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Welcome back to the fifth episode of the Soirée Series on Stories from the River! In this series, we revisit the 3rd Annual Broad River Retail Home Furnishing Expert Soirée and hear from the Experts. In this episode, the Home Furnishings Experts of Broad River Retail share their personal accounts and insights about the incentives, perks, compensation, and income actualization as an Expert at the company. Experts Kota Bennett, Dane Thompson, Holly White, and Stephanie Burke describe the positive impact Broad River has had on their lives, emphasizing not only the monetary rewards but also the supportive and family-like culture. They highlight the company's commitment to looking after Memory Makers and Experts through great events, incentives, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. They mention how their roles at Broad River have enabled them to achieve significant personal milestones, such as buying a house and providing for their families. The episode also delves into the company's unique "Expert Program," a unique career path distinction for elite status on the sales floor with a total rewards and recognition system that motivates these Memory Makers to excel in their work. The program's benefits, including increased pay and professional acclaim, are discussed as major incentives. The supportive environment and mentorship from colleagues are highlighted as key elements that make the workplace feel like a second home. This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5vCvGPLKImY Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. Broad River Retail brought this show to you. Visit https://BroadRiverRetail.com Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/broad-river-retail
Welcome back to the fifth episode of the Soirée Series on Stories from the River! In this series, we revisit the 3rd Annual Broad River Retail Home Furnishing Expert Soirée and hear from the Experts. In this episode, the Home Furnishings Experts of Broad River Retail share their personal accounts and insights about the incentives, perks, compensation, and income actualization as an Expert at the company. Experts Kota Bennett, Dane Thompson, Holly White, and Stephanie Burke describe the positive impact Broad River has had on their lives, emphasizing not only the monetary rewards but also the supportive and family-like culture. They highlight the company's commitment to looking after Memory Makers and Experts through great events, incentives, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. They mention how their roles at Broad River have enabled them to achieve significant personal milestones, such as buying a house and providing for their families. The episode also delves into the company's unique "Expert Program," a unique career path distinction for elite status on the sales floor with a total rewards and recognition system that motivates these Memory Makers to excel in their work. The program's benefits, including increased pay and professional acclaim, are discussed as major incentives. The supportive environment and mentorship from colleagues are highlighted as key elements that make the workplace feel like a second home. This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5vCvGPLKImY Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. Broad River Retail brought this show to you. Visit https://BroadRiverRetail.com Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/broad-river-retail
Welcome back to the Soirée Series from Stories from the River, where we revisit the 3rd Annual Home Furnishings Expert Soirée from Broad River Retail held on August 15, 2024. The evening celebrated Broad River's latest 2024 class of qualifying Home Furnishings Experts - 44 Premier Memory Makers. In this second episode, we hear directly from some of the 2024 Home Furnishing Experts themselves as they tell us what it means to them to be a Home Furnishings Expert and what motivates them the most. Experts you will hear from in this episode include Dane Thompson, Kota Bennett, Jamar Wray, Holly White, and Stephanie Burke. The River's Home Furnishings Expert Program began in 2016 following the Company's major overhaul and bold reset in 2015. It aims to create a more rewarding and career-focused environment for its retail salesforce. The experts detail the efforts and strategies they employed to attain and maintain their expert status, emphasizing the importance of following processes, mentoring, and consistently striving to improve sales metrics like KPIs and Diamond Care performance. They express pride in their achievements detailing how challenging it is to attain Expert status, how many years they've earned Expert designation, and what it means to receive this elite distinction. We hear their ambitious sales goals for 2024, including aspirations to write $2,000,000 in sales. The sense of accomplishment and professional growth is palpable, with these Premier Memory Makers aiming to inspire their colleagues and create a positive impact for themselves and Broad River Retail. This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QUZ1HXuQ5vk Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. Broad River Retail brought this show to you. Visit https://BroadRiverRetail.com Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/broad-river-retail
Welcome back to the Soirée Series from Stories from the River, where we revisit the 3rd Annual Home Furnishings Expert Soirée from Broad River Retail held on August 15, 2024. The evening celebrated Broad River's latest 2024 class of qualifying Home Furnishings Experts - 44 Premier Memory Makers. In this second episode, we hear directly from some of the 2024 Home Furnishing Experts themselves as they tell us what it means to them to be a Home Furnishings Expert and what motivates them the most. Experts you will hear from in this episode include Dane Thompson, Kota Bennett, Jamar Wray, Holly White, and Stephanie Burke. The River's Home Furnishings Expert Program began in 2016 following the Company's major overhaul and bold reset in 2015. It aims to create a more rewarding and career-focused environment for its retail salesforce. The experts detail the efforts and strategies they employed to attain and maintain their expert status, emphasizing the importance of following processes, mentoring, and consistently striving to improve sales metrics like KPIs and Diamond Care performance. They express pride in their achievements detailing how challenging it is to attain Expert status, how many years they've earned Expert designation, and what it means to receive this elite distinction. We hear their ambitious sales goals for 2024, including aspirations to write $2,000,000 in sales. The sense of accomplishment and professional growth is palpable, with these Premier Memory Makers aiming to inspire their colleagues and create a positive impact for themselves and Broad River Retail. This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QUZ1HXuQ5vk Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes. Broad River Retail brought this show to you. Visit https://BroadRiverRetail.com Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/broad-river-retail
Yesterday, Andrea was challenged to go vegan for 2 weeks. On Day 2 of this challenge, Andrea was joined by Vegan Author and Lifestyle blogger, Holly White, who shared her tips on the show.
Beyond The Pale Festival will host Beyond The Plate which is specially curated by food writer Ali Dunworth and takes place from the 21st to the 23rd June in the exquisite Glendalough Estate. The theme of this year reflects a celebration of Irish food: Culture, Customs and Craic. Beyond The Plate 2024 Theme- Culture, Customs and Craic Bahay Midsummer Feast For the first time, Beyond The Pale will have a sit-down bookable restaurant brought to you by the award-winning food popup Bahay by Alex O'Neill and Richie Castillo. Bahay Midsummer Feast at Beyond The Plate will offer a brand-new festival dining experience in a space curated to feel like stepping into a Filipino Bahay Kubo, a type of house indigenous to the Philippines that is an icon of Philippine culture. Expect delicious sharing plates and dishes from Bahay, bright Filipino flavours, using the best Irish ingredients. Book ahead for Bahay Midsummer Feast: Tickets will be live on Wednesday, May 15th at 10 am from https://www.itsbeyondthepale. ie/ Price: €50 menu per person including booking fees The focus at Beyond The Plate is always to present food and drink in fun, tasty ways suited to a festival like Beyond The Pale and this year is no different. Forget 'fussy' cooking demos of the past, Beyond The Plate is all about embracing the craic while celebrating all that we love about Irish food and drink. There will be daily Beyond the Fence foraging walks on the grounds with Samuel Arnold Keane and entertainment across the weekend with three food-based plays: Splitting the G: A Controversy by Shamim de Brún, Ham & Cheese by JP McMahon and family friendly BAKE by Paul Curley. Live podcast recordings include Flop Culture with Fionnuala Jones and drinks podcast The Centre Cut. In an attempt to take the online food world offline, Beyond The Plate will welcome some of our favourite online creators, writers and broadcasters who love food and drink to the stage over the weekend including Cassie Stokes, Shamim de Brún, Sian Conway, Louise McSharry, Alex O'Neill, Irah Mari, Dee Laffan, Vritti Bansal and illustrator extraordinaire Hephee. As always some of the best chefs, cooks and food thinkers will be joining for chats and tastings including Aishling Moore from Goldie, food conservationist Max Jones of Up There The Last, Graham Herterich aka The Cupcake Bloke, vegan chef Holly White, chef and author of Funky, Caitlin Ruth, Alistair Jeje of Socafro Kitchen, Kevin O'Donnell from Le Doyenne in Paris. There will be brilliant drinks discussions and tastings including Majken Bech-Bailey's latest venture, Ngozi Elobuike of Hi Spirits Wine Club, Rory Craig from Station to Station Wine and, Shane Murphy of Neighbourhood Wine. And of course, culture is high on the agenda in all forms including Art Plate with Blanca Valencia and Santina Kennedy, Feast and Verse with chef and part-time poet Áine Budds. As well as Housewives & Hors d'Oeuvres: A Culinary Journey through the Real Housewives with Louise McSharry and guests. Speaking of Beyond The Plate Ali Dunworth says: "Irish food doesn't often get the pedestal it deserves, especially when it comes to culture. But there is history and culture in every knob of butter, cake of bread, head of cabbage, boiled ham, every bag of crisps and pint of stout. Irish food culture has been woven through our folklore, our customs, and our traditions and these days it lives on in our livelihoods, our festivals, and our screens. It's featured in poetry, songs and literature." "Everything having to do with food - its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption - all represents a cultural act. Over the weekend at Beyond the Plate we will celebrate Irish food old and new. We will celebrate the culture, customs and craic around Irish food and drink. We will discuss, debate, and taste Irish food and drink, both traditional and modern through as many varied lenses as we can, through talks, tastings, debates, plays, poetry, drinks and eating of course," says B...
Vegan chef and author Holly White talks to Pat about why self-love can be applied to the foods you eat and what a vegan lifestyle is like in 2024.
In the final part of this conversation on Stories From the River, host Charlie Malouf welcomes back Holly White, renowned for her impeccable ability to cultivate long-lasting relationships with guests, which in turn has translated into recurring Million Dollar Memory Maker and back-to-back Sales Manager of the Year accolades. Holly's commendable work ethic, leadership skills, and unwavering dedication have earned her the admiration and praise of colleagues and managers and helped her store earn the reputation as one of the best places to work in the furniture industry. Holly has remained a top performer by staying true to the company's processes, maintaining a positive attitude, and loving her work. Holly shares her gratitude for being part of Broad River and discusses the importance of being a Home Furnishings Consultant rather than a typical salesperson in fostering a welcoming environment for her guests and customers. Holly White's approach to her role revolves around positive influences, such as her colleague Rebekah, who inspires her with energy and meticulousness, and the practice of coaching her team towards constant improvement. Their discussion delves into various company events and their significance in bolstering company culture, including Holly's personal word of the year for 2024 of "gratitude." Holly also emphasizes her focus on purpose and her why, specifically, providing for her family, and discusses her specific goals for 2024 around saving money, improving her sales, and personal growth. The episode touches on the factors that set Broad River Retail apart, such as bonus structures and incentives, while highlighting Holly's philosophy on sales - treating guests with passion and care, akin to family, and never giving up on making connections, regardless of the pace of sales. Her successful independence and the pursuit of ongoing growth and learning, accompanied by her supportive team and strong leadership qualities, paint a picture of a highly respected and aspirational figure within Broad River Retail. Listen to part one here: https://youtu.be/Dcp-9kVfqNU This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eo-1iyoj9uE Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes.
In the final part of this conversation on Stories From the River, host Charlie Malouf welcomes back Holly White, renowned for her impeccable ability to cultivate long-lasting relationships with guests, which in turn has translated into recurring Million Dollar Memory Maker and back-to-back Sales Manager of the Year accolades. Holly's commendable work ethic, leadership skills, and unwavering dedication have earned her the admiration and praise of colleagues and managers and helped her store earn the reputation as one of the best places to work in the furniture industry. Holly has remained a top performer by staying true to the company's processes, maintaining a positive attitude, and loving her work. Holly shares her gratitude for being part of Broad River and discusses the importance of being a Home Furnishings Consultant rather than a typical salesperson in fostering a welcoming environment for her guests and customers. Holly White's approach to her role revolves around positive influences, such as her colleague Rebekah, who inspires her with energy and meticulousness, and the practice of coaching her team towards constant improvement. Their discussion delves into various company events and their significance in bolstering company culture, including Holly's personal word of the year for 2024 of "gratitude." Holly also emphasizes her focus on purpose and her why, specifically, providing for her family, and discusses her specific goals for 2024 around saving money, improving her sales, and personal growth. The episode touches on the factors that set Broad River Retail apart, such as bonus structures and incentives, while highlighting Holly's philosophy on sales - treating guests with passion and care, akin to family, and never giving up on making connections, regardless of the pace of sales. Her successful independence and the pursuit of ongoing growth and learning, accompanied by her supportive team and strong leadership qualities, paint a picture of a highly respected and aspirational figure within Broad River Retail. Listen to part one here: https://youtu.be/Dcp-9kVfqNU This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eo-1iyoj9uE Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes.
In the first part of a two part series on Stories from the River, host Charlie Malouf speaks with Holly White, Broad River Retail's first back-to-back Sales Manager of the Year and 6-time Million Dollar Memory Maker, about her rich history of sales experience that dates back to her childhood. Holly recounts her journey from her first job at a clothing store in the mall as a teenager — where she learned her first sales tip to always smile and compliment her guests — to her current role as a Home Furnishings Expert at Broad River, where she skipped the title of Home Furnishings Professional after writing $1 Million in sales in her first year in 2018, and became a (Sleep) Sales Manager in 2021. Holly (a/k/a "Hollywood") is from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has worked in our Fayetteville store since September 2017. Holly's commitment to her work is evident as she has earned the elite retail performance milestone of "Million Dollar Memory Maker" six times (every full year that she's worked at The River) and is on her way to achieving it for the seventh time in 2024. She has not only made an impact through her sales achievements but also through providing for her family and fostering strong community relationships. She embodies being a Memory Maker and "Furnishing Life's Best Memories" at work and at home. And, she personifies positivity and purpose within all aspects of her life. Holly recounts the story of what led her to Broad River Retail including taking the leap of faith when she reflected on a quote that someone had previously shared with her: "Risk Reaps Rewards." Holly also recounts some of her favorite and standout memories at Broad River, including her first day and her first guest, obtaining an exciting $20,000 VIP approval, and the Orange Crush Tour. She shared the impact of attending Purpose 8:28 (a companywide event devoted to a day of purpose on August 28, 2019, in Fort Mill, South Carolina). She recounts when Fayetteville embraced its new identity of the "Special Forces" and how this identity resonates with their guests. The episode also delves into the significant transitions and challenges Holly has faced in the retail world amidst the pandemic. Opening the Four Oaks store and distribution center just as the pandemic set in, Holly navigated new realities such as selling with a mask, supply chain snags resulting in a backlog of orders, and shifts in customer shopping behaviors. Despite taking a furlough, her essential role and her faith in God drew her back to work, where she developed greater resilience and mental fortitude, learning to focus on aspects within her control and overcoming fear. Holly's ability to adapt while keeping genuine connections with customers and her sales team reaffirms her talents and dedication to her career in the changing landscape of retail sales. Make sure to come back Thursday for part two of this conversation! This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Dcp-9kVfqNU Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes.
In the first part of a two part series on Stories from the River, host Charlie Malouf speaks with Holly White, Broad River Retail's first back-to-back Sales Manager of the Year and 6-time Million Dollar Memory Maker, about her rich history of sales experience that dates back to her childhood. Holly recounts her journey from her first job at a clothing store in the mall as a teenager — where she learned her first sales tip to always smile and compliment her guests — to her current role as a Home Furnishings Expert at Broad River, where she skipped the title of Home Furnishings Professional after writing $1 Million in sales in her first year in 2018, and became a (Sleep) Sales Manager in 2021. Holly (a/k/a "Hollywood") is from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has worked in our Fayetteville store since September 2017. Holly's commitment to her work is evident as she has earned the elite retail performance milestone of "Million Dollar Memory Maker" six times (every full year that she's worked at The River) and is on her way to achieving it for the seventh time in 2024. She has not only made an impact through her sales achievements but also through providing for her family and fostering strong community relationships. She embodies being a Memory Maker and "Furnishing Life's Best Memories" at work and at home. And, she personifies positivity and purpose within all aspects of her life. Holly recounts the story of what led her to Broad River Retail including taking the leap of faith when she reflected on a quote that someone had previously shared with her: "Risk Reaps Rewards." Holly also recounts some of her favorite and standout memories at Broad River, including her first day and her first guest, obtaining an exciting $20,000 VIP approval, and the Orange Crush Tour. She shared the impact of attending Purpose 8:28 (a companywide event devoted to a day of purpose on August 28, 2019, in Fort Mill, South Carolina). She recounts when Fayetteville embraced its new identity of the "Special Forces" and how this identity resonates with their guests. The episode also delves into the significant transitions and challenges Holly has faced in the retail world amidst the pandemic. Opening the Four Oaks store and distribution center just as the pandemic set in, Holly navigated new realities such as selling with a mask, supply chain snags resulting in a backlog of orders, and shifts in customer shopping behaviors. Despite taking a furlough, her essential role and her faith in God drew her back to work, where she developed greater resilience and mental fortitude, learning to focus on aspects within her control and overcoming fear. Holly's ability to adapt while keeping genuine connections with customers and her sales team reaffirms her talents and dedication to her career in the changing landscape of retail sales. Make sure to come back Thursday for part two of this conversation! This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Dcp-9kVfqNU Visit https://www.storiesfromtheriver.com for more episodes.
In this Best Possible Taste interview, Dublin based author and wellness lover Holly White, who is certified in plant based nutrition, returns with lots of inspiration for Veganuary. THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE CELEBRATED 10 YEARS ON AIR IN 2023 MAKING IT IRELAND'S LONGEST RUNNING FOOD & DRINK RADIO SHOW & PODCAST. VISIT WWW.SHARONNOONAN.COM FOR LOTS MORE BPT INTERVIEWS!
In this Best Possible Taste interview, Sharon Noonan talks to Holly White, who is certified in plant-based nutrition, to get great advice and inspiration for a plant-based Christmas. THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE IS IRELAND'S LONGEST-RUNNING FOOD & DRINK RADIO SHOW & PODCAST CELEBRATING 10 YEARS ON THE AIRWAVES IN 2023!
Joe Rosa, Eric Westmorland, Holly White, Liz Nash, and Alex Horvath join us for this round of CornStars! Brought to you by BlackBox Reptile Cages & Rack Systems → blackboxcages.com And Silent Hill Reptiles → silenthillreptiles.com Grab some swag! - https://fulviusapparel.com/ Everything THN → https://linktr.ee/The_Herpetoculture_Network Support us on patreon! → https://www.patreon.com/theherpetoculturenetwork
Bospar's Curtis Sparrer and Cannes' most famous drag queen Michael Sanchez AKA Holly White are both joining us on today's episode of Politely Pushy. When Curtis attended Cannes Lions last year, he noticed there wasn't any LGBTQIA+ nightclubs for attendees. This year, he took a page from Bospar's tech clients (who are always looking to meet a need) and launched a pop-up LGTBQIA+ bar for anyone interested in a safe space. This couldn't have come at a better time as US brands are facing pushback for their support of the LGBTQIA+ community. Curtis found the perfect partner in Michael, who is about to open a cabaret with his husband. Michael's alter ego Holly White is a master on stage, performing and DJ-ing all genres of music into the early hours of the morning. Interested in seeing Mika on stage? Join us for our Cannes Lions PR Afterparty at Club Courage with PRWeek's Steve Barrett: 9pm CET June 21st at L'Experience on 4 Rue Bivouac Napoléon, 06400 Cannes, France. For more information and to RSVP, visit bospar.com/Cannes/
The Climate and Health Alliance claims our current food system is “like a slow motion disaster” - they say it fuels premature death and disability due to diet-related chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes and obesity. Holly White, vegan chef and lifestyle blogger was chatting to Kieran.
In our final episode with Dr. Holly White of Colonial Williamsburg, we ask her what kind of political power did American women possess during the Early Republican period? Listen to learn more! Center for Civic Education
Women played an integral role in the American Revolution. Listen in this episode as Dr. Holly White from Colonial Williamsburg explains what these roles looked like and how they influenced the Revolution. Center for Civic Education
In our next episode with Dr. Holly White of Colonial Williamsburg, we ask her: who was Sally New River, and why should Americans know about her? 60-Second Civics, Episode 4850: March 30, 2023 Subscribe and take the Daily Civics Quiz at http://civiced.org/60-second-civics The show???s theme song is ???Complacent??? by Cheryl B. Engelhardt. You can find Cheryl online at cbemusic.com. SC map: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/districts-to-counties.htm Catawba Nation: https://cma.sc.gov/catawba-indian-nation Center for Civic Education
In this episode, Dr. Holly White discusses Mehetabel Chandler Coit and how does her work help us understand women???s daily lives during the early colonial period. Listen for more! Center for Civic Education
In today's episode, Dr. Holly White of Colonial Williamsburg discusses the practice of coverture and how it affected the lives of women in the American colonies. Listen to learn what this term means and more! Center for Civic Education
We are once again joined by Dr. Holly White, an expert on the history of gender, age, and family in early America. Today, she speaks about how, during the colonial era, Black women resisted slavery and oppression and the varying ways they approached it. Center for Civic Education
Educational opportunities for girls and young women were limited in the North American colonies, and access was largely shaped by several social factors. Learn more about what these educational opportunities looked like from Dr. Holly White of Colonial Williamsburg. Center for Civic Education
This week we introduce our series on women in the American colonies and the early republic. We are joined by special guest Dr. Holly White, an Associate Producer at Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios. She specializes in the history of gender, age, and family in early America. Center for Civic Education
Recorded: December 7, 2022Description: In this episode the Mamas react to the book Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jaqueline Frost.It's a fun book about a young girl, Holly White, who finds herself back in her parents home in Misletoe, Main following a breakup just in time for Christmas. Things go very wrong when there is a woman found murdered on her parents property WITH her parents property!
Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar has been mocked online after revealing his partner Matt Barrett's meal prep for the week. However, the fact that none of the containers have lids has caused such a stir that even the Food Safety Authority given their advice online. Andrea was joined by Chef, Edward Hayden, Odile Le Bolloch, environmental scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency and Holly White, vegan chef and lifestyle blogger to discuss...
Holly Alcott White was a 49 year old from Taos, NM. She worked in the arts community of that city but was moving to Albuquerque. On the morning of May 6, 2016, Holly didn't show up for a going away party held in her honor. Holly's car was later found at a well-known suicide spot outside town. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findhollywhite Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/holly-alcott-white NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/33598?nav Map analysis: https://youtu.be/CA7lG2oiaxE Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-friends-still-searching-missing-new-mexico-woman-holly-alcott-n1269161 If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Holly White, please contact the New Mexico State Police at (505) 827-9319. Where You Can Find Unfound: On These Following Podcast Platforms: Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean, and many others. Especially outside the United States. Social Media sites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the newest one, TikTok. Listener support sites: Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. Paypal.me/unfoundpodcast The website: theunfoundpodcast.com The email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com. And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feeling disconnected from her body, Krissy signs up for a burlesque class.Krissy Kneen is the author of the bestselling memoir Affection; the novels Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine; and the Thomas Shapcott Award–winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. Her novel An Uncertain Grace was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Norma K Hemming Award and the Aurealis awards, while Wintering was longlisted for the Colin Roderick Award and shortlisted for the Davitt Award and the QLA for Fiction and A Work of State Significance. She is currently developing two TV series and a feature film. She is the current Copyright Agency Ltd Non-Fiction Fellow. Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Listen to the Infinite Loops podcast: https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-everyones-job-is-world-building-ep53/ (40mins in)Read the full essay: https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/See tweet reactions: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1424953927426928646Transcript [00:00:00] Hey everyone today, I'm about to break one of the core rules of this mixed tape, which is that episode should come in at around 10 minutes. Uh, this is a 25 minute rant from Alex Danco, which is still one of the best essays I've read of the year. He posted it on January 22nd, and I think it's still resonating. It basically is a theory of social class that is both entertaining and actually strangely true. Just don't think too hard about it because if you do you will realize how true it is. Maybe this is a good segue into the other thing that I feel like we were theoretically supposed to talk about this podcast episode, which was the Michael Scott theory of social class, which again is like another example of the power of world-building in this case, it's the power of world-building as applied to the phenomenon of middleman. Right, right. Like, what is middle management? If not world built real, because that's all you've got right. Is this world you've constructed. So originally a missile, who's going to fill the forms out. I mean, come on. It's not, it's not anything who's going to fill the firms out. It's like, who's going to create the meaning. It's like I forgot who described middle management as the control rods and a nuclear reactor. It's like, but the point of them is to slow things down so that it doesn't run out of your control and blow up. So, okay. So I wrote this piece, the Michael Scott theory of social class, which is basically a re skinning of Venkatesh Rouse article that your base principle, which itself was a re-skinning of Holly White's book, the organization, man. Oh, so that's the actual source material is the organization, man. Have you read the organization, man? Do you know that book? I don't have notes on it. So that means I didn't take it seriously. It's so good. It's so good. It's in the list of books that I recommend to everybody. So I'm going to have, I'm going to have to read it again. What's remarkable about the organization, man is simultaneously how in a literal sense. It did not get the future. Right. But at a second order sense, it just nailed the future so hard. They got it. So, so, so right, just at a slightly different abstraction layer than people realize. So the general thesis of the organization, man, is that all organizations that survive have stratified into three layers. You have the bottom layer, the middle layer and the top layer. The bottom layer is the people who do the actual work. This is the majority of people. Their lives are spent doing literal things. So these are line workers, frontline people, anybody who is actually producing something. Literally there are the people at the bottom there, the majority of people at the top, you have the exact. They actually have a lot in common with the people at the bottom in the sense that they have very literal roles and responsibilities and very real stakes involved. And they see the world very clearly as it is, but the people at the bottom and the people at the top see the world through clear eyes with clear actions and consequences, but there's this group of people in the middle called middle-management that is really, really different than either of those groups. And their job is to intermediate between the people at the top and the people at the bottom by basically constructing this reality called middle management that does not literally produce anything nor have any literal stakes or consequences, but whose job is effectively to mediate like the control rods in the reactor to say like, look, the goal here is to create a stable system that perpetuate. Regardless of how efficient it is or how complicated it is or anything just like, can you get something to persist? This group of people will always emerge in one form or another. So in the 1950, in the early fifties, when Holly white wrote this book, this was in the era of these mega mega conglomerates, like Dow DuPont, us steel, general motors, like this was the field. Like the current mindset was that. The frontier of progress was mega organizational dynamics. It was scaled to get scaled, to get scaled. This is how everything works. Eventually everything will be run by four corporations because we figured out the science of how management works. And specifically we figured out what middle-management. We created this whole world of middle management that has sense of purpose and a sense of identity. And it was fed through these institutions called business schools and the NBA. And this whole idea that like middle manager was actually this craft more or less independent of the industry. It's like, what do you do? Oh, you're a manager. Oh, like what kind of industry do you manage? It doesn't matter. Like I do manage. Right. That was the thing that you can learn. Do you go to management school and learn management regardless of where you were from? You remember in the office? I'm just sitting here because I love that movie. There was one particular episode of the office where David Wallace, a CFO brings in a new boss for Michael. Who is Idris Elba who comes in as like the professional manager. And Michael's like, where are you from? He's like, oh, steel.[00:05:00] Um, but anyway, so this is idea. It's like, like as Holly white describes it, William H. White, he went by Holly white as he describes it. Right? So the whole book is about this three layer system. And this three layer construct where you have the people at the bar. Who again are doing all the actual work and have no path to leverage. And the people at the top who have all the leverage, but are very deeply suspicious of everything and are perpetually trying to acquire and keep control over this huge sprawling. Basically those two sides in order to not fly apart at a hundred miles an hour, need this mediating influence in the middle called the middle management. But in order for that to exist, there needs to be a purpose for the middle managers to have. And hence, what you have to do is you have to build a world in which management is. So, this is where you get this world of Taylorism and like management as a science, which sort of expanded and grew and grew and grew into this really self perpetuating construct where it's like, where, what happened with middle management is we were able to create a world where management was a challenge that was considered a worthy challenge that people would go into, put all of their identities into, and then it would perpetuate and perpetuating. So, if you look at some of the really good books on how to manage, like Andy Grove, like a high output management, things like that is almost like a return w w Hyatt management, the thesis of that book. If you haven't read it is basically like we figured out how to manage production. It's called factory. Everything can ultimately be understood in terms of like how production management works in terms of buffer capacity, in terms of like how you set challenges and how you like arrange for like, thinking about like how you manage the output of an organization. The whole thesis here was that this is equally applicable to management and like talent and hiring people. And like all these supposedly soft skills that didn't work like factories. Andy is like, I actually, like I made Intel, like I've. But nonetheless middle-management does this construct, which again, if you fast forward to today, you can just replace with product management in a tech company or any of these other venture capital associates, any of these positions where you are not literally in charge of anything, nor are you literally making anything, your job is to intermediate in some way. And hence. You live, this is a very roundabout way to get into the thesis of the article. You live in a world that is entirely a construct of your own creation, right? There's nothing literal in your world. Your world is entirely defined and surrounded by fairly arbitrary challenges and goals and measuring sticks that have been created in a self perpetuating sense and are not the very literal things by which anything is. One of the two core theses of the Michael Scott article was that there is a reason why these worlds, again, always back to world building what makes these worlds perpetuate? What makes Michael Scott's world have purpose and have ongoing perpetuation? That self reinforces is linked. Have you read Venkatesh Rao's original article that your face principle, is that something you're familiar with? Okay. Yeah. So for audience, if you haven't read this, go Google that your base principle, your face, like reheat your face from the office and go read that at some point on your set aside a couple hours, it's really been through this series of articles. It gets really esoteric, but like, it's fantastic. So it's going through the office as a theory, the office, the American TV show the office as a comprehensive cynical theory of management. That is again, it's like, it's a re-skinning of the organization, man. It says like, look like you have these three fundamental groups of people in the TV show the office at the bottom. You have group of people called. We're not uncool, but they're economic losers, no path to leverage. Fundamentally their work output is realized holy by someone else. They are fundamentally paid on cost based pricing, not value-based pricing, et cetera. And this is the majority of the people in the office. They see the world through clear eyes and they cope. This is like Stanley Pam, Darryl. Most of these people they're there at the bottom there, the losers of the office, they occupy most of the positions. At the top, you have the people who are the sociopaths. They are the people in charge. What they care about is power. And they occupy this other role in the show, which is there the other group of people that sees the world through clear eyes. So in the show, this means David Wallace, the CFO, the authority figure Jan, before she becomes Michael's lover and is in a mental breakdown. Ryan, I do need to interject here. I loved that segway for GP. Because she did go from a sociopathic control freak to yeah. Mass complete this complete master Ryan, the temp, right. Is the most important example of somebody who brilliantly grabs real power and then immediately squanders it. And then finally, the last sociopath character is actually the real drama of the show. By the way, is the, will he, or won't he go over to the dark side? Jim is the real villain of the office. Once you realize this, it actually sort of reshapes a lot of the [00:10:00] shows that Jim is the felon. Jim is actually a complete asshole. He's horrible to Dwight. He's really arrogant. He's kind of mean to everybody. He doesn't actually treat Pam very well for that. No. So Jim is actually like the secret sociopath where the real drama of the office, as he will hear, won't he explicitly go over to the dark side. Right. But then, so both of those two groups of people see the world through clear eyes as it is, but then in the middle you have three characters and fundamentally the office is a show about these three people. Yeah. Michael Deno. And Andy, the central drama of the show by the time the office really, really hits a stride. And season three is when it's established this relationship. It is about Michael Dwight and Andy's search for meaning in a world that is entirely their own construct, right? It cannot escape because they are compulsively forced to double down on reaffirming, the meaningless meaning that they are creating for themselves. And each of them expresses this in a different way. Michael it's in the form of like, it's everything about Michael. Everything about Michael's world is this world of his own creation that he's made in this bubble around him. But same for Dwight and same for Andy all in their different. It sort of shows up in all of the, sort of the meaningless talking and the jokes that don't make any sense and the constant, please, for people to pay attention to them. Andy's anger management issues. Dwight's LARPing about like being a first responder, all of these things, but especially about Michael and his self identity that is wrapped up in being in. There was this really notable tweet about there's this argument that happened on Twitter about whether Michael Scott would know how to use chopsticks. Does Michael know how to use chopsticks? Yes or no? And the answer is obviously yes, of course he does. He takes enormous pride in knowing how to use chopsticks and tells everybody. And like, he probably learned it from watching TV or in his apartment by himself. Right. She had this cast of three characters, Michael Dwight, and. And they inhabit this world that they have built for themselves and that other people happily help them build because it helps everybody fulfill their own respective purposes. This senior people up top indulgent support Michael's world-building because they need somebody to oversee the branch and make sure that it stays in more or less the same state as they expect it to be. Whenever they come down to Scranton from New York, the people doing the actual. Pam Darryl in the warehouse, all the salespeople, everybody need Michael to stay in his state of delusion because it gets him out of their way. Pam in the show takes the defacto role of narrator. She's the one who basically narrating to the audience, all of the things that they do to support and create and perpetuate this little delusion inside Michael's little world and also. I remember the point I was getting to, it was around language. The most brilliant part of Venkatesh Rao's piece is the sub chapter in the Jabez principle around language and how people talk to each other and the five different coded languages that are used between different groups of people talking to each other. You have these three. You have the senior sociopath's you have the people at the bottom who do the actual work, both of whom are literal. And then you have the middle managers in the middle who clueless. So there are five possible languages that are spoken in the intersection of these three groups. The first language that's spoken is something called posture talk. That is the language that is spoken by the clueless people who are in this world of their own construction. So it's everything spoken by Michael . To anyone, including themselves. It's basically meaningless babbling that has no grounding in reality whatsoever, but makes sense. Inside this world they've created for themselves. That is what, how they talk both internally and projecting out. Meanwhile, everybody who talks to them speaks the language called baby. Which basically goes there. They're like, you don't know what you're talking about, but like there it's soothing. It's like, just stay in your little box. Like, don't worry. Everything's going to be fine. Just please don't screw this up. It's how you talk to kids when they're actually capable of causing danger and you want them to stay. Yes. The other three languages spoken by the way are, um, there's the internal language among all the losers, which is like, you're okay. It's just basically like getting themselves through the day in group self-referencing and self. You have the internal language of the sociopath, which is called Powertalk, which is all about information gathering, right. And retroactive deniability. And then you have the rarest language of all, which is straight talk, which is the only time that language happens. That's not encoded at all, which is the rare instance where the senior execs talk to the line workers, which is unincorporated straight talk like what the fuck happened. Here you go fix it by. It's the only time that's straight talk is the accidental occasions where senior management ends up confronted with frontline [00:15:00] workers because Michael screwed something up in variable, right? That's the only situation in which that happens. So let's look at the office as this little three layer system where you have the Michael Dwight's and Andy's in the middle who live in this world of their own construct, where it is entirely an exercise, both for them. And for those around them of world. Just to create and perpetuate any kind of purpose that maintains coherence sandwiched between the group of people on the bottom and the top who actually have fairly literal roles and responsibilities. No, you can take that and actually extrapolate that onto the American class system, more or less facing. So you have, again, it's like talking in broad strokes here. It's like you have the people at the bottom who is the majority of people, people who earn income through labor and who there's a ladder that you can climb up from at the bottom. It's like working very, very hard hourly or informal jobs. You work your way up through blue collar jobs at the top of this ladder. As you work up, you do own property. You own an F-150. You might own a vacation home. You have a nice life. Like you can work your way up to being well off in this group of people, but fundamentally. Fairly literal. And you have not created any paths to leverage for yourself. That's this group of people. It's the majority of people. It's everybody who doesn't live on the coast basically is in this group of people more or less the coast or core coastal like towns skipping the middle group for a second. The people at the top, who again, are like the elites in power who are sociopath's right. This is just all about, like, I keep saying sociopath. I am a highly functioning sociopath. I'm not sure you're in this group because you're on Twitter. I think you're actually the king of the middle people. We'll get to that in a second. We'll get to that in a second. We'll get to that. The kingdom of the Michael Scott's. So you have the people on the top who are like, this is a path that starts out, like the entry point into this path is either being born rich or being a junior. Either you look into the path or you have to just brutally work your way to the top at either like a white shoe law firm or like investment banking, or now actually starting a startup. Can conceivably get you into this path, although it's still relatively uncommon, but nonetheless it's like, this is also a group of people that when you're in the world of real power, you actually do see the world more or less as it is. And you do see stakes more or less. But in the middle, you have this group of people. This is the Michael Scott group of people, which is the bourgeoisie. This is the upper middle-class who live in the world of whole foods and farmer's market and virtue signal performance saying. And where everything about your life is the statement about values you have that are expensive. Were you in all likelihood people in this job. And then there are some exceptions. So like there are some jobs where like economically speaking would put you in the middle, but socially are not. Doctors are actually one of these groups. Like doctors do something very, very real, but whose jobs put them in the upper middle-class, but mostly if you're an upper middle class person, like. You have some absolutely made up job. You work in digital marketing or you were a product manager or you work actually like many people in law or in various forms of this, or you work in some form of business development or you work in much of sales is not in this group. A lot of sales is very, very real and literal, but some sales is very made up. There's some sales that's very, very much in this world of like upper middle class permissive. We're again, like in this group, the fundamental feature of this group. So if you were to stratify this group along the ladder, as you work your way up the entry point to this group, if you were not born. So the main way you get into this group is you're born there. You're born into upper middle-class parents. And so, hence you are upper middle-class, but you can enter the group by going to. If you're the first in your family to go to college, you can enter this group and you will have quite a culture shock when you do about what people are like in those groups. But as you work your way up, you don't work your way up this ladder by making more money. This cultural ladder definitely does not organize by income. It organizes by how interesting you are and how detached from reality. So like people with, like, if you're pursuing a PhD, very high status absolutely could be a totally meaningless and contrive pursuit. Right. It could just be the most nonsensical thing, but it's very high status to be doing your PhD blue check marks on Twitter. Same thing. It doesn't mean you owe money. It doesn't mean you. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean it's like, if there's a particular kind of. The top of this ladder, by the way, the absolute top of this ladder people I'd say the litmus test is could you write an op-ed for the New York? Would that make sense? Again, people at the bottom group don't do this people in the top group also don't do this because the New York times won't let them because they're bad. Right? It's like someone like Jon Stewart is probably like the absolute top of this group. There's someone like that, right? Like, um, just total cultural relevance and lore among this particular group of people and bringing this back to the principle thing and the office. What [00:20:00] fundamentally defines this group of people of which I absolutely am. One, by the way, like me and everybody in my neighborhood, around me and in my job around me. And like everyone I surround myself with is in this group of people, by the way. So this is a group of people where it's like a Subaru is a higher status car than a capital. And I'd say that's a good litmus test. If you would never be seen dead riding, driving a Cadillac, but you would drive a Subaru and brag about it. That's me. Like I drive a Subaru Outback. That's my car. That's broken that the mechanic had to come fix. Another one is like, would you be mortified showing off a $10,000 watch, but excitedly brag about $150,000 kitchen rental. Then you're in. Because again, it's like, you're not showing off how much money you spent, even though you clearly are. It's all about like, here's how interesting and unique I am. Right. And it's all about like advancing in this group is all about detaching yourself from re. So remember 50 years ago, what this meant was leaving the reality of the dirty cities and moving out to the detached from reality place of the suburbs. Now let's the other way around. It's detaching yourself from the reality of chain, restaurant gas, guzzling, suburban car, hell and moving back to walkable neighborhoods. It's all about detachment from reality. And again, it's like, it's not only like this whole idea of like, oh, I'm detaching myself from reality. This is something that you brag about. If you are like, oh, like I shop at the local farmer's market so I can do a hundred mile diet. That is you detaching yourself from reality and telling everybody about it. Yeah. I think it says something about you. It's a challenge that you're doing. It gives you meaning and it gives you purpose. Or it's like, if you do triathlons, you know, people who do triathlons gym, like I actually shut the fuck up about triathlons. Oh, well, yeah, it's fine. It's fine. But it's like, at some point it's like people who are really, really into these things. Well, you notice about them as they start to talk weird. They develop these speech patterns that at first are only visible when they're talking about whatever it is, they find really meaningful, but eventually it just takes over everything. And the reason why it's not only because they have this internal language that they talk in, that it's all about like validate my pursuit. Meaning that I've constructed for myself. That's meaningless to everybody else, but it's a beg for acknowledgement for the meaning that they've created. And you know how people talk back to them. It's baby talk. It's Uber driver talk. It's like, I'll entertain this conversation, but like, please give me five stars. Like I need it. Please write it. Or like it's all the advertising of prestige. You are so smart for watching Fargo. You are so sophisticated for watching house of cards. Like come on this whole idea of world-building right? It's like the reason why world building is so important and it is especially important in worlds of plenty and worlds of material, abundance and worlds, where everything is basically provided. But what is scarce and valuable is actually meaning it's challenges that you identify with and your sense of accomplishment upon challenging them. That is what people really want when their basic needs are taken care of. And it's in fact, what people are most desperately seeking when you enter this world of upper-middle-class dumb, it becomes entirely about this search for. Not only like ways to find meeting, but like around with like, what is the way that you are going to detach yourself from reality and create this construct of meeting around yourself, the author who wrote about this amazingly? Well, what it was, it was David Brooks a long time ago. Back when David Brooks could really throw fastballs Bobos in paradise, paradise, paradise, amazing black, an incredible line from Bobos. Is that the highest possible compliment in this group is to call someone serious. He's a serious kite boarder, or she's serious about cooking healthy meals. That is the highest possible compliment. You can give someone because this is the ultimate form of validating their. Which is all we just desperately want. Right? So you take, so the thesis of my Michael Scott article was that as you ascend the ladder and the ranks of the upper middle-class more and more of your life becomes the self-defined. Recursive quest for meaning in a construct of your own creation that is reinforced by your language progressively becoming posture talk, please validate my pursuits and other people talking back to you in baby talk. They're there. Like everything you do is made up. It'll be okay. Just stay in your little box and don't cause problems, right? Therefore reinforcing and reinforcing itself until eventually you become Michael Scott. Listen, man, I think you just did a hard close. Yeah. That's Michael Scott. So do you have more than 10,000 followers on Twitter? You're Michael Scott, you have an opinion about what is the right amount of hops in an IPA mascot. You were Michael Scott. Do you, if you drive a Subaru and you are overly concerned with the all wheel drive mechanics between like the new versions versus the old versions for your ability to get to the cross country [00:25:00] ski trails, you're making. I am all these things, by the way, are you pursuing a PhD in anything? Absolutely. Michael Scott, do you read my newsletter? You're Michael Scott. Um, we are all Michael's. If you listened to this mix tape, you're absolutely Michael Scott, if you're entertained by it, you're absolutely Michael Scott and from one Michael Scott to the other, I appreciate you.
Today's promo is The Millenial Therapist Podcast: https://anchor.fm/mtpwithmaonao?utm_source=listennotes.com&utm_campaign=Listen+Notes&utm_medium=websiteHolly Alcott White has been missing from Taos, New Mexico since 2016. In the first half of the episode, I tell you the story of Holly's disappearance. In the second half, I interview Holly's dad and the private investigator working on the case. This episode was written by Fern Bushnall and researched by Jackie Moranty.Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/find-holly-white?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&rcid=f8f69f1519434c4cad530d2baba1918aFind Holly White Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findhollywhiteReferences:https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/hmfrg0/disappearance_of_holly_alcott_white_taos_new/http://santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/safety-at-the-gorge-bridge-has-been-neglected-too-long/article_e89d6686-b346-11eb-a62e-a7420a833d35.htmlhttps://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-friends-still-searching-missing-new-mexico-woman-holly-alcott-n1269161https://www.facebook.com/findhollywhite/https://tcataos.org/about/#missionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridgehttps://www.facebook.com/findhollywhite/https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/four-years-after-disappearance-search-continues-for-taos-resident-holly-white/https://www.taosnews.com/news/local-news/search-continues-in-r-o-grande-gorge-for-missing-taos-musician/article_80355c04-b614-52bf-bcec-a88ca795820b.htmlhttps://thehueandcry.com/holly-whitehttps://www.taosnews.com/news/suicide-at-the-r-o-grande-gorge-bridge-and-the-toll-of-recovering-a-body/article_5de8feee-9446-5a55-aae3-4adf8b59872d.htmlhttps://www.taosnews.com/news/local-news/search-continues-in-r-o-grande-gorge-for-missing-taos-musician/article_80355c04-b614-52bf-bcec-a88ca795820b.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/crabtreemelissahttps://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/body-found-r-o-grande-river-identified-juan-mu-oz-n1267039https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/months-after-juan-munoz-went-missing-his-family-is-still-looking-for-answers/https://en.mundohispanico.com/hispanic-soldier-juan-munoz-goes-missing-without-a-trace/https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/four-years-after-disappearance-search-continues-for-taos-resident-holly-white/https://www.facebook.com/findhollywhite/https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-desperate-find-national-guardsman-juan-mu-oz-missing-nearly-n1263883?fbclid=IwAR2fxNLQcCeHpFtT5IuDRg-5OhRld_9-tZgcRl1wxrDKmE_pg02GZTD_XTYhttps://thehueandcry.com/holly-white?fbclid=IwAR3kwdWDn02iZRIvTOTx6pNlw_mhcCwFcuV_OSHoeERVWukJF-q2ngc5HrEhttps://www.taosnews.com/news/crime/reading-the-signs/article_76570b58-3a92-5ea3-bab8-e83d943b11c3.html#tncms-source=loginhttps://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/theories-run-wild-as-search-for-missing-taos-woman-continues/article_a2c513b8-8188-554c-b553-c07b033f7a19.htmlhttps://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-architects-crossing-the-bridge-of-deathhttps://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/safety-at-the-gorge-bridge-has-been-neglected-too-long/article_e89d6686-b346-11eb-a62e-a7420a833d35.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridgehttps://www.facebook.com/SLVMissingPersons/posts/holly-alcott-white-age-49-at-time-of-disappearance-missing-from-taos-nm-since-ma/152979423207086/
Idea to Value - Creativity and Innovation with Nick Skillicorn
In today's episode, we speak with Dr Holly White, cognitive psychologist and researcher looking at the link between ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and creativity. #adhd #creativity #research #daydreaming See the full episode at https://wp.me/p6pllj-1Dg We look at why some people with ADHD might succeed on certain creative tasks, as well as the link between inhibition in the brain and creativity. Topics covered in today's episode: 00:02:45 - What ADHD is, what the symptoms are and how the diagnosis has changed over the past few years 00:07:00 - Inattentiveness and Daydreaming, and shortening attention spans are becoming more common 00:09:00 - The combination of genetic factors as well as environmental and physiological which lead to ADHD 00:12:00 - The research which Dr White did into the link between ADHD and creative behaviour 00:14:00 - The link between people inhibiting their thoughts / being less focused, and being better at developing more original ideas in divergent thinking tasks 00:20:00 - The link between ADHD and people incorporating things from their environment in creative ideas and artistic output 00:23:00 - Research shows that people with ADHD are less affected by boundaries of what has previously been produced, and are less affected by functional fixedness 00:26:00 - Having someone with ADHD in a group makes everyone else in the group more creative as well, as they expand the variety of what is talked about 00:30:30 - How diverse groups work together in brainstorming sessions 00:36:00 - The default mode network is activated in the brain when you are daydreaming, forming new connections, and this results in a lot of original new connections Links mentioned in today's episode: Chaotic Cognition blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition University page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/shah-lab/people/ Bonus: This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/all-access-pass-insider-secrets/ * Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 * Subscribe on Spotify to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4x1kANUSv7UJoCJ8GavUrN * Subscribe on Stitcher to the Idea to Value Podcast: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=129437&refid=stpr * Subscribe on Google Podcasts to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9pZGVhdG92YWx1ZS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw Want to rapidly validate new ideas and innovative products and GROW your online business? These are the tools I actually use to run my online businesses (and you can too): * The best email management and campaigns system: ActiveCampaign (Free Trial) http://www.activecampaign.com/?_r=M17NLG2X * Best value web hosting: BlueHost WordPress http://www.activecampaign.com/?_r=M17NLG2X * Landing pages, Sales Pages and Lead collection: LeadPages (Free Trial) http://leadpages.pxf.io/c/1385771/390538/5673 * Sharing & List building: Sumo (Free) https://sumo.com/?src=partner_ideatovalue * Payments, Shopping Cart, affiliate management and Upsell generator: ThriveCart https://improvides--checkout.thrivecart.com/thrivecart-standard-account/ * Video Webinars for sales: WebinarJam and Everwebinar ($1 Trial) https://nickskillicorn.krtra.com/t/lwIBaKzMP1oQ * Membership for protecting content: Membermouse (Free Trial) http://affiliates.membermouse.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=735 * eLearning System for students: WP Courseware https://flyplugins.com/?fly=293 * Video Editing: Techsmith Camtasia http://techsmith.z6rjha.net/vvGPv I have used all of the above products myself to build IdeatoValue and Improvides, which is why I can confidently recommend them. I may also receive affiliate payments for any business I bring to them using the links above. Copyright https://www.ideatovalue.com
We discuss how to stand out as a quality interviewee, how (and what) to negotiate, what to look for in quality employee candidates, and more. Our guest is Holly White, the Human Resources Specialist dedicated to Career Development & Mobility with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) based in New York City and who was raised on a Standardbred breeding farm and competes in the Adult Jumpers. Hang around until the end of the show for some bonus content about how Holly found a way to ride horses in Africa.Equestrian B2B Guests and Links Episode 2:Hosts: Jennifer Wood and Jennifer Connor of EQ BusinesswomenFeatured Image Credit: Holly WhiteSponsor: EQUITANA USAGuest: Holly White, Instagram, TwitterAdditional Support Provided by: The Plaid Horse Magazine, Chronicle of the HorseSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)
We discuss how to stand out as a quality interviewee, how (and what) to negotiate, what to look for in quality employee candidates, and more. Our guest is Holly White, the Human Resources Specialist dedicated to Career Development & Mobility with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) based in New York City and who was raised on a Standardbred breeding farm and competes in the Adult Jumpers. Hang around until the end of the show for some bonus content about how Holly found a way to ride horses in Africa.Equestrian B2B Guests and Links Episode 2:Hosts: Jennifer Wood and Jennifer Connor of EQ BusinesswomenFeatured Image Credit: Holly WhiteSponsor: EQUITANA USAGuest: Holly White, Instagram, TwitterAdditional Support Provided by: The Plaid Horse Magazine, Chronicle of the Horse
This episode is in recognition of Military Saves Month. Listen in as I chat up with Army Veteran, Holly White. Upon graduating from high school , Holly spontaneously decided to join the military when she liked what she saw after watching some Army commercials. Coming from humble beginnings, Holly is a self-proclaimed “natural saver” and therefore made it a point to have no emotional ties to spending which allowed her to consistently live below her means. At the age of 38, became achieved financial independence and retired from the military after 20 years of service.After briefly working for the IRS, Holly chose to follow her passion of assisting others as they start their own freedom journeys and is currently working towards becoming a certified life coach.Freedom Battle Buddies of Color Linkshttps://linktr.ee/drannjamesSign-up for new episode notifications: https://bit.ly/3mkJ7QOSupport the showGrab a free copy of my Interactive Spend Plan that does the math for you!https://bit.ly/interactivespendplanSchedule Your Freedom Chat: https://calendly.com/freedombattlebuddies/freedom-chatConnect with Dr. Annhttps://linktr.ee/drannjamesHere's the budgeting app I've been using for years to tell my dollars where to go! https://ynab.com/referral/?ref=OJ0scBcB5OUaeUJzThinking about launching your own podcast? Start here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1602373
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It's a bit late, but this year we trade a sexy holiday book for a murder mystery holiday book. After a local businessman/pervert turns up dead, it's up to Holly White and her friends in the town of Mistletoe, Maine to figure out who did it and to clear her best friend's name. Find out how to join us for bonus episode recordings at patreon.com/overduepod.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
It's a bit late, but this year we trade a sexy holiday book for a murder mystery holiday book. After a local businessman/pervert turns up dead, it's up to Holly White and her friends in the town of Mistletoe, Maine to figure out who did it and to clear her best friend's name. Find out how to join us for bonus episode recordings at patreon.com/overduepod.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
Today we have the fantastic Holly White who will be talking to us about her journey turning Vegan, embracing wellness and staying healthy!
Today on Droplets Podcast, I am joined by the gorgeous Holly White where we are learning about the benefits of connecting with your body's sensitivity and being consciously aware of the food that we are eating. Being aware for our body, our energy, our planet and life itself. Holly shares insight about her own lifestyle change and how it has made a huge, positive impact on her own life. She kindly offers tips on how we too can become more mindful of the foods we eat and how we can connect to what our body needs. Holly has been working as a broadcaster and journalist for over a decade here in Ireland. She is certified in plant based nutrition from Cornell university and has a passion for elevating people’s perceptions of vegan food. You can find out more about Holly and her cookbooks, delicious recipes and more on www.holly.ie or by following her on Instagram on @hollywhite.ie Enjoy!
Holly White has done so much and as a result we end up talking about a lot of different subjects. She has been a broadcaster, actress, stylist and now with a passion for sharing plant based eating and living. She's even has her own book out called "Vegan-ish". In this episode she has plenty of tips on getting started on a digital platform, how to stay healthy, how to look after yourself and the environment. She's a beaut!
Flagstaff, Arizona based certified Fitness and Nutrition Specialist, Behavior Change Specialist, Holistic Wellness Practitioner, and Yoga Teacher Holly White is our special interview guest on Episode 1623 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show. Guidance: This episode deals with real issues of drug and sexual abuse. Holly White Health is an Arizona based business celebrating passion for wellness and self exploration. She is a certified Fitness and Nutrition Specialist, Behavior Change Specialist, Holistic Wellness Practitioner, and Yoga Teacher. The word “holistic” is of utmost importance to her coaching practice. Personal development means elevating every aspect of our life through observation, assessment, and freedom of our past and current traumas and behaviors. Holly White Health uses time honored techniques to help you gain vitality, energy, and peace in your life. Listen in today to hear Jimmy and Holly talk about using holistic methods of dealing with trauma and exploring mental, as well as physical, well being, what it means to be a whole person, and much more.
Liz Covart is the Creator and host of Ben Franklin's World a podcast about early American history and winner of the Best History Podcast Award in 2017. As the digital projects editor at the Omohundro Institute of early American history and culture, Liz practices a blend of scholarly history, public history, and digital humanities. The OI's primary focus is supporting scholars and scholarships related to early America. Liz experiments with social and new media to recreate scholarly history to large public audiences. Liz's work makes scholarly history readily available to the public in hopes of making the public more interested in history. Liz earned her PhD in History from the University of California Davis. Liz and I have been working together for quite awhile now, and it’s a joy to watch her podcast grow and reach continued levels of success. Liz’s story is a perfect example of how even careful planning can’t prepare you for the twists and turns of opportunity along your journey. Show Notes [03:11] Liz and Darrell met a long time ago. They were even in a mastermind together about five years ago. [04:29] Darrell loves working with Liz and has learned so much from her podcast. [05:05] Liz was meticulous about her podcast launch. She was listening to podcasts about writing and social media. She fell in love with podcasting, but couldn't find a good history podcast to listen to. [06:01] She decided to create an in-depth history podcast and then proceeded to research podcasting for 18 months. She wanted to know what made the media tick, and that's still something she studies today. She spoke about the history of radio at last year's podcast movement. [09:32] Growing up, Liz's parents gave her an allowance in books, so every week she could go to the library or bookstore an pick out a book. [10:01] In 7th grade, she decided that she wanted to learn about history. She took a chronological approach and started in the Colonial period. [10:52] She lives in Boston and grew up in the area. [12:11] Each historian has a different take. They go to the archives and look at documents, objects, and oral histories to get information about the past. Then they use their evidence to create a picture of the past and what happened and why it happened. [13:14] There are always different discoveries, and history is a reflection of our present as well as a reflection of our past. [15:27] Her original vision was a public outface for her work where she could connect people with books and scholarly work. She had a strong history background and loved historical research. [17:21] After three months, her podcast was averaging 25,000 to 30,000 downloads a month. Eventually, well known podcasters started pointing out that she had a media business, and then she started working on that side of the business. [20:03] Liz's musical training helps her everyday with her podcast from pacing to flow. It also gave her discipline in college with time planning. [23:26] Consistency is the key to podcasting. Her show requires prep, and they give guests the questions in advance, so they can come up with great answers. [24:45] Liz went from podcasting as a hobby to professional podcasting. She hired Pro Podcast Solutions and upgraded her equipment. Her podcast also created a job for her at Omohundro Institute, she now works with a small team. [26:14] Holly White her producer helps with the reading. They use Trello to coordinate communication. Liz also uses Fantastical calendar for her Mac. [28:29] Liz believes in consistency in publishing and always works ahead. One time she accidentally published late, and listeners were messaging her to see if she was alright. [29:04] Liz sends a physical microphone to her guests, and her audio quality has really jumped. She sends Sennheiser headset microphones that are simple and easy to use. The she uses SquadCast as a simple high quality audio way to connect with her guests. [32:34] Sending the mic to keep is cheaper with overseas interviews. They bought 12 Sennheiser PC8s and pop filters. Postage round trip is about $10, and only one person so far hasn't sent the mic back. [35:06] Liz loves interacting with listeners. She has meetups to connect with her audience. [36:38] She had a meetup in Denver with over 20 people. Some had driven two or three hours. It was a great way to get feedback. [41:05] Liz's parents taught her the value of people and being there for them. [41:48] She is currently reading Merchants of Truth. [42:53] Liz would like to write a history on the Articles of Confederation and why it was ratified. It would be a multimedia project. [46:54] Darrel takeaways: Liz's podcast became so successful that it was a media business. Her first focus was the content and the audience. This is what turned it into such a success. Her background in music helped with rhythm and flow. Listeners count on consistency. She sent mics to her guests. Meetups helped clarify her avatar. Links and Resources: Pro Podcast Solutions Ben Franklin’s World Ben Franklin’s World on YouTube Ben Franklin’s World on Facebook Ben Franklin’s World App Liz Covart Liz Covart on Twitter Liz@BenFranklinsWorld.com Omohundro Institute Zone of Genius Mastermind Podcast Movement Mindset Strategies That Go Beyond Podcasting With Cliff Ravenscraft Natalie Eckdahl BizChix Ryan Gray Medical School Headquarters Holly White Trello Fantastical SquadCast Sennheiser PC8 Headset Microphones Meetup Merchants of Truth The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union — 1777 George Rogers Clark
On this week's episode of Owning It The Anxiety Podcast, I'm joined by author Holly White who talks about her sensitive nature and the fact that denying this, along with her anxiety, has always been the problem. When she accepted the way she was, and stopped trying to be like everybody else - which involved embracing a vegan lifestyle - things improved dramatically. She shares how she owns her anxiety and how she makes it work for her rather than against her in this episode. Holly is also one of my special guests at the publishing masterclass next month, for which you can buy tickets here. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/so-you-want-to-write-a-book-publishing-masterclass-with-louise-oneill-holly-white-and-caroline-foran-tickets-62361312364 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Good Glow podcast will hear how Georgie Crawford put her life back together after a breast cancer diagnosis that changed her perspective on everything. Georgie feels there is a need for women to have more in depth conversations about our health and well being in order to drive awareness of self care. This week, Holly White speaks to Georgie about her vegan diet, how you can live better and how to follow your dreams to create the life you've always wanted.
52 year old Holly White has been missing from Taos, New Mexico since May 6th, 2016. The night before she went missing she had spoken to her husband on the phone and also talked with some friends online. She had plans to meet a friend the next day for a walk but never showed up. Her car was later found near the Rio Grande Bridge.
Holly White joins me this week. Holly worked as a Broadcaster & Journalist for over a decade in Dublin. She is passionate about style, natural beauty & vegan food. Holly has done extensive food training in Raw Food Mastery with the Life Change Institute; Plantlab Raw Dessert Fundamentals; Vegan Chef Training and Wellness Leadership with the Wild Food Cafe in London & is also Certified in Plant Based Nutrition with Cornell University. She regularly hosts demonstrations showcasing an introduction to vegan cuisine and has recently collaborated with the Merrion Hotel in Dublin to create a sumptuous vegan menu which is available in their Garden Room. On her website www.holly.ie she shares plant-based recipes, cruelty-free products she loves, as well as lifestyle & fashion tips. Her new cookbook 'Vegan-ish' is available for purchase via her website link above.
A trip to the 'homeland' of Slovenia teaches Krissy Kneen a thing or two about how cultures, individual families and individuals deal with trauma in such very different ways. Krissy Kneen is an award-winning writer and a beloved member of the Australian literary community. She has written memoir, poetry and fiction, and her latest novel, An Uncertain Grace, was shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. Her other work includes Affection,Steeplechase, Triptych and The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.
On this episode, Mel Cranenburgh discusses with Krissy Kneen her latest book, Wintering, a supernatural thriller set in a remote community in Tasmania. Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir-Affection-and fiction: An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetrycollection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.Mel is joined by Artistic Director of the The Digital Writers Festival, Izzy Roberts-Orr. The Digital Writers Festival is an online writers' festival dedicated to celebrating the work of writers from Australia and across the world, and fostering new relationships through collaboration between writers, where ever they may be. It is a product of the Emerging Writers' Festival, a not-for-profit organisation whose foundations are built on supporting emerging writers. The 2018 Digital Writers' Festival runs from Tuesday 30 October - Saturday 3 November http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/program/
"Pure As The Driven Snow" wouldn't be inappropriate commentary on the delicate and forthright Holly White. With her first cookbook, "Vegan-ish" fresh off the press we went to town on her mission as a vegan, how she models herself and what questions she asks as a conscious consumer, and her take on the epic rise of social media and its potentially positive impact on our society. You can catch up with Holly on hollywhite.ie, or find her through Instagram @hollywhite.ie, and you can pick up her book, Vegan-ish at all good bookstores, and as part of our selection at The Hopsack
Is the vegan lifestyle for you? It’s not just about food but about how you are living your life and how it’s impacting animals in the process. For journalist and blogger, Holly White, she became vegan four years ago and hasn't looked back since. Holly joins me on this week's podcast to discuss the vegan lifestyle and to give some practical tips and recipe advice for those interested in becoming vegan. For Holly it means a diet with no eggs, no meat, no dairy, but she says, the vegan diet doesn't have to be one of extremes or difficult to embrace. Even if you're not committed to becoming a vegan, Holly definitely has some great recipes and healthy eating advice that we can all take on-board, including using ingredients such as lentils or tofu in ways that we hadn't considered before. 'Lentils contain more protein than beef,' she points out and says everyone should try a vegan shepherd's pie made with lentils. For more from Holly, check out HollyWhite.ie and her new book, 'Vegan-ish', is out now. For more from the Real Health podcast check out the show page at www.independent.ie/podcasts/the-real-health-podcast/ The Real Health podcast is in association with Laya Healthcare. **See the Real Health podcast live at the Dublin Podcast Festival and kickstart your real health lifestyle with physical, mental and energy experts, Annie Kirwan, Neil O'Brien and Deirdre McSwiney. For tickets and information go to DublinPodcastFestival.ie.**
On this episode we’re taking HEAPS of selfies and not giving a sh*t, we look at the selfie phenomenon with a woman who has actually written a book on it (and given a TED talk), we’re discussing the latest trend of the imported period parties, and we’ll try and unmask bloggers unveiled. We’re surrounded my bloggers in this episode so we HAD to ask. Our Spotlight interview this week is with actress and playwright Amy DeBhrun, she tells us about the struggles of self-funding a play and why the legendary Lady Mary Heath should never vanish in to the walls of history.
Holly White is a World Traveler, Entrepreneur, Health Coach and India-trained Yoga Instructor. She is currently completing her Holistic Wellness Practitioner degree that focuses on implementing behavior change, transformation and integration.
In this week’s Best Possible Taste Sharon Noonan visits Rigney’s Farm in Curraghchase, Co Limerick to do some pig farming with proprietor Caroline Rigney. Danny Trappe, Sales Manager with Wexford’s Yellow Belly Beer shares details about a collaboration with Blackcastle Drinks to launch “Designated Diver” and fashion journalist and broadcaster Holly White discusses her vegan journey and has some tips to share if you would like to enjoy a plant based diet. The Best Possible Taste is sponsored by TheTaste.ie , voted Ireland’s best on line digital food and drink magazine.
School is for kids but Hyde is for families. Holly White, former Hyde parent, has a blended family that all benefited from Hyde School, although only her youngest child attended the school. She talks candidly about getting past the disappointment of not having your child at home with you for high school, the financial burden of the tuition, and especially the resistance of the teen to leave home and go away to school. She uses the term “deterioration of the fabric of our family,” a term that typifies many families today. At Hyde, Holly learned that she was the peacemaker in the family, and how that role held the family back from creating a vision by which to live. She now lives with the weight of her foot in Truth over Harmony.
Jennifer Scoullar's 'Turtle Reef' is a romance set in tropical Queensland.Krissy Kneen read a lot of erotic fiction and researched William Reich's orgone accumulator while writing 'The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine'. Holly White is a sci-fi super hero with a climatic difference!
JMX Highlights - Jared's mom wants to buy him a used couch featuring Holly White, Jared's Mom, Kelli Steele, Tommy John and Tommy John's Grandmother
JMX Highlights - Jared's mom wants to buy him a used couch featuring Holly White, Jared's Mom, Kelli Steele, Tommy John and Tommy John's Grandmother
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