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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Tom Daly, founder of Relevant Ventures. Tom and I talk about the challenges big companies have when trying to navigate technology and market changes. And what you can do to avoid some of the common obstacles and barriers to innovation and transformation. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive In today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty, join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript  with Tom Daly, Founder of Relevant VenturesBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host Brian Ardinger, and as always, we have another amazing guest. Today we have Tom Daly. He is the founder of Relevant Ventures. Welcome Tom. Tom Daly: Thank you very much, Brian. Pleasure to be here, speaking with you. Brian Ardinger: I'm excited to have you on the show. You have had a lot of experience in this innovation space. You worked with companies like UPS and ING and I think most recently, Coca-Cola and a lot of the innovation efforts around that world. So I am excited to have you on the show to talk about some of the new things you're doing and I think more importantly, some of the things you've learned over the years.Tom Daly: I started doing this work before people called it digital transformation or innovation. The Earth cooled, at about the same time I began getting my head around this. I'm an advertising guy to begin with, and I can't prove it, but I think I created the world's first dedicated 30 sec TV commercial to a website. UPS. In that process, I picked up some vocabulary and I learned some things about how websites, quote unquote work, so that when people started calling, you know, back in the mid-nineties wanting to talk to somebody about the web or the internet, the calls came to me. And it was during that process where I started to build new networks within UPS, learn about new things going on at UPS and discover some of the opportunities. It's been a while. Brian Ardinger: You talk a lot about this ability to turn big ships in small spaces. Talk a little bit about what that means to you and, and what the challenges really are for corporations in, in this whole innovation space. Tom Daly: The idea of turning big ships in small spaces actually goes back to my boss's boss at UPS who noticed I was toiling. UPS has a reputation as a conservative company. A little bit unfair, there's some truth to that, but not quite what people think.It's actually a very, very innovative company and has been for its entire history, but it is collaborative. There's a lot of debate and a lot of discussion. So getting new things done, driving new ideas that my boss to encourage me, you'll get there, Tom, but it's like turning a battleship in the Chattahoochee.So, I don't know where listeners are, but imagine a pretty darn small body of water and a really big ship that you're trying to turn. So, a lot of back and forth, a lot of kissing babies, shaking hands, and just getting, you know politics, but in a good positive way to kind of really understand interests and concerns and build a better program, a better idea.So that's the idea, and it was encouraging to me. So, this notion of turning big ships in small spaces, it seems to be, to the degree I have any superpowers, that's the one I'm able to kind of figure out how to help larger organizations figure out how to extract value from, you know, kind of what's coming up around the corner.Brian Ardinger: Obviously you've seen a lot of changes, whether they're technology changes or business model changes that have happened over the years. Where do companies typically run into the problems when they see something on the emerging horizon and they're saying, we've gotta do something about this. What goes through their mind and what can they do to better prepare for some of these drastic changes?Tom Daly: The thing companies can do to help themselves most be prepared for big ships in the world that we all live and compete in, is, you know, the twin keys of openness and acceptance. Being open to an idea is really important, but it is only half the battle. Being accepting of the implications of those ideas is really key and the classic example would be Kodak. You know, Kodak early in, open to the idea of digital photography. But equally unaccepting of its implications. So they didn't jump in, they didn't do the things they needed to do, and as a result, very different company Blockbuster would fit in that category.Certainly, they understood the implications of streaming technologies and the web and the ability to distribute content. Given the retail heavy business, the land heavy business, they just weren't accepting, or at least not accepting fast enough to be able to secure position in the next evolution of how people consumed content. So those two ideas, being open and accepting both in equal measures is critical to getting yourself in a good spot. Brian Ardinger: Well, you touched on an interesting point. You read about the stories of companies failing or being disrupted, and from the outside it looks like, well, they didn't pay attention, or they didn't know what was going on.But it seems like, from the stories and the people that I've talked to, it's not that they weren't aware of what was going on. Or the fact that it was going to have a major impact or that they should do something about it. It was more to that line of it, like you said, acceptance of, well, how do we actually do this knowing that we're going to have to change our business models, change the way we make money, change everything about what we currently do to make this radical shift. And it's that classic innovator's dilemma. Are you seeing that changing nowadays, now that people are kind of more familiar with the concept of this and, and as more and more changes hit corporations, so you're getting faster at having to adapt to this. Are you seeing the world changing or are you still seeing the same problems exist?Tom Daly: You know, anybody in this space, Brian, doing what I've been doing for as long as I've been doing it, you need to be an optimist. You need to believe that, you know it's all going to happen. That said, the conversations I'm having today in 2023 are pretty darn close to the conversations I was having in the middle, you know, of the nineties, right?So, whether it was the dawn of, you know, this graphical overlay on the internet, the web, and when browsers enabled, or the introduction of now advertising and marketing opportunities on the web, which didn't really happen at the beginning of the browser era, that followed a little bit later. Or the introduction of mobile phones and then smartphones and all the, it's the same conversations. And they all come from a place of gaps.I won't say a lack because in some places there is confidence and acceptance and alignment with what's going on. But it's not uniform within organizations. Right. Then there are pockets of people within departments, IT people, marketing people, salespeople. They see the same opportunities. But there are also folks who do not see the future in the same way. And that's where that acceptance problem comes in. So I ask questions, I do a little survey. And I ask people really fundamental questions, one of them having to do with innovation. Now, where do you put your company in terms of new technologies and how quickly they would be used. Like you see yourself among the first to use emerging technologies?I'm asked almost around 2000 people this question. And interestingly, overall, 16% of people would say, yes, our company is among the first. But if you drill down into that, you see CEOs of the C-suite at 36% believe they are the first to use technology, but only about 19% of VP and director level. So that gap needs to be studied.It could be that CEOs are both open and accepting, but just can't bring their organization along with them. And get people to the same head space. Or it could be that the, you know, VP director level folks see something different. We're not among the first, and it's this overconfidence among the C-suite, who happen to believe, but it may not be the reality of what you don't see it. What you're looking at C-Suite is really not what's going on. Regardless of how you interpret that gap, there is a gap. And understanding it, managing it, dissecting it, interrogating it is kind of what's really important. Brian Ardinger: You know, a lot of this change and the, the ability to accept change and, and adapt to it comes down to incentives. What are you seeing or what have you seen that's worked when it comes to incentivizing teams or even the C-Suite to put new things into place and to react and adapt to new changes? Tom Daly: It's going to happen; it's going to change. My technique, it may be more patient than others. I don't know how to make it go super-fast. I just know that lots of back and forth. You know, I think that the thing to do is demonstrate that this is real. I'll tell you an example, a little technique that I used back before the advent of mobile payments. Before people using their phone to buy things was really as prevalent as it is today. It was possible, but not a part of many people's experience.So, at the time I was at Coca-Cola, our products were sold in a lot of retail environment where these capabilities were being slowly introduced. But I was also working among a group of people, none of them are ignorant, they just didn't believe it was happening. I organized what I called a mobile payments safari.I got a local little tour bus. And planned out a route to Coca-Cola Company customers. Dunkin Donuts, local Burger Joint, Home Depot. All of these companies using Mobile payments in one way, shape, or form. And I made everybody kind of get the appropriate app, sign up for the appropriate services. They paid early days of Square. I didn't pay for this bus ride out of my own budget. I had each participant use Square to see how that worked. Took them to Dunkin Donuts to go get their coffee or Coke and donut. Talk to the counter, see customers, so on and so forth throughout the day. Now, by the end of the day, it wasn't Tom's opinion, my language I gave everybody the same inputs that I had. With the benefit of those same inputs. They reached the same output. They reached the same conclusion, alignment gaps closed. People started to realize, oh yeah, that's, it is happening in the world, you know where I live. Brian Ardinger: That's a great exercise, and I think more and more folks need to pay attention to that. You know, we talk a lot about the customer discovery process and that. Especially when we're working with startups, because at that early stage, they're trying to figure out who their customers are. Is their market and everything else. I think the challenge when you get to a kind of an established company is they think they know who their customers are or they, you know, read about it or hang out with the same competitors. And so, there's a natural tendency to think they know what's going on in the world and that ability to step outside the office and see what's really going on. And, you know, firsthand knowledge I think is so important for whether you're launching a new product or just trying to, like you said, understand a new technology set and how that's impacting or could impact your current business. Tom Daly: Brian, I think there's a lot to that and it's incredibly helpful, but the other thing that you need to be able to do is tell the stories around that and help people understand it in a way that's digestible. Before I organized this local payments safari, I circulated a couple of case studies, one of which super impactful I think you know, that again, back to a square example, the, Salvation Army, you know, that famous red kettle collecting coins around the holidays. There was a early and really interesting experiment where Salvation Army was using Square to accept payments. Why? Not because everybody was using their phone to buy stuff, but they were using credit cards. They were not using cash. So, they didn't have change in their pockets, and you know, felt bad in the Red Kettle. So, they said, well, we got to find a way to get some money. You know, the storytelling that I created was, you know that the coins that go on the kettle in December, are the coins that go on a vending machine in July.And if people don't have the money to put into that red kettle, they're going to be the same dilemma. And we just got to catch up with us. So, we have to find ways to remove that payment friction. Then I happen to be focused on mobile technology at the time. The point is the storytelling and finding ways to connect these trends and whether it's super easy. Nope, no language, no technical stuff. You didn't have to understand just, oh yeah, I get it. No coins. Brian Ardinger: So, I'd love your insight into how important it is to get buy-in across the organization, or how difficult is it for the average manager within a company to help push the transformation agenda forward. Versus having corporate buy-in and, and everybody aligned. Can you talk a little bit about what are the skill sets, tool sets, things that people need from a manager level to make this stuff happen? Tom Daly: I wish I had the one silver bullet to tell you some new blinding revelation. I don't. It's the usual suspects, Brian. You know, you need to be informed. You kind of need to know a little bit about how the watch is made. Not just sort of the superficial part of kind of what you saw. This, your technologist is probably more likely to understand a little bit of the underlying technology, but you may not have the language or experience or vocabulary to talk about how that interacts with people. If you're a marketing person, you probably have the skillset to talk about the stories and the like, but you don't have the technical knowledge. Whether you're coming at innovation, regardless of the perspective that you're coming at an innovation discussion or transformation discussion knowing both is important. You can't just kind of say, oh yeah, and well payments, you kind of have to know a little bit about how the watch is made. So certain amount of curiosity, critical, tenacity, perseverance. You know, we've captured my personal style, that big ship, small spaces constantly creeping towards the destination.Other people will have different styles at different techniques. But it is all captured by the same notion of perseverance, tenacity, persistence, et cetera, et cetera. So, no unique, I do have a couple of resources though that would be helpful for folks. You know, first thing folks might want to do is wherever they buy their books, great book written by a fellow named Kumar Metta, who wrote something called The Innovation Biome. And the Innovation Biome is a book capturing case studies from cultures of innovation, big companies. You know, Amazons of the world, Apples. What do they do culturally to enable these environments? You know, you'll use a reference, a culture will Yes, within Amazon. So it's not the manager's job to say no. Sort of the manager's job to say, okay, but yes, but let me help you get this through so you can get the information that you need.So, you know, I've worked with folks in the past, you know, who facilitate meetings that allow executives to get together, break out of the day-to-day. Some of the techniques we've already touched on, talk to customers, walk around where people are living and doing their day-to-day thing to see where your ideas fit. Where there are problems that you can solve. Simple stuff. But if you don't do it and you spend your time looking for that silver bullet, you're gonna miss it. Just do it. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. The last topic I want to talk about is, obviously again, you've been in a lot of different industries and that. You pay attention to a lot of the trends that are going on. Obviously in the, in news this week, in, in the past few weeks, the whole AI movement and chat, GPT-4, and I'm, I'm talking to a lot of different companies saying hey we see this thing coming, we have no idea how to attack it or use it or whatever. What are you seeing when it comes to the AI trend and what is your input for helping companies try to navigate that early stage? Tom Daly: We would agree. A generative AI overall kind of a a big deal. Going be super transformative. This book that I mentioned, the Innovation Biome. The author Kumar Metta talks about the fallacy of the next big thing, and he picks apart you know, the first fallacy is that, you know, it's the next thing. So generative AI is here. But it's like day one, right? I mean, not literally, but you know, broadly speaking. So, what it will truly become, who knows, right? I mean, so don't get too fixated on it as a thing at this moment in time. Allowing yourself to just project forward and imagine scenarios down the road of what a future could look like, because eventually it will get there. Lots of folks you know, back in the day of 56 K modems. Nobody will ever buy you anything. Music won't ever happen. And this blockbuster streaming thing. Well, 56 became 124. 124 became EF whatever. And you know, here we are on our phones doing things that were unimaginable really not that long ago. Generative AI is only important if it turns into a billion-dollar idea for you.If you set that standard, you're going to miss it. Right. Think about small, quick little wins things that you can do today. Learn the technology. Introduce it into your organization. Become familiar with it, and don't worry about the long ball, right? Singles and doubles. Three yards caught. Where are your sports? Whatever you're thinking. Start with what you can do and don't despite what I just said about learning how the watch is made, you'll be overly focus on a specific thing, right? Chat Gpt, GPT-4, whatever it is, open up the aperture. Think more broadly about where these things, what's the real root essence of it? Not a specific manifestation of it. If you give yourself that latitude, it's important to you even if it only saves two seconds a day for somebody. If it saves two seconds for somebody, maybe it saves two seconds for everybody. A company that matters. It'll magnify itself if it's real.Brian Ardinger: I also find that you mentioned opening up the aperture, and I think a lot of times when I'm talking to C-suite folks or team leaders and that they oftentimes think that they have to have all the answers. And especially in larger organizations, you have a lot of people in the depths of the organization that I believe are curious and restless in and around these particular topics. And sometimes all it takes is opening that up and saying, hey, who else in the organization has access or information or insight or a desire to help us figure this kind of stuff out?And if you opened up the conversation, I think that sometimes takes the pressure off of the lead team to have to have all the answers or figure it out all themselves. I think what you'll find is there are people and pockets within the organization that can help you move faster if you just allow them to help you do that.Tom Daly: Brian, that's what I was trying to get to with the kissing babies and shaking hands and politics isn't a bad thing. It's not a bad word. It's people. It's sitting down, grab a cup of coffee with your colleagues, you know, share your idea. Why you might be enthusiastic or excited about a particular opportunity, but be open and, and listen when they tell you why that might work.Big organizations, a lot of specialized skills and capabilities and these are intricate machines built over a long time and my clever little idea looks like a bit of grit. No, it's just going to come up the work style. They'll do it. Tell me why. Partner? Why is it going to go up the works? That'll help me think about it more deeply.Come back to you and say, well, I think I've solved that problem. What's next? Oh, okay, you have. Good now. Hey, let's go rope in this other person. And then you just build that consensus. Now again, in smaller organization, that cycle goes faster. But the principles say if you just show up with an idea when you went home on Friday, we did it this way.Here we are Monday morning. We're doing it a totally different way. Gaps in alignment, confidence and trust are going to come back and bite you. My analogy is turning a big ship. That's the rocks. Those are the rocks that are going to sink you. You're going to get stuck. It's just a lot more work to get unstuck. And had you just charted the course a little bit more methodically?For more informationBrian Ardinger: Makes a lot of sense. Well, Tom, we live in fascinating times. I appreciate you coming on and, and sharing your thoughts and insights over the past couple decades of how to navigate this changing world that we're living in. If people want to find out more about yourself or about relevant ventures, what's the best way to do that?Tom Daly: Best way would be just to visit relevantventures.com website. Of course, you'll find me, you know, a couple of Slack channels here and there. You'll find me on LinkedIn. I am wide open to sharing these ideas. It's how I learn and how I get better. And I hope someone has an idea that they want to discuss, because I love to share what I've learned along the way.Brian Ardinger: Sounds great. Well, Tom, thanks for bringing on Inside Outside Innovation. Looking forward to continuing the conversation. Tom Daly: Thank you. Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. 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In this post, we will learn from David Merlo, MS, COTA/L, CPRP, ROH. He is an OTP and is managing director of Restoration Society, Inc, a peer-operated community mental health agency Buffalo, NY founded upon the recovery vision that all individuals can lead active lives filled with hope and satisfaction and make valuable contributions to our community. For 8 years prior he was the founding director of the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at Bryant and Stratton College in Rochester, NY. Prior to that he was professor and academic fieldwork coordinator for over 18 years at Erie Community College in Buffalo, NY. Trained through Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, David is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) in addition to being a licensed COTA. He completed graduate studies in assistive and rehabilitation technology at University at Buffalo OT Department and Center for Assistive Technology (CAT). He earned an MS degree at Buffalo State College, focusing on adult education with emphasis on technology and supporting students with disabilities. David has presented at numerous conferences and co-authored articles on psychiatric rehabilitation, mental health recovery, assistive technology, and the role of occupational therapy assistants in clinical and community practice. He currently services on the board of Haiti Rehabilitation Foundation, an organization that supports the first and only school in Haiti with four-year degree programs in both OT and PT. He serves in a leadership capacity with the Consortium of PsychiatricRehabilitation Educators, an interprofessional community of practice. He is past director of AOTA Board of Directors, and past representative of the AOTA Representative Assembly. He has served in numerous leadership and volunteer capacities within New York State Occupational Therapy Association.Q & A with Dave:Please tell us a little about yourself and some of your favorite occupations:I recently retired from academia to take on a position in community mental health practice. Favorite leisure occupations: Patio and indoor gardening, listening to jazz, traveling, and watching independent, international, and documentary films. What motivated you to contribute to this podcast series?I was invited by fellow members of the NY Mental Health Task ForcePlease describe the UncommonOT work that you do and the setting in which you work, the population you serve, and the needs that you address.I recently retired as founding director of an OTA academic program to assume a director position at a Restoration Society, Inc, a community-based mental health recovery organization in Buffalo, NY (www.RSIWNY.org). I previously served on their board of directors for nearly 30 years and was recently invited to join their administration. The agency is peer-operated (majority of staff, administration, and board are people who identify as recovering from mental illness or addictions). The agency addresses non-clinical recovery needs, and social determinants of health among people with severe mental illness. We operate through a mental health recovery model lens, focusing on building a person's strengths, talents, coping abilities, resources, and inherent values to support their success, satisfaction, and well-being. The agency addresses the "4 dimensions of recovery" as defined by SAMHSA: HEALTH (symptom/wellness self-management and making healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being), HOME (having a stable and safe place to live), PURPOSE (meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, and independence/income/resources to participate in society), and COMMUNITY (having relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope). What inspired you or drew you to this type of OT work?A prior education in horticulture (I was passionate about gardening, landscape design, and our human interactions with our environments) led me to OT. I was intrigued by our local state psychiatric center, discovering that the grounds of the institution were designed by famous landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted (he designed Central Park in NYC). His landscape design of the psychiatric center was built around engaging patients in purposeful and meaningful occupations. Orchards, gardens, vineyards were all intended to be "therapeutic" (at least in his original vision). My volunteer work there (described below) led to my discovery of OT.How did you get there? Can you describe your path?I discovered OT over 37 years ago volunteering at Buffalo Psychiatric Center. I had a degree in horticulture so I used that background to engage inpatients in operating a greenhouse and garden on the hospital grounds. While there, I stumbled on OT and recognized my calling. My first job out of OTA school was at a "Clubhouse Model" community mental health agency. The Clubhouse Model is rooted in engage people meaningful roles, occupations, and contexts as a way to focus on personal recovery. I was later included in a training grant to become trained in a new model "Psychiatric Rehabilitation" through Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. As a trained trainer of psych rehab, I realized an interest and joy in teaching. For 27 tears I taught (and eventually directed) OTA programs. I am thrilled to now return to practice; actually returning to the very agency where I began my career in OT (Restoration Society, Inc.)!Please describe a typical day or OT session at your uncommon setting? What OT skills do you utilize?As an administrator, I oversee operations, program development, employee training and support, quality assurance, and strategic planning. My focus is on supporting our employees and programs in maintaining fidelity with our mission, values, and vision. I conduct and participate in meetings, conduct staff training, participate in writing program proposals. I am still new (only about a month in). Can you talk about some recent highs (successes) and lows (challenges) of your current role?RECENT HIGH: Any and all situations involving talking to our employees and clients (we call them customers) about hope, possibility, empowerment, and well-being. A recent conversation with an OT Level II student stands out. She shared with me her interaction with a customer. As we often do, she expressed "Thank God its Friday" to the customer. The customer responded by saying "I hate weekends". Asked why, the customer stated that she has no access to friends or a place to engage in socialization and leisure over the weekend. This OT student suddenly realized how poverty, stigma, inaccessibility, and "social determinants of health" impact quality and access to meaningful human occupation. What a profound realization for this student (and an impactful reminder for me)! This was a huge learning success for this OT student that she will never forget. No lecture could have made such impact. RECENT LOW: Staff turnover in non-profit organizations is a serious issue. Salaries are low and we compete with Aldi's, Home Depot, DoorDash, etc. We operate primarily on funding from our state office of mental health, state vocational rehabilitation agency, HUD, and other government agencies. We cannot afford to employ OTs or even OTAs. We would if we could! We are grateful that we can afford my position and our COO is an OTA. And we are blessed to have an amazing OTR on our board of directors (and hopefully one more OTR joining our board soon)!How do you continue to learn in order to stay on top of things within your role?I continually attend AOTA offerings. So many SIS forums and other meetings are free with membership. I attend AOTA and NYSOTA conferences, as well as interprofessional conferences offered by Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA) and New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS). And I am now engaging in numerous workshops offered by our state office of mental health, SAMHSA, and other entities. I am very involved in advocacy, and I participate on committees that focus supporting OTAs in practice and education. I also engage in scholarship by presenting at conferences and co-authoring articles. Can you share a little bit about salary and compensation in this setting? How do OT or the services you provide get funded?Because administrative positions are often agreed upon through negotiation, it would not be appropriate to disclose my specific salary. I will say, however, that a position like mine is within the salary requirements of OTs with several years of experience. Funding is through New York State Office of Mental Health, ACCESS-VR (our state vocational rehabilitation agency), HUD, Medicaid. We are increasingly receiving funding from health insurance companies to address social determinants of health.Any career advice for our followers and listeners on how to get started on this path?Network, join boards, volunteer, and show your passion! I attribute my success to these things. A career is more than at job. It is essential to get past the idea of only working for pay. I view networking, board work, and other volunteer activities as part of my socialization and leisure occupations. Those occupations as energizing and inspiring for me. Attending conferences are more fun than vacations. Maybe I'm odd, but I believe that my passion has brought me great joy and success in life.What's a common myth or misconception about your job/role you'd like to call out or demystify?I have never worked a day in my life in an OT clinical setting. Yet, I have "done OT" throughout my entire career. OT is way more than addressing diseases in injuries. OT is prevention, OT is wellness, OT is engagement. I love our AOTA Vision 2025: "As an inclusive profession, occupational therapy maximizes health, well-being, and quality of life for all people, populations, and communities through effective solutions that facilitate participation in everyday living." That statement says nothing about sickness, injury, or treatment. It says so much more than that! How do we find you, follow you, be in touch with you and promote your unique work?My website (containing my CV and more) is located at http://www.davidmerlo.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidmmerlo Please list any resources you would like me to include with your Show Notes (courses, articles, assessments, tools, etc.)http://www.davidmerlo.com/ (my personal website)https://www.haitirehab.org/ (I'm on the board of Haiti Rehabilitation Foundation) Haiti Rehabilitation Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit, 501c3 organization founded with the mission of educating Haitians in the art and science of Physical and Occupational Therapy.https://cpr.bu.edu/ Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College: Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. This center has led much of the research and development of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Model https://helpinghandsandbeyond.org/ A nonprofit humanitarian organization established and dedicated to educate and promote wellness, by encouraging and stimulating healing and recovery. The organization's primary project is Clinic Du Nazareen which provides general health care services, rehabilitation, community development, and mobile clinics throughout Miragoane, Haiti, and the surrounding villages. My friend Bergson Louis Jacques, OTR, is the director. I've traveled with him several times to Haiti to help with their clinic. https://rsiwny.org/ Restoration Society, Inc. (where I serve as Managing Director). Restoration Society, Inc. programs are peer-empowered rehabilitation communities founded upon the recovery vision that all individuals can lead active lives filled with hope and satisfaction and make valuable contributions to our communityAs always, I welcome any feedback & ideas from all of you or if you are interested in being a guest on future episodes, please do not hesitate to contact Patricia Motus at transitionsot@gmail.com or DM via Instagram @transitionsotTHANK YOU for LISTENING, FOLLOWING, DOWNLOADING, RATING, REVIEWING & SHARING “The Uncommon OT Series” Podcast with all your OTP friends and colleagues! 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Spring is springing! And, before you go to your local Home Depot or nursery, get ready to learn the easiest ways to start homesteading! Whether you live in the city or the country with your homestead business bestie, Natalie Argo from @heyyitsagoodlife! In this short & sweet episode, you'll learn exactly what tools (and worms) you'll need to get started composting and your very own garden – from a plot of land, to an apartment balcony, Natalie is here to assure you that you can live a good gardening life and “bloom where you are planted.”Natalie's IG! & Hey It's A Good Life can be found HEREGo to Good Ranchers and use code CLARK to get free bacon for a year when you start a subscription PLUS a bonus $20 off your order today. Good Ranchers: American Meat Delivered.The SummitGo to https://www.NimiSkincare.com and use promo code ALEXCLARK to get 10% off your order. Looking for like-minded friends? Join the Cuteservative Facebook groupListen at 9 PM PST/ MIDNIGHT EASTERN every Thursday by subscribing to ‘The Spillover' on Apple Podcasts and Spotify ☕️✨ Watch this episode HERE.Support the show

On Episode 54 of Brand New Jerks, Ray and Sean are joined by comedian Tony Deyo! The three talk about Uber etiquette, annoying sleeping habits and dancing in Home Depot. All this and much much more on another action packed edition of Brand New Jerks.    Follow our Guest, Tony Deyo: @TonyDeyo on Instagram and check out his free comedy special at tonydeyo.com!   Follow The Jerks on Social Media: Sean Donnelly IG & Twitter: @seanytime   Ray Zawodni IG & Twitter: @raybekillinem   TikTok: @brandnewjerkspod   Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for more full episodes, sketches, clips and bonus content!   Intro Music Courtesy of Nate McGhee and Club Crib Entertainment.

Bridger keeps his anger in check when comedian Chris Thayer surprises him with a gift. The two discuss Home Depot hot dogs, bed wetting, and childhood injuries.Follow the show and play Gift or a Curse -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/isaidnogifts/Twitter - https://twitter.com/isaidnogifts See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

“Even as assertively companies are automating and integrating technology, it's always going to be about the people.”  Brandon Carson, Walmart's VP of Learning and Leadership, meets Paul, Simon and Garrick in this episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast to talk about curiosity and learning at a massive scale. Hear Brandon's curious journey from Sun, Yahoo! And Microsoft, to Home Depot, Delta Airlines and now one of the companies employing the most people in the world, Walmart. What are the challenges such organisations face? What is the role of curiosity in an organisation's learning culture? What is the Rethinking, Restructuring & Rearchitecting model? How can we better drive talent development for the future? Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors, and keep exploring curiously! #CuriousAdvantage #curiosity #7CsofCuriosity #leadership #learning #podcasts  About the Curious Advantage Podcast Series The Curious Advantage Podcast series is brought to you by the authors of the book The Curious Advantage, Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown & Garrick Jones and it is about how individuals and organisations use the power of curiosity to drive success in their lives and organisations, especially in the context of our new digital reality. It brings to life the latest understanding from neuroscience, anthropology, history and behaviourism about curiosity and makes these useful for everyone. Produced by Aliki Paolinelis & Edited by Roman Pechersky  #Curiousadvantage #Curiousadvantagepodcast #curiosity #7CsofCuriosity About ‘The Curious Advantage' Book The Curious Advantage is an exploration of the idea of Curiosity and its increasing importance for thriving in the digital age. Taking the widest possible exploration of things Curious – historical, contemporary, neuro-scientific, anthropological, behavioural, semantic and business-focused. At the heart of the book is our model of Curiosity, called 'Sailing the 7 C's of Curiosity'. This model provides individuals with a practical framework for how to be successfully Curious and use Curiosity as a power skill to unlock their own potential. To find out more visit: curiousadvantage.com Get your copy on Amazon The Curious Advantage Audiobook is also available on audible

Glenn and Stu take Glenn's preparedness quiz to gauge how they would handle an emergency. Justin Haskins, co-author of "The Great Reset" and its upcoming sequel, joins to discuss how a central bank digital dollar will be slowly implemented if Americans aren't paying attention to their state legislatures. Home Depot co-founder and chairman of the Marcus Foundation Bernie Marcus joins to expose “woke” policies and how they destroy America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glenn reviews a federal service that has flown under the radar called “FedNow,” which, when launched this year, will be the framework for a central bank digital currency. Glenn and Stu take Glenn's preparedness quiz to gauge how they would handle an emergency. Justin Haskins, co-author of "The Great Reset" and its upcoming sequel, joins to discuss how a central bank digital dollar will be slowly implemented if Americans aren't paying attention to their state legislatures. Glenn announces his newest book, a sequel to "The Great Reset," called “The Dark Future,” as co-author Justin Haskins explains why the sequel is crucial. Home Depot co-founder and chairman of the Marcus Foundation Bernie Marcus joins to expose “woke” policies and how they destroy America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carol Tomé is the Chief Executive Officer of UPS.  Previously she served as Chief Financial Officer for The Home Depot.  Carol serves as board member for Verizon Communications, Inc., board of councilors for the Carter Center and is a board trustee for Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.  Carol has been named twice to the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women and was listed second on The Wall Street Journal's list of best Chief Financial Officers, and among the top 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune magazine.   Some interesting insights from this episode: ·         She was a competitive downhill ski racer growing up which taught her the importance of advanced preparation.  To this day she goes into every meeting well prepared.  ·         When she first joined Home Depot, she wasn't getting through and winning people over so she went to work in the stores to learn the business so she could speak their language.  ·         She had a transformative moment at Home Depot when she realized that she was working too hard and didn't have a purpose and dedicated herself from that day forward to making a difference. This changed how she interacted with the people around her. ·         Much of her success was learning to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you, faster than you, and better than you.  They lift you up and give you wings. ·         One of her ingredients to success has been to be well networked.  Always first look to make deposits with people so down the road you're in a position to ask for a withdrawal.  ·         “Excellence is about thinking all the way around the problem.  Go slow to go fast. Or in the language of home improvement, measure twice, cut once.”

YVETTE NICOLE BROWN BIO Yvette landed her first television role - - a two-episode gig playing Toni Childs' sister "Sherri" on GIRLFRIENDS - - by chance. Casting director Robi Reed called her in to audition from a post card submission. Yvette had no credits and no agent. That stroke of serendipity at the beginning of her career, taught Yvette that you never know how God is going to move in your life and career. Booking a series regular role two months later, on the first pilot she auditioned for further proved the point. That show, ABC's THE BIG HOUSE -- which starred Kevin Hart, only lasted a few episodes; but that experience proved to be a blessing as well. Through it, Yvette learned the transient nature of the business and to always "travel light".Yvette has since appeared (and often recurred) on shows as varied as ENTOURAGE, PSYCH, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, HOT IN CLEVELAND, MELISSA & JOEY, THE OFFICE, THE SOUL MAN, THAT'S SO RAVEN, HALF & HALF, SLEEPER CELL, HOUSE, TWO AND A HALF MEN, THAT 70'S SHOW and BOSTON LEGAL - - where she got to perform "Big, Blonde & Beautiful" from Hairspray. It was a bit of a homecoming because Yvette is no stranger to singing. She was managed by Michael Bivins (of New Edition and BBD) and signed to Motown Records when she was just a teen.Younger viewers may know Yvette from her recurring role on Nickelodeon's DRAKE & JOSH, where she played movie theater manager, Helen Ophelia Dubois. Landing that role was another serendipitous experience. The role of Helen was to be a one-time role; one that Yvette auditioned for while on hiatus from THE BIG HOUSE. That one-time role turned into four years of employment and introduced Yvette and her silliness to the best group of fans in the world...kids! The cast of DRAKE & JOSH reunited in 2008 for the holiday movie, "Merry Christmas: Drake & Josh," a film that broke Nickelodeon viewership records when it was seen by over 8 million viewers the night it debuted. It has since gone on to become an annual holiday favorite.Yvette has also had a successful career in commercials. She's appeared in over 40 national spots. You may have seen her in ads for BIG LOTS, PINE SOL, CITIBANK, FIBER ONE YOGURT, DAIRY QUEEN, HAMBURGER HELPER, ARROWHEAD WATER, HOME DEPOT, COMCAST, LG and DiGIORNO'S PIZZA to name a few. Yvette was also immortalized in puppet form as "Mrs. Lewis, from downstairs" in a series of NIKE spots alongside puppet versions of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. She is also making a name for herself in the voiceover world. She can currently be heard as "Luna" on Disney's ELENA OF AVALOR, "Principal Waller" on DC's SUPERHERO GIRLS and the dual role of "Portia" and "Zenith" on Crackle's SUPERMANSION where she works alongside Bryan Cranston and Keegan Michael Key. She also voiced the character "Cookie" for three seasons as one of the HUB Network's POUND PUPPIES. Listen closely and you can also hear Yvette on WABBIT, FAMILY GUY, PUPPY DOG PALS, THE REGULAR SHOW and DOC McSTUFFINS just to name a few and recently made her feature animated debut voicing "Ladybug" in the film "Yellowbird"Most recently, Yvette has made the rounds of numerous game shows and talk shows including THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, THE CHEW, THE VIEW, THE REAL, HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT, TO TELL THE TRUTH, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD, PYRAMID, MATCH GAME, CELEB NAME GAME and her absolute favorite, THE TALKING DEAD.In addition to her commercial and television work--most recently as a series regular on CBS' THE ODD COUPLE, Yvette also has a burgeoning film career. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy, "Little Black Book," working alongside Brittany Murphy and Oscar winners, Holly Hunter and Kathy Bates. Her next film, Michael Bay's futuristic thriller, "The Island" put her on the set with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. Supporting roles in other films including "Dreamgirls" and "The Kid and I," - - where she first met and worked with one of her childhood heroes, Henry Winkler - - soon followed. She was in the box office hit, "Tropic Thunder" (directed by Ben Stiller) where she worked with Matthew McConaughey; as well as the family film, "Meet Dave" where she realized a childhood dream by sharing the screen with Eddie Murphy.Other film roles include the family film, "Hotel for Dogs" starring Emma Roberts and Don Cheadle, the romantic comedy, "The Ugly Truth" starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, the indie hit, "(500) Days of Summer" starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and the action thriller, "Repo Men" where she shared the screen with Jude Law and Oscar winner, Forest Whitaker. Most recently, those with a keen eye, could see Yvette peeking thru loads of prosthetic makeup as one of the "three fates" in the Percy Jackson sequel, "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters".Yvette also appeared in the hit BET mini-series THE NEW EDITION STORY and hosted SyFy's game show, COSPLAY MELEE, Yvette also co-starred in the recent ABC sitcom THE MAYOR and starred as Shirley Bennett for five seasons on the NBC hit comedy series COMMUNITY.Yvette currently resides in L.A. ABOUT ACT YOUR AGE, PREMIERING MARCH 4th ON BOUNCE Series premiere of 'Act Your Age' set for Saturday, March 4 on Bounce, starring Kym Whitley and Tisha Campbell, with special guest star Yvette Nicole BrownDouble-episode premiere kicks off at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT Bounce, the popular broadcast and multi-platform entertainment network serving African Americans, today announced that its newest original series, "Act Your Age," produced in partnership with MGM, will premiere on Saturday, March 4, with the first two episodes back-to-back starting at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT.The premieres kick off the two-part, 16-episode first season, with the first eight episodes running weekly throughout the spring and the second half running over the summer.The multiple-camera, half-hour comedy tells the story of three vibrant, successful Washington D.C./Northern Virginia-area women in their 50s who are each at a personal crossroads and who decide the best way forward in life is together. "Act Your Age" stars Kym Whitley ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Next Friday," "Young and Hungry") and Tisha Campbell ("Uncoupled," "My Wife and Kids," "Dr. Ken") with special guest star Yvette Nicole Brown ("Community," "The Mayor," "Big Shot").Whitley plays Bernadette, a successful, no-nonsense real estate developer. Campbell plays Keisha, the wild card of the group who is always up to something, and Brown plays Angela, the former First Lady of Norfolk, Virginia, who is looking to redefine her life after being widowed by her husband, a revered career politician.The multi-generational sitcom also features Mariah Robinson ("The Wrong Valentine") and Nathan Anderson ("Black-ish," "Richie Rich,") as the 20-something children of Angela and Bernadette, respectively.Alyson Fouse ("Big Shot," "Everybody Hates Chris," "The Wanda Sykes Show") created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer. The series is executive produced by Barry Poznick, Bradley Gardner ("Hot in Cleveland") and David Hudson; and co-executive produced by Ranada Shepard and Ken Ornstein ("Everybody Loves Raymond").In addition to Bounce, viewers can also watch "Act Your Age" - along with all Bounce original series - anytime on Brown Sugar, Bounce's subscription video-on-demand service, with episodes dropping the day after their Bounce premieres. Visit www.BrownSugar.com for more information.https://twitter.com/bouncetv?lang=en https://www.bouncetv.com/show/act-your-age/57065/ https://twitter.com/YNB

Learn more about Denise at:Denise Vitola | LinkedInVitola Strategies | Public Relations | Corporate CommunicationsMarketing & Communications pro and celebrated health coach Denise Vitola wakes up every day on a mission to make people feel healthier and stronger. A slew of awards, industry-wide admiration and years of personal and professional accomplishments are proof that she gets the job done.A New Jersey native who studied in Italy and Greece before graduating from Rowan University, Denise kicked off her career in sports marketing at Alan Taylor Communications, where she immediately plugged in to the thrill of a fast-paced environment, high-profile celebrity clients, and travel to sporting events around the world. She jokes that she moved from the “locker room” of sports marketing to the “cheerleading team” of the tech sector when she started as Account Director at Kaplow. While developing innovative campaigns for iconic digital brands like PayPal, eBay and Netflix, her nimble thinking and inspirational leadership made it clear that Denise was more than a standout member of the squad; she was ready to manage the team. But unlike leaders who move up and away from the heart of ideation and execution, Denise was determined to remain a key creative player at every step of the development process.That was evident when she moved to MWW as Vice President and Director of Sports Marketing, overseeing the Bank of America account. Denise developed landmark integrated marketing strategies like the award-winning “Keep the Change” campaign that invited passersby everywhere from Grand Central Station to NFL games to dive into a giant couch and find change that could be exchanged for prizes. At the same time, she continued to hone her signature leadership style: a risk-taker confident in her skills and her talent; deeply involved in every account, but knowing when to step back and let her team shine.In 2006, Denise was recruited by Ogilvy to work on some of the biggest accounts in the marketing game: J&J, Unilever and TJX. She worked closely with powerhouse Barby Siegal, who, like mentors Jane Mazur and Maureen Lippe, taught Denise how to be fearless in her craft. She quickly found herself leaning in to untapped marketing opportunities in digital and social, certain it was the core of connection with consumers. It was at MSL Group that Denise applied the full power of her creativity and process to the #1 marketer in the world, P&G. She became a social media savant, taking big swings that led to big payoffs, and increasing revenue by over 80%. In 2013 Denise moved to MSL Atlanta, where she coached her team to create innovative digital campaigns for clients like Home Depot.Returning to New York in 2014, Denise had an a-ha moment of her own: every day she was helping the world become stronger and healthier through marketing. She felt that brands had a responsibility to do just that. But what about her own passion for health and wellness…the joys of fitness, nutrition and teamwork that led her to work in sports marketing at the very beginning of her career? Denise made two big moves: she got certified in nutrition and as a health coach (Vitola Well); and she launched her own marketing consultancy, Vitola Strategies. Denise was not only well-ing the world, she was well-ing herself, and the result was transformational. In 2016 she won PR Campaign of the Year for Abbott Similac “Sisterhood of Motherhood”; and in 2017, she was named a Women's Health magazine Action Hero. To this day Denise teaches three spin classes a week, unwilling to forgo the psychological and physiological boost that powers her body, mind and soul.Many of Denise's former clients followed her to Vitola Strategies; one of them, Patrick Lockwood-Taylor, put her on speed dial when he landed as President of Bayer USA. The closer she worked as a consultant with Bayer brands and embraced the Bayer tagline (“Science for a Better Life”), she realized she had found a place where her personal and professional insights aligned. In July 2021 she became Bayer's VP Brand Integration PR, Social and Influencer for Consumer Health and quickly applied her proprietary process emphasizing social and digital consumer outreach, building Bayer's digital footprint from a tiptoe to a tidal wave. Within months she launched nearly 100 influencer campaigns and award-winning integrative marketing campaigns like Midol's “No Apology Period”, Aleve's “Worst Golf Swing in America” with Charles Barkley, and T-Pain's remake of the classic Alka Seltzer jingle, resonating with consumers and elevating Bayer's market reach by the millions. In 2021, she was named a PRNews “Top Woman in PR”.For Denise, well-ing the world goes far beyond what happens in the office (or outside of it – she's a big fan of remote work). Like the influential female mentors in her own life, she works with young women to nurture their professional selves and shape their futures. She is the Co-Lead of GROW (Growing Representation & Opportunities) at Bayer, an employee network group focused on equal representation, leadership, and recognition; and she actively works to recruit a diverse team of employees that can speak to the health needs of diverse audiences. Of course Denise continues to follow her own passions: working out, teaching spin and walking her dogs near her home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She loves the beach and the great outdoors, reading war and crime novels, and traveling the world with her husband of over 20 years.Creative and confident. Playful and proactive. Bold, badass, and a leader in the business of making people and communities healthier and stronger…that's Denise Vitola. 

I have a very exciting guest this week. My daughter Lilly joins us to talk about a highly requested topic – the 10 things we have learned in two years of homesteading. We're not experts and certainly don't have it all figured out, but we dove into this life head first and have been so excited about it.   2:29 – The Lilly 101   Lilly is 9 and in the 3rd grade. She loves playing outside, reading, drawing and listening to music, especially 90s, rock and pop music.   4:05 – Lesson 1: Sometimes things won't go your way   Last year, we built a small greenhouse and a storm destroyed it. So my husband built a new greenhouse. We get meat birds and chickens, and they usually end up dying.   7:39 – Lesson 2: It's expensive   This is not for the faint of heart, and it's also not cheap. It's a sacrifice. Feed, animals, fencing, vet bills, infrastructure, repairs – it's all expensive.   9:19 – Lesson 3: Death happens   Lilly was 7 years old when we moved to the farm, and she has experienced a lot of animal deaths.  Lilly named a chick Jerry, and he died four days later. It was her introduction to death and was tough.   17:21 – Lesson 4: It's so much fun, but much harder than we thought   It's fun to take care of animals, pet them and eat them. But it's a lot of hard work. Until you jump into this lifestyle, you don't realize how much work it is.   18:30 – Lesson 5: The work never stops   The farm doesn't take a vacation. If we want to go somewhere, we have to hire people to take care of the animals. We can't be spontaneous and travel last minute.   20:43 – Lesson 6: Babies are really, really fun   The farm has a lot of death, but it also has a lot of birth and a lot of babies.   23:01 – Lesson 7: Fencing is the thing I never knew I wanted so badly   We had no fencing infrastructure when we moved here. Fencing is incredibly expensive.   24:30 – Lesson 8: Goats are animals you love to hate   We have huge goats. They are massive, enormous creatures. Our mama goat won't let us milk her. The goats eat our expensive flowers and trees, but not poison ivy.   27:06 – Lesson 9: We have learned a lot about God   Just sitting outside and paying attention to the seasons and weather, we see God's hand in things. It's amazing to see animals' instincts in giving birth and taking care of their young.   30:09 – Lesson 10: It's rewarding, and we can't imagine doing anything else   Homesteading is the most rewarding thing we've ever done and the best decision we've ever made. Lilly and her brother Amos don't always want to do their farm chores, but they are learning a lot about hard work and where their food comes from.     FEATURED QUOTES   If you have ever been just straight up curious, if you've ever wanted to move to a farm or you thought about the homestead life or this whole concept is foreign to you, hopefully this episode is for you. – Molly   I like 90s music. I get it from my mom. – Lilly   You go into a project expecting it to go one way, and it just doesn't. – Molly   Every year we always get meat birds and chickens, and they always end up dying. – Lilly   If you have an idea for something for the farm, it's probably not going to go the way that you think it is. – Molly   Moving to the farm, living the homestead life is not for the faint of heart, and it is also not cheap. It is a sacrifice. – Molly   When people ask me, ‘How many pets do you have? … 108!' They're like, ‘Where did you get all those pets? … I don't know. The Home Depot.' – Lilly   The farm has a lot of death, but it also has a lot of birth and a lot of babies. – Molly

We're ringing in International Women's Day by going on a real lady journey with Sarah Tollemache and Katie Hannigan! We're discussing which of us would be most likely to "pull a Soder," using the Omnitrix vs. the Death Note, and Sarah tells us about the most traumatizing improv show she's ever seen. Sarah Tollemache is a stand-up comedian and writer. In 2017 she appeared on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'. Tollemache followed that up with another late-night appearance, this time on ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden'. She has also appeared on Comedy Central's ‘Roast Battle' and Gotham Comedy Live. When she's not touring comedy clubs around the country Sarah can be seen regularly at The Comedy Cellar and New York Comedy Club in New York City. You can now check out her new special, Voluptuous Boy, on Youtube. Sarah is also the Co-Host of the popular weekly podcast ‘Lady Journey'. Katie Hannigan is a stand up comic, actor and writer. Her stand up has been featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, Just For Laughs New Faces, The Late Late Show with James Cordon, and MTV. Katie is a member of SAG AFTRA and has appeared in That Damn Michael Che, on HBO, City Island, on PBS Kids, commercials for Subway, Cheezits, Mabelline, Home Depot, and many indie films and sketches. Katie's writing credits include the original series Death Hacks staring Thomas Middleditch and Kristen Schaal, for Augenblick Studios. Katie hosts the popular podcast Lady Journey with comedian Sarah Tollemache. FOLLOW SARAH: Instagram: @stollemache Twitter: stollemache FOLLOW KATIE: Instagram: @katiehanniganforever Twitter: @katiehannigan LADY JOURNEY PODCAST: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lady-journey-podcast/id1595747091 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5H8lsIFOSVujd6qDx1K44J?si=843b31aa94c84e92 YouTube: @ladyjourneypodcast  *** GET TICKETS TO SEE US AT EMMAUS THEATER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/triple-headliner-show-w-mike-cannon-mike-feeney-brendan-sagalow-tickets-510148707517?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Want to work with us? Email scenariopodproducer@gmail.com. FOLLOW THE SHOW: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heresthescenariopod/ Twitter: ​https://twitter.com/ScenarioPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScenarioPod Website: https://thelaughbutton.com/podcasts/heres-the-scenario FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Mike Feeney Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @iammikefeeney Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nyfreshmaker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeFeeneyComedy Website: https://www.mikefeeneycomedy.com Mike Cannon Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @iammikecannon YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeCannonComedy Website: https://www.mikecannoncomedy.com Brendan Sagalow Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @brendansagalow Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sags2riches YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendanSagalow Website: https://brendansagalow.com Produced by Nicole Lyons Instagram: @nicoleclyons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our final episode of the season, Bridget and Ryan get a question from Will in Ohio and are taking a cross-country road trip to answer it. Will wants to know why there are so many of the same stores. From Starbucks to Home Depot and all the McDonald’s in between, we’ll break down the reason why. For a special cartoon, discussion questions and tips for parents, check out our website! This episode is sponsored by Greenlight. (For a limited time, get $10 when you sign up for a Greenlight account at greenlight.com/MILLION).

In our final episode of the season, Bridget and Ryan get a question from Will in Ohio and are taking a cross-country road trip to answer it. Will wants to know why there are so many of the same stores. From Starbucks to Home Depot and all the McDonald’s in between, we’ll break down the reason why. For a special cartoon, discussion questions and tips for parents, check out our website! This episode is sponsored by Greenlight. (For a limited time, get $10 when you sign up for a Greenlight account at greenlight.com/MILLION).

Satish Dharmarajan is the Director of Pricing and Business Intelligence at Orkin, He is an Advisory Board Member at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and has held analytics roles at Home Depot, Walgreens, and Whirlpool. Satish also acts in short films. In this episode, Satish educates us on differentiating products/services from competitors of similar offerings as he stresses the importance of understanding the buyer's journey along with the core problem that they want to solve.   Why you have to checkout today's podcast: Learn the importance of knowing what the buyer's journey is and what state they are in as they come in to buy a product Find out how brands differentiate themselves from competitors when they all offer the same products/services Understand how customer-perceived value helps brands sell well even with competitors   “If you know your customer, you can price it right. If you know what they're looking for, you can have them pay what you want them to pay for your product or service.”  – Satish Dharmarajan   Topics Covered: 01:50 – How Satish got into pricing 04:29 – Talking about getting to that ‘big place' and the process that it involves in order to reach that 07:08 – The importance of knowing what the customer is specifically looking to solve 11:39 – Mark's pigeon problem 12:40 – How brands differentiate themselves from competitors when they all offer the same products/services 17:54 – How customers choose where to buy between brands, and how pricing and packaging people should respond 20:59 – Appliance pricing at Home Depot; how customers care about price changes 23:34 – Looking at and analyzing competition; the importance of customer-perceived value 26:26 – Satish's pricing advice 26:59 – Connect with Satish   Key Takeaways: “That's basics of customer service, which is not too different if you were in the cellphone business, if you were in the internet business, or if you are doing anything else, selling anything else online. You would want to know what specifically that customer is looking to solve for.” – Satish Dharmarajan “The way your products are arranged next to each other, could be used as a leverage for selling the same products at a different price point.” – Satish Dharmarajan “As pricing professionals, you need to figure out what's the bare minimum, such that you can make sure that even the person who is coming in to replace a refrigerator is going to be willing to pay. But at the same time, it's not at a giveaway price where you're not making enough margins from the other consumers.” – Satish Dharmarajan   People / Resources Mentioned: Orkin: https://www.orkin.com/   Connect with Satish Dharmarajan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satishdrajan/ Email: sdharmar@orkin.com   Connect with Mark Stiving: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/ Email: mailto:mark@impactpricing.com  

Come join us today as we discuss a good topic that will be beneficial to not only first responders who wish to enter the real estate investing business, but also to all other people who have expressed interest in joining. In this episode, you'll get some great ideas on how you can start investing even if you only have a little money in your pocket. If you've ever wondered how you can start a real estate business and how to get your system started, this is for you. Jay Gonzales is an Oklahoma firefighter. When he was in his early twenties, he didn't realize the importance of financial freedom, so he started his real estate business late. His wife, who is 8 months pregnant helped him realize the importance of financial stability when they started their family business together. His goal is to leave a legacy through this family business.   Why do you need to listen to today's episode: Discover how to buy your first house without millions of dollars in your bank account. Taking his first steps toward buying a home, how did our guest get started? Explore how loans and amortization work as our guest describes his personal experience and how it might work for you.   Get a better understanding of how Virtual Assistants can help you manage your properties virtually. What were Mike and Tyler's recommendations on hiring one? “You just got to run the numbers, every deal is different. And I don't want to leverage the bank, give me 8% 75% I don't want to leverage all of that, because my debt service would be too high.”  - Jay Gonzales   Topics Covered:  00:59 - “I kept applying and applying in four years, it took me four years to get on and probably like 10 to 12 different departments applications. So that was in 2014 I got picked up. So I love the job. It's awesome. And allows me, we're only working 10 days. So 20 days off, we can do whatever we want, hang on hold, make money, create wealth for our family, and all that.” Jay shares his story of how he became a firefighter. Although it wasn't really his passion at first, he now realizes he needs to take things seriously, which is why he waited four years to apply for it. 3:07 - “I'm eligible now for promotion and so I'm back on the chopping block, like oh my gosh, building my business or advancing my career, which one's kind of more important for the very moment right now. We have a second baby coming up in a couple of months. So I'm like, Oh my gosh, continue our business and create that legacy for our family or continue to study for my career advancement because I want to, it's challenging. I love to do that. Be an officer.  Jay admits that he is torn between pursuing his career and expanding his business at the moment. According to him, he's in line for a promotion, but he can't decide which one he'll focus on. 10:50 - “Our first one I found it off of Craigslist is a duplex. And so I got hooked up with that banker. And he's like, Yeah, I'll give you 8% was worth and so that wasn't a slammin' deal, but it was a duplex. And the best part about that was, right next door was another duplex that he also own. So I was like, hey, what about that one? He wants to list one. But what about that? Well, I got this duplex under contract and rented it out. So it was cash flow? Well, once I was rented out when I was paying for the mortgage, and the other half, it was just how to clean it up real quick for somebody in it. But I think I had to put down like six grand out of pocket, so that was my first deal.  With a little money in his pocket, he was able to purchase some properties from Craigslist. He found it through his network, which was referred to him. This illustrates the importance of networking within a community. He met the banker who helped him there. 20:09 - “I want to be in the room who are, making a million dollars a year in real estate, you want to be a millionaire surround yourself, with millionaires, I want to be in a room with those successful people who have the same goal, we want financial freedom, we want time, freedom, we want to trade legacy wealth for our family, and I didn't know anything.” As Jay develops his calling, it is important that he connects with people like him who can provide him with knowledge. As an entrepreneur, he believes that connections and networks are essential for building and growing your market. 24:03 - “There's a banker willing to give us a little bit of money, he gave us a small line of credit at first, of course, you build relationships, and you get more and more money to lend out to. But we started finding other bankers and other lenders. So there are private lenders who will loan us money, and  go in there, fix it up, and they will burn and we'll find the next banker at a cheaper rate, just the burst strategy, pay off the private lender.” Jay cycles their money to buy more properties and pay off loans through strategy. Take a listen to how he gives the percentage that each banker charges and how they'd manage to cycle through it. Borrowing and paying these lenders.   26:48 - “I see what the cost is, I would want like 75% of ARV minus rehab and all that I still do. But I look at what I'm gonna get a loan on this on this property, what my mortgage payment would be, so I put in 20. Like, I know when banker number one, it's gonna give me 25 years of amortization. Right now he's at 7.38. It's pretty high, with no 7.38 interest. So I'm alright.” In order to weigh whether or not the property is going to be a good rental, Jay uses a mortgage calculator. Using the financial statement, he can also keep track of every penny that comes in and goes out. 36:37 - “That's one of the things I see people make a mistake with rentals is not basically setting certain monies aside or budgeting for things like rehab or capital expenditures.” Mike discusses the importance of saving some money for other emergency situations. He observes that real estate owners tend to forget such things. The savings should be used for emergency situations such as repairs. 42:51 - “I guess it's painful at this moment because we're growing so fast. And now I'm looking to art, how can I scale and take a lot of stuff off my plate, because I can't do it all from my phone at the station. Most of the part contractors text and you know, Home Depot texts to confirm, that's easy. But the other stuff like virtual assistants, I got a ton of mail that I need to sift through and open up and a lot of virtual mailboxes.  As Jay acknowledges, he can't do everything at once. Mike suggested hiring someone to assist him with some of his day-to-day tasks. Depending on the situation, virtual assistants may be one of the ways to manage this. 51:20 - “Start something about financial freedom. Before all that family time combs get set up now don't go out and party. Invest in those who do moderation. Don't do what I did. I wasted a lot of time I had fun. Pick up some self-help books, get in the right crowd, and maybe buy an asset in your 20s. “ Here's Jay's advice to his younger self.  Key Takeaways I didn't realize the impact it was going to have on my business. So I didn't have systems, I didn't have people, I didn't have anything. So it basically messed up for lack of a better term for my business. Fast forward, a couple of years later, I get promoted to captain, and that's when I got voluntold, to say, Hey, you're leaving, this engine company, you're going to go work at the training academy Monday through Friday. Oh, by the way, we're going to pump through about 150 recruits while you're here. So the difference is the second time I had spent several years at that point building partnerships, building a business hiring an employee hiring VAs building systems. So when I was there, the second time, while my workload was ridiculous, my business still kept chugging along. And then whenever I got transferred back to operations, I don't want to say it was like nothing ever happened. But my business was still there. It was still running. And frankly, actually thriving. A lot of that was the market timing. But whatever. The first time, nothing, the second time, businesses still thriving. So what it's done in my mind is proof that you can build a business that can still operate and do all these things that we've talked about the legacy wealth, building the extra income, wow, I'm still present at my W two. - Mike Webb “I got a family coming up and I gotta make up for the good pay and all that but I'm thinking like pacifier problem, so what I'm gonna leave behind for my children? A legacy like that sounds behind you, my legacy. So in real estate's where it's at, but it's not like watching YouTube videos, you make all this money, it's work. And, like you, I was wearing a lot of hats right now and I need to hire a team, like handyman starters because we're self-managing too.” - Jay Gonzales “I want to be in the room who are, you know, making a million dollars a year in real estate, you know, you want to be millionaire surround yourself, we're millionaires, I want to be in a room with those successful people who all we all have the same goal, we want financial freedom, we want time, freedom, we want to trade legacy wealth for our family, you know, and I didn't know anything, I read a lot of books about it, podcasts. And finally, I took action and showed up stood in the back, or sat in the back, I didn't talk to anybody because I was so nervous. And you know, and then finally, I went again, and again, I just kind of got out of my comfort zone, and got out of my shell really, and started talking these people like I've heard, I added this guy on Facebook, I saw that he does a ton of flips.”  -Jay Gonzales “I think a lot of people hear the term debt and automatically think it's a bad thing. And while there are some circumstances where that is absolutely the case, like if you have $38,000 in credit card debt, that's what I would call bad debt. But if you have $38,000, with a debt on a house that's worth $90,000. That's that, and it's paying you $900 a month, right? That I would argue that that's good debt.” - Mike Webb     Connect with Jay  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jay.gonzales.125?mibextid=LQQJ4d      Connect with First Responder Financial Freedom: Website: https://firstresponderfinancialfreedom.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/First-Responder-Financial-Freedom-104285545708905 Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/516680892660393 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@firstresponderfinancialfre3914    

Recently, a listener to the podcast took me up on my free coaching call option on my website. Niki Kempf of Custom Cleaning in Dyersburg, TN had some pretty big questions. Niki was close to pulling the trigger on a coaching program for $10,000+ and decided to hold off. She left that situation discouraged as her family has big dreams and no idea how to get there. Our call was awesome. I didn't ask her about her business or what she wanted her business to look like. Instead, I asked her about her dream. She shared an awesome vision. First of all, she is recently married and Niki and her husband want to grow their personal ministry to help people coming out of rehabilitation programs. She wants to mentor them, possibly hire them, and definitely donate to organizations that support them. She wants to get her husband out of his job to help her in the cleaning business. This lit her up! Then she told me something amazing. They have a dream to give away 80% of their income. Whoa! I shared the JC Penney story and how he was known for giving away 90% and living off 10%. This is the opposite model of the church/tithing model where the Christian tithes 10% and lives off 90%. Niki loved this. Then I built her dream as I shared a story of a cleaning friend doing something similar. Jessica comes from a rough situation where she dealt with abuse. She has a huge dream to help battered women in her area. She wants to hire woman coming out of the shelters to get them back on their feet. Then she wants to start a non-profit where her cleaning business funds a portion and both the cleaning business and non-profit could be in a commercial building that she buys. Jessica would have a building for everything she wanted to do and the income to do it. Niki LOVED this even more. That's when I shared the Home Depot story. "Niki, let's say you wanted to hang a picture in your living room. You walk into Home Depot and find a worker. You ask him where the tools are for hanging pictures. Instead of telling you, he asks you a question back. In fact, he asks several questions. How large is the picture frame? How much does it weigh? Is it fragile, made of glass? What type of wall are you hanging it on? Is it plaster or dry wall? If it's plaster, how thick is the plaster and is there brick behind it? If it's drywall, can you locate the studs or will you be able to use studs? You would look at this Home Depot employee like he had two heads. You'd wonder why that all mattered as you simply want to hang the picture frame and need the tools."Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

Battle4Freedom (2023) Transcendental Hurtitation - Remote Indignation SyndromeWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.comNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/c/Battle4FreedomStreaming LIVE on RUMBLE @ https://rumble.com/v2cwxhs-battle4freedom-2023-transcendental-hurtitation-remote-indignation-syndrome.html-- Isaiah 1:17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.-- Killing those who train men to fish!-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11849277/Home-Depot-founder-Bernie-Marcus-warns-Americans-wake-woke-Silicon-Valley-Bank-goes-bust.htmlHome Depot founder Bernie Marcus warns Americans to 'wake up' after 'woke' Silicon Valley Bank goes bust - because it was 'more concerned about global warming than shareholder returns'-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11850687/Indiana-University-School-Medicine-forcing-year-students-sex-gender-primer.htmlIndiana University School of Medicine is forcing first year students to take woke 'sex and gender primer' lessons that claim cervical cancer screenings should be offered to 'people' not 'women' in order to be inclusive-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11841385/60-MILLION-Americans-households-multigenerational.html'Who's making dinner?' Record 60 MILLION Americans are now living in multigenerational households as spiraling living costs force retirees, adult children and grandkids to move under one roof-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11851403/Gun-pulled-man-maced-face-family-drag-event-Ohio.htmlGun pulled and man maced in the face as Neo-Nazis, 'White Lives Matter' protesters and Proud Boys clash with rainbow-clad LGBTQ supporters at a family drag event in Ohio-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11852477/Oscars-2023-Angela-Bassetts-reaction-losing-Supporting-Actress-gong-goes-viral.html'Sore loser is never a good look!' Angela Bassett's crestfallen reaction to losing Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis goes viral - as fans claims star was ROBBED of gong-- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-anti-abortion-judge-overseeing-a-texas-lawsuit-that-could-ban-an-abortion-pill-wanted-to-delay-announcing-the-hearing-date-the-washington-post-reported/ar-AA18xfddAn anti-abortion judge overseeing a Texas lawsuit that could ban an abortion pill wanted to delay announcing the hearing date, The Washington Post reported-- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11851449/Stanford-APOLOGIZES-pious-dean-equity-joined-woke-student-mob-taunting-him.htmlStanford APOLOGIZES after pious dean of 'equity' joined her woke student mob in taunting a Trump-appointed judge who was invited to speak on campus

Ein bekannter US-Unternehmer hat die Amerikaner vor den Folgen der „Woke“-Politik für die US-Wirtschaft gewarnt. Der jüngste Bankencrash zeige, dass sich die Wirtschaft in einer verheerenden Lage befinde. Web: https://www.epochtimes.de Probeabo der Epoch Times Wochenzeitung: https://bit.ly/EpochProbeabo Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTimesDE YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC81ACRSbWNgmnVSK6M1p_Ug Telegram: https://t.me/epochtimesde Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtimesde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTimesWelt/ Unseren Podcast finden Sie unter anderem auch hier: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/etdpodcast/id1496589910 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/277zmVduHgYooQyFIxPH97 Unterstützen Sie unabhängigen Journalismus: Per Paypal: http://bit.ly/SpendenEpochTimesDeutsch Per Banküberweisung (Epoch Times Europe GmbH, IBAN: DE 2110 0700 2405 2550 5400, BIC/SWIFT: DEUTDEDBBER, Verwendungszweck: Spenden) Vielen Dank! (c) 2022 Epoch Times

Joseph Wilkins founded ProCreative almost 20 years ago, a marketing agency focused on infomercials, TV commercials and online video. Joseph has directed thousands of ad campaigns for clients including Google, Linkedin, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs, Chevrolet, Home Depot and other mega brands. As habits shifted from broadcast to online, Joseph launched FunnySalesVideos.com where his team now creates attention-grabbing viral style sales videos that entertain viewers into buying. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Joseph Wilkins: Website: Funnysalesvideos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/procreative LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilkinsjoseph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FunnySalesVideosByProCreative

News you Need for Thursday March 9, 2023. CEO of Norfolk Southern is testifying in front of Congress. Home Depot is hiring full time and part time for the spring season. MAC tournament taking place at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.   In entertainment news, Mod Sun says he is 'devastated' with Avril Lavigne breakup. Cara Delevingne speaks out about her drug abuse and went to rehab.     

Michael is back to talk about his podcast The Witching Hour which will be starting up again soon, and we discuss Edgar Allan Poe, Francisco Goya, and our recent trip to Home Depot

Akshita Korwar, Software Developer at Hulu and Network Director of Women Who Code Seattle, interviews Sijing Zhu, Senior Data Science Manager at The Home Depot. They discuss the importance of continued learning, listening skills being a priority for success, and time management being key in accomplishing goals.

Faisal Hoque is no stranger to the typical hurdles of life. After building a highly successful company in his late twenties, he learned that things don't always work as anticipated when he was fired from the second company he opened. Things only got worse when his twenty-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. Faisal not only had to take care of his son throughout his illness, but he also had to find a way to rise up again in his career. These life experiences are what led Faisal to a journey of internal life reflections that revolved around overcoming the fear of failure. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, Faisal Hoque, Founder and Chair at NextChapter at Shadoka, gives us a peek at his acceptance journey, where he found that practicing mindfulness, resilience and empathy helped him maintain a consistent sense of pragmatic optimism in the face of fear. Leadership tips you won't want to miss:

Characterizing the popular TikTok app as a modern-day “Trojan Horse” because its parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Michal McCaul, aa Texas Republican, introduced the “Deterring America's Foreign Adversaries Act, which would ban TikTok in the United States. Democrats oppose the bill, saying it would go too far in abridging the Freedom of Speech. The American Civil Liberties Union is also pushing back against the bill. Federal courts have previously held that blocking TikTok would violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which limits the president's ability to block informational and personal communications.   In the coming weeks, TikTok is expected to release a new feature that notifies kids when they have been using the app over a specified period of time, after which kids can decide if they want to stay logged in. For kids under 13, they'll need a password from mom and dad to keep using TikTok after the allotted time has passed. Critics of these measures say they are meaningless since kids can still claim to be adults when they set up TikTok accounts. A new initiative from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has a new app called ‘Take it Down' that helps kids confidentially remove nude images of themselves that exist online, shared when they were minors. The app is available for download at https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/. It doesn't work with TikTok yet. However, it does work with Facebook, Instagram, OnlyFans, and PornHub. The White House last week released what it is calling a New Initial Blueprint to address online harassment and abuse. The Executive Summary, prepared by a Task Force the Biden Harris Administration established last year, includes provisions for preventing online harassment and abuse, supporting victims, conducting research, and holding platforms accountable. And as prosecutors in states in which abortion has become illegal continue to push for more access to reproductive health data from women seeking abortions, some lawmakers are seeking privacy legislation more suited for our post-Roe v. Wade world.  One bill, introduced by Democratic Representative Sara Jacobs from California – the SAFER Health Act – would require patients to provide consent to permit healthcare providers to share  data about abortions or miscarriages, even if the data are being sought via court order.    And democratic senators Mazie Hirono, Amy Klobuchar, and Elizabeth Warren  also introduced a bill – the Upholding Protections for Health and Online Location Data (UPHOLD) Privacy Act - that would also restrict access to patient location data. The new bill comes amid a decision by Walgreens –America's  second-largest pharmacy chain – to stop selling abortion prescriptions throughout the United States, even where abortion remains legal. The decision dealt a blow to abortion rights activists.  The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a $7.5 million settlement to mental health app BetterHealth for sharing patients' data with marketers even after telling the patients Betterhealth would protect the data.   The FTC has also commenced looking into how landlords may use algorithms to screen tenants.   In other news …   The Inspector General's Office of the Department of Homeland Security issued a report showing  federal law enforcement officials with Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, as well as  other federal agencies, didn't follow established protocols for using cell-site simulators – or Stingrays – to pursue subjects.   Police in the Commonwealth of Virginia are back to using facial recognition software – but the data collection is limited to certain circumstances, which don't include scanning faces in real-time.   Algorithms are starting to decide which employees to lay off.   And Google has released its civil rights review.     House Committee Advances Bill To Ban TikTok "If it's too dangerous to be on our phones, it's also too dangerous to be on our children's phones," Rep. Michael McCaul said at a hearing Tuesday. mediapost.com VIEW MORE   TikTok isn't really limiting kids' time on its app Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. vox.com VIEW MORE   Take It Down This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18. takeitdown.ncmec.org VIEW MORE   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Initial Blueprint for the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse | The White House Online harassment and abuse is increasingly widespread in today's digitally connected world.   This can include online threats and intimidation as well as various forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV), such as the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, cyberstalking, and sextortion. Women, girls, and LGBTQI+ individuals are disproportionately affected.  Survivors of online harassment and abuse—especially image-based… whitehouse.gov VIEW MORE   Post-Roe, prosecutors can seek unprotected reproductive health data Health privacy in the post-Roe digital age is fraught as prosecutors seeking to enforce anti-abortion laws are free to go after reproductive health data in mobile apps. axios.com VIEW MORE   FTC says online counseling service BetterHelp pushed people into handing over health information – and broke its privacy promises In the hierarchy of confidential data, health information ranks right up there. ftc.gov VIEW MORE   Democrats' New Bill Could Be the First Real US Privacy Law Did you know there are basically no privacy laws at the federal level? Even HIPAA, the US's big medical privacy rule, lets companies buy and sell your health secrets. The Democrats want to change that with a bill that would protect health and location data. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   AI is starting to pick who gets laid off As layoffs rave the tech industry, algorithms once used to help hire could now be helping to lay people off. washingtonpost.com VIEW MORE   Tenant screening practices: the FTC wants to learn more   consumer.ftc.gov VIEW MORE   Police use of facial recognition tech resumes with guardrails Critics argue the law governing its use is still too broad. vpm.org VIEW MORE   Report: ICE and the Secret Service Conducted Illegal Surveillance of Cell Phones The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has released a troubling new report detailing how federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Secret Service have conducted surveillance using cell-site simulators (CSS)... eff.org VIEW MORE   Home Depot, Ring, others allegedly record website visitors' online communications Consumers recently filed multiple class action lawsuits against companies accused of unlawfully recording the online communications of their website visitors. topclassactions.com VIEW MORE   Google releases civil rights review, caving to years of pressure Advocacy groups have long called on the tech giant to follow companies such as Meta and Apple and vet its products for racial biases. washingtonpost.com VIEW MORE    

The phrase "Home Depot Dating" means meeting someone in public at places you would find yourself at on a normal day. For instance if you always find yourself at Home Depot, go there and strike up a conversation with someone there. They just might have similar interests as you! The term made the show wonder, where's the oddest place you've met a significant other? Are y'all still together? Or how long did it last? Listeners lit up the phone lines to tell us!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this month's episode, Pastor Jeff sits down with Bob Ravener, successful businessman and author of his new book, Up! The Difference in Today and Tomorrow is You. Bob has worked in some of the worlds most notable and successful businesses: Starbucks, Home Depot, Pepsi Co., and Dollar General, and he has so much wisdom on life, struggles and facing adversityGrowing up, Bob faced an unthinkable number of challenges. From having two alcoholic parents and being one of five siblings, Bob had to grow up fast. At 15, they lost their home and all had to separate and live with friends. A few years later, the Naval Academy accepted Bob, propelling him forward to his successful business career. As you can tell, Bob has a story you wont want to miss! 

Sgt Joseph A. Matejov joined the U.S. Air Force from New York and was a member of the 6994th Security Squadron. On 5 February 1973, he was one of eight crew members aboard an EC-47Q (serial number 43-48636) call sign "Baron 52" on a night reconnaissance mission over Saravane Province, Laos that was shot down during the predawn hours, a week after the Paris Peace Accords officially ended the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Find our podcast, Stories of Sacrifice on your favorite podcast player or visit https://www.storiesofsacrifice.org/ How You Can Help: All money raised goes to support our Podcast and our POW/MIA Family Research where we are directly involved in the repatriation of WW2 POW/MIA's. Direct Support - https://paypal.me/JBear213 Please visit our affiliate links that help support our Podcast and POW/MIA research. I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you! Keep in mind that I link these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. All money earned goes to support our Podcast and support to POW/MIA family research. Flipside Canvas - Owned by Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer (USMC). At Flipside Canvas, we believe that art offers an opportunity to showcase your commitment to empowering yourself and others. High quality materials that will last 100+ years. All our art comes stretched and ready to hang on your wall. 100% Made in America using locally sourced and manufactured materials. https://flipsidecanvas.com/?ref=SOSPodcast The Home Depot - Is not only for the Do It Yourself building and construction projects, you have access to over two million products ranging from small appliances to your everyday needs for the home, RV travel to camping. Purchase online and pick up your order at your local Home Depot free of charge or ship it to your home! The sky is the limit on the products offered by the Home Depot! https://homedepot.sjv.io/SOSPodcast FAIR USE NOTICE These videos/audio may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, such material has been referenced to advance understanding of political, human rights, ecological, economic, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues. This constitutes a "fair use" of any such material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. #Baron52 #SgtJosephMatejov #Baron52 #VietnamWar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storiesofsacrifice/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/storiesofsacrifice/support

The phrase "Home Depot Dating" means meeting someone in public at places you would find yourself at on a normal day. For instance if you always find yourself at Home Depot, go there and strike up a conversation with someone there. They just might have similar interests as you! The term made the show wonder, where's the oddest place you've met a significant other? Are y'all still together? Or how long did it last? Listeners lit up the phone lines to tell us!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lowe's is out with earnings today on the back of Home Depot's mixed results. BofA Securities' Liz Suzuki explains what to expect. Plus, Tesla is reportedly readying a revamp of its top-selling Model Y crossover ahead of the company's annual investor day. Wall Street Journal's Tim Higgins gives the latest. And, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association says U.S. companies borrowed 6% more in January for agriculture investments. CNH CEO Scott Wine breaks down the sector.

This week we do a deep dive into the rapidly changing world of retail real estate with Tom McGee, the CEO of the ICSC, the industry's biggest trade association. In a wide ranging conversation we get Tom's view of how the industry continues to evolve from legacy concepts to marketplaces, what the pandemic did to reshape the landscape, and which key trends we should be paying attention to.We also explore why so many people fell for the bogus "retail apocalypse" narrative, what the blurring of the lines between physical and digital portends, and how important the "halo effect" of physical stores can be for retailers.But as is our custom, we kick things off by dissecting the biggest new of the week, including what to make of quarterly earnings and downward guidance from both Walmart and Home Depot. Then we briefly touch on Wayfair's very bad week before moving on to Target's good news decision to double down on the "stores as hubs" strategy by adding six additional "sortation centers."  Next we try to wrap our heads around Amazon's decision to disband it's shopper experience group as well as the news that Shein may approach $60 billion on revenue by 2025, which would exceed the combined sales fo Zara and H&M.******We're headed to Las Vegas in March for another edition of Shoptalk. Retailers and brands can get a Shoptalk ticket for a reduced rate of just $1950 rate here using our special discount code RBREMARK1950.Past episodes mentioned this week:Making the most of traffic: An expert panel on in-store innovation.The global economy: An interview with Ira Kalish, Deloitte's Chief Economist.The store as brand hub with Target SVP Nancy King ICSC's website https://www.icsc.com/ Tom's LinkedIn Newsletter “From Where I Sit” About TomTOM MCGEE is the President and CEO of ICSC, the preeminent international membership organization serving the Marketplaces Industry. As the voice of the industry, Tom is the leading expert on the marketplaces and spaces where people shop, dine, work, play and gather as foundational and vital ingredients of communities and economies. The majority of the nearly $6 trillion of U.S. consumer activity generated in 2022 by the retail, food-and-beverage, entertainment and consumer service industries occurs within America's marketplaces, representing approximately 1 out of 4 American jobs.As an organization, ICSC produces content, events and experiences that support and advance the growth of its retail and real estate member businesses, while also informing and advocating to shape public policy.Prior to joining ICSC, Tom served as Vice Chairman of Deloitte, LLP, the largest professional services firm in the United States. During his 26 years with Deloitte, Tom held global and U.S. leadership roles, including Vice Chairman, Deputy CEO, National Managing Partner of M&A Services, and Global Chief of Staff.Tom is a noted business speaker with frequent appearances on, among others, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. He coined the term “retail renaissance” to describe the convergence of digital and physical channels in retail and is often quoted in national media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.Tom is the former chairman of Covenant House International, the largest privately funded charity supporting homeless youth in the Americas. He currently serves on the Loyola Marymount University Board of Trustees and is active in numerous other business and community organizations, including serving as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100.About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global eCommerce Leaders podcast, and The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.    You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel!We're headed to Las Vegas in March for another edition of Shoptalk. Retailers and brands can get a Shoptalk ticket for a reduced rate of just $1950 rate here using our special discount code RBREMARK1950.

This week Mike welcomes businessman and philanthropist Bernie Marcus to the Men's Journal Everyday Warrior Podcast. As co-founder of The Home Depot, Marcus revolutionized the home improvement industry and built a business that's grown to include more than 2,200 stores worldwide. He sits down with Mike to share his insights on success, business, and making a difference. Learn more: ·      Mike Sarraille: https://www.mikesarraille.com ·       The Everyday Warrior: https://www.theeverydaywarrior.com ·       ATTA: https://liveatta.com ·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_everydaywarrior ·      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mr.sarraille ·      Twitter: https://twitter.com/MJSarraille Additional resources: ·      Privacy Policy: https://art19.com/privacy ·      California Privacy Notice: https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info

In case no one's told you lately, building a small business and intentionally choosing to stay small is actually a really good strategy. I think that we can get really caught up in expectations that are put on us and the types of pressures to grow and to scale and to do better, more and more and more. Sometimes, it really comes down to simplifying and really understanding your goals and what you want. That's what we're unpacking with Keila. Keila is the founder of Little Fish Accounting which helps small businesses thrive through her transparent easy to understand approach to accounting. She assists by advising freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses on how to reach their financial goals and build and grow the businesses of their dreams. In addition, Keila educates the community through her informative fish food podcast. She has years of experience in the accounting and auditing industry for various federal agencies as well as Home Depot and Georgia Pacific. We're chatting all about what it means to build a small business and stay small (it's not a bad thing!). This is a really fun conversation, I love chatting with fellow accountants, especially those who have a unique perspective and are very modern minded when it comes to business finances. So if you're trying to start a small business, and you want to alleviate some of the pressure you feel to succeed and drive forward and grow immensely, this is the episode for you.   What you'll hear in this episode: [2:30] How Keila got into accounting and decided that she wanted to serve small business owners [7:30] Her response to people who make assumptions about why she wants to keep her business small [10:30] The cost of growth [14:00] Building your business to assist you in your personal life goals [16:30] Common growth mistakes [21:30] Examples of what makes a strong business and what allows certain businesses to charge more [29:30] The mindset of staying small in business, does staying small apply to you? [33:00] What do you want your business to look like? What do you want your role to be?   Follow Keila on IG: @littlefishaccounting Keep up with Keila on the Fish Food Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fish-food/id1463428656  Visit the little Fish Accounting Website: https://www.littlefishaccounting.com/    * Related episodes: 217. Designing Systems to Scale with Ernesto Mandowsky 224. The Person With the Most Financial Control in Your Business 228. Setting and Measuring Progress Toward Your Business Goals   * Find everything you need at www.keepwhatyouearn.com! https://www.keepwhatyouearn.com/ * Questions about this episode? Text me!: https://my.community.com/shannonweinsteincpa * Chat about this episode in the Keep What You Earn Community – http://keepwhatyouearn.circle.so * Hire us: https://www.fitnancialsolutions.com/accounting * See how much you can save with an S Corp: https://www.keepwhatyouearn.com/keep-what-you-earn-s-corp-calculator * Find me on IG @shannonkweinstein * Meet me face-to-face on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlIuZsrllp1Uc_Ml