an example of that. We like to partner with specialists in areas that aren't familiar to us. So if somebody needs a four output player, we've got a partnership with the likes of Matrox to give you that. So those guys specialize in multiple output play, cards and players, we feed into it. But what that gives the customer is one platform for pretty much whatever they want to do. So our device management and the reliability is right up there with the top end competitors. But we've got a really simplistic view and what our customers like is no matter what they're displaying or what they're using the player for, it's the same player that does it all. So we've got one customer that has probably six use cases for our player within their stores. So a large rollout of about 650-700 stores in the UK and they're doing multiple things with it but they know it's a H 200 player,  that is just programmed in different ways for those different use cases and they really liked that from a maintenance point of view. So we've kept things really simple. We are definitely a step up and a professional grade player to challenge the lower end operators in the market and in terms of the higher end guys, I think we're hitting a price point. They can't, so we can get mass adoption from our product and we've got the right partnerships in place to cover all use cases with the guys that lead the industry in those areas. David: So for the age 200 player. If I'm buying, like 10 of them, what roughly in U. S. dollars would be the cost?  Rowan Brunger: So well, I'm doing a conversion in my head.  David: Well, give me, EU or sterling.  Rowan Brunger: Yeah, so we've got a package to trade within Europe that's about 240 pounds. Okay. What are we at? Just over 300 and that's a full two year package of enhanced support, premium device management software on the player itself. The player itself is around 200 on its own with various different options. So it hits a price point if you want to power four screens; for instance, in a video wall, it actually becomes price. It prices itself well enough that you could actually put a player on each of those screens, run it as a video wall, or run them individually and have that flexibility. So you're not just doing one or the other, yet you're still coming in at probably less than a quad head player that would powerful screens,  David: Yeah, and it's interesting. By standardizing on just one box for a whole bunch of different use cases, you could keep a spares pool without having to think, okay, I need two spares of these and two spares of those, and so on. You just have five on the shelf that you can pull off if you need to. Rowan Brunger: Exactly that. I mean the scenario I just gave you before, they're even looking at running just some simple audio or some simple HTML pages, just because they like the simplicity that everything is powered by exactly the same thing.  David: You mentioned that you've had stuff in the field for 10 years. Do you have a rated operating life?  Rowan Brunger: Well, the chipset has changed, which has sort of adapted that slightly, and then you've obviously got the provisions of using flash memory but the products that we have in the field have normally been programmed to do one thing, from the offset. So, quite often, decoding video streams, so they haven't really been updated, and that's why they've been running for 10 or 12 years plus. They're designed and warranted to run for, you know, the standard sort of five or six years, but they've become so robust that people have just left them in cause they're working.  We've got an airport with 2000 of the units in, and it's only because they want to change to full grade that they even thought about upgrading them. They've been running in excess of 10 years in that airport. David: So with the build for these units, if I have 500 of them and I decide, okay, I'm expanding, I'm an airport, I'm expanding a new terminal. I need 500 more. Is it going to be a different box at this point, or would that even matter? Rowan Brunger: The H200 has been around for about two years now, it really depends on when those proxies were deployed but the older boxes that we have in the sort of thousands out there, aren't supported anymore because they're well over 10 years old, but we've got a very easy upgrade path to swap those boxes out for the new range of products. And in doing that, they're all on the same platform for managing them then as well. David: I asked this because one of the complaints, among probably quite a few complaints with buying little Android boxes from Shenzhen or elsewhere is that if you order a hundred of them and then you order another hundred that second batch of one hundred might have different operating systems or different versions of the operating system, different electronics inside and everything else. So every time they show up, you're starting from scratch. Rowan Brunger: Absolutely. Welcome to buying consumer products. But we manage our chipsets and our components very strictly, and you can imagine the volumes we make them in because there's a lot of crossover from the set-top box side of the business but more importantly, we operate Android AOSP. So, we actually control and write the firmware for the product ourselves. So, in terms of updating the products, we're putting our own firmware on there. We're not relying on Google or Android updates for anything; in fact, much the opposite, because we want to be in control of it. So for instance, when you boot one of our boxes up, there's no app store. There's no standard Google browser on there, it's exactly what we choose to put on there, which makes it very fit for purpose because it's not running a million things in the background. We give it some very clear parameters and control exactly what middleware or APK that we put on there that's monitored centrally and all the versions and updates are controlled centrally as well. So you know exactly what's on there and you're the master of your own destiny.  David: Are you having to worry about security, well, I guess everybody worries about security, but because, as you just described, does that kind of greatly reduce the risks? Rowan Brunger: Yeah, it does, and again, this is something we've pulled over from our knowledge of the Pay TV market. So working with Android, we adhere to some pretty strict guidelines from Google in terms of security patches and timely updates, et cetera, and we actually think that's really very relevant in the pro AV market as well. So we've actually pulled over the standards that we adhere to on the Pay TV market, within the digital signage space. So as a result of that, we do at least four firmware updates a year that contain all the relevant security patches because there's nothing else on there in terms of an app store, et cetera, we're cleared in very highly secure environments. So we do a lot of work with the government. We've got a really interesting project going on, within a prison. So somebody's made their own middleware that they're using on the box and actually running entertainment within prison cells using the H200, which you can imagine is a super secure environment. So because we're in complete control of it, we can make it as secure as we like. And we're seeing that more and more prevalent with even retail rollouts now, with things like 802.1X authentication on networks, which I've never heard asked for but have been asked quite a lot for recently. So we quite got an agile development team. We're able to add functions like that and drop them in the latest firmware, and get them out of the boxes very quickly.  David: So because you're shipping a lot of units, do you get some sense of what the marketplace demand is?  For the longest time, people were saying, yes, it would be nice if we went to 4k, but nobody actually needs it yet, and for signage applications, it's probably never needed. Certainly, 8k, which is being marketed, is something that is probably years away if it ever comes. What is the marketplace actually using? Rowan Brunger: We are being asked for 4k a lot more. You're right in the signage space; it's less applicable, although a lot of the CMS providers don't even output in 4k, which, obviously, is a stumbling block. But for those that do, we're just testing a build for 4k content at the moment, and we've got out with some beta testers, and that's going very well. Obviously, 4k video is pretty much a must when people are looking at video, and that's very much our expertise, how we can stream that and what protocols we use to stream it and transport streams and encryption, is all around 4k and in particular, low latency is something that we specialize in quite a lot. So that takes us down certain vertical markets such as sporting and gaming where latency is an absolute deal breaker.  So we're seeing for our players and going back to your question about market trends, I'd say 50% of our opportunities are video-led, and the other 50% are signage-led, but with an element of video, a lot of them are with an element of video as well. So I think our expertise in video is really setting us apart here, and that, down the 4k route. POE has been requested more and more so that's why it's standard on our H200s. David: For retail more than anything I would imagine? Rowan Brunger: Actually, no, and I thought it would be, but what we're seeing is the requests for Wi-Fi is actually coming through retail more than anywhere else because when people are doing a retrofit of a store or they want to have quite an agile space within the store and be creative with where they're putting the screens, there's not normally a network point there. So we're actually finding some of our big retail rollouts are actually going down the Wi-Fi route, which I didn't expect, to be honest, but we've done a separate Wi-Fi unit for that marketplace because leading back to the security, a lot of our government and military deployments require us not to even have the ability to have Wi-Fi in the box altogether, which is why we didn't just add Wi-Fi to the existing H200. We've actually done it as two separate products. But yeah, interestingly, we've just launched our, or we're just in the process of launching our Wi-Fi unit, and the inquiries that are coming in are predominantly retail, and also the leisure industry as well as people want to put more screens and things in bars and pubs that typically have terrible infrastructure. Wi-Fi seems to be the easiest route to go with that as well.  David: You mentioned streaming, I'm a little curious about that because most of the set-top boxes that are on the market have onboard storage and digital signage most typically is forward and stored and played off of a hard drive locally.  Are your boxes doing that, or is it all streaming? Rowan Brunger: No, it's all streaming. We can digest the number of transport streams such as multicast, unicast, low latency dash, and low latency HLS because that's what our bread and butter are on the set-top box side of the world. So we're finding a lot of people for instance, within the betting industry where low latency is an absolute must, we're working with specific middleware vendors that provide the streams on an OTT basis, and we decode them locally on the box with various different levels of encryption and it's enabling people to reduce the amount of head end hardware that they've got. Even down to sort of office builds, government buildings where there's an element of wanting just some basic news channels alongside the signage, the ability to switch between the two. So typically, you'd have a big head end, consumer set-top box with aerial on the roof, bringing those streams down, we're able to bring them in completely OTT. So we remove the need for all of that hardware, and just, bring it on an OTT basis straight to the box, which is game-changing for somebody that's, maybe, got a larger state and they have to rent aerial space on the roof of all their stores, have a big server unit within there, consuming a lot of power, needing managing, and obviously bringing those streams down locally, we literally just pop the addresses into the box, into a JSON file and we pull them down through our player that's on board within the software stack. David: Are there worries at all about the quality of service and reliability of service for connectivity? Because God knows that used to be an issue, but maybe it's gone away.  Rowan Brunger: It's becoming less of an issue because with different encryptions and transport streams, they require a lot less bandwidth. It still needs assessing, obviously, when you're looking at a sign. But you can tweak the bitrate frames between the different encryption levels to get to a happy medium of a quality that you want alongside a bandwidth that you're willing to play with. So, it's becoming less of an issue. We can still obviously decode on-prem feeds as well when it's absolutely paramount that the feeds have got to be on-premises but the bandwidth is becoming less and less of an issue now.  David: You mentioned enterprise TV at the front end of our chat. How do you define that?  Rowan Brunger: So it's really whether it's TV-led, and what I mean by enterprise TV is, anything that's not residential, and not, hospitality so retail, office environments, sports stadium, things like that. That's where we'd class as enterprise TV. So it's the enterprise-grade of the box, but it's primarily streaming IPTV rather than just signage.  David: Do you sell direct or do you kind of go through a channel or, through software partners? Rowan Brunger: So we sell purely through a channel. We sell through distributors around the globe, trade only, through the channel directly to our system integrators, and onto the end users. So yeah, we're a channel-focused business, and that's something that we've recently sort of redesigned because that model is very different from what Amino is used to in the Pay TV market where they may deal directly with operators. We've decided that within this marketplace, a channel-only focus is the best way to go. It ensures our partner's protection on pricing and margin, et cetera, and also gives us scalability that we've got partners out there promoting the product for us. David: When you started Looking at the digital signage market, was it a little baffling when you realized how many software companies there are? Rowan Brunger: Yes, there does seem to be an ever ending amount of CMS partners to play with. We've worked with a couple that we've got a history with and onboarded those guys. We've now got an accreditation process. So when we do onboard a partner, we truly onboard them as a partnership rather than just saying, okay, we've tested that version of the APK, and that works fine. Let's call it accredited.  We actually onboard them and make a commitment that CMS will work ongoing with Amino and we go into a partnership with the CMS so we get beta releases of each other's software so we can truly test it in advance, which is why it takes a little bit of time to onboard, although we have quite an impressive list of CMS vendors on the list to go through accreditation, so it is definitely a nice route to market. We want to play with as many people as we can. At the same time, not overloading ourselves.  I think what's helping us there is the fact that a lot of CMSs seem to develop their APK before the platforms, so we do tend to be able to onboard people fairly quickly. And if there is any integration work that needs doing, it's fairly straightforward, and we've seen it before on somebody else's application. So yeah, onboarding and partnering are absolutely key for us over the next 12 months. We don't want what CMS somebody uses to be a barrier to sell, and it's not just a CMS, we work very closely with a number of streaming middleware companies as well that are specific in certain vertical markets as well.  David: So you're at a stand at some trade show and a CMS, digital signage CMS software company walks up and says, “Hi, I'm aware of you guys, and would like to be involved.” What's that thing you tell them when they say, “What do we need or how do we need to be set up in order for this to work?”  Rowan Brunger: Initially, we would ask for a version of their application and log in to their system, and we deliberately ask for no more than that because we want to test it as a virgin user if you like. So we put it through a first round of testing, which is: Does this go onto the box? Does it behave as if I would expect it to behave as a user? And that's our first round of testing. Normally, if that goes okay, we put it forward towards a full Q.A. test with our Hong Kong development team, which is a 400-point Q.A. test, which literally tests every element of the software and the integration, and at that point, we give a report back to the CMS provider to say, “Yes, it's all gone smoothly” or “It works, but can we suggest we do this and this integration together to make it a better experience?” And then, we go into the commercials of the partnership and make sure that we're sharing best practices with each other in terms of updates and things. We also have a lot of APIs that are available through our remote management software that we're finding a lot more of the CMS partners want to integrate into their CMS platform to give the end users, that one pane of glass, whether they're managing content or the device that they can do it in one place. So we have completely open APIs for the CMS partners to be able to do that and put a lot of the functionality that we have in our device management, actually in their front-end system that the customer is using every day for the content.  David: Does your platform support IP streaming or multicast or that sort of thing? Is there a foundational thing they have to have?  Rowan Brunger: No, not at all. We are dealing with some partners to put our video play technology within their CMS but it's not these guys' expertise. So, actually, the value to them of working with Amino is you can run their CMS software and switch seamlessly into an IPTV solution alongside their CMS. So, all of a sudden, they can speak to their customers about IPTV streaming solutions alongside pretty much any CMS rather than having to have a specialized solution incorporated into their roadmap.  How many times have we provided screens to somebody and you get the call, maybe two, two weeks later, two years later, “Can we put some TV streams through this for us?” For us, that's just a service we can turn on without having to ship any hardware. So it gives a lot of flexibility to these existing CMS deployments.  David: You mentioned the Hong Kong software team, is that where the company is based?  Rowan Brunger: No, we're based in Cambridge in the UK. So we are a UK-based company and have been for our existence. We have a couple of support teams. One is in Portugal, level one support is in Portugal, and we have a level two support team in Hong Kong. So we've got to follow the sun kind of coverage on support.  David: And manufacturing is done in China like everybody else? Rowan Brunger: Some manufacturing is done in China. There's a whole host of countries that we're manufacturing in. We've got stuff coming out of Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong. It depends on the product or the chipset, but yeah, a fairly well-diverse manufacturing plant. We're not stationed all in one place. David: What's the next AV trade show that you guys will have a stand at or a presence at?  Rowan Brunger: So Infocomm is coming up. We've got a presence there, and we've just done ISE, as you know, and then we've got some presence at NAB as well because we do see some crossover from some of the broadcasting shows that are looking at enterprise video or signage. So our trade show calendar is still split between Pay TV, but with a much larger emphasis than we have done on the AV world.  David: If people want to know more about Amino, where do they find you online? Rowan Brunger: Sure, just go to Amino.tv.  David: Clever! All right, Rowan, thank you very much for your time. Rowan Brunger: Thank you, David. Pleasure as always.

In Part 2 of the BEST BREAK UP SONGS, SoSo Juv, HLS, and The Logical Genius already presented a carefully curated playlists to guest judge Kiera Chaunté (IG: @kierachante). Now Kiera gas tough task of selecting the best list! Tensions and emotions run high as each host defends their selection of heart-wrenching tunes, while also trying to discredit the other person's list. Who will emerge victorious and who will have a bad breakup with the first place podium? Tune in and out the thrilling conclusion and find out whose playlist reigns supreme!

Get ready to feel the vibes and groove with The My Five Cents Podcast crew as they dive into the heart-wrenching realm of breakup anthems! SoSo Juv, HLS, and The Logical Genius lay it all on the line, presenting their Top 5 Best Break Up Songs of all time!!! What better timing than this post-Valentine's Day episode to soothe the soul with some heartbreak tunes? Each track curated by our hosts is packed with raw emotion and soul-stirring melodies. Serving as our guest judge on this week is the sensational Kiera Chaunté (IG: @kierachante), who is an emerging icon in the Hip-Hop and R&B scene. Tune in to find out which host's playlist will reign supreme in this musical showdown. Trust us, you won't want to miss this heart-breaking episode!

Our guest this week not only has a PhD in theoretical astrophysics but is also a pilot, musician, entrepreneur, language enthusiast, and a thought leader on how humanity can create a better future for itself.  No, we're not constructing a dating profile, but describing Casey Handmer, the founder of Terraform Industries, a startup focused on scaling technologies to produce cheap natural gas with sunlight and air. Today, Casey joins us not to talk shop about his company's innovations but to share his vast knowledge on a subject he's deeply passionate about—Starship, Starlink, and the future of space exploration. Casey has been a prolific writer on these topics, sharing his insights and analyses on his blog since first discussing Starship in 2019. He has a very clear message: the industry significantly underestimates what Starship is capable of and the impact it will have on society at large.Additionally, Mo and Casey chat:The Artemis program and NASA's futureThe role of Starlink in societyMars exploration and humanity's futureEnergy production beyond fossil fuelsThe future of science fictionAnd much, much more…this is one of the most special discussions we've had, so don't miss it.This episode is brought to you by Epsilon3, software for complex engineering, testing, and operational procedures. Learn more at https://www.epsilon3.io/• Chapters •00:00 - Intro & Epsilon Ad02:45 - Career arc and Terraform Industries06:33 - Humanity will move beyond fossil fuels by 204009:33 - Everyone must read Casey's blog10:13 - Is Starship still misunderstood?16:12 - In what ways does Starship challenge traditional design philosophies19:33 - Launch capacity22:25 - $10m launch costs25:14 - Epsilon Ad Break25:43 - HLS & why Artemis hasn't been redesigned28:24 - Thoughts on Blue Moon29:43 - Why does a non-Starship Artemis program not move the needle?34:18 - Mars & NASA36:47 - Is Mars a business?37:55 - Startups building in this new regime41:09 - Starship IFTs42:36 - When will we see the first payload deploying Starship launch?43:18 - Does the Starlink model work without Starship?44:28 - Is the Falcon enough to replenish Starlink satellites?45:24 - Will there be political support for a future with Starship?52:05 - How will Starship affect the science fiction genre? • Show notes •Casey's blog — https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/Terraform's website — https://terraformindustries.com/Casey's socials — https://twitter.com/CJHandmerMo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislamPayload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspacePathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world.Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms:1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/)2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com)3) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)

Get ready for a hilarious trip down memory lane on this week's episode of The My Five Cents Podcast! Hosts SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius dive into the world of parenting, reminiscing about the things kids can get away with today that would have been unimaginable back in the day. Joining the conversations is the uproarious standup comedian, Kenny Blacc, whose unique perspective on parenting and the evolving nature of childhood antics is sure to leave you in stitches. Kenny shares side-splitting anecdotes about his own experiences growing up and sheds light on the current generation's ability to navigate the world in ways that would have astounded our parents. From unlimited screen time to negotiating bedtime like a pro, Kenny breaks down the ingenious tactics kids employ today to bend the rules. The hosts and Kenny share their own childhood tales, highlighting the stark differences in the rules of engagement between then and now.  Brace yourself for laughter as the trio explores the consequences (or lack thereof) of modern mischief. They discuss the evolution of discipline, the impact of technology, and the undeniable charm kids use to escape the repercussions of their mischievous endeavors.    

Join us in this special anniversary episode of The My Five Cents Podcast as we reflect on two years of insightful conversations, laughter, and valuable takeaways. SoSo Juv, HLS, and Logical Genius take a trip down memory lane, revisiting memorable moments, favorite guests, and the evolution of the show. Whether you've been with us from the beginning or just discovered The My Five Cents Podcast, this anniversary special is a perfect opportunity to relive the journey and explore what the future holds for our growing community. Tune in for a heartwarming celebration of two years of meaningful conversations, personal growth, and, of course, lots of laughter. Cheers to many more years of My Five Cents wisdom!

In the highly anticipated Part 2 of this episode, the moment of truth has arrived! Aleesha Worthington (@mrsaleeshaw), armed with wit and wisdom, faces the daunting task of choosing the ultimate first-date destination list presented by The Logical Genius, HLS, and SoSo Juv. The episode is charged with laughter and anticipation as Aleesha navigates the comedic pitches and tries to decipher which host has truly cracked the code on turning unconventional places into date night gold. Will The Logical Genius's logical finesse prevail, HLS's suave charm win the day, or SoSo Juv's wild creativity steal the spotlight? The stakes are high, the humor is infectious, and the outcome is anyone's guess. Buckle up for the grand reveal, as Aleesha drops her judgment, declaring the reigning champion of rebranding first-date faux pas into unforgettable experiences. Get ready for a verdict that's bound to leave you in stitches and itching for more of The My Five Cents Podcast magic!

Step into 2024 with a bang as THE MY FIVE CENTS PODCAST kicks off the year with a hilarious twist! Join the crew in our latest episode as we tackle the infamous viral list of "unacceptable places for a first date" that took social media by storm in late 2023. But hold on – we're flipping the script! In this episode, The Logical Genius, HLS, and SoSo Juv each select their TOP 5 places from the notorious list and ingeniously present marketing pitches, arguing why these seemingly off-limits spots are, in fact, perfect for a first date. To add a touch of expertise to the debate, we've invited Aleesha Worthington (@mrsaleeshaw), a seasoned entrepreneur with years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry, as our guest judge. Get ready for some laughs and unconventional insights as our hosts embark on a mission to rebrand these "unacceptable first date places" into "irresistible destinations." Tune in to discover if The Logical Genius, HLS, or SoSo Juv can successfully transform these unconventional locales into the hottest spots for a memorable first date!

0:00 -- Intro.1:26-- About this podcast's sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel.2:13 -- Start of interview.2:45 -- John's "origin story." His time at WLRK and at the SEC.4:15 -- His focus at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.4:39 -- About his book THE PROBLEM OF TWELVE: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything (2023). Publisher: Columbia Global Reports. "Around the year 2000 [Index Funds and Private Equity Funds] began a sustained takeoff and the book is motivated to tell the story of how that happened and then more importantly what's happened since 2000 with 10-15% compound annual growth every single year for both kinds of funds which is much bigger and much faster than the economy or the capital markets or corporations.""The problem of twelve is just trying to get a catchy way to get people to understand that it's not just growth, that'd be one thing, but it's concentration."11:22 -- On "What came before: the Twentieth Century's Public Company" and the rise of private markets."Actually, the public markets have gotten bigger, even though the number of companies has fallen. It's not like they're shrinking, which sometimes is the way people talk about it. But what's different is their autonomy is declining. So in 1990, the board of a public company and its CEO were the centers of power.  If anything, the CEO was probably the most dominant player and the board was kind of a check. The shareholders were kind of out there, but they really only mattered in a hostile takeover. That was it." "[By year] 2000, 2010, and definitely today what I just described is not true. Boards are now more powerful than CEOs in general. They have a greater influence over setting strategy today.""[The] power started and ended with the CEO in the boardroom. And that really has, I think, dramatically declined and continues to decline as a way of describing how the US economic system works."15:39 -- Evolution of US boardrooms since the 1970s."I think of boards as becoming more important during that period because businesses were stumbling. As long as CEOs were successful in running their empires, I don't think the pressure to provide a different governance system would have been nearly as powerful.""Jay Lorsch at HBS wrote an early study suggesting that boards really were not doing much. Jay was very much part of the movement to get boards to be more active, because he thought that was better than the alternatives of either continued stagnation in economic activity or worse solutions, which other people were proposing."20:19 -- On the impact and evolution of Index Funds."[T]he key thing is scale. It's not as if there's like 55 different index funds all competing with each other. No, there's really just a small number of families [ie. the Big Four, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity] that are achieving these scale levels. So that's the basic problem of the book.""[W]hen Jack Bogle set up Vanguard, he wasn't setting out to take over half of all the stocks in the country.  It took him 30 years just to get to 2%. It's just a side effect and so the system was not designed with that kind of concentration in mind. "[W]e're now having to go through a period where we've already started and it will continue for people as these things continue to grow and get even bigger to really rethink where should the governance power sit. Should it sit, at the board? Should it sit at the fund portfolio manager who doesn't really exist in an index fund, it's just a guy who has a list? Should it sit with a corporate governance professional that the fund advisor hires, that the fund then gives the power to? Or should it be something more complicated, some set of interactions between different people over time? And I tend to think that last thing I said is the right answer, but getting exactly the solution is hard, which is why I didn't call the book The Solution to the Problem at all, because I don't really have a perfect solution."27:12 -- On the polarization of corporate governance and the ESG backlash."If it had not been climate, which is Larry Fink's, of course, major focus that generated most of the pushback, it would have been something else." "State Street a few years ago made a point of saying publicly that if the boards that they voted for were not sufficiently diverse and they had some specific criteria, they would withhold votes from the nominating committee chair. And you can see in the data, if you look at the way boards are formed, the impact of State Street's intervention."30:35 -- On the pass-through voting initiatives."If you look at the websites that BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street all have up about what they're doing, they're not really passing the votes through or even getting close to it. They're going to let their own investors once a year pick a policy from a limited menu of policies, and then they're going to look how many people pick which policy, and then that will inform how they vote. So they're keeping the votes, but they are going to let people kind of give them an indication of more or less how to vote overall. And so that's some degree of trying to address the problem of twelve.""I think in 10 or 15 years most people will do one of three things: 1) They'll let BlackRock keep voting the way they want to, with their money, and who cares? They're just not paying attention to governance, and that's their right. They can just ignore it; 2) a group of people will be pushing BlackRock to do even more of what they're doing now, to be even more green or left or however you want to think about it; and 3) there will be another group of people who'll be pulling the other way, and then BlackRock will probably be in there, be splitting their vote to some extent on some of the more high-profile issues."On Exxon's proxy fight with Engine No.1.37:28 -- On antitrust and concentration of power in index funds. "Antitrust traditionally would just look at the activity of investment as the right thing to think about concentration and not the governance impact. That's really not part of antitrust law. That's again part of why I wrote the book to get a different focus on this. [But] there are people who want to change antitrust law, they want to take concentration in governance and somehow relate it to portfolio company concentration." "There are claims for example that the index funds caused the airlines to be more collusive than they would be anyway. Or the banks or take your pick and maybe there's some truth to that but it's kind of indirect and I think it's going to take a lot of work to make that feel like you're being directly responsive to the problem and I'm not sure it'll get there in the end.""There are also people who just want to change the basic understanding what antitrust is about, introduce politics into it again, and say this is a political problem and therefore we should use antitrust. There is a lot of resistance to that."39:39 -- On the private equity industry."The biggest PE complexes not only have equity capital that they manage, they also have debt capital. And so in a difficult interest rate environment, that's a nice place to be. You have resources that you can tap on the credit side as well as on the investment side. And so I think, again, as with index funds, we're seeing greater concentration of greater growth driven by slightly different economies of scale, but I think still real, that allow the biggest players to sort of sit at the intersection of lots of different capital market activity. And that lets them leverage the information they gather across a much bigger base [and] grow faster than their competitors. I expect the big PE players are going to continue to do better than PE overall and better than the overall economy, even if they may run into some challenges in the next few years."43:05 -- On PE driving ~25% of all M&A activity. "PE complexes in a lot of ways are sort of replacing a role that banks used to play, but without any of the regulation."46:25 -- On the governance distinctions between PE-backed companies and public companies."[PE-backed boards are often] more focused and effective.""[T]he PE world by design is with almost no public disclosure. There is disclosure sometimes of some things from the PE fund or advisor to LPs [but] the information flows [generally] are quite weak. And they're weakest in some respects around conflicts, which it should be the other way around. The conflict should be the place where the people with the equity at stake ought to be told the most and yet often that's the place where the system does not, in my opinion, live up to its billing. Part of the reason for that, it's not often appreciated that most of the money in PE funds comes from other funds, meaning, and in particular comes from pension funds who are overseen by well-meaning people, who often are honest and straightforward, but frankly are not up to, in my opinion, the task of overseeing a PE complex and their advisors. There's an industry association, the ILPA, that sort of tries to help coordinate across PE fund investors, the positions they take on disclosure and conflicts."54:58 -- On SPACs."[T]here's a lot of companies right now that are going through some difficult governance challenges in the current economic environment in which the SPAC structure and the board that it brought in might be at odds with the sponsor or other people that were associated with the SPAC.""If you're on a board or advising a board of a company that's associated with a SPAC, this is the time to really lean in about your conflicts, because the conflicts are absolutely really acute right now because of the interest rate environment."*On SPAC Law and Myths (Feb 2022).56:19 -- Books that have greatly influenced his life: City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution by Bruce Carruthers (1996)Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel (2009)Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (1990s)58:38 -- His mentors: Tom Noble (College advisor and History Professor)Craig Wasserman (WLRK)1:00:14 -- Quotes that he thinks of often or lives her life by: "Without contraries is no progression." [Poet William Blake]1:00:43 -- An unusual habit or absurd thing that he loves: U.S. Soccer.1:02:25 -- The living person he most admires: Tina Fey.John Coates is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, where he also serves as Deputy Dean and Research Director of the Center on the Legal Profession. __This podcast is sponsored by the American College of Governance Counsel.__ You can follow Evan on social media at:Twitter: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__You can join as a Patron of the Boardroom Governance Podcast at:Patreon: patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License